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		<title>By: jason</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only something an religious person would write, think, and yes do.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Only something an religious person would write, think, and yes do.  </p>
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		<title>By: Paula</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paula]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Me too.  Something about him said , Little Boy Lost and I so hope he found peace with God at the last. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Me too.  Something about him said , Little Boy Lost and I so hope he found peace with God at the last. </p>
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		<title>By: brookeross89</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[brookeross89]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 17:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As for me, your post is very interesting and important. Thanks! &lt;a href=&quot;http://beauty-cosmetology-careers.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; beauty and cosmetology careers&lt;/a&gt; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for me, your post is very interesting and important. Thanks! <a href="http://beauty-cosmetology-careers.com" rel="nofollow"> beauty and cosmetology careers</a> </p>
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		<title>By: DouglasBender</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine his first words upon his death were, &quot;Jesus Christ!!&quot; ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I imagine his first words upon his death were, &quot;Jesus Christ!!&quot; </p>
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		<title>By: Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He criticized Said strongly. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He criticized Said strongly. </p>
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		<title>By: scum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David continues to be unhinged:  &quot;The Left&#039;s malicious support for the tyrant in Iraq.&quot;   
Exactly what is he referring to?  The same Saddam Hussein who was known (by conservatives like Rumsfeld) as &quot;our man in Baghdad&quot; when they knew about his use of chemical weapons (some of which were sold to him by... American conservatives).  Furthermore, David HIMSELF came out several months ago in his article &quot;WHY I AM NOT A NEO-CONSERVATIVE&quot; in OPPOSITION to the war.  That in itself was funny because he called the broad-based opposition to the war &#039;nearly treasonous&#039;  years earlier even though it was a conflict largely pursued through propaganda, innuendo, and lies.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David continues to be unhinged:  &quot;The Left&#039;s malicious support for the tyrant in Iraq.&quot;<br />
Exactly what is he referring to?  The same Saddam Hussein who was known (by conservatives like Rumsfeld) as &quot;our man in Baghdad&quot; when they knew about his use of chemical weapons (some of which were sold to him by&#8230; American conservatives).  Furthermore, David HIMSELF came out several months ago in his article &quot;WHY I AM NOT A NEO-CONSERVATIVE&quot; in OPPOSITION to the war.  That in itself was funny because he called the broad-based opposition to the war &#039;nearly treasonous&#039;  years earlier even though it was a conflict largely pursued through propaganda, innuendo, and lies.   </p>
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		<title>By: Terence57</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Terence57]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens was a man.  To be a man means, right or wrong, being authentic. 
A committed atheist is a contradiction in terms, so I think he was not so much a true atheist, for whom God is not at issue, as he was a man sorting it out.    I&#039;m glad that David and Christopher shared a friendship (of sorts, I guess).  Either would be on a short list of very interesting persons of significance.  For some time I thought of Hitchens as a dinosaur, an honest person of the left.  His passing leaves them (and me) in a less ambiguous state.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christopher Hitchens was a man.  To be a man means, right or wrong, being authentic.<br />
A committed atheist is a contradiction in terms, so I think he was not so much a true atheist, for whom God is not at issue, as he was a man sorting it out.    I&#039;m glad that David and Christopher shared a friendship (of sorts, I guess).  Either would be on a short list of very interesting persons of significance.  For some time I thought of Hitchens as a dinosaur, an honest person of the left.  His passing leaves them (and me) in a less ambiguous state.  </p>
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		<title>By: mlcblog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mlcblog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all pure conjecture, of course.   ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is all pure conjecture, of course.   </p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God doesn&#039;t send anyone to hell.  It is a choice made by the individual.  To reject His offer of Heaven initiates His willingness to give them what they request.  And, since they refused the free gift of eternal life through His Son, they are in effect saying that they are opting for the only other choice made available. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>God doesn&#039;t send anyone to hell.  It is a choice made by the individual.  To reject His offer of Heaven initiates His willingness to give them what they request.  And, since they refused the free gift of eternal life through His Son, they are in effect saying that they are opting for the only other choice made available. </p>
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		<title>By: Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, he got there.  He just didn&#039;t stay there..... ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, he got there.  He just didn&#039;t stay there&#8230;.. </p>
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		<title>By: Rudy</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rudy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was a vicious self hating jew and Israel basher.  I hope he rots in hell.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was a vicious self hating jew and Israel basher.  I hope he rots in hell.  </p>
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		<title>By: john</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[john]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His soul is burning. He is in complete hell forever. He chose it and now he got it! The mind never dies. The soul lives on in other places not of four Dimensions but in the Quantum world of 11 Dimensions, read up on it. Lots of scientist is jumping on the band wagon. Even the Atheist ones are admitting that something could possibly happen after death of our body; trust me it does.  So ......Run Run Run Atheist Commie ahhhh  but you can&#039;t. You will have to answer to your evil ways on your death bed like this poor lost man did. I hope you all change as I did. I was once a STUPID MORN Atheist Left winger like YOU ALL; the ones that voted for Obama then pretend to be smart LOL, but my eyes were opened and now I see that there is life after death and yes there is no free lunch and NO ANYTHING DOES NOT GO!! This would make us the same as a animal, which we are not. Anyway Nit-wits! Hope you all get it one day before it&#8217;s too late. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>His soul is burning. He is in complete hell forever. He chose it and now he got it! The mind never dies. The soul lives on in other places not of four Dimensions but in the Quantum world of 11 Dimensions, read up on it. Lots of scientist is jumping on the band wagon. Even the Atheist ones are admitting that something could possibly happen after death of our body; trust me it does.  So &#8230;&#8230;Run Run Run Atheist Commie ahhhh  but you can&#039;t. You will have to answer to your evil ways on your death bed like this poor lost man did. I hope you all change as I did. I was once a STUPID MORN Atheist Left winger like YOU ALL; the ones that voted for Obama then pretend to be smart LOL, but my eyes were opened and now I see that there is life after death and yes there is no free lunch and NO ANYTHING DOES NOT GO!! This would make us the same as a animal, which we are not. Anyway Nit-wits! Hope you all get it one day before it&rsquo;s too late. </p>
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		<title>By: Carbondioxide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carbondioxide]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scripture says that when we, in this case, Truth Fairy, speak of the gospel it is by the power of the God&#039;s Holy Spirit.  Do you intend to sit in judgment of the Godhead? 
You are right about Jesus in this sense, that he did not live a Frank Sinatra &quot;I Did it My Way&quot; life.   He told people that he did exactly what his Father commanded.   He was born humbly and did not die in comfort, but rose from the dead three days later.  I&#039;ll put my faith in the saving power of Christ&#039;s sacrifice over private morality and conscience anyday.  Merry Christmas to you and yours. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Scripture says that when we, in this case, Truth Fairy, speak of the gospel it is by the power of the God&#039;s Holy Spirit.  Do you intend to sit in judgment of the Godhead?<br />
You are right about Jesus in this sense, that he did not live a Frank Sinatra &quot;I Did it My Way&quot; life.   He told people that he did exactly what his Father commanded.   He was born humbly and did not die in comfort, but rose from the dead three days later.  I&#039;ll put my faith in the saving power of Christ&#039;s sacrifice over private morality and conscience anyday.  Merry Christmas to you and yours. </p>
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		<title>By: Glennd1</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Glennd1]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you think that was an appropriate way to memorialize him? Okay, but I don&#039;t. I thought the shots he took at Hitch - THE DAY AFTER HIS DEATH WHEN THE TEARS AREN&#039;T EVEN DRY - were low blows. And he made several of them. The overall tone was not salutory nor appropriate to the death of a man who is universally recognized globally as a &#039;man of idea&#039;s&#039;, a literary genius, a legendary debater and perhaps one of the best &#039;polemicists&#039; of our time. There were plenty of aspects of Hitch to compliment, and on the event of his death, civil, polite and respectful people focus on those better aspects. Horowitz showed no such deference or respect and I called him on it. Is that really so hard for you to understand? 
 
