To provide greater exposure to primary Israeli news sources and opinions in order to become better informed on the issues, and to gain a better understanding of the wide range of perspectives that exist in Israeli society and politics. Issue 1036 • December 23, 2016 • 23 Kislev 5777

STATE ASKS HIGH COURT TO POSTPONE AMONA EVICTION BY 45 duty when they do so, Haaretz has learned. DAYS (Israel Hayom 12/21/16) The new policy is expected to take effect in early 2017. The State Attorney's Office on Tuesday asked the High Court of Justice to Current orders call to court martial any soldier caught possessing any postpone the eviction of the Samaria outpost of Amona by 45 days. The narcotics, marijuana included, even in a civilian setting. outpost is slated to be evicted by Dec. 25. The revised policy would still permit a soldier to be charged for smoking In an agreement with the government reached earlier this week, the residents marijuana or hashish even off duty, but provides an easy loophole to get the were set to be relocated to a nearby plot of land known as Parcel 38, case closed or the charges dropped. The accused soldier would have to registered as abandoned property. However, on Monday, the Yesh Din provide urine samples once a month under a year's probationary period, human rights organization claimed that 90% of the plot belongs to a exhibit motivation for rehabilitation and commit to completing their term of Palestinian man. The organization supported its claim with aerial service with a clean record, and showing they are "back on the right path." photographs apparently showing that the land had been cultivated until 1997. The IDF also intends to alter its policy toward refusal to provide a urinary In a continuance motion, the state argued that as the ownership claim of the sample, and submit such offenders to a disciplinary rather than a criminal new site must be resolved, it is impossible to find an alternative solution for proceeding. The policy change may not necessarily bring more lenient Amona's residents by the Dec. 25 court-ordered deadline. sentences for this infraction, as currently the penalty for rejecting a narcotics "This short continuance is necessary to complete the efforts to find temporary exam is usually brief incarceration, while disciplinary action decided by a housing solutions for the residents of Amona. The government has made it commander can be harsher. clear that it will not motion for a second continuance and that the time frame The army intends to take a similar approach toward other less-serious in question is final," the state argued. It added that some arrangements are offenses, such as minor property theft and falsely calling in sick. already being made to accommodate Amona's residents in the nearby The new directives will apply only to soldiers in compulsory service, not to community of Ofra. officers or non-commissioned officers (NCOs). A ban on smoking marijuana or partaking of any other drugs while on the base will remain in force. KNESSET APPROVES 2017-2018 BUDGET (Arutz-7 INN.com 12/22/16) IDF policy calls for no leniency to be shown any soldier convicted of using The Knesset on Wednesday night approved the state budget and economic narcotics, even for a single offense. Soldiers suspected of pushing narcotics plan for 2017-2018 by a majority of 60 to 48. would also continue to be prosecuted. On Tuesday, the 2017-2018 budget was approved by the Knesset’s Finance The Military Prosecutor’s office says that the harsher policy pursued for Committee, which then sent it to the Knesset for its final two readings. decades has not proven effective and that resources would be better spent The budget for 2017 will be 359.7 billion shekels, and in 2018 the budget will rehabilitating soldiers using the substance occasionally rather than having stand at 376.7 billion shekels. them spend a month in a military prison. The deficit ceiling in 2017-2018 will be 2.9% of GDP. The budget is based on the principles of equitable distribution of national Israel Report is a Student Publication of resources, dealing with the housing crisis, reducing the cost of living, encouraging growth and improving productivity. Daniel Zolty, Editor-in-Chief Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (Kulanu) welcomed the approval of the Yonatan Kurz, Moshe Davis, Alex Ostrin and Yoav Zolty, Editors We are proud to be distributed by these institutions, though they do not necessarily support or condone budget. any of the material published: "The budget approved today is a social one. It’s a budget which provides aid Anshei Chesed Cong., Boynton Beach, FL Hillel at Brandeis University and assistance to all sectors of the population. This budget is for all the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies Hillel at California State University - Long Beach Boca Raton Synagogue, FL Hillel at Columbia University citizens. No right, left or center. It’s a social budget that addresses all aspects Carmel School, Hong Kong Hillel at Johns Hopkins University of our lives. It is a budget for growth, reducing social gaps, increasing public Cong. Agudath Achim, Bradley Beach, NJ Hillel at Yale University Cong. Ahavas Achim, Highland Park, NJ Hillel High School, Deal NJ spending, tax cuts and continued momentum of all the government