by Maria Polizoidou • March 9, 2018
§ Two distinguished
members of Greece's parliament, whose party has a good chance of defeating the
current leadership, are breathing new life into the political system and
reinvigorating crucial partnerships with Israel and the United States.
§ "The positions
of the Palestinians are maximalist and dangerous, since they actually propose
the Islamization of the city. Palestinian Islamist organizations, like Hamas
and Islamic Jihad, have repeatedly launched threats against the non-Muslim population
of Jerusalem. Islamists visualize a Jerusalem without churches and synagogues.
On the other hand, the Israeli Knesset has recognized since 1980 the
multi-religious character of Jerusalem and is committed to the unimpeded access
of all believers to places of worship..." — MP Makis Voridis, a former
minister from the New Democracy party, writing in the Greek daily Kathimerini.
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with then Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras
on October 8, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via
Getty Images)
On his return from
a recent two-day trip to Israel -- where he met with high-level officials --
Adonis Georgiadis, the vice president of Greece's opposition party, New
Democracy, declared his support for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
In an interview
with Skai Radio on March 7, Georgiadis called it "almost funny to discuss
whether Jerusalem is a Jewish city or not."
"[It] was founded by the Jews...
in ancient times. You can read Flavius Josephus or read Diodoros Siceliotis and
see the references to the city of Jerusalem, where there was the High Priest of
Solomon's Temple and that it was the city of the Jews. This is the
reality."
When challenged by
the interviewer, who said, "But as time went by, many things happened in
the city's history," Georgiadis, a historian, replied:
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