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"Ten measures of beauty descend into the world. Ierusalem took nine, and the entire world took one."(Kiddush'm 49b)From CUFI"Jerusalem, the “city of peace,” has been the most treasured city of the Jewish people for centuries. However, until 1967, Jews were barred from entering the city and visiting their holiest sites. When Israel miraculously won the Six Day War, Jerusalem was reunited under Israel’s sovereignty. Since then, people of all faiths and backgrounds have been able to visit their holy sites freely."Jerusalem – Before and After 1967As per Article 80 of the UN Charter, no UN resolution can override Israel’s existing legal rights and title of sovereignty over any region of the Land of Israel based on the above earlier acts of International Law: The Jan Smuts Resolution of January 30, 1919, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, including the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920, the Mandate for Palestine as confirmed on July 24, 1922 and the Franco-British Convention of December 23, 1920, all of which recognized the historical connection of the Jewish People with the Land of Israel.A Palestinian-Arab state on land lawfully designated for the Jewish state violates U.S. treaty obligations (the 1924 Anglo-American Convention/Treaty and UN Charter) guaranteeing the Jewish people’s rights to the entire mandatory area, including Judea/Samaria.It also contradicts the Oslo Accords, which, as confirmed by then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin’s last speech to the Knesset, contemplated a Palestinian entity that is less than a state.Armistice Agreement of 1949http://www.knesset.gov.il/process/docs/armistice_jordan_eng.htmArticle 69. The Armistice Demarcation Lines defined in articles V and VI of this Agreement are agreed upon by the Parties without prejudice to future territorial settlements or boundary lines or to claims of either Party relating thereto.When Israel liberated Judea/Samaria in a defensive war in 1967, it was no one’s sovereign land.It was illegally occupied by Jordan from 1948-67.There was never a Palestinian state in Israel, Judea/Samaria (a.k.a. the West Bank) and/or Jerusalem.There was never a Palestinian State, no Palestinian Kings and Queens. In fact, Judea/Samaria and the eastern portion of Jerusalem were and are land lawfully designated for the Jewish state under the Mandate and international law.Palestinians have never had control of or sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem, and it’s never been an Arab capital. There is no historical basis for the insistence on a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem.Hence, it is impossible for Israel to be an “occupier” of “Palestinian” Arab land.The land in question was designated for the Jewish homeland under the 1922 Mandate, confirmed by the 1946 UN Charter, and under the Anglo-American Convention and other international treaties.Nonetheless, Jordan illegally seized Judea/Samaria and the eastern portion of Jerusalem in the 1948-1949 Arab war to destroy Israel.Jordan illegally occupied these areas for the next 19 years. During that time, Jordan killed and expelled the Jews who had lived in eastern Jerusalem for centuries; destroyed 58 synagogues; violated the armistice agreements by refusing to allow Jews any access to holy Jewish religious sites; and used thousands-of-years-old Jewish gravestones to line latrines. Jordanian snipers perched in eastern Jerusalem hills to shoot at Jewish children in the western part of Jerusalem. Israel recaptured Judea/Samaria and the eastern portion of Jerusalem in a defensive war in 1967.Read the following links:The Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 is a public law of the United States passed by the post-Republican Revolution 104th Congress on October 23, 1995.Jerusalem Embassy Act - Wikipediahttps://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.congress.gov/104/plaws/publ45/PLAW-104publ45.