re israel s expansion ii in article pp a auvm american edu paul h pimentel pp a auvm american edu writes what gives isreal the right to keep jeruseleum it is the home of the muslim a s well as jewish religion among others heck nobody ever mentions what yitza k shamir did forty orfifty yearsago which is terrorize westerners much in the way abdul nidal does today seems isrealis are nowhere above arabs so theref ore they have a right to jerusaleum as much as isreal does if ownership were rightly based on worthiness there wouldn t be any owners what is your point as i understand it israel s claim on jerusalem is based on possession and the absolutely central not second not third role it plays in jewish identity tim clock ph d graduate student tclock orion oac uci edu department of politics and society we have met the tel fax
