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...heart of all religion lies a sacred geography, the place where God reaches down to connect the human and the divine. From the time nearly 4,000 years ago when men first settled Mount Zion, a hill that stood out dramatically from its surroundings to betoken the "holy," all successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
...Jews were not the first to take possession of Zion, but the first to connect it with worship of the one true God. The building of the Temple was a statement of the meaning and permanence of Jewish belief against the threatening tide of paganism. For nearly 2,000 years, as the Jews made themselves into a faith and a nation with Jerusalem as their capital, the city represented the promise of final salvation and the soul of their identity. That very veneration begot a fierce possessiveness and, when the Temple was lost, a perpetual desire to return...
Jackson told a crowd of more than 350 people at the Varick Memorial A.M.E. Zion church that Yale "is willing to threaten workers if they don't tow the line...
...starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted...
...service ended with the Mourner's Kaddish led by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold. The audience joined in this prayer and in the singing of the Hatikvah to express the universal hope of freedom and peace...