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U.S. embassy makes final preparation for Jerusalem move

U.S. Embassy road signs went up in Jerusalem on Monday ahead of next week’s opening of the mission in accordance with President Donald Trump’s recognition of the city as Israel’s capital. Trump says he is making good on U.S. legislation and presidential pledges dating back decades. Other world powers have not done so, sidestepping one […]
Columnist

Who’s Jerusalem? III

We have seen that none of the three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, came into possession of Palestine or Jerusalem by being the original owners or the earliest ‘settlers’. They were all virtually ‘strangers’ to the lands -just like God Himself in the Bible had said to Abraham in Genesis 17:8: “the land wherein […]
Columnist

WHO’S JERUSALEM? (II)

..Continued from last week We have seen from last week’s piece that neither Palestine as a territory nor Jerusalem as a city started existing only some 1000 BC when Israel’s King David was said to have declared it Capital of the Jews. Nor did they start existing only some 1500 or 2000 years before Christ […]
Africa

Thousands of Ethiopian Israelis Rally against Racism

Several thousand people, mostly from Israel’s Jewish Ethiopian minority, protested in Tel Aviv against racism and police brutality on Sunday, shutting down a major highway and scuffling with police on horseback into the night.   The demonstration came days after a rally in Jerusalem Thursday turned violent, following the release of a video showing police […]
Hollywood

North West Gets Baptized in Jerusalem

–   Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter North is now a member of the Armenian Apostolic Church – the oldest national church in the world – after being baptised in a traditional ceremony. The baptism took place following the famous family’s recent visit to Kim’s homeland Armenia, which saw them take a pilgrimage to […]