by Maria Polizoidou • March 9, 2018
at 5:00 am
- 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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