Moving to Israel

As I frequently mention, my move to Israel was made from the United States and, as such, I tend to regularly refer to the opinions of Americans when talking about Israel. Today is one of those times as I want to point out a fantastic blog entry posted by leading American attorney and stalwart defender of Israel Alan Dershowitz.

The post talks about Dershowitz’ dire prediction that, G-d Forbid, Islamic terrorists may well succeed this year in blowing up a civilian airliner. He notes that they have already twice proved that suicide bombers can get through security. And those are only the successful security bypasses that we know about. It is a scary, but necessary to hear, analysis that Dershowitz gives and he suggests some solutions that, while expensive, will greatly reduce the danger that thousands of fliers face every day and are relatively simple to implement.

Give this a read and I highly recommend all of Dershowitz’ works.

Ari

The issue of  the American government refusing to name Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a long standing controversy in Israel-US foreign relations. Is was therefore noteworthy when, last week, seven United States senators sponsored a bill that would abolish the “security” waiver that American presidents have used to prevent implementing a 1995 law declaring that Jerusalem is, indeed, its capital.

Things like this always make me, an American born Israeli, proud but, unfortunately, we have heard many similar promises over the years from American presidents during their campaigns only to be dissapointed when the moments of truth have arrived. This is an important issue that we Americans need to push for, as Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said, “I believe moving the American embassy to Jerusalem will be the first step towards other embassies moving to the capital, as in every other country in the world.”

Strong words on an important matter.

Ari