OLMERTS DEVILISH DOCUMENT

Like the old saying goes "the devils in the details". This is definately true with the Peace process with Ehud Olmert in control. The Bible says it will be a Land for security peace treaty and olmert is fitting right in to prophecy by giving up the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Yes The Devil will come out of the EU (The world Dictator) who signs this future 7 yr treaty with ISRAEL / ARABS AND MANY OF DANIEL 9:27.

Olmert government's dovish peace plan By Joshua
BrilliantUPI Israel Correspondent Published April 28, 2006

RAMAT GAN, Israel -- The guidelines for Israel's next Cabinet include explicit readiness for a withdrawal and an evacuation of settlers from parts of the West Bank. The nine-page 62-item Cabinet Guidelines were released Thursday night after negotiators for Prime Minister-designate Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party and Amir Peretz' Labor concluded a coalition agreement.

The agreement, signed in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, contains three documents: An agreement stipulating the terms under which Labor would join Olmert's government and, for example, says that Peretz will be defense minister; a technical document outlining how the coalition will function; and the Cabinet Guidelines. The latter is, essentially, a declaration of intent. It is a document that all coalition partners must sign. There will be only one version of the Cabinet Guidelines, stressed Kadima negotiator Eyal Arad.

The political chapter in it contains no surprises. Olmert discussed his ideas in speeches and interviews. However the document is important because it formally states the next government's goals and the Knesset will have to approve it before the government is sworn in. The guidelines say the government will aim to shape the country's permanent borders so that
Israel will be, "A Jewish state with a Jewish majority and ...a democratic state.

The desire to maintain Israel's Jewish character is the rational for a withdrawal from occupied Palestinian territories. Israel cannot annex those territories and retain a Jewish majority. If it does annex them it would eventually cease being a Jewish state or have to forgo democracy to maintain Jewish control. The document goes on to say the government will act to implement Olmert's plan outlined in his victory speech on election night. It attaches the text and says it is "an inseparable part" of the guidelines. In that speech Olmert said to the Palestinians:

We are ready to compromise, to give up parts of the beloved Land of Israel...with much pain evacuate Jews who live there, in order to create conditions that would enable you to fulfill your dream and live beside us, in your own state, in peace and quiet. The guidelines say Israel would seek "negotiations and an agreement with the Palestinians." It does not specifically identify
the partner, whether it is the Palestinian Authority, the presidency or the government, but goes on to list Israel's conditions for negotiations with Hamas that controls that government:

Mutual recognition, acceptance of agreements that were signed in the past, acceptance of the internationally devised roadmap for peace, a cessation of violence and, the disarming of terror
organizations. These are also the demands of the Quartet that devised the roadmap, the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, but Hamas has rejected these demands.

If the Palestinians will not be wise enough to act accordingly in the near future, the government shall act also in the absence of negotiations and an agreement with them," the guidelines state. The unilateral steps would be taken, "On the basis of a broad national agreement in Israel and a deep understanding with Israel's friends in the world headed by the United States of America and President George Bush," the guidelines say. In his election night speech Olmert said:

We shall not wait endlessly. It is time to act. The cabinet document does not say how long Israel would wait before acting unilaterally, or what are the criteria to decide there is no chance for a negotiated settlement. The head of Labor's negotiating team, David Liba'i, told United Press International the decision whether to move unilaterally be will taken in the Cabinet. The issue might be a source of contention between Kadima and the more dovish Labor.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah wants to negotiate with Israel and Hamas has indicated readiness to let him do so. It is Olmert who maintains that Abbas is a lame duck. The guidelines stipulate that Israel's new borders will require, "A reduction of the areas of Israeli
settlement" in the West Bank. In a paragraph relating to law enforcement the document says, "The government will act to implement the outgoing government's commitments and decisions regarding the unauthorized settlements." That means: withdraw them.