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwis_e2M0NflAhULHcAKHXvSBHwQFjATegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw16Dp4rlFgvFLtPPfpSZoUohttp://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/mandate_for_palestine/MandateN2%20-%2010-29-07-English.pdfThe Status of Jerusalem in International and Israeli LawLiberating Our JerusalemThe truth about Jerusalem's City of David and the lies about Silwan | Jewish WebsiteJewish Ties to the Temple Mount – What’s the Story?Defending the Freedom of JerusalemThe Mirage of an International JerusalemDon't Entrust Jerusalem to the Muslims or the Jews (or the French)The Forgotten Discovery: A First Temple Era Water Cistern near the Temple Mount in JerusalemA History of the Holy Temple and its Centrality to JudaismFall of Jerusalem 70 CEIsrael is the sole sovereign on the Temple MountTiny First Temple seal impression found with name of Bible-era royal stewardArabs living in JerusalemLegal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine under International LawTake a look at this pamphlet published by the Wakf in 1925.Page 4: "It's identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute."1925 Wakf Temple Mount Guide - [Download PDF]Tim Benton's answer to When did Palestine take over Jerusalem?An article by the Israeli professor of early Islamic history Moshe Sharon entitled, “How Jerusalem became ‘Al-Kuds’,” appears in the Zionist Record and SA Jewish Chronicle (henceforth: ZR&SAJC) in 1986.The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem“One of the most striking of the peculiar manifestations of modern Middle Eastern politics,” he begins, “is the method in which the Islamic sanctity of Jerusalem is used in order to… claim… Arab sovereignty over the city.” Yet “Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran. Later traditions and… [exegeses based on the Koran] identified Masjid al Aqsa which appears in Sura 17 verse 1 as Jerusalem.” Consequently there is no evidence, even from within the Muslim tradition, that Muhammad had any connection to Jerusalem. Furthermore, according to “a number of scholarly studies… all based on Arabic-Islamic material… it took at least 80, if not 100 years before the status of Jerusalem as an Islamic holy city… was established.”M. Sharon, “How Jerusalem became Al-Kuds,” ZR&SAJC, 12 June 1986, p. 18. It is not clear whether Sharon means eighty to a hundred years after Muhammad’s death (632 CE) or after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem (637 CE), but his point is clear enough: that the “process of the Islamic sanctification of Jerusalem was not automatic, not created at the birth of Islam; it developed with the creation of the Islamic Empire.”Even after this, Jerusalem retained only what Sharon calls a “conditional sanctity”, that is to say, one that was only emphasised in response to rival Jewish or Christian claims to the city. This is borne out, he argues, by statements that would be unthinkable to Muslims today. For example, the 17thcentury Muslim geographerYaquat describes Mecca as the city holy to Muslims, and Jerusalem as the city holy to Jews. Throughout history, he notes, whenever the city has been firmly under Muslim control, it is scarcely mentioned, let alone as an Islamic holy city. “Because now, as in few other times in the last 1400 years, the city is not… it has become the focus of all the possible zeal in the Islamic world. Similar sentiments were encountered in the Muslim world after the capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, when the call to jihad was raised in the liberation of Jerusalem.”Sharon also discusses the changing of the qibla. After Muhammad “ordered his followers to turn their back to Jerusalem and face Mecca… Jerusalem was regarded as an ‘abolished’ direction of prayer.” For this reason, even as late as the 14th Jerusalem’s status as a holy city.“One must understand the mechanism of the way an Arab thinks, reads and speaks. You must also know the Koran as I do, or else you will be taken for a ride.”The Myth of Al Aqsa Dr. KedarThe myth of al-AqsaThe Myth of Al-AqsaHoliness of Jerusalem to Islam has always been politically motivatedMordechai Kedar|Published: 09.15.08When the Prophet Mohammad established Islam, he introduced a minimum of innovations. He employed the hallowed personages, historic legends and sacred sites of Judaism and Christianity, and even paganism, by Islamizing them. Thus, according to Islam, Abraham was the first Muslim and Jesus and St. John (the sons of Miriam, sister of Moses and Aron) were prophets and guardians of the second heaven. Many Biblical legends ("asatir al-awwalin",) which were familiar to the pagan Arabs before the dawn of Islam, underwent an Islamic conversion, and the Koran as well as the Hadith (the Islamic oral tradition), are replete with them.Islamization was practiced on places as well as