In Their Final Hours, Obama and Kerry Resurrect The Jewish Question
"Israel can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace."
Those are not the words of a Hamas or Fatah spokesperson, but rather our so-called Secretary of State – a craven sycophant who disgraces the office he holds.
The falsehoods propagated during John Kerry’s 70 minute-long terror-enabling screed are legion and I won’t take the time to debunk each of them here. I will, however, briefly outline a few salient facts about the Jewish State conveniently twisted to suit our current administration's revisionist history.
Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people
From the Land of Canaan to the Kingdoms of David and Solomon; from the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples on the Temple Mount to the Maccabees revolt in the first century B.C.; from the fall of Masada in 73 A.D. to the Bar Kokhba Rebellion in the first century A.D., the land of Israel has always been the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. Despite various invasions by disparate and now defunct empires throughout history, Jews have been the single constant in that land – and for thousands of years before Muhammad came along on his winged horse.
Israel’s historical context cannot be understated. It is, after all, why the Jewish State was established where it is, and not for instance, in Sudan.
It is why Arab Muslims work tirelessly to excavate Jewish artifacts from underneath the al Aqsa mosque and elsewhere in Jerusalem, attempting to purge any and all historical Jewish connection to the eternal capital of Israel.
Even if one were to play devil’s advocate and disregard ancient history, Israel in its modern incarnation is perhaps the most legally-binding nation on the planet – perhaps because its re-establishment was crafted not by military generals, but rather by lawyers.
Legal scholar and expert on Israel’s founding Alan Dershowitz – a man who, despite his brilliance, naively believed Obama’s vow to “always have Israel’s back” – has written extensively about Israel’s legal foundation, noting that from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the League of Nations Resolution in 1922 to the UN Partition in 1947 to its lawful establishment as a Nation State in 1948 – no other country’s “birth certificate” is more legitimate than Israel’s.
Yet it is the only nation consistently delegitimized.
The "Palestinian refugee crisis"
Another false narrative peddled by those bent on ushering in Israel’s destruction (which apparently includes our outgoing Secretary of State), concerns the so-called “Palestinian refugee crisis.”
In 1948, no sooner was the ink on Israel’s lawful establishment dry that the major Arab armies – Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as local Palestinian Arab factions – waged an illegal war on the fledgling Jewish State.
Leading up to the War of Independence, a transfer of populations took place. Roughly 700,000 Arabs (now referred to as "Palestinians") fled the region. Some of the most affluent left in order to preserve their wealth while the majority were encouraged to leave by Arab leaders who told them they could return home once the Jewish State was destroyed in war.
Palestinian nationalist Arif al-Areif explained this in a historical account of the 1948 war:
“The Arabs thought they would win in less than the twinkling of an eye and that it would take no more than a day or two from the time the Arab armies crossed the border until all the colonies were conquered and the enemy would throw down his arms and cast himself on their mercy.”
Big miscalculation on their part.
What is conveniently never mentioned, however, is that Jewish leaders urged Arab residents to remain in their homes and become citizens of Israel. The Assembly of Palestine Jewry issued the following appeal on October 2, 1947:
“We will do everything in our power to maintain peace, and establish a cooperation gainful to both [Jews and Arabs]. It is now, here and now, from Jerusalem itself, that a call must go out to the Arab nations to join forces with Jewry and the destined Jewish State and work shoulder to shoulder for our common good, for the peace and progress of sovereign equals.”
The key takeaways? None of the major Arab nations – not Transjordan, not Syria, not Egypt, not Lebanon – took in their nomadic Arab brethren. More pointedly, there would be no Palestinian "refugees" at all had they simply accepted to live side by side with the Jewish people back in 1948. But they refused, like they always do, and then complained about the fallout.
Another historical fact conveniently relegated to the dustbin of history is that the only genuine refugee population in the region at that time was Jewish.
In 1948 the Jewish population of the Middle East and North Africa totaled roughly one million, but generations of Islamic anti-Semitism combined with Nazi collaboration in the years prior culminated in a revitalized sense of Islamic supremacy. Soon, 850,000 Middle Eastern Jews (referred to as Mizrahi or Sephardic) were expelled from the countries they’d called home for centuries, in some cases, millennia.
