by Israel Shamir (cross-posted with the Unz Review by special agreement with the author)
Jerusalem is first of all a symbol, and a potent one; the American recognition of Jewish sovereignty over the Holy City is a sign of the final Jewish victory over Christianity, and it is to be deeply regretted. Richard Coeur de Lion and Tancred would not understand this surrender of the city they fought for, but the times have changed. The Christians of yesteryear did not refer to Jews as their “elder brothers”. What began with Americans saying “Season greetings” instead of ‘Merry Christmas,’ ended with this shameful act of Christ denial.
The Palestinians won’t be able to save the city. The Third Intifada is not coming yet, despite the annoying in-your-face Trump declaration, and despite the Hamas call for a rising, and it is not likely to come anytime soon, unless Israelis will provoke it. Thousands of men and women protested during the week that passed; a few were shot by Israeli soldiers, among others, a double amputee in his wheel chair. However, Palestine did not explode in anger. For a regular reader of my articles, the muted Palestinian response to the American provocation does not come as a surprise. I wrote recently that it has never been so good, Palestine has now a run of modest prosperity, a building boom, a tourist boom, restaurants’ boom, and they are not likely to go and die for a statement, even for an annoying statement.
The Palestinians of East Jerusalem have it better than other Palestinians: they have no citizenship, but they can move more-or-less freely about the whole of Palestine, including the “old Israel”. They are pragmatic and patriotic. They consider themselves the guardians of their legacy, including the great shrines of al Aqsa and of the Holy Sepulchre. If and when the Jews touch the shrines, they respond in force, as it happened last August when Israel tried to limit the access to the Mosque.
But President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state did not ignite them. Nobody in his right mind has had any doubts about American feelings. Americans are for Israel, it is a national obsession. So now they declared Jerusalem – a Jewish capital. And before, when they had sent their ambassadors, all Jews, all devout Zionists, all “Israel Firsters” – was it any different?
Trump is not different from his predecessors. All American Presidents declared Jerusalem – the eternal united and indivisible capital of the Jewish state. Obama did it, and so did Bush. True, they said it while running for the office, and they avoided repeating the mantra while in the White House, but they never repudiated it, either.
Ninety out of a hundred US Senators approved of Trump’s statement. Ten abstained, probably being unable to support Trump for any reason at all. Still, it was a most-approved step of the President. The American political establishment is thoroughly pro-Israel, both liberal and fundamentalist, Republican and Democrat, from Sanders to Bannon; we knew it, and now Trump allowed the people to read it loud and clear. He did what the people want. That is why you elected him: so he will do what you want, not what somebody else who claims to know better, tells you.
Why do you Americans want it? America is working out its Gestalt as the Shining City on the Hill, the New Israel of Manifest Destiny. This great country does not yet want to become just another great country, it wants to lead mankind and to re-form the world after its own shape and image. America had been messianic for a long time, and this habit is hard to kick.
Under the shell of a hard-nosed Yank, there is a fanatic Dispensationalist with The Scofield Reference Bible under his arm waiting for the Gog and Magog war against Israel. You can look at this site, just one of plethora of sites predicting the war between Israel on one side, Iran and Russia on the other side, with the US siding with Israel but staying away until being Raptured into Second Coming. This is insane, but such Gestalts run deep, and they explain insane behaviour (seeking war with Iran, bombing Babylon and supporting Israel) better than a calculation of profit and loss.
Love, or rather obsession with Israel is a part of this Gestalt. Though Southern Baptists and Eastern Liberals appear different, they have the same original imprint cast by the Founding Fathers, by Puritans and Pilgrims. This Gestalt breaks out unexpectedly. The present fight against harassment is just another break-out of Puritan zeal, though the Fundamentalists will quote the Bible, and the Liberals will appeal to Woman whose rights should not be violated.
This is the only plausible explanation to such complaints in the New York Times: “Samantha Holvey, a former contestant in the Miss USA pageant, said that Mr Trump ogled her and other women in the pageant’s hair and makeup room.”
