The Israeli parliament has passed a law requiring a two-thirds majority in any future vote to cede parts of Jerusalem to a foreign authority. The change from requiring a simple majority makes a two-state solution less likely.
These so-called “foreign authorities” are jihadist territories with a mandate to obliterate the Jewish state, so as expected, the law drew rage from the Palestinian Authority. The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas issued a statement “that Israeli lawmakers had de facto declared a war against Palestinians and Islam’s holy sites in Jerusalem’s old city.”
This law does not just protect Israel against the ambitions and incursions of Israel’s enemies, but also internal enemies who appease and thus strengthen enemies. Bravo to future-thinking Israeli MP’s.
Jewish Home’s Shulamit Mualem-Rafaeli said….“The state of Israel will not allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.”
“Israeli MPs pass law impeding possible E. Jerusalem secession vote”, RT News, January 2, 2018:
The Israeli parliament has passed a law requiring a two-thirds majority in any future vote to cede parts of Jerusalem to a foreign authority. The change from requiring a simple majority makes a two-state solution less likely.
Under the new legislation, Israel’s 120-seat Knesset would have to cast 80 votes in favor of relinquishing any part of Jerusalem, rather than the 61 required before by default. The bill, which was proposed last summer by the far-right Jewish Home coalition party, was passed by a majority of 64 to 52, according to the Times of Israel.
The office of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas responded to the passage of the law with a statement, which said that Israeli lawmakers had de facto declared a war against Palestinians and Islam’s holy sites in Jerusalem’s old city.
Israel occupied Eastern Jerusalem during the 1967 war and annexed it in 1980. The move was not recognized by the international community. The Jewish state considers the city to be its undivided capital, which conflicts with the vision of a two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, which sees Eastern Jerusalem as capital of the future Palestinian state. The amendment to Israel’s Jerusalem Law is intended to prevent such an outcome, Jewish Home’s Shulamit Mualem-Rafaeli said.
“The state of Israel will not allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Get it into your heads that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people and will remain the capital of the Jewish people for all eternity,” she said.
Interestingly, the bill also opens a hypothetical possibility for partitioning Jerusalem by allowing a change of the city’s municipal borders and creating new municipalities, which was previously not possible under Israeli law, noted the Jerusalem Post. The caveat was added at the insistence of Israeli Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Ze’ev Elkin, who seeks to formally exclude Arab-populated villages – located outside of the separation barrier – from the city.
The new law was passed less than a month after the US recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, sparking protests in the Muslim world and international condemnation. The administration of Donald Trump said the recognition merely acknowledged the situation on the ground, and tried to pressure other nations at the UN General Assembly not to vote for a non-binding resolution criticizing the decision. Failing that, Washington announced it would slash funding for various US programs and aid to individual states.
Some critics in Israel pointed out that the amendment was redundant, considering that the Israeli law already required a similar two-third plenum for handing over territory in a land-for-peace deal. The sponsors of the bill are merely trying to whip up support among their voter base before a possible early Knesset election in Israel, according to commentators quoted by Reuters….
D Austin says
Antichrist can’t defile the Temple until they build it!
StellaSaidSo says
A prudent, and timely, move.
Mockingjay says
– Hear, hear.
Well done Israel!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Anticipating traitors and demographics change?
Good idea.
Love the childish whining of the PA – “defacto war”!
Not quite as bad as the entire islamic world’s open war then.
CRUSADER says
More pro-Israel / pro-West folks need to settle in Israel to keep the proper population base buoyant.
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“Moving the U.S Embassy to Jerusalem”
By: William Kilpatrick
When President Donald Trump announced that the United States would move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Muslim world reacted with outrage and threats. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned of “dangerous consequences.” The spokesman for Turkish president Erdogan warned that the move was a “grave mistake” because “Jerusalem is our red line.” Bekir Bozdag, the Deputy Prime Minister, said themove would plunge the world “into a fire with no end in sight.” And Saudi Arabia’s King Salman warned that the move “would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims all over the world.”
The leaders of the Western world reacted in similar fashion. Pope Francis, British Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Emmanuel Macron all criticized Trump’s announcement. Meanwhile, the patriarchs and heads of the local churches in Jerusalem sent a letter to President Trump warning that the transfer of the embassy “will yield increased hatred, conflict, violence, and suffering in Jerusalem.”
But there is an obvious contradiction here.
As the Jihad Watch editor Robert Spencer points out in a recent column, these leaders have a record of defending Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance, which is being perverted by only a handful of extremists.
