Academics, journalists to trash Jerusalem's 50th celebrations

Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/4/16 | Hillel Fendel

[Eleutheria5]

The Jewish People will begin celebrating the Jubilee of Jerusalem's liberation and reunification next month, marking the 50th year after the Six Day War – but pro-war Israelis and other Jews plan to take advantage of the yearlong festivities to call worldwide for a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem.

Previous unilateral withdrawals in favor of the Palestinian Authority have led to many Israeli deaths at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. This includes the disengagement/expulsion from Gaza.

The government decided last year to appoint a steering committee to set the tone of Jerusalem's Jubilee festivities. Its conclusions have not been widely publicized, if at all, raising questions as to their viability. Separately, Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced in February that the coming school year (5777, 2016-17) would be "Jerusalem Unity Year" throughout the nation's educational system. Details are to be publicized this coming Jerusalem Day, a month from now. Bennett explained at the time, "Those who try to detach the Jewish People from its city, should know that they have achieved just the opposite, and our links with it have grown stronger."

The campaign is specifically designed to embarrass the Netanyahu government and keep the "Israeli occupation" in the news. The organizers are planning protests around the world during Jerusalem's festive 50th year, seeking to boost opposition to Israel's continued presence in Judea, Samaria and of course, eastern Jerusalem.

The campaign is to climax on Jerusalem Day of 2017, the 50th anniversary of Jerusalem's liberation and reunification, with a series of coordinated demonstrations in Israel and around the world against the government of Israel.

Among the leaders of the $8 million program are Haaretz journalist Akiva Eldar and Prof. Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University, working together with the New Israel Fund and J Street.

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[Eleutheria5]

"If you do not understand a man's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding." ST Coleridge

I don't understand their ignorance, but doubt that they have any understanding of which I can be ignorant.

[SJackson]

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Prior to 1967, these areas of Old Jerusalem were known as the Muslim, Armenian, Christian and Jewish quarter. There was also a small Moroccan quarter. New math. Needless to say in 1967 the Jews were expelled, not a war crime since they're Jews, and Armenians and Christians were required to give equal time in education to the Koran. Only fair. And now it's East Jerusalem, the heck with centuries/millennia of tradition.

And 50 years aside, it's around 5,000 years since Shem and Eber founded the city. Around 3,000 years of Jewish habitation. Christians have been around about 1,700 years. And Mohammed visited on his flying horse about 1,400 years ago, if you believe in flying horses, though it's not mentioned in the Koran. Jerusalem does not appear in that particular literary work. And governed by the Turks, they're not Arabs, for about 400 years.

The celebration of 50 years is a celebration of the status quo, Jews, Christians and Muslims get to live there. Which bothers a lot of people, Kerry, Obama and Biden are highly offended. Jews in Jerusalem, what is the world coming to

[Eleutheria5]

“Needless to say in 1967 the Jews were expelled, not a war crime since they’re Jews”

Now just a cotton pickin’ minit here. Let’s be fair. They turned the Jewish Quarter into a garbage dump. If they had allowed them to stay, they would have been living in garbage, which would have been downright unsanitary. So really they did them a great favor by frocibly evicting them from their homes. Who would want to live in a dump. Besides, they’d lived there for millenia. Wasn’t it time for a change.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Prior to 1967, these areas of Old Jerusalem were known as the Muslim, Armenian, Christian and Jewish quarter. There was also a small Moroccan quarter. New math. Needless to say in 1967 the Jews were expelled, not a war crime since they're Jews, and Armenians and Christians were required to give equal time in education to the Koran. Only fair. And now it's East Jerusalem, the heck with centuries/millennia of tradition.

I think your figures are a little off. It was in '48 that Jordan invaded and annexed east Jerusalem, after which they destroyed the Jewish Quarter. When Israel got it back in '67 the Jewish Quarter was rebuilt. (And Israel-haters use that to claim that the Jewish Quarter doesn't "belong" there!!!)

[SJackson]

Yes, thanks

[ZULU]

These PC criminal lunatics did this here. They destroyed Columbus Day. All of this racist madness is connected. People who do this need to be destroyed. They are wrecking western civilization.

[Jack Hammer]

Beating up on Jews hasn’t been this popular since the era of Nazi Germany.