Jerusalem: The Media Myth of Two Cities

[chugalongway01]

More honest reporting bullshit.

I find it laughable that a bunch of European Jews claim to have a historical connection to Jerusalum. A spiritual connection doesn't mean you have a physical connection. Just because you share a religion with someoone 2000 years ago doesn't mean you're there decendants and have a right to kick someone out of their home. The zionists are destroying the moral values of Judaism by turning it into nationalism. Political Zionism is the real enemy of the Jews.

[Kurtlane]

I particularly "love" the phrase "traditionally Arab East Jerusalem."

This "tradition" lasted for 19 years: from 1948 to 1967. 19 years in the history of one of the oldest cities in the world.

Compare it with Berlin: a much, much younger city, only a few hundred years old (Jerusalem is millennia old), yet it stayed divided for 44 years. And yet, no one refers to "traditional West Berlin" or "traditional East Berlin."

Interesting traditions media choses to uphold.

[mk181818]

Do you really think that only arabs spread around this lie? No way. Christians (Catholics in particular were and are the enemy of Judaism. All through the centuries they took very active role not only in deprivation Jews of their History, but in their physical extermination. So, tell the truth about role of arabs AND christians in this ugliness.

[eastariel]

@rune123m123m123

It's too late to change the highway robbery of the past, but it's not too late to create the future.

What seems fair to me is the considerations of the people who live there now. Many of them have been driven from their homes and their land. They need to get their homes back for peace to prevail.

Past crimes don't give their victims permission to commit present crimes. That endless cycle hurts everyone.

[eastariel]

There's also plenty of evidence that America belonged to the Native Americans way back when.

So does that mean Native Americans get to drive American citizens out of their homes and install our chiefs in the Whitehouse?

No. The Holy Land belongs to the people who live there now. Families must not be driven from their homes. The past does not give people permission to commit the same crimes in the present.

[Kurtlane]

@eastariel, I completely agree, The Holy Land belongs to the people who live there now. And the people who live there now are 6 million Israeli Jews, over 2 million Arabs, as well as Armenians, Greeks, Cherkesians, Chechens, Samaritans, Druze, Bahai, Bedouins, and others.

Let everyone who lives there peacefully keep on living.

Thank you for supporting Zionism, eastariel.

[triplen3]

LMAO!!!

[anonymouscommentss]

If east Jerusalem is not different why does Israel give the occupied Arabs "jerusalemite" status and deny them building permits and kick them east when they get a chance? This is utter BS. The old city should be internationalized and shared. Israel is judaizing it and does not allow males from the opt to visit (rare times they grant some permits). Lies lies lies. Hasbara.

[anonymouscommentss]

This is utter BS. Israel is instituting apartheid constructs on natives in OCCUPIED east Jerusalem and there is NO equality and no freedom of access to Palestinians to the mosque ~honest atheist Jew who LIVED there

[VocalRaynbow]

Not only is "arab" Jerusalem a myth but also "palestinians." There are no such people and no such country. Most of the arabs who lived in what became the British Mandate were nomadic or worked for absentee Turkish land owners. Rememeber that Israel was controlled by the OttomanEmpire for only 500 years.

Where is the Israeli PM who says no more negotiations for land or peace. There is nothing to negotiate for. If the Muslims want peace (lol) they will stop killing.

[victoryt1]

United city? United country? Democratic State of Jews/Palestinians? Gradual shift to Palestinians Majority? Israiltine? Plebiscite? End of Israel as the Jewish State?

[4theonly1]

BS

[iggypopforyou]

The only Myth. Talk tough! "Stop those settlements, now!" Ten minutes later, on the Bat-phone, Barak and Benny the "Jew." "Ovay, Obamster, sometimes, even I believe that shit you spout. More convincing than Bill!"

"Fucking Clinton - Christ B, don't cha hate him in that beenie - looks a putz, no?

"So anyways, Ben, you got my plot a land cleared? The one across from that fuckin' Dome?"

"Bamster - need ta talk. Uh - looks like B. Gait's want's it. 'Cause he got everything else, thinks he's a Jew.

[iggypopforyou]

"Muslims only want it for conquest " again, another crack smoker. Claudia, now this is just not true. One individual or millions can't want a city, "For conquest." Conquest is explained in the first chap: How to own other people's shit." Sadly, Jews, Rome, and Mecca - they've all wanted that fucking city for the same reason - this hasn't ever changed. They've all wanted it to sell their tee-shirts and wood from true cross or a wall to bang head's on then buy some Jew Lemonade, or howl at moon!

