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Christian Zionism : The Real Threat to The World Peace صیہونی مسیحیت اور بائبل



When US shifted her embassy to Jerusalem. This unjust decision is against the UN resolutions and stand of community of nations across the globe. This has created turbulence among the peace loving people across the globe.  The terrorists of ISIS/Daesh and Al-Qaida are criticized to use religion for political gains and power. Same analogy applies to the so called secular democracy – The USA to support Zionism on religious grounds, termed as Christian Zionism.
امریکی امریکن صدر ڈونلڈ ٹرمپ نے امریکی سفارتخانہ کو یروشلم منتقل کرنے کا اعلان کیا تو دنیا حیران ہے کہ امریکہ نے تمام دنیا کی مخالفت کے باوجود اتنا بڑا اقدام اٹھایا۔ بہت کم لوگوں کو علم ہے کہ امریکہ اور… [ Continue reading…]
The policies of the lone super power and the country with the largest Christian population has direct affects the world peace. Any mischievous group through conspiracies and wickedness should not be given a free hand to use this giant nations as a tool to implement their heinous agenda of world domination. 
Therefore there is need to analyse the Zionist claims form Bible, its validity in present environment in the light of UN Charter of human rights, US internal social, politico-religious dynamics and its role in Middle East. This may enable to make this world a better, peaceful place for the humanity...........
In this era of freedom and liberty, every member of humanity enjoys freedom of faith and freedom of religion, as long as the religious beliefs of one community do not threaten the freedom and peace of others. When this freedom is not respected, it results into conflict, war, human rights violation compromising peace. This is exactly the reason of condemnation of Zionism or any other similar concept, be it terrorists like Al-Qaida, ISIS, Daesh, Bokoharam or Takfiri Taliban (TTP). Enforcing your beliefs upon others by force is terrorism in simple words. The Zionists justify forceful occupation of Palestine, eviction, oppression, apartheid, inhuman behaviour and violence to deny their basic human rights on the pretext of their highly controversial interpretations of biblical texts and prophecies, even rejected by majority Christians and religious Jews. If the Zionist analogy is accepted then how can we condemn the Al-Qaida, ISIS, Daesh, Bokoharam, Takfiri Taliban (TTP), Buddhists of Burma, RSS, the Indian Hindu extremists and ,many others who also use their controversial interpretations of Islamic holy texts to justify their war and killing of innocent people? Hence use of religion as tool for political gains and violence must be rejected irrespective of religion, race or country. Since this terror tactics has been initiated by Zionists in last century, it is not wrong if Zionism is called the mother of terrorism, the other groups are in reaction to Zionism directly or indirectly.
Prophecies are about the events in future which will unfold as per God’s plan. He is all powerful to execute His Will and plans. He is not dependent upon humans to implement His plans. There no such commandment in the prophecies. Some people try to take over the work of God at their own, which could be against His Will. He is well aware and knowledgeable. The Interpretation of holy texts and prophecies is a human work liable to error, it must not be allowed to override the clear unambiguous commandments for peace, safety and security of other humans.
Humanity has to decide, either we all adhere to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), mutually evolved and agreed by all nations of world with diverse religions, races and cultures or let anyone impose its own religion, culture and values upon others through any means including power? Should the world community allow colonization, oppression, eviction of Palestinians, Kashmiris, Rohingyas and others from their lands or stop all this to achieve world peace. .... [Keep reading ..]
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Islamic Revival Messages رساله تجديد الاسلام ‏

An in-depth study of the Qur’an and Islamic religious history reveals startling facts. “Risala-e-Tajdeed-ul-Islam” is a message to develop positive change in the thought and practices of Muslims.
قرآن اور اسلام کے گہرے مطالعه سےحیران کن حقائق کا انکشاف ہوا، "رساله تجديد الاسلام" مسلمانوں کے انداز فکروعمل میں مثبت تبدیلی کا پیغام ہے:

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Bernard Lewis, Zionists and Western Plans to Carve up Middle East and Pakistan. How to Counter these Anti Muslim Plans!



