On the matter of Jerusalem...

Kudos to Rabbi Norbert Weinberg (“More readers weigh in on US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,” Letters, December 12) for pointing out the similarity of the first three letters in the names Truman and Trump.

Similar to what followed US president Harry S. Truman’s recognition of the State of Israel in 1948, I feel sure that – in the course of time – other nations will come forth and express their realization of the truth in the 2017 declaration of US President Donald Trump. EZE GAHTAN Ramat Hasharon

The Aksa Mosque was built in 705 CE on the Jewish Temple Mount, which was already 1,700 years old. It’s been only 1,312 years since then.

The name was bestowed upon the mosque because only an unidentified location was mentioned in the Koran. Jerusalem was retroactively picked as the location of the reference, just as Saint Catherine decided in the third century that what’s called Mount Sinai today was the Mount Sinai of Moses.

For their own antisemitic reasons, Muslims expanded the “holiness” of their mosque to the entire platform of the compound, then to the entire city of Jerusalem, and from there to all of Israel. It’s considered a positive virtue in the Muslim world to expand the area called the Domain of Islam.

When joined with Christianity’s replacement theology, there was no oxygen left for the Jews until the Balfour Declaration of 100 years ago. The violent Arab reaction at that time, 30 years before the modern State of Israel was born, was not much different from what is happening today.

All this proves that Arab hostility has no relation to what Israel does – it’s all about the fact that Israel is... which is a definition of racism.

Just as the UN long maintained its resolution stating that Zionism was racism, so Israel’s enemies have taken to branding Israel with every evil trait they themselves represent, from ethnic cleansing and apartheid to baby-killing. Again, with the support of Christian super sessionists and communists, the world prefers and accepts Islamic slander against the Jews.

On December 6, the US president finally spoke out and declared “enough!” Islamic ownership of Jerusalem is a fiction. We have yet to see how strong are the shackles of all those bound to the antisemitic myths that have long been the supporting pillars of the Arab positions on Jerusalem. GERSHON DALIN Modi’in