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By Victor Sharpe Sunday, May 29, 2011
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The late Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren Sounds the Shofar (Ram's Horn)
upon the Recapture in June, 1967 of Jerusalem's holy Jewish site, the
Western Wall, from Jordanian Muslim occupation
Jerusalem Unification Day has again been celebrated in Israel and throughout
the world with the exception of that 7th century alternate universe: the
Muslim world.
It marks 44 years since the amazing and miraculous event took place when the
Jewish people's 3,000 year old capital city was restored to the Jewish state
in the 1967 Six-Day War.
For 19 long years from 1948 to 1967, Jordan had occupied Judea and Samaria
(the West Bank) and the eastern half of Jerusalem. Only Pakistan and Britain
had ever recognized Jordan's illegal occupation.
The British officered Jordanian Arab Legion had forced out at gunpoint the
Jewish residents of the Old City and the neighboring Jewish villages: It was
Apartheid and ethnic cleansing, Arab style.
The Legion went on to desecrate the Jewish graves on the ancient Mount of
Olives and use the headstones as latrines. They desecrated over 50
synagogues and forbade Jewish pilgrims to worship at their holy places. They
had turned the Via Delarosa, the Way of the Cross, into a filthy, sewerage
strewn alley through which Christian pilgrims were forced to walk.
Jordan cut the Holy City in half with barbed wire and erected walls,
complete with snipers along the dividing line who killed many Jews in the
western half of the city.
There is another city today divided by Muslims. It is called Nicosia in
Cyprus, a country whose northern half is still occupied by Turkey.
Strangely, no international calls are heard calling for Turkey to leave or
for the city to be reunited.
Another city that was divided against itself was Berlin and President Reagan
called upon Soviet President Gorbachev to, "tear down this wall."
The world applauded when the wall came down. Now President Obama and most of
the same world in effect is calling upon Israel to re-divide Jerusalem.
Obama is essentially calling upon Israeli Prime Minister to "build up a
wall."
Only when Israel was able to restore dignity and cleanliness in 1967 to all
the holy places was the earlier Muslim discrimination against Jews and
Christians finally brought to a long and overdue end.
But this persecution of non-Muslims is par for the Islamic world and it
continues today throughout the territory foolishly given to the Palestinian
Arabs as a result of the grotesquely misnamed Oslo Peace Accords.
Throughout the Middle East, Christians are fleeing from Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt
and the Palestinian Authority itself. The only nation in the Middle East
where the Christian population is growing is Israel.
The Palestinian Arabs now live under the Palestinian Authority-a territory
carved out of Judea and Samaria-the Jewish people's ancestral and biblical
heartland, incorrectly called by its Jordanian name, the West Bank.
The Obama regime is today backing the Palestinian Authority's spurious claim
that the liberated areas from Arab Jordan must be forced back under the
occupation and sovereignty of a future PA state.
The PA is demanding that the eastern half of Jerusalem must be given to them
in order to declare it the capital of a new Arab state called Palestine.
Such an independent Arab state called Palestine has never existed in all of
recorded history. Palestine has always been a geographical area just as
Siberia or Patagonia is: never an independent state. Jerusalem has never
been the capital city of any Arab or Muslim people.
Jerusalem has been the eternal capital of only one people in all of that
same recorded history: the Jewish people. A Kingdom of Jerusalem existed
under the Christian Crusaders but this was created by a motley group of
European knights who had no historical roots in the land.
The Jewish Bible along with the Talmud and the Midrash tell us that the
Torah, (the first five books of the Holy Bible) its light and its message,
is to be broadcast to the entire world from one specific place: Jerusalem.
Each time the Torah scroll is taken from the Ark to be read during synagogue
services the following prayer is always sung. "For out of Zion shall go
forth the Torah (Law) and the word of God from Jerusalem." (Isaiah 2:1 and
Micah 4:2)
In the complete Jewish Bible (the Tanach) the words Jerusalem and Zion
appear 821 times with Jerusalem appearing 667 times and Zion appearing 154
times. Both Zion and Jerusalem are usually considered synonymous.
In the Christian Bible, itself an account of Jewish personalities whose
lives were formed within the Jewish Judean province of Rome, as well as the
Galilee, the name Jerusalem appears 154 times and Zion seven.
In the Koran, Jerusalem and Zion do not appear at all. Indeed, it was only
after the Arabs, under their new banner of Islam, conquered Jerusalem in the
year 638 that they invented Islamic history in and around Jerusalem.