[kidsarocker]

@iggypopforyou why don't you convert to Islam, also google Islams house of war, enjoy your Shariah Law

[seagullguitar777]

Palestinians have a home, it's called Jordan, sorry, I typed this before I saw your remark ulralinem. You are right. What is so hard to understand? Give the Jew's their home back. They have everything else, what more do they want? except maybe the Jewish people out to sea

[seagullguitar777]

Palestinians have a home, it's called Jordan, sorry, I typed this before I saw your remark ulralinem. You are right. What is so hard to understand?

[stevenlburke]

Oddly enough, those who talk about any Arab claims to Jerusalem are idiodic and moronic and don't know anything and deserve to be fired out of a cannon into Jordan.

[ultralinem]

Obama has made the biggest mistake of his career trying to divide Jerusalem and telling Israel to give back land that was valiently fought for and won with Jewish blood..for the Arabs to ever think they owned the land was a pipe dream on their behalf..it's always belonged to the Israeli's..for centuries..I would tell all Palestinians to go after land in Jordan and demand a state in Jordan because originally they were Jordanians..

[iggypopforyou]

As far as pipe dreams - throw yours away. Real people, lost real homes they at one time actually owned - so of course they didn't need pipedreams!

True, the "Collective Jew" won Jerusalem fair and square - by 1967 there were so fucking many Jews willing to fight with IDF, one wonders where they all were the turn of the century, before they got thrown out of "Everywhere" in Europe, then, horrifically targeted and murdered by Nazi insanity. You see? SO, you got your Jews mixed up - happens a lot

[iggypopforyou]

Fuck all the maniacs lying through their coffee stained teeth. Lies of the Christians, the Muslims and of course, number one liars of them all, Moe, Larry, and Curly - none of those three Jews representing now, millions of Jews, ever had a stake in what is now called, Israel. They use their own cartoon, the Talmud, as freely as the other two corporations - i.e.Muslim Inc. and Bible Inc. use their's whenever it is convenient. Of course these days, the "Great Lie" is convenient for all .

[yca1112]

@iggypopforyou you have obviously never read the Talmud and are a regular ignorant hater.

[ricksand2]

@iggypopforyou G-d bless Israel.

[iggypopforyou]

@ricksand2 ...Yes, just please can anyone out there tell me where that rascally god of the Jews has been hanging out lately? Seems he was everywhere while the "Book" was being written - cute children's stories like Moses and his sleazy brother scamming that, "Golden Calf" My fucking god, were it not for Moses going on killing spree, we would have no documentation - i.e. Honest Reporting i.e. Old Testament. A biased news creep prob. write a news piece blaming the Hitites - those fucking Hitites!

[hummercity]

Excellent . Kol Hakavod.

[agstnr]

All the Left and Greens take it as a given that Israel is apartheid and similar to the Nazis in behavior. Not only is this horribly offensive to Jews but it is an inversion of the truth. It is the Arab world that wants to make the region free of Jews. It is the Arab world that wants to eliminate the Jews. Not the other way around.

[iggypopforyou]

The "Arab World." Are you high? Throw that pipe away. There is no Arab world. You would be hard pressed to find eighteen Arabs - not Paki's, not Indonesians, Nigerians, American's or any other race which worships Islam - merely eighteen Arabs who agree on at least three subjects and it takes over eighteen individuals all in accord on pretty much enough to consider themselves a "World!" Please, can you explain just where this Arab World is and who lives there?

[iggypopforyou]

@agstnr Alas, sadly, it does seem popular for a great deal of Muslims to hope their shouts (Most likely, those ignorant, underfed, undereducated, slobs) will be taken by equally ignorant (over-educated, over-fed, over repulsive American/European Jews) as a comprehensive, "Arab" stated position endorsed by all Arabs everywhere - Arabs being, Syrians, Arabians, Jordanians, Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraquis, and Gulf Arabs - not those shouting morons gathered to go apeshit for the media...

[CamiellaC]

Obama should learn a bit of history before shouting his mouth about the border line of 1967!!

[etzion1976]

Excellent, but lose the hat Lee.

