Two-State Solution?

 

Palestinians and some European states prefer a two-state solution, but Israel says it is not possible any more.

Jesus was a Palestinian?

 

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Joel Kontinen

”On Christmas eve last year, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, a member of the far-left “Squad,” sparked controversy when she wrote a post on Instagram comparing Palestinian Arabs to Jesus – and the State of Israel to King Herod.

“Christ was born in modern-day Palestine under the threat of a government engaged in a massacre of innocents,” Ocasio-Cortes wrote in her Instagram post.

As a response, “historian and Aurelio Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University Paula Fredriksen penned an opinion piece published by The comparis on and suggesting the claim is akin to classic antisemitic canard.”

Jesus was  born In Betlehem, of Jewish parents, Every Bible reader or scholar of the Bible should know this.

As the professor Fredriksen said:

“For two millennia, Jews have been blamed for Jesus’ execution by the Romans; casting him as a Palestinian just stokes the fires of hate, using Jesus against Jews once again.”

“It is, further, an act of cultural and political appropriation — and a clever rhetorical move. It rips Jesus out of his Jewish context. And it rips 1st-century Jews — and 21st-century Israeli Jews — out of their ancestral homeland, turning them into interlopers. This is polemic masquerading as history.”

Source:

World Israel News Staff 2024. 'Don't pretend Jesus was a Palestinian' - Historian blasts AOC's 'Palestinian Jesus' tweet | World Israel News  31 March.

 

 

Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?

Joel Kontinen

Arabs will not approve Israel. They say it is just a coloniser. But they have not taken its history as fact.

Owen Jones attacks Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely

Joel Kontinen

Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely’s appearance Tuesday at the London School of Economics (LSE) ended with protesters trying to grab her. They say that Palestine was the Arabs homeland in spite of what God had promised Abraham. 

Jerusalem Hotspots: Why Security is Paramount to Israel

Joel Kontinen

The media is speaking about alleged shootings, when an Arab with a gun pointed it towards Israelis and then shot off.

The New York Times Says that Israeli Soldier Killed by “Rock”

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Joel Kontinen

The New York Times described the killing this week of IDF soldier Amit Ben Yigal as follows: “A 21-year-old Israeli soldier was killed early Tuesday when he was struck in the head with a rock. Yes,

but rocks don’t target Israeli soldiers, someone must be guide their way.

In reality, the soldier was killed by a Palestine terrorist, who dropped it on an Israeli soldier.

Emanuel Miller of watchdog group HonestReporting wrote, “Journalists have a responsibility to accurately, fairly report events. Reporters have a duty to share all the facts. Rocks don’t hit people by themselves, just as car doesn’t drive into people of their own volition.”

Miller, Emanuel. 2020. Honest Reporting 12 MAY.

The Truth About Jerusalem

Siri trolls Israel's haters

A Palestinian tries to ask Siri, what time is it in Ramallah and theN Gaza.

Turkey Lets Hamas Use Its Soil to Attack Israel

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Joel Kontinen

The EU and US Consider Hamas a terrorist organisation. Yet, Turkey, under its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plays host to its leaders, Hamas operatives are using Istanbul as a stage for launching operations on Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Last year they attempted to murder the mayor of Jerusalem. Israel has often told Turkey that Hamas is using its territory to plan attacks, but last weekend Mr Erdogan met Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, saying that they will keep to supporting our brothers in Palestine, and even the deputy leader, who “has a $5 million US government bounty on his head, travels freely to the country without fear of arrest.”

Source:

Sanchez, Raf, 2019. Exclusive: Hamas plots attacks on Israel from Turkey as Erdogan turns blind eye. Telegraph (17 December).

Palestinian Professor: There Is No Archaeological Proof of a Jewish Temple In Jerusalem

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Joel Kontinen

A Palestinian professor has said that there is no archaeological evidence for a Jewish museum in Jerusalem.

"Dr. Ghassan Weshah told Felesteen, a Gazan news service, in an interview this week that there was no archaeological evidence of a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.

