Trump Unscrambles UN-EU-PLO Misinformation Omelette

Trump’s intention was revealed when the State Department released its annual “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017” (“Report”)  – renaming its segment previously entitled “Israel and The Occupied Territories” with a new descriptor – “Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank, and Gaza”.

Israel and the Golan Heights are dealt with together in one section of the Report – whilst the West Bank and Gaza are covered in another.

One comma strategically placed in the descriptor – “… West Bank, and Gaza” – identifies them as two separate territorial entities that could involve different solutions.Commas count big time in Middle East diplomacy.

The Report’s new choice of language signals that resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict extends beyond the West Bank and Gaza to also include the Golan Heights and that any end to the conflict will only eventuate with the allocation of sovereignty in all three of these disputed areas.

This ground-breaking replacement of false statements with factual reality needs to be replicated by Trump in other areas of misinformation maliciously spread by the UN, EU and PLO – including:

* Recognition that the term “West Bank” was first used in 1950 and that for 3000 years prior thereto that territory had been called “Judea and Samaria”

* Acknowledgement that the “Palestinian Authority” created by the 1993 Oslo Accords was disbanded by written decree of PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on 3 January 2013.

* Affirmation of the right of the Jewish People to close settlement on land in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in Palestine under the rights vested in them by article 6 of the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine (the 1922 Mandate) – as preserved by article 80 of the United Nations Charter.

* Ending the fiction that the territory of former Palestine stopped at the Jordan River and agreeing that it included the Hashemite Kingdom of TransJordan – 78% of the territory comprised in the 1922 Mandate – which was granted independence by Great Britain in 1946 and subsequently renamed Jordan in 1950.

* Confirming that most of the Golan Heights was included within the 1922 Mandate until Britain ceded the area to France in the Franco-British Agreement of 7 March 1923

* Rebranding the UN and EU designated “Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)” as “The Disputed Territories”

* Agreement that Security Council Resolution 242 does not require Israel’s total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria (West Bank).

Cracking heads by getting all interested parties to adopt an agreed narrative using terms with agreed meanings is crucial in any communications and negotiations between them – if Trump’s long-awaited “ultimate deal” is to not be still born.

Underestimating Trump’s ability to win the Presidential election race against Hillary Clinton in 2016 has seen those who confidently predicted his defeat subsequently engaged in a vitriolic war of attrition in the media trying to convince the electorate that they voted for the wrong candidate.

Yet Trump continues to confound his detractors with impressive gains in both the American economy and foreign affairs.

The State Department Report – in dumping the use of the nomenclature “The Occupied Territories” – has taken one giant step towards ending the decades-long dishonest semantic warfare waged by the PLO, UN and EU.

Trump has once again dumbfounded his malevolent doomsday-pundits – whisking up an omelette that already promises to taste far better than any ever served up by the PLO, UN and EU.Trump has set himself a Herculean task confronting this sorry state of affairs.

(Author’s note: The cartoon – commissioned exclusively for this article – is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones” –  one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators – whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.)

Haley: Hamas using ‘children as cannon fodder’ in Gaza; Israeli group B'Tselem urges UN 'to protect Palestinian lives'; Israel says it's defending against terror attacks

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, lashed out at Hamas Thursday, accusing the Palestinian terror group of “using children as cannon fodder,” following the deaths of dozens of people in clashes with Israeli forces during protests along with border in the Gaza Strip.

“Anyone who truly cares about children in Gaza should insist that Hamas immediately stop using children as cannon fodder in its conflict with Israel,” Haley told a UN Security Council meeting convened to discuss the situation in the Middle East.

Ahead of the meeting, the Israeli rights group B’Tselem urged the Security Council to protect Palestinians taking part in the demonstrations on the border.

In an unusual move, the group’s executive director, Hagai El-Ad, wrote to UN Secretary General António Guterres, saying: “Preventing further loss of life is a responsibility that must be shouldered without delay.”

Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B’Tselem, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 5, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Tens of thousands of Gazans have taken part in Friday protests along the border with Israel, supported by the Hamas, which rules the coastal enclave. Hamas leaders say the ultimate aim of the demonstrations, dubbed “March of Return,” is to see the removal of the border and the liberation of Palestine.

B’Tselem gave a list of names and ages of 35 Palestinians it said were killed by Israel during the demonstrations.

The group described the victims as “unarmed” and said their deaths were “the predictable outcome of the manifestly illegal rules of engagement implemented during the demonstrations, of ordering soldiers to use lethal gunfire against unarmed demonstrators who pose no mortal danger.”

 

B’Tselem singled out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot as being primarily responsible for the deaths.

The group said that any Israeli investigation into the deaths was likely to be “a whitewash,” and would be solely to “forestall and prevent investigations by international bodies.”

The letter ended with a plea to the United Nations to “Do all in its power – and its responsibility – in order to protect Palestinian lives and uphold international norms.”

Hamas acknowledged that five of its terrorists were among the fatalities after the first Friday demonstration, but has since refrained for acknowledging whether its men are among the dead. Israel has identified other fatalities as members of terrorist groups.

Fatalities from the March 30 violence on the Israel-Gaza border identified by Israel as members of terror groups. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas also said it considers the weekly “March of Return” rallies — in which protesters have burned tires, hurled firebombs and rocks at Israeli troops, flown flaming kites over the border, and attempted to sabotage the security fence — a pivot toward nonviolence.

The Israeli military, in contrast, has said Hamas is using the protests as cover to damage the border fence and prepare to infiltrate and carry out attacks. There is considerable concern among Israelis of a mass breach, in which Gazans would stream across with terrorists among them, wreaking havoc.

The UN’s special envoy to the region, Nickolay Mladenov, told the council that both Israel and Hamas had to do more to prevent the deaths.

Nickolay Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, poses for a photo during the INSS conference in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)

“There has also been an increasing number of dangerous incidents at the fence, including the planting of improvised explosive devices — at least one of which has detonated — the throwing of Molotov cocktails, and attempts to breach the fence,” he said.

“Israel must calibrate its use of force and minimize the use of live fire. Lethal force should be used only as a last resort,” he continued. “Hamas and the leaders of the demonstrations must keep protesters away from the Gaza fence and prevent all violent actions and provocations.

The Israeli army says it mainly uses less-lethal means, as well as pinpoint fire against chief instigators. It says its sharpshooters target only those who attack IDF soldiers with stones and Molotov cocktails, actively try to damage the security fence, or attempt to place improvised explosive devices along the security fence that could later be used in attacks against Israeli patrols.

Israel envoy to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the General Assembly prior to a vote on Jerusalem, on December 21, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York.
(AFP PHOTO / EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ)

Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, also accused Hamas of using innocents as “human shields.”

“Throughout the riots of the past month, Hamas has used innocent Palestinian women and children as human shields, while they cowered behind in safety,” he said. “The terrorists are hiding while allowing, even hoping, for their people to die. This is evil in its purest form.”

He told the international body that Israel does everything in its power to minimize civilian deaths, but that the main goal of the army was to defend country.

“Israel has an obligation to protect our citizens and we will do so while minimizing civilian casualties to the other side but let me be clear: Israel will never apologize for defending our country,” he said. “It is Hamas that is fully responsible for every Palestinian injury and death that has resulted from these incidents.”

Donald Duck film 'Der Fuehrer's Face'

When der Fuehrer says we is de master race

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft) right in der Fuehrer's face

Not to love der Fuehrer is a great disgrace

So we heil (pffft) heil (pffft) right in der Fuehrer's face

When Herr Goebbels says we own the world and space

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft) right in Herr Goebbels' face

When Herr Göring says they'll never bomb dis place

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft) right in Herr Goering's face

Is he not the supermen?

Aryan pure supermen?

Ja we is the supermen

Super duper supermen

Is this Nazi land so good

Would you leave it if you could?