[dlagrua]

The Jews arrrived in 1948 and ejected the Palestians to create Israel. We did the same thing with the American Indians but there were more white men than there were Indians and we ended up killing most of them, wrongly of course! The only problem with Israels seizure and occupation of Palestinian land is that there are far more Arabs than Jews and in a war of attrition; over time the Jew will lose.

[ehayoun50]

@dlagrua

Since time immemorial there has been a continuous majority of Jews living in Jerusalem. The only time it has been divided and illegally occupied was between 1948 and 1967.

The Palestinians already have a homeland, the Leage of Nations created a Palestinian land in Jordan and a Jewish homeland in Israel. There are over 20 muslims countries and only one Jewish homeland. The Arabs are greedy and want to dominate the world with Sharia law. Be careful for what you wish for.

[somnys]

@dlagrua I can't figure out if you're being sarcastic, or if you're really that dumb and ignorant of facts.

[alonabd]

@dlagrua Oh really ? The Jews arrived in 1948 ? that's odd because my family was there generations before 1948 as were many others. Lie #2. Palestinians were ejected. Wrong again...the Arabs fled because their leaders wanted them out of the way so that they could easily kill the Jews and take the land. Get your facts straight.

[chugalongway01]

@alonabd Maybe you should get your facts rights. The Palis owned most of the land in 1947 , over 90%. Most Jews arrived in Palestine after 1930s. What was the Jewish population of Palestine in the 1920s, thats right , only 21,000. Maybe you should read something written by Israels New Historian rather than repeating hasbara bullshit.

[eremselle]

to soon to be ex president obama. this video is Jerusalem 101 .its not that you don't know its history. its because you hate Israel.

[iggypopforyou]

@eremselle so let me get this straight. You are insinuating that the current President is a hater of Israel? Because? Because he hired as chief of Staff a died in the wool member of the IDF as well as a shill for the Mossad? This dude who painted and commercialized the administration's position on our vaunted ally - the only ally which spies on America regularly? The only American ally to withhold any military aid and any announced intelligence, military personnel

[ricksand2]

@iggypopforyou Americas only TRUE friend in the middle east. Regardless of your nonsensical diatribe....

[thefifthcolumnreport]

My grandmother was born and raised in Jerusalem and our family had lived in Israel at least six generations before her. They were forced to flee out of Jerusalem during the First World War. They lost their home, livelihood, and nearly their lives. As refugees, they received no consideration.

The world has latched onto the false narrative and propaganda manufactured by the Palestinians. Jerusalem must never be divided again.

[saadasim]

Henry Siegman, former director of American Jewish Congress (and a recipient of Bronze Star and Purple Heart), has stated that Israel has "crossed the threshold from "the only Democracy in the Middle East" to the only Apartheid regime in the Western world.

[davidshermantax]

"My point is that settlements are illegal..." Let's see. Hebron had an uninterrupted Jewish community for many hundreds of years. In 1929 and 1936, Arabs attacked and murdered all the Jews who didn't escape. Due to these pogroms, Hebron became empty of Jews. In 1967, Israel retook Hebron. Some Jews moved back there, without evicting any Arabs, building new homes. How is this an "illegal settlement", Kathleen? When Arabs kill/evict all the Jews, it magically becomes "Arab" land?

[ElenaGeorge1]

@davidshermantax That is the way islam works. The conquer, strip it, kill its non-converting inhabitants, enslave others, and call it home. They keep a few dhimmi around to make things look nice.

[davidshermantax]

"I just don't like my tax dollars going to a country that kicks people out of their homes and takes their land." Do you better like people whose sole aim is to kill others? Hamas' charter calls for it to kill all Jews. If the Arabs hadn't waged war to destroy Israel and kill all its Jews, they would not have lost any homes or land in 1948. Jews who came back beginning in the 1880s purchased empty barren land and made the desert flourish. They kicked out nobody.

[davidshermantax]

Simple measure of which way is better for the world: Under Israeli control, all holy sites of all religions are respected and are open to all. (Israel lets the Mulsim control the Temple Mount, for example, even though it's historically the location of the Israelite Temple.) Under Arab/Muslim control, there would be no free access and all Jewish holy sites would be destroyed (as the Arabs did, for example, to Joseph's Tomb a few years ago). Which is fairer?

[ElenaGeorge1]

@davidshermantax Archeologists have to pick thru the rubble the muslims toss out to find their own ancestral roots on the Temple Mount. Then the muslims digging complain the Jews are causing the Mount to collapse. They are so childish and silly!

