Thursday, May 13, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
CAMERA: Celebrating Jerusalem Amidst Denial of Jewish Rights - 'Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day), celebrated each year on the Hebrew calendar date of Iyar 28 (May 12, this year), is a national holiday commemorating Israel's 1967 liberation of Judaism's holy sites and Jerusalem's subsequent reunification. This year international condemnation of Israel's reunification of Jerusalem has intensified, fueled by familiar Arab denials of any Jewish claim to Jerusalem, and very likely also by a new U.S. approach toward the conflict and media reports that characterize Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem as settlements on occupied "Palestinian land."...'