Ja this Nazi land is good

We wouldn't leave it if we could

We bring to the world New Order

Heil Hitler's world New Order

Everyone of foreign race

Will love der fuehrer's face

When we bring to the world dis order

When der Fuehrer says we never will be slaves

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft), but still we work like slaves

While der Fuehrer brags and lies and rants and raves

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft), and work into our graves

When der Fuehrer yells I got to have more shells

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft), for him we make more shells

If one little shell would blow him right to (clang)

We heil (pffft) heil (pffft), and wouldn't that be swell

How Robin Williams Helped Steven Spielberg Get Through Schindler’s List; The late comedian would do stand-up over the phone to lighten the director’s mood as he shot his Holocaust epic.

Making the 1993 drama Schindler’s List was traumatic for Steven Spielberg—but the director could always count on Robin Williams to make him laugh. At a 25th anniversary screening and panel about the film at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Oscar winner warmly reminisced about the late comedian, whom Spielberg befriended during the making of Hook, released two years before the Holocaust epic. Williams, Spielberg said, was keenly aware of the toll Schindler’s was about to take on his friend—so he made it a habit to regularly call Spielberg and cheer him up during the brutal shoot in Poland.

“Robin knew what I was going through,” Spielberg said. The comedian would call him once a week, always at the same time. “He would do 15 minutes of stand-up on the phone. I would laugh hysterically . . . he’d always hang up on you on the loudest, best laugh you’d give him. Drops the mic, that’s it.”

Stories about Williams’s phone calls have long been part of the lore of Schindler’s List, which was represented at the Tribeca panel by Spielberg, Sir Ben Kingsley,Liam Neeson, Embeth Davidtz, and Caroline Goodall, and moderated by Janet Maslin of The New York Times.

Back in 2014, Williams himself confirmed rumors of the calls while answering a fan question during a Reddit A.M.A.

“I think I only called him once, maybe twice,” Williams said. “I called him when I was representing People for the Valdheimers Association. A society devoted to helping raise money to help older Germans who had forgotten everything before 1945. I remember him laughing and going ‘thank you.’”

Williams wasn’t the only one helping Spielberg get through the making of Schindler’s, though. During the panel, Spielberg noted that the cast and crew also “watched a lot of Saturday Night Live” to wind down after grueling days on set. At the time, Spielberg also had to make time to approve finishing touches on Jurassic Park, a film he shot earlier in the year. But watching footage of giant dinosaurs didn’t provide the same relief or distraction as a stand-up set from Williams. Spielberg actually came to resent the film—in the moment, anyway, when compared to the dramatic work he was currently doing.

Schindler’s List, a devastating retelling of the Holocaust and the heroic life of Oskar Schindler, was so realistic that it had a strong psychological impact on the filmmaker, as well as its cast. While shooting the scene where the female characters are marched into what turns out to be an actual shower—though they believe it will be a gas chamber—two actresses had breakdowns, and couldn’t resume filming for days afterward, Spielberg recalled. The director also cited the horrifying health-action scene, in which the characters had to strip naked and be judged by Nazi doctors, as “probably the most traumatic day of my entire career.”

“There was trauma everywhere,” Spielberg said. “And we captured the trauma. You can’t fake that.”

There was also trauma behind the scenes, the director said. Spielberg remembered seeing fresh swastikas painted on building walls along the cast and crew’s route to work, and an older Polish woman who happened to live nearby telling Ralph Fiennes, who was dressed in his character’s Nazi uniform, that she missed the days when the actual Nazi soldiers were “protecting” the community. The cast also recalled the night when an anti-Semitic German businessman went up to actor Michael Schneider at a bar and asked him if he was Jewish.

“Michael, in shock, said yes,” Kingsley remembered. The man then “mimed a noose around his neck . . . and pulled it tight. And I stood up.”

“You did more than stand up,” Spielberg said, noting that Kingsley actually “took him right to the ground.”

In stark contrast to that swirling cruelty, Neeson, who played the title role, recalled the times he and Kingsley would wait up for some of their Jewish cast members after particularly arduous days, doling out hugs and free drinks. “Those were lovely evenings,” he said.

