In rare rebuke, J Street joins AIPAC in panning Abbas over Jerusalem speech

[Nitram]

8. I'm afraid your facts are a bit off.

First of all, the city is indeed a virtual shrine to three major faiths. The Orthodox Jewish population, who are the majority of the Jews in Jerusalem, will be the first to tell you that.

Roughly 850,000 people live in Jerusalem -- 37% are Arab and 61% are Jewish, according to the independent think tank Jerusalem Institute. Obviously "most of them" are not Jewish. The majority are. On the other hand, The vast majority of the Palestinian population lives in East Jerusalem.

I would rather have the Israelis running Jerusalem and making it available to all faiths, but I disagree with the idea that it is fair or historically appropriate for Israel to make Jerusalem her capital. Israeli policies to displace Palestinians with Jewish "settlers" approaches the criminal.

Sure, Israel is proud to fight for all the territory it can capture and control, but that doesn't make it right, or even to Israel's long-term advantage.

Of course, Trump agrees with you 100% for the sake of the Jewish and evangelical vote.