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For me, he is just a neighbor in Jerusalem who represents the most powerful nation on earth and is hoarding kerosene and matches, waiting for his moment.
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The kind of evangelical moron who wants the World to end. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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This is well beyond the continuum between the West Bank as it was abused after Oslo and de facto and de jure annexation.
Huckabee is off that chart.
His world is not one of red lines and realpolitik. It's one of rapture and end-of-days, and a divinely ordained Greater Israel.
Only the interminably obtuse would be shocked by his words. Despite the so-called redline on annexation, the Trump Administration in 1.0/ 2.0 has enabled, acquiesced and not so quietly supported Israel's annexationist policies. That red line turned pink awhile back.
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Speculation please.
Has anyone in the Trump Administration reprimanded Huckabee? Encourage him? Humor him?
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Our town.
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اليوم، الدخول الرسمي الأول لكنيسة القيامة بزمن الصوم، برئاسة الكاردينال بيتسابالا وبمشاركة الإكليروس والرهبان.
Today marks the first solemn Lenten Entrance into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, presided over by Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa with clergy and friars.
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Ask Miriam Adelson.
How far will Trump go to get Netanyahu elected again? | Dahlia Scheindlin
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Huckabee will want to move it to Jerusalem.
US makes plans to reopen embassy in Syria after 14 years apnews.com/article/us-syria-…
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I rest my case.
When President Reagan called Israel “a beacon of democracy,” he recognized a truth that remains just as vital today: standing with Israel means standing with liberty, stability, and the values America holds dear.
In a region dominated by dictatorships and extremists, Israel shines. And we will always stand with that light.
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This is what makes Jerusalem - Jerusalem.
For nearly 800 years, the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been in the hands of two prominent Muslim Jerusalemite families.
This tradition dates back to Salah ad-Din’s conquest of Jerusalem in 1187, helping preserve the delicate Status Quo and preventing daily access to the Church from becoming a flashpoint among the different Christian custodians.
Today, as the great doors undergo renovation, their descendants, Adeeb Joudeh and Wajeed Nuseibeh, still keep that same balance: one safeguards the key, the other opens and closes the Church each day.
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I don't get it.
Is it all ours, or is it not all ours?
It's not complicated. A simple "yes" or "no" is all that is required.
Tucker and I had a very twisty and frankly confusing discussion about the meaning of Zionism.
Now, I have no idea if Tucker was trying to be difficult or we were just talking past each other, but he started out the discussion on Zionism by saying he wanted to ask me in my capacity as a former Baptist minister about the "theology" of Christian Zionism.
But, he kept dragging it to discussions about other topics, literally other countries, things that have nothing to do with theology and certainly not with Israel, Zionism, or anything else.
So let me just make it really clear.
Since Tucker actually seemed more interested in the definition of political Zionism, it's simple: Zionism is the belief that Israel has a right to exist in safety and security. That's it. Pretty simple and straightforward.
Lots of Christians who don't have a theological basis for supporting Israel are actually Zionists because they support Israel's right to exist in safety and security.
The last two Popes, for example, both came here to Israel, Pope Benedict in May 2009 and Pope Francis in May 2014, and both of them said the exact same words:
"Let it be universally recognized that the State of Israel has the right to exist, and to enjoy peace and security within internationally agreed borders."
Pope John Paul II, arguably one of the most influential of anyone in the Christian faith and a remarkable man was also a "Christian Zionist."
Tucker, I couldn't get you to say you support Israel's right to exist during our interview. But as I told you then and I'll say it again, someone doesn't need to believe it's commanded by the Bible in order to be a Zionist. But if one DOES believe the Bible (and I do) then it's even more compelling.
All you need to do is believe that Israel has a right to exist.
Why can't you just say that? I asked you multiple times during our interview and not once did you give me a direct answer. You refused to say whether or not Israel has a right to exist. I hope you will state your answer to that simple question soon.
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It's complicated, but I'll take a stab at it.
1. Before the Crusdaes, there were periods when Jews prayed at Al Aqsa/Temple Mt. hereinafter: "the Mount", and refers to the esplanade, not the structure of the Mosque.
2. There has been no Jewish prayer in the Mount.
There has never been Jewish prayer. This is misleading. The status quo stipulates only Muslim prayer at Al Aqsa mosque, only Jewish prayer at Wailing Wall, and only non praying visitors to Al Aqsa at agreed times
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7. The Mount gradually was opened in the 19th century, and became a consistent policy after the Crimean War.
Summary: Al Aqsa/Temple Mount was excluively a Muslim place of worship since the end of the Crusader perod in the 12th century.
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There has been no Jewish prayer on the Mount since the 12th century, and until this day the vast majority of Rabbin8c authoruties rule that this ban isvat it should be.
This was written with a very broad brush, so feel free to add or to correct.
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During Ramadan, there is the ever-present fear that an incident at AlAqsa could spark violence.
The stability AlAqsa is built on the StatusQuo. What's that? "Muslims pray, non-Muslims visit", saith Bibi.
Ben Gvir is threatening to pray on the Mount.
Is Huckabee for or against?
Feb 21
US policy in the Middle East is being driven by fundamentalist nutters
"Mike Huckabee says it would be ‘fine’ if Israel took all Middle East land. Trump ally tells Tucker Carlson Israel has biblical right to land from ‘wadi of Egypt to the great river’"
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Our town.
Feb 20
🇻🇦✝️ The Way of the Cross on the first Friday of Lent from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Today.
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Local talent.
Feb 20
The Seminarians of the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Cathedral of St. James.
They are spat on a daily basis by Israeli extremists for living their faith and serving Christianity’s Holy Sites.
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I can think of no two individuals who are less pious than Trump and Netanyahu. Mwn of faith they are not.
Yet policy in DC is driven by end-of-days evangelicals,
& in Jerusalem by biblically inspired settlers reconstructing Ancient Israel & messiah besotted Temple Mt. activists
Feb 20
I was raised in the same denomination as Huck and this is what they all believe. Endtimes theology (or Greater Israel, if you prefer) should power U.S. foreign policy, derived from Calvinist "covenant people" ideology. Pretty sure they *want* WWIII.
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Feb 20
Ambassador Huckabee fits right in here in Netanyahu's Jerusalem.
The Latin, Orthodox, Lutheran, Armenian, Copt, Ethiopian etc. Churches less so.
Feb 20
@mattyt339
This is Trump's envoy to Israel.
This is the level of delusion we are up against.
These people take the Bible literally and are willing to risk starting a world war.
It would almost certainly turn nuclear.
Israel alone has at least 100 nuclear warheads.
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