<font color=blue> You wrote:"In your little racist brain, do you consider yourself: a) an American first and foremost
b) a Jew first and foremost"<font color=black>
How about yourself?
In your little racist brain, do you consider yourself:
a) an antiSemite first and foremost.
b) an antiSemite first and foremost.
Do you think that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel? I think so. In fact, Israel should NEVER consider giving an inch of Jerusalem away.
Before I answer your question, here is some information for your little racist brain to ponder about Jerusalem.
<font color=green>MYTH : “Jerusalem need not be the capital of Israel.”
FACT : Ever since King David made Jerusalem the capital of Israel more than 3,000 years ago, the city has played a central role in Jewish existence. The Western Wall in the Old City — the last remaining wall of the ancient Jewish Temple, the holiest site in Judaism — is the object of Jewish veneration and the focus of Jewish prayer. Three times a day, for thousands of years, Jews have prayed "To Jerusalem, thy city, shall we return with joy," and have repeated the Psalmist's oath: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."
Jerusalem "has known only two periods of true greatness, and these have been separated by 2,000 years. Greatness has only happened under Jewish rule," Leon and Jill Uris wrote in Jerusalem. "This is so because the Jews have loved her the most, and have remained constant in that love throughout the centuries of their dispersion....It is the longest, deepest love affair in history."3
For three thousand years, Jerusalem has been the center of Jewish hope and longing. No other city has played such a dominant role in the history, culture, religion and consciousness of a people as has Jerusalem in the life of Jewry and Judaism. Throughout centuries of exile, Jerusalem remained alive in the hearts of Jews everywhere as the focal point of Jewish history, the symbol of ancient glory, spiritual fulfillment and modern renewal. This heart and soul of the Jewish people engenders the thought that if you want one simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history, that word would be "Jerusalem.” — Teddy Kollek4
<font color=gray>http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/myths/mf20.html#b<font color=black> |
