Joseph Farah should note that several
perfectly serviceable states for Middle Eastern Christians already exist, one
way or another: Syria (for now), Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian
Authority, Iran.
Nevertheless, I propose that the
last explicitly Christian states to have existed there be reconstituted as one
big explicitly Christian state: the Kingdom of Jerusalem, with the Jerusalem
Cross as the restored flag and so on), the Kingdom of Cilicia, the Principality
of Antioch, the Principality of Galilee, the County of Edessa, the County of
Jaffa and Ascalon, the County of Tripoli, the Lordship of Oultrejordan, and the
Lordship of Sidon. All an awful lot more recent than any Kingdom of Israel or
Kingdom of Judah. Long, long after those two had fallen, Jerusalem was for
centuries an entirely Christian city.
The Head of the House of Habsburg
still has the title King of Jerusalem, as recited at the recent funeral of the
Archduke Otto. But perhaps the ideal monarch of a multiethnic though
constitutionally Christian parliamentary democracy would be the person who
already heads 16 sovereign states and numerous other territories thus
organised, all in predominantly or entirely Christian countries but across a
vast diversity of ethnicities in many parts of the world.
Through her part-Moorish
namesake, Elizabeth of York, she is even descended from Muhammad, making her a
true focus of unity. The Jerusalem Cross should be superimposed on the Blue or
Red Ensign as the flag of the new Kingdom of Jerusalem, which should be the
name of the new state. Or, rather, of the restored state.
The first act of the Queen of
Jerusalem, as such, should be to unveil, and to lay a wreath at, that which
scandalously does not yet exist anywhere in the world, namely a memorial to the
British fallen during the Mandate of Palestine.
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