For a sane person, it is apparent that a participant in the Miss USA pageant came there to be ogled and desired by multitudes of men. For a Puritan fanatic, “anyone who looks at a woman lustfully etc”, just looking lustfully (=ogling) is a sin. A Boston zealot circa 1650 would approve of the very modern persecution of lusting and ogling men.
The difference between enlightened de-Christianised American Democrats for Clinton in Vermont and a Fundamentalist Christian Republican for Trump in Mississippi is minor, in rationalisation of their feelings and actions. Both find ogling or flirting or courting – wrong, though they explain it differently. That is why so many American politicians commit suicide while being accused of some non-actionable non-offence, like lusting after a 17 year old girl some years ago.
It is the same in foreign relations. The Eastern Liberal descendants of the Puritans want to go and kill people abroad to save black women from being ravished by black men in Afghanistan, the Fundamentalists want to crush Babylon; in both cases they are motivated by messianic zeal and desire to transform the world.
It would be the best for the Americans to forget for a while about the Middle East, about Babylon, Israel and Gog and Magog. Perhaps Trump will achieve even that, by fully accepting the people’s will. After all, he has some real reasons to do what he did. He is the Destroyer of Falsitude in his struggle against the Congress. The Congress forced the US President to certify Iran’s good behaviour every six months; Trump refused to do it, and the world did not come down. The Congress forced the US President to postpone the Tel Aviv Embassy move every six months; Trump refused that, and the world did not come down. Just another falsity of the Political Establishment had been destroyed.
By his deed, he probably gained some time and postponed his impeachment. The Jews are not famous for their gratitude, as they accept every good deed as something they anyway deserved, but still, there is a chance they won’t dump him right away.
Paradoxically, the Trump declaration has had many good effects. The US President can say, after Mephistopheles, “I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.” The President refused to sustain the old mischievous pretence of the US being a neutral broker. He revealed the true feelings of the US establishment towards the Middle East, their Muslims and their Christians, the feeling of total disdain. He undermined the beastly MBS of Arabia. He brought Palestine back into the world agenda after long abeyance. He gave Europe a chance to regain its independence. He did another step in undoing the unsustainable American Empire, and this is also to be welcomed.
Trump resurrected the dying reconciliation agreement between the Fatah and Hamas. The agreement had been on the rocks: Fatah asked for more and more, and Hamas began to lose its patience. The biggest obstacle was the US aid: the Americans didn’t want to subsidise Hamas. As the aid is not coming anyway, this stopped being a hindrance. Trump’s declaration encouraged the sides to move their negotiations onto the fast track.
Trump allowed the Europeans to say what they really feel about him, and with good reason. His declaration mobilised President Erdogan of Turkey and he called for a summit of Muslim states. Istanbul had been the seat of the Caliphate for six hundred years, from 1362 to 1924, and now Erdogan has a valid claim for this grand title. By denouncing the Israelis and their American stooges, the President of Turkey has gained a lot of authority and influence.
One needs an Arab to betray Arabs, and this job has been taken by the Brat of Riyadh. MBS, when he does not torture his kin in a shake-down, has been involved in denying Palestine and Jerusalem. It is he who proposed and agreed with Jared Kushner to surrender Jerusalem in the so-called “the deal of the century”. MBS tried to force the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to accept the deal or resign. Abbas flatly refused.
The best Middle East journalist David Hearst (his book The Gun and the Olive Branch is an excellent primer for Palestine modern history) noted that in the heavily censored KSA, where a wrong tweet can send you to jail for years, denial of Palestine and Jerusalem had been encouraged.
