DANIEL 9:26-27
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
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)
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.
Netanyahu Was 'This Close' to Dumping Livni Over Abbas Meeting-The Justice Minister got a last minute reprieve after she angered the Prime Minister by meeting with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.-By Yaakov Levi-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 7:48 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was on the verge of firing Justice Minister Tzipi Livni after her recent meeting with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas in London – but restrained himself, according to a report in business magazine Maariv This Week.Livni reportedly met with Abbas last Thursday in London, where she expressed Israel's dissatisfaction with the unity pact he reached with Hamas.The meeting was the first between Abbas and a senior Israeli official since Israel pulled out of the peace talks in response to the Hamas-Fatah unity pact.According to reports over the weekend, Livni had informed Netanyahu that she was to meet with Abbas. Netanyahu criticized the move, according to those reports, but according to Maariv This Week, Netanyahu had not even been aware of the meeting. When he found out what she was planning, he specifically told her not to meet with Abbas – a directive she subsequently ignored.Netanyahu was prepared to fire Livni, but changed his mind at the last moment, after sources close to Finance Minister Yair Lapid indicated that her firing would trigger a “coalition crisis.”Livni defended her decision to meet Abbas. "I would like to remind everyone that the conflict isn't over," Livni told HaTnua members during a faction meeting, according to AFP. "We're still here and the Palestinians are still here. Our interest is to resolve the conflict, and ignoring reality is not an option. "Ignoring the other side, not listening or talking, is irresponsible," Livni insisted. "A resolution is best achieved through direct negotiations, but we can't ignore the agreement between Hamas and Fatah."
05/22/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Parolin: “The Pope’s visit to the Holy Land will bring fruits of peace”-Pietro Parolin-The Secretary of State said this in an interview with the Vatican Television Centre-vatican insider staff
Rome-Pope Francis’ Apostolic Visit to the Holy Land will bring fruits of peace, this is what the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin said he expects from the trip. The cardinal told the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) he hoped the meeting will “help all leaders and all people of good will to take bold decisions in the way of peace,” Vatican Radio reports.Cardinal Parolin stressed the Holy See’s hopes for dialogue between Israel and Palestine: “The right of Israel to exist and to enjoy peace and security within internationally recognized borders; the right of the Palestinian people to have a sovereign and independent homeland, the right to move freely, the right to live in dignity ... Pope Francis will insist on these issues in line with Holy See policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urge that the sacred and universal character of the city of Jerusalem , its cultural and religious heritage” be recognized so that it may be “a place of pilgrimage for the followers of the three monotheistic religions.”Francis’ visit will also “be a time of joy and comfort to all Christians living in the Holy Land. The Pope wants to underline, in his direct encounter with them, two things,” Cardinal Parolin said: “that these Christians are living stones , and that without their presence, the Holy Land and the Holy Places themselves are likely to be transformed into museums, as we often say.” Their presence “assures us that there is a living Christian community and a living presence of the Risen Lord.” Besides this “ecclesial dimension,” Cardinal Parolin pointed out that the Christians of the Middle East and the Holy Land play a key role in the societies and countries where they live. “They sincerely want to put themselves at the disposal of their fellow citizens to build together a free, fair and democratic homeland,” Cardinal Parolin concluded.
US: It’s up to Israel, Palestinians to pick up talks-Kerry is occupied with other crises, according to his spokeswoman, and Washington is waiting for fresh ideas-By Times of Israel staff May 22, 2014, 1:12 am Updated: May 22, 2014, 8:03 am 11
US Secretary of State John Kerry has no immediate intention of pressuring Israel and the Palestinians into resuming the stalled peace talks, and is still determining whether there is a “way ahead” in the process, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said Wednesday.During her daily press briefing Psaki confirmed that a meeting Tuesday of the Quartet on the Middle East would not produce a critical statement detailing the reasons for the negotiations’ failure. Rather, she said, it was a “regularly scheduled session” and the current focus of international efforts was on “getting the two sides to come up with new ideas and avoid unhelpful steps.”“It remains in the hands of the parties to take – make the choices necessary if they want to resume discussions,” she continued. “Obviously, there’s a great deal going on in the world, and Secretary Kerry is focused on everything from Ukraine to South Sudan, all the issues we talk about in here every day. But we’re still engaged with the parties and we think that’s an important.”It had been unclear ever since talks collapsed last month whether the top American diplomat would make public his, and the US administration’s, positions on the breakdown of the talks, although administration officials have been quoted placing much of the blame for the talks’ failure on Israeli settlement policy.Israel officially suspended peace talks after Abbas agreed a unity pact last month with the Islamist group Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Before that, Palestinians applied to a series of international treaties in contravention of understandings with the US and Israel, an apparent reaction to Israel’s own refusal to go ahead with a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners.Earlier this month, anonymous American officials personally involved in peace talks – peace envoy Martin Indyk presumed to have been among them – provided a harsh assessment to a respected Israeli journalist of why negotiations failed, highlighting Israel’s continued settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame.”Saying that assessment may as well have come from the US president himself, a senior official told The New York Times last Thursday that the White House had “cleared the interview” with Yedioth Ahronoth’s Nahum Barnea, and that “the critical remarks faithfully reflect the president’s own views.”The unnamed senior official said that Obama believes that, more than any other factor, Israeli announcements of construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem throughout the nine months of talks led to the negotiations’ collapse.“At every juncture, there was a settlement announcement,” said the official. “It was the thing that kept throwing a wrench in the gears.”Following the abrupt end to the negotiations, and with both sides blaming each other, the US president has instead decided to take a break from the peace process, focusing his administration’s attention elsewhere, the official said, “to let the failure of the talks sink in for both parties, and see if that causes them to reconsider.”The Obama administration wants to make clear to all sides that “they have a door that’s open,” he said. “If they want to walk through that door, we’ll be there to work with them.”
Palestinian PM said set to head new unity government-Official says Fatah-Hamas coalition imminent; Rami Hamdallah to be prime minister-By AFP and Times of Israel staff May 22, 2014, 5:37 pm
Current Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is to head the consensus government to be formed under a deal with Hamas to end seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza, an official said Thursday.“The government is nearly ready, and Rami Hamdallah will be prime minister,” the official close to the reconciliation negotiations told AFP on condition of anonymity.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “informed Mr. Hamdallah yesterday (Wednesday) that he would head the government,” the official said.Hamdallah is the prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a rival prime minister in Gaza — Ismail Haniya.Hamas “had no objection” to the decision, said Bassem Naim, an adviser to Haniya.A senior Fatah official, Azzam al-Ahmed, is due in Gaza on Sunday to “finalize consultations” on the government, Naim said.Abbas told The Times of Israel on Wednesday that, in talks with Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in London last week, he had stressed that the new Palestinian government would act according to the principles he abides by. He said it was not yet clear whether he would head the new government or whether it would be led by somebody else, such as Hamdallah.On April 23, Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization, dominated by Abbas’s Fatah party, signed a surprise reconciliation deal aimed at forging a unified administration.Under the deal, the two sides were to form an “independent government” of technocrats, headed by Abbas, paving the way for long-delayed elections. Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, has ruled Gaza since it expelled Fatah after a week of deadly clashes in 2007.The April reconciliation agreement incensed Israel, putting the final nail in the coffin of faltering US-led peace talks.The new government will still need the approval of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament, which was elected in 2006 before the deadly fighting of the following year, Haniya said last week.Both the European Union and the United States have said repeatedly that they will have no dealings with any government that involves Hamas until the Islamist group renounces violence and recognizes Israel and past peace agreements.