They are the real and forgotten refugees of the Middle East. They are the ones no one ever speaks about. They have never received a dime of reparations, and they have never been recognized by any international human rights bodies.
Palestinians are an invented people
Those who champion the Palestinian cause operate on a number of flawed premises but none more egregious than the notion that Palestinians are indigenous, and therefore have legitimate claim, to the land of Israel.
Until 1967 the term “Palestinian” never even entered the lexicon; rather, inhabitants of the region were simply referred to as Arabs. Such a generic term, however, was hardly good for PR.
Under the tutelage of Russian propagandists, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat invented the narrative of a distinct Palestinian people who, in their so-called “struggle for self-determination,” sought liberation from their Israeli oppressors.
During a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper, Trouw, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein confirmed this:
"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
Arafat himself echoed the same sentiments numerous times:
"Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel."
Arafat became a skilled propagandist and heeded the advice of Ho Chi Minh’s chief strategist, General Giap, who instructed that the key to annihilating Israel lay in turning “your terror war into a struggle for human rights.”
“Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”
Araft understood that the world loves an underdog. Of course, the world loved Jews once too, but only when they were being led from cattle cars into gas chambers.
The settlement ruse and myth of 1967 borders
In reality and what Israel-haters desperately claw at to refute, is that since 1948 Israel has always wanted to live in peace and has made every concession in order to do so.
How soon we forget that during the Camp David Summit in 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to nearly every demand made by the Palestinians, but as we know, Arafat refused the deal.
When it comes to settlements, in 2005 Ariel Sharon led with Israel's good faith gesture to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, uprooting thousands of Jewish families. Israel gave it all away and what did the Palestinians do? They destroyed every piece of infrastructure Israel left in place right down to the greenhouses and turned Gaza into a Hamas ammunitions dump from which terrorists now launch rockets into Israel.
Still, Israel never ceased trying. In 2008 then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians more than 94% – almost all – of Judea and Samaria. And for the record in 2009 “hard-liner” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implemented a 10-month long settlement freeze in yet another futile attempt to restart the peace talks.
Here is what the world needs to understand: 94%, 97%, 100% of Israel will never be enough for the Palestinians as long as a single Jew is left alive on that land.
Settlements in Judea and Samaria, meanwhile, are all that prevent the West Bank from being turned into another Gaza and are what stand in between Israel’s major population centers and terrorists bent on their annihilation.
Those who live in many of these settlement communities do so at great personal risk, as we are made painfully aware anytime a Jewish child is stabbed to death in his or her bed by a Palestinian “freedom fighter.” In many ways, these Jewish families are among Israel’s first lines of defense, and they deserve our support.
The West Bank, meanwhile, was legally captured by Israel from Jordan during the Six-Day War and the so-called 1967 border is in fact the 1949 Armistice Line drawn between Israel and neighboring Arab countries following the War of Independence. The line was never intended to be a border, and it was certainly never intended to be permanent, particularly as it would relegate Israel to an indefensible territory 9-miles wide.
Such borders, in military terms, lack “minimum defensive depth” – meaning there is neither sufficient space for military forces to redeploy following an attack, nor is there room for reserve forces to deploy for counterattack.
"Never again"
The world once made a promise that "never again" would it allow the Jewish people to be slaughtered wholesale. How quickly the world forgets.
You will never hear anyone who takes that solemn vow or history seriously call on Israel to "return to 1967 borders" or refer to the creation of the Jewish State using the Palestinian propagandist term "nakba" – which, by the way, means "catastrophe."
The Obama administration initiated the most significant betrayal of an American ally in history and its lasting impact cannot be understated.
Emboldened, the BDS movement and its anti-Semitic factions will continue – perhaps more successfully -- in their crusade to ostracize and economically strangle Israel at the diplomatic and institutional levels.
Today, Jews around the world -- in their neighborhoods, schools, and houses of worship – have a new target painted on their backs as bad actors will assuredly take our Secretary of State's words as justification to do ill.
Today, Palestinian terrorists rejoice in the streets because an American president legitimized them. They were rewarded for weaning their children on Jew-hatred and genocidal bloodlust. For years to come, Kerry’s sound-bites will be lionized on every Islamic publication, and propagandized on every Hamas television program. And as a result, more innocent blood will be spilled.
