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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