{"id":2871,"date":"2022-05-20T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T23:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T17:11:33","slug":"israel-is-losing-sovereignty-over-east-jerusalem-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"ISRAEL IS LOSING SOVEREIGNTY OVER EAST JERUSALEM – EDITORIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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ISRAEL IN THE LAST DAYS - JERUSALEM<\/div>\n
\u201cAnd it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the\n
heathen STONG\u2019S NUMBER: 1471 <\/font>gowy, go\u00b4-ee; rarely (shortened) y\u2026Og goy, go\u00b4-ee; apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:\u2014Gentile, heathen, nation, people<\/span><\/div>, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: \n\n
fear STONG\u2019S NUMBER:3372 <\/font> yaw-ray\u00b4; a primitive root; to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten:\u2014affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), x see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).<\/span><\/div> not, but let your hands be\n\n
strong STONG\u2019S NUMBER:2388 <\/font> chazaq, khaw-zak\u00b4; a primitive root; to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer:\u2014aid, amend, x calker, catch, cleave, confirm, be constant, constrain, continue, be of good (take) courage(-ous, -ly), encourage (self), be established, fasten, force, fortify, make hard, harden, help, (lay) hold (fast), lean, maintain, play the man, mend, become (wax) mighty, prevail, be recovered, repair, retain, seize, be (wax) sore, strengthen (self), be stout, be (make, shew, wax) strong(-er), be sure, take (hold), be urgent, behave self valiantly, withstand.<\/span><\/div> For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not: So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: \n\n
fear STONG\u2019S NUMBER:3372 <\/font> yaw-ray\u00b4; a primitive root; to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten:\u2014affright, be (make) afraid, dread(-ful), (put in) fear(-ful, -fully, -ing), (be had in) reverence(-end), x see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).<\/span><\/div> ye not.\u201d\n \u2014 Zechariah 8:13-15<\/blockquote><\/strong><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Article Source: Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The images that have emerged from Jerusalem in the last week or two have been alarming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s capital has been rife with unrest and violence as Arab residents of east Jerusalem and its environs have come out in a full show of force against the trappings of Israeli rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last Friday, thousands gathered to participate in the funeral of slain Al Jazeera report\u00a0Shireen Abu Akleh, replete with Palestinian flags and nationalist slogans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The funeral, one of the largest events of its kind in many years, was seen by many Palestinians as a major national event in the heart of Jerusalem. The manner in which they were met by Israel\u2019s police forces \u2013 which has been covered extensively both here and by global media \u2013 only added to the sense that east Jerusalem was not only a different city from west Jerusalem but an altogether different country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This week, that feeling was accentuated by what KAN called the most violent day in the capital since last year\u2019s Operation Guardian of the Walls, as Palestinians got another chance to display a massive show of force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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People mourn as they carry the coffin of Walid al-Sharif during his funeral on the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City May 16, 2022 (credit: REUTERS\/AMMAR AWAD)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Large-scale riots erupted again in east Jerusalem after the funeral of Walid al-Sharif, a young Palestinian who died earlier in the week of wounds he sustained during clashes with Israeli police officers at the Aqsa Mosque compound. He was the only Palestinian killed in the clashes that erupted with the police during Ramadan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The huge turnout for the funeral was spurred on by calls on social media by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, The Jerusalem Post\u2019s Khaled Abu Toameh reported. He noted that the goal was to show there is no difference between east Jerusalem and the\u00a0West Bank\u00a0or the Gaza Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The turnout and the violence and resulting arrests were not that different from previous scenes of rioting, vandalism and clashes with the police that have become almost commonplace in many areas of east Jerusalem, especially in communities like Isawiya, Shuafat and Silwan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The names of those neighborhoods might be familiar to readers, but most would probably be unable to recall when the last time was \u2013 if ever \u2013 they entered one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The reality of Israel today is that there are large swaths of its capital city that are too dangerous to step foot in if you\u2019re Jewish. Even the police and municipal civil servants avoid going near them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One might argue that there are plenty of high-profile cities around the world \u2013 from Chicago to Paris \u2013 that have neighborhoods and areas with huge crime and murder rates that many people would go out of their way to avoid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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But Israel prides itself on its \u201cunified\u201d capital, with every government and prime minister over the 55 years since the Six Day War vowing that Jerusalem will never be divided.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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That unblinking belief that the eastern part of Jerusalem will never be up for negotiation might have something to do with Wednesday\u2019s decision by the police to allow this year\u2019s Jerusalem Day Flag March to enter the Old City through the Damascus Gate, after the route was blocked last year due to threats from Hamas that turned into Operation Guardian of the Walls.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The march, which should be a national, non-political event celebrating Israel\u2019s victory in 1967 and the reunification of Jerusalem, has long since turned into a right-wing-fueled show of strength, aimed at boasting ownership over the city, even the Arab sections inside and outside the Old City.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although the final decision on the march\u2019s route will be made by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in consultation with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), organizers of the march welcomed the police decision, saying, \u201cThere is nothing more suitable than a happy and unifying march, from the west of the city to the east, through the places that the IDF liberated 55 years ago, on the holiday of the capital of Israel.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Statements like that don\u2019t jibe with the images of riots, clashes and violence that have been plaguing that capital almost every day in recent weeks. Marches like those the organizers want to hold are nice ideas but they can\u2019t exist in a vacuum. Israel has long ago forfeited sovereignty over parts of Jerusalem. A march through Damascus Gate won\u2019t restore it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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PALESTINIAN RESIDENTIAL buildings and a mosque are seen past Israel\u2019s separation wall, which surrounds the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.
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