[iamlost2]

Lies, "Jewish life" it was mixed with Roman, Greek, Egyptian. Jewish , as we know it now, one G-d, was very very small!! Archeology finds in those digs figures of other gods, so they were pagans too.

[apologiamixer]

Islam is a cult based on lies.

[holyland08]

For Christians who value their Holy places, I am certain a united Jerusalem under Israeli care is the onl way to assure their continued existance. All around the world we see other religions artifacts and Holy places and lives being destroyed by Islamic extemists. In Jerusalem all religions have freedom. I know I live here and listen 5 times a day evry day to the very loud call to prayer from the mosques. Why ? Because Israel is a free countryand no ones spiritual life is curtailed .

[iamlost2]

@holyland08 That's what they want you to believe. Zionism created radical Islam and Hamas

[GospodinMilan]

THE CIVILIZED WORLD STANDS BY YOU, O ISRAEL. CALL UPON US, AND ALL THE KAFIR WARRIORS WILL COME TO YOUR AID. JERUSALEM SHALL NEVER NEVER NEVER BE DIVIDED AGAIN !!!

[fanaber70]

God bless Israel and Israeli people.

[polotsk]

I stand with Israel. If I am not with Israel who am I with?! Hamas, Hezolah, Ahmedinijad, suicide bombers? Jew use stones for building, not for destruction. Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Arabs want to destroy Jerusalem in order to destroy Jewish sole. Never again!

[saadasim]

Date, Pres, Pop, Statement

Apr 80, Carter, 61500, Settlements are not legal

Sep 82, Reagan, 106595, Settlement activity is in no way necessary for the security of Israel

Mar 90, Bush, 227500, No new settlements in WB

Jan 01, Clinton, 387859, Settlements are inconsistent with the Oslo commitment

Apr 2002, Bush II, 414119, Israeli settlement activity in occupied territories must stop.

May 2010, Obama, 479500, Settlements have to be stopped .

We give money, Israel gives us the finger!

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim Then throw away your cell phone, computer and don't get sick because the Jews of Israel developed cell phone technology, computer chips, and many medical breakthroughs. Arabs have done nothing but blow themselves up and kill innocent Israelis.

[saadasim]

@kathleenmarion It wasn't just the Jews of Israel, it was Jews all around the world.  I have nothing against Jews and many honorable Jews have been against the Apartheid actions of Israel. I just don't like my tax dollars going to a country that kicks people out of their homes and takes their land.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim Then perhaps you ought to learn the truth of history and not listen to Palestinian propaganda.

Palestine' has never been the name of a nation or state. It is a geographical term, used to designate the region at those times in history when there is no nation or state there. The word itself derives from "Peleshet", a name that appears frequently in the Bible and has come into English as "Philistine".

[kathleenmarion]

The name began to be used in the Thirteenth Century BCE, for a wave of migrant "Sea Peoples" who came from the area of the Aegean Sea and the Greek Islands and settled on the southern coast of the land of Canaan. There they established five independent city-states (including Gaza) on a narrow strip of land known as Philistia. The Greeks and Romans called it "Palastina".

[saadasim]

@kathleenmarion You have a problem sticking to the point and not going off in some useless tangent? My point is that settlements are illegal and Israel continues to suck US taxpayer money while giving the finger to the President.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim And my point was and still is you don't know your history therefore you cannot know that the so called "occupied" land does NOT belong to the so called Palestinians because as a people group they never existed and they are nothing but Arabs who BELONG in their own country Jordan which WAS created for them at the time of the British mandate. They are stingy greedy Arabs who want nothing more than to kill all the Jews, PERIOD.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim Second it is our President who is giving the finger to Israel, not the other way around. Israel has provided us with valuable intelligence regarding the issues in the middle east. Their intelligence aka CIA information technology is better than ours since they developed it. You have surly benefited from your well spent tax dollars to Israel as they have also developed cell phone technology, computer chips, along with medical breakthroughs that have saved lives.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim The so called "settlements" are built on ISRAELI land. The 1967 borders were captured Israel when Jordan attacked Israel and they lost. The UN Resolution 242 states that Israel IS justified in keeping the land as long as protection of her citizens & defense of the country was an issue. Bush affirmed this in 2004. Since then they have had no assurance of safety. Therefore the land is theirs. Which again shows you that YOU DON'T KNOW ENOUGH HISTORY TO DECIDED THE ISSUE. THAT WAS MY POINT

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim The Philistines were not Arabs, they were not Semites. They had no connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs. The name "Falastin" that Arabs today use for "Palestine" is not an Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman "Palastina" derived from the Peleshet.

