End The Illegal Occupation of Jerusalem

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
June 17, 2009

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/573/end-illegal-occupation-of-jerusalem

Excerpt:

I recently met my friend, Helen Freedman, at the U Café. This café on the upper east side is my local watering hole, an oasis, a village well, where I meet people for coffee. Sometimes, when it's quiet, I just sit there and read, as if I lived in Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Vienna, Tel Aviv, or on the lower east side of NYC–but long ago, when a writer had a favorite cafe where he (or she) read their newspapers, pen articles and books, meet other writers to argue, plan revolutions, initiate love affairs, and to dream.

Freedman had just returned from one of her frequent trips to Israel. This time, what amazed her most were "all the illegal Arab settlements" which had grown exponentially "all over Jerusalem."

Illegal Arab settlements?

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