The British Empire Strikes Back: UK Body Rules Tel Aviv is Israel’s Capital
May 21, 2012 15:12 by Simon Plosker
Nearly a month ago, The Guardian posted a photo of passengers on Jerusalem’s light rail observing a minute’s silence for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The caption, however, prompted a correction from The Guardian, which had originally (and correctly) referred to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital:
The caption on a photograph featuring passengers on a tram in Jerusalem observing a two-minute silence for Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, wrongly referred to the city as the Israeli capital. The Guardian style guide states: “Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel; Tel Aviv is” (Eyewitness, 20 April, page 24).
Further resources: The Status of Jerusalem
Irrespective of whether the international community recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, it is simply inaccurate to unilaterally confer capital city status on Tel Aviv. Believing The Guardian to be in clear breach of the UK Press Complaints Commission clause on accuracy, HonestReporting submitted an official complaint.
Ironically received on Jerusalem Day, this was the outrageous PCC ruling:
Abu Nudnik
12:45 am
May 22, 2012
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CD
1:12 am
May 22, 2012
It’s not up to other countries to determine which city is the capital of a country. It’s up to that country. How would the UK like it if Israel and other countries decided that London wasn’t the capital of the UK? Also, the US HAS decided in the past that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. It’s been the Presidents who have decided not to move the Us embassy to Jerusalem for the time being. Israel should give countries a certain time limit to move their embassies to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, or close their embassies down.
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Nicola Simmonds
1:37 am
May 22, 2012
Dear Abu Nudnik,
* The capital city of any country is that which it declares it to be – Israel passed a law on 13th December 1949 declaring (then West) Jerusalem as it’s capital. This was not recognised by the International Community, many of whom did not recognise Israel’s right to exist anyway. On 30th July, 1980, Israel passed a further law, declaring United Jerusalem as it’s capital.
* Israel’s first parliament met in Tel Aviv because at the time, the Jordanian army had put siege to Jerusalem which the United Nations had declared International and Israel at no point declared Tel Aviv its capital.
* The city in which government or parliament sits (or ever sat) does not define a capital city – Usually it is the city in which government sits, but not by definition. Some countries have their government insitiutions spread over various cities.
It’s simply incorrect to call Tel Aviv Israel’s capital. It isn’t and never was.
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m
1:47 am
May 22, 2012
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Since you were already PWND by Nicola Simmonds (who did a great job of schooling you), I won’t belabour this except to say, NO, this is not a hot debate.
It’s elementary; a nations capital is the city that the nation declares it is … period.
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Efraim
12:56 am
May 22, 2012
Those in UK (mostly The Guardian) who, in order to please their muslim sponsors, do not support Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, should be compared to those in UK which sold out the peace of mind of the famillies of those murdered by Gadafi in the PANAM bombing.
Efraim
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Tante Laeh
9:22 am
May 22, 2012
The Brits are the biggest anti-Semites in all of what calls itself Europe. As it is an island let it recede from Europe proper.
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Maurice Stoppi
1:00 am
May 22, 2012
Clearly this is not an isolated incident. It fits the paradigm of transitition of England (not nececcsarily the UK) into an Islamic country. Good luck to them, is what I say!
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Anita C
1:21 am
May 22, 2012
A nation’s capital is where the nation says it is and no where else. Perhaps we should declare the US capital to be Philadelphia where many consulates have offices. Where an outside country choose to house their personnel is up to the outside nation, but that does NOT make that location a capital. That the press feels that it has the unilateral right to declare where a nation’s capital is is simply outrageous. Let’s make Briton’s capital Cornwall. After all, isn’t there a castle there used by the royalty. Lets all move our embassy and consular staffs there. I am sure the local economy would appreciate it; or do it by media decree!
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Rachel
2:27 am
May 22, 2012
Maybe countries Should say where foreign embassies be located – it may be in their best interest security-wise. They wouldn’t be so apt to bomb a city with their embassy, no?
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Carole
2:13 am
May 22, 2012
How can any other country decide what Israel`s capital city is!
It is Jerusalem and always will be right since Bible times, also Almighty God named it so!
