Oh, yes: Arab governments are renowned for their fastidiousness and rule of law! What planet is this author living on?

I would like to interpret this article as a tongue in cheek joke. However, the Israeli left is so loony and so desperate, you never know. Megged may actually mean the ludicrous things he writes. Good, bad, beautiful or ugly, Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people forever. Imagine America giving away the ugly sections of New York, LA or Chicago to Al Quaeda! Mind boggling.

I'm tired of reading such trash on a constant daily basis coming out of Israel.

Perhaps this foolish writer is forgetting how the waqf have demolished precious archaeological sites on Temple mount, destroying any remnants of the first an 2nd temples, to build several underground mosques there.

This writer is such a naive man! There is nothing remotely journalistic about this opinion piece. It seems that anyone willing to badmouth Jews is given a mouthpiece by the Israeli media even if they have nothing intelligent to say. Would Ynet publish a similar piece about how the Arabs are ruining Ramalla?

All government is corrupt starting with Olmert, Barak and Sharon, so by your thinking we should give Israel to the Arabs? I have a few other words for you but not for printing

As if there are no corrupt Arabs. What and idiot.

politicians in this part of the world suck. I shudder at the Arab kitcsh we would be subjected to if Jerusalem were in exclusively arab hands. Just take a look at the monstrosities that have gone up all over Amman.

No, the Arab respect for the environment is just a myth. Come to Hebron and have a look for yourself. Their so-called "respect to the delightful treasures of their city" in Jerusalem is just a trick to further one front in global Mohammedan conquest. But we Jews need a thorough and uncompromising internal housecleaning.

Does this idiot not know what happened during the time Jerusalem was in Arab hands? Jews ethnically cleansed, 58 synagogues destroyed, Mount of Olives headstones used as paving blocks and latrine walls.

you need to read the news? Is anyone group free of corruption or pure? Nope. You sound like do not live in the real world. Arab municipalities have loads of corruption, and the PA has it's fair share. You cant get a prefect world even if you have the best legal system or justice protocols.

now why would a "nation of greedy contractors" wanna ever have fair peace with its neighbors when its "greedy contractors" can keep on stealing lands for free from the original arab owners & building at minimum cost by using donations from the US & europe + by stealing arabs money?! seriously, why would such a nation wanna ever have peace?! israelis are doomed, because their greed stops at nothing... while on the other side, their arab neighbors can only take too much.

It is is because Jews have much higher standards.

The difference between Israel and the Arabs is that in Israel, however imperfect, there is a mechanism in place to address grievances. In most Arab countries, they have no concept of property rights and you can be executed for the most savage of rationales. This article seems to have been written by a spoiled and naive moron with idiotic fantasies of how the world works. Coming from someone whose family is from Morrocco, I wholeheartedly suggest that you immigrate to an Arab country if you would prefer Arab rule. Alas, you won't do that. Because you would really prefer to live in your safe fantasy land made possible by the hard work and people of the country you hate so much. You spit on your country, yet it is what makes it possible for you to envision such idiotic ideas.

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, that's been their SOP since forever. The difference is that in your country, greed and corruption is just business as usual.

it seems that there are other individuals/publications that are capable of trying to harm the nation like Haaretz did. In order to promote its leftist ideology. An ideology that progressively has done nothing for mankind, other than confuse the world.

What goes on in Arab countries and other countries controlled by dictators and thugs is much worst in terms of corruption. However we live in an democracy which is able exposes this type of corruption (something we should be proud of) while in these non-democratic countries, such corruption which is on a much greater scale is never exposed. Am I correct Messrs Assad, Mubarak, Hussein, Ahmadjad and Princes and Kings from the gulf?

Eyal, let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.

Silly as this may seem to many of the indoctrinated, but BOTH SIDES are in the wrong. Jerusalem belongs to both peoples and as opposed to the continuance of destroying, both parties should get their mops and trash bags and clean up the ridiculously un tidy city they have defecated on. JEW/ARAB----the land is destroyed because of lack of understanding and knowledge. Neither side will oust the other....Clean it Up, you racist maniacs, and act like cililized grown ups...You are in the HOUSE OF GOD, REMEMBER??!!! That alone, should prompt a collective rebuilding and cleaning!!! GROW UP!...Everybody involved..Grow up!

This case of extreme corruption was perpetrated by two men who were supported during their kleptocratic regime by the extreme-Left and press because they attacked the Right-wing Zionists. Why didn't Megged fight Olmert two years ago when Yoav Yitzhak broke the story? Also, where was Mazuz? Mazuz decided not to charge Sharon in the Greek Island incident and failed to investigate Olmert's Holyland and Mamila projects. Shouldn't Megged be questioning Mazuz?

My money says Palis ousted in next major conflict.

If so the writer succeeded. The right wingers are out in full unchecked cheekiness! Is the writer so uninformed that he has no knowledge of how Moslems and Arab Christians do business? He has never heard the word "Bakshesh"?

Since Rabin used bribes to pass the Oslo agreements it has been a constant association between the "peace makers" and corruption. Olmert and Sharon became clean and admirable despite that all the journalists knew they were corrupt because they were advancing peace. And on the Left just look at how Belien, Peres and other toady up to the EU then walk away with the pockets stuffed full of cash. Money is the great equalizer. Still Meggid is wrong. The entire PA is a pyramid scheme of con artists and extortionists (and a good measure of simple cut-throats). At least in Israel there is some hope that Yoav Yitzchak will catch them on it.