While turmoil and anarchy in the Middle East can be attributed the disunity among Arabs, the possibility of execution of well known Zionist plans supported by USA and West, to divide the Middle East in fragmented state lets cannot be ruled out. The “Bernard Lewis Plan” named after its architect Bernard Lewis, a specialist in ‘oriental studies’, the ‘history of Islam’ and the ‘interaction between Islam and the West’ is well known. Yet another  Zionist Plan for the establishment of greater Israel by dividing Middle East known as “Oded Yinon Plan”, also exists. Christian-Zionist lobby has heavy influence in politics and US government. Policies of Trump and earlier rulers clearly indicate US support for Zionism in Israel. The “Bernard Lewis Plan”, “Oded Yinon Plan” and “Christian-Zionism”, all “Three” are fully integrated to achieve their heinous designs against Muslims. ... Keep reading ..... [......]
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Islamic Revival Messages رساله تجديد الاسلام ‏

An in-depth study of the Qur’an and Islamic religious history reveals startling facts. “Risala-e-Tajdeed-ul-Islam” is a message to develop positive change in the thought and practices of Muslims.
قرآن اور اسلام کے گہرے مطالعه سےحیران کن حقائق کا انکشاف ہوا، "رساله تجديد الاسلام" مسلمانوں کے انداز فکروعمل میں مثبت تبدیلی کا پیغام ہے:
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’ خلافت عثمانیہ۔اسرائیل اور صدی کی سب سے بڑی ڈیل Ottomans Caliphate، Israel and The ‘deal of the century



The “deal of the century” is a waste of time and paying attention to Kushner’s theatrics means falling into his trap set up to distract the public from what is really going on. All those who care for the Palestinian cause should mobilize now and prevent Kushner, Trump and their Israeli partners from establishing irreversible “facts on the ground” that could see Palestinian hopes for self-determination destroyed…….[…….]
خلافت عثمانیہ۔اسرائیل اور صدی کی سب سے بڑی ڈیل 
عثمانیوں نے معلوم وجوہات کی بنا پہ عیسائیوں کی نسبت یہودیوں پہ بھروسہ کیا اور انہیں اپنے دربار تک رسائی دی۔ اس وقت جب سارا یورپ یہودیوں کے لئے مقتل بنا ہوا تھا اور انہیں نہایت حقارت کے ساتھ غیطوز میں محدود رکھا جاتا تھا ، یہ سلطنت عثمانیہ ہی تھی جس نے انہیں مقدونیہ میں شہر سلونیکا میں آبادکاری کی سہولت اور اجازت دی۔ غالبا ًاسی دن کے لئے مسلمانوں کی آخری مرکزی سلطنت خلافت عثمانیہ کے ٹکڑے ٹکڑے کر کے اسے وفاداروں اور کاسہ لیسوں میں تقسیم کیا گیا تھا کہ جب فیصلہ کن جنگ کا مرحلہ سر پہ آن پہنچے تو امت مسلمہ ، اگر وہ کہیں ہے ، تو اپنے ہی مسائل میں الجھی ہو،باہم دست و گریبان ہو یا عظیم منصوبہ سازوں کے ہاتھ میں کٹھ پتلیوں کی طرح کھیل رہی ہو۔ خلافت عثمانیہ کے زوال کے اسباب میں ایک اہم سبب اس کا یہودیوں کو سلونیکا میں آباد کاری کی اجازت دینا تھا۔.........[.......]
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Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem • Salaam One سلام

Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem:

The Saudi effort to take control of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem serves, among other things, to support President Donald Trump’s plan for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – a plan that has split the Muslim world even before it has officially been made public, and that has been clouded by Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control from Jordan of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi religious diplomacy. The kingdom’s quest for regional hegemony risks deepening divides in the Muslim world.

At the very least, Saudi Arabia hopes – at the risk of destabilizing Jordan, where Palestinians account for at least half the country’s almost ten million people – to drop its resistance to the Trump initiative. keep reading ... https://salaamone.com/jerusalem-saudi/ ..

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Zionism- God’s Land Grant to the Jewish People – Conditional or Unconditional?

