Jerusalem Is Jerusalem

By C. J. Refsland on January 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

This is so sad, Jerusalem is mentioned 767 times in the KJV of the Bible, never once is it called west or east Jerusalem. And that’s not all, never is it mentioned in the Koran even once. According to answers at Yahoo.com, Mohammed never made it to Jerusalem, and the word “Jerusalem” appears nowhere in the Koran.

The Jewish claim to the Holy Land is much older then that of our Arab cousins. It has been our homeland for 3,000 years, and until the first Arab invaders arrived in the 700s, no descendants of Ishmael ever claimed any part of the land for themselves. Islam was established only 1300 years ago, more then 1700 years AFTER Jews made Jerusalem their capital! The Land of Israel is mentioned many hundreds of times in the Torah by its names “Canaan” and/or “Israel”; other names such as Zion are many many times more. The city of Jerusalem is mentioned 622 times in the Torah by its name Jerusalem and is referred to thousands of times by other names. The land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem are NEVER mentioned in the Quran, the book held holiest by Ishmael’s descendants—not as “Palestine,” not as “Israel” and not by ANY other name!

So, again we’re fed the biggest whopper ever, that was invented by Satan.

By: Daniel Tauber There is a certain amount of ridiculousness in the refusal to recognize that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. There is another amount of ridiculousness in a country’s refusal to move its embassy to Israel’s capital or in refusing to call what is in fact it’s embassy as such, because of disagreement with where that Israel has made its capital. And all the more so if all this is being done by an ally.

But perhaps even more ridiculous is the invention of the city of “East Jerusalem.” Among thousands of years of Jerusalem’s history the city was officially divided into West and East Jerusalem for a total of 18 years. No one believes that “East Jerusalem” represents, historically, geographically, administratively or otherwise its own unique city from the rest of Jerusalem.

Yet anytime anything occurring east of the 1949 armistice line occurs in Jerusalem, it is labeled as happening in “East Jerusalem” as if it is some kind of separate geographical unit.

Take for example the New York Times story today about the Israeli strike in Syria. The article featured a picture of gas mask distribution, which as the caption informs us, took place not in Jerusalem, or a certain neighborhood of Jerusalem, but in “East Jerusalem.”

The caption of the photo: “In East Jerusalem, Israelis distributed gas masks on Wednesday as worries about security spread.”

Thus, when Israel allows Jews to build or live in in areas east of the Green Line that are within Jerusalem’s municipal borders it is very controversially building in “East Jerusalem,” as described in this headline in Ha’aretz (“Israel to market disputed East Jerusalem housing project before election”). If it wasn’t in “East Jerusalem,” there wouldn’t even be a story here at all.

True, there are some Arab neighborhoods in the city which have a quite distinct character from the Jewish/ more open and modern parts of the city (e.g., in Jewish neighborhoods you won’t find children asking you if you want to pay them for protection for your car after your park it and go about your business). And if I were a tourist, I may want to know about that before I go to those areas. But that doesn’t include all these controversial areas where Israel has created wholly new neighborhoods.

And it is also claimed that Jerusalem’s municipal borders were inflated in order to include certain Arab villages which are now part of the city. But anyone who walks from the Jewish areas to the Arab neighborhoods that there are not separate villages, but parts of a large, bustling city. And again that claim would only relate to Arab neighborhoods, not completely new Jewish neighborhoods, like Har Homa, East Talpiyot, Gilo or Rama Shlomo.

‘”East Jerusalem” thus exists today merely to inform the reader or listener of one thing: that this area is or should be off limits to Jews. Jews should not be there and that anything that Israel is doing there is wrong. Otherwise the fact that it is East Jerusalem would simply not be worth mentioning. It is not that exciting to say “gas masks were handed out in Jerusalem” or “gas masks were distributed in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo” There is nothing controversial about a Jew living or Israel doing something in a certain neighborhood. The reader has to be informed that the Jew should not be there, something that is achieved with the term “East Jerusalem.”