A city conquered repeatedly and governed by many different rulers;
a city in which the ringing of church bells blends with Jewish prayer in
synagogues, and the cries of the Muezzins in their tall mosques.
At the end of the second millennium,Jerusalem faces a King Solomon Dilemma? between two peoples
and three religions, whose believers are seeking a path to mutual existence,
while each regards the city as its beating heart without which life is
unsustainable.
At the end of the second millennium,
The war in which we have been
embroiled since October 2000 is similar to the 1948 War of Independence and the
preceding period. In both cases, war erupted when the question of the partition
of Eretz Israel into two states ? Jewish and Palestinian - was at
stake. In 1947, battles erupted after the UN decision to partition Eretz Israel into two states. In 2002, the war broke out after the
Palestinians refused Israel 's offers at Camp David that
would have meant dividing the region between both peoples.
On July 9th 2004 , the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague resolved that ?the separation wall being built by Israel in the West
Bank is to be regarded as
annexation and is illegal. Israel accuses The Hague judges of bias in favor of the Palestinians while
willfully ignoring the bloodshed caused by their terror attacks.
The terrifying sounds return,
and I have not recovered from the previous ones. Sixty years later history is
repeating itself. Jews are again living in fear. It transports me to the home
of my parents, Holocaust survivors. The horror spawned by infinite hatred is
covered with Jewish corpses. A thin layer of earth covers millions of
skeletons. Today the yawning pit of hatred is fused in a sinister link between
religion and ideology, conceived by the devil.
The Holy Land is the meeting place of God and humanity. It was God who chose this
spiritual land as the site of the closest encounter between the Creator and the
being that He created in His image. It is in this timeless and holiest of lands
that Christian history began and grew.
This website is dedicated to Christians and non-Jews, supporters ofIsrael and peace lovers, who support and stand by the people
of Israel at this difficult time.
This website is dedicated to Christians and non-Jews, supporters of
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