President Donald Trump last year officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city and announced the United States would move its embassy in the country from Tel Aviv to the Holy City.
The move was expected to take years, but a report suggests a U.S. diplomatic mission in Jerusalem will be opened much sooner.
The State Department initially believed it would take around three years to move the entire embassy and its staff to Jerusalem. The moving process is extremely complex and involves “building a new facility that satisfies the significant security requirements,” according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, a plan has been submitted to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that allows the Trump administration to announce they have officially opened a Jerusalem embassy ahead of schedule. That date could come as early as April, the AP reported.- READ MORE
[give_form id=”79809″] [divider][/divider]Three U.S. imams have called for the death of Jews since December, a trend that has followed President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
In the latest incident, Abdullah Khadra, a Syrian-American imam, announced during a sermon in a Raleigh, North Carolina-area mosque on Monday that Jews should be killed. The sermon was taped and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)¸ a nonprofit group.
“The Prophet Muhammad gave us the glad tidings that…we will fight those Jews until the rocks and the trees will speak: Oh Muslim, this is a Jew behind me,” Khadra said. MEMRI suggests that the words have a known connotation that Khadra did not say, but his listeners understood. “The continuation of the well-known Hadith is that the rocks and the trees say: ‘Come and kill him,’” MEMRI reported.
Raed Saleh Al-Rousan, a Houston-based imam, made a similar proclamation to his followers at the Tajweed Institute, an Islamic center, on December 8.
“The Muslims will kill the Jews, and the Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him, except for the Gharqad tree, which is one of their trees,” Al-Rousan said, as recorded by MEMRI. – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]President Donald Trump shook up the world with his recent announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and in the process exposed a significant portion of the United Nations as being both anti-Israel and anti-American.
But a rather unexpected and unintended consequence has also emerged in the wake of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital — two major terrorist groups are now at war with each other.
According to Fox News, the Islamic State group affiliate in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has officially declared a state of war between themselves and Hamas, the terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip between Egypt and Israel.
The announcement came in a 22-minute long video in which an Islamic State group member accused of collaborating with Hamas was beheaded.
The jihadist executioner declared of Hamas, “Never surrender to them. Use explosives, silenced pistols, and sticky bombs. Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are the pillars of tyranny that prop up its throne.” (CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE)
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