Israeli Elections today.

[Beco]

The Jews called Jesus a king in the same voice that Republicans called Obama a messiah.

true...

 

[Beco]

They seemed pretty convinced when he rode into Jerusalem.

No, they didnt...

 

[KingOrfeo]

No, they didnt...

If the Bible is to be believed (which of course it isn't, but it's the only source we've got for any of this), they did.

 

[Beco]

If the Bible is to be believed (which of course it isn't, but it's the only source we've got for any of this), they did.

Well, nobody cares if you believe in the bible or not. But what portions of the bible are you refering to?

 

[Beco]

What country in their right mind would hand over the West Bank to Hamas? No goverment in Israel, Netanyahu or some other person would do this. Obama fails to realize this point.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Well, nobody cares if you believe in the bible or not. But what portions of the bible are you refering to?

The Gospels. All four describe Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, with the people cheering him.

The Gospels go on to recount how Jesus rode into Jerusalem, and how the people there lay down their cloaks in front of him, and also lay down small branches of trees. The people sang part of Psalm 118: 25-26: Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord ....[1][2][3][5]

In the Synoptic Gospels, this episode is followed by the Cleansing of the Temple episode, and in all four Gospels Jesus performs various healings and teaches by way of parables while in Jerusalem, until the Last Supper.[1][2]

Traditionally, entering the city on a donkey symbolizes arrival in peace, rather than as a war-waging king arriving on a horse.[5][6]

 

[KingOrfeo]

What country in their right mind would hand over the West Bank to Hamas? No goverment in Israel, Netanyahu or some other person would do this. Obama fails to realize this point.

Mahmoud Abbas is Fatah, not Hamas.

 

[Beco]

The Gospels. All four describe Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, with the people cheering him.

Thats new testament stuff, bro....

 

[Busybody]

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[KingOrfeo]

The Pals don't seem to care all that much.

He’s a hawkish right-winger who presided over more than 2,100 deaths in Gaza this summer, campaigned on the promise that he’d prevent a Palestinian state, and swept to victory with the warning that Arab citizens of Israel were “voting in droves.”

But Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection was regarded with apathy by many Palestinians in the West Bank, and some even welcomed the news – albeit as the best of several bad options.

“Under Netanyahu things will deteriorate. But if it can’t get any better, it might as well get worse,” Ahmad, who declined to give his full name, told Salon. His customers, browsing for phone accessories in central Ramallah, agreed. When you’re in the West Bank it doesn’t much matter who’s in the Knesset: settlement expansion, military crackdowns and wars have taken place on the watch of both the left and right, and there’s been realistic progress toward statehood under neither.

“The experience of the Palestinians is clear. Since the assassination of Rabin, nothing in Israeli politics has brought something good,” Huneida Ghanem, the general director of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (MADAR), told Salon. “Time and time again, election after election after election has just brought something worse. Palestinians see this and in their head, they understand that nothing is going to change, that it will just get worse and worse.”

This year, Ghanem said, some did hope that Herzog and Livni had the potential to change things – a wish that only makes Netanyahu’s win even more disappointing. But she also believes that any trust in the pair’s center-left Zionist Union, which until the election’s final hours was billed as a likely winner, is misplaced. The sense is echoed across the West Bank, where most dismiss the Israeli opposition with a laugh, refusing to refer to it as “left wing” in any meaningful sense.

“Netanyahu, Herzog, Lieberman: if anyone from those Zionist parties become prime minister it won’t make any difference. They all have the same strategy to fulfill their ideology,” Bassam Shweiki told Salon. A literature enthusiast and activist, Shweiki speaks English with a London twang despite the fact he’s lived most of his life in Hebron. A West Bank city carved up by Israeli settlement enclaves and military closures, the city barely featured in election campaigns aside from a pro-settlement visit by right-winger Avigdor Lieberman.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Ben Carson solves the Palestinian problem:

“We need to look at fresh ideas,” said Carson. “I don’t have any problem with the Palestinians having a state, but does it need to be within the confines of Israeli territory? Is that necessary, or can you sort of slip that area down into Egypt? Right below Israel, they have some amount of territory, and it can be adjacent. They can benefit from the many agricultural advances that were made by Israel, because if you fly over that area, you can easily see the demarcation between Egypt and Israel, in terms of one being desert and one being verdant. Technology could transform that area. So why does it need to be in an area where there’s going to be temptation for Hamas to continue firing missiles at relatively close range to Israel?”

 

[sr71plt]

That's a solution, yes. That's the same solution as when they shipped the Jewish state in and dropped it on top of the Palestinians who had already been living there--no, wait.

 

[Beco]

Mahmoud Abbas is Fatah, not Hamas.

Fatah's seven-year rivalry with militant group Hamas officially ended Monday with the formation of a unity government between the two factions.

The signing of the unification was broadcast live in Gaza and the West Bank, according to The Guardian.

The unification of the two factions will likely complicate the Palestinian Authority's relationship with the United States, European Union and Israel, as Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by most Western nations.

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to "express concern" about Hamas' role in the government. While the U.S. said it would work with the new unity government, it will keep a close watch on the government to ensure that it adheres to democratic principles and is not influenced by Hamas' militancy.