ministries Cong. Ahavath Achim, Fairfield, CT Jewish Center of Teaneck, NJ with an emphasis on the social ministries,” he said. Cong. Anshe Shalom, Jamaica Estates, NY Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, Cedarhurst, NY Cong. Anshe Sholom, New Rochelle, NY Kemp Mill Synagogue, Silver Spring, MD Opposition leader MK Yitzhak Herzog (Zionist Union) attacked the budget Cong. Beth Aaron, Teaneck, NJ Mizrachi Shul, Johannesburg, SA and described it as "boring, with no new message to the people of Israel, a Cong. Beth Shalom, Monroe Twp, NJ North Shore Hebrew Academy HS, NY Cong. Bnai Yeshurun, Teaneck, NJ Suburban Torah Center, Livingston, NJ budget which totally missed its purpose. A budget without hope and without Cong. Etz Ahaim, Highland Park, NJ The Learning Shul, Columbia, SC solutions to the daily economic distresses of the citizens of Israel." Cong. Ohr Torah, Edison, NJ Woodsburgh, NY Minyan Herzog accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his coalition of Cong. Rinat Yisrael, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel Bet Tefilah of Aberdeen, NJ Cong. Shomrei Torah, Fair Lawn, NJ Young Israel of Brookline, MA being "disconnected from the public, imposing a hidden tax on citizens, Cong. Sons of Israel, Allentown, PA Young Israel of East Brunswick, NJ spending huge sums of money and dividing the money according to narrow Cong. Zichron Mordechai, Teaneck, NJ Young Israel of Fort Lee, NJ Cong. Zichron R. M. Feinstein, Brooklyn, NY Young Israel of Hancock Park, CA interests, to anyone who threatens you, to your cronies and for purposed of Delray Orthodox Synagogue, Delray Beach, FL Young Israel of Holliswood, NY political bribery.” East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, CO Young Israel of Houston, TX Flatbush Park Jewish Center, Mill Basin, NY Young Israel of New Hyde Park, NY Harvard University Library Young Israel of North Woodmere, NY ISRAELI ARMY TO ALLOW OFF-DUTY SOLDIERS TO SMOKE Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, NY Young Israel of New Rochelle, NY Hillel at Baruch College Young Israel of Sharon, MA MARIJUANA UP TO FIVE TIMES (Ha’aretz 12/21/16) YI Shomrai Emunah, Silver Spring, MD Israel's Military Prosecutor plans to revise its policy on marijuana use, and We encourage our readers to subscribe to our sources on the internet. For more information or to permit IDF soldiers to smoke weed up to five times, as long as they're off- subscribe by e-mail, reach us at [email protected] 2 An estimated 40-50 percent of military police intelligence resources is spent continuous manner, and will open this abscess to courageously arrive at the on investigating drug-related crimes in the military, more than any other type truth. It's important to promote DNA testing that can help reveal things we of infraction. cannot find by the protocols." The army hopes the new policy will make it possible to reduce the dropout Hanegbi said: "As someone who has read the minutes and is familiar with the rate, since sentencing soldiers to time at the stockade often leads to the end issue since youth as a member of the Yemenite community -- and as a health of their military service. minister who used his position to start a pilot study to exhume graves for The IDF Spokesperson has confirmed the details of these planned revisions. DNA verification in 1996 -- it's difficult for me to accept the state investigation commission's explanations, which are organizational and bureaucratic. ISRAEL'S ENVOY TO ANKARA RECEIVED LETTER FROM RUSSIAN "The explanations look disingenuous. The heart of the establishment was AMBASSADOR DAY AFTER ASSASSINATION (JPost 12/21/16) hard toward the immigrants, and the behavior did not reflect the values of the Eitan Na’eh, Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey, opened a letter on Tuesday Jewish people. The step we just took through the government and Knesset morning from one of his colleagues in Ankara welcoming him to his job. will enable anyone who chooses to investigate. “I look forward with great pleasure in entering both into official and personal "It will be possible to obtain information on the state archives website. relations with you and avail myself of this opportunity to assure you of my Material from state investigation commissions has never been published in sincere desire to maintain and strengthen the excellent relations which so Israel, except for the protocols. In this case the protocols are a small portion happily exists between the two countries we serve,” read the letter. of the information in its entirety, and all will be transparent for everyone. This It was sent by Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov, who was assassinated is unprecedented." the night before. Na’eh told Israel Radio on Wednesday that he got the chills Hanegbi said he identifies with MK Nurit Koren's (Likud) efforts to transfer to when he opened the letter. the state the responsibility for DNA testing, telling the families, and making Soon after Na’eh presented his credentials to Turkish President Recep additional efforts, not being satisfied with just publishing documents. Tayyip Erdogan some two weeks ago, he sent out letters of introduction to all of his colleagues in Ankara. 