Thursday, September 21, 2006

MIDEAST SPOT LIGHT AT UN

HAPPY ROSH HASHANA ISRAEL ON SEPTEMBER 22,2006 (TOMORROW)

WHORE (WORLD CHURCH) AND BEAST (EU)( DICTATOR)
IN MIDEAST PEACE PROCESS

Well heres the headline I have been waiting for, since the World Church will be commiting fornication with the Kings of the Earth,the church has to be involved in the Peace Process, especially the Vatican. And since the EU DICTATOR and the false World Church Pope in the future will work hand in glove, real close, the Inter-Religious community has to be involved in the peace process.

And also if the Religious community would not be involved, the 3RD TEMPLE would not get rebuilt because the Secularists and leftists could care less if the 3RD TEMPLE BE REBUILT. Its the Religious Jews that will want the 3RD TEMPLE REBUILT.

REVELATION 17:1-13
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(VATICAN)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

Jewish ambassador urges religious role in Mideast peace
By JANICE ARNOLD Staff Reporter

MONTREAL - The Orthodox rabbi who is mandated to act as world Jewry’s ambassador to other religions told an international conference here that political leaders in the Middle East have made a fatal and tragic error in not recognizing the religious dimension to the conflict.

There is a tendency to see religion as part of the problem and, therefore, to have nothing to do with it… They say you religious people keep away, you only make problems and mess things up, said Rabbi David Rosen, president of the Jerusalem-based International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, the umbrella organization that represents Jews in their relations with other religions.

But that is a fallacy. It fails to understand how profound religious identity is to the people involved. It can’t be ignored. If we don’t want religion to be the problem, we have to make it part and parcel of the solution. Rabbi Rosen was speaking a plenary session of
World’s Religions After September 11: A Global Congress, a five-day conference that drew 2,000 participants from 35 countries, representing more than 20 faiths and practices. He noted that in 1993, when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and then-Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, there was not one identifiable Palestinian Muslim religious figure or identifiable Israeli Jewish religious figure there. The exclusion of religion from the Oslo process may have led to the dangerous religionization of the renewed conflict that he said has taken place over the past six years. Religion is now being exploited to exacerbate the situation, when it could have been harnessed as a constructive force, Rabbi Rosen suggested.

Today, religious extremists are the ones who are being heard, he said. Political leaders should give moderate religious voices a place in the search for a solution, he said. Our spiritual identity should be seen as a blessing and not a curse. After 9/11, I think there is a glimmer of understanding of that, he said. Rabbi Rosen was an initiator of the Alexandria Summit, held in Egypt four years ago, the first time Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders came together to approach the Middle East from an interfaith perspective.

It had the endorsement of two enemies Arafat and Ariel Sharon, as well as the blessing of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, whom Rabbi Rosen described as having been hostile to introducing any religious element until then.

The British-born Rabbi Rosen, a former chief rabbi of Ireland, said it’s rare to find an Orthodox rabbi engaged in interreligious activity at any level, and that he is the subject of a great deal of criticism within my own community. Among his many achievements is being a founder of Rabbis for Human Rights. I’m criticized not because I care about Arab human rights, but because I’m working together with Reform rabbis,he said. This is the type of internecine nonsense that we have to move beyond. Sometimes I’m asked why I’m spending so much time with non-Jews. Well, it’s often much easier and nicer… It’s an easier task to be a foreign minister rather than a minister for home affairs.

He does see some progress, however. We managed to involve the whole spectrum of Orthodox rabbis and even ultra-Orthodox rabbis at the international conference of rabbis and imams [held in Seville earlier this year]. Many had never before met a person of a different faith. Rabbi Rosen believes that people of different religions have no choice but to dialogue, and that the three Abrahamic religions, and most Eastern religions, call upon their adherents to be merciful and compassionate. He conceded that this is easier said than done. When people feel wounded, it is more difficult for them to be compassionate. The answer is to treat them with more
compassion, in order that the overcome their woundedness and sense of alienation, he said.

He stressed that everyone in the Middle East sees themselves as a victim. The Palestinians feel vulnerable to Israeli power. Israelis feel vulnerable in a sea of Arab hostility of which the Palestinians are fifth-columnists, and the Arab world feels demeaned and threatened by western culture and the failures of its own leadership. Everyone is waiting for the other side to take the initiative. Rabbi Rosen said the people of the region must overcome the zero-sum mentality that support for one’s own group or partisan position requires insensitivity to others. While it’s true that the Torah gives Jews title to the land of Israel, Rabbi Rosen said, it does
not confer the right to suppress the rights of others. That is against the fundamental principles of the Torah,he said.