The outgoing government that Ariel Sharon had formed withdrew the Gaza Strip settlements and dismantled four settlements in the northern West Bank, but now is the first time that Cabinet Guidelines include a commitment to dismantle settlements. Sharon's guidelines merely talked of the need for "painful compromises by all sides," and "examining the possibility for a redeployment" in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The past guidelines said, "No new settlements would be established," while the new guidelines talk of pulling some down. The new document does not mention Olmert's intention to strengthen settlement blocs that he seeks to keep in the West Bank.

The omission is probably a sign of Labor's hand. The guidelines make it more difficult for the nationalist Israel Beitenu (Israel is Our Home) to join the coalition. Israel Beitenu seeks a
territorial swap in which Israeli-Arab areas would revert to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for settlement blocs that Israel would keep. It maintains Israeli-Arabs should demonstrate loyalty to the Jewish state in order to have civil rights.

The guidelines stipulate the government will maintain, "Complete social and political rights to all its citizens... (and) will not put up with any sign of racism. After signing the agreement the negotiators raised a toast but the head of Kadima's team, Yoram Turbowicz who will be Olmert's Chief of Staff, had water in his glass. Why?" reporters asked. Turbowicz said Labor's team finished its work but his is not done.

At the moment Olmert can count on the support of 55 Knesset members in the 120-seat legislature, not yet a majority. Talks are continuing with the 12-member Orthodox Sepharadi Shas Party and the ultra-dovish five-member Meretz. Kadima hopes to present the government to the Knesset next week, a party spokesman said.

QUARTET ENVOY RESIGNS

This might be were the EU starts doing lone talks with the Israelis, Arabs, and takes sole control of the peace process. Like I said before, Russia should get booted out of the process due to sticking up for Hamas. The UN will fold due to the peace process, gets rid of them. The USA will be out somehow and the EU will make the Final 7 yr contract with Israel and the Arabs in the future.


Quartet's envoy to Middle East stepping down Friday April 28, 01:15 PM JERUSALEM

(Reuters) - Middle East envoy James Wolfensohn has decided to step down because of divisions within the Quartet of international mediators over his role now that Hamas controls the Palestinian Authority, officials said. His term is expiring at the end of the month and he has no intention of remaining" in the job, an official in his office said, adding that no formal announcement was planned. Wolfensohn's departure expands a diplomatic vacuum after the United States, the European Union and Israel severed contacts with the Palestinian Authority.
What would a Quartet envoy do?" said a Western diplomat close to Wolfensohn. "You can't do economic development in a vacuum. U.S. officials have told Palestinian officials that there is little chance Quartet partners the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations will agree to appoint a new envoy anytime soon. Wolfensohn, who was appointed to the post a year ago, had threatened to quit because he said his mandate and backing were unclear after Hamas won parliamentary elections in January. Hamas assumed control of the Palestinian Authority a month ago.

The Quartet has called on Hamas to renounce violence, recognise the Jewish state and abide by past peace deals, but divisions remain over cutting off contacts and aid to pressure the Islamic militant group. The United States and the EU have frozen direct aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. But Russia has brushed aside pressure from the United States and Israel to shun Hamas and has called the decision to cut off funding to the Palestinian government a mistake.

U.N. officials have also expressed concern that a cut-off in direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority could trigger a humanitarian crisis and hobble the very institutions that would be needed to run any future Palestinian state. Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction, has been struggling since assuming control of the Authority to secure the funds to pay overdue salaries to 165,000 workers and to keep ministries running. As many as one in four Palestinians are indirectly dependent on wages from the Palestinian Authority, prompting Wolfensohn to warn of the risk of growing unrest.

Western diplomats said the EU, Russia and the United Nations had pushed to extend and expand Wolfensohn's mandate, but ran into resistance from some top U.S. officials. U.S. officials say they questioned whether the Quartet still needed an envoy.The Quartet had agreed only to extend Wolfensohn's mission to April 30, though it had not ruled out giving him another extension. The Quartet initially appointed Wolfensohn last April to help coordinate Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and spearheaded rebuilding efforts there. The United Nations, which has its own Middle East envoy, could try to fill the diplomatic void. But the world body has advised its agencies to avoid meeting Hamas political leaders unless such contacts were required to conduct their humanitarian work.

