United Nations – Israeli Leader Opens Jerusalem Exhibit, Rebukes Opponents

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    Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third from right, his wife Sara Netanyahu, Zeev Elkin, right, Minister of Environmental Protection and of Jerusalem and Heritage, and Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon, left, look at the Magdala Stone, part of the "3000 years of history: Jews in Jerusalem" exhibit at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)United Nations – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened an exhibition on Jerusalem Thursday to reinforce Israel’s claim to the historic city as the Jewish people’s “eternal capital” — and rebuke over 125 countries that support Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

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    Netanyahu’s U.N. visit follows President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December. The U.N. General Assembly’s overwhelming voted soon afterward denouncing the U.S. announcement and declaring Trump’s action “null and void.”

    The exhibition traces Jews in Jerusalem back centuries before the Christian era, and Netanyahu said it clearly shows the city’s long history “cherished” by Israelis and friends of the Jewish people and “friends of truth.”

    This “is being denied by those seeking to erase the history of our people, our connection to our lands, and our connection to our eternal capital Jerusalem,” he said.

    The Israeli leader noted a disclaimer sign at the entrance to the exhibition that says: “The content of this exhibit is solely the responsibility of the sponsors. The holding of the exhibit in U.N. premises does not imply endorsement by the United Nations. Please direct any queries to the organizers.”

    Hitting back at the U.N., Netenyahu responded: “Of course it doesn’t represent the United Nations. It represents the truth, and we’ll continue to tell the truth and speak the truth everywhere, including the United Nations.”

    “This exhibit would not have been possible 10 years ago,” he added. “And this exhibit will be unnecessary 10 years from now. We are changing the world. We are changing Israel’s position in the world, and above all we are making it clear that we fight for the truth and for our rights. We also fight for security.”

    Among the items in the exhibition are the Tel Dan Stela from 8-9th century BC, which has the first known historical evidence of King David from the Bible, and a seal with the Hebrew inscription “To Netanyahu son of Yaush” from the 7th century BC.


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    Dr_Bert_Miller
    Dr_Bert_Miller
    6 years ago

    Recently, my wife and I visited Yeshiva University’s museum on 16th St in NYC to see the Arch of Titus exhibit. We saw the museum’s full-size 3-D computer recreation of the famous scene of the Jewish prisoners of war carrying the Temple relics (menorah, shulchan, trumpets) to Rome. We also saw the displayed collection of 20-30 coins of the Second Temple period, minted in Palestine, some by the Jews and some by the Romans.

    In one small corner of a display case, I saw the complete collection of coins minted by non-Jewish Palestinian governments from 1917 back through the Byzantine period, the Arab (invaders from the Arabian Peninsula and the east) period, the Roman period, the Greek period, the Persian period, the Jewish monarchy and before. The complete set of these coins minted by non-Jewish Palestinian authorities fits comfortably in one small corner of a display case because these coins do not exist and have never existed. There are no such coins. Zilch, zippo, nada, cero, efes, null, gornicht, nuttin. the empty set.

    There was never an identifiable, Arab Palestinian people, or a Palestinian ethnic identity until the mid-20th century when some

    Dr_Bert_Miller
    Dr_Bert_Miller
    6 years ago

    Arab hate merchants realized that such a peoplehood and ethnic identity would be useful in opposing the national aspirations of the Jews.

    Until the 20th century, “Palestine” was understood by Arabs to be a province in Greater Syria. From 1948 until 1967, Arabs in Eretz Yisrael living under Jordanian control were comfortable with Jordanian nationality and ethnicity. There was no problem in the Arab mind with Jordanian sovereignty on the West Bank of the Jordan River because everyone, Arab and non-Arab, knows that Jordan is Arab Palestine. The post World War I formation by the British of the country of Transjordan resulted in the first example of Palestinian Arabs holding sovereignty in any part of Palestine. During the previous several centuries, the Turks held sovereignty in Palestine.

    Mr. Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian diplomat, is now struggling to stop Mr. Trump from moving the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Yerushalayim. I must ask Mr. Erekat some questions because he has asserted that his people have lived in our Eretz Yisrael for thousands of years.

    1. When the Romans invaded Judea/Palestine in the first century CE, did your Palestinian, non-Jewish ancestors

    Dr_Bert_Miller
    Dr_Bert_Miller
    6 years ago

    a) fight alongside the Jews?, b) fight alongside the Romans?, or c) remain non-combatants like today’s Quakers?

    2. Since (as you assert) your ancestors were present in Palestine at the time of the Roman invasion, any choice above would have been significant. Why is it that not a single historian of that period mentions the choice that your ancestors made from the three alternatives above?

    3. Do you share the belief that, until recently, the Jews never held sovereignty or even lived in Palestine?

    If you are correct, how was it that Roman sculptors created a fictitious, Jewish-focused relief and chiseled it into the Arch of Titus? It is not credible that 1900 years ago, some early Italian Zionists paid those Roman sculptors to create a historical fraud and received permission to have it stand in Rome. How was it that no Roman writer mocked this historical fraud or mentioned it during the ensuing centuries? Do you believe that an element in that relief, a 7-branched candelabrum (we call it a menorah), a relic from our ancient Temple, is really a lighting fixture from some pre-Muhammad Palestinian tavern? If your ancestors were in Palestine at that time, they probably frequent

    Dr_Bert_Miller
    Dr_Bert_Miller
    6 years ago

    taverns or beer halls at night after work to drink liquor and eat ham sandwiches on pita. Obviously, they would have needed illumination there. We both agree that in the first century CE Muhammad had not yet been born so he had not yet provided humanity with his revelation which outlawed alcohol, pork, graven images, etc.

    4. If Yassir Arafat, who was born and raised in Egypt, can be a Palestinian, why can’t David Ben Gurion, who was born and raised in Poland, be a Palestinian (i.e., an Israeli)?

    5. Do you believe both a) the Holocaust did not occur, and b) Israeli soldiers behave like Nazis? Well, if the Holocaust never occurred, then Nazis must have been good guys like the Brits and the Americans, smiling as they distributed candy to children.

    Someone once observed that the chimpanzee is an organized sarcasm on the human race. The lies that flow from your mouth and your pen are an organized sarcasm on the truth. The fact that Arab Muslims and Arab Christians live within the borders of the State of Israel today is not a proof that their ancestors lived there. The fact that many Cleveland Indian baseball players live and work in Ohio today does not establish that their

    Dr_Bert_Miller
    Dr_Bert_Miller
    6 years ago

    ancestors lived there. The fact that many Cleveland Indian baseball players live and work in Ohio today does not establish that their ancestors were all native Americans from what is now Ohio.

    When Mr. Arafat told President Clinton at Camp David that there was never a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, President Clinton objected because that ridiculous assertion contradicted what President Clinton had read in his Bible. President Clinton knew that his messiah had not chased moneychangers out of a mosque.

    Ambrose Bierce wrote, “Any idiot can tell the truth, but it takes a genius to know how to lie well.” Mr. Erekat, I am happy that you are no genius. You have acted dastardly by spreading lies about the Jewish People and the State of Israel. That makes you a real dastard! (Yes, it’s in the dictionary.)