After its release, Schindler’s List would go on to win seven Oscars, including best picture and best director. Spielberg later set up the U.S.C. Shoah Foundation, a nonprofit that has recorded thousands of stories of Holocaust survivors. At the screening, the filmmaker actually sat down to watch his film with an audience for the first time in years, and said he came away feeling immense pride at his achievement. Goodall, who marveled at the film’s beauty all these years later, perhaps said it best: “Every scene was a tiny masterpiece.”

In emotional reunion, Spielberg revisits ‘Schindler’s List’

Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and others reunited for a 25th anniversary screening of “Schindler’s List” at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, in an evening that had obvious meaning to Spielberg and the hushed, awed crowd that packed New York’s Beacon Theater. In a Q&A following the film, Spielberg said it was the first time he had watched “Schindler’s List” with an audience since it was released in 1993.

“I have never felt since ‘Schindler’s List’ the kind of pride and satisfaction and sense of real, meaningful accomplishment — I haven’t felt that in any film post-‘Schindler’s List,’” Spielberg said.

The reunion was a chance for Spielberg and the cast to reflect on the singular experience of making an acknowledged masterwork that time has done little to dull the horror of, nor its necessity. “It feels like five years ago,” Spielberg said of making the film.

Spielberg shot the film in Krakow, Poland, in black-and-white and without storyboards, instead often using hand-held cameras to create a more documentary-like realism. Neeson remembered Spielberg running with a camera and, on the fly, directing him and Kingsley down Krakow streets. “It was exciting. It was dangerous and unforgettable,” Neeson said.

“Schindler’s List,” made for just $22 million (Spielberg declined a pay check), grossed $321 million worldwide and won seven Academy Awards, including best picture and best director. 

It also did much to educate the American public on the Holocaust. After the film, Spielberg established the Shoah Foundation, which took the testimony of 52,000 Holocaust survivors.

More needs to be done for Holocaust education, Spielberg said: “It’s not a pre-requisite to graduate high school, as it should be. It should be part of the social science, social studies curriculum in every public high school in this country.”

Making “Schindler’s List” was a profound, emotional and fraught experience for many of those involved. Kingsley recalled confronting a man for anti-Semitism during production. Spielberg said swastikas were sometimes painted overnight. Recreating scenes like those in the Krakow ghetto and at Auschwitz were, Spielberg said, very difficult for most of those involved. Two young Israeli actors, he said, had breakdowns after shooting a shower scene at the concentration camp.

“That aesthetic distance we always talk about between audience and experience? That was gone. And that was trauma,” said Spielberg. “There was trauma everywhere. And we captured the trauma. You can’t fake that. (The scene) where everyone takes off their clothes was probably the most traumatic day of my entire career — having to see what it meant to strip down to nothing and then completely imagine this could be your last day on earth.

“There were whole sections that go beyond anything I’ve ever experienced or seen people in front of the camera experience,” the 71-year-old filmmaker added.

Spielberg actually released two movies in 1993. “Jurassic Park” came out in June, and “Schindler’s List” followed in November. While he was shooting in Poland, Spielberg made several weekly satellite phone calls with the special effects house Industrial Light & Magic to go over Tyrannosaurus Rex shots — a distraction he abhorred.

“It built a tremendous amount of anger and resentment that I had to do this, that I actually had to go from what you experienced to dinosaurs chasing jeeps,” Spielberg told the audience. “I was very grateful later in June, though. But until then, it was a burden. This was all I cared about.”

“Schindler’s List” was a redefining film for Spielberg, who up until then was mostly considered an “entertainer,” associated with fantasy and escapism. Since, he has largely gravitated toward more dramatic and historical material like “Amistad,” ″Saving Private Ryan,” ″Munich,” ″Lincoln” and last year’s “The Post.”

But Spielberg initially shied away from “Schindler’s List,” scripted by Steven Zaillian and 

based on Thomas Keneally’s novel “Schindler’s Ark.” He urged Roman Polanski, whose mother was killed at Auschwitz, to make it. Martin Scorsese was once attached to direct.

Yet the making of “Schindler’s List” prompted an awakening for Spielberg, who has said his “Jewish life came pouring back into my heart.” On Thursday, the director said he wanted to make the film about “the banality of the deepest evil” and “stay on the march to murder, itself.”