Torn between competing ‘claimants,’ Pope faces uphill battle to spread peace on Holy Land visit-Francis wants to support reconciliation, peace talks, local Christians and more, on a tight, sensitive schedule, where every word and gesture will be scrutinized-By Lazar Berman May 22, 2014, 6:38 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Pope Francis has done very well in his first year in office.His laid-back style has played well both in the pews and on the front pages, bringing Catholics back to church and winning over a media that has seemed far more inclined to portray the Vatican in a negative light.And now, after countless invitations and endless speculation, Francis is heading for one of the arenas that holds the most potential peril, and opportunity, for a pope — the Holy Land.Any papal visit to Israel risks sending an unintended message via a poorly worded statement or even an improvised gesture. Pope Paul VI’s historic 1964 visit was remembered here for his telegram of gratitude sent to Tel Aviv rather than Jerusalem — taken by many Israelis, and presumably intended, as a diplomatic slap in the face. Benedict XVI was criticized for his 2009 speech at Yad Vashem in which he did not specifically apologize for the Church’s conduct during the Holocaust.Visiting Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel, Francis has a dizzying array of interests and expectations to balance on a three-day trip in which every word, every gesture will be examined. In this difficult environment, a visit must be planned meticulously to ensure that no party feels slighted and the intended message gets across as meant.But even with a brief, low-key trip, in a land where some of his goals seem mutually exclusive, Francis risks stepping on the very message he intends to convey.There are three competing “claimants” to the focus of this trip, explained Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s director of interreligious affairs: the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew, Francis’s close friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka, and President Shimon Peres, whose retirement is impending. That is, the trip is being presented simultaneously as an intra-Christian affair, an opportunity to advance Catholic-Jewish relations, and a political encounter.In all three arenas, Francis faces significant challenges.
‘That they may be one’
The view of the visit as a celebration of intra-Christian reconciliation is, officially, the correct one.The trip marks the fiftieth anniversary of Paul VI’s visit to Israel, during which he met with the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, the “first among equals” of the Orthodox patriarchs. The meeting was a major step in healing the rift between the two churches, estranged and mutually excommunicated for nine centuries over a variety of cultural, political, and theological issues.“It will be a purely religious trip,” Francis told pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday.Indeed, the motto of the pontiff’s trip is Ut Unum Sint, meaning “so that they may be one,” and the official logo is an embrace between St. Peter, representing Catholicism, and St. Andrew, representing Orthodoxy.Over the course of his two days in Israel, Francis will meet with current Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew four times in Jerusalem, for private talks, prayer, and a joint dinner.“By commemorating it [Paul VI's meeting with Athenagoras],” George Weigel, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and biographer of John Paul II, told The Times of Israel, “the pope is underscoring his support for closing the breach between Rome and Constantinople — a process made much more complex by the aggressive actions of Russian Orthodoxy in recent years.”The Russian Orthodox hierarchy has been at odds with Catholics since the fall of the Soviet Union, when the reinvigorated Russian church began a propaganda campaign against the Vatican, and passed laws targeting Russian Catholics. Catholic priests were kicked out of the country, and dialogue between the two communities ground to a halt.
The current crisis in Ukraine hasn’t helped matters. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — in communion with Rome — has sided with the Ukrainian government in Kiev, while the Russian Orthodox church is considered close to the Putin regime and to separatists in eastern Ukraine.Still, Francis has seen some success moving reconciliation forward, with Bartholomew attending his inauguration, the first time the leader of Orthodox Christians has done so since the 1054 split.Striking a difficult balance.Though the visit is a Christian religious affair, Francis has other goals, some difficult to balance with the others.“The pope also wants to demonstrate his love and esteem for Israel and its people,” Murray Watson, co-founder of the Center for Jewish-Catholic-Muslim learning at Ontario’s Western University, noted to The Times of Israel, “his solidarity with the Palestinian people and their aspirations, and his desire to support efforts toward a just and lasting peace between both peoples, which have encountered some rough spots in recent weeks and months.”“The pope wants, most of all, to be a messenger of love and hope for all the peoples of this region, and to do whatever he can to strengthen the local Christian communities.”But how many of these worthy, but complex, goals will Francis be able to advance in just 72 hours? And is his program even built for these ideas to be properly expressed? His itinerary will make it tough to win over Israelis. Francis is rushing through Jewish sites — the Western Wall, Mount Herzl, and Yad Vashem — in little more than an hour, and from his schedule, it appears he will have almost no opportunity to improvise and interact with regular Israelis, one of his most important strengths.In addition, it will be a major feat if Francis is able to satisfy both Israelis and Palestinians.The official Vatican program says that Francis will be visiting “the state of Palestine,” which has led some to speculate that the Vatican may recognize a Palestinian state. Palestinian officials have publicly expressed their expectation that Francis will demand an end to Israeli occupation; it will take a very carefully worded spiritual message to satisfy Palestinian anticipations while not turning off Israelis.Meeting with children who have grown up in refugee camps, while sure to demonstrate compassion for the suffering of Palestinians, also presents an opportunity for an slip-up. But insufficiently sympathetic statements will be taken as a slight by Palestinians.On the stalled peace process, the pope’s role is quite limited. He can encourage efforts already in place, but is clearly in no position to bring about peace on his own.But, says Watson, he is likely still looking to convey a message.“He can encourage grassroots individuals and groups — especially in the Christian communities, but not only Christians — to continue their efforts toward greater respect, justice and cooperation, and he can speak — as someone who is respected as a friend of both ‘sides’ — a message that can challenge both groups.”‘In the program at the moment, there is nothing’ dedicated to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, noted Rabbi Rosen.Even that message won’t be simple to convey. Francis will have to communicate “without yielding to the temptation of a polarized discourse that might seek to ‘recruit’ the Pope as an ‘ally’ of their particular point-of-view, and against ‘the other,’” said Watson.Francis might have missed an important opportunity to make a statement about Israeli-Palestinian peace with his choice of official travel companions, fellow Argentinians Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Sheikh Omar Abboud. While the inclusion of his colleagues sends “an extremely strong and explicit signal” about interfaith dialogue, in the words of chief Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, the fact that he is not bringing together any Jewish and Muslim clergy who actually live here could send a different message.“In the program at the moment, there is nothing” dedicated to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, noted Rabbi Rosen. “So he brings an Argentinian rabbi and an Argentinian imam, that’s very nice, but no event where he’s bringing together an imam or a rabbi here.”His schedule is not conducive to the goal of supporting local Christian communities either. Most of Israel’s Christians live in the Galilee, especially in Nazareth, Haifa, and Shfaram, but Francis will not reach the area at all.This is all the more perplexing given that the plight of local Christians is of prime concern for the Church. The Vatican’s local spokesman for the visit, Father David Neuhaus, told The Times of Israel that “we would like the theme to be increased awareness of the Christian presence in the land, an essential part of what this land is about.”“Great concern arises from the condition of life faced by Christians who in many parts of the Middle East suffer gravely as a consequence of the current tensions and conflicts underway,” said Francis in November 2013.“We must not resign ourselves to thinking of a Middle East without Christians, who for 2,000 years have confessed the name of Jesus, and have been fully integrated as citizens into the social, cultural and religious life of the nations to which they belong.”The Christian population in the Holy Land, once 10 percent, has dwindled down to less than 3 percent, and vandalism by Jewish extremists has sparked growing concern by the Vatican over the seriousness of law enforcement efforts to stop the attacks.“The problem about any claim that he’s coming for the Christians is not only why is his visit so short, but why isn’t he going to the Galilee at all, where 80% of the Christians live. Therefore it’s rather disingenuous to say you’re coming for the Christians and ignore the vast majority of them,” said Rosen.