1,950 YEAR OLD COIN UNEARTHED IN JERUSALEM (YNet 12/13/16) Karlov, he said, was one of the first to respond, and the letter that he wrote A 1,950-year-old coin has been found following excavations in the City of was apparently one of his last official acts before being killed. David in Jerusalem. There is a grape leaf on one side of the coin with the Na’eh said that diplomats in Ankara are in shock over the murder. “These are words "Freedom for Zion," while on the reverse is a cup with the words "Year difficult days for the diplomatic corps here,” he said, noting the tension in the two of the large revolt." This dates the coin to the second year of the Jewish air. He said while the security around the Israeli delegation is always high, it revolt against the Romans, putting the coin at being minted in 67 CE. too was increased following Karlov’s assassination. The coin was found in an area known as "Pilgrims' Road," which was the “We are in good hands,” he said. “The Turks are definitely cooperating and road Jewish pilgrims would have used to go up to the Temple to make ritual respond to all our requests, and even offer additional help.” sacrifices during Jubilee holidays. Na’eh said that the members of the Israeli delegation are alert, like all the The Pilgrims' Road, along with other roads in Jerusalem dating back 2000 other diplomats in the Turkish capital, though perhaps even more so. years, will be opened to the public this Hanukkah. There will be a grand “Israeli diplomats are on the front in many places, and have been a target for opening hosted by the Ministry of Culture along with the Israel Antiquities attacks, more than once,” he said, adding that for Israeli delegations abroad Authority. This will serve as the opening event celebrating 50 years since the the security concerns lurking in the background are nothing new. “We live in liberation of Jerusalem from Jordanian rule. when we serve abroad." Culture Minister Miri Regev (Likud) presented the coin at the beginning of cabinet meeting discussing symbols and ceremonies for the commemoration YEMENITE CHILDREN AFFAIR DOCUMENTS TO BE DECLASSIFIED of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem. (Israel Hayom 12/21/16) "In 1967, exactly 1900 years (after this coin was minted), IDF paratroopers The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee unanimously entered the Old City of Jerusalem and liberated it – they returned Jewish approved to declassify documents from state inquiries into the so-called sovereignty to Jerusalem," Regev said. Yemenite children affair on Tuesday. She added that the coin is further proof of the historic Jewish connection to The case involves hundreds of mostly Yemenite infants and toddlers who Jerusalem, especially following the UNESCO decision ignoring the fact that were reported missing from 1948 to 1954, the early years of Israel's Jews have any ties to the city. statehood. Their parents were told the children had died, but received no She said, "It won’t help that in 1967 we also returned to Beit El, Hebron, bodies for burial or death certificates, and the children were allegedly Shiloh, and Elon Moreh. These are all places with Jewish claims and have kidnapped and put up for adoption. been identified (throughout history) as being associated with the Jews – According to the decision recommended by Minister Without Portfolio Tzachi places where our forefathers were, where Joshua and the judges reigned, Hanegbi (Likud), most of the material from the state commission set up to where the prophets prophesized… and of course, where we returned to our investigate the affair will be published in the state archives website. Personal united Jerusalem." information that may expose the identities of the children or their biological or adopted parents will not be published. RABBINATE SEEKS TO BAN CHRISTMAS TREES IN JERUSALEM Additional information to help locate relatives, barring private medical HOTELS (Israel Hayom 12/21/16) information, will be published. This includes health and welfare records of With Christmas fast approaching, hotel owners in Jerusalem are up in arms children who are missing, classified as "unknown," or are known to have over a new directive from the Jerusalem Rabbinate that prohibits them from died, on condition the families approve. Despite this, it was decided that displaying Christmas trees on their premises. In the directive, the rabbinate welfare details that may reveal identities if corroborated with welfare implies its will revoke the kosher certification of hotels that choose to documents will not be published. Autopsy reports will also not be published. decorate their premises with a Christmas tree. MK Uri Maklev (United Torah Judaism), who led the committee meeting in In a letter sent to hotels in the capital, the rabbinate wrote: "In the lead-up to place of MK Nissan Slomiansky (Habayit Hayehudi), said, "At this defining the end of the calendar year, we would like to recapitulate that placing a moment we hope the exposure will advance the issue in a decisive and Christmas tree in a hotel is forbidden by Halachah [Jewish law], and 3 therefore one should clearly not be placed in a hotel. Likewise, it would best The Samur section of Yahalom, for example, which specializes in to avoid throwing parties to celebrate the end of the calendar year." underground warfare “continues to