A top conservative German politician is making headlines on Tuesday for his unusually sharp stance against Israel’s settlement-building policies. Ruprecht Polenz, who is chairman of the Bundestag’s foreign policy committee and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party, has warned Israel that it will be committing “political suicide” if it doesn’t cease construction of settlements in the Palestinian territories.
If the government in Jerusalem continues with construction, Polenz told the Düsseldorf daily Rheinische Post, it would run the danger “of gradually committing suicide as a democratic state.”
If Israel listens to Europe, it will be committing physical suicide.
Israel’s goal of living within secure borders, he warned — speaking as a “friend of Israel” — will only be possible with a two-state solution. And that, he said, would only be conceivable if East Jerusalem could be used as the capital of a Palestinian state. With its continuing settlement construction efforts, Polenz argued, Israel is attempting to cut East Jerusalem off from the West Bank.
All those making demands on Israel to hand over its territory, including half of Judaism's holiest city to sworn enemies and allow an adjacent terror state to be created always say they are doing this as a “friend” of course.
In doing so, he cautioned, Israel was overlooking the fact that neither the Palestinians nor the Arab states would accept a solution without East Jerusalem. In Islam, Jerusalem is the third most important holy city after Mecca and Medina.
Excuse me but Jerusalem is the HOLIEST city in Judaism. Since when does third take precedence over first?
Furthermore why is it necessary for eastern Jerusalem to be the capital of a palestinian state? When was Jerusalem ever the capital of any muslim state?
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