We are told that Mohammed flew on his magic horse to a place called Al Aksa,
which means simply the farthest place. Much later, and for political reasons
to do with historic, temporal and spiritual Jewish and Christian ties to
Jerusalem, did Muslims name the Holy City as their Al Aqsa.
After the Holy Temple was destroyed in the year 70 AD by Titus, Jerusalem
lay stricken. But Jews still maintained a presence there and continued to
suffer under Roman occupation.
The heroic Bar-Kochba Revolt broke out in 135 AD but was crushed three years
later by the Roman emperor, Hadrian, who razed Jewish Jerusalem, plowed the
city under, and renamed it Aelia Capitolina in part after his own name,
Hadrian Publius Aelius. He built a shrine to the Roman god, Jupiter, on the
site where the Holy Jewish Temple's Holy of Holies had once stood.
>From the 10th century, the Muslim Arabs still called the city various names
that echoed its original Jewish origins. For instance they called it Beit
al-Makdis, the Arabic version of the Hebrew name, Beit HaMikdash-House of
the Sanctuary.
The Arabic name, beloved of Palestinian terrorists, is Al-Kuds, which is
derived from the Hebrew, Ir Hakodesh-City of Holiness.
The Christian king, Frederick II obtained Jerusalem, along with Bethlehem
and Nazareth, in a treaty with the Egyptian Sultan al-Kamil. This was a
lease agreement given by the Muslim ruler and meant to last some ten years.
Frederick subsequently crowned himself King of Jerusalem.
But in 1244 the Muslims retook Jerusalem and the city lapsed into a long,
dilapidated slumber and the Muslim shrines on the Temple Mount, which today
are a focal point of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel activity, fell into
disrepair and abandonment.
Only when Israeli forces in June, 1967 liberated the Temple Mount and east
Jerusalem, during their defensive war against Arab aggression, did the Arab
and Muslim world suddenly wake up and demand control of the city, or at
least the Temple Mount and Jerusalem's eastern half.
It is instructive to note that when the Jordanian Arab Legion occupied east
Jerusalem and the Old City in 1948, after driving out its Jewish population,
the Arab world again lost interest in the city.
Indeed, King Hussein, Jordan's ruler had little interest in Jerusalem
compared to his desire to build up his capital, Amman, which he considered
far more important.
Between 1948 and 1967, during the illegal Jordanian Arab occupation of east
Jerusalem and the West Bank, no Arab leader ever thought it important enough
to visit Jerusalem except King Hussein, but he visited it rarely.
Today, Mahmoud Abbas, the successor to arch terrorist Yasser Arafat and now
head of the Palestinian Authority, demands that Jerusalem be divided again
as it was from 1948 to 1967 and a new Arab capital-for the first time in
history-established in Jerusalem.
Not only the Muslim world, with its 57 member states, but the Europeans and
President Obama pressure Israel into conceding parts of its holy capital to
further placate the voracious Arab appetite and "further the peace process."
Giving away even one inch of Jerusalem would be to spit in the face of the
endless generations of Jews who have held Jerusalem as the central spiritual
and physical place in Jewish history.
It would be a cataclysmic and symbolic act of betrayal of Jewish history and
faith if any part of Jerusalem is lost to the Jewish people by this
generation of Israelis. For Jews, Jerusalem is the spiritual and temporal
heart.
It would also be a reverse for the Christian world. Only under Israeli
administration has Jerusalem been open for free and unfettered worship to
members of all faiths.
The prayer uttered at Passover and Yom Kippur-"Next year in Jerusalem"-must
not become an empty phrase made bitter in its very utterance by abandoning
much of eternal Jerusalem to placate a fraudulent Arab people called
Palestinians and appease a hostile world by succumbing to an equally
fraudulent peace.
It is instructive to note that in prayer, Jews in synagogues face Jerusalem
while Muslims in mosques face Mecca. This Islamic practice, even on the
Temple Mount, speaks volumes.
Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer and author of Politicide: The attempted
murder of the Jewish state.
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Victor Sharpe is a freelance writer with articles and essays published in
FrontPageMag.com, Townhall.com, Outpost, The Jewish Press, American Thinker,
Renew America, Israel News Daily, Family Security Matters, Jewish Voice &
Opinion, Page One Daily, The Jerusalem Connection, Israel National News and
many other publications. He is also the author of Volumes One & Two of
Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish State and The Blue Hour and
Other Strange Tales.
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