A question of legal personality
For more than four decades after Israel’s founding, the Vatican refused to officially recognize the Jewish state. Finally, after years of hints and small gestures, the two sides sat down in 1991 to negotiate what would become the Framework Agreement.The talks covered three areas — the relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel, Catholic-Jewish relations, and the status, or “legal personality,” of Church property and interests within Israel.The negotiations, which wrapped up in 1993, succeeded in forging an agreement on the first two issues. Talks over the third have still not culminated in a comprehensive settlement.Though Francis will not involve himself directly in the ongoing talks, the pope’s visit has the potential to provide added impetus to conclude a final agreement.Here, too, obstacles have arisen.The Church seeks a recognition of a special status, giving it certain tax and property privileges, and the recognition of canon law within the Israeli legal structure, but Israel is wary of establishing a sweeping precedent for one particular group.Instead, Israel has insisted on negotiating every item and property, despite the fact that the Vatican signed the Framework Agreement with Israel with the understanding that legal personality issue would be agreed upon and ratified quickly.“It’s never been brought to the government,” explained Rosen. “Never been ratified. As far as Israeli law is concerned, it doesn’t exist.”Though the Vatican has submitted to Israel on the itemized negotiations, it has insisted on increased usage rights on property that was historically under its control.One of those sites is the Cenacle, the site of the Last Supper on Mount Zion.Ultra-Orthodox Jews have been spreading the idea that Israel is considering giving control of the Cenacle to the Church, not just granting increased prayer access. The issue has struck a nerve, and rallies opposing the idea have drawn thousands of religious Jews to the site.Both sides reject the idea that it is considering giving up control of the site.“We are not asking for sovereignty over Mount Zion or the Tomb of David,” said Neuhaus, who also serves as the leader of Israel’s Hebrew Catholic community. “We are asking for something very small. In view of the enormous importance of the site, we are asking for access.”“There is no truth whatsoever to these rumors” about ceding control, said Akiva Tor, head of the Jewish Affairs and World Religions Bureau at the Foreign Ministry.“The room of the Last Supper will remain under Israeli ownership and possession and will be operated by Israel in any future agreement. And the negotiations with the Vatican on exactly what will be the standing of the Cenacle is part of our negotiation with them…The negotiations on the economic agreement deals with many practical issues such as taxation and municipal taxes and other items related to Church property in Israel. Among the many issues discussed there has also been discussion about appropriate arrangements for Christian prayer in the Cenaculum.”A source who asked not to be named told The Times of Israel that Israel has “basically agreed to give them usage,” but because of the recent campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews to prevent increased Catholic control on Mount Zion, Israel has decided to wait until things quiet down after the pope’s visit.“We’re toward the end of negotiations, but signing is not imminent,” said Tor.
Visual parables
Despite the competing expectations of the pope from involved parties, and the omissions built into the schedule of his short trip, Francis still can accomplish much in his time here.He has already chalked up one achievement before even showing up. Francis’s impending arrival has brought media attention — and subsequent political action — to the recent rise in “price tag,” or hate crime, attacks against Christian sites and property.“They are paying attention now because of the visit of the pope,” said Rosen. “That now is leading to certain actions being taken by law enforcement… both monitoring with cameras, more police presence, and especially with regards to Mount Zion, reining in some more extremist elements.”Watson believes the trip will be thought of as a success if Francis “is able to speak a message of respect, love and support for Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis alike, without any of those groups trying to exploit his words or actions for partisan political purposes, which could undermine his goals in coming here.”He also expressed the hope that the pope’s visit to the Western Wall, his remembrance at Yad Vashem, and his meeting with Netanyahu, Peres, and the chief rabbis will serve as “visual parables” guiding Catholics in how they should think about Judaism.Others believe that the key, at least to Jews and Israelis, to viewing the trip as a success is the wording of Francis’s statement at Yad Vashem.“If there’s one word that Israelis really want to hear, it’s sorry,” Rosen explained. “And if at Yad Vashem he can say that the burden of Christian guilt or the role that the Christians played in paving the way or even collaborating in this most heinous of tragedies committed to Jews, should weigh heavily on the shoulders of every true Christian, that would gain him automatically his success card from Israeli society.”Perhaps the most important fact to remember about Francis, however, is that one should expect the unexpected.“He’s a man of surprises,” said Weigel, “so if something happens ‘off-schedule,’ I wouldn’t be completely surprised.”AP and JTA contributed to this report.
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) 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 (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) 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.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Court Rejects Police 'Restraining Order' to Stop Pope Protests-Despite IDF refusal to give order distancing Jewish minor from Jerusalem, police turn to court - and were rejected.-By Yedidya Ben-Or, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 5:45 PM-IsraelNationalNews
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Thursday rejected a police request to distance an arrested Jewish minor from Jerusalem, during Pope Francis's upcoming visit next Sunday and Monday. The youth studies at a yeshiva in Jerusalem's Old City.During the court trial, the Honenu legal aid organization reports that the police representative admitted the GOC (General Officer Commanding) Homefront Command refused to give an administrative order against the youth, apparently even having seen intelligence information presented about the youth.Police on Wednesday put several "right wing activists" under house arrest through similar restraining orders. The administrative orders are a relic of the British Mandate-era legal system, allowing the detention or distancing of individuals without any charges or due process, over suspicion they may harm public order.Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, representing the youth for Honenu, argued that the police were treating the court as a default to the IDF, and that the request showed contempt for the court.At the conclusion of the proceedings, Judge Yaron Mientkavich ruled that while there was a basis for police concerns that the youth might breach the public order during the pope's visit, the court did not have the authority to give such administrative orders. The judge told police there were ways to distance the youth, but that the request as submitted was not one of them.Mientkavich ordered the minor to be unconditionally released, without any guarantor's signature required."The police have to internalize the message of the court," stated Ben-Gvir. "In recent days we are witness to many being arrested over merely planning to protest against the pope." Ben-Gvir criticized the police, saying "the time has arrived to teach the police about freedom of expression and democracy. The Jewish people are allowed to demonstrate against the pope."Another Jewish youth was not as lucky. The youth was arrested on suspicions of having distributed fliers on Wednesday at Mount Zion (where the David's Tomb Compound is located) against the pope's visit. The court ruled that he be distanced for four days from Jerusalem's Old City.
The pope's visit - coming to take the tomb of King David?