The Saudi novelist and writer Turki al-Hamad tweeted, ‘Palestine should no longer be regarded as the prime Arab cause. I have my own country’s cause of development, freedom and emancipation from the past. As for Palestine, the house (Palestine) has a Lord (God) who would protect it if abandoned by its inhabitants (Palestinians).” Hamzah Muhammad al-Salim, the writer and economic analyst, tweeted: “Once peace is concluded with Israel, it will become Saudi Arabia’s first tourist destination.” The former director of al-Arabiyah TV channel, Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid, wrote: “It is about time to reconsider the concept of dealing with Palestine and Israel.” Muhammad al-Sheikh said: “The issue of Palestine is not ours…”
These sentiments have been promoted by MBS, and based on them, he proposed to Trump his “deal”. Now, I think, the deal is dead, and MBS is likely to follow Anwar as-Sadat, the Egyptian president who made a deal with Israel and was assassinated. Already Saudi princes have begun a litany of speeches for Jerusalem and for Palestine.
Trump’s declaration was a great gift to Iran. After the Saudis, the greatest enemies of Iran, have revealed their duplicity, the Arabs will have a new and positive view of Iran. Shia or Sunni, Iran proved its steadfast devotion to the cause of Jerusalem and Palestine, and it will be rewarded.
President Putin has good reason to thank Trump for his declaration. Russia is an important player in the Middle East, and after the American betrayal of Palestine, it is likely to become a sought-after mediator in intra-Arab affairs. We may expect that future negotiations between Israel and Palestinians will be managed by the Russians, with UN assistance.
It is possible, though it is not certain that Trump provided the coup de grâce to the Two-State paradigm, to the very idea of partition. Saeb Erekat, the leading Palestinian negotiator, said that now is the time to turn to One-State Solution, which is to be greatly preferred.
The One State won’t be “Jewish”, and this is fine with me. There is no French state for pure ethnic French, but France is the state for all its inhabitants; there is no Islamic State anymore, but Syria for all Syrians, whether Muslims, Christians or adherents of other faiths. There is no reason to have a Jewish state, either. Let it be Israel/Palestine for all its dwellers.
If it will cure American fascination with Zion, and fantasies of Rapture, that would be the best contribution of President Trump to mankind.
East or West?
If the efforts to partition Palestine continue, however, what could be the future of Jerusalem?
The Jews say all Jerusalem is theirs.
The Americans agree with the Jews, as they always do.
The Europeans disagree with the Americans and the Jews, and reserve their judgment.
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) says East Jerusalem should be Palestinian, while West Jerusalem may be Jewish.
In April this year, the Russian Foreign Office declared that West Jerusalem is to be the capital of Israel, while East Jerusalem should be the capital of Palestine.
This week, the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met in Istanbul, the last seat of the Caliphate and declared East Jerusalem the Capital of Palestine. The declaration had been approved by 54 nations comprising billions of Muslims.
It sounds fair: West Jerusalem to the Jews, East Jerusalem to the Arabs. Or is it?
I lived for a few years in Jerusalem, in a well-proportioned and solid two-store-high Arab mansion built of white Jerusalem stone sitting in a green garden. The masons of 1920s knew how to dress the stone: we did not need air condition even in the hottest summer days; the houses keep warmth in chilly mountain winters. The ceilings were high, the windows opened into the gardens with leafy loquat and lemon trees, the floors were tiled by Armenian multi-coloured ceramics and marble stubs.
This area of Jerusalem has been created and populated by Palestinian Christians of Arab, Armenian, Greek, German origin. It is the prime real estate of the city declared by the US administration to be the eternal capital of 70-year old Jewish state. The area I described above is not East Jerusalem; it is West, the best part of the West. The residence of Israeli President is just around the corner.
Nobody argues against its belonging to Israel. West Jerusalem is out of discussion, only East Jerusalem has been argued about. This is the greatest achievement of Israeli Jews and their American supporters, and as it is often true, the greatest achievements are unreported or under-reported because they appear so obviously trivial.
But we may go beyond what you can read in the New York Times and learn the obfuscated truth. By right, Jerusalem should be internationalised.
The whole of Jerusalem had been declared a corpus separatum, a separate body under international jurisdiction, by the same UN resolution (181 (II) 1/ of 29 November 1947) that called for creation of a Jewish and an Arab state in Palestine. The Jews did not care and took over West Jerusalem in 1948 and expelled its Christian and Muslim population. The UN refused to recognise the Jewish rule over West Jerusalem (303 (IV) of 9 December 1949). The city should be placed under a permanent international regime, ruled the UN.
