[Heaven] Netanyahu Turns To Bible In Tussle Over Jerusalem
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Netanyahu
Turns To Bible In Tussle Over
Jerusalem
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.
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