persons: Mecca and the holy stone - al-Ka'bah - were holy sites of the pre-Islamic pagan Arabs. The Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and the Great Mosque of Istanbul were erected on the sites of Christian-Byzantine churches - two of the better known examples of how Islam treats sanctuaries of other faiths.Jerusalem, too, underwent the process of Islamization: at first Muhammad attempted to convince the Jews near Medina to join his young community, and, by way of persuasion, established the direction of prayer (kiblah) to be to the north, towards Jerusalem, in keeping with Jewish practice; but after he failed in this attempt he turned against the Jews, killed many of them, and directed the kiblah southward, towards Mecca.Muhammad's abandonment of Jerusalem explains the fact that this city is not mentioned even once in the Koran. After Palestine was occupied by the Muslims, its capital was Ramlah, 30 miles to the west of Jerusalem, signifying that Jerusalem meant nothing to them.Rediscovering JerusalemIslam rediscovered Jerusalem 50 years after Mohammad's death. In 682 CE, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr rebelled against the Islamic rulers in Damascus, conquered Mecca and prevented pilgrims from reaching Mecca for the Hajj. Abd al-Malik, the Umayyad Calif, needed an alternative site for the pilgrimage and settled on Jerusalem which was then under his control. In order to justify this choice, a verse from the Koran was chosen (17,1 = sura 17, verse,) which states (translation by Majid Fakhri):“Glory to Him who caused His servant to travel by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him some of Our Signs, He is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing."The meaning ascribed to this verse is that "the furthest mosque" (al-masgid al-aqsa) is in Jerusalem and that Mohammad was conveyed there one night (although at that time the journey took three days by camel,) on the back of al-Buraq, a magical horse with the head of a woman, wings of an eagle, the tail of a peacock, and hoofs reaching to the horizon. He tethered the horse to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and from there ascended to the seventh heaven together with the angel Gabriel. On his way he met the prophets of other religions who are the guardians of heaven.Miraculous accountThus Islam tries to gain legitimacy over other, older religions, by creating a scene in which the former prophets agree to Mohammad's mastery, thus making him Khatam al-Anbiya ("the Seal of the Prophets”.)Not surprisingly, this miraculous account contradicts a number of the tenets of Islam: How can a living man of flesh and blood ascend to heaven? How can a mythical creature carry a mortal to a real destination? Questions such as these have caused orthodox Muslim thinkers to conclude that the nocturnal journey was a dream of Mohammad's. The journey and the ascent serves Islam to "go one better" than the Bible: Moses "only" went up to Mount Sinai, in the middle of nowhere, and drew close to heaven, whereas Mohammad went all the way up to Allah, and from Jerusalem itself.What are the difficulties with the belief that the al-Aqsa mosque described in Islamic tradition is located in Jerusalem?For one, the people of Mecca, who knew Muhammad well, did not believe this story. Only Abu Bakr, (later the first Calif,) believed him and thus was called al-Siddiq (“the believer".)The second difficulty is that Islamic tradition tells us that al-Aqsa mosque is near Mecca on the Arabian Peninsula. This was unequivocally stated in "Kitab al-Maghazi," a book by the Muslim historian and geographer al-Waqidi. According to al-Waqidi, there were two "masjeds" (places of prayer) in al-Gi'irranah, a village between Mecca and Ta'if - one was "the closer mosque" (al-masjid al-adna) and the other was "the further mosque" (al-masjid al-aqsa,) and Muhammad would pray there when he went out of town.This description by al-Waqidi which is supported by a chain of authorities (isnad) was not "convenient" for the Islamic propaganda of the 7th Century. In order to establish a basis for the awareness of the "holiness" of Jerusalem in Islam, the Califs of the Ummayad dynasty invented many “traditions" upholding the value of Jerusalem, which would justify pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the faithful Muslims. Thus was al-Masjid al-Aqsa "transported" to Jerusalem. It should be noted that Saladin