Christian Zionism : The Real Threat to The World Peace



Christian Zionism Introduction Donald Trump, the US president recently announced his decision to shift US embassy to Jerusalem. This unjust decision is against the UN resolutions and stand of community of nations across the globe. This has created turbulence among the... [Continue reading...]

Jerusalem latest: Europe rejects Netanyahu’s wish for Europe to follow Trump’s lead on Israel’s capital | The Independent

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been rebuffed in meetings in Brussels after urging European foreign ministers to follow the US’ lead in recognising Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jerusalem-latest-updates-eu-europe-israel-capital-benjamin-netanyahu-donald-trump-us-recognise-a8104021.html Zionist Christians: Useful tool for Zionist Jews Trump’s decision to shift... [Continue reading...]

Zionist Christians: Useful tool for Zionist Jews

Trump’s decision to shift US embassy to Jerusalem points to that he could be Zionist Christian.  Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of... [Continue reading...]

 
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Martin McGuinness: The 'super-terrorist who became a super-statesman – like so many others


Martin McGuinness followed along the familiar trail of so many enemies of Britain’s weary colonial history. A “super-terrorist” becomes a super-statesman. Jomo Kenyatta comes to mind. And Archbishop Makarios. And of course, Menachem Begin. With blood on their hands, they pass through that mist of nobility bestowed by colonial power and former rulers – and re-emerge as statesmen of compromise, eloquence, even humour.

 I’ve never been sure they really changed that much. Begin blew up the King David Hotel, murdered two British army sergeants because the Brits were executing Irgun fighters, and became Prime Minister of Israel. He signed a peace agreement with Egypt, met Margaret Thatcher – then invaded Lebanon in 1982: 17,000 died.

 In fact, most of these folk recalled their past with a certain amount of caution. “Father of the Nation”, they liked to be called – although that hardly applied to McGuinness. Michael Collins went through a similar transmogrification. There he was, killing Churchill’s Cairo Gang intelligence men in Dublin and then sitting in Downing Street with Lloyd George and Churchill himself, who told of meeting Collins whose hands had “touched directly the springs of terrible deeds”. Doubtless, he would have said the same of McGuinness.

 In 1972 I saw him first, standing beside a table on the Creggan – already no-go Derry after Bloody Sunday – for a frantic press conference. They said he was the IRA commander in Derry (he was actually number two), but he was a rather frightening young man, 22 at the time, high cheekbones, fluffy, curly hair, red-faced, sharp, narrow eyes, unsmiling. A very dangerous man, I thought at the time – to his enemies, at least. There was a rifle in the room, though I don’t think he touched it. People later said it was a Kalashnikov, but there weren’t many AKs around at the time and I rather think it was an old American Garand. 

 The British were claiming at the time that McGuinness was the most wanted man in Derry or Northern Ireland or all of Ireland – but they did that on a regular basis to all their most tenacious enemies. That’s what they once called Begin. That’s what they said about Collins in the early 1920s, who passed through that infamous mist of nobility when he signed the grim Treaty which the Brits had prepared for him, Griffith and the others. It cost him his life, of course, so he never travelled to Buckingham Palace to meet the King. But Collins did meet James Craig, one of Northern Ireland’s most sectarian Protestant prime ministers, before he was killed by his own people. Avoiding assassination, McGuinness was to sit down with Ian Paisley and his cronies and become deputy minister of the state he tried so hard to destroy. That alone was worth a handshake from the British monarch. 

 But we should not be too romantic about violent men who pass through the archway of British political acceptance. Sadat was a German spy in Cairo in the Second World War. Then he became the beloved peace-maker. Nasser was at first greeted by Eden, who only later called him the Mussolini of the Nile, although Nasser did for the British Empire at Suez. Yasser Arafat was a “super-terrorist” when I first met him in Beirut in the 1980s, blathering on about the “Zionist military junta”; then he signed the Oslo agreement and became a “super-statesman” and shook hands with Bill Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin. Yet under the brutal Sharon, he reverted to “super-terrorist” status, up to and including his moment of death. What moral transformartions! His body must have been “spinning” even before it was put in the grave.

