It is not news that the Biden administration has fully embraced Trump’s Jerusalem policy in defiance of global opinion. “We are committed… to keeping the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,” the State Department spokesperson said on January 18.
What is news is that liberal American figures are now accepting the Trump policy too — and refusing to describe East Jerusalem as occupied territory.
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NPR host Steve Inskeep left out the occupation on National Public Radio this morning (as he did yesterday too). After noting that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was meeting Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas “in Ramallah in the Israeli occupied West Bank,” Inskeep said:
Last week a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a synagogue in Israel, killed seven people.
In fact, that synagogue is in Neve Yaakov, an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied East Jerusalem.
The world does not recognize Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem. The U.N. refers to East Jerusalem as occupied. So do all the human rights groups. So does the European Union.
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Even more lamentably, J Street, which knows better, yesterday characterized Neve Yaakov as a “Jerusalem neighborhood.” Jeremy Ben-Ami wrote:
On Friday, during Shabbat and on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Palestinian gunman killed seven Israelis and wounded three others outside a synagogue in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov, the deadliest terror attack on Israelis in years. Just a day later, on Saturday, an Israeli father and son were shot and wounded in East Jerusalem — by an attacker who was just 13 years old.
Ben-Ami’s statement repeatedly refers to the “occupation” or the “occupied West Bank.” His description of Neve Yaakov as an “East Jerusalem neighborhood” appears to reflect the U.S. and Israeli governments’ position that there are no settlements in occupied East Jerusalem (or as Israel’s Foreign Minister said in welcoming Blinken yesterday, the “eternal capital of the Jewish people”).
What is Neve Yaakov? “An exclusively Jewish settlement” that serves a military and demographic policy of imposing apartheid on Palestinians.
Here is a description by Jalal Abukhater, a journalist who grew up in Beit Hanina across the street from the colony.
The settlement we know today was established in 1972… built on lands stolen from Palestinians of two major towns and one village.
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Beit Hanina where I grew up suffered greatly from Israel’s systematic encirclement with bypass roads & Jewish settlements meant to choke it, take its lands & divide into fragments… The settlement of Neve Yaakov served an important part in the belt of Jewish-only settlements in the heart of East Jerusalem, meant to limit and fragment Palestinian communities further. It is an exclusively Jewish settlement & only expands to host incoming Zionist immigrants.
Additionally, and equally important, the settlement of Neve Yaakov is home to Fort Nehemiah, the Central Command of the “IDF” Headquarters. Being home to Central Command meant that the settlement hosted the military body responsible for all military units, operations and activities of Israeli Occupation Forces in the occupied West Bank. Also, the HQ’s commander is the one authorized to declare new settlements in WB.
The settlement is strategic in heart of Palestinian East Jerusalem, it serves its purpose to stop natural expansion of Beit Hanina & Dahiyet Al-Barid. – The Israeli Military runs the Occupation from there. Here are pics of Israeli Def Min Yoav Galant in Neve Yaakov on 3.1.2023
American journalists and liberal organizations ought to be reflecting the views of the occupied people. That they are echoing the U.S. government on a point of great affliction for Palestinians is a sad reflection on establishment culture.
P.S. To his credit, NPR’s Daniel Estrin said today that Israel’s plan to demolish the home of the attacker, though the evidence is that he acted alone, “raises questions of whether Israel is carrying out a policy of collective punishment, and whether that actually can prevent violence of this nature.”
h/t Adam Horowitz.
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