{"id":339264,"date":"2017-12-13T17:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-doomsday-jerusalem-speech-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T16:18:44","slug":"trumps-doomsday-jerusalem-speech-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trumps-doomsday-jerusalem-speech-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Doomsday Jerusalem Speech | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In 1995, a few short years after the official end of the Cold War when hope-filled nations were focusing on peace and prosperity, the United States Congress unanimously passed the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerusalem_Embassy_Act\">Jerusalem Embassy Act<\/a>\u201d into law.\u00a0 The law recognized \u201cJerusalem\u201d as the official capital of Israel. The passage of this law was left unnoticed by most. Few objected to a law passed by the preeminent power of the new unilateral world order. Fewer still understood the consequences of the law.<\/p>\n<p>On December 6, Donald Trump reminded the world of the decision made years ago.\u00a0 There was outrage, but the true implications of this decision were not discussed. Predictably, stories centered on Palestinians\u00a0\u2013 and Jews.\u00a0 Some justified the decision while others condemned it. Many reasoned that the Palestinians had to be defended.\u00a0 While others thought that it was up to the Arabs and Moslems to challenge America\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem question raised legal challenges to religious claims.\u00a0 The cacophony of protests and cheers obscured the approaching doomsday scenario that had been in the making for decades.\u00a0 Few understood.\u00a0 None listened.\u00a0 Others are in denial, believing religious zealotry to be a geopolitical game.\u00a0 But what has been taking place under our noses is not a fight over real estate, or international law.\u00a0 It is the power of madness, or the mad in power, that is enabling religious fanaticism to prevail at a cost to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/12\/trumps-doomsday-jerusalem-speech\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, a few short years after the official end of the Cold War when hope-filled nations were focusing on peace and prosperity, the United States Congress unanimously passed the \u201cJerusalem Embassy Act\u201d into law.\u00a0 The law recognized \u201cJerusalem\u201d as the official capital of Israel. The passage of this law was left unnoticed by most. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-339264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}