To keep his sanity while shooting in Poland, he watched “Saturday Night Live” on Betamax and relied on weekly calls from Robin Williams.

“He would call me on schedule and he would do 15 minutes of stand-up on the phone,” said Spielberg. “I would laugh hysterically because I had to release so much. But the way Robin is on the telephone, he would always hang up on you on the loudest, best laugh you’d give him.”

RABBI BEREL WEIN - Framing the history of a masterpiece

After having written more than 15 books on Jewish history, it might seem overwhelming to boil thousands of years of history or even seven decades to a presentation lasting less than an hour, but Rabbi Berel Wein did just that for an audience at the Marion & Gural JCC in Cedarhurst on April 18.

Wein, 84, is the founder and director of the Destiny Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to bring Jewish history to life with an array of educational programs. For more than 25 years, he has been recognized as one of the most renowned Jewish Orthodox historians. The recipient of the Torah Prize award from Machon HaRav Frank in Jerusalem for teaching Torah, Wein is also a columnist for the Jerusalem Post.

“Rabbi Wein offered and called us,” said Rachayle Deutsch, the Cultural Arts and Education director for the Gural JCC who coordinated the event. “The rabbi is such a name.

Standing at the lectern, Wein, who headed a yeshiva in upstate Monsey for more than 20 years, began by careering into a metaphor that one doesn’t frame a Rembrandt masterpiece with an inexpensive frame and drew the conclusion that Israel, a Jewish state that is celebrating 70 years in 2018, “is the masterpiece, is a Rembrandt.”

“Israel flourishes in the sand and out of the desert, surrounded by enemies,” he said, disproportionately influential in the world.” Covering a little more than 8,000-square miles, Israel is roughly the size of New Jersey.

Then Wein pivoted and said that “Israel is not framed corrected,” because like looking at a painting you need some distance to truly see the artwork to be “overwhelmed by the beauty, the color, the composition of the artwork.”

Wein explained what 70 years of Israel means to the Jewish world by taking us back to May 14, 1948. It was a Friday, he said: “My father cried every step to shul. That made an impression on me. It put it into proper perspective.”

Coming out of the Holocaust, Wein noted that the Jewish people were the refugees no different from the Syrian refugees of today. “There was a time we were the refugee problem,” he said.

The immediate recognition of Israel as a state had its roots in World War I, Wein explained. “In [President Harry] Truman’s artillery unit there was a Jew, Eddie Jacobson, who Truman became friends with and they became partners in a haberdashery business in Kansas City, Missouri,” the rabbi said. Jacobson came from the Lower East Side.

Years later Jacobson, called on his friend to meet with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann. “Harry, I know Andrew Jackson is your hero, I want you to do know that Chaim Weizmann is my hero, you got to see him,” Jacobson said, according to Wein. Weizmann, the president of the Zionist Organization served as Israel’s first president from Feb. 16, 1949 until he died in 1952.

Wein said that there are now 6,800,000 million Jews in Israel. “How did that happen?” he asked. “Jews stood up. We’re not gonna take it anymore,” as the rabbi channeled his inner Dee Snyder.

Beginning to see the forest from the trees, Yehudah Levine, 18, a Lawrence High School senior, said he the rabbi’s talk had an impact. “It means Israel has evolved and changed in a very profound and amazing way and it inspires me to continue on,” he said.

Haley: Hamas Uses Palestinian Civilians as Human Shields

Ambassador Nikki Haley

U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations

U.S. Mission to the United Nations

New York City

April 26, 2018

AS DELIVERED

Thank you, Mr. President, and thank you, Mr. Mladenov, for your briefing. I have spoken many times about my strong belief that this monthly debate should be used to shed light on the many different sources of conflict and instability in the Middle East. There are unfortunately many to choose from, some of which prompt disagreement in the Security Council.

But today I want to address an issue about which there should be no disagreement. That issue is the use of innocent children, women, and men as human shields. Tragically, this outrageous practice is reaching epic proportions in the region.