work, day in and day out, to counter the Although dated Nov. 7, the letter reached the hotels via fax this week. threat of tunnels originating in the Gaza Strip.” In a response to the letter, Israel Hotels Association CEO Noaz Bar Nir noted During Operation Protective Edge the IDF destroyed dozens of cross-border that in 2014, the Chief Rabbinate changed its kashrut procedures regarding tunnels used by Hamas to ferry weapons and operatives into Israeli territory, hotels to remove requirements that do not directly concern the kosher and Yahalom has “learned many lessons from Protective Edtge and received certification of food. a lot of new technology to deal with the threat,” the senior IDF officer said, "The law prohibiting kashrut fraud and the rabbinate's kashrut policy for pointing to the recent discovery of two tunnels near the Gaza border in April. hotels applies only to food service at the hotel and does not apply to other While the Combat Engineering Corps does not see any threat of tunnels on 'atmospheric' issues, such as the displaying of a Christmas tree and New the border with Syria, it is also closely monitoring the use of chemical Year's celebrations in hotels," he wrote. weapons by groups in Syria and Iraq, with the secretive Saifan unit, which The Tourism Ministry issued a statement saying, "The decision to display specializes in dealing with chemical weapons threats on the battlefield. Christmas trees in hotels that host Christian tourists, who come to Israel for “We are always seeing new types of threats, so we must train our soldiers to Christmas and the New Year, is subject to each hotel, according to the think outside the box, to think of the most unlikely place the enemy might put customers who choose to stay there. Even in non-Christian countries, an IED [improvised explosive device], for example,” the senior officer said. including the Persian Gulf states, it is customary to display Christmas trees in Unlike past wars where soldiers were the first inside enemy territory, the unit hotels that host Christian guests. We welcome the thousands of pilgrims who now has the ability to send in technologically advanced equipment, recently will arrive in Israel." receiving new robots which are able to detect any dangerous chemicals which may be in the air, alerting soldiers to the threat before they enter. LIBERMAN: INCREASE CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS PARTICIPATION IN IDF The Micro-tactical ground robot, which can be carried in the field on a (Arutz-7 Inn.com 12/21/16) soldier’s back, also has eight cameras and a range of 50 meters, allowing Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) attended a ceremony soldiers to see inside a tunnel for any threat before entering. Another robot with Christian soldiers.in honor of the Gregorian new year. used by Yahalom, the Andros, has a remote-controlled mounted shotgun, Liberman said at the ceremony that "to see here a Christian priest whose son which can be used to neutralize threats, and according to the senior officer, is serving in the Golani brigade, to hear a female Christian soldier discussing the army is also working on robots that can explode. candidly her doubts over the decision to serve in the IDF and then to see her Yahalom unit members are responsible not only for locating and destroying serving with excellence, to hear a Christian officer quoting Jabotinsky, an tunnels but also for advance engineering reconnaissance, looking for and army like this where soldiers from all religions are serving their country dismantling any possible bombs before other forces move in. together, all with the same rights and opportunities and duties - this is the According to the senior officer, it has taken part in over 1,000 different State of Israel which we want to see and build together with you." incidents this past year alone, including raids and several dozen home Liberman added that whoever follows events in the Middle East understands demolitions in the West Bank. that the only country where members of Christian communities can feel a sense of identity and safety is the State of Israel. MORE LAND, LESS OF A STATE (Nahum Barnea, YNet 12/19/16) He stressed that great efforts are being made to increase the Christian There are two arguments in favor of the battle waged by the Amona outpost community's involvement in the IDF and to maximize the potential of the settlers against the government and against the settlement establishment. community. Among other procedures being adopted there is a plan to The first is discrimination. Indeed, they are being discriminated against. establish a pre-military academy for Christian soldiers and to build a Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu complained last week that he has to monument for Christian soldiers who fell in battle. evacuate Jewish invaders, while Arab invaders build their homes Liberman also referred to harassment suffered by Christian soldiers at the undisturbed. This was a groundless argument, of course. No one is stopping hands of those opposed to their enlisting and said that we cannot ignore the government from demolishing Arabs’ homes which were built illegally, these acts and cannot accept them. He said every case would be dealt with neither within the Green Line nor beyond the