The protest around the pope's visit, aside from reports that he is beginning the trip in Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled Bethlehem as a message "recognizing Palestine" and "opposing the occupation," revolves around control of the David's Tomb Compound.Numerous government officials - including Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi - have denied control will be transferred to the Vatican.However, Rabbi Avraham Goldstein, the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Diaspora Yeshiva located in the Compound, revealed what he said were much more underhand plans than a straight-forward hand-over. "According to the information we have...the state will be allowing the Church to conduct Mass on the upper floor; then according to Jewish law (halakha) Jews will not be able to pray downstairs (either), since on the upper floor there will be idol worship," the rabbi said. Jewish law forbids benefiting from anything - including a structure or shelter - used for idol-worship. Catholic effigies and other rituals fall under the Jewish legal definition of idol worship, meaning that the establishment of a permanent Catholic place of prayer in the Compound would effectively prevent Jews from conducting their own services in the entire building.A Catholic official confirmed the Vatican's intentions to put those very plans into effect, telling the Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday that the Vatican wants "to hold two hours of [Christian] prayer every day in the early morning before visitors start to visit it."
05/22/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Theophilus III: “Paul VI’s encounter with Athenagoras opened up Catholic-Orthodox dialogue”-The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem-With the Pope and Bartholomew’s meeting just days away, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem discusses the Catholic and Orthodox Churches’ rocky road to unity-Andrea Avveduto
jerusalem-“The meeting which took place in 1964 was key because it opened the way to dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.” Theophilus III, THE Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem who has been in charge since 2005, was not there 50 years ago to witness the historic embrace between Paul VI and Athenagoras, but today he says he can “still taste the fruits of that courageous and revolutionary gesture.”Just days before Pope Francis is due to meet Bartholomew in the Holy Sepulchre - the centre of this visit – His Beatitude discusses the tough journey the Catholic Church of Jerusalem and the Orthodox Church have been on in search of unity in the land of the Revelation.What has really changed since that meeting between Catholics and the Orthodox Church, held in the spirit of dialogue? “First of all, I think it marked the very moment when we started really talking about dialogue. We started praying for unity, we even realised we have a duty to do so, according to the Divine Liturgy. But before we put Christian Unity in administrative terms, which is always very risky, I believe we should focus our prayers on finding a unity of the spirit, the mind and the heart.”With the meeting between Pope Francis and Bartholomew just around the corner, how would you sum up these past fifty years of ecumenism? “Dialogue continues and some of the results we have achieved have been extraordinary. Over the years we have left behind all that bigotry, suspicion and misunderstanding that we had in common. In Jerusalem, for example, whenever there was a wedding between a Catholic and an Orthodox person, the bells knelled to mark the occasion. Today both celebrate the event.”In a few days time Pope Francis and Bartholomew will meet, not on the Mount of Olives as their predecessors did, but in the place of the Resurrection, the Holy Sepulchre. What will happen? “First of all I do not think we are in a position to predict how the meeting is going to go, what the outcome will be for ecumenical dialogue on a practical level or conjecture about things as we too often do. The meeting between the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew is above all the will of the Holy Spirit and so – recently - it cannot be understood fully. We may only see the fruits of it in several years to come. But there is one thing I am sure of: the meeting in that place which is so important for the whole of Christianity is placing the outcome in the hands of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will be the one to work on this and produce results in the future.”How do you manage to communicate this ecumenical outlook to your Church and to the people living in the Holy City? “It’s difficult but not impossible. In fact I’d say it’s fundamental. Dialogue is the path we need to take to deal with the difficulties this land faces. This requires sacrifice because each of us has to give up something – and we know very well what it means to give something up here in Jerusalem – but I see no other way other than following the example which these two great men of faith are going to set in a few days time.”
What are your expectations for Sunday afternoon’s meeting?
“Rather than talking about my expectations, I would like to say that my greatest joy is seeing that both of them want this meeting: we are on the right track, we are still walking together. We may still fight, for sure, but if we walk together, along the same path, united above all in the Holy Spirit, we will finally manage to review the past differently and face the future in a spirit of tranquillity. We will also be a physical presence in the Holy Land and the entire Middle East. This land needs it and first and foremost myself.”
EZEKIEL 35:9-11
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy (ARABS) cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10 Because thou (ARABS) hast said, These two nations (ISRAEL & JUDAH) and these two countries (ISRAEL & JUDAH) shall be mine, and we (ARABS) will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy (GELIOUSY) which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them;(ISRAELIS) and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.(ARABS)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Russia Refuses to Return Disputed Chabad Archive-Moscow court rejects US order to hand over Schneersohn Library, hits back by fining the US for withholding part of the collection.-By AFP-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 5:28 PM-IsraelNationalNews
A Moscow court on Thursday rejected a US order for Russia to hand over a disputed Jewish archive, instead imposing a fine on Washington for keeping part of the collection.The dispute over the Schneersohn Library - a collection of more than 12,000 texts and 50,000 documents venerated by Hasidic Jews - has for years damaged Russia-US cultural ties.The Moscow arbitration court rejected a US court ruling in 2013 that imposed a $50,000 (37,000 euro)-per-day fine on Russia as long as the collection was not handed over to New York's Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, which considers itself the legal heir to the archive.The Russian court instead imposed its own $50,000-per-day fine on the United States for keeping some of the archives at the Library of Congress.The collection was originally owned by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, a spiritual leader of Russia's Chabad-Lubavitch community in the early 20th century.The collection was split up and partially nationalised by the Soviet Union in 1918.Part of the archive was taken out of Russia and ended up in Germany, where it was seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II.In 2013 Russia decided to transfer the collection from the state library to the new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, where a reading room made it available to the public. The parts of the collection in the United States were loaned by Russia to New York's Chabad-Lubavitch community in 1994 but they refused to return them. The dispute has seen cultural exchange programmes frozen between the US and Russia, with touring exhibitions from such prominent museums as the Hermitage and the Tretyakov State Gallery bypassing the United States.
26 And after threescore and two weeks(62X7=434 YEARS+7X7=49 YEARS=TOTAL OF 69 WEEKS OR 483 YRS) shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;(ROMAN LEADERS DESTROYED THE 2ND TEMPLE) and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.(THERE HAS TO BE 70 WEEKS OR 490 YRS TO FUFILL THE VISION AND PROPHECY OF DAN 9:24).(THE NEXT VERSE IS THAT 7 YR WEEK OR (70TH FINAL WEEK).
27 And he ( THE ROMAN,EU PRESIDENT) shall confirm the covenant (PEACE TREATY) with many for one week:(1X7=7 YEARS) and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,(3 1/2 yrs in TEMPLE ANIMAL SACRIFICES STOPPED) and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
JEREMIAH 6:14
14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
JEREMIAH 8:11
11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
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)
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.
