{"id":2580,"date":"2007-05-13T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/13\/us-eu-planned-absence-from-jerusalem-day-part-of-long-term-effort-to-delegitimize-israel\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T18:56:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T16:56:56","slug":"us-eu-planned-absence-from-jerusalem-day-part-of-long-term-effort-to-delegitimize-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/13\/us-eu-planned-absence-from-jerusalem-day-part-of-long-term-effort-to-delegitimize-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"US, EU Planned Absence from Jerusalem Day; Part of Long-Term Effort to Delegitimize Israel??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1178708589460&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Lupolianski Blasts Envoys for Jerusalem Day Boycott, by  Etgar Lefkovits<\/strong><\/a>    (Jerusalem Post)<\/p>\n<p><center><strong><em>Related reports:<\/em> <\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/Flash.aspx\/126325\"><strong>Mayor Blasts Diplomats for Shunning Jerusalem Day Event<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3399017,00.html\"><strong>US, Europe to Shun Jerusalem Day Celebrations<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3399364,00.html\"><strong>Temple Mount Activists: Rejection of Jerusalem is Result of Weak Government [for 40 Years]<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Anyone who doesn&#8217;t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel does not recognize the state of Israel,&#8221; Lupolianski said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Israel needed to send out an unequivocal message to the world, and not capitulate on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel is the only country in the world that allows other countries to boycott its capital and not [locate] their embassies in the city,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The unusually harsh remarks from the haredi mayor comes after US and EU ambassadors declined to attend a VIP event at the Knesset marking the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n<p>Sources close to US Ambassador Richard Jones said Sunday that Jones would not be participating in Monday&#8217;s Jerusalem Day ceremony at the Knesset. It was not yet clear whether his decision to absent himself, which followed a similar decision by the EU, was politically motivated.<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Commentary;<\/p>\n<p>But America, the Russians, the nations all fulfilled their Divine purpose in actuating contemporary Jewish sovereignty over it&#8217;s homeland; Eretz Yisrael.  The latter day efforts of the nations to delegitimize Israel will come to naught &#8212; despite israel&#8217;s own current weak, spineless, self-hating leaders.   MB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lupolianski Blasts Envoys for Jerusalem Day Boycott, by Etgar Lefkovits (Jerusalem Post) Related reports: Mayor Blasts Diplomats for Shunning Jerusalem Day Event US, Europe to Shun Jerusalem Day Celebrations Temple Mount Activists: Rejection of Jerusalem is Result of Weak Government [for 40 Years] Excerpts; &#8220;Anyone who doesn&#8217;t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}