When it came to Donald Trump, the Left was, all of a sudden, so concerned about anti-Semitism. But we all know those who decry "Nazism" and then condemn the only nation on earth re-established as a haven for Jews escaping persecution are most likely anti-Semites themselves.
And so it goes, that in their final hours, Barack Obama and John Kerry resurrected the Jewish Question. Israel knows it. Her enemies know it. And now, you do too. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/their-final-hours-obama-and-kerry-resurrect-jewish-question
Those are not the words of a Hamas or Fatah spokesperson, but rather our so-called Secretary of State – a craven sycophant who disgraces the office he holds.
The falsehoods propagated during John Kerry’s 70 minute-long terror-enabling screed are legion and I won’t take the time to debunk each of them here. I will, however, briefly outline a few salient facts about the Jewish State conveniently twisted to suit our current administration's revisionist history.
Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people
From the Land of Canaan to the Kingdoms of David and Solomon; from the destruction of the First and Second Holy Temples on the Temple Mount to the Maccabees revolt in the first century B.C.; from the fall of Masada in 73 A.D. to the Bar Kokhba Rebellion in the first century A.D., the land of Israel has always been the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. Despite various invasions by disparate and now defunct empires throughout history, Jews have been the single constant in that land – and for thousands of years before Muhammad came along on his winged horse.
Israel’s historical context cannot be understated. It is, after all, why the Jewish State was established where it is, and not for instance, in Sudan.
It is why Arab Muslims work tirelessly to excavate Jewish artifacts from underneath the al Aqsa mosque and elsewhere in Jerusalem, attempting to purge any and all historical Jewish connection to the eternal capital of Israel.
Even if one were to play devil’s advocate and disregard ancient history, Israel in its modern incarnation is perhaps the most legally-binding nation on the planet – perhaps because its re-establishment was crafted not by military generals, but rather by lawyers.
Legal scholar and expert on Israel’s founding Alan Dershowitz – a man who, despite his brilliance, naively believed Obama’s vow to “always have Israel’s back” – has written extensively about Israel’s legal foundation, noting that from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the League of Nations Resolution in 1922 to the UN Partition in 1947 to its lawful establishment as a Nation State in 1948 – no other country’s “birth certificate” is more legitimate than Israel’s.
Yet it is the only nation consistently delegitimized.
The "Palestinian refugee crisis"
Another false narrative peddled by those bent on ushering in Israel’s destruction (which apparently includes our outgoing Secretary of State), concerns the so-called “Palestinian refugee crisis.”
In 1948, no sooner was the ink on Israel’s lawful establishment dry that the major Arab armies – Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as local Palestinian Arab factions – waged an illegal war on the fledgling Jewish State.
Leading up to the War of Independence, a transfer of populations took place. Roughly 700,000 Arabs (now referred to as "Palestinians") fled the region. Some of the most affluent left in order to preserve their wealth while the majority were encouraged to leave by Arab leaders who told them they could return home once the Jewish State was destroyed in war.
Palestinian nationalist Arif al-Areif explained this in a historical account of the 1948 war:
“The Arabs thought they would win in less than the twinkling of an eye and that it would take no more than a day or two from the time the Arab armies crossed the border until all the colonies were conquered and the enemy would throw down his arms and cast himself on their mercy.”
Big miscalculation on their part.
What is conveniently never mentioned, however, is that Jewish leaders urged Arab residents to remain in their homes and become citizens of Israel. The Assembly of Palestine Jewry issued the following appeal on October 2, 1947:
“We will do everything in our power to maintain peace, and establish a cooperation gainful to both [Jews and Arabs]. It is now, here and now, from Jerusalem itself, that a call must go out to the Arab nations to join forces with Jewry and the destined Jewish State and work shoulder to shoulder for our common good, for the peace and progress of sovereign equals.”
The key takeaways? None of the major Arab nations – not Transjordan, not Syria, not Egypt, not Lebanon – took in their nomadic Arab brethren. More pointedly, there would be no Palestinian "refugees" at all had they simply accepted to live side by side with the Jewish people back in 1948. But they refused, like they always do, and then complained about the fallout.
