LogFAQs > #892700187

JonThePenguin posted...

MoogleKupo141 posted...

XIII_rocks posted...

So re: the UN Jerusalem vote.

In a speech before the vote, US permanent representative Nikki Haley stressed that the US decision did not prejudge any final status issues, and did not preclude a two-state solution if the parties agreed to that.

"The United States will remember this day, on which it was singled out for attack in the General Assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation," she said.

"America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people want us to do. And it is the right thing to do. No vote in the United Nations will make any difference on that."

is this actually something Americans want even? Why do any of us give a shit about the location of Isreal's capital?

I went to a Christian high school. Israel and Jerusalem specifically are highly revered as Gods chosen people and potential harbingers of the end times, plus I had one teacher tell us he firmly believed that the only reason God hadnt torn down the US with all the growing acceptance of immorality and whatnot was the countrys steadfast support of Israel.

What Im saying is yes, there are a lot of people in the US who consider Israel a big. Fucking. Deal.

A large chunk of the people in the US who consider Israel a big deal are the hyper religious christians.

They consider Israel a big deal because of, as stated, they think that Israel and Jerusalem are related to the end of the world.

Specifically, Jerusalem being under the sole control of jews.

Because this is one of the signs of the apocalypse.

They literally want this to happen so the world can end.

Think about that for a bit.
---

There's always hope for better things in life. But you can't let anything, friend, lover,God himself,be your hope. You have to be your own hope