One Jerusalem
One Jerusalem

Jerusalem today, as so many times in the past, is occupying a center stage in the world theatre, and once again, Jerusalem is under siege.

President Obama, the appeaser, who as a presidential candidate stated regarding Israel “this constant wound, this constant sore does infect all of our foreign policy,” has tightened the pressure on Israel to stop any further construction in Eastern Jerusalem. Israel’s plan

Sweden decided to announce its support for the division of Jerusalem.

to construct nine hundred units in the Jerusalem Gilo neighborhood elicited the President’s ‘outrage.’ Sweden decided to announce its support for the division of Jerusalem to make it the capital of a Palestinian State and convince the European Union to promote that idea.

Will American Jews stand aside as bystanders or will they raise their voices?

These are the moments when each Jew will be asked where he was when the pressure mounted.

Jerusalem beckons our prayers, good deeds, and action. Jerusalem needs the ‘Voice of Jacob.’ Jerusalem needs the fulfillment of Isaiah’s words uttered over 2500 years ago, “For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem, I will not be still.”

For Jerusalem, we will never again be silent.

It is a time when every Jewish organization will have to answer for their response. Did they broach the issue on their web pages while engaging in some lobbying, or did they lead a public outcry on behalf of Jewry’s beleaguered capital?

Jewish organizations, the eyes of history are once again upon you.

Mount Zion, the Old City, the Western Wall, the Temple Mount, are all in the united city in which every Jew has a stake.

Plans to construct nine hundred new units in Gilo section of Jerusalem anger the current U.S. administration. The President calls for an Israeli retreat to pre1967 borders. What will it take for American Jewry awaken, stand up and say a resounding NO to the President?

Will American Jews proclaim that the Arabs have more than ample lands with many capital

What will it take for American Jewry awaken, stand up and say a resounding NO to the President?

cities, while the Jews have a small sliver of territory with just one eternal capital?

Will they say that true peace is about coexistence, not surrendering one’s capital, giving up one’s birth right.

 Israel’s enemies and detractors can excavate and clear out the Temple Mount area of all its ancient treasures from Temple days, but they can never severe the eternal bond between Jewry and Jerusalem.

The Israeli government has made its position clear-they will continue to build in Jerusalem. They have told the European Union that Jerusalem is not on the Agenda.

Will American Jewry stand up, show courage, and follow suit?

The world is watching! The people of America are watching! History is watching!