How about this? On the day of your death, let&#039;s talk about how you had it coming and how riddled with conflicts and moral equivalence, would you like that? Please, stop flacking for Horowitz. His commentary stands on its own as the lowly act of a cur. Nothing you say changes that one iota.  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you think that was an appropriate way to memorialize him? Okay, but I don&#039;t. I thought the shots he took at Hitch &#8211; THE DAY AFTER HIS DEATH WHEN THE TEARS AREN&#039;T EVEN DRY &#8211; were low blows. And he made several of them. The overall tone was not salutory nor appropriate to the death of a man who is universally recognized globally as a &#039;man of idea&#039;s&#039;, a literary genius, a legendary debater and perhaps one of the best &#039;polemicists&#039; of our time. There were plenty of aspects of Hitch to compliment, and on the event of his death, civil, polite and respectful people focus on those better aspects. Horowitz showed no such deference or respect and I called him on it. Is that really so hard for you to understand? </p>
<p>How about this? On the day of your death, let&#039;s talk about how you had it coming and how riddled with conflicts and moral equivalence, would you like that? Please, stop flacking for Horowitz. His commentary stands on its own as the lowly act of a cur. Nothing you say changes that one iota.  </p>
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		<title>By: Morty62</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morty62]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did we read the same article? I found Horowitz&#039;s piece to be both gracious and moving. Who wants to read some cloying, phonied-up remembrance? David related the Hitchens he knew, which is all that can be asked of a man trying to impart the significance of the loss of a friend. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did we read the same article? I found Horowitz&#039;s piece to be both gracious and moving. Who wants to read some cloying, phonied-up remembrance? David related the Hitchens he knew, which is all that can be asked of a man trying to impart the significance of the loss of a friend. </p>
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		<title>By: Morty62</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Morty62]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David ... I thank you for this warm and gracious tribute to your friend Christopher. Like him, you spoke your mind without regard for the consequences. Many of the posts following your tribute reveal the humorless, moralistic side of the right. I imagine that to know Christopher Hitchens was to love him. There are some things that transcend ideology and I commend you for understanding this and for rendering this touching tribute. It must be remembered that one William F. Buckley&#039;s best friends was John Kenneth Galbraith, a man with whom he shared little political affinity but with whom he enjoyed an irreplaceable conviviality. Hitchens strikes me as the kind of man who when he entered your life made it at once more complicated, but also infinitely more interesting and just plain fun. You were lucky to have known him. My condolences on your loss. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David &#8230; I thank you for this warm and gracious tribute to your friend Christopher. Like him, you spoke your mind without regard for the consequences. Many of the posts following your tribute reveal the humorless, moralistic side of the right. I imagine that to know Christopher Hitchens was to love him. There are some things that transcend ideology and I commend you for understanding this and for rendering this touching tribute. It must be remembered that one William F. Buckley&#039;s best friends was John Kenneth Galbraith, a man with whom he shared little political affinity but with whom he enjoyed an irreplaceable conviviality. Hitchens strikes me as the kind of man who when he entered your life made it at once more complicated, but also infinitely more interesting and just plain fun. You were lucky to have known him. My condolences on your loss. </p>
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		<title>By: PattyAnd</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PattyAnd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Protestants believe in Salvation by Grace alone, not by good works, but by Faith. One can&#039;t earn one&#039;s Salvation or pay the wages of sin with money ir good works. That is why Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg. 
  Read a good book on The Reformation.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most Protestants believe in Salvation by Grace alone, not by good works, but by Faith. One can&#8217;t earn one&#8217;s Salvation or pay the wages of sin with money ir good works. That is why Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg.<br />
  Read a good book on The Reformation.</p>
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		<title>By: PattyAnd</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[PattyAnd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why don&#039;t you take your anti-Israel anti-Zionist anti-Semitism elsewhere. Hitchens was a Jew, and in the process of coming to terms with that. His &quot;friendship&quot; with Edward Said, an anti-Semitic propagandist for Islamo-fascists is incomprehensible.
  
