Amazing, the world seldom agrees with each other on any issue, but when it comes to Israel, they unite WITHIN MINUTES – against.
Its instinctive; its reflexive; its vile and its anti-Semitic.
Israel stands alone as the world’s dartboard. Even North Korea, poised to literally ‘inflame’ the world with nuclear war, does not solicit such instant global opprobrium!!
President Donald Trump had hardly finished completing his announcement on the USA recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital – deliberately emphasizing that he was not endorsing borders or boundaries, leaving that for the parties to determine – when Muslims around the world were reaching out for their matches to ignite ready-made Israeli and US flags.
They were literally inflaming hatred.
Sad, but hardly unexpected.
But then, within minutes of Trump leaving the podium at the White House, enter world leaders from the UK, France, Germany, and the Vatican who were proverbially tripping over each other to distance and denounce. Aggressively jumping off the starting block from the Muslim world was Turkey’s autocratic President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling Jerusalem a “red line for Muslims” and warning “we could go as far as cutting diplomatic ties with Israel over this issue.”
The Israeli Parliament (Knesset) in Jerusalem
Over what issue – that Israel’s capital Jerusalem is Israel’s capital?
When is a capital not a capital?
It defies logic.
When foreign statesmen and dignitaries from abroad visit Israel, they do not meet to discuss and negotiate at a falafel joint or beachfront cafeteria in Tel Aviv! They meet in Jerusalem – the home of Israel’s Knesset (Parliament), Supreme Court, the Bank of Israel, all government ministries, the Presidents and Prime Minister’s residences and the final resting place of Israel’s stateman.
Every visiting statesman, without exception, pays tribute to the six million Jews martyred during the Holocaust at ‘Yad Vashem’ (Israel’s national Holocaust Memorial and Museum) situated on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.
When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and King Hussein of Jordan visited Israel, they addressed the people of Israel not from the football stadium in Ramat Gan but the Knesset in Jerusalem with the entire world watching.
They recognized the symbolic significance of connecting with Israelis and where better than from a podium in the legislature of the country’s CAPITAL.
So why the rage?
OutRAGEous
The pundits and political commentators on all TV news networks rushed to regurgitate the same fallacious argument, stressing three points of Trump’s announcement:
All nonsense!
If most the world genuinely believed the US “is biased”, “unable to continue as an honest broker”, and has “prejudged the status of Jerusalem” what does it say about most of the countries of the world whose representatives to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) overwhelmingly passed a resolution in April 2016, negating any Jewish ties to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall.
Did this not amount to:
What’s more, Trump’s position was based on fact. The UNESCO vote based on lies, deception and trading on hate of the Jewish state.
The resolution ignored the unique historic connection of Judaism with Jerusalem, negated where the two temples stood for a thousand years and towards which every Jew in the world has prayed for thousands of years. Even more demeaning and offensive – not only to Israel but to Jews around the world – the resolution omitted the title “Temple Mount”, using instead only the Arabic term for the site, “Haram-al-Sharif”.
The resolution is reminiscent of the Medieval Blood Libel against Jews that led to massacres across Europe for ensuing centuries culminating in the Holocaust.
Bad as this UN resolution was; worse was to follow.
Only a week prior to President Trump’s December 2017 announcement, the General Assembly at the UN in New York voted overwhelmingly to disavow Israeli ties to Jerusalem as part of six anti-Israel resolutions. The vote was 151 in favour, six against and nine abstentions.
Only six countries out of 193 UN member states fully supported Israel’s ties Jerusalem: Canada, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, the United States, and Israel itself.
If Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, France’s President Emmanual Macron, Germany’s Angela Merkel and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin say that the US’s position on Jerusalem prejudices peace efforts, why did they not vote against or even abstain in December General Assembly resolution for the same reason.
They did not because what is good for the goose is not necessary good for the gander because at the root of this drama playing out is not support of Palestinians but deep-rooted hatred of what was once the powerless scattered Jew who is now the proud and powerful Jew, embodied in the State of Israel.
To much of the world, Israel needs to be expunged!
Revelation & Revulsion
Battling With The Basics. Following months of starvation and battle, Palestinian residents wait for a UN aid ambulance in Yarmouk, Damascus
Explain this rage across the Arab world over one embassy – albeit the USA – moving from a location with a view of the sea to one with a view of the Old City, but when:
No rage!
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No rage!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/no-way-home-the-tragedy-of-the-palestinian-diaspora-1806790.html
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
Muslims Murder Muslims. No ‘RAGE’ only resignation as residents of Syria’s besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp, south of Damascus, crowd a destroyed street during a food distribution led by the UN agency.
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
No rage!
Of course, there is no rage. Far more important than Muslims being butchered every day across the Middle East into Asia or Palestinians humiliated in most Muslim countries they reside in, all the rage is reserved against the Jewish State which is an anathema – a blot on the landscape that needs to be expunged – today Jerusalem, tomorrow Tel Aviv, the next Haifa.
Just read the Hamas Charter, the same Hamas that recently “reconciled” with the Palestinian Authority. The Charter affirms that Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. There is “no alternative to the liberation of Palestine completely from its sea to its river,” meaning from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.
Israelis well understand the political topography of the Middle East. What’s more, it feels it is not obliged to commit suicide, and values the USA’s position not only as an act of recognition on the status of Jerusalem but of publicly breaking away from the age-old plague of global anti-Semitism so embedded in the foreign policies of UN members.
This is reason to take cautious comfort while Muslim masses hypocritically rage against the Jewish state
Jews around the world for thousands of years, recite the passage in their prayers, “Next Year In Jerusalem.”
Well, Jews will be in Jerusalem next year and the year after and in the words of one of Israel’s greatest and South African-born diplomats, Abba Eban:
“Israel’s future will be longer than its past”
