{"id":1376306,"date":"2022-03-14T15:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376306"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T19:38:51","slug":"jerusalem-removes-old-city-projection-of-ukraine-russia-flags-after-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jerusalem-removes-old-city-projection-of-ukraine-russia-flags-after-outrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem Removes Old City Projection of Ukraine, Russia Flags After Outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjerusalem-removes-old-city-projection-of-ukraine-russia-flags-after-outrage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1376306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Jerusalem Municipality on Sunday took down images of the Ukrainian and Russian flags alongside doves of peace hours after they were first projected on the walls of the Old City.<\/p>\n<p>The move followed outrage by officials and activists who claimed it created a false moral equivalence linking the warring nations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Between the two flags was an image of two white doves and the biblical verse: \u201cHe who makes peace in the heavens,\u201d and the words \u201cwe\u2019re waiting for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city released a statement saying that it was ready to take up Ukrainian President Voldomyr Zelensky\u2019s proposal that Jerusalem serve as the host for peace negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Jerusalem Municipality stopped the display, because of city council members who felt it was creating an equivalence that was not fair to Ukraine<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LahavHarkov\/status\/1503099382035623938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, following condemnation both online and from municipal officials and activists, the projection was removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou sometimes have to know how to be politically smart,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/jerusalem-takes-down-old-city-projection-of-ukraine-russia-flags-after-pushback\/\">said<\/a> Jerusalem City Council opposition leader Ofer Berkovitch.\u00a0\u201cBut do not distort reality, evil is evil and the aggressor is the aggressor. It is impossible to put the attacker and the attacked together. This is an injustice and harmful to thousands of victims. Jerusalem can be a city of peace and host a summit that will prevent war, but Jerusalem is first and foremost a city of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this terrible war, there is a very clear aggressor \u2014 Russia \u2014 and a very clear victim \u2014 Ukraine,\u201d said opposition municipal representative Laura Wharton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo paraphrase what former prime minister Golda Meir said: \u2018If the Russians lay down their arms, there will be no war. But if the Ukrainians lay down their arms \u2014 there will be no Ukraine,\u2019\u201d Wharton said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20210018\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238825949.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People lift placards and Ukrainian flags during a protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, outside the Knesset building in Jerusalem, on February 28, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Twitter user said it was akin to \u201cprojecting the Nazi flag along with the Israeli flag on the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and calling for peace between the two sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The municipality said it hoped that a diplomatic solution would be reached to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJerusalem, the State of Israel\u2019s capital, is a city of peace and coexistence. We are in favor of an end to the fighting and the sides reaching understandings,\u201d the municipality said in a statement. \u201cWe would be happy to answer the request of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, and host the diplomatic dialogue between the two countries here in Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city of Tel Aviv, meanwhile, projected a Ukrainian flag on the municipality building in solidarity with the embattled country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jerusalem Municipality on Sunday took down images of the Ukrainian and Russian flags alongside doves of peace hours after they were first projected on the walls of the Old<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}