Religious conservative groups have lobbied for policy relocating US embassy to Jerusalem from biblical standpoint.
(MEE) — God is not a real estate agent, the former bishop of Jerusalem said in response to US evangelical support for recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Evangelical advocacy for Israel is a political position rooted in theology, experts say.
Jerusalem is regarded as an international city, under a world body protectorate. That is its prevailing status. The United Nations has affirmed in a number of resolutions that continued Zionist colonisation of Jerusalem is illegal under international law. Every Zionist settlement in illegally occupied East Jerusalem is a direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, […]
Commentator, Jake Morphonios, says that President Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is a provocative move toward war with Iran, and a proxy war with Russia and China. He supports this claim by reviewing the ancient history of that land contrasted with the relatively recent claims by the Israeli state. Many people believe that Jerusalem has been the capital of the kingdom of Israel for 3,000 years, but biblical records show that Jerusalem has been the capital for less than 150 years.
Secret British documents have revealed that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had agreed to resettle Palestinians in Egypt over three decades ago. According to the documents, obtained exclusively by the BBC following a Freedom of Information Act disclosure request, Mubarak was responding to an American request when he made his offer. The former president stipulated that in return for agreeing to the move, an agreement to end the Arab-Israeli conflict must be reached.
Xenophobia is deep rooted in the Talmudic teachings (probably ever since they were enslaved and persecuted in Egypt) and hence in the zionist society now, and their baseless hate is directed particularly against the Palestinian natives and the neighboring Arab-Muslim …
Israeli Intelligence & Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz arrives to attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sept. 4, 2016. (AP/Ronen Zvulun)
Senior Israeli ministers have called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
Speaking at the Herzliya conference on Thursday, Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister Yisrael Katz asked King Salman to invite Prime Minister Netanyahu to Riyadh and to send newly appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel Aviv in return.
For decades, Arabs in the United States have been the focus of bigotry that spikes after incidents of violence and its exploitation by politicians, including President Trump, writes Marjorie Cohn at Truthdig. By Marjorie Cohn President Donald Trump has twice…Read more →
President Trump fancies himself a “principled realist,” but the reality is that there are very few principles and very little reality attached to his foreign policy, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar In his speech in…Read more →
Israel’s pressure to conflate criticism of its treatment of Palestinians with the evils of anti-Semitism has stifled a needed debate in Western societies, as Lawrence Davidson explains. By Lawrence Davidson “Back in the day,” which in this case was Feb.…Read more →
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley waves to the crowd before she speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference held at the Verizon Center in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
