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This article was first published at Christianity Today, on December 5. President Donald Trump is expected tomorrow to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Doing so would fulfill a campaign promise. It would upend decades of American foreign policy. And it would simultaneously encourage and unnerve the Christians of the Middle East. “I am obviously pleased, as an Israeli,” said David Friedman, a professor at the Messianic Jewish Theological Institute and former dean of King of Kings College in Jerusalem. “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, de facto, concretely. Our government sits there. So why should President Trump continue ignoring reality?” But 65 miles north in Arab-majority Nazareth, another Christian educator has a dramatically different response. “It is a bad idea,” said Botrus Mansour, a Baptist elder and co-chair of the Lausanne Initiative for Reconciliation between Israel and Palestine. “It will increase resentment and possibly spark unnecessary violence, making peace harder to obtain. “America will lose any remaining legitimacy it had as a fair broker.” Israel occupied Arab East Jerusalem in 1967, and passed a law in 1980 declaring the city its eternal, united, and undivided capital. The United Nations declared the act null and void, by a unanimous resolution in which the United States abstained. Palestine also desires Jerusalem as the capital of a future state. So American policy has been… Please click here to read the full article at Christianity Today.
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जेरुसेलम विवादः अमेरिकी निर्णयविरुद्ध नेपालको मत काठमाडौं / संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघ महासभामा नेपालले पनि जेरुसेलमलाई इजरायलको राजधानीका रुपमा मान्यतालाई अमेरिकी निर्णयविरुद्ध मत दिएको छ । अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पले हालै मात्र जेरुसेलमलाई इजरायलको राजधानीका रुपमा मान्यता दिने घोषणा गरेका थिए । त्यसप्रति असन्तुष्ट अरब र मुस्लिम देशहरुको माग बमोजिम १९३ सदस्यीय महासभाको आपतकालिन सत्र बोलाइयो, जहाँ अमेरिकाको नाम उल्लेख नगरी जेरुसेलमलाई इजरायलको राजधानीका रुपमा मान्यता दिने निर्णय उल्टाउने प्रस्ताव लगिएको थियो । महासभामा मतदान हुनुअघि अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पले प्रस्तावको पक्षमा मतदान गरे सहयोग रोक्ने चेतावनी दिए । तर, ट्रम्पको चेतावनीका बाबजुद नेपालसहित १२८ मुलुकले जेरुसेलमलाई इजरायलको राजधानी मान्यता दिने निर्णय उल्टाउने प्रस्तावको पक्षमा मतदान गरेका छन् । ९ मुलुकले मात्र प्रस्तावको विपक्षमा मत दिएका छन् भने ३५ मुलक मतदानमा अनुपस्थित रहेका थिए । अनलाइनखबर