Obama, Israel, Arabs and Land
I am one of those crazy for Jesus evangelicals that Orthodox Jews mistrust and Leftists hate in my support of a Greater Israel and especially a ONE UNITED Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. The only interest in the slice of land known as Israel by the Arab/Muslims in the 20th and 21st centuries is that a group of Jews immigrated back to their homeland and creating a Jewish/Zionist State. Muslim Supremacists view Israel as part of dar al-Islam and is never to be surrendered to the original inhabitants because conquering Muslim armies establish the area as Islamic territory.
Here is the thing. The Muslim conquerors of the land so mismanaged the natural resources of the land dubbed by Romans as Palestine that the area became a wasteland. Blatant persecution of Jews in Europe finally brought a vision to a Jewish man – Theodore Herzl. Herzl realized that Jews would never get a fair shake as citizens in the various prejudiced European nations stretching from France through Russia.
In the late 1800’s Herzl realized the Jews needed their own homeland if they ever were to be free from the taint of second class citizens in Europe. Thus Herzl began the Zionist movement to promote such an idea. The Zionist ideology was not popular among European Jews at first; however noticeably increasing hate caused others to latch onto Herzl’s Zionist plan. Herzl would not live to see the fruition of his ideas for he died in 1904.
Chaim Weizmann took up where Herzl left off however it was Weizmann that turned the Zionism goal of a Jewish Homeland to the land of Jewish origin – then Palestine and now Israel.
Adolf Hitler sealed the deal with the Holocaust. Hitler’s murder of over six million Jews finally woke up Europeans (well West Europeans anyway) to the demeaning treatment Jews had received since their Diaspora from their homeland.
From Israel’s Independence in 1948, Arab Muslim nations and later Islamofascist stateless terrorists have tried to destroy Israel and perpetrate a Second Holocaust. The Arabs have lost every war even though they greatly outnumbered itty bitty Israel. When aggressors lose war a price is to be paid. In the Arabs case that price is land that rightfully belongs within a Jewish Homeland.
Ever since oil became an economic weapon against the West, Europeans have forgotten the lessons of the pinnacle of European anti-Semitism of the Holocaust. For now the European goal under the auspices of the European Union have favored policies that have brought Europeans into dhimmitude to Arabs and the tortuous slow dismantling of Israel.
American Leftists and RINO’s have also fallen into this dhimmitude to Arabs. Part of the reason is understandable: why stand behind a little sliver of land coveted by Islamic Supremacists when the delusional perception is to placate Arabs to end terrorism.
Barack Hussein Obama is in this Leftist crowd. Obama after schmoozing American Jews to the contrary apparently now favors the division of Jerusalem and reducing Israel to the indefensible borders of 1967.
All Obama Options Call For Dividing Jerusalem
The Times of London reports that President-elect Obama will adopt the Saudi plan that calls for the establishment of a Palestinian State in Jerusalem. Kadima candidate for Prime Minister Livni supports the Saudi plan.
Little Green Footballs and Hot Air analyze the story.
There have been many stories about what plan will Obama adopt. There are differences between the plans, for example, on the issue of right of return, but they all agree that Jerusalem will be divided to provide for a Palestinian capital.
Outgoing Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is determined to see Obama continue her failed peace efforts. This story reports on Rice's efforts and the differences between Netanyahu and Livni on this subject. Livni is seen as fully supportive of a deal based on Israel going back to its indefensible borders of 1949 and Netanyahu defending Israel's right to an undivided Jerusalem and secure borders. Could the differences be any clearer? (One Jerusalem)
Be sure to examine the Little Green Footballs and Hot Air articles. Their analyses both demonstrate that the author of The Times article is a reporter of a dubious nature.
Regardless of Obama’s AIPAC speech to American Jews, he is no friend of Israel and their heritage.
One Jerusalem has a short little article explaining the importance of keeping Jerusalem One under Israeli sovereignty.
Understand Jerusalem
The modern historical record proves the importance of keeping Jerusalem united under Israeli sovereignty:
1948-1967: The Dark Period
An invasion of Arab armies during the 1948 War of Independence caused Jerusalem to be artificially divided between an Israeli-controlled western section, and a Jordanian-controlled eastern section.
During this dark period, Arab control of the Old City and eastern sections of Jerusalem caused severe hardships and persecution for both Jews and Christians: From 1948 to 1967, Jordan denied the Jewish people access to its sacred Western Wall (in violation of its Armistice Agreement with Israel), over fifty synagogues in the Old City's Jewish Quarter were destroyed or desecrated, and the Old City’s Jewish residents were expelled.
Moreover, the Christian population of Jordanian Jerusalem fell from 25,000 to 11,000, as highly restrictive Jordanian laws were imposed on Christian institutions.
1967-Present: Freedom for All
In the wake of the 1967 Six Day War, Jerusalem was reunified under Israeli sovereignty.
Since then, Christians, Muslims and Jews have all been granted full religious and cultural freedom in the holy city, and Arabs living within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries are offered Israeli citizenship.
Israel has upheld its moral and ethical obligations to the people of the world and has earned the right to retain sovereignty over all of Jerusalem, according to the present boundaries. Israel's decision, as a free and democratic nation, to designate a united and undivided Jerusalem as its capital, should be respected and recognized by the entire international community.
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