In 1967, the Jews took over East Jerusalem. This time, they did not expel its Christian and Muslim population, but they weren’t given Israeli citizenship. Since then, the people of East Jerusalem live as guests in their own city. They have residency rights, but if they travel abroad to study or work, they lose their residency and can’t come back.
East and the West Jerusalem have one thing in common: both parts of Jerusalem are illegally occupied by the Jewish state. They differ in the fact that the original population of the West had been expelled, while the population of the East had been stripped of their rights. This difference does not turn West Jerusalem into a legitimate Israeli possession. Mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing should not be rewarded with international recognition. Trump actually took a good step by uniting the two illegally occupied parts of Jerusalem in one sentence.
The Jews (with American support) have made us forget that West Jerusalem is also illegally occupied. (Noam Chomsky wrote about this feat at length. He described Israel and the US as the real “Rejection Front”. They rejected the original UN resolutions dealing with 1948 conquest and expulsion, and tried to limit discussion to the 1967 conquest. They succeeded: even friends of Palestine discuss 1967 territories, while leaving 1948 as an old stuff.)
But the Palestinians do know and do remember, how they were thrown out of their homes, and how the Jews moved in. Whatever is the political future of Jerusalem, this dispossession should be reversed. The Gentiles have returned to the Jews the properties they had lost during the turmoil in Europe; now it is the right time to return the stolen Gentile property to Arabs, Germans and Greeks of West Jerusalem.
Israel Shamir can be reached at adam@israelshamir.net
This article was first published at The Unz Review.
“Richard Coeur de Lion and Tancred would not understand this surrender of the city they fought for, but the times have changed”.
I very much doubt if Trump or any of the big swinging ,,,, in Washington have any ideas who those people were; or that they would care if they did.
The subject reminds me more, in a way, of the Emperor Frederick II (“Stupor Mundi”), who notoriously won back Jerusalem civilly by dining with the Sultan and making friends with him. (Significantly, Frederick, who was educated by tutors several of whom were Muslim, spoke Arabic fluently). At school I was very much amused to learn that Frederick was excommunicated several times by the Pope: first for delaying his departure on crusade; next for going on crusade while still excommunicate; third for recapturing Jerusalem “the wrong way”, without piles of corpses and buckets of blood; and yet again for returning from the crusade without permission.
When Frederick did return, his first task was to chase a Papal army out of his kingdom, which it had invaded while he was away.
In general, the tactics of the Popes in their bitter struggle against Frederick were highly reminiscent of the way Washington operates today. They sought to show that the Emperor was a heretic, a heathen or even an atheist; they claimed to release his subjects from their duty of loyalty; they encouraged uprisings and disloyalty, even attempts at assassination; and they blamed him for all the ills of the world.
“All American Presidents declared Jerusalem – the eternal united and indivisible capital of the Jewish state”.
Of which the USA has long been a remote and unimportant, though thoroughly pacified and obedient, province.
“It would be the best for the Americans to forget for a while about the Middle East, about Babylon, Israel and Gog and Magog”.
The English have an admirably civilised attitude to this kind of thing. There is a Gog and Magog Golf Club near Cambridge.
Jerusalem will NEVER evolve into some secular-humanist-devised ‘corpus separatum’ meant to balance/placate ‘the competing Abrahamic crazies’. Though this solution rings with equanimity, it flies in the face of eschatological necessities and the centrality of religion to historical purpose. History is neither shambolic nor ‘tragically infected’ by religion. History exists to allow religion to come of age.
Jerusalem is not some body-apart. It houses the heart and soul –indeed the very locus/purpose– of human history. Three significant claims have been lodged upon this soul. One, the oldest, is obliged to view the two succeeding claims as prima facie inauthentic. Like reverse dolls, Islam is more inclusive of Judaism and Christianity than Christianity can be of Islam; or that Judaism can be of either Christianity and Islam. Judaism cannot share. But don’t blame the stiff-necked people. This is a doctrinal/structural impediment. For them, all things that remain divided (outside of Jewish supremacist grasp) are historically incomplete.
