There is only one country in the world whose anthem is all about its capital: Israel’s 2000 year hope is to be a free people in their Jewish homeland of Zion and JERUSALEM.
The anthem of Israel is JERUSALEM
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NYTimes shows its preference in “dueling narratives” in the Middle East
New York Times May 26, 2014: “Pope Lays Wreath at Tomb of Zionism’s Founder”
The NYT headline would lead a reader to believe that the article is about Theodore Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism. Guess again.
1. The article is not about Herzl at all- he is mentioned in passing in the seventh paragraph.
2. The article is about dueling narratives of Israelis and Palestinians. It is clear which one the NY Times favors, as the day beforehand it posted a huge front page photograph of the Pope at the security barrier, compared to this article on page A10 which includes three photographs of the pope at religious sites for Jews, Muslims and Christians.
3. The article does not point to the NYT posting the photograph on its front page, but says that the picture simply “rocketed around the Internet”, making the paper seem uninvolved in its promotion.
4. The author writes of the “graffiti-scarred concrete barrier separating Bethlehem from Jerusalem”. There is no mention that Israel handed control of Bethlehem to Palestinians and that Israel controls Jerusalem, so a checkpoint is appropriate.
5. The fact that the fence was built specifically due to Arabs from the West Bank murdering Israelis is stated only as a quote from Netanyahu, making the statement appear biased rather than factual.
6. The choice of words “the pope acceded to Israel’s request that he add to his packed Monday morning another unscheduled stop” makes Israel appear demanding and unreasonable in bullying the pope.
7. The NY Times decided that a stamp of the pope pressing his head against a security barrier next to a sign that says “Apartheid Wall” is somehow analogous to Israel making a stamp of the pope placing a note in the Western Wall. One is a wall constructed to prevent terror, but has a sign blaming the victim, while the other wall is a religious place of prayer. The Palestinian stamp is a propaganda tool which wipes its crimes clean, while the Israelis post a stamp of hope. (There are four paragraphs in the article to stress this point).
8. The NYT mentions that Peres post of President of Israel is ceremonial and that he leaves his post soon, but does not continue that Abbas’s term of President of the Palestinian Authority ended in 2009.
9. The NYT, as always, included language that make the Israelis appear angry: “incensed some Israelis” and “some Israeli griping”. This language is not used for Palestinians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/world/middleeast/pope-francis-jerusalem.html
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Jerusalem, and a review of the sad state of divided capitals in the world
Divided capital cities are a sad result of wars. No capitals get divided as a result of peace; they are unstable models.
-divided cities make up less than 1/1000th of 1% of all cities in the world
-divided cities are almost all less than 50,000 people
-most divided cities are split by a natural boundary like a river
>> none of that is true for Jerusalem
The only rationale of dividing Jerusalem is that Palestinian Arabs have asked for it as a capital, which is the same as Israel asking for it.
Three of the divided capitals in recent years – Beirut, Berlin and Jerusalem – have been reunited. The last city – Nicosia, Cyprus – is still under negotiation to be reunited.
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Music tribute to the Sacrifice of US Servicemen (Dire Straits)
The “War on Terror” has thus far claimed 4,423 US lives in Iraq; 2,320 lives In Afghanistan and another 66 lives around the Arabian Sea.
In addition, there have been over 50,000 injured, over 34,000 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Diagnoses and over 4,000 servicemen killed since returning from battle from suicide and car accidents.
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Christian Persecution in the Middle East, not in Israel
The Pope is coming to Israel, Judea & Samaria/west bank of the Jordan River and Jordan this weekend. A rebuttal on the claim that Israel persecutes Christians.
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Israel, the “green” country
From Netafim drip irrigation in 1967 to SodaStream today, Israel leads the Middle East in environmentally-friendly projects.
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Are you trying to understand “net neutrality”?
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Frightening New York Times 4/27/14 article on “Mahmoud Abbas Shifts on Holocaust”
- Abbas new statement that the Holocaust was bad does nothing to negate his various prior comments, phd paper and published book that claim: 1) that 6 million Jews were not murdered in the Holocaust; and 2) that Zionists conspired with Nazis so that more Jews would move to Palestine (so Zionists are at least partially to blame for the Holocaust).
- (By way of comparison, If Abbas would have reversed his prior statements and negated his research, that would have been a “shift”. OR, if Abbas would have come out and said that the Palestinian Arabs of 1936-46 who fought successfully against the Zionists and British who then limited Jewish immigration to Palestine before and during WWII were responsible for 100,000+ Jews dying in the Holocaust, that would have been a shift).
- NYT claims that Abbas’s latest comment “goes further” in back-tracking from his Holocaust denial and attacks on Zionism because he claims that Palestinians understand suffering from Israeli “ethnic discrimination and racism”. Not only does the Abbas comment not negate his offensive comments, but it further insults Jews and Israelis by calling them racists, and suggests that the Holocaust is similar to the situation of stateless Arabs.
- Hamas is called a “militant Islamist faction” and not a terrorist organization
- No NYT mention of the fact that the Hamas Charter calls for the death of Jews
- No NYT mention that Hamas refuses to allow Holocaust education in the schools of Gaza against the wishes of the United Nations
- Thank you New York Times, for posting an article on Holocaust Remembrance Day about Abbas, the Holocaust denier, and his latest anti-Israel comments, and for phrasing the headline and article to try to make him look like a progressive.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/middleeast/palestinian-leader-shifts-on-holocaust.html?_r=0
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Biased New York Times report on recent Gaza blockade boat
NYT April 30, 2014 on explosion that sank potential blockade-busting boat from Gaza:
1. No mention that the Israeli blockade of Gaza has been deemed legal by international law
2. The boat is called “small” in keeping with the David v. Goliath imagery the NYT likes to impart in the conflict
3. No mention that the terrorist group Hamas runs Gaza. Instead we see terms of “Palestinian activists”, “Palestinian fishing boats” and “Palestinian goods” to make this terrorist haven sound like Bermuda
4. The “clashes that broke out” were not passive, they were Turks trying to kill soldiers who reacted in self-defense.
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Are you trying to understand the progress towards peace in Israel/Palestine?
Is this progress towards peace?
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