 It’s a heady, giddy business to undergo these constant conversions. Saddam was our man when he sent his Iraqi legions into revolutionary Iran in 1980 but then became the Hitler of the Tigris when he invaded the wrong country (Kuwait) 10 years later and got bombed for it, and was then invaded in 2003 for the one crime he didn’t commit (9/11). Off with his head, we cried, and the noose surely strangled him. Then take Muammar Gaddafi, whose Libyan coup was at first welcomed by the Foreign Office. But then he went a bit mad, issuing Trump-like statements of mind-numbing inanity, and then tried to fix up McGuinness and his mates with explosives and organised a bomb in a Berlin nightclub where it killed an American serviceman – and then got bombed by Ronald Reagan who dubbed him the “Mad Dog of the Middle East”.

 But the “Mad Dog” outlived Saddam and got slobbered over by the Brits for deconstructing nuclear weapons he never had, and Saint Tony bestowed a kiss upon him and all was well until the Libyans decided they’d had enough and the much-kissed Muammar was butchered by a mob. No wonder he had a strange, puzzled look in his eyes at the time. Then there was Bashar al-Assad, son of the ferocious Hafez, invited to Bastille Day but then – post-Arab Awakening – loathed by the French, whose foreign minister declared that he did not deserve to live “on this earth”. The Quai d’Orsay did not suggest which particular planet he should fly to. But reader alert: with the Europeans back-peddling on their demands for his overthrow and Putin welcoming him to the Kremlin, we may yet see Bashar back in the halls of western Europe.

 McGuinness, of course, maintained his statesmanship to the end, seeing off the grousing old Paisley, watching Peter Robinson slip in the Unionist mire and then observing the Democratic Unionists swamped in financial scandal. A good time to go, you might say, and join all the other “most wanted men” in the sky. But one of them, we would do well to remember, had a wanted poster all his own more than 100 years ago, way back in the Boer War: his name was Winston Churchill. And much to talk about they’ll have, I’m sure.

 By Robert Fisk, independent.co.uk

 http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/martin-mcguinness-dies-super-terrorist-becomes-super-statesman-like-so-many-others-a7640676.html
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Does the U.S. Military Actually Protect Middle East Oil?

America’s experience in the Middle East over the past fifteen years has been bruising, to say the least. For his part, President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly, if inconsistently, exploited Americans’ frustration with what are widely viewed as foreign policy failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. At a rally last month, Trump promised to “stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about,” adding that “this destructive cycle of intervention and chaos must finally come to an end.” On the other hand, Trump has also used brazenly hawkish rhetoric and has filled his cabinet with people not at all averse to bold U.S. interventionism.
Trump’s inconsistencies aside, it seems voters welcomed his blunt criticisms of U.S. military action in the Middle East. But scrutiny of U.S. foreign policy in the region should go beyond a potent skepticism of regime change or exasperation with chasing after terrorists. In addition to our ill-fated nation-building effort in Afghanistan and the fight against ISIS, the traditional rationale boils down to oil. As it turns out, though, forward deployment isn’t all that useful in securing the free flow of oil. 
Overall the United States has approximately 35 thousand troops in the Middle East. Those that are based in Kuwait (about 13 thousand) and in Bahrain (about five thousand) are most explicitly about energy security, although various U.S. bases across the region cooperate in that role. This  forward deployed military presence is supposed to achieve four basic energy security objectives: (1) protect against the rise of a regional hegemon that could gain control of energy resources; (2) deter any external power from gaining a foothold in the region; (3) dampen regional rivalries and stave off a war that could disrupt supply; and finally, (4) deter or rapidly reverse any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz, a critical chokepoint through which 30 percent of the world’s seaborne oil passes.
But do permanent peacetime military forces really serve these objectives? According to Charles L. Glaser and Rosemary A. Kelanic, “the conventional wisdom, which holds that U.S. oil interests in the Persian Gulf are so large and threatened that the United States must dedicate large military capabilities to their defense” is wrong. Danielle F. S. Cohen and Jonathan Kirshner go so far as to call the belief in “energy insecurity”—common among policymakers and some academics—“a myth,” and “an erroneous belief that national security requires ambitious and vigilant foreign policy measures to assure adequate access to energy.”
Indeed, the United States today is far less reliant on foreign oil supplies than it once was. In 2015, only about 24 percent of the petroleum consumed by the United States was imported from foreign countries (the lowest level since 1970), and only about 16 percent of that was imported from the Middle East. This is largely because U.S. domestic production has significantly increased thanks to technological advances in exploiting shale reserve areas. Since 2008, annual U.S. crude production has grown by about 75 percent and net import volumes are projected to decline by 55 percent by 2020. Canadian oil output is also expected to double by 2040, meaning North America is on track to be a net oil exporter by 2020 and to remain so through 2040.
More importantly, oil is a fungible commodity traded on global markets and subject to the laws of supply and demand. Supply disruptions from one source impact the overall price, but can quickly be offset by an increase in output from another source. In every oil shock since 1973, global energy markets adapted quickly, by increasing production from other sources, rerouting existing supplies and putting both private and government-held stockpiles around the world into use.  These market adjustments mitigated the ramifications of the shocks and stabilized prices and supply. U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf did not prevent the disruptions, nor did it ease the resulting economic pain.
In addition, the balance of power globally and in the region today is favorable for energy security. First, an external power gaining a stranglehold over the Persian Gulf region is implausible. The Soviet Union is long gone and today’s Russia suffers from systemic economic problems that hinder its potential to project power in the Middle East. China, while increasingly powerful in its own sphere, lacks the political will to dominate the Gulf.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/does-the-us-military-actually-protect-middle-east-oil-18995
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Israel’s Response to the United Nation's Resolution on Palestine Is Hysterical: Noam Chomsky