Wag –> Tail –> Dog.
PAX BRITANNICA existed to deliver the Balfour Declaration. All the rest was pomp following circumstance.
PAX AMERICANA existed to deliver Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel, something we are in the midst of witnessing. The ‘logic’ behind America’s ruinous and unsustainable fiscal condition comes into focus only when one realizes the former’s provisional role. Sustainability is not a feature of America’s manifestly short-lived destiny.
America is a water carrier draped in world-conquering self-delusion. Netanyahu fully understands his Gog Magog end of the eschatological bargain: “Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away”. The wholly co-opted American Christian Zionists have the equation exactly backwards. Evidence of their vacated Christian bona fides? They barely bat an eye as their Christian brothers face extinction in the Holy Land. Who are these people, really?
Jerusalem WILL be ‘internationalized’ –in a manner of speaking– as the repressive world capitol of Pax Judaica. It’s features will be entirely Jewish. The rest of the world will fall into Noahide abeyance.
“Jerusalem WILL be ‘internationalized’ –in a manner of speaking– as the repressive world capitol of Pax Judaica. It’s features will be entirely Jewish. The rest of the world will fall into Noahide abeyance.”
Absolutely true.
Please offer reading suggestions.
“Please offer reading suggestions.”
I would refer you to Sheikh Imran Hosein’s book ‘Jerusalem in the Quran’. As it turns out, the Sheikh has a marquee position on the Saker blog just now. Another version of the Zionist counter-argument comes from the Neturei Karta movement and Rabbi Dovid Weiss.
Jews do not recognize the legitimacy of Jesus Christ or Christians.
Christians do not recognize the legitimacy of Prophet Mohammed or Muslims.
Muslims recognize Jews and Christians as “People of the Book” / “People of the Scriptures”. The Quran with its derived Islamic Law makes it compulsory on all Muslims to recognize the legitimacy of Jews and Christians.
Not only are Muslims commanded to recognize Jews and Christians, but they are commanded by the Quran to protect Jewish and Christians lives, their properties and their livelihoods.
And this has been the case for the most part of Islamic history, with the exception of the Criminal Ottoman Empire’s practices of the conversion of the Christian Capital city of Constantinople and these criminal ISIS / Al Qaeda types of group in recent times (who ironically have been used and supported by the West).
For this reason, Muslims are the only people who can guarantee the sanctity of Jerusalem and the entire Holy Land..
Until the Muslims regain control of the Holy Land that they have been custodians of since 636 A.D., with the exception of a century of Criminal Crusader Eurpean rule….expect the worst criminal racist injustice you can imagine being committed by these Western Zionist colonial Jews…..
….I wouldn’t be surprised if these Zionist scum expel all Palestinians in Gaza and the West-Bank to Jordan or Egypt and continue to expand their colonies.
It is time for you Western Secular people to educate yourself with historical facts and educate yourself in the knowledge of justice and righteousness just in case you end up not nuking each-other after all.
Because be assured, if you decided to knock yourself out up there in the upper latitudes with nukes…..We the Muslims will have to deal with these Jews eventually.
I dunno. I’ve never really thought Jerusalem all that important, real estate-wise.
I’ve always thought it was important because of what was happening to it’s indigenous humanity, People-wise, and the significance of this to all those of us who are Palestinians by proxy, as in, victims of rapacious nomadic Zionist predators, wherever we may happen to live, all of whom provide exceedingly elaborate justifications for their ownership based on their own unique interpretations of this or that textual document, about how it is they who are uniquely the Ultimate Chosenites of the Abrahamic God.
Who remembers the song Fortunate Son by CCR? If I might suggest a slight alteration, I would sing it ain’t me, oh it ain’t me, I ain’t no chosenite son.
But by all means the rest of you go on fighting amongst yourselves, about who gets to hold the deed, just maybe could you please leave the rest of us out of it?