ABBAS WANTS DIRECT TALKS

Abbasa calls for a quick soloution to talks, I can bet spain will be involved in this "quick" emergency talks. we will see in the next few days.

Abbas calls for direct negotiations on Mideast conflict 2 hours, 1 minute ago

OSLO (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas called for direct negotiations to be held "immediately" between Israelis and Palestinians at a proposed international conference on working a way out of the Middle East conflict. An international conference should be summoned immediately, in which direct negotiations take place (between the Israelis and Palestinians),
on the basis of international UN resolutions and signed agreements," Abbas said in a speech at the Nobel Institute in Oslo. The international group, whether it is the Quartet (the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations), or any other international framework, would play the role of the broker and arbitrator at the same time," he added. I believe that to resolve the conflict, both sides should not be left alone with this imbalance of occupier and occupied," Abbas said. The Palestinian leader, currently on a tour of Europe, encouraged the international community to "move fast" to secure a negotiated settlement to the conflict and stop a unilateral solution being imposed by acting Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.The international community needs to move fast.

Israel's unilateral measures through which it strives to impose its vision and expansionist map by building the discrimination separation wall, Judaising Jerusalem, would lead to a practical
annexation of more than 58 percent of the West Bank to Israel," the Palestinian leader said.
He was referring to Olmert's plan to dismantle smaller settlements in the West Bank and annex larger ones. Abbas said Israel's unilateral measures risk "eliminating any chance to establish a viable independent Palestinian state. He cited Israeli moves to put "their hands on Palestinian artesian water resources, transforming our lands into isolated cantons. The Palestinian leader said he had a free hand to negotiate with the Israelis despite the victory of radical Islamist group Hamas in recent Palestinian elections. It is important for me to clarify that the Palestinian legislative election, which brought Hamas to power, is not an obstacle in front of negotiations.

Negotiations are still the mandate of the PLO, which signed all previous agreements with Israel," he added. Abbas also called on the international community to resume financial aid to the Palestinians which has been suspended since Hamas formed its government last month. We call upon the international community in general, and upon Europe too, at the individual level of each state and collectively in the frame of the European Union, to continue to provide various forms of moral and financial support, to enable us to achieve our goals in reaching peace in the area, and making it a success," the leader said. Norway responded by saying it would give 20 million dollars in aid and would explore means of offering direct assistance to the office of the Palestinian Authority president.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said his country was "reviewing a number of projects for Norwegian funding worth approximately 20 million dollars within the health and education sectors as well as for energy supplies. Unlike the United States and the European Union, Norway has not formally suspended its aid since no aid was due to be sent after Hamas'
election. It has however insisted that any future direct "budgetary aid" be conditional on moves by the Hamas government to recognize Israel and renounce its armed struggle. Norway reiterated that its aid to the Palestinian territories would be at least as high this year as it was last year. In 2005, Norway gave 500 million Norwegian kroner (79 million dollars, 64 million euros) in aid.

SPANISH FM MEETS WITH HAMAS

Spanish FM meets Abbas in Jordan 31 minutes ago

AMMAN (AFP) - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos met with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in Amman amid an escalating crisis between Abbas's Fatah party and ruling faction Hamas. The encounter came as Fatah- and Hamas-supporting students clashed in Gaza City and after the formerly dominant Fatah accused Hamas of courting civil war
less than a month after the radical Islamists took power.

With the United States and the European Union both withholding aid from the Hamas-led government, Moratinos told journalists that "Spain has always supported the Palestinian people in difficult times... we will continue our aid. He stressed however that aid would only go "to president Mahmud Abbas, to his office and to humanitarian aid," adding that aid would even
be "increased in certain sectors. Moratinos said the European Union had asked Hamas something very reasonable: renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept international law and signed agreements.

