Netanyahu, Jerusalem Mayor Thank Trump, Haley for Stand on Jerusalem - CBN News Julie Stahl

Netanyahu, Jerusalem Mayor Thank Trump, Haley for Stand on Jerusalem

12-21-2017

CBN News Julie Stahl

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the United Nations a “House of Lies” on Thursday and thanked President Trump and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley for their stand on Jerusalem. 

“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel whether the UN recognizes it or not,” Netanyahu said during a ceremony to dedicate the new Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod.

“It took 70 years for the US to officially recognize it and it will take more years until the UN also recognizes it,” Netanyahu said of President Trump’s recent declaration that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

“Attitudes toward Israel by many countries in the world, on all continents, are changing outside the walls of the UN and in the end will percolate inside the walls of the UN building – the house of lies,” he said.

The US vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution earlier this week, which called on Trump to withdraw his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital.  The move prompted a General Assembly vote to the same affect. It’s due to take place on Thursday.

Ahead of the vote, Netanyahu rejected the results.

“The State of Israel flatly rejects this vote even before it is held. Jerusalem is our capital. We will continue to build in it and foreign embassies, led by the US embassy, will move to Jerusalem. It will happen,” he said.

He thanked Trump and Haley “for standing up for Israel and for standing up for the truth.” Ultimately the truth will prevail."

Earlier, Netanyahu released a video thanking Haley and saying that she had spoken at the UN like a Maccabee – the famed Jewish fighters who revolted against the Selucid Empire raining in the Holy Land by refusing to worship Greek gods. According to tradition, when they liberated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough oil to burn in the Menorah for one day but it lasted for eight. 

“You lit a candle of truth.  You dispelled the darkness.  One defeated the many.  Truth defeated lies,” he said.

Along the same lines, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat released a video on Thursday also thanking Trump and Haley. 

In it he visits various archaeological sites in the city like the ancient City of David and the Pool of Siloam pointing out the Jewish history in the city.

“Anywhere you put a shovel in the ground, you find Jewish roots,” Barkat said. 

“We're now uncovering the very stones where kings and prophets walked 3,000 years ago,” he said. “The UN cannot deny these facts on the ground.”

Barkat pointed out that under Israeli sovereignty there’s freedom of religion in the city. 

“For a full thousand years Jerusalem was the center of the world and now we're back here to connect to our roots and look into our future,” he said.

“I want to thank President Trump for his leadership and recognizing that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.  I also want to commend, and thank you Ambassador Haley for standing up for us in the UN.  God bless you.”

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Jerusalem Mayor Met With ‘Nazi-Style Salute’ by Anti-Israel Students in San Francisco By Alexander Apfel - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

Protests During Nir Barkat’s Lecture in San Francisco University, 6.4.2016 (Photo: Jerusalem Municipality / TPS)

Jerusalem Mayor Met With ‘Nazi-Style Salute’ by Anti-Israel Students in San Francisco

By Alexander Apfel April 7, 2016   BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love.” Psalms 109:5 (The Israel Bible™)

Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters barged into a lecture by Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat in San Francisco State University on Wednesday, April 6, chanting “Long live the intifada!” according to a statement released by the Jerusalem Municipality.

“The protesters raised their hands in a stiff-arm salute, called for the continuation of the intifada, called for an end of ‘the occupation’ and for the death of Israel. They also called for Barkat to be expelled from the campus and defined Israel as a terrorist and apartheid state,” the statement read.

The students entered the hall clad in Keffiyehs, waving Palestinian flags and hurled insults against the state of Israel using a loudspeaker.

The disruptions caused by the protestors prevented questions and answers from being heard, yet footage from the event shows Barkat apparently unfazed as he descended from the podium to answer the crowd’s questions face to face.

Police and security guards were called to the scene to protect Barkat who nevertheless insisted on completing his lecture.

He said later in a statement that “anyone who thinks that incitement and unruly calls for violence will succeed in silencing us or will change our stance is seriously mistaken. We will continue to build, to develop and to strengthen the nation of Israel which includes a united Jerusalem.”

“We will make our voices, positions and the justice of our ways clear in any forum to which we are invited. That includes in places where people attempt to prevent us from coming,” Barkat declared.

He further claimed that he had voiced his opposition to the “disgraceful behaviour in front of the university president and the mayor of San Francisco. I also said that such dangerous incitement cannot be allowed in a democratic society and especially not on campuses.”

The talk was part of a lecture series on American campuses about Jerusalem and Israeli policies. Barkat is scheduled to continue his lecture tour on Thursday before hundreds of university students in Columbia University, New York.

Barkat has faced off against more serious threats, such as in February 2015 when he encountered a Palestinian terrorist stabbing a Jewish man on a Jerusalem street and personally wrestled the attacker to the ground.

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By Michael Bachner February 10, 2016  BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“Our feet are standing within thy gates, O Jerusalem; Jerusalem, that art builded as a city that is compact together.” (Psalms 122:2-3)

Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat seen during the “Likudiada”, a gathering of Likud party members and supporters in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, on January 29, 2016. (Photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat strongly criticized Israeli Opposition Chairman Isaac Herzog’s plan to concede sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem as presented at the 13th annual Jerusalem Conference.

“The plan will divide, split and fragment Jerusalem,” said Barkat on Tuesday, February 9. “It will build more and more fences and walls in the heart of the city and cut into its flesh. It is a game of hide and seek, pretending that the problem will go away if we don’t look at it.”

Barkat continued to express his strong objections to Herzog’s plan. “The idea that we should withdraw from parts of Jerusalem is a dangerous, slippery slope,” he told the audience. “It starts with giving up our sovereignty over villages in eastern Jerusalem, continues with concessions in the Old City, and ends with giving up sovereignty over the Western Wall.”

“Whoever thinks Jerusalem can be divided is delusional,” Barkat added. “Daily life, employment, and trade in the city traverses both its west and its east. Jerusalemites from all parts of the city work and live together in hotels, restaurants, and hospitals.”

Both Barkat and Herzog spoke at the 13th annual Jerusalem Conference, organized by Arutz Sheva, a network affiliated with the religious conservative right wing. The conference tackles political, economic, social, and religious issues in Israel and is held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem.

Herzog had defended his plan as approved by the Labor party in a speech at the conference on Monday, February 8. “The Labor party made an important decision yesterday. We should complete the construction of the fence and let the Palestinians govern themselves. On the other hand, we should have the army remain in the areas we vacate and not repeat the mistake we made in the disengagement from Gaza.”

Herzog said his plan included maintaining control of the major blocs of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria: “Zionism will be victorious when the world acknowledges the blocs as part of Israel, including the Etzion bloc, to which I am personally connected.”

However, the plan would see Israel withdraw from Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem. “If we don’t wake up now, we will find ourselves facing a binational state named ‘Israstine,’” said the Labor party chairman. “When we pray for Jerusalem, we don’t mean the 13 Arab villages surrounding it.”

Mayor Barkat has recently joined Netanyahu’s Likud party and has been rumored to be planning to lead the party in the future.

Barkat presented his own plan in response: “The right way to deal with the challenges we face is to strengthen the city as a whole. We must emphasize what unifies us, narrow gaps that have grown over generations, deal harshly with terror while cooperating with moderate factions, and run a thriving, open, and secure city under Israeli sovereignty,” he said.

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