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Jewish World Review May 26, 2005 / 17 Iyar, 5764 Greek Orthodox Patriarch refuses to resign after synod attacks him for enabling expanded Jewish settlement in Jerusalem By RACHEL RASKIN-ZRIHEN Ex-Greek Patriarch Irineos I Irineos I dared to lease to Jews land that "Palestinians" want for the capital of a future state http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | There's a huge controversy brewing over what is described as "explosive" allegations that the Greek Orthodox Church's patriarch in Jerusalem sold property in that city to Jews. Clearly a tragedy and an outrage. I mean, property in the Jews' holy city being bought by Jews. Imagine that. If some group in the United States threw a hissy fit over property being sold to or bought by members of racial or religious group, my guess is that the outcry would be over the hissy fit. But the Arab world is definitely not the United States. The Arab world, particularly the Palestinians, are reportedly up in arms over what they term "the Judaizing" of Jerusalem. Specifically, the Church's patriarch, Irineos I, is being pressured to resign because one of his top aids may have made 198-year leases with Jews for some church property, according to the Associated Press. AP also reports that World Orthodox leaders voted Tuesday in Turkey to stop recognizing Irineos I, asserting a rare unified position during a rare "pan-Orthodox" gathering. Irineos refuses to resign. Let's examine this. It is apparently grossly unacceptable for the Christian owners of property in Israel, in Jerusalem, the city of David, built by the Jews in antiquity, to sell or lease any of it to Jews. Doesn't this show a rather intense anti-Semitism, while simultaneously illuminating that fact that there is property in Israel owned by members of other faiths. In fact, there are churches and mosques all over the place there, where adherents are left unmolested to worship as they choose. This is not generally the case in the 40-odd Arab/Muslim countries, where being a non-Muslim is a definite handicap, and being a Jew can be fatal. These houses of worship of various faiths remain standing in the Holy Land, even since Israel's rebirth. An impartial comparison between Israel and probably any place overtaken by Arabs/Muslims in the past thousand years, would surely reveal a marked lack of tolerance for any other faith on Islam's part. The Muslim tradition, in fact, has been to destroy any vestige of a peoples' past culture or religion when-and-wherever Islam has gained the upper hand. In no other arena is the qualitative difference between the Jewish and Muslim cultures more evident than in the fact that there are millions of Arabs living and working in Israel, some even serving in the military and the parliament, working as doctors and nurses in Israeli hospitals and generally enjoying the same freedoms and responsibilities as Jewish Israelis. This seems to strike no one as strange, though it stands in marked contrast to the treatment of Jews in the Muslim world. Somehow, though, the idea of Jews living in "Palestine" or most other Arab countries, strikes many people as an unacceptable and dangerous provocation. I find that curious and not a little aggravating, especially since, despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Israel, and not the Arab/Muslim world, has been labeled by many as racist. Irineos I is under siege for leasing to Jews land Palestinians want for the capital of a future state. Why would Jerusalem and not Ramallah or some other West Bank or Gazan city be the capitol of a future Palestinian state? Jerusalem is holy to Jews as the sight of the ancient temples of David and Solomon. It is Judaism's only holy city, mentioned in the Torah hundreds if not thousands of times. It's holy to Christians as the place Jesus preached and died, and is mentioned many times in the Christian Bible, too. Jerusalem is said to be holy to Muslims as the place from which Mohammed, who historically never actually set foot there, ascended to heaven riding a winged beast. Jerusalem is mentioned in the Quran exactly zero times. Jerusalem's famous and admittedly beautiful gold-domed mosque was constructed atop the ancient temple and bigger than the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as a symbolic raspberry -- it's importance to Islam artificially inflated. The Israel/Palestinian situation is an impossible quagmire, with the Israelis seemingly unable to win for losing. It should get out of Gaza, it shouldn't get out of Gaza. It should get out immediately, but not too soon. It has the right to defend its citizens against bloodthirsty terrorists, but not to do so effectively. Where is the Messiah when you need him? Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in Washington and in the media consider "must reading." Sign up for our daily update. It's free. Just click here. Comment on JWR contributor Rachel Raskin-Zrihen's column by clicking here. 12/30/04 The U.N's politics of humanitarianism 05/04/04 And the world still remains silent 03/08/04 Are lunatics running the Arab asylum? 04/21/03 Big Lies at Passover 04/01/03 How the Arabs outsmarted the West — and have no reason to stop © 2005, Rachel Raskin-Zrihen