The Christians, Jews, and Muslims messed up a good thing. Rome had the right idea with Jerusalem.
Jerusalem needs to be governed on the basis of religious harmony. Many Gods and Goddesses should be worshipped there, not just one.
It is as true now as it was then.
Israelis and Palestinians should be evicted to surrounding areas, like Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan, with Palestine itself becoming repopulated with Africans, Egyptians, Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Ukrainians, East Asians, and Indians. Let Israel become a land for all immigrants.
Jerusalem and Palestine should become a symbol of global multiculturalism and religious co-existence under a new Rome. The Rabbi, the Pope and the Ayatollah should take a seat. Let the pagan gods handle this mess.
And this process has already begun. The emigration of Jews from Israel and the genocide of Palestinians are well under away and show no signs of stopping.
Israelis are moving to places like Cyprus, Greece, Albania, Ukraine, and Argentina, coastal areas and rich, promising lands. These guys know how to pick their spots. Nobody can accuse them of being stupid.
But they miscalculated geopolitically. The mess they've created in Palestine, one of the most sensitive and geostrategic areas of the world, hasn't been a self-contained disaster. This small pocket of land has exported religious terrorism, revolutionary mass politics, and now a global war edging towards a nuclear conflagration to the far ends of the earth, from Argentina to the Korean peninsula.
This isn't sustainable.
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Aelia Capitolina was a Roman colony founded during the Roman emperor Hadrian's visit to Judaea in 129/130 CE. It was founded on the ruins of Jerusalem, which had been almost totally razed after the siege of 70 CE. This act marked a significant transformation of the city from a Jewish metropolis to a small pagan settlement dedicated to the cult of Capitoline Jupiter.
The population of Aelia Capitolina consisted primarily of Roman legionaries, veterans, and other non-Jewish settlers. Jews were forbidden entrance to the city. The city's urban layout was redesigned with broad colonnaded streets, arched gateways, and forums that served as commercial and social hubs. The religious landscape also shifted, with the worship of Roman deities replacing the Jewish religious practices that had been centered around the Temple in Jerusalem. Aelia Capitolina remained a relatively minor city within the Roman Empire, with an estimated population of around 4,000, significantly lower than the population during the late Second Temple period.
The modest colony would change dramatically starting in the early 4th century, when Constantine the Great granted Christianity legal status within the Roman Empire. This led to the construction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, laying the groundwork for its eventual transformation into a prominent Christian center during the Byzantine period. The ban on Jews was maintained until the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem in 636. The Aelia part of the name was used in Arabic as Īlyāʾ during the Umayyad Caliphate.
