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ജെറുശലേം തലസ്ഥാനമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച നടപടിയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ്പും, ഇറാനും.

പി.പി.ചെറിയാന്‍ Published on 07 December, 2017
ജെറുശലേം തലസ്ഥാനമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച നടപടിയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ്പും, ഇറാനും.
സെന്റ്പീറ്റേഴ്‌സ് സ്‌ക്വയര്‍: യിസ്രായേലിന്റെ തലസ്ഥാനം ജെറുശലേമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച അമേരിക്കന്‍ പ്രസിഡന്റിന്റെ ധീരവും, ചരിത്ര പ്രാധാന്യവുമായ തീരുമാനത്തിനെതിരെ രൂക്ഷ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ് ഫ്രാന്‍സിസും, ഇറാനും രംഗത്ത്.

്ട്രമ്പ് ഭരണകൂടത്തെ പരോക്ഷമായി വിമര്‍ശിച്ചും, കടുത്ത ആശങ്ക അറിയിച്ചും കൊണ്ടാണ് ഇന്ന്(ബുധനാഴ്ച) സെന്റ് പീറ്റേഴ്‌സ് സ്‌ക്വയറില്‍ പോപ്പ് വീക്കിലി ഓഡിയന്‍സിനെ അഭിമുഖീകരിച്ചത്.

ജെറുശലേം നഗരത്തെ സംബന്ധിച്ചു ഇസ്രായേലും, പലസ്റ്റീനും തമ്മില്‍ നിലവിലുള്ള സ്റ്റാറ്റസ്‌ക്കെ(Statusquo) വ്യവസ്ഥകള്‍ ബഹുമാനിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടതുണ്ടെന്ന് പോപ്പ് അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.
ട്രമ്പിന്റെ തീരുമാനം ആഗോളതലത്തില്‍ ആശങ്കയുളവാക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ടെന്നും, 2016 ല്‍ പ്രസിഡന്റ് പദവി ഏറ്റെടുത്തതിനുശേഷം, കുടിയേറ്റം(Immigration), കാലാവസ്ഥാ വ്യതിയാനം(Climate change) തുടങ്ങിയ വിഷയങ്ങളില്‍ ട്രമ്പ് സ്വീകരിച്ച നിലപാടുകള്‍ക്ക് തുല്യമാണിതെന്നും വത്തിക്കാന്‍ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.

യഹൂദര്‍മാര്‍ക്കും, ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികള്‍ക്കും, മുസ്ലീമുകള്‍ക്കും ജെറുശലേം വിശുദ്ധ നഗരമാണ്. ഇവിടം സമാധാനമായിരിക്കണമെന്നാണ് ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നത്. യു.എന്‍. റസലൂഷന് വിധേയമായി നിലവിലുള്ള അര്‍ജന്റില്‍ മാര്‍പ്പാപ്പ പറഞ്ഞു. ഇതേ സമയം നിലവിലുള്ള വ്യവസ്ഥകളില്‍നിന്നും ഒരു തരത്തിലുള്ള മാറ്റങ്ങളും ഞങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് അംഗീകരിക്കാനാവില്ലെന്ന് ഇറാന്‍ വ്യക്തമാക്കി. ജറുശലേമിനെ കുറിച്ചു സംഘര്‍ഷാവസ്ഥക്കവസരം ഉണ്ടാകരുതെന്ന് പ്രതീക്ഷിക്കുന്നതായും പോപ്പ് അറിയിച്ചു.

