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Even Jerusalem
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The White House engaged in two furtive gambits last week that painfully exposed the Obama administration's amateurish, deceitful Middle East-Islamic policies. The first case concerned the thorny issue of Jerusalem's legal status in American law. In 1947, the United Nations ruled the holy city to be a corpus separatum (Latin for separated body) and not part of any state. All these years later and despite many changes, U.S. policy holds that Jerusalem is an entity unto itself. It ignores that in 1950, the government of Israel declared western Jerusalem to be its capital and in 1980 it declared the whole of Jerusalem to be the capital. The executive branch even ignores U.S. laws from 1995 (requiring a move of the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem) and 2002 (requiring that U.S. docume...
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[Yasser Arafat] paid heavily to qualify for the honor, and it must have been a severe punishment for him when it was finally withdrawn. It is obvious, therefore, that opening the White House doors to [Mahmoud Abbas] was more than a mere symbolic triumph. To further emphasize the significance, [George W. Bush] was visibly cordial. He praised Abbas, described him as "a man of peace," thus elevating his stature to that of Sharon, and addressed him right from the start as "Mr President", when Arafat had never achieved anything beyond "Mr Chairman". On the more "substantial" issues, Bush was also generous. He reiterated his vision of a Palestinian state, stressing the need to preserve territorial contiguity in the West Bank, and the relationship between the West Bank and Gaza. He referred to...
...He referred to the roadmap and even quoted from it, urging Israel to withdraw from the... to Gaza, the West Bank and [even] Jerusalem". And probably with the clear intention of facilit...
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Perhaps it was only a matter of time before conservative American commentator Glenn Beck, viewed by many supporters as a modern-day prophet, brought his messianic message to Jerusalem. But even in an ancient city that has seen its share of religious enthusiasts, Beck's high-profile Holy Land tour this week, culminating Wednesday in a rally just a stone's throw from the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock mosque, is raising eyebrows. Before his arrival, most Israelis were unfamiliar with the former Fox News host, whose cable TV show went off the air in June amid sagging ratings. But his rally has triggered a debate over whether Beck should be embraced as a friend of Israel or condemned as a fanatic who has battled allegations of anti-Semitism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the American Israel Public Affairs Council on Monday that "Jerusalem is not a settlement." He continued that the historical connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel cannot be denied. He added that neither could the historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem. He insisted, "The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today." He said, "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital." He told his applauding authence of 7500 that he was simply following the policies of all Israeli governments since the 1967 conquest of Jerusalem in the Six Day War. Jerusalem not only was not being built by the likely then nonexistent "Jewish people" in 1000 BCE,...
...But even more important was everything he left out of the h...
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Early in the morning of Nov. 7, 1968, I stood in an Armed Forces Examination and Entrance Station and swore to protect and defend our nation and its way of life. As a bunch of us newly minted privates left that room, a man I had never met handed me a Bible I had never seen. It was the King James Version of the New Testament and Psalms. The man was a Gideon. Growing up Roman Catholic, I had read the Douay-Rheims version and had even read the newer Jerusalem Bible translation. On my flight to Fort Polk, La., I read the 23rd Psalm for the first time in the translation whose 400th anniversary we celebrate this year.
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JERUSALEM - Israel's prime minister expressed regret Sunday for a crisis with the United States over plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, even as American officials played down the apology and called for bold Israeli action to get peace
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Though some scholars claimed [David] never existed, in 1993 archaeologists discovered a stone inscription from 835 B.C. that mentions "the house of David." The authors say that established the existence of a dynastic founder named David and that shortly after his 10th-century era a line of kings "traced their legitimacy back to David. [Michael Coogan] also thinks "David and Solomon" downplays the significance of the Amarna tablets, which include correspondence to Egypt's pharaoh from a 14th-century Jerusalem king. Even if archaeological remains at Jerusalem are lacking, he writes, the tablets indicate that long before David, Jerusalem was the region's chief city-state, with a court and sophisticated scribes. Until now, many scholars have said that's all bogus because there was no archa...
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Israel: Apology JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister expressed regret Sunday for a crisis with the United States over plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in east Jerusalem, even as American officials played down the apology and called for bold Israeli action to get peace efforts back on track.
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During his current visit to the Middle East, Canada's Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier was asked about Israel's expansion of construction at Har Homa, in the West Bank near Jerusalem. While he said that expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is "contrary to the peace process," he pointedly refused to comment on Har Homa. Israel claims that its expansion there is justified because it considers it a suburb of Jerusalem. Even though the United States has criticized the new construction, Bernier has refused to comment. According to Toronto Globe and Mail correspondent Mark MacKinnon, who reported from Har Homa, "Mr. Bernier appeared to have made Canadian foreign policy the most proIsraeli in the world." Canada's position is a shift from 1997, when the country was one of 134 voting ...
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The open breach of Israeli road map commitments, the humanitarian and political disaster of Operation Cast Lead, and the inhumanity of the evictions in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood have even further reduced international and American domestic support for the Likud-led coalition. Most peace plans presented recently have been designed to abrogate the Sahrawis legal rights, clearly laid down by the International Court of Justice and successive U.N. resolutions, to an "act of self-determination": a referendum.
