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

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11. Wrong on everything you have written.

Hanukkah is not a major Jewish holiday. The majors are things like Passover, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippour, and a few others. The only reason that non-Jews think Hanukkah is major is because it comes at Christmas. Second, I am not suggesting any of the things that you attribute to me. Further, the International Community did not grant the Jews a state. In fact, the Partition Resolution was much more intended as screen for the fact that the International Community was abandoning the Jews to be slaughtered by the Arabs. So let's all assume that the Palestinians have a right to live in Jerusalem, that Palestinians have a right to a state. And let's also assume that the Jews have a right to a state independent of the say so of anyone else. All of that has nothing to do with whether Jerusalem should be Israel's capital.