Justin Smith writes about the obvious fact that Leftists and
Muslim apologists have been in denial for decades. Namely, that Jerusalem is
the Capital city of the Jewish State of Israel. Whiners cry recognizing Jerusalem
as the Capital city will harm or end the peace process. Just as Justin Smith
correctly points out, “What peace process?”
Israel has bent over backwards for decades to allow a sovereign
Palestinian State – even though undeserved. The so-called Palestinian
leadership has torpedoed every too generous Israeli offer. They refuse to
recognize Israel as a Jewish State while unofficially (except Hamas which officially)
wants to the total destruction of Israel and
the death of its Jewish citizens (See
Also HERE).
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A Recognition of Reality
A Historical Injustice
Corrected
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 12/9/2017 2:15 PM
Jerusalem is the undivided
capital of Israel, according to President Donald Trump, who declared it so on December 6th 2017,
rewarding our close ally Israel and correcting a historical injustice, although
any sane person already understood this fact and the historical record removes
all doubt. President Trump's declaration sounded the death knell on the seven
decades long world delusion that Muslims and the ideology of Islam somehow have
any claim to any part of Jerusalem, which is a critical component of the
mythical "palestinians’” simple ploy to undermine and ultimately destroy
Israel, a sovereign Jewish state in the middle of the Islamic world, which is
viewed in their eyes as an insult to Islam.
Along with this declaration,
President Trump announced the plan to move the U.S. Embassy,
from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem over the next few years, to ultimately
fulfill the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act,
signed by President Bill Clinton, which originally called for this to be
completed by 1999. A waiver signed by President Trump has delayed the move for
six months, until a review can present an efficient and viable plan for the
move.
President Trump was cautioned
against this move, by Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson, who feared it would enrage the Islamic world. While it did result in
an immediate blowback, President Trump is convinced that this will aid the
peace process in the long term; and even if this is not the case, God will
bless him and America for his courageous and righteous decision.
Representative John Culberson
(R-TX) told 'The Hill': "America
should never change our foreign policy based on an assumption that we're going
to offend a group of Islamic radicals. America should always do the right thing
and stand by our allies, and America has no stronger ally on earth than the
people of Israel."
Justifying his decision,
President Trump mentioned the Parliament, Supreme Court and the prime
minister's home in West Jerusalem, as locations within the Old City, including
Al Aqsa mosque. A bright, glaring focal point, he made no mention of any
Palestinian rights to East Jerusalem.
Today, the Jewish Temple
Mount is the third holiest site in Islam, behind Saudi Arabia's Mecca and
Medina. Muslims believe once they claim a piece of land, it belongs to Islam
forever.
However, there has never been a
"Palestinian" state with Jerusalem as its capital, or a palestinian
language or culture. There was not any such thing as a "palestinian"
people, prior to 1948. They were ethnic Arabs and Muslims, who created the myth
as a political tool to use against an unwanted Jewish state in their midst.
For the past three thousand
years, since 1000 B.C., there has been an uninterrupted Jewish presence in the city
of Jerusalem, which is the religious and cultural home for the
Jewish people and their historic capital. Jews, wherever they are in the world,
face Jerusalem when they pray, and each year at Passover, their hopeful prayer
is recited, "Next year in Jerusalem".
The Bible mentions the City
of David, Jerusalem, more than 600 times, and Jerusalem is mentioned hundreds
of times in the Prophets (Nevi'im) and Writings (Ketuvim). The Psalms 137:5 state, "If I forget
thee Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill". Out of all
the cities in the world, the Bible only calls on us to pray for the welfare of
Jerusalem, but not once is Jerusalem mentioned in the Koran.
In Mohammed's lifetime,
Jerusalem was an unimportant city in the Byzantine Empire and a Christian city
without a single mosque. The Al Aqsa mosque is a conquest mosque [Tov Rose & CBN] built atop the
ruins of the Church of Saint Mary of Justinian. And, although Islamic tradition
says Mohammed ascended into Heaven from Al Aqsa mosque, there is no record of
Mohammed having ever been to Jerusalem.
President Trump rightfully noted: "This is nothing
more or less than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do.
It's something that has to be done."
Many professional "peace
experts" contend that President Trump's capital idea will kill any chance
for a negotiated settlement between the Palestinians and Israel. Palestinian
Authority president-for-life Mahmoud Abbas, an old terrorist himself, characterized
the move as America's "declaration of withdrawal"
from the "peace process".
What
peace process?
For nearly a decade, Abbas
has refused to engage in direct talks, despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu's open invitation, but no negotiation is better than the bad faith
negotiations of the Palestinians. In 1993, under Yasser Arafat, they accepted
extremely generous deals in the Oslo Accords and right away committed wave after wave of terrorist attacks, in
an effort to force more concessions from Israel and the West.
And now, President Trump has
sent the unmistakable message that murder will not be rewarded. No longer will
violence over Jerusalem be tolerated.
Calls for Muslims to engage
in "three days of rage"
immediately sounded over mosque loudspeakers in Gaza, and hundreds moved on the
Israeli border, after Trump's speech, throwing stones and chanting, "We don't need
empty words, we need stones and Kalasnikovs", while other clashes broke
out in Hebron and Bethlehem. Thirty-one Palestinians were wounded on Thursday,
and Friday after prayers was like all other Fridays, with the usual protests
and anger.
The Palestinians don't want
to peacefully coexist beside Israel, in a two-state solution. They seek a one
state solution and an Islamic State that exists in the place of Israel, and
they cling to their fantasy of eradicating the Jewish state. To achieve this, they have created a campaign to revise history, and they
attempt to erase the undeniable Jewish connection and birthright to Jerusalem.
Reprehensibly, on May 2nd of
this year, near Israel's Independence Day, the U.N.'s cultural body, UNESCO, passed a series of resolutions
that stated Israel hasn't any legal or historical rights anywhere in Jerusalem.
Largely comprised of an anti-Israel majority, the votes against the resolution
came from the U.S., U.K., Italy, Germany, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Lithuania,
Greece, Paraguay and Togo.
In the moments after the vote
passed, Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, draped in a large
Israeli flag, addressed the meeting:
"Even now, after this miserable vote, this blue and white flag is flying
high above the Temple Mount and throughout Israel's eternal capital city,
Jerusalem, waving in the wind, saying to all 'here we are, and we are here to
stay'".
Denying reality is how this
game has long been played. For seventy years the world has pretended that
Jerusalem wasn't the capital of Israel. We even witnessed the U.N. become the
poster child for the absurd, when it declared East Jerusalem "occupied
territory", on December 23rd 2016, because of President
Obama's anti-Israel sentiment. This advanced the insane and ignoble fantasy
that, as a matter of international law, the Western Wall, and the Jewish
Quarter of Jerusalem too, really belongs to the Palestinians. President Donald
Trump just put an end to their game, with his acknowledgement of fact and his
brave act and moral courage.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by John R. Houk
All source links as well as text embraced by brackets are by the
Editor.
© Justin O. Smith
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