Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

Jerusalem was established as the capital of Israel by King David three thousand years ago. As previously noted, it is not mentioned once in the Qur'an. Even when Muslim empires controlled all of the Middle East, Jerusalem was given no importance and was largely neglected. In the late 1800s, out of a population in Jeruslem of about forty thousand, most were Jews, the rest Christians of various shades, and only a few were Arabs.

Nor is there any reference to Jerusalem in the Palestine National Covenant of 1964. It was a new invention and complete tuunabout when the Muslim world began to insist that the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and Jerusalem itself had always belonged to "Palestinians."

Muslim writers recently began to laud Jerusalem as "comparable in holiness" to Mecca and Medina, or even "our most sacred place." But this was another fabrication and never the case historically. The Islamic terrorist organization Hizballah (Party of Allah), headquartered in Syria, displays the Dome of the Rock on its promotional materials to inflame its followers against Israel. Arafat declared that "Al-Quds [Jerusalem] is in the innermost of our feeling, the feeling of our people and the feeling of all Arabs, Muslims, and Christians in the world" ("The Jerusalem Post," August 29, 2000). Not surprisingly, he left out the Jews, to whom Jerusalem means more than to anyone!