10/12/2017
رسالة مفتوحة الى الرئيس الأمريكي دونالد ترومب
Lettre ouverte au Président Américain Donald Trump
Open Letter to President Doald Trump
Mr Président,
At this moment when many, all around the world, are demonstrating your decision to transfer the United States Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, I take the initiative to write to you.
I am a Tunisian businessman, friend of the United States, that your availability to listen to people, even the most modest of them, encouraged to write to you.
I think that the United States and the American people are still to play a beneficial and primordial role.
We believe that with the help of God, you are able to do it, because intensely and fundamentally, you are a man of faith.
In the darkest night of despair and evil, man has always been able to discern a flash of hope and goodness.
You can bring peace and security to the American people and to all the peoples of the world by putting the message of Jesus into action and revising your surprising decision to transfer the embassy.
You will go down in history, not only as a giant leader of the American people, but you will be remembered as one of the giant leaders of all mankind.
Only the great heroes are able, with one word, to stop a great machine in motion, to save the planet Earth.
Historical Background of Jerusalem :
As a holy city exalted through the entire history of monotheism, temporal rule over Jerusalem has been closely linked with the religious domination of Palestine.
The earliest known people of Palestine were the Canaanites among whom, according to Jewish, Christian and Moslem tradition. Abraham came from Ur. His descendants followed Moses from captivity in Egypt, and after their return, the Jewish tribes were united in about 1000 B.C. under David, who conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites. His son, the great Solomon, built the first Temple of Jerusalem on Mount Moriah.
Solomon’s death was followed by the division of the kingdom into two - Israel and Judah, Jerusalem being the capital of the latter. Early in the eighth century B.C., Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians and the Israelites carried away as captives. In 587 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple of Solomon, carrying the inhabitants of Judah into captivity in Babylon. After Cyrus conquest of Babylon, the Jews returned to Palestine and rebuilt the Temple of Jerusalem circa 530 B.C.
In 332 B.C. , the Macedonians conquired Palestine. A Jewish uprising led to the destruction of the second temple circa 170 B.C. A partial reappearance of Jewish rule was endey by the Roman conquest in 63 B.C. Under Roman suzetainty Herod became king of Judea in 40 B.C., rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem a second time. From 70 A.D., Titus ruled Palestine, sacking Jerusalem and destroying the Temple, of which only the Western Wall survived. In 135 A.D., Hadrian expelled the Jews from Palestine into the Diaspora.
From circa 400 A.D., Palestine was part of the Byzantine Empire until the Islamic conquest in 637 A.D., the Caliph Omar entering Jerusalem in 638. Palestine remained under Arab Moslem rule for over four and a half centuries, being taken by the Crusaders in 1099. Christian rule lasted less than a century, and in 1187, Palestine was again under Arab Moslem rule under Salah-EI-Dine the Great. Palestine remained under Moslem domination for another eight centuries, being conquered by the Turks in 1517 and becoming part of the Ottoman Empire.
The history of rule over Jerusalem shows sharply differing attitudes of the rulers toward religions other than their own. The Babylonians, Macedonians and Romans destroyed the Jewish Temples. Hadrian forbade Jews to enter Jerusalem, but eventally they were able to perform an annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem to continue the tradition of worshiping at the ruins of the Temples. After the Moslem conquest eventually Jews were allowed to return to Jerusalem and to establish their synagogues. Although Moslem holy places were built on Mount Moriah and the site called El Haram El Sherif, becoming one of the three most holy places in Islam, the Jews were permitted to worship at the Western Wall. The Crusaders at first dealt with the Jews harshly, but later showed more tolerance for Judaism. After the Moslem reconquest in 1187, Salah-El-Din allowed Jews to return to Palestine and gave them freedom of worship. Moslem rule over Palestine and Jerusalem lasted nearly 13 centuries, except for the Christian interregnum. It was ended by the British occupation in 1917, and the subsequent status of the Palestine as a League of Nations Mandate.
The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, granted to Great Britain in 1922, incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and had as its principal object " the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". This Mandate was granted without the reference to the wishes of the people of Palestine required by the League's Covenant, but since Palestine was holy to Moslems and Christians also, and since the people of Palestine were overwhelmingly Moslem and Christian Arabs, the Mandate assumed full responsability for "preserving existing rights" in all the Holy Places. Article 13 read :
" All responsibility in connection with the Holy Places...including that of preserving existing rights and of securing free access... is assumed by the Mandatory who shall be responsible solely to the League of Nations...nothing in this Mandate shall be constructed as confering upon the Mandatory authority to interfere with the fabric orthe managment of purely Moslem sacred shrines, the immunities of which are guaranteed".
The massive immigration under the Zionist Organization's policies was swelled by European Jews seeking refuge from N**i persecution. The augmented Jewish proportion of Palestine's population brought mounting Jewish-Arab hostility which culminated in the Palestinian rebellion of 1937 - 1939.
Citing " the force of circumstance" , the Royal Commission proposed the partition of Palestine into an Arab State and a Jewish State. In view of the sanctity of Jerusalem and Bethlehem to all three faiths, the Commission held the Holy Places to be, in words taken from the League's Covenant, " a sacred trust of civilization". It proposed that a Jerusalem-Bethlehem enclave encompassing all the Holy Places, with a corridor to the sea terminating at Jaffa, be endowed with an international status under a new mandate subject to the League's supervision.
After the Second World War, Great Britain declared it was unable to resolve the conflict in Palestine and brought the problem to the United Nations.
The foregoing survey of the course of the question ofthe internationalization of Jerusalem in the United Nations leads to the following conclusions regarding the principal elements of the present state of the issue.
1/ During the period 1950 - 1967, despite the international acquiescence in the division of the City of Jerusalem, the General Assembly continued to uphold the principle of the internationalization of Jerusalem as a corpus separatum in terms of its resolusions 181 (II) and 194 ( III).
2/ The resolutions of the General Assembly and Security Council in relation to Jerusalem following the occupation of the entire city of Jerusalem by Israel in June 1967 also maintained this original principle of internationalization. Further, they required Israel to withdraw from territories occupied during the conflict, and to rescind all measures taken, as well as to regrain from taking further measures, to alter the status of Jerusalem. Thus, it would appear that United Nations since 1947 has maintained the principle that the legal status of Jerusalem is that of a corpus separatum under an international regime.
3/ Israel's rejection of these resolutions, which have declared its actions and legislation in Jerusalem invalid, in no way deprives the resolutions of their own validity.
4/ Israel's actions and legislation have not been acquiesced in by the majority of the international community. Most of the countries maintaining diplomatic relations with Israel continue to keep their missions in Tel Aviv,even though Israel has declared Jerusalem as its official capital.
THE QUESTION OF THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM CAN BE FINALLY RESOLVED ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF A GENERAL MIDDLE EAST SETTLEMENT, which would need to take into account the General Assembly's resolutions on the rights of the Palestinian people.
THE QUESTION OF THE STATUS OF JERUSALEM CAN BE FINALLY RESOLVED ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF A ONE COUNTRY : THE FEDERAL COUNTRY , between PALESTINIAN'S and JEWISH'S.
In a few months, when this great goal will have been achieved, thanks to God, you will be unanimously re-elected by the American people, and acclaimed by all the peoples of the earth, without having to spend a cent for that.
Lastly and above all, last quoted but not the last, I earnestly pray to the Lord that he will quickly show you the way and give you the strength to follow him.
Ezzeddine Bouzouita
President of " Peace and Prosperity International "
Institution financière pour l'investissement et la promotion des arts.
