in the offing.

So stuff it if you don't like it !

Tsssssssss.......BOOM!!!!!

The fact is that Israel receives billions in aid from the U.S. You can only smack Obama in the face so many times before he gets upset along with the U.S. Congress. The U.S. and the international community have more influence than you think. Just look at what happened with the Serbs in Kosovo and the Mandela government in South Africa. The mayor of Jerusalem is shooting himself and Israel in the foot.

Israel, like any other country, needs to continue building Jewish homes at a rapid rate.to keep up with the demands of the infrastructure and needs of the population. They should build homes everywhere, that is their perogative, No one tells people in Mecca, Tripoli, Casablanca, Algiers, Tehran or Baghdad when and where to build...so why should Israel be dictated to.

it is the land of the Jewish people and so it should be built for the Jewish people. build. build. build. and so it goes as it should. build for the Jewish people in the Jewish homeland and the undivided united capital of Israel JERUSALEM

The buffoon-in-chief needs to figure out whose side he is on: that of radical Islam or democracy. When he figures that one out, with help from Rev. Wright, Axelrod, and Rashid Khalidi, and he chooses correctly, then he can start to have some influence over Israel. Until then, he should be treated like a dimwit antiZionist egomaniac.

The Shepherd hotel building and land belongs to the Husseini family. It has been confiscated from them by the custodian of absentee property. the so called sale of the property to Muscovitch is illegal.

And what about hurting the thin-skinned Obaman sense of justice for all (except Israelis, of course).

# 2 is correct. Jerusalem is jewish, is the capital of the jewish state THE ONLY STATE WE HAVE. It's all muslim in the area. what the hell you want??? Jerusalem is our holy city for more the 3000 years and nothing will change it.

First of all resistor is an insult to any real resistant person anywhere, but never mind. I've got a recommendation to the builders: you need to destroy the old structures, right? Therefore take this moron and his family inside before you do it and....zzzzzzzzzzzzz boom...72 whores here they come....... BUILT BABY BUILT!!!!

"2 and"13 you are both wrong! Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel and not the other way around! What Mr. Barkat is doing is tactless and distructive. he could have waited a little longer and not make this announcment just before Mr.Netanyahu go to meet with Pres Barak. I am not left wing, nor do I want any of Jerusalem under Arab control. But the secret to success is TIMING and is the wrong time!