Another historical fact conveniently relegated to the dustbin of history is that the only genuine refugee population in the region at that time was Jewish.
In 1948 the Jewish population of the Middle East and North Africa totaled roughly one million, but generations of Islamic anti-Semitism combined with Nazi collaboration in the years prior culminated in a revitalized sense of Islamic supremacy. Soon, 850,000 Middle Eastern Jews (referred to as Mizrahi or Sephardic) were expelled from the countries they’d called home for centuries, in some cases, millennia.
They are the real and forgotten refugees of the Middle East. They are the ones no one ever speaks about. They have never received a dime of reparations, and they have never been recognized by any international human rights bodies.
Palestinians are an invented people
Those who champion the Palestinian cause operate on a number of flawed premises but none more egregious than the notion that Palestinians are indigenous, and therefore have legitimate claim, to the land of Israel.
Until 1967 the term “Palestinian” never even entered the lexicon; rather, inhabitants of the region were simply referred to as Arabs. Such a generic term, however, was hardly good for PR.
Under the tutelage of Russian propagandists, Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat invented the narrative of a distinct Palestinian people who, in their so-called “struggle for self-determination,” sought liberation from their Israeli oppressors.
During a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper, Trouw, PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein confirmed this:
"The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."
Arafat himself echoed the same sentiments numerous times:
"Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel."
Arafat became a skilled propagandist and heeded the advice of Ho Chi Minh’s chief strategist, General Giap, who instructed that the key to annihilating Israel lay in turning “your terror war into a struggle for human rights.”
“Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”
Araft understood that the world loves an underdog. Of course, the world loved Jews once too, but only when they were being led from cattle cars into gas chambers.
The settlement ruse and myth of 1967 borders
In reality and what Israel-haters desperately claw at to refute, is that since 1948 Israel has always wanted to live in peace and has made every concession in order to do so.
How soon we forget that during the Camp David Summit in 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to nearly every demand made by the Palestinians, but as we know, Arafat refused the deal.
When it comes to settlements, in 2005 Ariel Sharon led with Israel's good faith gesture to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza, uprooting thousands of Jewish families. Israel gave it all away and what did the Palestinians do? They destroyed every piece of infrastructure Israel left in place right down to the greenhouses and turned Gaza into a Hamas ammunitions dump from which terrorists now launch rockets into Israel.
Still, Israel never ceased trying. In 2008 then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians more than 94% – almost all – of Judea and Samaria. And for the record in 2009 “hard-liner” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implemented a 10-month long settlement freeze in yet another futile attempt to restart the peace talks.
Here is what the world needs to understand: 94%, 97%, 100% of Israel will never be enough for the Palestinians as long as a single Jew is left alive on that land.
Settlements in Judea and Samaria, meanwhile, are all that prevent the West Bank from being turned into another Gaza and are what stand in between Israel’s major population centers and terrorists bent on their annihilation.
Those who live in many of these settlement communities do so at great personal risk, as we are made painfully aware anytime a Jewish child is stabbed to death in his or her bed by a Palestinian “freedom fighter.” In many ways, these Jewish families are among Israel’s first lines of defense, and they deserve our support.
The West Bank, meanwhile, was legally captured by Israel from Jordan during the Six-Day War and the so-called 1967 border is in fact the 1949 Armistice Line drawn between Israel and neighboring Arab countries following the War of Independence. The line was never intended to be a border, and it was certainly never intended to be permanent, particularly as it would relegate Israel to an indefensible territory 9-miles wide.
Such borders, in military terms, lack “minimum defensive depth” – meaning there is neither sufficient space for military forces to redeploy following an attack, nor is there room for reserve forces to deploy for counterattack.
"Never again"
The world once made a promise that "never again" would it allow the Jewish people to be slaughtered wholesale. How quickly the world forgets.
You will never hear anyone who takes that solemn vow or history seriously call on Israel to "return to 1967 borders" or refer to the creation of the Jewish State using the Palestinian propagandist term "nakba" – which, by the way, means "catastrophe."
The Obama administration initiated the most significant betrayal of an American ally in history and its lasting impact cannot be understated.