The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution 14-0 condemning all Israeli settlements on Palestinian land as having “no legal validity” and amounting to “a flagrant violation under international law.” The resolution goes on to note that Israeli settlements pose “a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security.”


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This represents the first UNSC resolution in almost eight years concerning Israel and Palestine, and the first in over 35 years regarding the issue of Israeli settlements. Typically the U.S. would veto resolutions critical of Israel, but in this case, the Obama administration opted to abstain, in effect allowing the resolution to pass.
For comment, AlterNet contacted Noam Chomsky, famed linguist, dissident and professor emeritus of MIT. Chomsky said of the resolution, “The UNSC resolution is essentially the same as UNSC 446, March 1979, passed 12-0-3. The main difference is that then two countries joined the U.S. in abstaining. Now the U.S. stands against the world; and under Trump, in even more splendid isolation, on much more crucial matters as well.”

Following the UNSC resolution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly responded by announcing a halt to his government’s funding contributions to numerous U.N. institutions. Netanyahu called the resolution “a disgraceful anti-Israel maneuver” and blamed it on an “old-world bias against Israel.” Furthermore, he vowed to exact a “diplomatic and economic price” from the countries that supported it.

Shortly thereafter, Netanyahu made good on his threats by personally refusing to meet with the foreign ministers of the 12 UNSC members that voted for the resolution and ordering his Foreign Ministry to limit all working ties with the embassies of those 12 nations. He also summoned the ambassadors to the Foreign Ministry for a personal reprimand over the vote—including, in a highly unusual move, the U.S. ambassador.
Asked about Netanyahu’s response, Chomsky told AlterNet, “The hysterical reaction in Israel and in Congress (bipartisan) reflects their sharp shift to the right in the years since, and the whole incident illustrates quite interesting shifts in world order.”
Palestinian rights advocates have quipped that Israel’s suspension of relations with the UNSC member nations that voted for the resolution—powerful countries including the U.K. and France—has effectively realized a goal of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. AlterNet contacted Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the BDS movement, to see what he thought of this assessment. Barghouti replied, "This unanimous resolution, despite its many flaws in addressing basic Palestinian rights, has dealt Israel's colonial designs a serious blow that will inadvertently, yet significantly, enhance the impact of the BDS movement in isolating Israel academically, culturally, economically and otherwise."
"Israel's delusional hubris and surreal threats to punish the U.N. and the world indicate above everything else how deeply alarmed it is at fast becoming an international pariah, as apartheid South Africa once was."
Ali Abunimah, the Palestinian-American founder of the Electronic Intifada, told AlterNet that Israel’s use of diplomatic sanctions against the UNSC member states contradicted its vocal opposition to sanctions advocated by the BDS movement. Abunimah said, “It’s sort of amusing to Israel try to impose sanctions and punish the whole world for this decision…Israel claims that sanctions are illegitimate as a tool except of course when Israel is the one wielding them, whether it’s against Iran or whether against the countries that displeased it.”
Though Israel’s heavy-handed response may concretely impact its diplomatic standing internationally, the resolution itself is largely symbolic and, as professor Chomsky pointed out, a reiteration of an earlier UNSC resolution. However, experts like Richard Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University and former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights from 2008-2014, don’t think the resolution’s symbolic nature means it isn’t important.
