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November 20, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield 24 Comments

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

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CBS’ Nora O’Donnell got a lot of flak for describing the murder of four Rabbis in a Jerusalem synagogue as taking place “at a contested religious site in Jerusalem.”

Honest Reporting points out that “There is, of course, nothing “contested” about the Har Nof synagogue where the terror attack took place. Nor is there anything “contested” about Har Nof itself, a Jewish neighborhood in the western side of Jerusalem.”

But in fact Muslims contest the western side of Jerusalem as much as they contest the eastern side of Jerusalem or Tel Aviv, Haifa or for that matter Madrid.

It’s just a matter of what arguments their spokespeople find tactically useful to put forward at any given time. Or what arguments their media collaborators find it worthwhile to advance.

They didn’t lead with demands for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from any part of Jerusalem because that would have nuked the whole thing right there. They waited for Israel to hand over other parts of its land to the Muslim terrorists.

Nora O’Donnell is of course correct. Har Nof is contested. Certainly the synagogue is.
Muslims murdered four Jews there. How can it then not be contested? The very definition of contested is a place that Muslims kill people in.

Now that Muslims have killed people in that synagogue, it is now contested. It must be negotiated for. Obama and Kerry must demand that Israel cede it. Peres, assorted leftists and sellout security chiefs with villas in Paris and Los Angeles must insist that Israel has no use for the synagogue and would be better off without it.

And the one after that. And the one after that.

Any place that Muslims kill people in is contested. And the only way to end the cycle of violence is to turn that place over to them. Until there are no more places left. Anywhere.

And then there will be peace. The terrible final peace of Islam.