In his opinion article in the October Chronicle, Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street contended that Israel should return to its pre-1967 Six Day War boundaries.
Former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earl Wheeler testified in 1967 that these boundaries were indefensible. They also did not contain Judaism’s holiest site, The Temple Mount.
Returning to them also would result in splitting Israel’s ancient, historic, and current national capitol, Jerusalem, and giving it to Arabs who have dedicated themselves in writing to “the liquidation of the Zionist presence in Palestine” in the Palestine Liberation Organization Charter and to “obliterate” Israel in the Hamas Charter.
The “Palestine” of the PLO Charter refers to all of Israel because the Charter also indicates that “the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal.”
Ben Ami also suggested that Israel should compensate millions of Arabs even though over 80 percent of the Arab refugees left Palestine voluntarily, according to Benny Morris’s book “The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.”
Yet he says nothing of the close to 1,000,000 corresponding Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim lands , most of whom were expelled.
Exactly on whose side is J Street?
Ivan M. Lang
Glendale, Wis.
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