Posted on 05/16/2018 4:50:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
This week, the Trump administration inaugurated the new American embassy in Jerusalem. The celebration in Israel was palpable; the embassy move came amidst the national celebration of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the state. The streets filled with Jews of all sorts, cheering and dancing.
Meanwhile, on the Gaza border, Hamas broadened its monthlong campaign to break down the Israel border, staging border "protests" attended by thousands -- including terrorists who have used the supposed protests as a staging point for violent attacks on Israeli troops and territory. Palestinian terrorists have caused mass chaos, throwing Molotov cocktails at troops, attempting to rush the border, flinging explosives and tying incendiaries to kites in an attempt to set Israeli territory alight. The Israeli Defense Forces have responded with restraint. Despite this, a few dozen Palestinians have been killed, not the hundreds or thousands Hamas would presumably prefer.
But even as Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in Gaza, suggested that "more than 100,000 people could storm the fence" between Israel and Gaza, and as 23-year-old Mohammed Mansoura announced, "We are excited to storm and get inside ... to kill, throw stones," the media covered the slow-rolling terror assault as a form of peaceful protest. A New York Times headline read "Israeli Troops Kill Dozens of Palestinian Protesters." A Wall Street Journal headline reads "Scores Killed, Thousands Injured as Palestinians Protest US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem."
Never mind that the riots had been going on for weeks preceding the embassy opening. Never mind that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority could quickly and permanently end all violence simply by stopping the violence. The real issue, according to the press, is President Trump and his Israeli friends.
What drives the leftist press's coverage? Simply put, antipathy to the West. Israel is seen as an outpost of colonialism by leftists, and has been since the 1967 war. Then-President Barack Obama expressed the view well in his 2009 speech in Cairo, suggesting that Israel's rationale relied on its "tragic history" that "culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust." In this view, the Palestinians were shunted aside in favor of providing national reparations to Jews; the Jews took their Western ways into the heart of a foreign region.
This isn't true. The living proof of that is Israel's eternal connection to Jerusalem. That's why both radical Muslims (including the Palestinian leadership) and the far left deny Israel's historic bond with its homeland and hope desperately to stop public recognition of that bond. If Israel exists because Jewish connection pre-existed everything else, then Israel isn't a new outpost of the West; it's the oldest center of the West. That's why Trump's announcement is important: It's a recognition that the West was founded on Jerusalem, rather than the other way around.
Peace will come when everyone recognizes what Trump has recognized: The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is unbreakable. And peace will come when Israel's enemies realize that violence can't change that underlying fact.
Peace will come when Christ returns.
All of us have an unbreakable link to Jerusalem. Well, any Christian or Jewish person. What Trump realized is mealy mouthed responses are worth nothing. Do what you say you are going to do.
This is an odd observation. Is that why it has been conquered and re-conquered by all kinds of outsiders over the centuries?
Trump is ..... so ... great!
I was semi-reluctant to support Trump during the campaign, because I thought I was going to get Romney Jr. What a difference it turned out to be!
I agree 100%. The Bible says Israel and the Middle East are the central point for all end times tribulation. If you believe the Bible, you have no reason to believe the ME will see “peace” in any real way, until Christ comes and rules (from Jerusalem) for a 1000 years.
The Jewish connection to Jerusalem does not depend solely upon Jews being in political control. If you were Jewish, you would understand this.
לְשָׁנָה הַבָאָה בִּירוּשָלַיִם הַבְּנוּיָה
Well, except for those 19 centuries between 70 and 1967.
For those that might not remember, (especially ,millenials),
ALL world maps, for some reason or other, would end up with the location of Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, on the crosshaired ‘center’ of the map.
So, a map made by those who have been labeled ‘racist’ by idiots who could not perform “long division”, puts the Hebrew determined ‘center of the world’, as such on their map.
Catholic boy agrees with you.
And that history while important doesn’t matter. Israel took all of Jerusalem in the 1967 war following Jordan’s entry. Israel gained the land according to the currently accepted laws of war. Some arabs keep denying this and claim Jerusalem, but, as a comparison Spain claims Gibraltar even though they lost it during the War of Spanish Succession in 1713 to Great Britain and Argentina claims the Falklands.
Hamas is Iran
To have peace on the Gaza border, attack Iran directly
I agree with you 100%. That actually reinforces my point, because what you're saying is that the location of the U.S. embassy, the legal status of Jerusalem, and even the 70th anniversary celebration of a modern, secular "Jewish" state, are all basically meaningless.
..because God says it matters—but wait until you see the NEW one...
Alberta’s Child is a long time antisemite.
Genesis 12:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Shalom.
“This is an odd observation. Is that why it has been conquered and re-conquered by all kinds of outsiders over the centuries? “
1) There was never a time during those 19 centuries when there were no Jews in Jerusalem.
2) Jews are religiously connected to Jerusalem even if they are not physically present there. That is the very reason why Israel was able to be recreated after so long (no other people has ever come back after such a period - conquered nations either come back very quickly, or they are absorbed into one or several other nations and lose their prior identity.
“That actually reinforces my point, because what you’re saying is that the location of the U.S. embassy, the legal status of Jerusalem, and even the 70th anniversary celebration of a modern, secular “Jewish” state, are all basically meaningless.”
You "palaeos" always whine about Israel being a secular state (as do I). Perhaps you don't realize that the only reason that chrstians, moslems, baha'i, and other religions are allowed to live there is because it is a secular state.
I assure you, when it is a true Jewish Theocracy, there will be no chrstians, moslems, etc., living there any more.
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