Posted on 12/09/2017 6:44:12 PM PST by Kaslin
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According to reports in the Israeli press, several other countries will follow President Trump's lead and move their Israeli embassies to Jerusalem. Who is doing this and why speaks volumes about the moral condition of the world.
Hungary's President Viktor Orban reportedly vetoed a European Community resolution condemning Trump's action, and Hungary is expected to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Orban has fought a public war of words with liberal mega-donor George Soros all year, and polite opinion claims that Orban is an anti-Semite. His political base includes plenty of anti-Semites, to be sure. But he is also pro-Israel. The UK Independent complains of a "dangerous tendency" to be anti-Semitic and pro-Israel at the same time. I'll take Orban any day over lefties who claim to like Jews but hate the Jewish State. Orban doesn't want his country swamped by Muslim migrants, and the European Community has threatened Hungary with sanctions for refusing to accept its assigned migrant quota
The Philippines reportedly will move its embassy to Jerusalem as well. The connection between the overwhelmingly Catholic nation in Southeast Asia and Israel is surprising, but strong: Filipinos comprise most of the 60,000 Catholic guest workers in Israel, and a thriving Catholic Church with services in Tagalog as well as Hebrew ministers to their spiritual needs. Hebrew-speaking Catholicism flourishes in Israel.
The Czech Republic has long been Israel's strongest supporter in Europe, and it is no surprise that Prague was the first to follow President Trump in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Polite (that is, appeaser) opinion in Europe abhors Trump's action. But it is interesting to see who dissents. Of all of Europe's major dailies, only Germany's Die Welt--a center-right broadsheet that has criticized Angela Merkel's open door for migrants--steadfastly supports Israel.
Clemens Wergin, the Washington correspondent of Germany's center-right daily Die Welt, hails the move of America's embassy to Israel to Jerusalem. "The right step," Wergin titled his commentary. "Palestinian propaganda stubbornly refuses to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, and also denies the Jewish presence in the Holy Land which has endured for millennia, as well as the Jews' deep historical connection to it. That's why it is high time for the West to understand the Palestinians' historical obscurantism as an obstacle to peace. If the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital makes the Palestinian leadership recognize the useless of their campaign to delegitimize Israel, it would be worth it for that reason alone.
Another commentary this morning hails "Trump's courage to tell the truth" about Jerusalem.
Israel remains the "paragon and exemplar of a nation" (Franz Rosenzweig), the original and most successful expression of nationalism, and an inspiration to Europeans and others who don't want to be pureed into an insipid, globalized non-identity. As I wrote in Standpoint magazine this month, Israel remains an inspiration to the New Nationalism. No other issue separates the sheep so clearly from the goats.
The countries that do are our allies.
it is frankly pretty impossible to imagine Orban is an antiSemite since he is fighting the evil atheist SorozNazi (who is among the world’s biggest anti-Semites).
Orban appears (from afar, admittedly) to just want to defend his country from the Satanic IslamoNazi invasion of Europe, something the rest of Europe had better wake up to
Yes they are, and the countries that are against it are not.
Excellent point.
Not necessarily. Countries have varying interests. I wouldn’t place particularly large stock on whether or not a country chooses to put their embassy where we put our embassy — not on that one factor alone, anyway.
It’s going to be a gradual process.
Donald Trump should just televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state “I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message.”
Oh, please, please let this go viral. Not one word of commentary needs to be added.
Very short video - about 84 seconds.
https://www.c-spanorg/video/? c4351026/c
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Yes it will be, and like President Trump said it will take four years to put our Embassy there
I thought Ghana was in.
God created the universe and owns it all . . .and people are haggling over whether Jerusalem is the capital of Israel? Think about it . . . For those that don’t have a clue, I would definitely go along with Jerusalem as the capital of God’s (God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit’s) chosen land Israel. He is in charge of it all including everyone’s next breath. Just read the Bible and see how it all goes down.
So if you hate atheist George Soros, who ratted on his fellow Jews to the Nazis during WWII, that makes you an "anti-Semite"? LOLOL!!!
The E.U. this week is beginning the process of SANCTIONS against Hungary and Poland for not accepting its share of Sharia zombies to rape and murder them. Trump should place sanctions on all E.U. nations EXCEPT those two countries, and state it is because of “civil rights violations” by the E.U.
Great idea!
Trump should have actually moved the embassy.
It could have been done instantly by just renaming the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as an “Embassy”.
The UK Independent complains of a “dangerous tendency” to be anti-Semitic and pro-Israel at the same time.
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Well sure. Look at Trump. He’s Hitler and pro-Israel (if we’re to believe the crazy people).
Hungary's President Viktor Orban reportedly vetoed a European Community resolution condemning Trump's action, and Hungary is expected to move its embassy to Jerusalem. Orban has fought a public war of words with liberal mega-donor George Soros all year, and polite opinion claims that Orban is an anti-Semite. His political base includes plenty of anti-Semites, to be sure. But he is also pro-Israel.(bfl)
>it is frankly pretty impossible to imagine Orban is an anti-Semite
Liberalogic:
First, start with the premise that everyone who is not a leftist is a priori racist/sexist/etc.etc.etc.
Secondly, understand that leftism is the mental disease of doublethink.
To a normal person, it’s impossible that someone could support an embassy being in the capitol of a country and simultaneously be racist against those people.
Nope! Because of the postulate, inexorably Orban (and Trump, and presumably even Netanyahu, are all racists (in this variant, anti-Semitic) because they aren’t leftists.
The leftist brain attempts to reconcile apparent impossibility that A is pro-Israel and A is anti-Semitic by doublethink; it asserts both simultaneously.
Because doublethink cannot be sustained outside of forced consensus, a new enemy is created for shared (fake) experience: the “rising” tide of anti-Semites who support Israel. Ooo, those rotten fiends, to support the Jewish state created after the attempted extinction of Jewish people, while simultaneously hating Jewish people. :p
We witnessed the descent or degeneration or at least the unmasking of the leftists In Our very lifetimes. They didn’t used to show their anti- Americanism, anti- Christian and anti - Jewish attitudes. It seemed that with the fall of the Soviet Union, or about that time, the American leftists shed their sheeps’ clothing of love for us all - and revealed their true Hatreds. I’m not sure why they did this, for you can catch a lot more flies with honey then with vinegar. It didn’t seem to be a well thought- out decision, though. Rather, Their hate hate hate just seemed to bubble to the surface as if uncontrollable
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