Friday, October 2, 2020
Turkey’s Erdogan says Jerusalem ‘is our city’
Turkey’s Erdogan says Jerusalem ‘is our city’
Turkish strongman lays pre-WW1 Ottoman claim to Israel’s capital, saying it “is our city.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Thursday that Israel’s capital city of Jerusalem still belongs to Turkey.
In a speech marking the opening of the fall session of Turkey’s parliament, covered by Turkish media, Erdoğan began with harsh criticism of Armenia for the the armed conflict that broke out this week with Azerbaijan and their mutual claims to the Nagorno-Karabakh region. However, his comments shifted closer to home and he made the surprise remark that Jerusalem still belongs to Turkey.
“The Jerusalem issue is not a geopolitical problem for us. Jerusalem is our city, a city from us,” Erdogan said, referring to the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War One.
“In this city [Jerusalem] that we had to leave in tears during the first world war, it is still possible to encounter traces of the Ottoman resistance,” Erdogan said. “We accept it an honor on behalf of our country and nation to express the rights of the oppressed Palestinian people on every platform.”
The Ottoman Empire controlled Jerusalem for 400 years until its defeat at the hands of the Western allies who divided up the former empire, with many of its former provinces becoming independent Arab countries. During the war the Ottomans also carried out the Armenian genocide, murdering some 1.5 million Christian Armenians – enmity that remains and led to Erdogan’s condemnation of Armenia.
Despite Turkey being a member of NATO, relations with Israel have been repeatedly strained under Erdogan.
Relations between the two countries took a nosedive in 2010 after nine Turkish nationals belonging to a radical Islamic group were killed during an IDF raid of the Mavi Marmara flotilla that was trying to illegally violate Israel’s blockade on Gaza.
Turkey withdrew its ambassador and relations were only restored in 2016. However, Erdogan has tried to assert his influence over the region and has become a patron of the Hamas terror group that seized power in Gaza in a bloody 2007 military coup.
Turkey has been allowing Hamas to use its territory to organize against Israel and was recently revealed to be giving citizenship to known Hamas terrorists, allowing them free passage in the West.
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BISHOPS IN ‘MUST WIN’ PENNSYLVANIA NEWS: CAMPAIGN 2020, VIDEO REPORTS-----by Kristine Christlieb • ChurchMilitant.com • October 1, 2020 6 Comments 500,000 voters under their influence
BISHOPS IN ‘MUST WIN’ PENNSYLVANIA
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Election analysts have identified Pennsylvania as a must win state. "Pennsylvania, obviously, is the gateway to the re-elect," noted The Daily Beast Politics Editor, Sam Stein.
Trump won the state by a little more than 44,000 votes, less than 1% of all votes cast — the narrowest margin for Pennsylvania in nearly 200 years. In 2016, Trump was battling wildly unpopular Hilary Clinton, and he barely won. In 2020, Trump is battling Joe Biden, the state's hometown boy from Scranton.
A home-field advantage can make a difference, and Biden is doing everything he can to play up his Pennsylvania roots (a state he hasn't lived in for 65 years). And in a state with a greater-than-average Catholic population, Biden is also playing up his Catholic heritage.
The battle for the Catholic vote in Pennsylvania will be fierce because it will likely make or break the results. The bishops of Pennsylvania are in a position to make a difference in either direction. Two bishops of particular concern are Scanton's Joseph Bambera — from Biden's childhood hometown — and Erie's Lawrence Persico. Both bishops are registered Democrats.
There are half a million Catholics in the two dioceses. In a close race, these two bishops could have a disproportionate amount of influence. While neither bishop has come out and endorsed Biden, there is evidence at least one of them has been feeding his flock ideas that support a Biden presidency.
Bambera, in particular, has a history of using his office to undermine the Faith with bad teaching. A vicar in the diocese of Scranton — a priest appointed by the bishop for a leadership position — used his homily to make the deliberately confusing suggestion that people on both sides of the abortion issue had missed the point.
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"Unfortunately, neither side is really understanding the motive for life itself," said Fr. John Polenack. Bambera's own views on abortion have been questioned. He is a "seamless garment" Catholic who refuses to prioritize the horror of abortion over other social evils.
"We cannot rank one of these groups above the others," he said.
Bambera's promotion of homosexualist priest Fr. James Martin goes back at least to 2016 when he invited Martin to give the keynote address to his priests at the annual diocesan congress.
In 2017, when 18,000 Catholics signed a petition expressing their concern that Fr. Martin would be speaking at Misericordia University, Bambera was quick to come to his defense. These actions have an effect on people's lives and influence their decisions in the voting booth.
All things being equal, these bishops have the potential to singlehandedly wipe out the narrow margin of votes Trump had in 2016 and usher in a Biden victory.
Between the two dioceses of Scranton and Erie, there are approximately 1.3 million registered voters; 28% of these voters are Catholic. If these bishops and their priests are able to influence even 1% of them, that puts 36,000 votes on the Joe Biden side.
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