Emboldened, the BDS movement and its anti-Semitic factions will continue – perhaps more successfully -- in their crusade to ostracize and economically strangle Israel at the diplomatic and institutional levels.
Today, Jews around the world -- in their neighborhoods, schools, and houses of worship – have a new target painted on their backs as bad actors will assuredly take our Secretary of State's words as justification to do ill.
Today, Palestinian terrorists rejoice in the streets because an American president legitimized them. They were rewarded for weaning their children on Jew-hatred and genocidal bloodlust. For years to come, Kerry’s sound-bites will be lionized on every Islamic publication, and propagandized on every Hamas television program. And as a result, more innocent blood will be spilled.
When it came to Donald Trump, the Left was, all of a sudden, so concerned about anti-Semitism. But we all know those who decry "Nazism" and then condemn the only nation on earth re-established as a haven for Jews escaping persecution are most likely anti-Semites themselves.
And so it goes, that in their final hours, Barack Obama and John Kerry resurrected the Jewish Question. Israel knows it. Her enemies know it. And now, you do too. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/their-final-hours-obama-and-kerry-resurrect-jewish-question
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It is Obama and Kerry who appear to be anti Semites with the move made at the UN. They expect Israel to make all the compromises and to risk their own security as a nation with no guarantee of a right to exist.
Please feel free to carry on the conversation from the Rubio Kerry Israel seed here. It was closed because I had to be away from NT for a few hours due to a family matter.
Dear Friend XXJeff: Excellent and accurate historical analysis.
Well done!
Not to worry. January 17th is just around the corner.
Nothing Mr. Kerry said or the U.S. didn't do in the U.N. recently changes any facts on the ground.
Bibi and Barack has been poking their thumbs in each others eyes for more than eight years now.
This was just one last parting shot. Nothing more than that.
Kerry was just doing what he is supposed to be doing. Serving and the pleasure of the President.
No harm, no foul.
In fact, this last development is much ado about nothing.
The is some silver lining to the cloud.
Read relevant past speeches by John Bolton. He is very good about why we need to bring about a post U.N. era.
The case is well made that for at least, probably more than 1.5 decades the U.N. has done more to make the world less peaceful than fulfill its vision and mission. Some things they do in humanitarian work, and some roles for its peace keeping forces have helped. By and large they are not doing their job.
With the recent genocide in Aleppo they are strangely silent. They awaken to pass resolutions against some apartment buildings in the liberated territories.
Also, as George Will once wrote, "The Palestinians are a people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity".
Now the chickens come home to roost.
When two sides do not want a two state solution, no U.N. speeches or votes by anyone will matter.
When one of those sides only wants to annihilate the other, there is no basis for good faith negotiations.
When one side, often unilaterally gives land for peace, and said land is used to launch rocket, homicide/suicide and other terrorist attacks and wars, there ceases to be a reason to give up land won with the blood of those valiantly and successfully defending a nation from a sea of genocidal insanity and hatred.
Be of good cheer in this forthcoming New Year.
2017 may be the end of the two state solution goal, the gradual substitution of something that works for the much of the U.N. which does not.
It is also a year which will see a re-cementing and closer bonding between the USA and Israel.
It is a natural alliance of two countries with similar interests, values, goals. In which each derives more from the union that it costs either. That is a sustainable partnership all day, year and decades long.
Pressuring Israel to make unilateral concessions when the other side wants to kill them hasn't worked for decades. It cannot, for reason obvious. It is past the time to try it.
Hamas and Fatach had too many chances. They never acted out of enlightened self-interest. It's a day late and a dollar short for them.
Non-Combatant West Bank and Gaza residents need to live some where in freedom, peace and security.
Jordan is a Heshimite Kingdom run by Abudullah. Heshimites are only 30% of the population. It is a 70% Palestinian State.
Being Arab, Muslin, Arabic speaking and in culture it is a natural place to re-settle those in the West Bank who will not accept the right of Israel to live as a Jewish State in peace, harmony, and prosperity with its neighbors. It took only a few years after WW II to resettle refugees in other places where it made the most sense for them to live. This business of refugee camps for decades isn't doing anyone any good. Time to get them where they fit in.
