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Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem
Reuters ^ | 05/12/2010 | Dan Williams

Posted on 05/12/2010 8:04:04 AM PDT by beagleone

BESET by questions about the future of Jerusalem in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's disputed claim on the city.

Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism's core canon.

"As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: israel; jerusalem; netanyahu
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To: Cinnamon Girl; caww

21 posted on 05/12/2010 9:45:47 AM PDT by 444Flyer (We shall not be moved.)
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To: beagleone
Asked about Netanyahu’s citations, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said: “I find it very distasteful this use of religion to incite hatred and fear.”

That one is a definite contender for the Hypocrisy Hall of Infamy.

22 posted on 05/12/2010 9:53:55 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Yesterday, I read everything Elena Kagan has ever published. It didn't take long..." -- Paul Campos)
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To: beagleone; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


23 posted on 05/12/2010 10:10:56 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Thanks Cinnamon Girl

I love the third photo, wonder what Netanyahu said to that soldier? ;)

24 posted on 05/12/2010 10:19:19 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: 444Flyer

Great!


25 posted on 05/12/2010 10:20:12 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Liberals in America cannot stand Bibi because he is the antithesis of what they are. He is a strong man who will defend Israel’s right to exist and will not sell his soul to the father of lies like the typical liberal has done. Perhaps that’s whay so many American Jews vote consistently for the criminal enterprise party ...


26 posted on 05/12/2010 10:24:19 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
Liberals in America cannot stand Bibi because he is the antithesis of what they are...

Now Bibi's really done it. He's clinging to his guns and his Bible, that outta really tick Obama and his followers off.

Why is it that the same Libs who claim to want to protect everyone from themselves and everything are the same ones who protest any form of self-defense?

27 posted on 05/12/2010 10:33:38 AM PDT by 444Flyer (We shall not be moved.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

your point?


28 posted on 05/12/2010 10:41:52 AM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: beagleone

Playin the bible card, eh?


29 posted on 05/12/2010 10:43:19 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: beagleone

I did not know that Zion was an alternative name for Jerusalem. Silly me, I thought it was a mountain.


30 posted on 05/12/2010 10:44:14 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never mind the one about the American President, the evil Booosh reading “My Pet Goat” as the holiest of American imperialist office towers burned and crashed as an expression of the holy will of ah-LAH


31 posted on 05/12/2010 10:47:24 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: 444Flyer

all jokes aside,

the Bible REALLY does piss off libs.

There’s something about the Word of God that exudes Truth,
and that Truth refutes everything they believe in.


32 posted on 05/12/2010 10:49:17 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: throwback
You beat me to the punch, however I would like to expand on your comments by adding; the Arab Community has always cashed in the 'islam card' by attaching every one of it's territorial/military and social demands to bogus trumpted up outrage.

They're like school yard bullies that periodically need to be taken to the woodshed by the West.

Call their bluff, Islam is completely compromised. Other than a few small sacrifices, it gives license for it's prisioners to abdicate all individual responsibility.

Without islam the ME would be the world leader in every societal measure of success.

Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said: "I find it very distasteful this use of religion to incite hatred and fear." use of religion to incite hatred and fear."

Excuse me that's how the muslim world works, by "use of religion to incite hatred and fear."

33 posted on 05/12/2010 10:53:07 AM PDT by STD (islam a spiritual-legal-political Theocratic system of governance which is not to be questioned;)
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To: ichabod1

Jerusalem is on a mountain.


34 posted on 05/12/2010 11:16:17 AM PDT by agrace
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To: dervish

He sounds like a good rabbi!


35 posted on 05/12/2010 11:17:50 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (?)
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To: beagleone

That what I love about Bibi telling like it is


36 posted on 05/12/2010 11:23:55 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: SeekAndFind

There is Spanish soap on Telumundo called El Clon if you understand Spanish they really nail treatment of women in this soap does talk about cloning and drug trafficing it is good soap


37 posted on 05/12/2010 11:25:41 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: Cinnamon Girl; monkapotamus

CG in one that photo Bibi asking camera are you looking me like Robert Di nero Character in Taxi Driver LOL!


38 posted on 05/12/2010 11:26:31 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: beagleone

Bibi’s son Avner took 1st in the National Bible Quiz and 3rd in the International Bible Quiz. Hopefully this is rubbing off on Bibi.


39 posted on 05/12/2010 11:26:35 AM PDT by blasater1960 ( Dt 30, Ps 111, The Torah is perfect, attainable, now and forever)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

The way that IDF soldier looks at Bibi says mountains about the esteem he holds for the troops.

May the Lord save and protect Bibi, and the Men of the West on all the fronts where they serve.


40 posted on 05/12/2010 11:33:20 AM PDT by happygrl (Continuing to predict that 0bama will resign)
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