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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 […]
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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 […]
World

Vatican Agrees First Treaty with State of Palestine

The Vatican concluded its first treaty that formally recognizes the State of Palestine, a move that gives legal weight to the Holy See’s years-long recognition and that drew fast criticism from supporters of Israel. The agreement, which the Vatican said aimed to “enhance the life and activities of the Catholic Church and its recognition at […]
Opinion

Nigeria’S Policy Somersault at UN

December 30, 2014, will go down in the memory of all Nigerians as the day the fine principles on which the country had hitherto built its foreign policy bit the dust. In bewilderment, we now wonder what our new foreign policy is, or would be, or if there is going to be any at all. […]