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OPINION

The Battle For Jerusalem
Is Shifting Fronts

strategic mountain near Jerusalem
called Jabal Abu-Ghneim. According
to a PA document posted on the
Internet, the mountain, 870 meters
he current negotiations
above sea level, "overlooks the cities
between Israel and the
of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Beit
Palestinians are entering the
,
Shaour and the villages of Urn-Tuba
"end game," according to
and Sur-Baher." The mountain, two
spokesmen of the U.S. administration.
kilometers north of Bethlehem, is
One tactic of the Palestinian
"game" involves a
vital to Palestinian
interests by connect-
campaign of diplo-
ing the PA-con-
matic aggression
trolled city of Beth-
unleashed this month
lehem to Jerusalem,
at the United
according to another
Nations. The PLO
document "linked"
succeeded in early
to Palestinian Inter-
July in upgrading its
net site and pub-
status in the General
lished by the Pales-
Assembly. Now the
tinian Applied
Palestinians move
Research Institute.
their campaign to- the
Jabal Abu-Ghneim
Security Council to
and its surrounding
try and gain a con-
area are so essential to
demnation of Israel's
the Palestinian
administration of
Authority and its
Jerusalem.
designs on Jerusalem
Behind Arafat's
that the PA launched
tactical moves lies a
The disputed construction site of an international cam-
strategy of stripping
paign to claim the
away Israel's sovereign- Har Homa.
mountain. The fact
ty over Jerusalem,
that the uninhabited area is 70 percent
diplomatically in the United Nations
Jewish-owned does not deter the PA
and physically in and around
or its supporters.
Jerusalem.
The strategic high ground has
The Palestinian Authority revealed
another, perhaps more familiar name
that it seeks to gain control of a
— Har Homa — and "Homa" or
Lenny Ben David is deputy chief of
"wall" is appropriate. The site is not
mission at the Israeli Embassy in Wash-
just an extension of north Bethlehem,
ington.
as Yassir Arafat's Palestinian Authority

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And it does not excuse Jewish lead-
ers, including Morton Klein, president
of the Zionist Organization of Ameri-
ca, who overlooked decades of impor-
tant scholarship, because they wanted
a Jew in that job. Roth is a man whose
life work was to educate Christians
about the Holocaust.
A few Jewish leaders are afraid that
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Muse-
urn will become less Jewish. But think
for a moment about the memorial's
purpose. Is it to help Jews remember?
And what is the purpose of the
remembrance?
I learned in Marketing 101 that the
first question to ask is: who is their
market? Something like 80 percent of
the people who pass through the
memorial's doors each year are not
Jewish. Therefore, doesn't it make
more sense to hire a non-Jew?

The Jewish community doesn't
need millions of dollars of federal
money to build a monument to
remember the 6 million who perished.
We just need our hearts and minds.
The memorial was built to teach the
world that when we say "Never Again"
it means that no other people should
face genocide. It is the non-Jewish
world that needs the education. It
doesn't have to be a Jew who is doing
the educating.
We face a difficult situation
where Jews are generally accepted
everywhere in this country. How do
we protect ourselves from assimila-
tion without crossing the lines of
prejudice? If we are the people who
are supposed to help bring light
unto the world, then we need to
enlighten everyone, including our-
selves.

