7 YEAR PEACE TREATY SIGNING: HOLY SITES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK

Thursday, January 30, 2014

HOLY SITES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK

Holy Sites on the Chopping Block? By: Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org Published: January 30th, 2014 You are currently on page: 1 2 All Pages print tell a friend Bird eye view of the Abbey of the on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate. Bird eye view of the Abbey of the on Mt. Zion just outside the walls of the Old City near the Zion Gate. Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. 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, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.

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JERUSALEM DIVIDED

GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ZECHARIAH 12:1-5 King James Bible
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: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

JOEL 3:2 (WW3 OCCURS WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED)
2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people (ISRAEL) and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.(JERUSALEM)(WW3 STARTS BECAUSE JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AND ISRAELIS UPROOTED FROM THEIR GOD GIVIN LAND BRINGS 3 DEAD BILLION IN WW3)

PSALMS 137:5-6
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.(STROKE)
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

ISAIAH 31:5
5 As birds flying,(WAR PLANES WITH BOMBS) so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;(WITH PLANES) defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.(NUKE OR BOMB ISRAELS ENEMIES)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)

ZECHARIAH 14:1-4 King James Bible
1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)

ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim.

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Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. 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, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO. Continue reading: 1 2 All Pages print tell a friend About the Author: Chaim Silberstein is president of Keep Jerusalem-Im Eshkachech and the Jerusalem Capital Development Fund. He was formerly a senior adviser to Israel's minister of tourism. Hillel Fendel, past senior editor at Israel National News/Arutz-7, is a veteran writer on Jerusalem affairs. Both have lived in Jerusalem and now live in Beit El.

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Photo Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Given the pessimism expressed recently by President Obama and Secretary Kerry regarding the chances of actually reaching an Israel-PLO agreement in the near future, many believe we need not worry about such a deal and its negative ramifications. Nevertheless, it is still vital that we understand the tremendously high stakes under discussion, especially in our holy city of Yerushalayim. Let us listen to Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem that he himself helped liberate as an IDF paratrooper during the Six-Day War of 1967. Currently the head of the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, Rabbi Ariel warns that under discussion is a “terrible plan” to give away the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (the holiest burial vault in Christianity) to the Catholics and/or other Christians, as well as the Temple Mount to the Muslims. “And we, the Jews, will have to reach the Western Wall under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority,” Rabbi Ariel laments. Rabbi Ariel did not mention in this interview that which he and others have taught thousands of students for decades: The Western Wall is merely a retaining wall for the Temple Mount, and has no innate sanctity of its own. Its value to the Jewish people is only as a symbol of our lack of access to what lies behind it – namely, the site of the Beit HaMikdash, our holiest national location. Is there in fact a plan to turn over holy sites? No hard proof such exists in the public arena, but much has been written about President Shimon Peres’s promises to grant the Vatican official status in Jerusalem and control over its holy sites. Nor has the visit of Pope Francis to Israel this coming May done anything to calm the rumors of Israeli concessions to the Church; quite the opposite. 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, inter alia, “the proper identity and sacred character of the city.” Three months later, PLO terrorist chieftain Yasir Arafat met in Ramallah with Islamic and Christian clergymen who backed Palestinian Arab sovereignty over Jerusalem. Among the participants were leaders of the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. Regarding the Temple Mount, of course, it appears to be universally assumed that the breaking out of peace in the Middle East and the Muslim take-over of the Temple Mount will occur simultaneously. Rabbi Ariel expressed frustration with the silence of Jewish religious leadership on the dangers. “Where is the Chief Rabbinate?” he asked Arutz-7′s Hebrew-language newsmagazine last week. “They are about to take the heart of Jerusalem [Mt. Zion] and turn it into a Christian center!” “We well remember the late Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Nissim,” he continued, “who, 50 years ago, during the first papal visit to Israel, refused to meet with the pope when the latter refused to come to Jerusalem. [Today] there is weakness and surrender toward the pope.” Rabbi Ariel, former chief rabbi of the short-lived Israeli city of Yamit in the Sinai and head of the yeshiva there, continues to speak out on issues of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, despite his ill health. Jews to Live Under the PA? Meanwhile, attention has been turned toward the possibility that, even if an agreement is reached, Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem neighborhoods such as Gilo, Maaleh HaZeitim and Shimon HaTzaddik will remain where they are – only under Palestinian sovereignty. Many Israeli leaders responded quickly that such an option would be in diametric opposition to all Jewish and Zionist values. In any event, there seems to be no fear that this scenario would ever be accepted by the Palestinian Authority. Mahmoud Abbas has said countless times that no Jew would be allowed to live in a country under his control. To be sure, Abbas and other PA leaders have also taken other stances on this question, sometimes contradictory, depending on their audience. One particularly entertaining response was made this week by former PA government minister Ashraf Al-Ajrami, speaking with Israel’s Army Radio. “We negate only communities under some kind of Israeli control,” he said, “but if you want, you can live [here] as a Palestinian citizen in every way.” Given the combination of repeated warnings that no Jew may reside in “Palestine,” the PA’s indoctrination of children that Jews are “descendants of monkeys and pigs” and seek to kill innocent Arabs, and the ongoing hero-worship of Palestinian murderers of Jews, it is beyond imagination to conceive of Jews living safely in Beit El, Shilo and Elon Moreh under Arab control. Secretary Kerry will thus have to seek elsewhere for “creative solutions” if he expects to forge a long-lasting peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.

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HOLY SITES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK