This is a good analysis that also illustrates the complexity of the settlement issue. The old Jewish quarter of East Jerusalem is not a settlement, and the Palestinians have agreed in principle that Maale Adumim and Gilo will become part of Israel proper in a negotiated peace treaty. There are other security-related reasons for keeping certain settlements as part of Israel. Now that does not mean that Israeli settlement policy has not been deeply flawed–it has. But one-sided resolutions and essays that treat all Jewish presence in Jerusalem and the West Bank as evil are ahistorical, incorrect, and harmful to our hopes for peace.
http://www.hudson-ny.org/1909/obama-was-right-to-veto-the-security-council
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