[CandelicaDelJoha]

@kathleenmarion palastina" comes from hebrew "pleshet" - known as the plishtim (phylistines. it means "invaders" in hebrew - they were ppl who invaded the land from the sea in biblical times, came from europe and had red hair. they also dissapeared oner the milenia, just as they first appeared.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim In the First Century CE, the Romans crushed the independent kingdom of Judea. After the failed rebellion of Bar Kokhba in the Second Century CE, the Roman Emperor Hadrian determined to wipe out the identity of Israel-Judah-Judea. Therefore, he took the name Palastina and imposed it on all the Land of Israel. At the same time, he changed the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina.

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim From the beginning of history to this day, Israel has been the only united, independent, sovereign nation-state that ever existed in "Palestine" west of the Jordan River. (In Biblical times, Ammon, Moab and Edom as well as Israel had land east of the Jordan, but they disappeared in antiquity and no other nation took their place until the British invented Trans-Jordan in the 1920s.)

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim Noted Quotes: "There is no such country as Palestine. 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented. . . . Our country was for centuries part of Syria. 'Palestine' is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it." - Local Arab leader to British Peel Commission, 1937

[kathleenmarion]

@saadasim "There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not" - Professor Philip Hitti, Arab historian to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 1946

"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria." - Ahmed Shukairy, United Nations Security Council, 1956

So I'm assuming you don't mind your tax dollars going to Arabs that strap bombs on themselves walk into shopping centers and blow women and children up.

[Claudia1709]

Wonderful video. I have visited Jerusalem and long to again wander the streets and talk with the fascinating people living there. My Dad visited in the 1930's and I have his notes. Anyone who thinks it was a divided city is nuts! It is all a part of the Muslim lie to gain control of Israel. It will not succeed.Jerusalem is the most Holy city in the world to Christians and Jews, Muslims only want it for conquest , and built their Dome for dominance.

[cockneydoll]

@Claudia1709 Jerusalem was never divided. My father was born in England in 1919. In 1920, my grandparents, who had fled the pogroms of the Ukraine and fled to England in the late 1800s, with 10 children in tow, went to Palestine. I can give vivid accounts of the country back then.I had a 19 year old uncle killed in an Arab uprising in 1922. Read Mark Twain's 'Innocents Abroad" which is available as a free download, you will have a good account of not only what Jerusalem was like, but Israel too

[qarton]

@Claudia1709 Thats awesome. I would love to see your father's notes on Israel transcribed and put online.

[kidsarocker]

@Claudia1709 Christianity created Islam, the Pope wanted cliam to Jerusalem and concoted an idea to tap into the Arab Population using Ishmael. watch?v=ROWFv_ckhWg&feature=pl­ayer_embedded

[Ahuvaisrael]

Thanks for this video!!!! In our times we see the fullfilling of Sacharyia 12, 1-3!!! Never in all times ago we had have this situation! But Israel's G'D is so much greater and higher than all media's, Arabs and Palestinians worldwide include the unbelievable members of the UN Security Councel. Baruch HaShem!!!

[thejjgem]

It is about time to correct the media about all the lies they tell about Israel and Jerusalem. We need stronger personalities and more prominent people the tell the ignorant world the truth.

[dbarjay]

0:41 is that the most reliable person they could find for the video? an expert with a hat and a t-shirt?

[rabjayhg]

@dbarjay This is how archaeologists dress when working in the hot Jerusalem sun. The outfit does not challenge the expertise.

[dbarjay]

@rabjayhg Not that I dissagree, I lived on the old city and I saw them daily, is just that we haven't really learned how to display our image on the media.

[rabjayhg]

@dbarjay

This is how archaeologists dress when working in the hot Jerusalem sun. The outfit does not challenge the expertise.

JayG

[yaffadesign]

@dbarjay and for you is most reliable person must be with qufiya or hijab?

[dbarjay]

@yaffadesign a dress suit wouldnt hurt.... im just saying I work on marketing and you don't have to be a genius to know that a guy with a hat as an expert doesn't help to make israel look better on the media.

