10 | NOVEMBER 11 • 2021

Israel isn’t being asked to put
its plans on hold. The Biden
administration is asking Israel
to permit the United States to
subvert Israel’s sovereign rights
and control over Jerusalem
by giving the Palestinians
the power to challenge and
undermine all aspects of
Israel’s municipal and national
operations in Jerusalem, with
American backing.
This brings us to the second
“gift” the Biden administration
is apparently offering Israel
— limited visa exemption for
U.S. entry to Israeli tourists.
The offer itself is an expression
of U.S. contempt rather than

goodwill toward Israel. No
country concedes its sover-
eignty over its capital city to
make it easier for its citizens to
vacation in America.
As McKeon admitted,
Jerusalem’s fate is in Israel’s
hands. The government needs
to recognize that no offer —
certainly not the absurdity
now being bandied about — is
worth sacrificing the capital.

Caroline Glick is an award-winning

columnist and author of The Israeli

Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace

in the Middle East. This article first

appeared in Israel Hayom.
Bring
Danny Home!

The Detroit Jewish News
urges the community to
continue raising awareness
for Huntington Woods native
Danny Fenster — a journalist
who has been unjustly held
without cause and without
specified charges for
172 days

by a military regime in
a gruesome prison in
Myanmar (Burma).

The family is looking for people
to create portraits of Danny that
can be shared on social media at
https://bringdannyhome.com/pages/gallery.

You can also support Danny at:
BringDannyHome.com
fenster-verse.tumblr.com
facebook.com/groups/1164768597279223.

On Nov. 3, journalist Danny Fenster was again denied
bail and, in fact, now faces an additional charge.
See related story on page 19.
Memories of the IDF

letters

Gil Troy’s article: “To My
Youngest Daughter Upon
Her Joining the IDF,” (Oct.
28, page 10) took me back
many years and practical-
ly brought me to tears. I
remembered the day I said
shalom to my parents, who
were both worried about me
and how I would fare with-
out their 18 years of care
and attention, as well as
their great pride that their
daughter, like her older
sister four years before,
was joining the army of the
State of Israel, the country
they both left their own
loving parents to go to, then
Eretz Israel or Palestine, in
early 1921 in order to help
rebuild the old homeland.
I remembered the beau-
tiful camaraderie which
developed between us, who
came from all over the
country, sharing the par-
cels of goodies we received
from home — my mother’s

cookies were a big hit —
and helping those of us who
had a hard time in our long
walks carrying our bag and
big gun, I among them.
And then, at the big
Siyum, the end of basic
training, getting our pre-
cious Tanach from the
hands of the Army’s chief
rabbi, and me getting a
standing ovation and a firm
handshake from Moshe
Dayan, our chief of staff,
for the traditional operetta I
volunteered to write telling
the unique experience we
all shared to the tunes of
existing Israeli songs.
Thank you, JN, for letting
me relive that unforgettable
experience and telling my
fellow readers of what serv-
ing in the Israeli Army is all
about — something more
and more young Americans
choose to do.

— Rachel Kapen

West Bloomfield

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