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by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Israel National News The Palestinian Authority religious affairs minster, a week before peace
talks in Washington, warned of war if Jerusalem is not "returned" to
"its owners. And we are its owners."
With PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in the audience, Mahmoud Al-Habbash
declared in his Friday sermon, "Jerusalem can ignite a thousand and one
wars," according to a translation supplied by Palestinian Media Watch. Unless Jerusalem "becomes the capital of the Palestinian people, there
is no peace," he warned. "The term 'war' will not be erased from the
lexicon...as long as Jerusalem is occupied. "If Jerusalem is dishonored, if Jerusalem is disgraced, if [Jerusalem]
is lost, it may leave the door open to all possibilities of struggle,
all possibilities of war. "Jerusalem is not just a city. Al-Aqsa is not just a mosque. Jerusalem
is the key to peace.... Unless Jerusalem will be Palestinian, as it was
throughout history, the capital of the Palestinian state and the capital
of the Palestinian people, the place which is the object of heartfelt
longing and which all Muslims aspire to reach; unless Jerusalem is like
that way, there is no peace. There is no peace without Jerusalem. There
is no stability without Jerusalem." U.S. President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to host Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and Abbas this week, has gradually changed his
position on Jerusalem. During his 2008 election campaign, he stated that
the city is the "undivided" capital of Israel, but he backtracked the
next day after Arab protests. He explained that it was up to the PA and Israel to decide the borders
of the city and later stated that he meant the city should not be
divided by barbed wire, as it was during the Jordanian occupation
between 1948 and 1967. In his "reaching out Muslims' speech in Cairo in June 2008, President
Obama said he foresees the United Nations flag flying over the city.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
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