[alanmargolis35]

@dbarjay The sun is often very powerful in Israel and it is advisable to wear a light-weight head covering.

[dbarjay]

@alanmargolis35 I know, I lived there.... since nobody is gettingthe point I guess Israel's image in the media hasnot bright future.

[Jambo6813]

My original comment was really more directed toward archaeology and the modern claim to a piece of real estate. This is where it gets really complicated and facts become subjected. My criticism is limited only to a Zionist idea that conflicts with Palestinian interests. I accept both Jewish and Arab claim to the land, equal, undivided. It is true that radical Arabism to the exclusion of a Jewish presence is unacceptable. Peace to all.

[MacEoin]

@Jambo6813 I wish in a way that your notion of an equal, undivided claim to the land would work. But it doesn't. The Arabs have a claim on some of the land, and Israel accepts that; but the Palestinians insist on having 100% for themselves. It was originally Jewish land till the Romans chased them out in AD 70, and was then conquered by the first Muslim Arabs in the 7th century. It was ruled by various Muslim dynasties, latterly the Ottoman Empire. But it's not sacred to Muslims, giving Jews

[MacEoin]

@Jambo6813 the greater right, I think. Under the Ottoman Turks, Palestine/Israel was considered Southern Syria, and there was never a Palestinian state. The Jews have done much more with the land than the Arabs ever did, reinforcing their right to dwell on it. The Prophet Muhammad originally prayed towards Jerusalem, but not long after his move to Medina, he turned his back on it and changed the direction of prayer to Mecca. This diminishes all Muslim claim to the city.

[YahshuasWitness]

I have one small point that I would like to make. It is not accurate to say that Yahrushalayim has been populated by Yahudim for thousands of years. Yaakov had twelve sons which make up the nation of Yisrael. Yahuda was only one of the sons of Yaakov/Yirael. Yahuwah will be restoring the twelve tribes very soon in these last days when his son Yahushua returns. Baruch HaShem Yahuwah!!!

[ZACK613]

END THE MEDIA LIES!!!

[alinder12]

Finally the TRUTH!

[yardenhr]

EPA -- The Old City is a part of what is called "Arab" East Jerusalem. No, it is not all of the area, but Jewish neighborhoods like Gilo and East Talpiot are also. And there are also many Arabs who live there because unlike Jordanian occupation, Israel does not throw them out.

[Theknopf]

THANK YOU FOR TELLING THE TRUTH NOW HOW ABOUT THE TRUTH OF THE RABBI HAMMERED TO THE ROMAN PAGAN CROSS TELL THE TRUTH!

[2stantee]

Jambo, the whole notion of Israeli "apartheid" is just as much a myth as the idea of two separate Jerusalems. Arabs with Israeli citizenship enjoy all the same rights as any other Israeli citizens. They can vote, sit on the Supreme Court, become members of Parliament and much more, none of which was possible in true apartheid South Africa (I know, I was born there). As for the Palestinians, they are governed by their own rulers - Hamas and Fatah. Nothing to do with Israel.

[ElenaGeorge1]

@2stantee In fact, there are seats set aside for Arab Israelis in the Knesset. How much fairer can you be? It would be as if we had a Congress that had seats set aside for all our minorities.

[kangaroo303]

@2stantee Very true! Israel has Arabs in its Knesset (congress) as well as Cabinet, and can vote just like everyone else! Not to mention, at Hebrew University, Jews and Arabs go to school together...

[mk181818]

@kangaroo303 I would not apologize before hostile christian and arab world for our existence in Jerusalem by pointing out how submissive and democratic we are. Just say it in the loud voice: from now on The city of Jerusalem will be the ONLY Jewish capital of Israel and the ONLY Capital for every Jew from all around the World.. Any mumbling about division of this city will stay as gibberish of anti-Semites. Period.

[Jambo6813]

It's not ancient/Biblical history that is my concern, or from where Jews have lived over the centuries which includes Jerusalem, of course. I am against the modern Israeli apartheid state treating Palestinian Arabs with fewer human rights than Israelis.

That's it. It's not so complicated Oh People of Israel.

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourselves and not out of the horror of the way you have been treated in the past.