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Ami
2:35 am
May 22, 2012
So, according to the commission it is factual to put that Manchester is the capital of England -well, the Beatles came from there… and Charles De Gaule was Britain’s most effective President. The queen is just there because the Brits like to gamble on the facts. She is accompanied by the King and then, there’s also Jack. The, of course, they have their media… the Joker. England being England, not a full deck of cards, though.
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deena Goldstein
2:56 am
May 22, 2012
when do we as jews wake up and stop being such liberals- we bend over backward to please where ever we happen to live-to blend in- when do we say this is who we are and what we are- Jerusalem is the capital of Jewry and Israel- check the bible
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Moll
3:39 am
May 22, 2012
“…UK Body[Press Complaints Commission] Rules Tel Aviv is Israel’s Capital”
Now the global reading/listening/viewing public knows NOT to read, listen to or view anything put out by UK reporters/journalists. It is apparent that UK reporters/journalists along with their professional bodies representing them, use WORDS to mislead/deceive, and thus, have LOST their ability to communicate, and their credibility as communicators. Presuming to spell out what is or is not a sovereign nation’s capital, based on what they themselves, flawed human beings, believe. Tsk,Tsk.
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edgar
4:26 am
May 22, 2012
Who great offense make the infamous in this day! U.K. isn´t more the friend that was in the past, maybe your heart appear inclined to Muslim for some reasons that not know, but it is! And only of think that your second Hymn Patriotic is JERUSALEM, gave me great unhappiness and injury! Not understood who the nation of Isaac Newton, King James, Tyndale and more great Bible Heroes gave great error of geography! And the words of a Queen says to Spurgeon that if Jesus came in your kingdom she gave the crown of England to Him!
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Mario & Sara Coello
4:29 am
May 22, 2012
well is all about hating the place where jesus was born and will come back soon.
that the bottom line. pleople can make a lot of excuses but hate to the things of the god of the bible is the matter.
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Elle
4:35 am
May 22, 2012
Very soon the PCC will confirm that the capitol of the UK is actally Meccca.
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Michael Darby
5:18 am
May 22, 2012
May God bless Israel and its historic and permanent capital, Jerusalem.
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Sam1am
5:58 am
May 22, 2012
Here we go again, the Brits with their twisted logic and biased heart go after the mighty Petro gold rather with morality and truth… shameful. Next year they will request to convert Buckingham palace to the great Mosque of Europe, fitting the Brits.
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Louisa
6:28 am
May 22, 2012
Ha ha ha ha—–this would be very funny if it wasn’t so insidiously anti-semitic, because to be anti-Israel is a covert way of being anti-semitic.
The new proverb is “we don’t recognise it, therefore it doesn’t exist”……….
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phroimi
7:04 am
May 22, 2012
a public that votes a dog to be the winner of a TV talent contest above talented contestants and is going to perform at the royal variety show says a lot about that country,so what do you expect from their medias judgement when expressing opinion about another country,especially one that is strongly influenced by muslim and old school thinking after being kicked out of Israel in ’48′
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steven L
7:41 am
May 22, 2012
Without the billions if not trillions of $ from the Muslim world, GB would be at the bottom of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They have no choice. It cost GB nothing because Israel has no way to retaliate except renouncing completely the Oslo accords after the Palestinians gave-up on these accords and take over J & S.
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tjm
8:51 am
May 22, 2012
JERUSALEM THE CAPITAL,
there is truely no other place on planet earth that IS WHAT JERUSALEM STILL IS AND ALLWAYS WILL BE:
THE PLACE ON EARTH WHERE THE ETERNAL chose to “MARRIE HIS PEOPLE”.
This covenant is unbreakable.
The relationship yet is a very difficult one.
ALL PROPHETS SPEAK ABOUT a rebellious and disobideant PEOPLE.
Just one Example may be
EZEKIEL 22: Israel’s – JERUSALEMS – Shedding of Blood
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations. 3 You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time may come, and that makes idols to defile herself! 4 You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of[a] your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries. 5 Those who are near and those who are far from you will mock you; your name is defiled; you are full of tumult.
6 “Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you. 8 You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths. 9 There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you who eat on the mountains; they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you men uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit[b] and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.