But since we’re on the topic and I already know the answer is No, my question is didn’t all those Prophets say more or less the same thing, i.e. your first priority should be fixing yourself, so you can have the strength to do unto others as you would have them do unto you?
After all, is not the Kingdom of God a place that resides within?
The truth is that the only holy places in Jerusalem and the Holy Land and which lend some ‘sanctity’ to the surroundings, are those touched by Jesus Christ, the God Man, especially the spot of His Passion, Death and Resurrection. The real custodians of these places cannot be but the Christians who perform the rituals commemorating those events. The deniers of the Resurrection and of the God Man only further pollute the place. They would not bring back a sanctity taken from the place by God, but they would only add to its woes.
@American Christian Zionists… Who are these people, really?
They are full-blown Zionists pretending to be Christians to fool them that they are ‘brothers’ and do the heavy lifting and wet jobs for them.
TYPO:
I meant to add (Matryoshka) dolls here:
Like reverse Matryoshka dolls, Islam is more…
if it can be changed that would be great..thx!
A Jordanian who owns Arab Bank is a dual citizen of both Jordon and KSA. Rumors are ripe that he has been detained in KSA like Saad Hariri who is a dual citizen of both Lebanon and KSA. Saad Hariri being the Prime Minister of Lebanon was temporarily detained in KSA and his diplomatic immunity didn’t work.
Israel Firsters, if you have dual citizenship, your diplomatic immunity might not work in USA. Beware, Netanyahu if you still hold USA citizenship as many of you do.
Dispensationalism, fundamentalism and rapture theology were alien to the South in the antebellum period. They were seeded into the South during the occupation known as Reconstruction. Those seeds did not germinate and sprout until the early 1900’s. They became full grown and bloom with the so-called Six Day War and with Hal Lindsay’s “Late Great Planet Earth.” I grew up in a small rural settlement in the 1950’s and early 60’s. Dispensationalism, fundamentalism and rapture theology were not at all part of our catechism. In the 50’s and early 60’s in the rural South no one spoke of the “Judeo-Christian” tradition; we spoke only of the “Christian” tradition. The aforementioned errors and heresies were not among us, but they were already afoot in the emerging mega-churches in the cities of the South and among certain “evangelist” on radio and T.V.
“Dispensationalism, fundamentalism and rapture theology”…
… are all schemes by Zion. The Jewish mafia is the main sponsor of all these farcical, fraudulent, fake cults.
“American recognition of Jewish sovereignty over the Holy City is a sign of the final Jewish victory over Christianity”, Hardly. Its questionable if this decision is of any real importance what so ever. Its the reaction of the rest of the world what counts, and not the decision of the US. As far as I can see, the Zionist elements in the US have used Trump to make this proclamation, while America still has any power left. They must be aware that power is moving towards the East, They are trying to prevent this, using the US. They will fail. And the US ? It will foot the bill, regardless of consequences, financial or political.
The UN or so called international laws are man made secular Western laws that have either been forced on the world in general and Muslims in particular, or have been accepted by corrupt rulers and secularized people.
Jerusalem and the entire Holy Land does not belong to Western Zionist Jewish colonialists regardless what their Jewish origins are (Khazar, European converts, Asian, Semitic, etc.). Nor does it belong to the so called Secular Western Ruled International Community.
Under Islamic law….Jerusalem and the entire Holy Land must be ruled under Islamic custody (not “Sovereignty” as the Western Secular people would call it).
Once the Muslims and Islamic World live under the Laws of Islam as they have been living more or less since the beginning of Islam until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire…..that is when they will be able to defeat the Western Zionist Crusader Jews and live a life of dignity and peace.
Until then, the Muslims will live a life of humiliation and defeat under the rule of the Western-Zionist alliance and their client Arab and Muslim corrupt leaders and tyrants.
Very true, even so called palestinian authority does NOT inherit the holy land. The day the muslims true muslims no nationalist muslims, fight with islamic flag of there is no god but Allah and Mohamed is his messenger to liberate the holy land, only then Allah will give it to them. I think its far from now, not before the mehdi, he will end muslim division muslim sectarian, unite muslims.