[renayitz]

@Jambo6813 It is very complicated when you continue to believe the lie of apartheid. You have it backwards: Whenever Arabs are the ruling government, they expel Jews and discriminate against Christians. Sharia by definition makes non-Moslems second-class citizens. In Israel, it is the Arabsof the Palestinian Authority areas who refuse to share the country with Jews. Arabs have always wanted the Middle East to be Jew-free.

[EPA18]

Obviously you don't understand my point. How was it established in this video that the land that is characterized as "East Jerusalem" today, was a part of the historic, biblical Jerusalem? Again, I am not referring to the Old City, so no, the lady in the video was telling the truth, 100%. I guess that to really understand my point, you have to have gone to Israel, and be familiar with both the "Old City" site, as well as the "East Jerusalem" site.

[omegarad]

@Jambo6813 are you saying that that lady is a lier? Yemenite Jews didn't live in Silwan? Jordanians didn't occupy the Jewish Quarter of Old City? They did not use gravestones to line streets and latrines? Are all these "revisionist" lies?

[EPA18]

I am certainly NOT neturei karta! Had I been neturei karta, I would not have previously conceded that the Old City belongs to Israel I just note that what is known as East Jerusalem is rife with problems that maybe Israel is betting off not taking on. So let the arabs sink themselves in East Jerusalem, since I think they would be poor at govening themselves, with Israel maintaining a vigilant defense.

[finnenvenn]

Thank you for the great info.Se also the video "Israel's Right to Build in Jerusalem"

here on youtube. jerusalem center of public affairs

[Jambo6813]

It is very painful to hear this Zionist revision of history. Israelis must read "The Past as Propaganda: How Hitler's Archaeologists Distorted European Prehistory to Justify Racist and Territorial Goals" by Brettina Arnold--Archaeology Magazine July/August 1992.

If the modern state of Israel is to have any credibility and want its existence accepted as legitimate, then it too must recognize the Other--the Arabs.

You can't have it both ways Israel, cry victim while you make victims.

[dallas998]

@Jambo6813 Does not Israel show tolerance for all religions, to the point where the Waqf has control over the Temple Mount?

The attitude of Islamic supremacy and the PA's intent to make their proposed territory 'judenrein' is what we are dealing with. THAT is painful and THAT is true apartheid. Read history. You are merely repeating a false narrative.

Ask the scientists - everywhere across Israel the artifacts from earth show us the truth.

No I am not Jewish. I am pro-humanity and anti-BS.

[Jambo6813]

It is very painful to hear this Zionist revision of history. Israelis must read "The Past as Propaganda: How Hitler's Archaeologists Distorted European Prehistory to Justify Racist and Territorial Goals" by Brettina Arnold--Archaeology Magazine July/August 1992.

If the modern state of Israel is to have any credibility and want its existence accepted as legitimate, then it too must recognize the Other.

You can't have it both ways Israel, cry victim while you make victims.

[dnlrabbinical1]

@Jambo6813

No sir, this is not “revision". Why don't you check Red Cross documents as well as the authenticity of the footage in these video. Why don't you check the UN records of negotiation between the Jordanian army and the UN representatives regarding releasing the thousands of Jewish refugees trapped in the old city?

As painful as the truth is to you - the truth does indeed hurt sometimes.

[rcohen0536]

Take 5 minutes to watch.

The Arab world understands that a lie repeated ofter enough will start to sound like the truth, that and the American/Western obsession with "underdogs" is very dangerious to truth.

[EPA18]

I question the honesty of this presentation. I say this as a religious Jew. The video equates the "Old City" of Jerusalem with what is characterized today as "East Jerusalem." While I have no doubt that the Old City belongs to Israel. I question whether all of what is termed "East Jerusalem belongs - or should belong - to Israel. It is filled with hostile Arabs, and this presentation does not prove that the land characterized as East Jerusalem was actually a part of historic Jerusalem.

[avrahani]

@EPA18 - So you want to divide "East Jerusalem"? Carve out the Old City from whatever's built up around it?

[Lagolop]

@EPA18

Neturei Karta?

[switchon11]

@EPA18 I doubt that you are a religious Jew, or evevn a jew, the bible says it clearly that this is the city of david.

Jerusalem is mentioned hundred's of times in the bible , so you are saying that the bibles talks about new Jerusalem, not old Jerusalem. YOU MUST BE A MORON !

[MisterMenor2]

An important message to convey the truth about Jerusalem's history and existence. Equally important to communicate the media's role in forgeting or distorting the truth.