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Sarah Stern, founder and
president of the Endowment for
Middle East Truth, told JNS that
Trump’s decision is a “victory for
pluralism and religious freedom,”
noting that Israel has allowed
unfettered access to Christian and
Muslim holy sites since it took full
control of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-
Day War.
Stern dismissed concerns that
Trump’s Jerusalem decision may
ignite regional violence.
“If this is going to cause mass
violence, it is not the fault of the
United States,” she said. “It is the
fault of the Arab world, which has
not even recognized pre-1967 Israel
in their textbooks, but teaches that
all of Israel, even pre-1967 Israel, will
one day be ‘Palestine.’”
Local and national response
Several Metroplex Jewish leaders
and organizations were eager to voice
their support.
“Jewish history provides a shining
example for all of us on how to tackle
difficult issues,” Temple Emanu-El
President Mike Simms and its clergy
wrote in an email. “Then as now,
it’s important for us to embrace
difficult conversations and to strive
to engage with those with whom we
may disagree passionately, and with
respect and civility for each other’s
views and experiences.”
The Shearith Israel clergy wrote
to its membership, “We celebrate this
important step in the fulfillment of
the promise and destiny of our holiest
city — but it is only a step. We must
never rest in our endeavor to unite
these two Jerusalems—the Jerusalem
of earth and the Jerusalem of heaven.
We must continue to advocate for
recognition of our ancient ties to our
capital, but we must also rededicate
ourselves to pursuing peace, to
rejecting and preventing violence ...”
The Jewish Federation of Greater
Dallas and the Jewish Federation
of Fort Worth and Tarrant County
issued similar statements. The Dallas
Federation’s statement read: “The
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
and the Jewish Federations of North
America, our national organization
which issued a similar statement
earlier today, welcome this decision
as it upholds our long-standing
policy of encouraging recognition of
Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. We
also welcome the affirmation by the
President of a negotiated two-state
future between the parties in which
Israelis and Palestinians live side
by side with secure and recognized
borders.”
Congregation Ahavath Sholom
Rabbi Andrew Bloom commented
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on Facebook, “It is time to rejoice
upon the renewed recognition
of Jerusalem’s importance and
centrality to Israel. For thousands
of years Jews around the world have
claimed Jerusalem as their home,
and now all of them can rest in the
recognition that ‘The City of Gold’ is
truly their/our own.”
American Jewish Committee
Executive Director David Harris
expressed hope that “other countries
will value the clarity and wisdom of
President Trump’s historic decision,
and also recognize Jerusalem and
relocate their embassies there.”
Harris also praised Trump for
emphasizing in his Dec. 6 remarks
that the announcement does
not affect the role of the U.S. in
navigating final status issues in the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The administration’s
commitment to advancing that
peace process is most welcome,” said
Harris.
Similarly, the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) welcomed the
Jerusalem announcement as a
“significant step that acknowledges
reality” and urged the Trump
administration to push forward in
peace negotiations.
“We recognize that this
an enormously sensitive
volatile issue, and we call on the
administration to implement
this new policy in a careful and
thoughtful manner in consultation
with regional leaders,” said Marvin
D. Nathan, ADL’s national chair, and
Jonathan A. Greenblatt, its CEO.
Dallasite Lillian Pinkus, president
of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, said
Trump’s decision “is more than
an important benchmark — it is a
milestone that corrects a historical
wrong.”
Yet some Jewish leaders, while
recognizing the importance of the
Jerusalem move, said the timing was
not right.
Union for Reform Judaism
President Rabbi Rick Jacobs said
that although the U.S. embassy
“should, at the right time, be
moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,”
the Reform movement “cannot
support (Trump’s) decision to begin
preparing that move now, absent
a comprehensive plan for a peace
process. Additionally, any relocation
of the American Embassy to West
Jerusalem should be conceived and
executed in the broader context
reflecting Jerusalem’s status as a city
holy to Jews, Christians and Muslims
alike.”
Reconstructionist Jewish
organizations said they are
“concerned over the possible impacts
of the timing and the unilateral
manner of President Trump’s decision
for the U.S. to formally recognize
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital outside
the framework of Israeli-Palestinian
peace negotiations.”
'Tough, ultimately correct'
Boris Zilberman, a deputy director
at the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies think tank, called
Trump’s announcement a “historic
step in U.S.-Israel relations and an
important affirmation of Israel’s
international standing as a co-equal.”
“President Trump made a tough
but ultimately correct decision,”
Zilberman told JNS. “While the
move of the embassy will not
happen immediately, the Trump
administration is moving to make
the move a reality in the very near
future as they select an appropriate
site.
“A more secure Israel,” said
Zilberman, “is better placed to
make tough decisions in the peace
process, something (PA) President
(Mahmoud) Abbas would be wise
to consider as he calibrates his
response.”
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