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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (18) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Memo to boss: 11-hour days are bad for the heart 11 May 2010 Factbox: Chronology of Gulf of Mexico oil spill 11 May 2010 Libyan jet crash kills 103, boy only survivor | Video 11:29am EDT UPDATE 2-Greek workers call one-day strike May 20 9:18am EDT Nine killed in latest China school rampage 7:23am EDT Playboy raises the bar with 3-D centerfold 11 May 2010 Obesity task force urges action 11 May 2010 Libya crash plane passed European spot-checks 9:42am EDT Niecy Nash no longer "Dancing with the Stars" 9:55am EDT WRAPUP 3-Oil execs under pressure, BP tries latest well fix 10:19am EDT Memo to boss: 11-hour days are bad for the heart 11 May 2010 UPDATE 2-Greek workers call one-day strike May 20 9:18am EDT Libyan jet crash kills 103, boy only survivor | Video 11:29am EDT FACTBOX-Five areas of Greek budget waste 28 Apr 2010 Factbox: Chronology of Gulf of Mexico oil spill 11 May 2010 Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record 07 May 2010 Playboy raises the bar with 3-D centerfold 11 May 2010 Special report: The incinerator that may burn muni investors 8:28am EDT Nine killed in latest China school rampage 7:23am EDT New UK leaders say coalition will rebuild economy | Video 11:21am EDT Netanyahu turns to Bible in tussle over Jerusalem Dan Williams JERUSALEM Wed May 12, 2010 8:59am EDT Related News Palestinians say indirect talks with Israel have begun Sun, May 9 2010 Palestinian approval opens door to Mideast talks Sat, May 8 2010 Palestinians agree to new peace talks with Israel Sat, May 8 2010 Israel mulls wider Palestinian control in West Bank Tue, May 4 2010 U.S. envoy arrives for Israeli-Palestinian talks Mon, May 3 2010 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Beset by questions about the future of Jerusalem in talks with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin reached for the Bible on Wednesday to stake out the Jewish state's disputed claim on the city. World Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament, Judaism's core canon. "As to how many times Jerusalem is mentioned in the holy scriptures of other faiths, I recommend you check," he said. Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "indivisible" capital -- a designation not recognized abroad, where many powers support Palestinian claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. Jerusalem, at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is also revered by Muslims because it houses al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine after Mecca and Medina, on a plaza Jews revere as the vestige of two biblical Jewish temples. Heckled by a lawmaker from Israel's Arab minority, Netanyahu offered a lesson in comparative religion from the lectern. "Because you asked: Jerusalem is mentioned 142 times in the New Testament, and none of the 16 various Arabic names for Jerusalem is mentioned in the Koran. But in an expanded interpretation of the Koran from the 12th century, one passage is said to refer to Jerusalem," he said. Asked about Netanyahu's citations, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said: "I find it very distasteful this use of religion to incite hatred and fear." MANY RULERS Destroyed as a Jewish capital by the Romans in the 1st century AD, Jerusalem was a Christian city under their Byzantine successors before falling to Muslim Arabs in the 7th. European Crusaders took it back for a century before 700 years of Muslim control until Britain defeated the Ottoman Turks in 1917. As Britain prepared to quit, the United Nations proposed international rule for the city, along with nearby Bethlehem, in 1947 as a "corpus separatum." That proposal was overtaken by fighting that left Israel holding West Jerusalem in 1948 and Jordanian forces in East Jerusalem. Israel then took the rest in the Six Day War of 1967. The city, within boundaries defined by Israel but not recognized internationally, is now home to 750,000 people, two in three of them Jews and the rest mostly Muslim Palestinians. Netanyahu did not refer in his speech to indirect peace negotiations with the Palestinians that resumed this month after 1 1/2 years of U.S. mediation. But he said Israel would retain all of Jerusalem while ensuring freedom of worship at its sites. Such assertions are challenged by Palestinians given that Israel, over the last decade of fighting, has often banned their access to al-Aqsa. Christians in the adjacent West Bank complain of similar difficulties in reaching Jerusalem churches. "There is no undercutting, nor do I intend to undercut, the connection of others to Jerusalem," Netanyahu said. "But I do confront the attempt to undercut