We are not asking for anything extraordinary, we are asking that hopes for peace and stability in the region are maintained."Abbas's advisor Nabil Abu Rudeina struck a conciliatory tone about the brewing crisis with Hamas. All parties respect the law and are preserving the calm. We do not want ill-feeling or rising tension," Abu Rudeina told reporters. We hope this will not
happen.

The latest crisis between Hamas and Fatah began after Abbas vetoed a Hamas government decision to create a new special force of armed militants headed by a wanted radical. The move, the first time Abbas has revoked a decision of the new Hamas-led government, followed US criticism of the security appointment and Israeli threats to target the militant in question.

ISRAELIS MURDERED BUT PROCESS GOES ON

JNW HEADLINE NEWS

'We will continue'Kadima-weighted Knesset sworn in as more Israelis die
By Stan Goodenough April 17th, 2006

Israel’s newly elected Knesset (parliament), voted in 20 days ago, and the majority of whose members are preparing to proceed with the division of the biblical Land of Israel, was sworn in Monday afternoon. The ceremony got underway less than two hours after a 20-year-old Arab terrorist, enabled and motivated by the land-for-peace process, murdered nine Israelis in a
"suicide" attack in Tel Aviv. Despite the carnage, chief Oslo architect and former Prime Minister Shimon Peres told CNN the 17th Knesset swearing in would proceed as planned.

"Never did a day or war or terror stop the process of democracy. We shall continue. And so they did. Israelis watched their television screens split into two scenes. On the one side came coverage from the bloody and shattered streets of Tel Aviv, where shocked faces of some of the bombing victims could still be seen, and the toll of dead went from six, to seven, to eight.On the other, scenes streamed in from the dignified, trumpet-heralding parliament building, where smiling, smartly-dressed Knesset members made their way into the plenum and took their seats.

The feelings of some MKs, however, were that the ceremony should be postponed. Said Shas Party Chairman Eil Yishai: This is not a day for celebrating. The Knesset must feel the fear that the people, who are traveling throughout the country, are feeling on [the Passover holiday]. I am honored to open the first session of the 17th Knesset," President Moshe Katsav said in
his opening address, after which Peres, who directed the ceremony, stopped to "say a word."
Echoing what he had told CNN earlier, he raised his voice and leveled it at the packed plenum. It never happened, he almost shouted, that the democratic process in Israel was stopped by terror or war or violence. For him, democracy should not be disrupted, not even in memory or out of respect for the dead.

An hour later, the death toll went to nine as yet another wounded person succumbed.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

EU BANS THE WORDS ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

First the EU takes God out of everything in the Constitution, now they dont want to offend Arabs so they take Islamic Terrorists from their vocabulary. Talk about a Godless, and promoting hatred.

'Islamic terrorism' phrase to be banned from EU lexicon13.04.2006 - 09:47 CET By Mark Beunderman EU OBSERVER

The EU is working on a public communication lexicon which blacklists the term "Islamic terrorism." The "non-emotive lexicon for discussing radicalisation" should be submitted to EU leaders who will meet in June, according to press reports. EU officials drafting the guidelines hope that the European Commission and the European Parliament will also endorse the
linguistic code of conduct, which will be non-binding.

"Certainly 'Islamic terrorism' is something we will not use ... we talk about 'terrorists who abusively invoke Islam'," an EU official told Reuters.The aim of the guidelines is to avoid the use of words that could unnecessarily offend Muslims and spark radicalisation. The EU official indicated "You don't want to use terminology which would aggravate the problem." "This is an attempt ... to be aware of the sensitivities implied by the use of certain language.

Jihad" is another term under review, with the EU contact telling Reuters "Jihad means something for you and me, it means something else for a Muslim. Jihad is a perfectly positive concept of trying to fight evil within yourself." The lexicon initiative comes in the wake of a row over Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohamed, which led to outbreaks of anger and violence throughout the Muslim world.

The European Commission currently employs 20 terminologists, one for each official language, to advise translators how to handle not only EU policy jargon such as "subsidiarity," but also sensitive words like "terrorism."The EU’s interinstitutional termbank (IATE) defines a "terrorist" as "a person who commits a violent act for political reasons.

TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL GOES TO TEMPLE MOUNT TO WORSHIP GOD AND GET REBUILDING OF THE 3RD TEMPLE ON FAST TRACK.

The Temple Mount Faithful Movement Will March to the Temple Mount to Make a Pesach Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount on the 16th Nissan 5766 (April 16, 2006)

We Shall Bring With Us the Omer Offering and Blow the Silver Trumpets of the Third Temple
On the fourth day of the Pesach festival, 16 Nissan 5766 at 9:30 a.m. the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement will make a Pesach pilgrimage to the Temple Mount and will bring an Omer offering to the Temple Mount to the G–d of Israel. This is an offering of the first wheat from the fields of Israel. The Faithful Members will cut the Omer offering from the fields of Israel exactly as our forefathers did in the time of the First and Second Temples.

The Word of G-d to Moses will become real again: “And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the people of Israel, and say to them, When you come to the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the Omer (a sheaf) of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest; And he shall wave the Omer before the Lord, to be accepted for you; on the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

And you shall offer that day when you wave the Omer a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the Lord. And the meal offering of it shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet savor; and the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. And you shall eat nor bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings” Leviticus 23: 9-14
We are so excited to renew this holy commandment of G–d to His people at a very special time of redemption of the people of Israel.

We feel that time is short and the Temple is soon to be rebuilt on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. We hear the call of G–d to Israel at these critical times not to wait more and to rebuild the Temple so that He can dwell again among His people. The Faithful Movement is not waiting longer. We decided to answer this call of G–d and we are making the campaign and the
preparations for the end-time Temple of G–d. The pilgrimage and the offering of the Omer by the Faithful Movement on Pesach is an important part of it and fulfillment of G–d’s commandments. We know very clearly that the rebuilding of the Temple and fulfilling the commandment of G–d to make the pilgrimage three times a year on the three major festivals, Pesach, Shavuot and Succoth will finally remove the pressure and the desire of the enemies of Israel and most of the world to take from Israel the land.

G–d taught us this very clearly in His Word: “Thrice in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before you, and enlarge your borders; nor shall any man desire your land, when you shall go up to appear before the Lord your God thrice in the year” Exodus 34: 23&24. To symbolize the uniformity of the people and the land of Israel around the G–d of Israel on His holy mountain we shall also bring with us samples of earth from all of the areas of Israel especially from Judea, Samaria and Gaza that are now under pressure from the enemies of Israel and all the world to give them away to the so called Palestinians.

We will also bring a large model of the Third Temple and carry it to the Temple Mount to show to the people of Israel and to all the world that the building of the Third Temple is no longer a theoretical vision but a practical and actual project to be built soon in our lifetime. We shall swear faithfulness to G–d, His holy mountain and Jerusalem while our faces will be towards the location of the holy of holies: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember you, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy” Psalms 137: 5&6.

Again will be heard all over the hill of G–d our prayer of Hallel that were prayed by our forefathers when they made the pilgrimage on the three major festivals to the First and Second Temple. We shall blow the two silver trumpets that we prepared for the Third Temple exactly according to the Word of G–d. These are the Psalms 113-118 that start with the exciting Psalm
113: “Hallelujah! Praise, O you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore. From sunrise to sunset the Lord's name is to be praised.

The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens. Who is like the Lord our God, who dwells on high, Who looks far down to behold the things that are on heaven, and on the earth! He raises up the poor from the dust, and lifts the needy from the ash heap, That he may set him with nobles, with the nobles of his people. He gives the barren woman a home, and makes her a joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!” After all of this we will march around the walls of the Temple Mount blowing the shofar and praying the Pesach prayers exactly
as our forefathers did and Joshua did in Jericho when he wanted the walls of the enemy to fall.

