Israel Travel Guide
The Middle Eastern state of Israel lies in an area which is holy ground for the three great monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Judaism and Christianity originated here, and Jerusalem is Islam's most important shrine after Mecca and Medina. The Holy Land is thus of supreme significance to the adherents of these three religions.
Although Israel was never a great power and for many centuries had no independent existence as a state, it lies at a focal point of Middle Eastern history and is richly stocked with remains of a long and eventful past reaching far back into prehistory - to the 8th millennium b.c., when Jericho was one of the world's earliest urban settlements, and even farther back to the remote times when Palaeolithic man began laboriously developing his primitive culture. .In this relatively small area a whole succession of peoples have left evidence of their existence - the people of Jericho, the Canaanites, the Israelites of the Old Testament, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, European crusaders, Mamelukes, Turks and finally the Christians from Europe and Russia who in more recent centuries have built their churches and religious houses in many places in this country.
Although Israel was never a great power and for many centuries had no independent existence as a state, it lies at a focal point of Middle Eastern history and is richly stocked with remains of a long and eventful past reaching far back into prehistory - to the 8th millennium b.c., when Jericho was one of the world's earliest urban settlements, and even farther back to the remote times when Palaeolithic man began laboriously developing his primitive culture. .In this relatively small area a whole succession of peoples have left evidence of their existence - the people of Jericho, the Canaanites, the Israelites of the Old Testament, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, European crusaders, Mamelukes, Turks and finally the Christians from Europe and Russia who in more recent centuries have built their churches and religious houses in many places in this country.
Whether a tourist comes to Israel as a pilgrim, as an art-lover or as one interested in history or in the problems of our own day, he will find much to fascinate him
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Jerusalem is a religious city primarily to Jews, but also to other religions.
ReplyDeleteSome Arabs, local people and outsiders have a habit of sticking it in your face and intentionally demonstrate and voicing their position and behavior to instigate and cause dissension and violence.
There is a line drawn as to how far you can push the freedom of speech and expression.
When an Arab member of the Israeli Parliament or a leftist Israeli speaks and commits treason and supports the enemies of the state in any fashion, the punishment must be meted out immediately. This is not free speech and expression.
Whether people choose to recognize it or not, Israel is a Jewish State and as such it should live up-to Jewish values. The people in Israel must learn to respect each other and not intentionally offend each other.
In the past week there were numerous incidents where some individuals used the terminology about Muslim Muhammed the word is a Pig, they were arrested and charged for that incident. Where is free speech and expression? There is a limit to how far the freedom of speech and expression goes. What one forgets is that many Arabs on Temple Mount intentionally harass the Jews and go as far as saying kill the Jews which is far worse. When one incites to murder, this is more than free speech it incitement to murder and must be arrested immediately.
Contrary to Muslim false propaganda and the worlds delusion and fantasy who wish to ignore history and believe the false Arab propaganda. Temple Mount is the location of the Jewish Temple. In a 1925 guide by the Muslim Wakf in Temple Mount it specifically states, that the Jewish temple was there and King Solomon's history. Now it must be understood that any disturbance and or violence on Temple Mount (which is a place of worship) will cause for the vacating Temple Mount of any people and entry will be forbidden to everybody for one week, no exception. Thereafter if it continues, it will be closed for a month. Anyone wearing a mask to cover his identity while causing unrest and violence must be arrested.
When a person yells fire, when there is no fire in a crowded theatre that can cause a terrified crowed to trample on each other, while running out, it is a crime.