Czech Republic Backtracks on Jerusalem Capital Denial - JNS BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

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Czech Republic Backtracks on Jerusalem Capital Denial

By JNS September 8, 2016   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“Yerushalayim, that art builded as a city that is compact together.” Psalms 122:3 (The Israel Bible™)

The Czech Education Ministry reversed its decision requiring the company that prints atlases for the country’s schools to stop naming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Education Minister Katerina Valachova told Czech Radio on Tuesday, the Prague Daily Monitor reported.

“Jerusalem is Israel’s capital from the viewpoint of the declaration of the country to which this relates, which means Israel,” Valachova said. “If there is a sentence relating to all of the international steps, I believe that this fact will not offend either side.”

Palestinian Ambassador to Prague Khaled Alattrash convinced the government to force textbook publisher Shocart to rewrite all books listing Jerusalem as the capital or risk losing certification.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat wrote to Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka on Sept. 4 urging him to rescind the decision.

“Jerusalem is on the map!” Barkat responded to the decision.

Barkat said he’s thankful to the Czech government for its decision and “for refusing to surrender to Palestinian incitement and lies. I am pleased that my letter to Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and the additional diplomatic efforts have positively impacted this decision.”

Europe Drops Political Correctness, Says Only Christians, Not Muslim Refugees Welcome

Middle East refugees and migrants wait near a border fence built by Hungary. (Photo: YouTube Video Screenshot)

Europe Drops Political Correctness, Says Only Christians, Not Muslim Refugees Welcome

By Lea Speyer  September 8, 2015  BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“When the poor and needy search for water and there is none, and their tongues are parched from thirst, then I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, will never abandon them.” (Isaiah 41:17)

With large waves of Middle East refugees making their way to Europe, various countries have made clear they are only willing to take in Christians fleeing the carnage and not Muslims.

Abandoning any sort of political correctness, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic have all come out against taking in Muslim refugees. On Monday, Cyprus announced it will allow 300 refugees to take refuge inside its borders, as long as they are Christian.

“We would seek for them to be Orthodox Christians,” explained Cyprus Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos on state radio. “It’s not an issue of being inhuman or not helping if we are called upon, but to be honest, yes, that’s what we would prefer.”

Hasikos, who is responsible for migration policy, added that Christian refugees would have an easier time adjusting to life in Cyprus compared to their Muslim counterparts.

His comments come amid rumored reports that the EU executive will issue a new set of national quotas under which EU member states must take in 160,000 asylum seekers.

At the end of August, Slovakia was the first European country to shockingly announce that Muslim immigrants and refugees would not be welcome inside its borders. Ivan Netik, an Interior Ministry Spokesman, said Muslims “would not feel at home” in his country.

In a followup interview with the BBC, Netik explained that Slovakia was not implementing a policy of discrimination, rather rules to preserve the country’s unity and identity. “We want to really help Europe with this migration wave but…we are only a transit country and the people don’t want to stay in Slovakia,” he said.

“We could take 800 Muslims but we don’t have any mosques in Slovakia so how can Muslims be integrated if they are not going to like it here?” Netik asked.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that his country would not like to “wake up one day” and find Slovakia overrun by Muslims. “If a mechanism for automatic redistribution of migrants is adopted, then we will wake up one day and have 100,000 people from the Arab world and that is a problem I would not like Slovakia to have,” he stated.

Assyrian Christian children who were displaced by the Islamic State terror group are pictured in Ankawa, Iraq, trying to keep warm during a snowstorm. (Photo: Jeff Gardner/ Picture Christians Project/ picturechristians.org)

Hungary, one of the largest opponents against taking in thousands of refugees fleeing Muslim countries, has expressed his concern for the changing demographic situation in Europe. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently warned that the addition of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern Muslims should greatly endanger Europe’s Christian cultural identity.

In a somewhat ironic twist, Arab media has come down hard on European countries not willing to take in Muslims, despite the closed door policies towards refugees and migrants of many Muslim countries.

Gulf States, despite their vast wealth, has made it a policy to refuse refugees from war zones. Saudi newspaper Sabq, criticized European countries, accusing them of allowing “children, women and Muslim families…to starve and drown on the grounds that they could not settle among the Europeans without mosques.” The newspaper went on to call the situation “a new human tragedy.”

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Netanyahu to Czech PM: Thank You for Standing Up for Peace

Netanyahu to Czech PM: Thank You for Standing Up for Peace

Netanyahu thanks Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas for his country’s vote against the PA's unilateral statehood bid.

 

 

By Elad Benar, Israel National News

First Publish: 12/6/2012

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited Prague on Wednesday where he thanked Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas for his country’s vote against the Palestinian Authority’s unilateral statehood bid at the United Nations last week.

The Czech Republic was the only European country among the nine countries that voted against the resolution to recognize “Palestine” as a non-member observer state in the UN.

“My real purpose in coming here is to say on behalf of the people of Israel to you and your government and your countrymen and women, to say thank you,” Netanyahu told Necas in a joint press conference.





“Thank you for your country's opposition to the one-sided resolution at the United Nations; thank you for your friendship; thank you for your courage. I know that in voting against the one-sided resolution, the Czech Republic stood with the United States and Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current.

But history has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular, and if there is a people in the world who can appreciate that, it's the people of your country. Seventy-four years ago, in 1938, in Munich, leading powers of the world forced this proud democracy to sacrifice its vital interests. 

The international community applauded almost uniformly without exception.  They hailed this as something that would bring peace, peace in our time they said.  But rather than bring peace, those forced concessions from Czechoslovakia paved the way to the worst war in history.

“I know that your country has learned the lessons of history,” said Netanyahu. “So has my country, Israel. That is why Israel will not sacrifice its vital interests for the sake of obtaining the world's applause. Israel is committed to a genuine peace with our Palestinian neighbors – a genuine and durable peace.

For peace to endure, it must be a peace that we can defend.  No other peace can survive in the Middle East. We remain committed, as you said, to a negotiated settlement between us and our Palestinian neighbors. That solution is a two-state solution for two peoples, a peace in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes the one and only Jewish State of Israel.

“Unfortunately, on Thursday,” said Netanyahu, “the Palestinians asked the world to give them a state without providing Israel with peace and security in return.

“The UN resolution completely ignored Israel's security needs.  It didn't require the Palestinians to recognize the Jewish state.  It didn't even call on it to end the conflict with Israel.  And this is why it was unacceptable to Israel, and that is why, too, it has been unacceptable to all responsible members of the international community.

“Our conflict with the Palestinians will be resolved only through direct negotiations that address the needs of both Israelis and Palestinians.  It will not be resolved through one-sided resolutions of the UN that ignore Israel's vital needs and undermine the basic foundation for peace.”

“Mr. Prime Minister, I'm proud to be here in Prague. I told you just now in our Cabinet meeting that I saw, in my entry at the airport, a bust of Tomáš Masaryk, the great leader of this country, of this nation, and I believe that Tomáš Masaryk would have been very proud of the stand that your country took last week at the United Nations.

Thank you for standing up for the truth; thank you for standing up for decency; and thank you for standing up for peace. Thank you."

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