Green Line. Arabs definitely do severely in order to prevent repetition of such behavior. not get the following (and I quote Netanyahu from Sunday’s cabinet meeting): “We have held dozens of discussions, we have brought many proposals, TUNNELS, BUNKERS AND NON-CONVENTIONAL THREATS: ELITE IDF some of them outside the box, very creative proposals. We have done it out UNIT PREPARES FOR BATTLE (JPost 12/21/16) of love for the settlement. It’s as simple as that. We have done the The Combat Engineering Corps’ elite unit, Yahalom, held a five-day large- maximum.” scale drill last week in the Jordan Valley, in which both reserve and enlisted The discrimination is in comparison to other settlers. Amona’s residents are soldiers participated, a senior IDF officer said Wednesday. rightly asking why are they being forced to relocate, while the residents of the It was a full-unit drill in which members practiced all of their capabilities, with neighboring settlement of Ofra, who also live on land that belongs to others, soldiers simulating raids against fortified bunkers, fighting in urban areas as remain in their homes; why isn’t the state planning to evacuate thousands of well as in the field. The drill, meant to be as realistic as possible, saw soldiers settlers whose legal status is no different than their own status; why is it in the engineering unit use live fire as well as locate and destroy explosives, confronting families who settled there in good faith and not prosecuting the clear safe passage through minefields, break down fortified doors and deal politicians, government workers, jurists and officers who initiated the with nonconventional threats in the battlefield. establishment of their outpost, even though they knew the land was private, According to an IDF statement, the drill “is a part of the change in perception and maintained and funded it over the course of years. and understanding for the unit to aid ground forces alongside its own The Amona settlers are not among the radicals in their sector. They did not activities, in which the unit has its own advantages.” join a murderous underground, as some of the leading founders of Ofra did. While the IDF has seen a decrease in soldiers serving in combat roles, Yaha- They did not build yeshivot which support the Kahane doctrine, and they did lom has grown significantly, becoming an essential component of the IDF, a not start a cell of “price tag” criminals. Their anger at being discriminated senior officer told military journalists at Yahalom’s training center at the IDF’s against is understandable. Syrkin Base near Petah Tikva. The second argument is transparency. The settlement enterprise in the 4 territories was based from its onset on a mutual “wink” between the Israeli west Jerusalem -- a failure to implement the law will further radicalize settlement establishment leaders and the government’s arms. The former the Arabs, who cannot afford to be less demanding than the U.S., thus established facts on the ground, and the latter secretly legitimized and presenting more obstacles to the pursuit of peace. funded. The man who knew more than anyone else how to maneuver his The relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Israel's eternal capital, Jerusalem, will way through this system was veteran settler leader Ze’ev Hever (Zambish). implement U.S. law, the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, which enjoys The network of connections he weaved extends from prime ministers to Civil massive support on Capitol Hill and beyond, but was not implemented by Administration officers and Justice Ministry attorneys. On the way, he bred presidents who used national security as an excuse for noncompliance. dozens of Zambishes in his image, changing the face of history. Relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem will also be consistent with the The Amona settlers are fed up with lies. The Zambishes offered them all worldview of the early Pilgrims and the U.S. Founding Fathers, as reflected kinds of solutions with a “wink,” which were concocted in utmost discretion, by the existence of 18 Jerusalems and 32 Salems (the original name of not just outside the box – but also outside the law. Until Sunday, at least, they Jerusalem) in the U.S. said no. Even if they eventually give in and spare Netanyahu the difficult Jerusalem was central to the agenda of Israel's Founding Father and first images involved in a forcible evacuation, their rejection of the culture of lying prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. In December 1949 -- at the end of Israel's is worthy of appreciation. War of Independence -- he declared Jerusalem Israel's capital, in defiance of Justice Ministry officials, from the attorney general downwards, who took part brutal pressure from the U.S. and notwithstanding harsh opposition by Israeli in this humiliating process, are deserving of no appreciation. Nothing would President Chaim Weizmann and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, who have happened to them had they said: We are refusing to take part in this predicted costly consequences, diplomatically, economically and militarily. scandal. We get paid to protect the law, not to abuse it. Resisting the U.S. call to refrain from annexing -- and building in -- west The