ISRAEL Myth v Fact 
AS THE OLD SAYING GOES, JUST THE FACTS:

MYTH:

&quot;The land of Israel is really the land of Palestine.&quot;

FACT:

The term &quot;Palestine&quot; is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century AD, after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word Filastin is derived from Latin. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.

MYTH:

&quot;The Jews have no historic claim to Israel.&quot;

FACT:

Only one group of people have continuously lived in Israel for the past 3,700 years - the Jews. Jerusalem, in particular, has had a Jewish majority since the 1840s, 40 years prior to the beginnings of Zionism. Seventy-five percent of the land in east Jerusalem, which the press calls &quot;historically Arab east Jerusalem,&quot; has been owned by Jews since 1947. The nations that inhabited the land prior to the Jews are no longer in existence, for they have been absorbed into various other peoples throughout the millennia. The Arabs of Israel only came to the land in 632AD with the Muslim invasion.

MYTH:

&quot;The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 changed political and border arrangements between independent states that had existed for centuries.&quot;

FACT:

The boundaries of most Middle East countries were arbitrarily fixed by the Western powers after Turkey was defeated in World War I and the French and British mandates were set up. The areas allotted to Israel under the UN Partition Plan had all been under the control of the Ottomans, who had ruled Palestine from 1517 until 1917. When Turkey was defeated in World War I, the French took over the area now known as Lebanon and Syria. The British assumed control of Palestine and Iraq. In 1926, the borders were redrawn and Lebanon was separated from Syria. Britain installed the Emir Faisal, who had been deposed by the French in Syria, as ruler of the new kingdom of Iraq. In 1922, the British created the emirate of Transjordan, which incorporated all of Palestine east of the Jordan River. This was done so that the Emir Abdullah, whose family had been defeated in tribal warfare in the Arabian peninsula, would have a kingdom to rule. None of the countries that border Israel became independent until this century. Many other Arab nations became independent after Israel.

MYTH:

&quot;Israel violates the human rights of the Palestinian Arabs.&quot;

FACT:

The facts are different. Israel granted full citizenship to all of the Palestinian Arabs who fell within its borders after the War of Independence. Arabic is an official language in Israel. Israel remains to this day one of the few countries in the Middle East where Arabs can legitimately vote--and it is the only one where women can vote.

MYTH:

&quot;The West Bank is part of Jordan.&quot;

FACT:

The West Bank was never legally part of Jordan. Under the UN&#039;s 1947 Partition Plan--which the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected--it was to have been part of an independent Arab state in western Palestine. But the Jordanian army invaded and occupied it during the 1948 war. In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Only two governments--Great Britain and Pakistan--formally recognized the Jordanian takeover. The rest of the world, including the United States, never did. During the 1950-1967 period of its occupation, Jordan permitted terrorists to launch raids into Israel. Amman lost the West Bank after the Jordanian army entered the 1967 war.

MYTH:

&quot;Jerusalem is Islam&#039;s third most holy city.&quot;

FACT:

Muslims try to connect Jerusalem to Islam by using a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled &quot;The Night Journey.&quot; It relates that in a dream or a vision, Mohammed was carried by night &quot;from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. ...&quot; In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that&#039;s as close as Islam&#039;s connection with Jerusalem gets--myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.

MYTH:

&quot;The Temple Mount has always been a Muslim holy place and Judaism has no connection to the site.&quot;

FACT:

The area of Solomon&#039;s Stables is believed to date as far back as the construction of Solomon&#039;s Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D. More authoritatively, the Koran--the holy book of Islam--describes Solomon&#039;s construction of the First Temple (34:13) and recounts the destruction of the First and Second Temples (17:7). The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount dates back more than 3,000 years and is rooted in tradition and history. When Abraham bound his son, Isaac, upon an altar as a sacrifice to God, he did so atop Mount Moriah, today&#039;s Temple Mount.

MYTH:

&quot;Under Israeli rule, religious freedom has been curbed in Jerusalem.&quot;

FACT:

After the 1967 war, Israel abolished all the discriminatory laws promulgated by Jordan and adopted its own tough standard for safeguarding access to religious shrines. &quot;Whoever does anything that is likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the various religions to the places sacred to them,&quot; Israeli law stipulates, &quot;is liable to imprisonment for a term of five years.&quot; Israel also entrusted administration of the holy places to their respective religious authorities. Thus, for example, the Muslim Waqf has responsibility for the mosques on the Temple Mount.
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Genesis 12:1-3
KJV