ജെറുശലേം തലസ്ഥാനമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച നടപടിയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ്പും, ഇറാനും.ജെറുശലേം തലസ്ഥാനമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച നടപടിയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ്പും, ഇറാനും.ജെറുശലേം തലസ്ഥാനമായി അംഗീകരിച്ച നടപടിയ്‌ക്കെതിരെ വിമര്‍ശനവുമായി പോപ്പും, ഇറാനും.
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Mathew V. Zacharia Former N Y Stae Scholl Board Member (1993- 2002) 2017-12-07 09:58:37
Jerusalem: Psalmist in Ps.122:6 " Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you ". I do pray and am blessed by it. Thanks to President Trump.
Mathew V. Zacharia, New York State School Board member ( 1993- 2002)
Anthappan 2017-12-07 11:50:54

The so-called Christians have no shame thanking the Pathological liar Trump.  They don’t know what they are talking about.  Historically and from time immemorial, Jerusalem has been the epicenter of problems. Of all the words of Jesus recorded in the Bible, about twenty-five percent of his teaching was devoted to prophecy concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, the scattering of the Jewish people worldwide, and the end of the world.  He spoke of these events in advance and discussed the rewards and punishments that nations and individuals would experience.  The entire twenty-third chapter of Matthew’s gospel is devoted to Jesus’ denunciation of the Jewish religious leaders as “hypocrites” who would provoke God’s punishment upon the Jewish nation within that generation.  He told them, “Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.” And that generation of Jews did see Jerusalem and its temple destroyed.  But when Jesus again uses the expression “this generation” a few verses later at Matthew 24:34, dispensational futurists insist on applying it to a different generation at the end of the world. “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that kills the prophets, and stones them who are sent unto thee.”  The punishment would come upon those religious leaders and their city of Jerusalem in that very generation. 

       Jesus was a reformist and he loved the humanity.  He understood the political cunningness of the religious leaders who wanted to rule Jerusalem and safeguard their power and money.  Trump and his children are alleged of building up their business with money.  It was not that hard for trump to bring the 80 % of Christians behind him and get voted for him.  Because, Evangelical leaders of America are equally cunning and safe guard their comfortable life style.  Many moronic Malayalee Christians easily boarded the bandwagon with Halleluiah.  Do they know that this misogynist groped twelve women? Where is your morality Christian?  How can you claim that you are the follower of Jesus and support one of the deplorable president who supports a child molester and rapist at Alabama?  Trump and Netanyahu are two cunning people. One is a supremacist and misogynist and other one is a cunning politician who would do anything to cling on to power.    Sorry No Thanks to Trump- waiting for his exit. 

True Christan 2017-12-07 16:12:29
Evangelical view – Jerusalem as capital is provocative

Few developments could have excited President Trump’s evangelical base more than his intention to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This base came through for him in the 2016 election, with 81 percent of white evangelicals voting for him. When he promised during his campaign that moving the embassy was high on his agenda and even said it would be one of his first acts as president, many evangelicals cheered.

But other evangelicals—myself included—were cautious, viewing this move as an idea that needs to be left on the shelf. And they are worried now. Despite media portrayals giving the impression that evangelicals have one point of view when it comes to Israel, in reality there is a wide range of perspectives.

Some conservative evangelicals have built a remarkable theology around the modern state of Israel. It’s as if a biblical story has come alive again from the scriptures. In the Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament), Jerusalem was established as Israel’s capital by King David about 1,000 years before Christ. Notwithstanding various wars and a Babylonian exile that led to the loss of the city, Jerusalem remained Israel’s de facto capital in the Jewish imagination. Even in the New Testament, Jerusalem is assumed to be Israel’s capital. But another war in 70 A.D. led to a longtime loss of the city. Modern Israel did not recapture Jerusalem until 1967.

Lyon Text", Georgia, Times, serif;">The key to understanding this perspective is to recognize that these conservative evangelicals are building a bridge from ancient biblical Israel to the modern secular State of Israel. So, promises made almost 4,000 years ago to Abraham apply to the modern Israeli state. “The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you,” God says in Genesis 17:8. For these evangelical interpreters, a verse like this one is not just something ancient; it provides a political mandate for Israel’s privileges today. And Genesis 12:3, “I will bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse,” originally intended as a word of protection for Abraham’s tribe, now can become a mandate for anyone living today. We are obligated, the argument runs, to bless modern Israel. In the U.S., blessing Israel means recognizing its sole ownership of Jerusalem.