also adopted the myth of al-Aqsa and those "traditions" in order to recruit and inflame the Muslim warriors against the Crusaders in the 12th Century.Must Judaism defer to Islamic myths?Another aim of the Islamization of Jerusalem was to undermine the legitimacy of the older religions, Judaism and Christianity, which consider Jerusalem to be a holy city.Islam is presented as the only legitimate religion, destined to replace the other two, because they had changed and distorted the Word of God, each in its turn.Though Judaism and Christianity can exist side by side in Jerusalem, Islam regards both of them as betrayals of Allah and his teachings, and has always done, and will continue to do, all in its power to expel both of them from this city. It is interesting to note that this expulsion is retroactive: The Islamic broadcasters of the Palestinian radio stations consistently make it a point to claim that the Jews never had a temple on the Temple Mount and certainly not two temples. (Where, then, according to them, did Jesus preach?)Yasser Arafat, himself a secular person (ask Hamas!), did exactly what the Califs of the Umayyad dynasty did 1300 years ago: He marshaled the holiness of Jerusalem to serve his political ends. He must not have given control of Jerusalem over to the Jews since according to Islam they are impure and the wrath of Allah is upon them. Moreover, the Jews are the sons of monkeys and pigs. The Jews are those who distorted the holy writings which were revealed to them and denied God's signs. Since they violated the covenant with their God, He cursed them and they are forever the inheritors of hell. So how could Arafat hand over Jerusalem to the Jews?The Palestinian media these days are full of messages of Jihad, calling to broaden the national-political war between Israel and the Palestinians into a religious-Islamic war between Jews and Muslims. For them, Christianity is no better than Judaism, since both “forfeited" their right to rule over Jerusalem. Only Islam - Din al-Haqq ("the Religion of Truth") - has this right, and forever.Since the holiness of Jerusalem to Islam has always been, and still is, no more than a politically motivated holiness, any Muslim leader or ruler would be putting his political head on the block should he give it up. Must Judaism and Christianity defer to myths related in Islamic texts or envisioned in Mohammad's dreams, long after Jerusalem was established as the ancient, true center of these two religions, which preceded Islam? Should Israel give up on its capital just because some Muslims decided to recycle the political problems of the Umayyads 1250 years after the curtain came down on their role in history?Dr. Mordechai Kedar is a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University’s eptartment of Arabicבעבריתאיך ירושלים הפכה להיות קדושה לאיסלאם?WATCH: See the Route 2.5 Million Pilgrims Took Each Year to the Holy TempleElke Weiss's answer to What was life for a Jew living in West Bank under Jordanian occupation during 1948-1967?Jerusalem clipAncient Muslim Texts Confirm the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem | Jerusalem Center for Public AffairsThe Palestinian Claim to JerusalemSearchSUBSCRIBESEPTEMBER 27, 2020 3:58 PM0South African Song Paying Tribute to Jerusalem Sparks Viral Dance Challengeavatarby Shiryn GhermezianShare Share On FacebookTweet Share On TwitterEmail Email This ArticleWorshipers pray in distance from each other at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, amid coronavirus restrictions, March 26, 2020. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad.An upbeat gospel-inspired tune from South Africa that pays tribute to the city of Jerusalem and inspired a viral dance challenge has now been endorsed by the country’s president.“Jerusalema,” by local musician Master KG, features singer Nomcebo Zikode, and was released on YouTube in November 2019. According to news channel News24, the song, which was recorded in the Zulu language, went viral earlier this year after the #JerusalemaDanceChallenge started trending on social media.Avinoam Ben Dor's post in Holyland ToursDr. Jacques Gauthier, a French-Canadian international lawyer & human rights lawyer, with a stunning pedigree, spent 25 years on his Ph.D in which he demonstrated, based solely on international law, that only the Jewish People have legal title to Jerusalem & Judea.An hour's lecture is here for those interested: