Editorial on Israel Heritage Plan controversy (Baltimore Sun)

THE CONTROVERSY over the Israel Heritage Plan is the subject of an editorial in the Baltimore Sun:

Heralding Israel's heritage
The nation must defend its historical ties to the land against those who deny them

By Aron U. Raskas

March 5, 2010

Jerusalem - JERUSALEM--The Israeli government adds two culturally rich, millennium-old historic sites to a list of national treasures, and riots break out, followed by international condemnation. Yet, it is precisely this cynical, albeit predictable, response that demonstrates why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right to add the Tomb of Rachel and the Cave of the Jewish Patriarchs and Matriarchs to Israel's National Heritage Sites.

There is no nation with firmer roots in a land than the Jewish people in the greater land of Israel. Yet, that great heritage has been under assault by Arab protagonists and their pusillanimous patrons for the longest time, and this has intensified in recent years.

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