Netanyahu Was 'This Close' to Dumping Livni Over Abbas Meeting-The Justice Minister got a last minute reprieve after she angered the Prime Minister by meeting with PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.-By Yaakov Levi-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 7:48 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was on the verge of firing Justice Minister Tzipi Livni after her recent meeting with Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas in London – but restrained himself, according to a report in business magazine Maariv This Week.Livni reportedly met with Abbas last Thursday in London, where she expressed Israel's dissatisfaction with the unity pact he reached with Hamas.The meeting was the first between Abbas and a senior Israeli official since Israel pulled out of the peace talks in response to the Hamas-Fatah unity pact.According to reports over the weekend, Livni had informed Netanyahu that she was to meet with Abbas. Netanyahu criticized the move, according to those reports, but according to Maariv This Week, Netanyahu had not even been aware of the meeting. When he found out what she was planning, he specifically told her not to meet with Abbas – a directive she subsequently ignored.Netanyahu was prepared to fire Livni, but changed his mind at the last moment, after sources close to Finance Minister Yair Lapid indicated that her firing would trigger a “coalition crisis.”Livni defended her decision to meet Abbas. "I would like to remind everyone that the conflict isn't over," Livni told HaTnua members during a faction meeting, according to AFP. "We're still here and the Palestinians are still here. Our interest is to resolve the conflict, and ignoring reality is not an option. "Ignoring the other side, not listening or talking, is irresponsible," Livni insisted. "A resolution is best achieved through direct negotiations, but we can't ignore the agreement between Hamas and Fatah."
05/22/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Parolin: “The Pope’s visit to the Holy Land will bring fruits of peace”-Pietro Parolin-The Secretary of State said this in an interview with the Vatican Television Centre-vatican insider staff
Rome-Pope Francis’ Apostolic Visit to the Holy Land will bring fruits of peace, this is what the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin said he expects from the trip. The cardinal told the Vatican Television Centre (CTV) he hoped the meeting will “help all leaders and all people of good will to take bold decisions in the way of peace,” Vatican Radio reports.Cardinal Parolin stressed the Holy See’s hopes for dialogue between Israel and Palestine: “The right of Israel to exist and to enjoy peace and security within internationally recognized borders; the right of the Palestinian people to have a sovereign and independent homeland, the right to move freely, the right to live in dignity ... Pope Francis will insist on these issues in line with Holy See policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urge that the sacred and universal character of the city of Jerusalem , its cultural and religious heritage” be recognized so that it may be “a place of pilgrimage for the followers of the three monotheistic religions.”Francis’ visit will also “be a time of joy and comfort to all Christians living in the Holy Land. The Pope wants to underline, in his direct encounter with them, two things,” Cardinal Parolin said: “that these Christians are living stones , and that without their presence, the Holy Land and the Holy Places themselves are likely to be transformed into museums, as we often say.” Their presence “assures us that there is a living Christian community and a living presence of the Risen Lord.” Besides this “ecclesial dimension,” Cardinal Parolin pointed out that the Christians of the Middle East and the Holy Land play a key role in the societies and countries where they live. “They sincerely want to put themselves at the disposal of their fellow citizens to build together a free, fair and democratic homeland,” Cardinal Parolin concluded.
US: It’s up to Israel, Palestinians to pick up talks-Kerry is occupied with other crises, according to his spokeswoman, and Washington is waiting for fresh ideas-By Times of Israel staff May 22, 2014, 1:12 am Updated: May 22, 2014, 8:03 am 11
US Secretary of State John Kerry has no immediate intention of pressuring Israel and the Palestinians into resuming the stalled peace talks, and is still determining whether there is a “way ahead” in the process, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said Wednesday.During her daily press briefing Psaki confirmed that a meeting Tuesday of the Quartet on the Middle East would not produce a critical statement detailing the reasons for the negotiations’ failure. Rather, she said, it was a “regularly scheduled session” and the current focus of international efforts was on “getting the two sides to come up with new ideas and avoid unhelpful steps.”“It remains in the hands of the parties to take – make the choices necessary if they want to resume discussions,” she continued. “Obviously, there’s a great deal going on in the world, and Secretary Kerry is focused on everything from Ukraine to South Sudan, all the issues we talk about in here every day. But we’re still engaged with the parties and we think that’s an important.”It had been unclear ever since talks collapsed last month whether the top American diplomat would make public his, and the US administration’s, positions on the breakdown of the talks, although administration officials have been quoted placing much of the blame for the talks’ failure on Israeli settlement policy.Israel officially suspended peace talks after Abbas agreed a unity pact last month with the Islamist group Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel. Before that, Palestinians applied to a series of international treaties in contravention of understandings with the US and Israel, an apparent reaction to Israel’s own refusal to go ahead with a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners.Earlier this month, anonymous American officials personally involved in peace talks – peace envoy Martin Indyk presumed to have been among them – provided a harsh assessment to a respected Israeli journalist of why negotiations failed, highlighting Israel’s continued settlement construction as the issue “largely to blame.”Saying that assessment may as well have come from the US president himself, a senior official told The New York Times last Thursday that the White House had “cleared the interview” with Yedioth Ahronoth’s Nahum Barnea, and that “the critical remarks faithfully reflect the president’s own views.”The unnamed senior official said that Obama believes that, more than any other factor, Israeli announcements of construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem throughout the nine months of talks led to the negotiations’ collapse.“At every juncture, there was a settlement announcement,” said the official. “It was the thing that kept throwing a wrench in the gears.”Following the abrupt end to the negotiations, and with both sides blaming each other, the US president has instead decided to take a break from the peace process, focusing his administration’s attention elsewhere, the official said, “to let the failure of the talks sink in for both parties, and see if that causes them to reconsider.”The Obama administration wants to make clear to all sides that “they have a door that’s open,” he said. “If they want to walk through that door, we’ll be there to work with them.”
Palestinian PM said set to head new unity government-Official says Fatah-Hamas coalition imminent; Rami Hamdallah to be prime minister-By AFP and Times of Israel staff May 22, 2014, 5:37 pm
Current Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is to head the consensus government to be formed under a deal with Hamas to end seven years of rival administrations in the West Bank and Gaza, an official said Thursday.“The government is nearly ready, and Rami Hamdallah will be prime minister,” the official close to the reconciliation negotiations told AFP on condition of anonymity.Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “informed Mr. Hamdallah yesterday (Wednesday) that he would head the government,” the official said.Hamdallah is the prime minister of the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a rival prime minister in Gaza — Ismail Haniya.Hamas “had no objection” to the decision, said Bassem Naim, an adviser to Haniya.A senior Fatah official, Azzam al-Ahmed, is due in Gaza on Sunday to “finalize consultations” on the government, Naim said.Abbas told The Times of Israel on Wednesday that, in talks with Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in London last week, he had stressed that the new Palestinian government would act according to the principles he abides by. He said it was not yet clear whether he would head the new government or whether it would be led by somebody else, such as Hamdallah.On April 23, Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization, dominated by Abbas’s Fatah party, signed a surprise reconciliation deal aimed at forging a unified administration.Under the deal, the two sides were to form an “independent government” of technocrats, headed by Abbas, paving the way for long-delayed elections. Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, has ruled Gaza since it expelled Fatah after a week of deadly clashes in 2007.The April reconciliation agreement incensed Israel, putting the final nail in the coffin of faltering US-led peace talks.The new government will still need the approval of the Hamas-dominated Palestinian parliament, which was elected in 2006 before the deadly fighting of the following year, Haniya said last week.Both the European Union and the United States have said repeatedly that they will have no dealings with any government that involves Hamas until the Islamist group renounces violence and recognizes Israel and past peace agreements.
