The Palestinian Prime Minister, yet another so-called moderate, managed to speak at the UN interfaith conference about how holy Jerusalem is to the world’s major religions—and utterly leave out Judaism.
Jerusalem is holy to two religions – Islam and Christianity, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad said at the UN-organized interfaith peace conference on Wednesday night. Fayad failed to mention the importance of Israel’s capital to the Jewish people, Israel Radio reported.
“Jerusalem is home to the third most holy place to Islam, the place where Muhammad rose to the heavens, and the place where Jesus, the Christian, was resurrected,” the Palestinian leader proclaimed.
He added that Jerusalem was occupied in June 1967 and called to locate a future Palestinian state capital there.
Jerusalem is home to the holiest of holies of the Jewish religion: The First and Second Temples. The site Muslims co-opted for their two mosques. But Fayad the moderate can’t acknowledge that in front of the world’s diplomats at a conference about interfaith cooperation. Imagine that.
So in the past few days, you have the putative leader of the Palestinians (at least, the ones who aren’t in Gaza) proclaiming that he follows “the paths of the martyrs” to “uphold” Palestinian nationalism, and now you have the Prime Minister ignoring the Jewish history of Jerusalem.
This is not, of course, an accident. In order to follow Arafat’s path, you have to pretend that Jewish history doesn’t exist, and that the mythical land of “Palestine” existed without Jews. You have to decry the “Judaization” of Jerusalem, even to the point of claiming that the Western Wall is not the outer wall of the Temple complex, but some wall that Muslims tied their horses to or something, way back when. That there was no Temple in Jerusalem. Ever.
I wonder: Did the people listening to the speech applaud Fayad, the way they applauded Ahmadinejad’s virulently anti-Semitic speech?
I’m betting.
Response is “Gaza… fuel? Food? What’s that?”
No surprise here, of course. This is merely in accordance with the usual line that today’s Jews have no direct relationship with the Israelites and Jerusalem has no true connection to Judaism.
Of course, from the fair and objective msn and Europeans, this calumny is met with a tide of indifference.
I like the claims you’ve covered elsewhere about making criticism of religion a criminal matter. My guess is that if this ever gets enacted, Judaism will not fall under the definition of religion.
Perhaps we should start referring to “The Occupied Temple Mount” and the Dome of the Rock as an “Illegal Settlement.”
This is our fault, too. In 1967, we shouldn’t have let the rabbis just give up the Temple Mount like that. If they didn’t want it then fine, you don’t have to force anyone to go up there if they feel it would be wrong, from a religious standpoint. That doesn’t mean you just hand it over to your enemy like we did. If Israel had exerted control over it right then, instead of giving it to the Waqf (who have done a real bang-up job of taking care of the place), then we wouldn’t have shown the world (not to mention ourselves) how little this place means to so many.
I thought a “Christian” was one who follows Christ.
I also thought, thanks to numerous bumper stickers, a Jewish carpenter.
Maybe Jesus was a bit like a dog, chasing his own tail?
Perhaps the Palestinian Prime Minister has been paying too much attention to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ, Christian — the radical white supremacists. They probably have a lot in common…
J.