We shall also call to the priests, that will make the priestly blessing in front of the western wall, and to the people of Israel to make their prayers no more in front of the western wall which is outside of the Temple Mount but to walk up to the Temple Mount and to there make the priestly blessing and their prayers on the Temple Mount on the original location of the Temple
exactly as our forefathers did and as G–d is now expecting His people to do. We shall tell them that the time of the western wall, the Wailing Wall, that foreigners that occupied the land of Israel and forbid the Jews from walking up to the Temple Mount and worship there and allowed them to do it only in the small narrow place of the western wall outside of the Temple
Mount is over.

We shall tell them that at this godly time of redemption the western wall that expresses destruction and exile is over and only the prayers that will be done on the Temple Mount will be accepted and answered by the G–d of Israel in these end-times of redemption. We will call the people of Israel to immediately purify the Temple Mount from the pagan foreign enemies of Israel and to immediately start to rebuild the holy Temple of G–d. This will be an exciting event and an important stage and part of the exciting and critical time of the godly redemption that the people of Israel are experiencing in these days. Everyone in Israel and outside of Israel is called to participate in this godly end-time event and to have the privilege to be a part of it.

One day exciting pages will be written in the books of history about these end-time events in Israel and parents and grandparents will share with their children and grandchildren how they were a part of them and how exciting end-time godly history was made them. For more information please contact us at our center in Jerusalem at (tel/fax). 972-02-625-1112 or 972-02-625-1113. E-mail: gershon@templemountfaithful.org. Temple Mount Faithful

EU OPEN BORDERS TO ALL

The Bible says the Eu will devour the whole world, Rehn here says Europes borders are open to all.

DANIEL 2:40
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.

DANIEL 7:7,23-24
7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

REVELATION 13:3,7-8,16
3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

Rehn says EU borders are not fixed10.04.2006 - 09:55 CET By Honor Mahony

How many new member states the EU can take on is not a fixed statistic but rather a dynamic concept, according to EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn. In an interview with German daily Die Welt, Mr Rehn outlines what the commission means by the term "absorption capacity."A vague phrase referring to how many member states the bloc can expand to without losing its ability to function - "absorption capacity" has often been used in terms of a warning to potential EU members such as the Western Balkans and Turkey.

According to the commissioner, however, the term is "not a statistical but rather a dynamic concept". For the bloc to able to take on new member states, the union "must be able to function; the accession of a new country must be financially doable and the poltical goals of the union cannot be endangered by the accession. [Economic] growth and institutional reform are a part of this", says Mr Rehn.

The Finnish commissioner is also reluctant to say where Europe's borders lie or when membership is not an option for a country."Europe's borders are defined rather by values than by geographical guidelines. Certainly, geographical borders set out the framework, but values define the borders"
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Mr Rehn also says that any European country can apply to join the EU so long as it fulfils certain democratic and human rights criteria."Any European country that respects values like democracy, human rights and rule of law can apply to be a member [of the EU]. That does not mean that we have to accept every country. But it would also be wrong to close the door forever by drawing a line in a map that forever sets the borders of Europe".

The commissioner, who is fighting rising enlargement fatigue among several national governments, said that the EU must stick by its commitment of 2003 to give the Western Balkans countries an EU membership perspective. "In the Balkan countries around 20 to 25 million people live altogether - that is doable for the EU with its total population of around 450 million", he argues.

Countering the argument that the EU will become simply an economic area without the political integration if it takes on too many member states, Mr Rehn said "the history of the EU shows that enlargement and [political] deepening are not opposites." The EU more than doubled the number of its members from 12 to 25 since 1989. At the same time, political and economic
integration was pushed forward, he said, pointing to the introduction of the euro and the Schengen zone, the EU's borderless area.

PERES MEETS WITH POPE AT VATICAN

Peres Meets With Pope in Vatican By Hillel Fendel Arutz-7 News

Israel's indefatigable Shimon Peres met with Pope Benedict XVI today, and submitted an invitation to visit Israel from Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The two met for 40 minutes in the Vatican, and the Pope said he hopes to visit Israel sometime in the first half of next year. They said afterwards that they had discussed Middle East matters. "I definitely believe that a visit by the Pope can influence the peace process," Peres told reporters.