A democratic and Jewish state is not a contradiction, he argued. In fact, if it was not democratic it could not be Jewish. The Torah makes clear that every person is made in the divine image and affirms the dignity of each person. Despite the ongoing conflict, Rabbi Rosen noted that interfaith activity is flourishing in Israel. He is a founder of the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel, which embraces about 70 organizations involved in interfaith relations. He said there should be more outside support for these activities. Rabbi Rosen is also an international president of the World Conference of Religion for Peace, which incorporates 15 religions in over 50 countries.

Mideast process takes spotlight at U.N. By KIM GAMEL,
Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 20, 10:43 AM ET

UNITED NATIONS - The Mideast peace process was taking the spotlight at the United Nations on Wednesday, with ministers from the Quartet that drafted the stalled road map peace plan the United States, the U.N., the European Union and Russia planning to meet. The Security Council also was scheduled to hold a ministerial meeting Thursday that Arab leaders hope will help revive the peace process.President Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparred over Tehran's disputed nuclear program but managed to avoid a personal encounter as the 61st General Assembly got under way Tuesday in the shadow of a military coup in
Thailand.U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stayed on message during an emotional farewell address Tuesday, appealing to the world to unite against human rights abuses, religious divisions, brutal conflicts and an unjust world economy.

Annan, who is to leave office on Dec. 31, also warned that the failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue to raise questions about the U.N.'s impartiality and stymie its efforts to resolve other conflicts, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan.Jordan's King Abdullah II said that until Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian lands and gives Palestinians their rights, the cycle of violence will continue in the region and its effects will be felt throughout the world.I come before you today with a deep sense of urgency,Abdullah told the assembly.Never has it been more important for the world community to act decisively for peace in my
region.

Bush tried to advance his campaign for democracy in the Middle East during his address to the General Assembly on Tuesday, saying extremists were trying to justify their violence by falsely claiming the U.S. is waging war on Islam. He singled out Iran and Syria as sponsors of terrorism.Bush also pointed to Tehran's rejection of a Security Council demand to stop enriching uranium by Aug. 31 or face the possibility of sanctions. But he addressed his remarks to the Iranian people in a clear insult to the government.The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund
terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons, the U.S. leader said.Iran must abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions, he said. Despite what the regime tells you, we have no objection to Iran's pursuit of a truly peaceful nuclear power program.

He said he hoped to see the day when you can live in freedom, and America and Iran can be good friends and close partners in the cause of peace.Ahmadinejad took the podium hours later, denouncing U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon and accusing Washington of abusing its power in the Security Council to punish others while protecting its own interests and allies.The hard-line leader insisted that his nation's nuclear activities are transparent, peaceful and under the watchful eye of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog. He also reiterated his nation's commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad proposed a debate with Bush at the General Assembly's ministerial meeting after the White House dismissed a previous TV debate proposal as a diversion from serious concerns over Iran's nuclear program.

But even though the two leaders spoke from the same podium, they skipped each other's addresses and managed to avoid direct contact during the ministerial meeting.Providing an unusual backdrop, Thailand's military staged a bloodless coup while Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York. Thaksin initially switched speaking slots so he could make his speech on Tuesday evening, a day earlier than planned, but later canceled the address.

Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a staunch U.S. ally who spoke shortly after Bush, urged the world to confront the plague of terrorism head-on and end conflicts in the Islamic world to eliminate the desperation and injustice that breed extremism. Unless we end foreign occupation and suppression of Muslim peoples, he said, terrorism and extremism will continue to find recruits among alienated Muslims in various parts of the world, he said, and the top priority should be ending the tragedy of Palestine.

As speaker after speaker expressed concern about the rise of terrorism in the world, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, warned that military spending was not the answer. He said that more than $200 billion had been added to global military spending since the Sept. 11 attacks five years ago. There is not a single indicator that suggests that this colossal increase is making the world more secure and human rights more widely enjoyed, he said. On the contrary, we feel more and more vulnerable and fragile. The crisis in the ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur also was on the sideline agenda Wednesday at the United
Nations, with the African Union's Peace and Security Council scheduled to discuss breaking the deadlock over a plan to replace an AU force with U.N. peacekeepers.

The Sudanese president said his country will not allow the United Nations to take control of peacekeepers in Darfur under any circumstance, claiming that rights groups have exaggerated the crisis there in a bid for more cash. But Omar al-Bashir did say that the African Union, which now runs the peacekeeping mission in Darfur, should be allowed to augment its forces with more logistics, advisers and other support. We want the African Union to remain in Darfur until peace is re-established in Sudan, al-Bashir said at a news conference. Those comments suggest that the African Union will not face any resistance in renewing the peacekeeping force's mandate, which expires on Sept. 30. In her speech to the General Assembly, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the stalemate over whether a U.N. or AU force should be deployed demonstrates a lack of international will to address the sufferings and yearnings of the citizens and residents of Darfur.

Saying the U.N.'s obligation to protect the helpless and innocent must remain paramount, she called on the Security Council to act under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which allows military intervention, to restore peace, security and stability to Darfur.

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