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Titolo: Netanyahu opens Bible in battle for Jerusalem

Più che colloqui di pace si prospettano dispute tra teologi.  Questi 
sono veramente pazzi.
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Netanyahu opens Bible in battle for Jerusalem
May 12 2010 at 01:58PM 	
Beset by questions about the future of Jerusalem in talks with the 
Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin reached for the Bible on 
Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's disputed claim on the city.
Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of 
East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its 
alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, 
Judaism's core canon.
"As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of 
other faiths, I recommend you check," he said.
Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "indivisible" 
capital - a designation not recognised abroad, where many powers support 
Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future 
Palestinian state.
Destroyed as a Jewish capital by the Romans in the 1st century AD, 
Jerusalem was a Christian city under their Byzantine successors before 
falling to Muslim Arabs in the 7th. European Crusaders took it back for 
a century before 700 years of Muslim control until Britain defeated the 
Ottoman Turks in 1917.
As Britain prepared to quit, the United Nations proposed international 
rule for the city in 1947 as a "corpus separatum." That proposal was 
overtaken by fighting that left Israel holding West Jerusalem in 1948 
and Jordanian forces in East Jerusalem. Israel then took the rest in the 
Six Day War of 1967.
The city, within boundaries defined by Israel but not recognised 
internationally, is now home to 750 000 people, two in three of them 
Jews and the rest mostly Muslim Palestinians.
Jerusalem is also revered by Muslims around the world because it houses 
al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine after Mecca and Medina, on 
a plaza that Jews revere as the vestige of two biblical Jewish temples.
Heckled by a lawmaker from Israel's Arab minority, Netanyahu offered a 
lesson in comparative religion from the lectern. "Because you asked: 
Jerusalem is mentioned 142 times in the New Testament, and none of the 
16 various Arabic names for Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran. But in 
an expanded interpretation of the Koran from the 12th century, one 
passage is said to refer to Jerusalem," he said.
Netanyahu did not refer in his speech to indirect peace negotiations 
with the Palestinians that resumed this month after 1 1/2 years of US 
mediation. But he said Israel would retain all of Jerusalem while 
ensuring freedom of worship at its sites.
Such assertions are challenged by Palestinians given that Israel, over 
the last decade of fighting, has often banned their access to al-Aqsa. 
Christians in the adjacent West Bank complain of similar difficulties in 
reaching Jerusalem churches. "There is no undercutting, nor do I intend 
to undercut, the connection of others to Jerusalem," Netanyahu said.
"But I do confront the attempt to undercut and warp or obfuscate the 
unique connection that we, the people of Israel, have to the capital of 
Israel." - Reuters
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20100512133357206C378216
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The Foreign Ministry itself is now pushing the idea, urging supporters 
of Israel everywhere to
become cyberspace soldiers "in the new battleground for Israel's image."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378505678&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

 Netanyahu opens Bible in battle for Jerusalem
ma il sionismo non c'entra niente con la religione. Facce da culo
senza pari al mondo.