Representative Eric Cantor (R-VA), introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives yesterday condemning the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by the Islamic waqf. The text of the resolution is here. You can sign up to be a citizen sponsor of the bill here. One Jerusalem has audio of its blogger conference call with Rep. Cantor here. Boker Tov Boulder has lots more here. This is a very good and an extremely important cause.
But if I don't sound sufficiently enthusiastic about it, it's because I'm not. And here's why. I find it obscene that members of the US Congress appear to have more interest in condemning this atrocity than the so-called government of Israel, which stands by with its head up its tuchus and does NOTHING! What good is a Congressional resolution and why should members of Congress even vote for it when Ehud Olmert and his merry band of idiots won't lift even a finger to stop it, despite the fact that it is utterly and totally within their power to do so? Why is it the responsibility of the House of Representatives to prevent the destruction of priceless ancient artifacts on sovereign Israeli soil -- artifacts with bearing on the history of all of Western civilization but most especially on that of the Jewish People?
So, with deep and sincere appreciation to Rep. Cantor, forgive me if my spirit is just not in this right now, as I watch Olmert desparately trying to divide Jerusalem, Zion, the city he once was priveleged to govern, Olmert working hard to hand off responsibility for our holiest places to those whose goal is to obliterate them and the memory of them. And then to obliterate us and the memory of us.
Yeah, my attitude sucks.
Shabbat Shalom.