Let the global brotherhood of Islam foot the bill for this. Right after they do the following. Compensate Jewish peoples deported from their previous homes in Arab and Muslim lands, and after reparations are paid to them for property confiscated. Next they must compensate Israel for damage done by funding material aid given to terrorists to make their war crimes and crimes against humanity possible are paid. Then all Arab and Muslim nations need to recognize the right of a Jewish State to live as their neighbor, diplomatic and trading partner globally for mutual benefit. Substitute Buy Israel polices for BDS sins. Can 2017 be the year the 1/3 of believers on the planet who identify with Islam actually practice it? Will the follow the five pillars of their faith, and act out of enlightened self interest rather than irrational and counter productive hatred in the heart protocols? One can only hope and pray.
A joint operation by Israel and Egypt to clean house in the West bank, re-draw borders in Gaza so Israel and Egypt are safe and secure should and can take place. An important other benefit is that non-Hamas Gazans can have self -determination while shut out of Egypt, and separated by a buffer zone with Israel. This is the best hope for the following. An end to needless and perfectly preventable casualties on all sides of borders there. De-fang the terrorist Hamas and let the peaceful Gazans have a life. Best for them, and for regional stability.
Non-Hamas Gazans are tired of being human shields, of having their Mosques, Schools, Hospitals, Nursing Homes etc. used as bases by those who find them expendable for wars never won. Too much is enough of such war crimes against humanity via against Gazans by Hamas. .
Jerusalem is and will remain the unified Capitol of Israel, Period!
Mecca and Medina are jewels for Islam in Saudi Arabia. The world and the U.N. do not demand it be divided into Jewish, Christian, Muslim and other quarters.
Neither does the world or the U.N. ask for an internationalization of Vatican City.
It's time to start being consistent. starting with being consistently respectful and just.
The much ado about nothing clouds may well have these silver linings over time.
In the great American spirit of Pragmatism, 2017 may be the start of doing things that work in the short, intermediate and long term for a much troubled region. This in place of the same old same old that never has, and structurally can never be effective.
Fine article XXJeff. As we used to eay in Lex. KY, "Ya Done Good"!
Onward and Upward.
Enoch.
Thanks for the informative detailed reply. I've always been for both a two state solution and for Israel to assure its security in the process of that happening. The best deal was the one proposed at the end of the Clinton administration. There should be allowance for Muslims to have unlimited access to the mosque in Jerusalem but the city itself should all be Israel.
Dear Friend XXJefferson: Agreed 100% that every religion should have free and open access to worship where and however the Holy Spirit moves them, with one additional precaution.
Israel has always recognized its obligation and responsibility to secure and protect shrines and Holy places for all religions and spiritual approaches. IDF and Police do need to be sure no terrorists smuggle in weapons and/or explosives to kill, inure destroy , harm or disrupt people, property and infrastructure.
Contrast that to back before Jerusalem was liberated. Jordanians sued Sacred sites such as the Second T4mple as a public toilet. No one other than a Muslim was allowed any where near anything Holy to them. To this day, no non-Muslim is permitted close to the Kaaba Stone where Muslims become Hadji.
It would be nice if we lived in a world where we didn't need to think about such things. Such is not out lot.
Minus the safety and security measures, the Dome of the Rock and all other places Holy to any and all religions heritages should be given maximum practically possible access.
That each and all may commune with G-d as they are given to do so.
Important point.
Thanks for bring it to the foumr
All the best in 2017 to You and Yours.
Enoch.
I hope you and those close to you and everyone else has a happy new year.
Thanks.
Excellent article! Thanks. The propaganda hiding these truths is pervasive and seemingly impossible to dispel.
Yes, Cerenkov, and this is why:
"Arafat became a skilled propagandist and heeded the advice of Ho Chi Minh’s chief strategist, General Giap, who instructed that the key to annihilating Israel lay in turning “your terror war into a struggle for human rights.”"
“Then you will have the American people eating out of your hand.”
And we have NT members who do.
Yes. It's always easy to find useful idiots.
Chicago and Boston are each missing their biggest village idiot. They are on loan to DC.
Chicago and Boston are each missing their biggest village idiot. They are on loan to DC.
Obama and Kerry: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=48rz8udZBmQ
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Isn't it just terrible that Israel has supporters who will write to defend the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state with defensible borders?