Here’s my take on it all:
“The OIC Summit in Istanbul saw its members agree to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine, implying that West Jerusalem exists and could potentially be the capital of Israel following its formal recognition, which is in essence exactly what Moscow proposed in April of this year and thus enables Russia to take the lead in seeking a two-state solution to the long-standing conflict.”
https://theduran.com/the-oic-declaration-enables-russia-to-lead-the-two-state-solution/
It will lead to the One State solution. Ezekiel 47:21 talks about dividing up the land equally “and for the strangers who dwell among you and who bear children among you. They shall be to you as native-born among the children of Israel; they will have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
And it shall be that in whatever tribe the stranger dwells, there you shall give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God”. No doubt there will be much strife along the way.
By the way, I was John the baptist/Elijah in previous lives )as well as US Grant, Oda Nobunaga and others, Armageddon was concluded on August 2, 1990 in tokyo, Japan, Jesus Christ has come back and lives in Hiroshima, the New Jerusalem. I had a nice chat with the CIA in the US embassy in Tokyo on Aug. 15 19909. The US government surveillance me but won;t allow the media to contact me. Since 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve, BH Obama was the eighth Democratic president, and GW Bush the tenth republican one. Washington DC is the Whore of Babylon.Seven mountain ranges in US, plenty of rivers, etc. i suppose Trump and his generals have a hard time accepting that the USA is the Evil Empire.
Other than he over estimates the power of the Christian armageddon fringies in pindoland, these really are very much a minority, and under estimates the role zionazi media propaganda had in shaping pindo bigotry against Muslims/Arabs and in favour of israeli nazis, this is a pretty good piece from Shamir. Shamir’s main point, in my opinion, about Jersuselem should be basically an neutral city dedicated to the Faith’s claiming it as important to their religion has been reiterated by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Jerusalem Must Remain Center of 3 Major Religions – Russian Orthodox Church
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201712171060066176-jerusalem-religions-leader/
“Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, said on Saturday that Jerusalem must remain a spiritual center of three major religions — Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
“We should not forget that Jerusalem is a holy city for three world’s religions: not only for Judaism but also for Christianity and Islam. Today in Jerusalem Christians, Muslims and Jews are living together in peace, each [sectarian] group has its own quarters, immobility and holy sites. And it is very important that Jerusalem must remain as such spiritual and religious center, in which representatives of three Abrahamic, monotheistic religions could live together in peace and accord,” Hilarion told the Rossiya 24 broadcaster.”
“Today in Jerusalem Christians, Muslims and Jews are living together in peace, each [sectarian] group has its own quarters, immobility and holy sites.”
Is this a joke ??
Obviously there seems to be some Russians either living in denial or are basically Zionists.
People are either in a state of historical denial or ignorance….
Trump’s “Jerusalem Promise” to AIPAC: Tilerson, Mattis Warned Trump Against Embassy Move
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trumps-jerusalem-promise-to-aipac-tillerson-mattis-warned-trump-against-embassy-move/5622042
Records of Jerusalem Deeds Found in Ottoman Archives: The Deeds Prove that Palestine
Belongs to Palestinians
https://www.globalresearch.ca/records-of-jerusalem-deeds-found-in-ottoman-archives-the-deeds-prove-that-palestine-belongs-to-palestinians/5622453
Istambul Summit: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Declares East-Jerusalem Capital of
Palestine Urges US to Withdraw From Peace Process
https://www.globalresearch.ca/istanbul-summit-the-organization-of-islamic-cooperation-oic-declares-east-jerusalem-capital-of-palestine-urges-us-to-withdraw-from-peace-process/5622821
https://youtu.be/42cKKPPmDT8
A boom in the occupied territories?
It takes a heartless Israeli to utter such heartless statement.
Real Judaism, the one of the thinkers, philosophers, erudits, pious believers, poets, great story tellers, translators, this lJudaism as long left the shores of Israel to be replaced by some brutish ultrafascist europeans that have nothing to do with Judaism or Palestine.
Jerusalem is the capital of a sad and tortured place.