These evangelicals’ perspectives stem partly from a high regard for the Bible and its story about the fate of the Israelites, which has led to an outsized fascination with Judaism. They believe that Israel has a unique place in history as God’s special people, so Israel deserves deferential treatment—and Jerusalem deserves the same. For some, Israel enjoys an exceptionalism that sets it apart from the entire world. There are even evangelicals who believe that promoting the importance of Jerusalem is one more building block in the fulfillment of prophecies that sets the stage for the Second Coming of Christ. The average conservative evangelical is filled with a tangle of commitments that are often tough to sort out. She just knows that if Israel wants something—in this case, Jerusalem—Israel deserves to have it.

The legitimacy of this position rests entirely on the legitimacy of the theological move from antiquity to the 21st century. If the theological bridge can be built, modern secular Israel enjoys the biblical promises and privileges no other nation can enjoy, including the privilege of having all of Jerusalem despite an international outcry. The problem is that this bridge is fundamentally unsound. It uses the Bible for modern political ends that many of us find illegitimate.

Numerous evangelicals like me are less enamored of the recent romance between the church and Republican politics, and worry about moving the U.S. embassy. For us, peacemaking and the pursuit of justice are very high virtues. We view the ethical teachings of the scriptures as primary, and recognize that when biblical Israelites failed in their moral pursuits, they were sorely criticized by the Hebrew prophets and became subject to ejection from the Holy Land. Amos 5:24 shows that even the use of the Jerusalem Temple can be problematic to God: “Take away from me [God] the noise of your songs; I will not even listen to the sound of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Many of us look at modern Israel today and see a country that Amos would barely recognize. How, we wonder, can anyone build a bridge from ancient Israel to modern Israel today? Amos would hardly recognize in Tel Aviv a city based on biblical ideals.

What’s more, anything that detracts from the movement toward a peaceful resolution of conflict must be avoided. We do not promote what we call the “territorialism” of the Bible. We anchor our thinking not in the Old Testament’s land-based promises, but in the gospel, where the tribal or local theologies about Israel become global and universal, welcoming all people from every tribe and every land into a divine promise of blessing. Paul can refer to gentiles as children of Abraham (Romans 4:11) because it’s through faith, not ethnic lineage, that one gains access to the blessings of God. This shift in emphasis, which challenges the exclusivity of any one tribe and universalizes blessing, explains the world-mission of the ancient church and the inclusion of gentiles in Jesus’s Jewish messianic movement. From this vantage, arguments for ethnic land claims—such as disputes over Jerusalem—sound foreign.

Finally, although there is little doubt that Jerusalem is the historic capital of biblical Israel, the ancient world did not view “capitals” as we do today. Tribal societies like Israel had one major city that generally housed a palace and a temple. Life orbited around this city and its defeat was the defeat of the nation itself. Today things are considerably different. Modern Tel Aviv, where all Israel’s embassies are located, did not exist in biblical times and now it is a substantial city of 500,000. Nevertheless, Jerusalem is the religious or perhaps the emotional capital of Israel.

But Jerusalem is also the religious and emotional capital of Palestinian life. The east side of the city is home to Palestinians who are either Muslim or Christian. Although their functional capital is in Ramallah, it is Jerusalem they look to for both churches and mosques. In Islam, Jerusalem is the third-holiest city (after Mecca and Medina). The 7th-century Dome of the Rock is there, as well as the historic Al-Aqsa mosque. Palestinian Muslims are defensive about protecting their portion of the city and they see an embassy move as another step toward identifying all of Jerusalem fully with Israel. To say it troubles them is to put it mildly. Some Palestinians view it as a “declaration of war.”

Moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is simply provocative. And this is a part of the world where the peace process requires us to avoid provocation at all costs. There’s a reason why the world’s embassies have stayed out of Jerusalem. It’s not based on anti-Israel antagonism; it’s a pragmatic decision to support the peace process and to view Jerusalem as a shared city that respects everyone’s privileges.

I’ve had career diplomats in the State Department tell me privately that an embassy move would be foolish. Unfortunately, many of these seasoned men and women are leaving their careers, or are being pushed out. We need people like them now to remind the White House that in the Middle East, even symbolic gestures can have very real, dangerous consequences. But we also need evangelicals to do this. Trump listens to his evangelical advisers—and they are the ones who can lead him back to the Hebrew prophets, where a different point of view can be found.
Pastor John Samuel 2017-12-07 16:33:25

During his statement today about his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Donald Trump’s speech suddenly slurred in the last minute of his address.

I’ve compiled a video comparing the first 30 seconds of Trump’s Jerusalem statement with the final 30 seconds or so. You’ll note that in the first few minutes, Trump is articulate and pronounces the letter “s” correction. At the end of the speech, Trump is slurring his words, can no longer pronounce the letter “s” — it comes across as “sh” — and then in closing the address, Trump even mispronounces the word “United States” as “United Shates.”

Some have wondered if Trump has dentures, others have noted that a sudden onset of slurred speech can be indicative of a stroke, or even a side effect of medication. (Trump’s sniffling and heavy breathing was back in this speech as well as well.) But Trump claims he’s perfectly healthy, and not on any medication other than statins. And he’s never admitted to wearing dentures.

Lock him in a cell before he destroy the World. He is not a Christian, He is fake.

യേശു 2017-12-07 22:47:43
യെരുശലേമിനെ രക്ഷിക്കാൻ വേണ്ടി ട്രംപിന് നന്ദി പറയുന്ന നിങ്ങൾക്ക് അയ്യോ കഷ്ടം! കള്ളനും കവർച്ചക്കാരനും സ്വർഗ്ഗത്തിൽ കടക്കും എങ്കിലും നിങ്ങൾ സ്വർഗ്ഗത്തിന്റെ പടിവാതിൽ കാണില്ല.   നിങ്ങൾ ഉപായത്തിൽ പ്രാർത്ഥന കഴിക്കുകയും വിധവമാരുടെ വീടുകളെ വിഴുങ്ങി കളയുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു .  നിങളുടെ വാക്കുകൾ വെള്ള തേച്ചതും ഹൃദയം  ശവക്കല്ലറകളുമാണ് .  നിങ്ങൾ നിങളുടെ സ്ഥാനമാനങ്ങളും (അത് തുരുമ്പിച്ചതായാലും ) അടയാളങ്ങളൂം പേരിനോട് ചേർത്ത് നിറുത്തി മനുഷ്യരെ കബിളിപ്പിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കും .  യെരുശലേമേ നാശം നിന്റെമേൽ ആഗതമായിരിക്കുന്നു. ചെകുത്താൻ അവതരിച്ചിരിക്കുന്നു അവൻ ജാതികളെയും രാഷ്ട്രങ്ങളെയും ഭിന്നിപ്പിക്കും അവന്റെ അധർമ്മങ്ങൾ എന്റെ പിൻഗാമികൾ എന്ന് വിളിച്ചു പറഞ്ഞു നടക്കുന്നവരുടെ മുന്നിൽ പകലും വെളിച്ചവും പോലെ നിന്നിട്ടും അവർ അതിനെ അവഗണിച്ച് അവന്റെ പിന്നാലെ പോയിരിക്കുന്നു  . യെരുശലേമേ നിന്റെ മേൽ നാശത്തിന്റെ അഗ്‌നി പടരുവാൻ അധിക സമയമില്ല . ഹാ യെരുശലേമേ അയ്യോ കഷ്ടം !
മലയാളത്തില്‍ ടൈപ്പ് ചെയ്യാന്‍ ഇവിടെ ക്ലിക്ക് ചെയ്യുക