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Title: | Pal Nationalism is False , Fabricated and Incited | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 2 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| The status of Jerusalem is a case in point. Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham. Jerusalem has been in the hearts and minds of Jews throughout the history of the Jewish nation. Jews the world around turn to Jerusalem when they pray. "If I forget thee Jerusalem shall my right hand wither, Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." (Psalms 137:5). In contrast, for Moslems the importance of Jerusalem is of a completely different kind. Whereas Mecca and Medina are mentioned many times in the Koran Jerusalem is not mentioned even once. Even when Moslems controlled the city they never turned it into their capital. When Jerusalem was under Jordanian control from 1948 to 1967 no foreign Arab leader came to pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. At a summit meeting of Arab leaders in March 2001, Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhafi made fun of his colleagues` obsession with Al-Aqsa Mosque. "The hell with it," delegates quoted him saying, "you solve it or you don`t, it`s just a mosque and I can pray anywhere" Immediately after the UN had adopted its plan of partition, Mr. Saul Malik, the Lebanese Delegate, declared "If I forget thee O Jerusalem, let my right hand wither" to which Mr. Abba Eban, the Israeli Delegate, responded, "If you keep saying this for two thousand years we shall start believing it." The Arab demand to have full control over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount can only be interpreted as a demand to humiliate the Zionist enemy rather than a confidence-building block of a lasting peace. (Professor Talia Einhorn Adjunct Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University ) |
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