As Falk told AlterNet, “The SC resolution at this stage is symbolic. Israel has already announced plans for thousand additional units, and the government has indicated its refusal to comply with the resolution. Nevertheless, it is of great psychological and potentially political support for the Palestinian struggle to end the occupation and achieve a sustainable and just peace. The fact that aside from the United States' notable abstention, all 14 other members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, is indicative of the encouraging reality that the world is not ready to forget the Palestinians, that Israel faces a renewed experience of diplomatic isolation, and that the growing international solidarity movement, including the BDS campaign, will be strengthened and encouraged.”
Asked how the resolution could move from symbolic to something with more concrete effects, Falk responded, “much depends on the future, and whether the commitment in the resolution to have reports from the U.N. Secretary General every three months on implementation will lead to any tangible results beyond a reiteration of censure remains to be seen.”
Though the Obama administration’s unusual decision not to veto a U.N. resolution critical of Israel might be start toward accountability, many Palestinian rights advocates remain cynical about Obama. Abunimah told AlterNet, “Obama has done more than any other president in history to assure Israel’s impunity.”
“When Obama was president-elect, Israel was engaged in this massacre in Gaza in 2008, 2009. When Obama came in he blocked any form of international accountability, trashed the Goldstone report which was the independent U.N. inquiry. The same in 2014 when Israel attacked Gaza, Obama actually rearmed Israel while the bombs were falling on Gaza and then of course the same story of blocking any form of international accountability. And …giving Israel this unconditional boost in military aid—a minimum of $3.8 billion [per year] over the next 10 years, up from $3.1 billion [per year] currently.”
Noam Chomsky: Israel’s Response to the United Nation's Resolution on Palestine Is 'Hysterical'
by Ken Klippenstein, alternet.org
Ken Klippenstein is an American journalist who can be reached on Twitter @kenklippenstein or via email: [email protected]

http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-israels-response-unsc-hysterical
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Shimon Peres was no peacemaker: Robert Fisk

Shimon Peres was no peacemaker. I’ll never forget the sight of pouring blood and burning bodies at Qana:
Peres said the massacre came as a ‘bitter surprise’. It was a lie: the UN had repeatedly told Israel the camp was packed with refugees》》》》
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/shimon-peres-dies-israel-qana-massacre-never-forget-no-peacemaker-robert-fisk-a7334656.html
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Letter from Jerusalem

Once again I fear violence and bloodshed. How ironical that our holiest month should witness a clash between the Muslims and Jews. How unfortunate that we who have lived in Jerusalem for decades should be barred from visiting the holiest of the holy sites during this month just because we are Muslims. You were lucky to sit amidst cedars and olive trees breathing the sacredness of a divine presence inside the Holy City of Jerusalem when you came last year, a week before fasting began. You and I sat on a bench looking straight at the grandeur of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the actual site where Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) prayed before ascending to Heaven.

The sun was setting, a gentle breeze made the evening more beauteous. You looked heavenwards to see the blue of the sky turn into a riot of colours creating a rhapsody that sent shivers of spirituality down our spines. Yes, you and I sat, silently absorbing its divinity in every fibre of our mortal being. We wanted to take in the totality of the meaning of our existence on earth. It was God around us.

