Posted on 04/01/2010 2:47:31 PM PDT by tflabo
The upshot of last week’s Obama-Netanyahu confrontation is that the White House wants to move Israel rapidly towards a division of Jerusalem.
However, the widely held presumption that splitting Jerusalem will lead to prosperity for the city and to peace for Jews and Arabs is an egregious error. Partitioning Jerusalem will destroy the city. It will die, in every way – culturally, religiously, economically and more. And politically, the shearing of Jerusalem into Arab and Jewish sovereignties will turn it into the bull’s eye of Mideast battle--
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
And woe to those who divide it.
No divided Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is Israel’s capital city.
ML/NJ
Maybe we should divide Washington. Wonder how they would like that?
We could have one part of D.C. filled with wealthy and corrupt politicians and lobbyists and the rest of it dominated by low-level government workers, welfare recipients, and vicious criminals.
Wish we could evict Washington from our country.
Ummmmmm.....isn’t that the way it is now. Just a guess on my part.
Israeli citizens who are arab are much more prosperous and
free under Israeli government than they would be under Arab
rule and they know it. They chose to stay in Israel in 1948
and they have fared much better since than those who fled.
“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples ... I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it” (Zechariah 12:2-3).
Indeed and the article/column goes onto state precisely that. Obama is out of his realm and Bibi won’t compromise Jerusalem. Pray for Bibi and Israel.
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