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| Israel seals off entrance to Ramallah district |
| 2017-12-25 |
| [Al Jazeera] Israeli forces have indefinitely closed down the northern entrance to the occupied West Bank twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh. On Saturday night, amid ongoing protests over US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) decided to close off the DCO checkpoint that connects Ramallah to the northern West Bank cities. "Israel decides to close the DCO checkpoint until further notice due to the ongoing rioting that is taking place at the City Inn roundabout near Ramallah's entrance," noted a statement on Twitter by COGAT, the Israeli military body that administers parts of the West Bank. "The ball is in the Paleostinian people's court and the equation is clear - when peace is restored, normal conditions will resume, but as long as violence continues the border will remain closed." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 "But Muslims want to rule the whole world." But they cannot and will not. They owe a correction of Doctrine so badly, it smells like a rotted goat. I'm not doing Shariah law nor Hadith... at all. It was a cynical write up of those laws. Snickering while they wrote it to pin anyone against a wall if they needed to - They had no faith in it themselves and abused it. I see right through it. For instance: Persia would better protect their Shiah than the knuckleheads running "Iran" (La raza, or the race, or whatever the arian movement presides) Seven dwarfs with curley toed slippers perpetrating a fraud, and utopian pipe-dreams on flying carpets. The Arabs could pack their convoys back to from where they came, and Persia could BE again! |
| Posted by: newc 2017-12-25 22:29 |
| #3 Very useful, Woodrow, thank you. And a very merry Christmas to you, too. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-12-25 21:03 |
| #2 Just as Muslims rule an undivided Mecca, Jews should rule an undivided Jerusalem. But Muslims want to rule the whole world. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-12-25 06:21 |
| #1 I offer The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem, by Daniel Pipes. Fall 2001. In part, the problem is practical: the Palestinians insist that the capital of Israel serve as the capital of their future state too. Comparing Religious Claims The Jewish connection to Jerusalem is an ancient and powerful one. Judaism made Jerusalem a holy city over three thousand years ago. What about Muslims? Where does Jerusalem fit in Islam and Muslim history? It is not the place to which they pray, is not once mentioned by name in prayers, and it is connected to no mundane events in Muhammad's life. The city never served as capital of a sovereign Muslim state, and it never became a cultural or scholarly center. Little of political import by Muslims was initiated there. One comparison makes this point most clearly: Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel). Moshe Kohn notes, Jerusalem and Zion appear as frequently in the Qur'an "as they do in the Hindu Bhagavad-Gita, the Taoist Tao-Te Ching, the Buddhist Dhamapada and the Zoroastrian Zend Avesta"—which is to say, not once. The earliest Muslim accounts of Jerusalem, such as the description of Caliph ‘Umar's reported visit to the city just after the Muslims conquest in 638, nowhere identify the Temple Mount with the "furthest mosque" of the Qur'an:. Just as Muslims rule an undivided Mecca, Jews should rule an undivided Jerusalem. I bid you Peace, Merry Christmas, Woodrow |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2017-12-25 05:48 |