Gershom Gorenberg on Jerusalem Day:
Lest it be said that I never agree with anything that Benjamin Netanyahu says, I actually concur with one clause — not a whole sentence — in the speech he gave Tuesday evening. “The struggle for Jerusalem is a struggle for the truth,” the prime minister of my country said.
The rest of his speech, consisted of the usual quarter-truths and myths that make up most statements about “eternally united” Jerusalem — by Netanyahu himself, by other Israeli officials, and by often-naïve American supporters. Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel‘s open letter, published as a full-page ad last month in the New York Times and other U.S. papers, is a good example of the art form.