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Titolo: The Question of Jerusalem

The Question of Jerusalem
And the Temple Mount 
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 East and West Jerusalem and the Old City 
  For over 3,300 years of history, Jerusalem has been a capital city for
only the Jewish People. Jews have always lived in Jerusalem, except when
they were massacred or driven out. There has, however, been a nearly
unbroken Jewish presence in Jerusalem for the past 1,600 years. And since
the early 1800's, the population of Jerusalem has been predominantly
Jewish. Even when the Jordanians captured and occupied Jerusalem from
1948-67, they (the Jordanians) never sought to change it to their capital
(replacing Amman) nor make it the capital of all Arab-"Palestinian"
people. Even during the 19 years Jordan "occupied" most of Jerusalem, Arab
leaders from other Arab countries hardly ever bothered to visit this city!
 Only to the Jews has Jerusalem ever held special meaning! The reality is
that Jerusalem was never an Arab capital and that it never was, until the
Jews revitalized it, a dusty provincial city that hardly played and
economic, social or political role.
  Another myth deals with the issue of Jerusalem and its Temple Mount. The
myth is that Jerusalem is really an Arab city and that it is a central
focus of Islam. The truth is that the Arabs expressed very limited
interest in the Temple Mount before 1967 after the Six-Day War. Besides,
Mecca and Medina (both in Saudi Arabia) are Islam's holiest cities!
   Islam's Holy(?) Koran mentions Mecca 2 or 3 (implied, but not actually
written) times. It mentions Medina 5 times. It never mentions Jerusalem
and with good reason. There is no historical evidence to suggest Mohammad
ever visited Jerusalem!  And if he did visit Jerusalem, it could not have
been until 6 years after his death. Therefore, the notion that Mohammed
ascended to Heaven from a rock in Jerusalem (today's Dome of the Rock) is
even more ridiculous! 
  One more thing about Jerusalem in general and its Temple Mount in
particular.  Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion
(which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times,
or 823 times in all. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and
Zion 7 times. All told, in the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible) and the
New Testament, the terms "Judah" or "Judea" appear 877 times, and
"Samaria" is used on 123 occasions.
   Hold on to your hats, everybody. It gets even better. Upon closer look
at their Holy Koran, we have uncovered something quite amazing. These
Muslims may actually be more Jewish than Muslim!  Get this... the Koran
mentions "Israel" [or "Israelites"] 47 times, "Jew" or "Jewish" 26 times!
Even "Christian" or "Christians" gets 15 mentions! 
   OK, so maybe Mohammed just forget to mention "Jerusalem". Maybe he also
forgot to mention the Haram-esh-Sharif, their name for Judaism's Temple
Mount. Perhaps it was an honest oversight. That desert heat can do strange
things to one's brain. But surely "Palestine" is mentioned all through the
Koran. After all, the poo' poo' ancient "Palestinians" go way back, right?
 WRONG. "Palestine" and "Palestinian" are nowhere to be found. Perhaps
that's because these so-called Arab "Palestinians" have ancient historical
roots going ALL THE WAY back to June 1967!  So much for the Arab, Muslim
or "Palestinian" ancient religious or physical connections to a single
ounce of turf in the so-called "occupied" territories!
  From 1948 to 1967, when East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount were
"occupied" by Jordanian Forces following the 1948-9 Arab-Israeli War,
Jerusalem itself was ignored by the Arab world. No  Arab leader ever paid
a visit, not even to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque or the Dome of the Rock
(both located on the JEWISH Temple Mount).  Also noteworthy during this 19
year period of Jordanian occupation' no Jews were allowed there... not
that there was much for them to see since the Arabs destroyed 58 of
Jerusalem's Jewish synagogues! Even the Arabs of  "Palestine" placed so
low a priority on Jerusalem that the PLO's founding charter, the 1964
Palestinian National Covenant, made no reference whatsoever to it. Only
when the Jews recaptured it after the 1967 "Six Day War" (initiated by the
Arabs) did the Arab world SUDDENLY grow very passionate about Jerusalem! 
  Can any Muslim in the world produce any credible evidence for their
connection to this holy site, other than Mohammed's dream? Believe it or
not, the one and only source for the Muslim's claim to Jerusalem and the
site of the Holy Temple, is a mention in the Koran of a dream that
Mohammed had about an unknown "place far away". Perhaps this "place far
away" is the site of the White House in Washington DC or a Nevada "chicken
ranch?"
  In truth, the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosques are just but two
of hundreds of thousands of Muslim mosques around the world. Except for
these two minor mosques, Jerusalem itself has no major Islamic
significance. In fact, far more Christian shrines are in Jerusalem than
Muslim ones! 
  When a Jew prays from anywhere in the world, he faces the Temple Mount
in Jerusalem.  When a Moslem prays, even while IN Jerusalem, he faces
Mecca, Saudi Arabia (1,300 miles away due east!). So in many cases, even
when a Moslem is in Jerusalem, his "hind quarters" are facing these two
Jerusalem mosques!  What does THIS tell you!  And when Islamic suicide
bombers try to take apart Jerusalem piece by piece, what does THAT tell
you! 
Tb
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 East and West Jerusalem and the Old City
č inutile che posti tutte queste cazzate estremiste.
Gerusalemme č Palestina!!!! 

  East and West Jerusalem and the Old City 
Ma mandare una squadra di bulldozer e tirare giù quei due obbrobri?
Se i buldozer non sono kosher, sono sicuro che si trovano abbastanza
ebrei per demolirli a mano.
Mirco