Wiesel: For me, as a Jew, Jerusalem is above politics

Haaretz ^ | 16 april 2010 | Natasha Mozgovaya,

[Michel12]

Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel wrote Friday in a full page ad published in the Washington Post that political pressure would not produce a solution to the issue of Jerusalem.

"For me, the Jew that I am, Jerusalem is above politics," Wiesel wrote. "It is mentioned more than six hundred times in Scripture - and not a single time in the Koran...the first song I heard was my mother's lullaby about and for Jerusalem."

In the ad, titled "For Jerusalem", Wiesel wrote that Jews, Christians and Muslims are able to build their homes anywhere in Jerusalem and that only under Israeli sovreignty has freedom of worship for all religions been assured in the city.

"The anguish over Jerusalem is not about real estate but about memory," he wrote.

Wiesel added that the old city of Jerusalem would still be Arab if Jordan had not joined Egypt and Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.

[Spok]

A few weeks ago on Jeopardy! the topic was Jerusalem, and every single question in the category related to the significance that one location or another had with Islam. I was extremely disappointed in the show.

[Michel12]

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It is significant that it is Wiesel – a Jewish figure without peer and the embodiment of Holocaust memory – who writes this. It is as powerful a rebuke to an American president as any he can receive. It is not simply a geopolitical critique; it is an indictment of Obama’s ignorance of and lack of sympathy with the Jewish people. It cannot be ignored.

[Soothesayer]

God Bless Elie Wiesel. Hopefully he won’t have to witness another holocaust but then again, hope is dim.

[Enchante]

Sometimes I hate to be cynical, but if liberal Demagogues like Obama, Biden, Hillary et al had any genuine concern or scruples about these issues then matters could not have reached this point.

[TopQuark]

"God Bless Elie Wiesel."

May G-d blees him indeed. But please ask him whom he voted for in the last election. Like Ed Koch, he want to have it both ways.

[Soothesayer]

What????!!!!!

He didn’t...

Insane...

[ml/nj]

Hey Elie! We don't get to choose whether it is a political issue or not. Our enemies have made it a political issue. If we do not play, we will lose.

ML/NJ

[Arthur McGowan]

Wiesel is a holocaust SUPPORTER. He came out in support of Bill Clinton, a baby-killer.

I have no time for Wiesel.

[Michel12]

Then you are a fool.

[Arthur McGowan]

Wiesel is a fraud. On more than one occasion he has explicitly refused to comment on the abortion holocaust.

That makes everything he says about the holocaust of Jews empty and fraudulent.

[Michel12]

As I said you are a fool. And one doesn’t discuss with fools.

[Arthur McGowan]

One just calls them fools. And then one does it again. And then one does it again. And then one does it again.

I am so humbled to be able to interact with an intellectual colossus such as yourself.

[Michel12]

Well, when it quacks like a duck...

[justiceseeker93]

I was extremely disappointed in the show. [Jeopardy]

You might be disappointed, but you shouldn't be surprised. After all, "Jeopardy!" (which I have to confess I watch regularly - for its factual, not political content) is produced by some MSM "Hollywood" operation with close ties to ABC, on whose stations it mostly airs.

BTW, on yesterday's show, I believe, they had a category about the Israeli Knesset - but they did include one about Anwar Sadat, who visited there in the process of signing a peace treaty with Israel. So even that included Arabs.

BTW, the toughest question in that Israel category was the name of the man (photo shown) who proclaimed Israeli statehood. Well, not very tough for me, but none of the contestants got it. Of course, it was David Ben Gurion, whom I once had the opportunity to see in person.

[Balding_Eagle]

Of course, it was David Ben Gurion, whom I once had the opportunity to see in person.

Wow, good for you!

[Spok]

Ben Gurion was an obvious choice, as most Jeopardy! answers are. I once met Moshe Dayan when he was on a speaking tour of American colleges in the 70’s. To see the hand of providence influencing the creation of great nations, one need only read about our founding fathers and the founders of Israel. Golda and Moshe didn’t need affirmative action or disabilities legislation.

[Gene Eric]

>> he has explicitly refused to comment on the abortion holocaust.

Don’t know much about Wiesel, but the horror of 50 million aborted humans is not something to ignore. You should not be shamed for pointing this out.

[ml/nj]

if liberal Demagogues like Obama, Biden, Hillary et al had any genuine concern or scruples about these issues then matters could not have reached this point.

Well stated. But let's face it Clinton's favorite guest was Arafat, George W. was the first one to push for a "Palestinian" State. They couldn't have cared much either.

ML/NJ

[Arthur McGowan]

Strangely enough, I didn’t think so, either.