 1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father&#039;s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why don&#8217;t you take your anti-Israel anti-Zionist anti-Semitism elsewhere. Hitchens was a Jew, and in the process of coming to terms with that. His &#8220;friendship&#8221; with Edward Said, an anti-Semitic propagandist for Islamo-fascists is incomprehensible.</p>
<p>ISRAEL Myth v Fact <br />
AS THE OLD SAYING GOES, JUST THE FACTS:</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The land of Israel is really the land of Palestine.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>The term &#8220;Palestine&#8221; is believed to be derived from the Philistines, an Aegean people who, in the 12th Century BC, settled along the Mediterranean coastal plain of what is now Israel and the Gaza Strip. In the second century AD, after crushing the last Jewish revolt, the Romans first applied the name Palaestina to Judea (the southern portion of what is now called the West Bank) in an attempt to minimize Jewish identification with the land of Israel. The Arabic word Filastin is derived from Latin. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Jews have no historic claim to Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>Only one group of people have continuously lived in Israel for the past 3,700 years &#8211; the Jews. Jerusalem, in particular, has had a Jewish majority since the 1840s, 40 years prior to the beginnings of Zionism. Seventy-five percent of the land in east Jerusalem, which the press calls &#8220;historically Arab east Jerusalem,&#8221; has been owned by Jews since 1947. The nations that inhabited the land prior to the Jews are no longer in existence, for they have been absorbed into various other peoples throughout the millennia. The Arabs of Israel only came to the land in 632AD with the Muslim invasion.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The creation of the state of Israel in 1948 changed political and border arrangements between independent states that had existed for centuries.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>The boundaries of most Middle East countries were arbitrarily fixed by the Western powers after Turkey was defeated in World War I and the French and British mandates were set up. The areas allotted to Israel under the UN Partition Plan had all been under the control of the Ottomans, who had ruled Palestine from 1517 until 1917. When Turkey was defeated in World War I, the French took over the area now known as Lebanon and Syria. The British assumed control of Palestine and Iraq. In 1926, the borders were redrawn and Lebanon was separated from Syria. Britain installed the Emir Faisal, who had been deposed by the French in Syria, as ruler of the new kingdom of Iraq. In 1922, the British created the emirate of Transjordan, which incorporated all of Palestine east of the Jordan River. This was done so that the Emir Abdullah, whose family had been defeated in tribal warfare in the Arabian peninsula, would have a kingdom to rule. None of the countries that border Israel became independent until this century. Many other Arab nations became independent after Israel.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;Israel violates the human rights of the Palestinian Arabs.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>The facts are different. Israel granted full citizenship to all of the Palestinian Arabs who fell within its borders after the War of Independence. Arabic is an official language in Israel. Israel remains to this day one of the few countries in the Middle East where Arabs can legitimately vote&#8211;and it is the only one where women can vote.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The West Bank is part of Jordan.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>The West Bank was never legally part of Jordan. Under the UN&#8217;s 1947 Partition Plan&#8211;which the Jews accepted and the Arabs rejected&#8211;it was to have been part of an independent Arab state in western Palestine. But the Jordanian army invaded and occupied it during the 1948 war. In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank. Only two governments&#8211;Great Britain and Pakistan&#8211;formally recognized the Jordanian takeover. The rest of the world, including the United States, never did. During the 1950-1967 period of its occupation, Jordan permitted terrorists to launch raids into Israel. Amman lost the West Bank after the Jordanian army entered the 1967 war.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;Jerusalem is Islam&#8217;s third most holy city.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>Muslims try to connect Jerusalem to Islam by using a vague passage in the Koran, the seventeenth Sura, entitled &#8220;The Night Journey.&#8221; It relates that in a dream or a vision, Mohammed was carried by night &#8220;from the sacred temple to the temple that is most remote, whose precinct we have blessed, that we might show him our signs. &#8230;&#8221; In the seventh century, some Muslims identified the two temples mentioned in this verse as being in Mecca and Jerusalem. And that&#8217;s as close as Islam&#8217;s connection with Jerusalem gets&#8211;myth, fantasy, wishful thinking. Meanwhile, Jews can trace their roots in Jerusalem back to the days of Abraham.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Temple Mount has always been a Muslim holy place and Judaism has no connection to the site.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>The area of Solomon&#8217;s Stables is believed to date as far back as the construction of Solomon&#8217;s Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D. More authoritatively, the Koran&#8211;the holy book of Islam&#8211;describes Solomon&#8217;s construction of the First Temple (34:13) and recounts the destruction of the First and Second Temples (17:7). The Jewish connection to the Temple Mount dates back more than 3,000 years and is rooted in tradition and history. When Abraham bound his son, Isaac, upon an altar as a sacrifice to God, he did so atop Mount Moriah, today&#8217;s Temple Mount.</p>
<p>MYTH:</p>
<p>&#8220;Under Israeli rule, religious freedom has been curbed in Jerusalem.&#8221;</p>
<p>FACT:</p>
<p>After the 1967 war, Israel abolished all the discriminatory laws promulgated by Jordan and adopted its own tough standard for safeguarding access to religious shrines. &#8220;Whoever does anything that is likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the various religions to the places sacred to them,&#8221; Israeli law stipulates, &#8220;is liable to imprisonment for a term of five years.&#8221; Israel also entrusted administration of the holy places to their respective religious authorities. Thus, for example, the Muslim Waqf has responsibility for the mosques on the Temple Mount.<br />
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<p>Genesis 12:1-3<br />
KJV</p>
<p> 1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father&#8217;s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:</p>
<p> 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:</p>
<p> 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.</p>
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		<title>By: PattyAnd</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/david-horowitz/my-friend-christopher/comment-page-1/#comment-1900920</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost all Christian denominations share common beliefs.
 1. God is faithful
 2. Jesus is real
 3. The Bible is true, even if not literally true. 
  There us an ordered, rather than a random universe. 
  We Christians, as well as Jews,  believe in one God, God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all things seen and unseen.  
  Jews believe in 1. and 3. above. 
  How can you not believe in God? The evidence is everywhere; but Faith is in the heart, not the intellect. 
  As the Christian mystical poet Christina Rossetti wrote:
Who Has Seen the Wind?

Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Almost all Christian denominations share common beliefs.<br />
 1. God is faithful<br />
 2. Jesus is real<br />
 3. The Bible is true, even if not literally true. <br />
  There us an ordered, rather than a random universe. <br />
  We Christians, as well as Jews,  believe in one God, God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all things seen and unseen.  <br />
  Jews believe in 1. and 3. above. <br />
  How can you not believe in God? The evidence is everywhere; but Faith is in the heart, not the intellect. <br />
  As the Christian mystical poet Christina Rossetti wrote:<br />
Who Has Seen the Wind?</p>
<p>Who has seen the wind?<br />
Neither I nor you:<br />
But when the leaves hang trembling,<br />
The wind is passing through.</p>
<p>Who has seen the wind?<br />
Neither you nor I:<br />
But when the trees bow down their heads,<br />
The wind is passing by.</p>
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		<title>By: Foolster41</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/david-horowitz/my-friend-christopher/comment-page-1/#comment-1885355</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Foolster41]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Evolution is the deadly enemy of all fundamentalists , moslem , jewish and christian ....don&#039;t be niave and foolish , these folks tolerate evolution because the law requires them to and without the protection of the law would burn EVERY book&quot; 
Uhhuh. This is once again a giant sweeping exaggeration. I&#039;m a Christian who believes that macro evolution as a explanation for the existence of the earth is wrong (And this is an incredibly bad place to start a debate on that!), but I honestly do not feel any violence towards evolutionists or a desire to burn the books. Perhaps you can point out where this has been happening? How many religious people have murdered evolution because of evolution, or burned books on evolution in the last 100 years? When and where? That you believe that a large number of Christians, Jews etc. wish to destroy books on evolution and harm people for their believes speaks of an amazing bigotry,. It&#039;s not in any Christian or Jewish teachings I can find to harm people who disagree with you. I do remember something about turning another cheek.  
 
&quot;.religion is a powerful and potent brew , it&#039;s not for fair minded objective folk&quot;  This is just petty name calling,.  
 
&quot;I don&#039;t care to burn Bibles or korans because I&#039;m not a &#039;&#039;true believer&#039;&#039;, just an agnosticand skeptic , who is well aware of what religious folk are capable of&quot; 
 
Yes, because there weren&#039;t any atheist mass-murders like Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao who used their atheistic ideologies to excuse their actions. You make it sound like on one hand the crazy God-believing people who if let loose woulkd destroy the world, and on the other hand the rational, good non-beleivers, as if there wen&#039;t atheist monsters, or believing &quot;saints&quot; (for lack of a better word). 
 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&quot;Evolution is the deadly enemy of all fundamentalists , moslem , jewish and christian &#8230;.don&#039;t be niave and foolish , these folks tolerate evolution because the law requires them to and without the protection of the law would burn EVERY book&quot;<br />
Uhhuh. This is once again a giant sweeping exaggeration. I&#039;m a Christian who believes that macro evolution as a explanation for the existence of the earth is wrong (And this is an incredibly bad place to start a debate on that!), but I honestly do not feel any violence towards evolutionists or a desire to burn the books. Perhaps you can point out where this has been happening? How many religious people have murdered evolution because of evolution, or burned books on evolution in the last 100 years? When and where? That you believe that a large number of Christians, Jews etc. wish to destroy books on evolution and harm people for their believes speaks of an amazing bigotry,. It&#039;s not in any Christian or Jewish teachings I can find to harm people who disagree with you. I do remember something about turning another cheek.  </p>
<p>&quot;.religion is a powerful and potent brew , it&#039;s not for fair minded objective folk&quot;  This is just petty name calling,.  </p>
<p>&quot;I don&#039;t care to burn Bibles or korans because I&#039;m not a &#039;&#039;true believer&#039;&#039;, just an agnosticand skeptic , who is well aware of what religious folk are capable of&quot; </p>
<p>Yes, because there weren&#039;t any atheist mass-murders like Stalin, Pol Pot or Mao who used their atheistic ideologies to excuse their actions. You make it sound like on one hand the crazy God-believing people who if let loose woulkd destroy the world, and on the other hand the rational, good non-beleivers, as if there wen&#039;t atheist monsters, or believing &quot;saints&quot; (for lack of a better word). </p>
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