The silence was broken as the azaan called us for maghrib prayers. As if in a trance, we walked to enter the Holy Mosque. I noticed the expression on your face. It was one of awe. The sprawling red carpets wall-to-wall presented an expanse of space. Unknowingly, you wandered off to the male section, thinking that men andwomen could choose to pray wherever they wished. A man standing next to you pointed to the women`s area. He looked irritated. You looked unhinged too! Why have segregation in the house of God, you complained to me. I just shrugged my shoulders. Earlier, remember when we entered the Muslim Quarters that we call Al Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) where Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are situated, you were stopped at the gate and told to cover yourself from head to toe. We went and got an abaya for you to wear.

Prayers being over, I showed you the south end of the mosque. You saw the bullet holes on the pillar. In 1951, King Abdullah of Jordan was gunned down here. His grandson, Prince Hussein, who later became the king, survived due to the medals he was wearing over his chest.

The late King Hussein of Jordan donated the gold, that you saw covering the Dome of the Rock. Our Prophet (PBUH) ascended to heaven during his Night Journey from here.

Last Ramazan, Israeli police stopped the males in my family from offering prayers at Al Aqsa Mosque. The situation was tense as daily fights broke out between Palestinians and the Israelis. Tension continues with deaths on both sides. As Arab-Palestinians, we demand immediate end of Israeli occupation of Jerusalem forcibly conquered in 1967. Clashes have erupted between Muslim worshipers and Israeli police whenever Jewish men have sneaked into the Muslim Quarters. Jews are not allowed there.But the Jews lay claim to Al Aqsa and call it the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism.

Read A History ofGod by Karen Armstrong to understand how Jews, Christians and Muslims over the centuries have laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how these three monolithic religions have `shaped and scarred` the city for thousands of years. Recently, you must have read Unesco`s executive board resolution declaring Israel as the `occupying power` where stand Al Aqsa Mosque / Al Haram al-Sharif the third holiest site for Muslims after the mosques of alHaram in Makkah and Al Nabawi in Madina.

While criticism against Israeli occupation of Jerusalem by foreign countries continues, it`s America, where you presently reside, that stands solidly behind Israel. Israel receives the highest military aid from the US. Not surprising, the IS [militant Islamic State groupj has jumped in and is now threatening to attack Israel to `free` Jerusalem. It`s not good news for us Muslims who are already treated with hate and suspicion by the Israeli police. Imagine what will happen if IS was to infiltrate into Israel. It will be a doublewhammy for Arab-Israelis like us. We don`t want the IS thugs to come and occupy us! Last Sunday, I went to the same café where you and I had our falafels. `How is your friend from Pakistan who now lives in America`? She was not wearing the hijab?` remembered Ibrahim, the aging proprietor of the café. `Do write to her from me and ask if she has changed her mind and is now covering her head as allGod-fearing pious Muslim women are supposed to do.` I know that you don`t feel the need to wear the hijab and I respect your decision, but in East Jerusalem, where the Arab-Palestinian population is concentrated, most women, as you must have noticed, have their heads covered. To cover or not to cover one`s head is solely a personal choice. It has nothing to do with being a good or a bad Muslim. So, when next, I visit Ibrahim`s falafel place (the best in Jerusalem!) I`ll tell him that you are still running around without a hijab! On a more serious note, what do you think of `President` Donald Trump? He`s disastrously toxic for the Muslims in America. We too have a `Trump` in the Israeli cabinet. Avigdor Lieberman, the ultranationalist Palestinian-hater, is the new defence minister. He holds the second most powerful position in the Israeli government and hasthreatened to conquer Gaza controlled by the Palestinians to build more settlements in Jerusalem and the West Bank. He has called for removing Arabic as an official language. With this extremist at the helm of affairs, the hope of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is gone.

Oh! By the way, I ran into your friend Ayesha, the manager of the hotel where you stayed last year. She looked concerned, as she`ll have a lot of empty rooms to fill this Ramazan. The possibility of bloody clashes between the Muslims and the Jews will keep tourists away. Last year was different when you came. We walked the ancient alleyways late into the night, enjoying the feel of freedom. There were tourists all around. They too wanted to live in the moment transcendence unequalled in the world except Jerusalem!
"Letter from Jerusalem"
By Anjum Niaz
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