This changed after the “six-day war” of 1967, when Israel captured and annexed East Jerusalem parts, setting the tone for the modern day “Abrahamic divide”. Huntington.The writer is a retired lieutenant-general and a former lieutenant-governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Puducherry However, Donald Trump is no Bill Clinton or George Bush who chose to keep the lid on the issue of Jerusalem, and certainly not Barack Obama, who went on to support a UN Security Council resolution that criticised Israel for its settlement activities in West Bank and Jerusalem. The fledgling peace process in the region could implode with the furies over the expected outrage from such a move in the China threaded rod Suppliers Arab world.The fledgling peace process in the region could implode with the furies over the expected outrage from such a move in the Arab world. Besides the Arabs, the EU, Russians and most other powers have slammed the Trump move, which if carried out, effectively closes the door on East Jerusalem as the future capital of a fully-independent Palestine.
It further allowed Israel to protect the holy places from “desecration and any violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings towards those places”.Despite the theological beliefs and ethical principles underlying the affinity within the “Abrahamic religions”, the “city of peace”, Jerusalem, has been destroyed at least twice (by Babylonians, Romans and even Mongols), besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times and exchanged hands 44 times! The centuries old struggle to control Jerusalem led to the division of the old city into the Armenian, Jewish, Christian and Muslim quarters.The clashing claims have resulted in many interfaith bloodsheds, with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) successfully centralising the issue of “Jerusalem” to the Palestinian resistance, that was subsequently escalated by other factions and supporters like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iranian establishment which went to the extent of observing “Jerusalem Day” and concurrently threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”.The date palm and cypress tree lined old quarters of Jerusalem host the Temple Mount (Haram Al-Sharif), which the Jews believe was the location of the “First Temple” to house the Ark of the Covenant (housing the Ten Commandments) in a special room called the “Holy of Holies”. Adherents of these monotheistic faiths believe in Prophet Abraham as their common forefather. In Christianity too, the significance of Jerusalem is conserved in the Septuagint which Christians adopted as their authority, and reiterated in the New Testament on account of Jesus’ crucifixion here — the Garden Tomb, Condemnation Chapel, Chapel of Flagellation, etc, are deeply revered for their religious import. However, it is the ancient city of “Urusalima”, now known as Jerusalem that is the coveted holy city at the heart of the modern-day strife. Abrahamic religions” like Judaism, Christianity and Islam account for more than half of the world’s population.The major implication was the designation of Jerusalem (“complete and united”) as the capital of Israel, the seat of the Israeli President, the Knesset, the government and the Supreme Court.
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