How do we solve the Middle East problem.
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I'd be curious to know if Muslims would be willing to allow Jews to commemorate the Sabbath in the Al-Aqsa mosque on the grounds that it is now located right where the Jerusalem Temple used to be?
However, we could also ask if Jews would accept such an offer if ever made. Muslims generally consider the Al-Aqsa Mosque as having fulfilled the Biblical prophecy of the rebuilding of the Jerusaliem Temple (i.e. they view it as the new Jerusalem Temple!). Let's not forget that Muslims believe in the Torah too as an older text of God. That being the case, with Jews believing that that prophecy is yet to come and that the Al-Aqsa mosque is the very obstacle in its way, we can then understand the tensions there. For the Muslims, for the Jews to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque would be confusing, bizarre, and diametrically opposed to their avowed goal of rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple, since destroying the Mosque would be viewed as destroying the new Jerusalem Temple the Jews wish to rebuild.
For the Jews, to accept an offer to hold Sabbath in the Al-Aqsa Mosque could lead to a fear that it be misinterpreted as an acknowledgement that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is indeed the fulfilment of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Looking at it that way, some Muslims would likely even be tempted to offer its use to Jews on Saturdays as a symbolic, very powerfully symbolic, gesture. Jews would likely reject it precicely owing to their awareness of the potential symbolic significance within the context of Muslim understandig of Biblical prophecy of accepting such an offer.
I honestly don't know how this would pan out. Would Muslims be interested in making such an offer? And would Jews accept such an offer? Hard to say on both sides, as politics get all mixed into it too.
However, we could also ask if Jews would accept such an offer if ever made. Muslims generally consider the Al-Aqsa Mosque as having fulfilled the Biblical prophecy of the rebuilding of the Jerusaliem Temple (i.e. they view it as the new Jerusalem Temple!). Let's not forget that Muslims believe in the Torah too as an older text of God. That being the case, with Jews believing that that prophecy is yet to come and that the Al-Aqsa mosque is the very obstacle in its way, we can then understand the tensions there. For the Muslims, for the Jews to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque would be confusing, bizarre, and diametrically opposed to their avowed goal of rebuilding the Jerusalem Temple, since destroying the Mosque would be viewed as destroying the new Jerusalem Temple the Jews wish to rebuild.
For the Jews, to accept an offer to hold Sabbath in the Al-Aqsa Mosque could lead to a fear that it be misinterpreted as an acknowledgement that the Al-Aqsa Mosque is indeed the fulfilment of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple. Looking at it that way, some Muslims would likely even be tempted to offer its use to Jews on Saturdays as a symbolic, very powerfully symbolic, gesture. Jews would likely reject it precicely owing to their awareness of the potential symbolic significance within the context of Muslim understandig of Biblical prophecy of accepting such an offer.
I honestly don't know how this would pan out. Would Muslims be interested in making such an offer? And would Jews accept such an offer? Hard to say on both sides, as politics get all mixed into it too.
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How do we solve the Middle East problem?
We don't have a middle east problem. Especially if we don't allow them into Canada under any circumstances.
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"WE" do have a M.E. problem. You can stick your collective heads in the sand and murmer the mantra "it doesn't concern us" all you want and it won't change the fact that what happens in diferent parts of the world DOES effect us, even here in Canada and the U.S.
"We" have already seen what can happen when a "problem" elsewhere in the world is ignored. WWII and Nazi Germany "should" be a reminder.
"We" have already seen what can happen when a "problem" elsewhere in the world is ignored. WWII and Nazi Germany "should" be a reminder.
Isn't that what our Immigration Dept. is there for, to screen prospective immigrants? There are certain situations where being discriminatory is fair. Like when allowing people into your home, if I don't like the looks of them they don't come in, so it should be with the country as there is a responsibility to ensure (as closely as possible) the safety of its citizens. For instance in B.C. we have problems with gangs from one or two Asian countries, so I would say F**k them we don't let anymore in until we can figure out a way to more closely screen them to be sure we don't get any more gangsters. Not that hard where there's the will to it.
Right on Ironsides, but I think the problem could be much more easily solvable IF people got over this obsession of being "politically correct"............let's be "politically safe" instead.
Your enemies are legion you can never prevail from behind a fence. Your civil rights are being attacked by your own government and no one else Ironsides. Relax nothing you've said helps anyone.:smile:
We could always put a wall around both the Palestinians and Israeli's and have them fight, winner take all. It would be to confined for nuclear, so things should be pretty fair. Nothing outsiders can do will solve the problem. Simple answer to a complex problem.
