A review of the facts is in order: Redeeming Jerusalem by truth, not hollow slogans By Daniel Seideman

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Redeeming Jerusalem by truth, not hollow slogans By Daniel Seideman

In recent full page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, renowned author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel argued that Jerusalem is "above politics." But the portrait of the city Wiesel painted is so factually inaccurate and so morally specious as to leave no room for doubt: Wiesel's false innocence and moral posturing over Jerusalem is an example of politics par excellence, with Wiesel willingly becoming a tool of Israel's extreme right in its desperate efforts to block Obama's peace efforts...READ MORE