A week ago today, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Hamas for its use of human shields. We were pleased to see this action. It's difficult to think of a more cowardly act – even for a terrorist – than hiding behind innocent civilians.

The use of human shields deliberately advantages those with no regard for human life, and disadvantages those who seek to minimize civilian casualties. And the use of human shields isn’t confined to any one conflict. It is present across the Middle East in virtually every conflict.

ISIS routinely used human shields in Iraq. ISIS fighters took advantage of the presence of civilians in their homes, their hospitals, their schools, and their mosques. When they were forced out of their positions, ISIS went from door to door, rounding up families and forcing them to accompany their fighters as they evacuated their locations.

Hezbollah has also endangered civilians by positioning its fighters and its weapons among them. Its terrorists use schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings to shield its war arsenal in Lebanon.

In the course of its massive arms buildup, Hezbollah has turned Lebanese villages into military compounds, stationing weapons depots, rocket launchers, and command posts in, around, and under the civilian population.

In blatant defiance of Security Council Resolution 1701, hundreds of Lebanese villages are home to Hezbollah rockets and fighters. There are press reports that every third or fourth house in South Lebanon is in some way being used by Hezbollah to shield its activities.

Another example is Yemen. The United Nations has reported that Houthi militants have used Yemeni civilians as human shields.

Lastly, Hamas has exploited and endangered the very Palestinian people it claims to represent by locating rocket launchers near schools, apartment buildings, hotels, churches, and UN facilities. It’s been less than a year since a Hamas terror tunnel was discovered underneath two UNRWA schools in Gaza.

That means UN facilities were being used as a cover for Hamas’s military infrastructure. Notice the threads of commonality that run through these examples. The first is Iran. As usual, Iran is the patron and protector of many of these groups that fight from behind the bodies of innocent civilians.

Groups that Iran has sponsored or supported have perfected the tactic of using human shields, and inspired others to do the same. Of course, this is part of Iran’s overarching efforts to destabilize the region – efforts that include illegal weapons shipments to Yemen, and invading Israeli air space with armed drones from Syrian territory.

The second common thread is the dramatic risk to civilians. For those willing to sacrifice the innocent, there is no way to lose. Innocent civilians either provide cover for military infrastructure, or they become victims that rally the international media to their cause.

Either way, innocent civilians get caught in the crossfire, and exploited for illegitimate military and political purposes. All decent nations and responsible militaries seek to minimize civilian casualties in warfare.

Those who want to reduce civilian casualties in the Middle East must focus their attention on the actors, including non-state actors, who intentionally keep their military infrastructure in close proximity to civilians.

The use of civilians to intentionally shield otherwise lawful military targets from attack is a war crime. As is so often the case, it is the most vulnerable who pay the price for the use of human shields. Commandeering homes puts families – who are already in war zones – at additional risk.

Locating rocket launchers next to schools eliminates safe places for children. Putting command posts in the hospital shows complete disregard for the sick, the injured, and the elderly. Each time ISIS, Hezbollah, or Hamas succeeds in using a village, or a family, or a child, to protect its terrorist operations, the use of this grotesque tactic grows.

It is a win for the groups that are willing to endanger civilian populations in order to accomplish their political objectives. And it is a loss for the people who play by the rules; who seek to minimize rather than maximize civilian casualties.

Anyone who cares about the safety of Lebanese families should condemn this practice. Anyone who cares about the lives of Yemenis or Palestinians should demand accountability for the militants who exploit them. Anyone who truly cares about children in Gaza should insist that Hamas immediately stop using children as cannon fodder in its conflict with Israel.

This is an issue that transcends the usual debates in this chamber. It is quite simply an issue of decency. Humanity itself loses when the barbaric practice of human shields is tolerated and unanswered. For humanity’s sake, the Security Council must rise up to address this threat.

Thank you.

Vice President Bush praying at the Kotel.

Vice President and Mrs. Bush – along with Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek and his wife – in the Old City overlooking the Temple Mount and Kotel Plaza



Vice President Bush praying at the Kotel.