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Another great advert, the second in a row. We should use every opportunity to hammer home the difference between real (internationally recognised) Jerusalem, and the illegally expanded Jerusalem which is not internationally recognised.

Likewise, we should hammer home two other things. (1) East Jerusalem, although part of "real" Jerusalem, is nevertheless part of the Occupied Palestinian terriutories. Israel has no right to it. (2) The built-up areas of the big settlements near the Green Line are much smaller than their much larger, self-declared municipal boundaries. The distinction is critical. Israel only needs to annex the built-up areas, and maybe not all of them, in order to accommodate the majority of settlers.

Israeli governments continually blur these distinctions in order to soften up international opinion towards what would actually be a further, but "hidden", land grab.

June 5, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterArthur Goodman