One of the biggest lies of the Zionists with regard to the Al-Aqsa Mosque is that it was built on the ruins of the Temple, which was destroyed on August 21, 586 BCE,” Prof. Weshah said in the interview. “This is a false statement. There is no other building under the Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

This is a false statement. the rock declare that the Bible is true or that Jerusalem isn’t the capital of Israel.

“The Waqf began built the Marwani Mosque in what was formerly called Solomon’s Stables in 1996, without a permit and in gross violation of the status quo agreement signed two years earlier in which Israel granted custodianship to Jordan.,, The builders used heavy equipment to clear the site, destroying artefacts of immense archaeological importance and damaging the structural integrity of the southern wall of the Temple Mount. The construction resulted in over 400 truckloads of material containing artefacts being removed from the Temple Mount and dumped in landfills."

"In the 1970’s,the beams were checked by a team of Israeli botanists who determined that most of them were cedars from Lebanon and some are Cyprus trees. They carried out Carbon-14 tests on several of the timbers. Some were determined to have been felled about 1,340 years ago which is approximately when al Aqsa Mosque was originally built. One cypress beam was determined to be was found to be 2,600 years, or around 630 BCE, around 50 years before the In the 1970’s, the beams were checked by a team of Israeli botanists who determined that most of them were cedars from Lebanon and some are Cyprus trees. They carried out Carbon-14 tests on several of the timbers. Some were determined to have been felled about 1,340 years ago which is approximately when al Aqsa Mosque was originally built. One cypress beam was determined to be was found to be 2,600 years, or around 630 BCE, around 50 years before the destruction of the First Temple."

Jerusalem also hides many archaeological evidences that support the Bible.


Source:

Berkowitz, Adam Eliyahu. 2019. Palestinian Professor: Bible Lied About Jewish Temple on Temple Mount, No Archaeological Proof Breaking Israel News (6 September).

Big Science, Fake News and the Post-Truth World

Roman soldiers carrying the treasures of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Image courtesy of A. Hunter Wright, Creative Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).




Joel Kontinen

Big science does not like Brexit or Donald Trump. It attributes at least some of the dramatic changes that 2016 brought about to a loss of trust in experts and the proliferation of fake news items.

But one could hardly go to the lengths of extrapolation that New Scientist does in calling this the post-truth era.

After all, the post-truth era did not begin in 2016. It began ages ago, when scientists and thinkers began to speculate that God had nothing to do with the origin of the universe, of life and of humans.

The idea is spurious, as naturalistic processes cannot produce life. We now know that even the tiniest cell is far too complicated to have arisen spontaneously.

Life bears all the hallmarks of being designed intelligently.

Another disturbing lie has become so common that many do not recognize it as a falsehood.

It is known as 'occupied territory', and refers to East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

History will tell us that the Jews lived in that region over 3,000 years ago. The old part of Jerusalem was King David’s capital and his son Salomon built the first temple there soon afterwards.

The Arabs conquered (i.e. occupied) the land over 1,600 years after the first Jewish temple was built.

So, calling East Jerusalem and the West Bank occupied territory is fake news, unless, of course one admits that it is the Arabs who originally occupied land that had been Jewish for aeons.

The truth of the matter is that some Jews have decided to live in the area where Jews had lived before anyone had heard of the Palestinians.

Source:

Corner, Adam. 2016. Here’s how experts can rebuild trust in the post-truth era. New Scientist (20 December).

More Fiction About Israel’s Capital in the UK Media

Joel Kontinen

On the eve of the London Olympics, the BBC did not remember the name of Israel’s capital. The Guardian went one step further, claiming that the capital was Tel Aviv.

This brief video produced by Honest Reporting looks into the issue and fails to find support for the Guardian’s claim:

Who Doesn’t Want Peace in the Middle East? – The Media, Perhaps?

Joel Kontinen

Here’s an interesting video on the objectivity of the media’s reporting on Israel: