HE CAME UP TRUMPS! (revised)

 

 


President Donald Trump’s miraculous intervention in Israel’s lone fight to rid the world of the threat of Iran’s nuclear capabilities  reminded me of a previous blog.  

President Trump’s declaration of the recognition of Jerusalem, in 2017, as the Jew’s eternal capital was an unprecedented move and, unfortunately, not followed up by our other so-called Western allies.

Jerusalem has always been considered the eternal capital of the Jewish people. It is mentioned more than 600 times in the Hebrew Bible and has more synagogues per capita than any city in the world. Religious Jews all over the world have always prayed three times a day, facing Jerusalem. In Israel today, everyone has complete freedom of worship. It is the only city in which some 15 different Christian communities live alongside one another.

Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is home to 150,000 Jewish graves dating back to the 1400’s. During the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem, Jews were not allowed access to their holy sites and Jewish graves on the Mount of Olives were desecrated.

In comparison, until the Six-day War, when the Old City was recaptured by Israel, it had no particular significance for the Muslims. It was never mentioned once in the Koran, and is considered only the third holiest city in Islam, after Mecca and Medina, both in Saudi Arabia.

Jerusalem has been attacked 52 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, besieged 23 times and destroyed twice over the course of 3,000 years.

Many nations have tried to settle in Israel  but, miraculously,  only under the Jewish people has it flourished. The land has been ruled by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Alexandrians, Ptolemis, Seleucids, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads, Abbasides, Fatimids, Seljuks, Crusaders, Mamlukes, Ottomans. Finally, on 15 May 1948, the British Mandatory authority left Israel and, at midnight on 14 May 1948, the State of Israel was declared.

When Mark Twain visited in 1867 he wrote: “….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”

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Only under Jewish rule has Israel been an independent, self-governing nation,and not part of an empire. And it continues to be a major obstacle to the  imperial dream shared by Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others.

 


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