Milli Sands - American Thinker
"New York’s Jewish community does not require lectures on resiliency from a mayor whose allies and personal circle treat Jewish national restoration as original sin." . . .
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| The Roman Destruction of Jerusalem by David Roberts (edited). |
. . . "The sequence is revealing. Condemnation first; ceremonial greeting second.
"Tisha B’Av is not a generic day of Jewish resilience. It mourns the Babylonian destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE and the Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the loss of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel, and the ensuing exiles. The fast exists because a Jewish nation governed Jerusalem, built its central sanctuary there under Jewish political authority, and lost both through conquest.
"Solomon’s First Temple was built in the 10th century BCE within the United Monarchy of Israel. The Second Temple was rebuilt when Jews returned to the land after the Babylonian exile and was later expanded it under Herodian rule.
"Both constructions presuppose organized Jewish political control, independent governance, and national existence in the land millennia before Muhammad. This is not modern Zionist invention; it is the historical premise of the holiday itself. By publicly recognizing Tisha B’Av, Mamdani necessarily acknowledged Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem—the very principle his record repeatedly undermines.
"Mamdani is a practicing Shia Muslim who took the mayoral oath on Qurans. His political pattern is consistent: he has treated Israel’s existence as a Jewish state as illegitimate, refused to condemn “Globalize the Intifada,” became the first New York mayor in six decades to skip the Israel Day Parade, and revoked the city’s adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism on day one.
"His greeting carefully omits Jerusalem, the Temples, exile, and sovereignty, reducing the day to vague “history and resiliency.” That flattening allows the speaker to claim moral credit while rejecting the logical implications of what is being remembered." . . .
NYC mayor Mamdani faces backlash over 'Israel not a place' remarks
. . . "That honor goes to the underlying narrative of “Palestine,” which Mamdani and his followers defend with fervor and without curiosity.
"The Bible refers to Israel thousands of times as both a nation and a homeland. “Palestine,” on the other hand, was invented by Greco-Roman colonialists, and instituted by Hadrian to replace the indigenous name Judea, identified with the Jews he was driving out.
"The “Palestinian” flag flown at rallies is derived from that of the Arab Revolt of 1916, representing no new identity, but the Jihadists’ dream of a unified Arab kingdom from Syria to Yemen. Old administrative maps of the British Mandate, and similar bureaucratic charts dating back hundreds of years, are exploited to rewrite the historical record of the land they depict.
"The history of the region called Palestine is real — and overwhelmingly Jewish. " . . .
