I expect there to be a campaign underway to get those Western European countries to change their minds, under the guise that this is the right catalyst for peace negotiations and a final settlement.
I also fully expect American Jews to start warming up to this idea rather quickly despite all the blister of being against it. “Ain brerah” (no choice) as Israelis are wont to say.
This will be great, everything will work out fine, those entering and exiting the embassy will be greeted every day with flowers and cheers, no one working in the new embassy will have the least reason to fear anything at all, children will all be happy, tourists by the millions will flock to Jerusalem to tour the new facility, peoples of all nations, political persuasions, faith and creeds will join together as one in observing how wonderful it is, it will brnig peace to the entire region and end wars everywhere, and no one will ever complain, no one will ever get sick, no one will ever get older, and no one’s gonna die.
I believe you are looking for “The Rapture”.
Come now, as Fox declared to the world yesterday, Trump is Cyrus the Great!
“And on the GOP these words appear:
'My name is Donnymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that electoral wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level indictments stretch far away.”
(Apologies to Shelley)
I know I went to Catechism a long time ago, but I do remember Jesus calling for the US Embassy to be moved to Jerusalem. Jesus, for sure is beaming down from heaven at his son Donald, just as Mike Pence would !
It never occurred to me before that we are just building a giant bulls-eye that, once it is inevitably attacked, will be the excuse for Israel and the US to partner up and destroy Iran. I know Trump doesn’t think that far ahead but a lot of very shady people do - looking at Bolton and Netanyahu for starters.
…if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
The Fundies are going to be so disappointed when they find out that the Rapture is just nuclear fallout.
Aggression works. Religion is aggression. God is dead.
Some weeks ago, Bibi himself declared Trump was the equivalent of Cyrus the Great as the savior of the Jewish people, in other words, a messiah. Pirro is just reiterating that sentiment for the Faux audience when she invokes the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
This means more than just the overblown flattery of Trump, which it is, of course. This declaration removes an important doctrinal impediment to the rebuilding of the third Jewish temple for certain Orthodox Jews. Heretofore, their objections that the rebuilding of the temple could only be done by the messiah prevented a unified call within the influential Orthodox movement (and its other supporters) that the temple project be started forthwith. The site of the new temple will be upon ruins of the former temple, which requires eradicating any Islamic presence from the entire Temple Mount. The outrage and overt actions from the entire Islamic community, Shia and Sunni, should be unpresidented indeed!
In 1973, Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, wanted to use nuclear weapons to repel the attacks from Egypt and Syria during the onset of the Yom Kippur War. Thankfully, she was talked down by her military leadership. This was during the “reasonable” period of extended Labor governance in Israel. How confident should we be that the same calm “reason” would prevail within this extended period of Likud governance with coalition partys more bellicose than even Bibi?
Given Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal, and with Bolton threatening sanctions against European businesses and the EU if they continue trade with Iran, I suspect that the “Western European countries” are not going to be too amenable to supporting the US in this, or many other issues for awhile.
Are we sure this isn’t just some scam for Ivanka and jared to acquire a mansion at taxpayers expense?
The embassy office is down stairs in the basement 2nd door on the right. All other places are off limits to those other people.
Have to keep my eye on these 2 and see where they bed down the most.
Oy.
I put in a link to the ongoing coverage from the Guardian. The death toll in Gaza is reported as being up to 37. I put in a paragraph from an Israeli pro-peace group that is apropos to the title of the thread.
B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, has condemned Israel for showing an “appalling indifference towards human life”.
In a statement it said:
The demonstrations held in Gaza today came as no surprise. Israel had plenty of time to come up with alternate approaches for dealing with the protests, apart from firing live ammunition. The fact that live gunfire is once again the sole measure that the Israeli military is using in the field evinces appalling indifference towards human life on the part of senior Israeli government and military officials. B’Tselem calls for an immediate halt to the killing of Palestinian demonstrators. If the relevant officials do not issue an order to stop the lethal fire, the soldiers in the field must refuse to comply with these manifestly unlawful open-fire orders.