and warp or obfuscate the unique connection that we, the people of Israel, have to the capital of Israel." (Editing by Samia Nakhoul) World Comments See All Comments (18) | Post Comment May 12, 2010 8:28am EDT The final status of Jerusalem is on the table. sk8sonh2o Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 8:28am EDT ” Michel Angelo, when will you finish”? said the Pope to the artist. Same question applies now. When is this conflict between Israel and the Palestinians going to end. We are sick and tired of all the games being played by both side. Give us some peace and keep your conflict in your world. Keep us out of it. Amen. brutus.353 Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 8:48am EDT What is ‘clear’ and will always be clear was that Fannie and Freddie participated in the packaging of ‘toxic’ mortgages—-mortgages from mortgagees barely employed and not likely to pay far into the future when their ‘intro’ interest rates change to higher payments they cannot afford. The credit ‘bubble’ riders were heading for a wipe-out along with the banks that made commissions from their mortgages and were supported by politicians with the dream that ‘everyone should have a right to a mortgage’, even if they barely can pay. It seems that that the ‘right’ to a mortgage only if you had the money was being supplanted with a political dream and the greed to collect those ‘commissions’ on the mortages written. Thus the REP dream of capitalistic ‘profit’ was also supported by the DEM populist dream of more housing for ‘everyone’. Well, more housing did get built, but a lot of it is in foreclosure and the banks and taxpayers are making the payments. Watchout Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 8:50am EDT Zechariah 12:2-3 (New King James Version) 2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. 3 And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. Alexi Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 9:00am EDT What was always clear aslo if that God promised the Israelites a land of “… milk and honey..”, but did not (maybe) explain that there were people living there already. Why could He not have picked some lands that were not occuppied already? Seems like God sanctioned ‘invasions’ or ‘illegal immigration’ very early on. But in the history of Jerusalem there was a one or two hundred year period when Jews were specifically banned from visiting Jerusalem on penalty of death. Can you name who promulgated the ban? So, Jews who know their history understand full well why ‘they’ need to control the access to Jerusalem having experienced that ban. By the way, I am not Jewish although every early Christian was Jewish initially, Christianity being an offshoot of Judaism. Watchout Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 9:31am EDT This is truly a conflict of biblical proportions, that is better left to the two sides who are involved. The rest of the world has no business interfering. fstwrtr Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 9:39am EDT I find many people revert to the bible as their source material when they have no other means to support an argument. It allows them to go from objective to subjective to ludacris with the skip of a stone. hadas Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 9:49am EDT Netanyahu quotes the Bible, he does good… But more so, he should take into consideration the God of the Bible – a Holy and Righteous God. Righteousness and God’s indignation against Israel over its lack of it is mentioned many many times more than the word Sion. Does he think that God is like man – that God looks the other way when it comes to His chosen one??? Isa 58:1-8 “Cry aloud; do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted, and you see it not? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you take no knowledge of it?’ Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure, and oppress all your workers. Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard. Mobster Report As Abusive May 12, 2010 9:52am EDT If this logic holds true then Native Americans would be entitled to reclaim their land from 2000 years ago and depopulate American towns and villages. Aboriginals from Australia could do the same. Israel is hanging on a thread and its open racism and inhumanity towards non Jews will not last long. How quickly they have forgotten what it is like to be the victim instead of the ruthless master. I have worked in Israel for 3 years now and am amazed at the level of racial intolerance that the Jewish population accepts as normal. It is like America in the 1950s but instead of Africans, the Jewish israelis direct their bitterness and cruelty toward the Muslims and Christian minorities. 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