settlement in the territories is the most significant, influential enterprise Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion relocated government offices and the Knesset from established in Israel in the past 50 years. As the years go by, it gives us more Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and built new neighborhoods all the way to the cease- and more land—and less of a state. On the way, it crushes the foundations of fire lines, thus enhancing the stature of Jerusalem and Israel. statehood laid by the founding generation—the authority of the law, the However, in 1995, I heard from a frustrated Senator Daniel Inouye -- who dignity of the government, the purity of arms, the ambition to live in a Jewish was Israel's leading supporter on Capitol Hill -- that Prime Minister Yitzhak and democratic state. Rabin collaborated with President Bill Clinton in pressuring U.S. senators to Amona and its settlers are not the enemy. They are a milestone, a footnote, insert a waiver provision into the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which enjoyed a in a path led by others. As a passionate politician once said, we are on the veto-proof majority. That waiver enabled U.S. presidents to suspend verge of the abyss, and now we will shall take one big step forward. implementation, supposedly due to national security considerations. Similarly, in July 1999, Prime Minister Ehud Barak asked Senators Joe EMBASSY RELOCATION AS A LITMUS TEST (Yoram Ettinger, Israel Lieberman and Jon Kyl to heed Clinton's request to shelve an updated Hayom 12/18/16) version of the Jerusalem Embassy Act -- supported by 84 senators -- which Terminating the State Department policy which refers to the whole of would revoke the waiver provision, prescribing a $100 million deduction from Jerusalem as an international (not Israeli) city, recognizing unified Jerusalem the State Department budget upon nonimplementation. Barak contended that as Israel's capital, and relocating the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the initiative was "ill-timed" and would amount to sacrificing the peace Jerusalem, represent a litmus test of President-elect Donald Trump's resolve process on the altar of Jerusalem. However, Barak's slapping the face of to make America great again by defying Arab/Muslim pressure and threats, Israel's friends on Capitol Hill -- and his proposed unprecedented, reckless as well as overruling the politically correct State Department. concessions to Yassir Arafat -- sacrificed Jerusalem on the altar of a failed Moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is, also, a litmus test of Prime peace process, further radicalizing Palestinian expectations, and therefore Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's intent to leverage the nonconventional dooming the peace process. Trump/Pence worldview, which abhors domestic and international political Recent months suggest that Trump and Netanyahu realize that the relocation correctness, respects firmness and the defiance of odds, recognizes Israel as of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem is their litmus test. a unique ally in the battle against the ayatollahs and Islamic terrorism, and is Trump has demonstrated his politically incorrect vigor to learn from the past aware that U.S. national security interests transcend the Palestinian issue. by avoiding presidential errors, to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem The decision to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem will usher in the and to bolster the U.S. posture of deterrence, while projecting his own Trump era, setting President Trump apart from his predecessors, compliance with American law. underscoring the independence of U.S. unilateral -- rather than multinational - Netanyahu will not sacrifice the unique potential of the Trump/Pence team on - action, distinguishing him from the U.S. and international foreign policy the altar of political correctness, but will follow in the footsteps of Ben-Gurion, establishment and setting his worldview apart from that of the U.N., while realizing the critical reflecting the state of mind of most Americans. geostrategic impact Establishing the U.S. Embassy in Israel's capital will signal Trump's of his attitude determination to resurrect the U.S. posture of deterrence, which has been toward Jerusalem eroded in recent years, underlying a realization that succumbing to pressure on Israel's power and threats fuels violence, while defying them deters rogue elements and projection, advances security and the prospects of peace. For example, in 2011, the deterrence of State Department warned the White House against vetoing a U.N. Security Israel's enemies Council condemnation of Israel's settlement policy, lest it fuel terrorism. and cooperation Contrary to the December 1988 U.S. recognition of the Palestine Liberation with the newly Organization and the 1993 Israel-PLO Oslo Accord -- which intensified elected, politically Palestinian terrorism and hate education -- vetoing the U.N. Security Council incorrect American resolution was not followed by bloodshed. president. While moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem would not undermine or prejudge the peace process -- since the Embassy will be located in pre-1967