Torn between competing ‘claimants,’ Pope faces uphill battle to spread peace on Holy Land visit-Francis wants to support reconciliation, peace talks, local Christians and more, on a tight, sensitive schedule, where every word and gesture will be scrutinized-By Lazar Berman May 22, 2014, 6:38 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Pope Francis has done very well in his first year in office.His laid-back style has played well both in the pews and on the front pages, bringing Catholics back to church and winning over a media that has seemed far more inclined to portray the Vatican in a negative light.And now, after countless invitations and endless speculation, Francis is heading for one of the arenas that holds the most potential peril, and opportunity, for a pope — the Holy Land.Any papal visit to Israel risks sending an unintended message via a poorly worded statement or even an improvised gesture. Pope Paul VI’s historic 1964 visit was remembered here for his telegram of gratitude sent to Tel Aviv rather than Jerusalem — taken by many Israelis, and presumably intended, as a diplomatic slap in the face. Benedict XVI was criticized for his 2009 speech at Yad Vashem in which he did not specifically apologize for the Church’s conduct during the Holocaust.Visiting Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel, Francis has a dizzying array of interests and expectations to balance on a three-day trip in which every word, every gesture will be examined. In this difficult environment, a visit must be planned meticulously to ensure that no party feels slighted and the intended message gets across as meant.But even with a brief, low-key trip, in a land where some of his goals seem mutually exclusive, Francis risks stepping on the very message he intends to convey.There are three competing “claimants” to the focus of this trip, explained Rabbi David Rosen, AJC’s director of interreligious affairs: the Orthodox ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew, Francis’s close friend Rabbi Abraham Skorka, and President Shimon Peres, whose retirement is impending. That is, the trip is being presented simultaneously as an intra-Christian affair, an opportunity to advance Catholic-Jewish relations, and a political encounter.In all three arenas, Francis faces significant challenges.
‘That they may be one’
The view of the visit as a celebration of intra-Christian reconciliation is, officially, the correct one.The trip marks the fiftieth anniversary of Paul VI’s visit to Israel, during which he met with the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, the “first among equals” of the Orthodox patriarchs. The meeting was a major step in healing the rift between the two churches, estranged and mutually excommunicated for nine centuries over a variety of cultural, political, and theological issues.“It will be a purely religious trip,” Francis told pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday.Indeed, the motto of the pontiff’s trip is Ut Unum Sint, meaning “so that they may be one,” and the official logo is an embrace between St. Peter, representing Catholicism, and St. Andrew, representing Orthodoxy.Over the course of his two days in Israel, Francis will meet with current Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew four times in Jerusalem, for private talks, prayer, and a joint dinner.“By commemorating it [Paul VI's meeting with Athenagoras],” George Weigel, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and biographer of John Paul II, told The Times of Israel, “the pope is underscoring his support for closing the breach between Rome and Constantinople — a process made much more complex by the aggressive actions of Russian Orthodoxy in recent years.”The Russian Orthodox hierarchy has been at odds with Catholics since the fall of the Soviet Union, when the reinvigorated Russian church began a propaganda campaign against the Vatican, and passed laws targeting Russian Catholics. Catholic priests were kicked out of the country, and dialogue between the two communities ground to a halt.
The current crisis in Ukraine hasn’t helped matters. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — in communion with Rome — has sided with the Ukrainian government in Kiev, while the Russian Orthodox church is considered close to the Putin regime and to separatists in eastern Ukraine.Still, Francis has seen some success moving reconciliation forward, with Bartholomew attending his inauguration, the first time the leader of Orthodox Christians has done so since the 1054 split.Striking a difficult balance.Though the visit is a Christian religious affair, Francis has other goals, some difficult to balance with the others.“The pope also wants to demonstrate his love and esteem for Israel and its people,” Murray Watson, co-founder of the Center for Jewish-Catholic-Muslim learning at Ontario’s Western University, noted to The Times of Israel, “his solidarity with the Palestinian people and their aspirations, and his desire to support efforts toward a just and lasting peace between both peoples, which have encountered some rough spots in recent weeks and months.”“The pope wants, most of all, to be a messenger of love and hope for all the peoples of this region, and to do whatever he can to strengthen the local Christian communities.”But how many of these worthy, but complex, goals will Francis be able to advance in just 72 hours? And is his program even built for these ideas to be properly expressed? His itinerary will make it tough to win over Israelis. Francis is rushing through Jewish sites — the Western Wall, Mount Herzl, and Yad Vashem — in little more than an hour, and from his schedule, it appears he will have almost no opportunity to improvise and interact with regular Israelis, one of his most important strengths.In addition, it will be a major feat if Francis is able to satisfy both Israelis and Palestinians.The official Vatican program says that Francis will be visiting “the state of Palestine,” which has led some to speculate that the Vatican may recognize a Palestinian state. Palestinian officials have publicly expressed their expectation that Francis will demand an end to Israeli occupation; it will take a very carefully worded spiritual message to satisfy Palestinian anticipations while not turning off Israelis.Meeting with children who have grown up in refugee camps, while sure to demonstrate compassion for the suffering of Palestinians, also presents an opportunity for an slip-up. But insufficiently sympathetic statements will be taken as a slight by Palestinians.On the stalled peace process, the pope’s role is quite limited. He can encourage efforts already in place, but is clearly in no position to bring about peace on his own.But, says Watson, he is likely still looking to convey a message.“He can encourage grassroots individuals and groups — especially in the Christian communities, but not only Christians — to continue their efforts toward greater respect, justice and cooperation, and he can speak — as someone who is respected as a friend of both ‘sides’ — a message that can challenge both groups.”‘In the program at the moment, there is nothing’ dedicated to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, noted Rabbi Rosen.Even that message won’t be simple to convey. Francis will have to communicate “without yielding to the temptation of a polarized discourse that might seek to ‘recruit’ the Pope as an ‘ally’ of their particular point-of-view, and against ‘the other,’” said Watson.Francis might have missed an important opportunity to make a statement about Israeli-Palestinian peace with his choice of official travel companions, fellow Argentinians Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Sheikh Omar Abboud. While the inclusion of his colleagues sends “an extremely strong and explicit signal” about interfaith dialogue, in the words of chief Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi, the fact that he is not bringing together any Jewish and Muslim clergy who actually live here could send a different message.“In the program at the moment, there is nothing” dedicated to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinians, noted Rabbi Rosen. “So he brings an Argentinian rabbi and an Argentinian imam, that’s very nice, but no event where he’s bringing together an imam or a rabbi here.”His schedule is not conducive to the goal of supporting local Christian communities either. Most of Israel’s Christians live in the Galilee, especially in Nazareth, Haifa, and Shfaram, but Francis will not reach the area at all.This is all the more perplexing given that the plight of local Christians is of prime concern for the Church. The Vatican’s local spokesman for the visit, Father David Neuhaus, told The Times of Israel that “we would like the theme to be increased awareness of the Christian presence in the land, an essential part of what this land is about.”“Great concern arises from the condition of life faced by Christians who in many parts of the Middle East suffer gravely as a consequence of the current tensions and conflicts underway,” said Francis in November 2013.“We must not resign ourselves to thinking of a Middle East without Christians, who for 2,000 years have confessed the name of Jesus, and have been fully integrated as citizens into the social, cultural and religious life of the nations to which they belong.”The Christian population in the Holy Land, once 10 percent, has dwindled down to less than 3 percent, and vandalism by Jewish extremists has sparked growing concern by the Vatican over the seriousness of law enforcement efforts to stop the attacks.“The problem about any claim that he’s coming for the Christians is not only why is his visit so short, but why isn’t he going to the Galilee at all, where 80% of the Christians live. Therefore it’s rather disingenuous to say you’re coming for the Christians and ignore the vast majority of them,” said Rosen.
A question of legal personality
For more than four decades after Israel’s founding, the Vatican refused to officially recognize the Jewish state. Finally, after years of hints and small gestures, the two sides sat down in 1991 to negotiate what would become the Framework Agreement.The talks covered three areas — the relationship between the Vatican and the State of Israel, Catholic-Jewish relations, and the status, or “legal personality,” of Church property and interests within Israel.The negotiations, which wrapped up in 1993, succeeded in forging an agreement on the first two issues. Talks over the third have still not culminated in a comprehensive settlement.Though Francis will not involve himself directly in the ongoing talks, the pope’s visit has the potential to provide added impetus to conclude a final agreement.Here, too, obstacles have arisen.The Church seeks a recognition of a special status, giving it certain tax and property privileges, and the recognition of canon law within the Israeli legal structure, but Israel is wary of establishing a sweeping precedent for one particular group.Instead, Israel has insisted on negotiating every item and property, despite the fact that the Vatican signed the Framework Agreement with Israel with the understanding that legal personality issue would be agreed upon and ratified quickly.“It’s never been brought to the government,” explained Rosen. “Never been ratified. As far as Israeli law is concerned, it doesn’t exist.”Though the Vatican has submitted to Israel on the itemized negotiations, it has insisted on increased usage rights on property that was historically under its control.One of those sites is the Cenacle, the site of the Last Supper on Mount Zion.Ultra-Orthodox Jews have been spreading the idea that Israel is considering giving control of the Cenacle to the Church, not just granting increased prayer access. The issue has struck a nerve, and rallies opposing the idea have drawn thousands of religious Jews to the site.Both sides reject the idea that it is considering giving up control of the site.“We are not asking for sovereignty over Mount Zion or the Tomb of David,” said Neuhaus, who also serves as the leader of Israel’s Hebrew Catholic community. “We are asking for something very small. In view of the enormous importance of the site, we are asking for access.”“There is no truth whatsoever to these rumors” about ceding control, said Akiva Tor, head of the Jewish Affairs and World Religions Bureau at the Foreign Ministry.“The room of the Last Supper will remain under Israeli ownership and possession and will be operated by Israel in any future agreement. And the negotiations with the Vatican on exactly what will be the standing of the Cenacle is part of our negotiation with them…The negotiations on the economic agreement deals with many practical issues such as taxation and municipal taxes and other items related to Church property in Israel. Among the many issues discussed there has also been discussion about appropriate arrangements for Christian prayer in the Cenaculum.”A source who asked not to be named told The Times of Israel that Israel has “basically agreed to give them usage,” but because of the recent campaign by ultra-Orthodox Jews to prevent increased Catholic control on Mount Zion, Israel has decided to wait until things quiet down after the pope’s visit.“We’re toward the end of negotiations, but signing is not imminent,” said Tor.
Visual parables
Despite the competing expectations of the pope from involved parties, and the omissions built into the schedule of his short trip, Francis still can accomplish much in his time here.He has already chalked up one achievement before even showing up. Francis’s impending arrival has brought media attention — and subsequent political action — to the recent rise in “price tag,” or hate crime, attacks against Christian sites and property.“They are paying attention now because of the visit of the pope,” said Rosen. “That now is leading to certain actions being taken by law enforcement… both monitoring with cameras, more police presence, and especially with regards to Mount Zion, reining in some more extremist elements.”Watson believes the trip will be thought of as a success if Francis “is able to speak a message of respect, love and support for Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis alike, without any of those groups trying to exploit his words or actions for partisan political purposes, which could undermine his goals in coming here.”He also expressed the hope that the pope’s visit to the Western Wall, his remembrance at Yad Vashem, and his meeting with Netanyahu, Peres, and the chief rabbis will serve as “visual parables” guiding Catholics in how they should think about Judaism.Others believe that the key, at least to Jews and Israelis, to viewing the trip as a success is the wording of Francis’s statement at Yad Vashem.“If there’s one word that Israelis really want to hear, it’s sorry,” Rosen explained. “And if at Yad Vashem he can say that the burden of Christian guilt or the role that the Christians played in paving the way or even collaborating in this most heinous of tragedies committed to Jews, should weigh heavily on the shoulders of every true Christian, that would gain him automatically his success card from Israeli society.”Perhaps the most important fact to remember about Francis, however, is that one should expect the unexpected.“He’s a man of surprises,” said Weigel, “so if something happens ‘off-schedule,’ I wouldn’t be completely surprised.”AP and JTA contributed to this report.
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) 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 (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) 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.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
Court Rejects Police 'Restraining Order' to Stop Pope Protests-Despite IDF refusal to give order distancing Jewish minor from Jerusalem, police turn to court - and were rejected.-By Yedidya Ben-Or, Ari Yashar-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 5:45 PM-IsraelNationalNews
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Thursday rejected a police request to distance an arrested Jewish minor from Jerusalem, during Pope Francis's upcoming visit next Sunday and Monday. The youth studies at a yeshiva in Jerusalem's Old City.During the court trial, the Honenu legal aid organization reports that the police representative admitted the GOC (General Officer Commanding) Homefront Command refused to give an administrative order against the youth, apparently even having seen intelligence information presented about the youth.Police on Wednesday put several "right wing activists" under house arrest through similar restraining orders. The administrative orders are a relic of the British Mandate-era legal system, allowing the detention or distancing of individuals without any charges or due process, over suspicion they may harm public order.Attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, representing the youth for Honenu, argued that the police were treating the court as a default to the IDF, and that the request showed contempt for the court.At the conclusion of the proceedings, Judge Yaron Mientkavich ruled that while there was a basis for police concerns that the youth might breach the public order during the pope's visit, the court did not have the authority to give such administrative orders. The judge told police there were ways to distance the youth, but that the request as submitted was not one of them.Mientkavich ordered the minor to be unconditionally released, without any guarantor's signature required."The police have to internalize the message of the court," stated Ben-Gvir. "In recent days we are witness to many being arrested over merely planning to protest against the pope." Ben-Gvir criticized the police, saying "the time has arrived to teach the police about freedom of expression and democracy. The Jewish people are allowed to demonstrate against the pope."Another Jewish youth was not as lucky. The youth was arrested on suspicions of having distributed fliers on Wednesday at Mount Zion (where the David's Tomb Compound is located) against the pope's visit. The court ruled that he be distanced for four days from Jerusalem's Old City.
The pope's visit - coming to take the tomb of King David?
