Ending the Humiliation, by Victor Rosenthal (Abu Yehuda)
July 25, 2019 When the muhtasib or his agent comes to collect the jizya, he should stand the dhimmi in front of him, slap him on the side of the neck and say: “Pay the jizya, unbeliever.” The dhimmi will take his hand out of his pocket holding the jizya and present it to him […]
Read More →Is ‘East Jerusalem’ Palestinian Territory? – Avi Bell (TOI via Daily Alert)
Dec. 21, 2018 Is “East Jerusalem” Palestinian Territory? – Avi Bell What country has legal sovereignty over Jerusalem? Israel’s answer is well-grounded in international law: the State of Israel. The Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) answer is contemptuous of international law. In a lawsuit against the U.S. at the International Court of Justice in The Hague over […]
Read More →Why Trump is right in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, by ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ (The Hill)
Dec. 6, 2018 President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a perfect response to President Obama’s benighted decision to change American policy by engineering the United Nations Security Council resolution declaring Judaism’s holiest places in Jerusalem to be occupied territory and a “flagrant violation under international law.” It was President Obama who […]
Read More →Middle East’s Dull Response to U.S. Jerusalem Decision Shouldn’t Be a Surprise – Haisam Hassanein and Wesam Hassanein (The Hill via Daily Alert)
Jan. 5, 2018 Middle East’s Dull Response to U.S. Jerusalem Decision Shouldn’t Be a Surprise – Haisam Hassanein and Wesam Hassanein (The Hill) Three weeks after President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the pessimistic warnings of widespread protests and violence across the Middle East have proven to be overblown. There were protests […]
Read More →Must Read: Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital – and That’s a Fact, by Jose V.Ciprut (BESA) (this article is about more than that…Ed.)
Jan. 5, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There was a time when the world united against Galileo, who had defied holy teachings by stating that the Earth is neither flat nor the center of the universe, but revolves around the sun. President Trump’s acknowledgment that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital was also a plain statement of fact, one […]
Read More →Turkish Twitter Explodes with Genocidal Jew-Hatred by Uzay Bulut (Gatestone Inst.)
Dec. 31, 2018 The statements of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — and those of Turks who share his worldview – are further evidence that fundamentalist Muslims oppose Israel’s very existence as a sovereign Jewish state. Their ire over Trump’s Jerusalem declaration has nothing to do with U.S. or Israeli policies. Their fury stems from […]
Read More →A Special ‘Thank You’ for Trump’s Jerusalem Move, by Abraham H. Miller (JNS via Algemeiner)
Jan. 1, 2018 On the last day of his visit to Jerusalem in 1871, William Seward — secretary of state under President Abraham Lincoln — attended Sabbath evening prayers at the Hurva Synagogue. At the end of the service, the rabbi… Click here for full article
Read More →4 COUNTRIES NOW MOVING EMBASSIES TO JERUSALEM, by Daniel Greenfield (FPM)
Dec. 27, 2017 4 COUNTRIES NOW MOVING EMBASSIES TO JERUSALEM One man with courage makes a majority. When you do the right thing, others will follow. Click here for full article
Read More →Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Marks an End to Discrimination Against Israel – Richard Schifter (Washington Times via Daily Alert)
Dec. 26, 2017 Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital Marks an End to Discrimination Against Israel – Richard Schifter By 1954 it was clear that the proposed UN-run separate entity to govern Jerusalem would not be established. The idea had been overtaken by events. West Jerusalem was part of Israel and east Jerusalem was part of […]
Read More →Summaries of 18 articles from Daily Alert about UN vote to criticize US decision to move embassy to Jerusalem, with links
Dec 22, 2017 UN Votes 128-9 to Criticize U.S. Decision on Jerusalem – Louis Nelson The UN General Assembly on Thursday adopted a resolution criticizing the U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The nonbinding resolution was adopted with 128 nations in favor, 9 against, 35 abstained, and 21 countries did not vote. U.S. Ambassador to the […]
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