13 “Behold, I strike my hand at the dishonest gain that you have made, and at the blood that has been in your midst. 14 Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it. 15 I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. 16 And you shall be profaned by your own doing in the sight of the nations, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
17 And the word of the Lord came to me: 18 “Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me; all of them are bronze and tin and iron and lead in the furnace; they are dross of silver. 19 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. 20 As one gathers silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin into a furnace, to blow the fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will put you in and melt you. 21 I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it. 22 As silver is melted in a furnace, so you shall be melted in the midst of it, and you shall know that I am the Lord; I have poured out my wrath upon you.”
23 And the word of the Lord came to me: 24 “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed or rained upon in the day of indignation. 25 The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and have extorted from the sojourner without justice. 30 And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none. 31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”
So THE ETERNAL does what HE spoke through Mose in DEUTERONOMIUM 28
Blessings for Obedience
28 “And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the Lord your God. 3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field. 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
7 “The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. 8 The Lord will command the blessing on you in your barns and in all that you undertake. And he will bless you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. 9 The Lord will establish you as a people holy to himself, as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. 11 And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, within the land that the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. 12 The Lord will open to you his good treasury, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hands. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. 13 And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them, 14 and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Curses for Disobedience
15 “But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. 16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field. 17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. 18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the increase of your herds and the young of your flock. 19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
20 “The Lord will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken me. 21 The Lord will make the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 “The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for the locust shall consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. 42 The cricket[c] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, swooping down like the eagle, a nation whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 “They shall besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will begrudge food to his brother, to the wife he embraces,[d] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[e] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed. 62 Whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, you shall be left few in number, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God. 63 And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the Lord will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
64 “And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul. 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you. Night and day you shall be in dread and have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’ because of the dread that your heart shall feel, and the sights that your eyes shall see. 68 And the Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, a journey that I promised that you should never make again; and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
DID HE CHANGE?
Did HIS people? WHAT A TASK!
How could one be able to FULLY fullfill HIS REQUIREMENTS?
HE HAD TO FIND ANOTHER SOLUTION in PERSON
as shown in JESAJA 53:
Who has believed what he has heard from us?[a]
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected[b] by men;
a man of sorrows,[c] and acquainted with[d] grief;[e]
and as one from whom men hide their faces[f]
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he opened not his mouth.
8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away;
and as for his generation, who considered
that he was cut off out of the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people?
9 And they made his grave with the wicked
and with a rich man in his death,
although he had done no violence,
and there was no deceit in his mouth.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;
he has put him to grief;[g]
when his soul makes[h] an offering for guilt,
he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;
the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see[i] and be satisfied;
by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,
make many to be accounted righteous,
and he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,[j]
and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,[k]
because he poured out his soul to death
and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many,
and makes intercession for the transgressors.
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Abu Nudnik
12:54 am
May 23, 2012
Not enough quotations.
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Craig Levin
8:57 am
May 22, 2012
the capital of the usa is airforce one and london is the capoital of france and poland because that is where their governmednts were based pre-’48
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DOLLA MATHEE
9:31 am
May 22, 2012
ENGLAND HAS STILL NOT LEARNED THE LESSON:
YOU DO NOT GO AGAINST YHVH, HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE OR HIS CHOSEN LAND!!
After they sold out ISRAEL in 1948, the ‘GREAT’ BRITTIAN went to pieces because of the treachery against ISRAEL but YHVH FOUGHT FOR THEM AND BROUGHT THEM THROUGH AS HE PROMISED IN THE PROPHECIES AND “NEVER AGAIN” willl they be moved out of the Promised Land despite of the GUIRDIAN, Ahmadinijad or who ever else!!
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L.Poddebsky
9:56 am
May 22, 2012
When the British ambassador presents his credentials to the President of Israel, the Briton must go up to Jerusalem to the President’s residence to do so; when the British ambassador wishes to be present at Knesset debates or High Court of Justice proceedings, he must ascend to Jerusalem; when the British ambassador wishes to communicate in person with an Israeli Minister or member of the Knesset, he must, in most cases, ascend to Jerusalem.
By the way, has any subscriber recently visited Riyadh, the capital of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?
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