Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "James Ker-Lindsay"
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@JamesKerLindsay : I was heartened by the conference held in Jerusalem in March where Ynetnews reported that "more than 20 guests, some from countries that have no diplomatic ties with Israel, arrive for a historic conference in Jerusalem tackling war on terror and radicalization, desalination and food security."
"Among the guests who came to the conference, initiated by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, are representatives of Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Djibouti, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Sudan—states that do not have diplomatic ties with Israel. In addition, representatives came from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, and Uganda. Among the attendees were the former head of the Journalists Association of Bahrain and a senior Saudi reporter."
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@oiulti6900 : "A Jew is any person belonging to the worldwide group that constitutes, through descent or conversion, a continuation of the ancient Jewish people, who were themselves descendants of the Hebrews of the Bible" [from Britannica]. The Jews were exiled from their ancestral homeland for two thousand years, so they come from a wide variety of places, eg. Russia, Ethiopia, Morocco, India, Europe. It's up to Israel's Jewish leaders to define who is a Jew in terms of returning to Israel.
That's pure nonsense to say that Christians are never at risk in Muslim countries. I'm currently in Egypt where Christians are being persecuted, where their churches need heavy security, and where no person born into a Muslim family can convert to Christianity in a legal sense. Christians and Jews are always second-class 'dhimmis' in a Muslim-majority country. They can NEVER be certain of their security, and they can't hold positions of power. That was also the situation when the Ottoman Empire occupied Palestine.
It's only now that the Holy Land is once again under the leadership of the indigenous Jewish people that there is equality under the law for all citizens, and freedom of worship. When the Jordanian Muslims invaded and conquered Jerusalem in 1948, they destroyed synagogues and exiled Jews from that most Holy Jewish city.
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@aliragh : The Arab leaders from 1918 onwards always wanted a Jew-free state, and they still want that today, 'from the river to the sea'. Out of the DEFEAT of the Ottoman Caliphate, the Middle East land was handed over by the victors, the Allied Powers of British-France, etc. to the current occupants for self-determination, even though they were under no obligation to do so. The Arabs got 99% of that land, today's Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The #indigenous Jews wanted less than 1% of that land, and they share it with 21% Arab Israeli citizens who have equal rights with Jews. So please stop whining about the poor 'Palestinians'. Stop using them as geopolitical #weapons against the Jews. By now they should all have been resettled in one of the surrounding Arab countries after they refused to accept peace with the Jewish state of Israel.
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