Pope Francis, for example, has said that “authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence.” On another occasion he drew a moral equivalence between Islam and Catholicism, saying, “If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence.”
For over a decade now, various Church leaders and secular leaders have assured us that violence has nothing to do with Islam. But if that’s what they really believe, why should they worry that moving an embassy would create – to quote from the letter of the church leaders in Jerusalem – “hatred, conflict, violence, and suffering.”
By assuming that Muslims would riot over the announcement, says Spencer, the Pope and other leaders are inadvertently admitting the truth about Islam: “that the numerous incitements to violence and hatred in the Quran and Sunnah do tend to lead to Muslims behaving violently at the drop of a hat, or the move of an embassy.”
After all, we are not talking here about a tiny minority whose actions would be rejected by the great majority, but about widespread rioting and violence on a global scale – “plunging the region and the world into a fire with no end in sight,” as Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister put it.
And, apparently, the “fire” would be justified because, as King Salman said, the move “would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims all over the world.” It’s a safe bet that King Salman understands Islam better than do Merkel, Macron, May, and the Holy Father. Yet he is even more concerned than they.
He seems to assume that Muslims are highly prone to violence. He understands that they are easily provoked because their religion and their religious leaders tell them to be. Moreover, as he must know, almost anything might be considered provocative.
Last July, a “day of rage” resulting in the murder of an Israeli family was called because metal detectors had been installed on the Temple Mount as a security measure. Even Pope Benedict’s measured address to an academic gathering at the University of Regensburg led to global rioting and killing.
There is no end to the number of things that offend Muslims.
This, along with numerous other differences, should lay to rest the quaint notion that there is a moral equivalence between Islam and Catholicism. They are very different faiths. No one worries about global rioting should Catholics be offended by a slight to their faith. Yet if any group has cause to riot, it is Catholics and other Christians. Christians in many parts of the Islamic world face daily persecution and even extermination. They are beaten, raped, and decapitated, and their churches are burned to the ground.
So on the one hand, Muslim believers are ready to commit mayhem over an academic talk or the moving of an embassy, and on the other hand, Christians remain peaceful even though their brethren are being slaughtered and burned alive. How much longer, one wonders, will Church leaders collaborate in the false assertion that Islam and Christianity are equally peaceful faiths?
Religious and secular leaders are caught in a flagrant contradiction. They tell us that Islam is a religion of peace and justice, yet they warn us not to provoke its followers in any way. Don’t recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Don’t draw cartoons that might offend Muslims. Don’t wear religious symbols that might provoke them. Cover your women and your statues. Don’t ring church bells in the vicinity of Muslims. Don’t criticize them for persecuting Christians because, as Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University told Pope Francis, such criticism is a “red line” that must not be crossed.
“Just stay quiet and you’ll be okay.”
That’s what Mohamed Atta told the passengers on American Airlines flight 11 shortly before it flew into the World Trade Center. It wasn’t good advice then. And it’s not good advice now. As Islam expands its global reach, it’s becoming increasingly evident that the “don’t-do-anything-to-provoke-them” policy isn’t working, and never will.
~ (from ACT for America)
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dumbledoresarmy says
Thanks for posting that Kilpatrick article. I googled it up and found it at “The Catholic Thing”. I encourage others to do similar, and then… copy and keep. Because it’s a “keeper”. Preferably print it out, several times, so that it is in ‘hardcopy’. Keep copies up your sleeve to give to people. Because it makes some very, very telling points.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2017/12/12/on-moving-the-american-embassy-to-jerusalem/
Anyone who is game: share it around on social media.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Evîl zionists are confused fools. Their domestic law cannot overide UN résolution No. 181 giving East Jérusalem to palestinians. If they think It can ,why wasting their time voting at thé UN to legitimise their slave state thé evîl united states’s illégal recognition of East Jérusalem as part of their capital ? Édits !!
Mockingjay says
Hey brahim, what’s with all the accents? Are you now writing us from France or something?
LeftisruiningCanada says
Lot’s of French spoken in that general area i think. Likely using computer equipment intended to be used by francophones. At a guess.
Israel isn’t confused. They are playing the islamic world perfectly.
And, not sure if i asked already, but have you had time to post that mithra stuff up yet Ibrahim?
Jack Dawkins says
Det Judenstadt uber alles!
LeftisruiningCanada says
It’s not Israel keeping its Arabs in camps Jack.