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Whose Jerusalem Is It, Anyway?
Slate ^ | Feb. 28, 2008 | Shmuel Rosner

Posted on 03/05/2008 2:05:29 PM PST by forkinsocket

Should diaspora Jews have a say in the political negotiations about Jerusalem?

"Arafat balked at not having sovereignty over all of East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount." That's former President Bill Clinton's version of the defining moment of the failed Camp David summit of 2000. "He turned the offer down." Clinton "called Arab leaders for support," but "most wouldn't say much." Not one of them was brave enough—or stupid enough—to take the credit and the blame for helping Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat give up, even if only symbolically, on Muslim control of the Temple Mount.

So, the problem of Jerusalem was not solved. And as the current Israeli and Palestinian leaders—Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Mahmoud Abbas—again inch toward an agreement, an old reality is suddenly dawning on both of them, and on the American facilitator: Reaching an agreement on Jerusalem will demand more time and more creativity than the timetable for agreement (the end of 2008) can provide.

Jerusalem is the main reason we hear Olmert and Abbas talking about an agreement of principles rather than an agreement. This is the question on which no weak leader—and both are weak politically—can compromise. Olmert is under constant threat that Shas, the right-wing religious party, will leave the ruling coalition if Jerusalem is so much as discussed in the peace negotiations. Abbas, like every Arab leader, is under the more severe threat that he will become a target of violence by Muslim radicals if he decides to make compromises and accept an offer similar to the one Arafat rejected.

Olmert's life is complicated by more than just Israelis' opposition to compromises on Jerusalem.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: chalcolithic; diaspora; israel; jerusalem; jews
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1 posted on 03/05/2008 2:05:29 PM PST by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

I belongs to the Jews. The Bible says it over, and over, and over again.


2 posted on 03/05/2008 2:07:29 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: forkinsocket

Before islam, the land was promised to Abraham and his decendants by God. It is for the Jews, not anyone else, the Jews only.


3 posted on 03/05/2008 2:13:22 PM PST by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: forkinsocket
Just skimmed the article, but I don't like the idea of anyone's diaspora having a say in the internal affairs of the country they left. Once you leave, you should be prepared to give up influence back home.

Looking at it any other way is asking for trouble.

Besides, most of Jewish diaspora hase never even lived in Isreal, I'd suspect.

4 posted on 03/05/2008 2:13:59 PM PST by skeeter
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To: SkyPilot
"It belongs to the Jews. The Bible says it over, and over, and over again."

True but the Bible is referring to spiritual not racial jews.

5 posted on 03/05/2008 2:14:34 PM PST by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: forkinsocket
Depends on who you ask. If you ask God, He gave it to the Jews, but He told them how to keep it...

You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you (for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled), lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
- Leviticus 18:26-28

6 posted on 03/05/2008 2:16:22 PM PST by Sopater (A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left. ~ Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: joebuck
True but the Bible is referring to spiritual not racial jews.

I respectfully disagree with you.

There is an excellent book by David Hunt that is devoted to this entire subject. He backs his material with sound sources, including Holy Scripture.

A Cup of Trembling: Jerusalem and Bible Prophecy


7 posted on 03/05/2008 2:26:01 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Sopater
Bible is referring to spiritual not racial jews.

What's the heck is that?
8 posted on 03/05/2008 2:27:11 PM PST by alecqss
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To: SkyPilot
"There is an excellent book by David Hunt"

I'll stick with a different excellent book.

9 posted on 03/05/2008 2:33:59 PM PST by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: forkinsocket

Philisitinians, drop dead.


10 posted on 03/05/2008 2:47:07 PM PST by onedoug
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To: joebuck

How do you feel about racial Jews, joebuck?


11 posted on 03/05/2008 2:51:30 PM PST by bvw
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To: forkinsocket
It's the City of David, not the City of Ahmed.

ML/NJ

12 posted on 03/05/2008 3:06:08 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: SkyPilot; joebuck

I’m sure you’ve heard of “circumcision of the heart”?

Romans 2:28-29: A man is not a Jew if he is only one outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. No, a man is a Jew if he is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise is not from men, but from God.

Galatians 3:29: If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

BTW, Abraham, to whom the promise was made, never actually took possession of the land — the land in the OT was a type and shadow of the true Promised Land:

Hebrews 11:9-10: By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

Galatians 4:26: But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Suffice to say, Christ is the seed of Abraham, and the promise is eternal life in the true Promised Land.


13 posted on 03/05/2008 3:09:36 PM PST by tabsternager
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To: bvw
"How do you feel about racial Jews, joebuck?"

Read the book of Romans

14 posted on 03/05/2008 3:16:06 PM PST by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: joebuck
I asked how YOU felt. Ready to comment abruptly but not follow-up, eh joe? Let's hear your own understanding.

For a devil can read scripture to the devil's own understanding, right?

15 posted on 03/05/2008 3:18:41 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw

So you ask me to answer how I feel about racial jews apart from what Paul tells us in Romans? The answer to that would depend on the racial jew in question.


16 posted on 03/05/2008 3:20:17 PM PST by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: joebuck
Sputtering and spittering, skittering like a water drop evaporating quick on a hot skillet.

You made a general comment about Jews. You said in all essence that racial Jews are frauds.

17 posted on 03/05/2008 3:22:53 PM PST by bvw
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To: bvw
"You said in all essence that racial Jews are frauds."

I didn't say that at all as any racial jews who accept Jesus Christ, as well as gentiles who accept the same, are are the spiritual heirs to God's covenant. These are the ones God made his covenant with from the begining and it will stand to the end. This is basic Christian theology 101. You really ought to try reading the Bible.

18 posted on 03/05/2008 3:27:09 PM PST by joebuck (Finitum non capax infinitum!)
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To: SkyPilot
I belongs to the Jews. The Bible says it over, and over, and over again.

The Biblical Israelites were far more effective at ensuring that their possession was not disputed, than the modern Israelites

19 posted on 03/05/2008 3:31:06 PM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: joebuck
That's replacement theology. It's a horrific form of theft.

G-d's promises are not trivial things. Israel has been rebuked, but never abandoned. And by Israel I mean what you call "racial Jews".

It's great that the world has come to of learn Israel's spiritual inheritance fairly well via the Christians, guided always by a few "racial" Jews in the diaspora. Great and terribly painful too. Painful for all, so much runs disjointly when the world is not run in proper spiritual order!

Now that Jews are in Israel, it would be greater still if the world could reattach to the Divine, per Israel's service, and most hopefully in our time in the holy city David and Solomon established -- Jerusalem.

20 posted on 03/05/2008 3:46:37 PM PST by bvw
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