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In reply to the discussion: US to Pull Out of UNESCO Amid Palestinian Tensions [View all]Xolodno
(6,390 posts)You are definitely focusing on recent history....while using long term history as a claim. So lets go there...
1. The Temple Mount was used as a place to dump trash, excrement, etc. under Christian ruler-ship as a testament to the "failed" Jewish religion.
2. It was the Muslims who restored the Temple Mount to stature....while extreme elements of Jewish faith would love to ship "brick by brick" the Haram al-Sharif to Mecca. Completely ignoring there intervention, it could have remained that way for a very much longer time. It wasn't until the 1800's the fruit loops of Christian fundamentalism created the idea of Rapture and the building of the third temple would bring about the tribulations....although, you could argue its technically the fourth.
3. If a Jewish person so much as walked near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher...he would be lucky to walk away alive.
4. It was the Muslims who often in the past had to intervene in behalf of Jewish people in the "Holy Land" against the Christians.
5. And you are focusing on the Islamic nations claiming control while not focusing on why. Britain promised everyone and their mother they would have "Jerusalem" if they fought for them during WW1. Shit, Russia was supposed to get Istanbul...and be allowed to rename it Constantinople. And he 6-day war would have probably been the demise of Israel....if it wasn't for Jordan not being the "mood" to "cooperate" with Egypt and few other Arab nations....but that's another history.
But lets talk recent history...
1. European Jews practices toward Arab Jews. Shit, non-Jews such as the Subotniki from Russia got better recognition and treatment than a Jew from Yemen.
2. The "terror" attacks practiced by militant Jewish elements under the British Mandate. It worked for Begin...
3. The apartheid tactics used currently...and unlike South Africa, DNA says Jews and Palestinians...despite both hotly denying it and coming up with every excuse in the book...and making up more...are related. Even then, how do you differentiate between Palestinians who were originally Jewish in religion...but forced to convert in the centuries before and the history lost? An Israeli or Palestinian soldier shooting each other, could very well be long term lost cousins.
4. There was never a restoration of Israel...or Samaria if you prefer. Only Judah was restored after the return from Babylon...and that kingdom was about of a third of the size...and that's being generous...of King David's united kingdom.
5. Your not the only people whose history has been attempted to be erased by another. Christianity in its early days had three segments, where did the Gnostic Christians go? Or the Jewish Christians? Why was only the Gentile Christians allowed to survive?
I could go on. But you really stepped in it here. There are no good guys here...much like the three roving mob-gangs who were trying to claim authority and killing each other and own people just prior to the Roman Siege that resulted a little over half of the population of Judah being exiled.
You probably don't like anything I had to say just here, but hey, I don't like saying it either. But it did happen.