The protest around the pope's visit, aside from reports that he is beginning the trip in Palestinian Authority (PA) controlled Bethlehem as a message "recognizing Palestine" and "opposing the occupation," revolves around control of the David's Tomb Compound.Numerous government officials - including Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Israel's Sephardic Chief Rabbi - have denied control will be transferred to the Vatican.However, Rabbi Avraham Goldstein, the Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Diaspora Yeshiva located in the Compound, revealed what he said were much more underhand plans than a straight-forward hand-over. "According to the information we have...the state will be allowing the Church to conduct Mass on the upper floor; then according to Jewish law (halakha) Jews will not be able to pray downstairs (either), since on the upper floor there will be idol worship," the rabbi said. Jewish law forbids benefiting from anything - including a structure or shelter - used for idol-worship. Catholic effigies and other rituals fall under the Jewish legal definition of idol worship, meaning that the establishment of a permanent Catholic place of prayer in the Compound would effectively prevent Jews from conducting their own services in the entire building.A Catholic official confirmed the Vatican's intentions to put those very plans into effect, telling the Salt Lake Tribune on Tuesday that the Vatican wants "to hold two hours of [Christian] prayer every day in the early morning before visitors start to visit it."
05/22/2014 -VATICAN INSIDER-Theophilus III: “Paul VI’s encounter with Athenagoras opened up Catholic-Orthodox dialogue”-The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem-With the Pope and Bartholomew’s meeting just days away, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem discusses the Catholic and Orthodox Churches’ rocky road to unity-Andrea Avveduto
jerusalem-“The meeting which took place in 1964 was key because it opened the way to dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.” Theophilus III, THE Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem who has been in charge since 2005, was not there 50 years ago to witness the historic embrace between Paul VI and Athenagoras, but today he says he can “still taste the fruits of that courageous and revolutionary gesture.”Just days before Pope Francis is due to meet Bartholomew in the Holy Sepulchre - the centre of this visit – His Beatitude discusses the tough journey the Catholic Church of Jerusalem and the Orthodox Church have been on in search of unity in the land of the Revelation.What has really changed since that meeting between Catholics and the Orthodox Church, held in the spirit of dialogue? “First of all, I think it marked the very moment when we started really talking about dialogue. We started praying for unity, we even realised we have a duty to do so, according to the Divine Liturgy. But before we put Christian Unity in administrative terms, which is always very risky, I believe we should focus our prayers on finding a unity of the spirit, the mind and the heart.”With the meeting between Pope Francis and Bartholomew just around the corner, how would you sum up these past fifty years of ecumenism? “Dialogue continues and some of the results we have achieved have been extraordinary. Over the years we have left behind all that bigotry, suspicion and misunderstanding that we had in common. In Jerusalem, for example, whenever there was a wedding between a Catholic and an Orthodox person, the bells knelled to mark the occasion. Today both celebrate the event.”In a few days time Pope Francis and Bartholomew will meet, not on the Mount of Olives as their predecessors did, but in the place of the Resurrection, the Holy Sepulchre. What will happen? “First of all I do not think we are in a position to predict how the meeting is going to go, what the outcome will be for ecumenical dialogue on a practical level or conjecture about things as we too often do. The meeting between the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew is above all the will of the Holy Spirit and so – recently - it cannot be understood fully. We may only see the fruits of it in several years to come. But there is one thing I am sure of: the meeting in that place which is so important for the whole of Christianity is placing the outcome in the hands of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will be the one to work on this and produce results in the future.”How do you manage to communicate this ecumenical outlook to your Church and to the people living in the Holy City? “It’s difficult but not impossible. In fact I’d say it’s fundamental. Dialogue is the path we need to take to deal with the difficulties this land faces. This requires sacrifice because each of us has to give up something – and we know very well what it means to give something up here in Jerusalem – but I see no other way other than following the example which these two great men of faith are going to set in a few days time.”
What are your expectations for Sunday afternoon’s meeting?
“Rather than talking about my expectations, I would like to say that my greatest joy is seeing that both of them want this meeting: we are on the right track, we are still walking together. We may still fight, for sure, but if we walk together, along the same path, united above all in the Holy Spirit, we will finally manage to review the past differently and face the future in a spirit of tranquillity. We will also be a physical presence in the Holy Land and the entire Middle East. This land needs it and first and foremost myself.”
EZEKIEL 35:9-11
9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy (ARABS) cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
10 Because thou (ARABS) hast said, These two nations (ISRAEL & JUDAH) and these two countries (ISRAEL & JUDAH) shall be mine, and we (ARABS) will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
11 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy (GELIOUSY) which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them;(ISRAELIS) and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.(ARABS)
EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:TOBOLSK)
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages;(ISRAEL) I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil,(OIL IS IN SPOIL) and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
EZEKIEL 39:1-8,11-21
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog (RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS) a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers (EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN JORDAN VALLEY) on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog (RUSSIAN) and all his multitude:(ARAB/MUSLIM HORDE) and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.(BURIEL SITE OF THE 300 MILLION,RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS)
12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.(OF ISRAEL)
13 Yea, all the people of the land (OF ISRAEL) shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I (GOD-JESUS) shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB EXPERTS) passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it,(WON'T TOUCH IT) till the buriers have buried it (PROPERLY) in the valley of Hamongog.(RUSSIA/ARAB/MUSLIMS NEW BURIEL SITE)(EAST OF THE DEAD SEA IN THE JORDAN VALLEY)
16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.(OF THE ISRAEL-GOD HATERS)
17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl,(500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS THREW ISRAEL EVERY SPRING,FALL) and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.(OF THE RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ARMIES)
18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
19 And ye (MIGRATING BIRDS IN ISRAEL) shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.(RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS)
20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
21 And I (GOD-JESUS) will set my glory among the heathen,(WORLD NATIONS) and all the heathen (WORLD NATIONS) shall see my judgment that I have executed,(AGAINST ISRAELS ENEMIES) and my (GODS) hand that I have laid upon them.(ISRAELS HATER ENEMIES)
JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37 For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)
Russia Refuses to Return Disputed Chabad Archive-Moscow court rejects US order to hand over Schneersohn Library, hits back by fining the US for withholding part of the collection.-By AFP-First Publish: 5/22/2014, 5:28 PM-IsraelNationalNews
A Moscow court on Thursday rejected a US order for Russia to hand over a disputed Jewish archive, instead imposing a fine on Washington for keeping part of the collection.The dispute over the Schneersohn Library - a collection of more than 12,000 texts and 50,000 documents venerated by Hasidic Jews - has for years damaged Russia-US cultural ties.The Moscow arbitration court rejected a US court ruling in 2013 that imposed a $50,000 (37,000 euro)-per-day fine on Russia as long as the collection was not handed over to New York's Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch community, which considers itself the legal heir to the archive.The Russian court instead imposed its own $50,000-per-day fine on the United States for keeping some of the archives at the Library of Congress.The collection was originally owned by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, a spiritual leader of Russia's Chabad-Lubavitch community in the early 20th century.The collection was split up and partially nationalised by the Soviet Union in 1918.Part of the archive was taken out of Russia and ended up in Germany, where it was seized by Soviet troops at the end of World War II.In 2013 Russia decided to transfer the collection from the state library to the new Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, where a reading room made it available to the public. The parts of the collection in the United States were loaned by Russia to New York's Chabad-Lubavitch community in 1994 but they refused to return them. The dispute has seen cultural exchange programmes frozen between the US and Russia, with touring exhibitions from such prominent museums as the Hermitage and the Tretyakov State Gallery bypassing the United States.