Peres is reported, in 1994, to have promised the Vatican official status in Jerusalem. In February 2000, the Vatican and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement calling for an internationally guaranteed special status for Jerusalem. The agreement stated that a special statute would protect "equality before the law of the three monotheistic religions [in Jerusalem], the proper identity and sacred character of the city, [and] freedom of access" to the city's holy sites.

Israel objected, saying that freedom of religion is already protected throughout the country. It also opposed the Vatican's treatment of the PA as an independent country. Shortly afterwards, Pope John Paul II visited Israel, and - unlike one of his predecessors, Pope Paul VI, who visited in 1964 - agreed to come to Jerusalem. Pope John Paul met with the Chief Rabbis in their Jerusalem offices, and visited Yad Vashem as well. Pope Paul, on the other hand, refused to visit Jerusalem, leading then-Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim to boycott his visit altogether.

During his visit in 2000, Pope John Paul II conducted a prayer service in Bethlehem, and announced that the Vatican had always recognized the Palestinians' national rights to a homeland. Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, Dean of Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim, said in response that the Pope's goal was simply to obtain a foothold in Jerusalem for the Church, and that his visit was one way the Pope hoped to reach this goal.

"If the Catholics would at least stop supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state in our land, and stop supporting the other Arab nations around us - then this could be considered a significant step," Rabbi Aviner said. Pope John Paul II did not expressly apologize for the role played by the Church, and its silence, during the Holocaust. He said instead that the Church is "deeply saddened by the hatred, acts of persecution and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews by Christians at any time and in any place... I fervently pray that our sorrow for the tragedy which the Jewish people suffered in the 20th century will lead to a new relationship between Christians and Jews.

Let us build a new future in which there will be no more anti-Jewish feeling among Christians or anti-Christian feeling among Jews..."Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau has said that an earlier pope, Pope Pius XII, refused several requests by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog to meet with him before and during the Holocaust to discuss how the Church could help save Jewish lives.

After the war, too, Chief Rabbi Herzog asked for the Pope's assistance in locating Jewish orphans who were cared for by Catholic families, and again, the Pope refused. The current pope has been following in the footsteps of his predecessor John Paul in trying to improve Jewish-Catholic relations.

KADIMAS DIVIDING OF JERUSALEM

Well the Bible says Jerusalem will be a cup of trembling to all the world, and heres why Kadims division of Jerusalem in the future.

Zechariah 12:1-3
1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people (WORLDWIDE): all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Haaretz: Kadima's views on solving the issue JerusalemPalestine-Israel, Politics, 4/4/2006

Haaretz had reported on March 23 on views about a solution to the city of Jerusalem with the Palestinians that the Kadima party which had recently on the elections that "'Kadima revealed some details of its vision of a divided Jerusalem yesterday, saying a future Palestinian state would include the East Jerusalem neighborhood of A-Tur, but not the Old City. The Old City,
Mount Scopus, the Mount of Olives, the City of David, Sheikh Jarra will remain in our hands, but Kafr Akeb, A-Ram, Shuafat, Hizma, A-Zaim, A-Tur, Abu Dis are not part of historic Jerusalem, and in the future, when the Palestinian state is established, they will become its capital,' said Otniel Schneller, a former leader of the Yesha Council of settlements who represented
Kadima at a debate on dividing Jerusalem.

The debate was held at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."Haaretz added that The Labor Party and Meretz-Yachad, who lost the election, also had spoken "in favor of dividing
Jerusalem, while the Likud, National Union-National Religious Party and Shas rejected the notion," and that the "division of Jerusalem is no longer taboo."

Haaretz said "Kadima distinguishes between the historic city - ancient Jerusalem and the adjoining neighborhoods - and the many Arab neighborhoods that are far from the traditional core of the city and "were never part of Jerusalem. Kadima supports separation between us and the Palestinians who don't live in the heart of Jerusalem,' he said, adding that there would be no
concessions on sites that are sacred to Jews."

The Haaretz spoke of different views of those who would like to see the city divided and those who wants to keep it united.