Senators Lieberman and McCain Visit Jerusalem
The Left is up in arms over a recent visit to Jerusalem by Senator's Lieberman and McCain. The Senators used their trip to chastise Obama's envoy for threatening to cut off military loans to Israel if it did not capitulate to demands made by the Obama Administration.
The Senators are accused of not seeing the real Jerusalem. After all they went to historical sites which included the tunnel along side the outer wall of the Temple of Solomon and the City of David. Both these sites are problem for the Muslim leadership and their Western apologists. You see the Muslim leadership denies that ancient Jews ever set foot in Jerusalem. They deny that the temples including Solomon's ever existed. In other words they refuse to acknowledge that Jerusalem was ever the capital of the Jewish nation.
The Western Wall and the City of David expose this fiction, this lie. Both sites are brimming with evidence that since ancient times, Jerusalem has been the heart and the soul of the Jewish people. A few years back, archaeologists discovered King David's Palace in the City of David. This is just one Jewish historical treasure in Jerusalem.
Along with denying Jewish history the Left also refuses to admit that Muslims have tremendous power over their holy sites in Jerusalem. Many feel they have been granted too much power. Over the years Muslim religious authorities have destroyed tons of Christian and Jewish antiquities on the Temple Mount. They also severely limit Jewish access to this holiest site in Judaism.
The Senators are guilty of one thing, of shedding light on the Jewish reality of Jerusalem. This city has been home to only one people -- the nation of Israel.
I thank God that Senators Lieberman and McCain had the courage and care for Israel to take this step. My prayer is that Obama may come to his senses where Israel is concerned. If the United States deserts Israel, they will not continue to stand strong and influential in the world or at home.