Jerusalem

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday urged the European Union to follow the US in recognizing Jerusalem as his country’s capital but was soon rebuffed by even his closest allies.
Before a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Netanyahu said the US president’s move, condemned by the Palestinians and by European governments, would contribute to peace in the Middle East. He called on the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and to accept that Jerusalem was its capital.

National embarrassments, disciplined sailors and EMP missiles + this day in history w/the Lufthansa heist and our song of the day by Glassjaw on your Morning Monarchy for December 11, 2017.

Palestine Information Center – December 11, 2017 TUNIS – A Tunisian labor union on Sunday evening announced its decision to boycott U.S. ships docking at a seaport in the country’s southern region of Sfax following Trump’s recognition, on Wednesday, of Occupied Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Spokesman of the Popular Conference for the Palestinians Abroad, Ziad […]

By M.K. Bhadrakumar | Asia Times | December 11, 2017 Iran has, predictably enough, taken a hard line on the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. There were public demonstrations in several Iranian cities following Friday prayers and statements by President Hassan Rouhani and other senior politicians. Notably, the commander of […]

By Richard Silverstein | Tikun Olam | Dember 9, 2017 NYT’ pro-Israel talking heads: David Makovsky and Aaron David Miller In the aftermath of Trump’s disastrous recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the spin from Washington and Riyadh–and the journalists and think tank analysts only too eager be spun–has been outrageous. The level of sheer […]

Opinion — They say that the two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is dead. Good. Partition was never the right way out of the conflict. The two peoples need to be reconciled: keeping them apart, each limited to only a part of the land they consider to be their homeland, would increase hostility, not reduce it.

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[Prefatory Note: This post is a slightly modified version of an article published in the global edition of the Italian newspaper, Il Manifesto, on December 8, 2017.]
 Jerusalem Is (Is Not) the Capital of Israel

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MEMO | December 9, 2017 The Saudi imams of the Grand Mosques in Makkah and Madinah did not mention the situation in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque during their Friday sermons, Shehab.ps has reported. Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem is regarded as the holiest place in Islam after the two Grand Mosques. Although he did point out […]