start date July 20, 2011
Today's date September 16, 2011
TOPIC 4TH OF jULY
GRANDPA BLOCK ON THE 4TH OF JULY
9-2-11 - DREAM - I was in downtown Milwaukee with my husband who looked
rather like Kevin from The Young and the Restless TV show. We were walking down
the street with sheets of paper in our hands with apartment drawing layouts and
we went to the apartment building I used to manage on Jackson St.
We went into the building in the lobby. I wanted to ask the Manager if
apartment 395 was available which was on the far corner on the 3rd floor.
I knew it had been empty earlier and hooped it still would be. I wondered
how I would explain that I had seven kids. I was going to tell them that I
baby sat two of them, like five would be okay.
We walked into the lobby and the Manager was a red headed woman, whom I
recognized but can't remember where I know her from. She recognized me
too.
She went back to talk to some other people about renting an apartment, and I
went into the lobby where there was a huge sofa, and there sat Ed, resting and
reading a newspaper or something.
I can't remember what I said to him, but my husband and I then went to the
north side of town. Apparently it was either flag day or the 4th of July
because all the houses and street lights had flags on sticks and each flag had
white lilacs attached to the tops of the sticks. It was really pretty and
I was impressed how patriotic these people were in that neighborhood.
(My grandfather was born on the 4th of July, so that might be a clue)
I asked my husband what we were doing down on 8th St. where my grandfather
lived and he said, "We're going to draw down your house".
I have no idea what that means but it sounded good.
I could see my grandfather standing at the window of his house and we waved
to each other. I then climbed the steps and went into my grandfather's
house. He sat on the sofa which was in front of the large front windows.
There was a worn quilt on the sofa and I was amazed at how clean my
grandfather's house was because he was living alone there, my grandmother
evidently had died. (I think they died in reverse order in reality)
My grandfather commented on my husband that he seemed like a nice guy
compared that ''boyfriend' I had. I had to agree that he was.
EOD
Color
Symbolism
Two colors of the lilac are especially
meaningful. The white lilac represents youthful innocence and purity. Purple
lilacs often symbolize first love, while in some contexts purple lilacs can
suggest protection
DRAWING DOWN THE HOUSE means 'Becoming
VERY POPULAR.
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23.8.11
ANGEL NUMBER 395
Number 395 is a blend of the vibrations and influences of
the numbers 3, 9 and 5.
Number 3 brings its energies of encouragement,
communication,
manifesting prosperity, growth, enthusiasm and joy.
Number 3 also resonates with the vibrations of the Ascended
Masters.
Number 9 adds its attributes of
Universal Spiritual Laws,
lightworking, leading by example, duty and calling
and
Divine
wisdom.
Number 5 lends its attributes of major life changes,
freedom, versatility and variety, courage, motivation and
opportunities.
Angel Number 395 is a message from the
angels, Ascended Masters and Archangels that the
work and effort you have put towards achieving your goals
will have long-term benefits as it manifested auspicious new
opportunities for you to take full advantage of. These
important life
choices and changes will see an influx of abundance
in your life that will ensure that your needs are met as you
continue on your
Divine life purpose.
The repeating Angel Number 395 is a message to continue
listening to your intuition and the
guidance from the angels as you are being left
through important life changes that will certainly align you
with the next step along your spiritual dual-purpose Trust the impressions and messages
you receive and follow accordingly.
******
NOTE FROM DEE: I have to be honest and tell you that I really didn't
know what to do with this dream, but I knew it was important at the time.
However, since then, I've been hearing strange things about the 4th of July that
I had no idea were important.
this came to light a couple days ago - on the 14th of September when I
listened to an interview with a man named FREEMAN by Mel Fabrigas on VERITAS
Radio Show. Here is the link to the interview:
Towards the end of the 1st hour of the interview, Freeman mentioned the 4rh
of July and said that he said that he was predicting the beginning of WW III
because someone had visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Irwell.
I had to listen to the interview second time to make sure what I was
hearing.
Subsequently, I went on google.com to look up the connections of the
4th of July with the Temple Mount.
After that I found out that Obama's daughter was born on the 4th of July in
1998, and that on that day it was exactly 222 years to the day of the signing of
the Declaration of Independence. (That number is very important as
well, and so is the year 1998.
<< But to answer our initial question, what makes the Winter Solstice of
2012 so special?
Well, on December 21st 2012 a very rare alignment will occur in the
Earth’s precession cycle of 25.920 years. Although the exact date is
hard to determine, somewhere around the ending of the Maya calendar, the
Earth, the Winter Solstice Sun and the galactic equator will align. As
the alignment occurs the Sun will enter the Dark Rift of the Milky Way
near the center of our galaxy. So this alignment is very rare in the
precession cycle. Since it occurs at the winter solstice of 2012 (21st
December 2012), it is also called the Winter Solstice Galactic
Alignment.
As mentioned above, the exact date of this alignment is very hard to
calculate but astronomers now believe that this alignment occurred in
1998. However since the Sun is half a degree wide, it takes at least 36
years for the Sun to completely precess through the galactic equator.
The Sun entered the galactic equator during the Winter Solstice of
1980 and will have completely cleared the galactic equator on the Winter
Solstice of
2016. The years between 1980 and 2016 is called the Galactic Alignment
zone or era-2012. In Chapter One we mentioned that Edgar Cayce predicted
that the time of the changes on Earth would take place between 1958 and
1998 whereas 1998 is the culmination point of this alignment. >>
<< A remarkable event took place in the sky over Norway on December 9,
2009. Witness reported an image appearing in the sky that developed into
a huge spiral. >> [skip]
<< Various theories were soon flying around the Internet. It may have
been a errant Russian missile or made by the HARP facility in Norway.
Some thought extraterrestrials were responsible. There was speculation
that it was related to President Obama's speech in Norway, where he
accepted the Nobel Peace Prize the day following the sky spiral event.
>>
<< Seventh Century Shite Prediction About President Obama
I noted above that there was speculation that the Norway Spiral was
related to President Obama's speech in Norway, where he accepted the
Nobel Peace Prize the day following the incredible event. I recalled
that there was a prediction long ago, that is thought by some to be
about our President --
"Ali ibn Abi-Talib, the seventh-century figure central to Shiite Islam,
is said to have predicted when the world will end, columnist Amir Taheri
points out. A "tall black man" commanding "the strongest army on earth"
will take power "in the west." He will carry "a clear sign" from the
third imam, Hussein. Ali says of the tall black man: "Shiites should
have no doubt that he is with us."
Barack Hussein in Arabic means "the blessing of Hussein." In Persian,
Obama translates as "He [is] with us." Thus does the name of the
presumptive American president-elect, when combined with his physical
attributes and geography, suggest that the End of Times is nigh –
precisely what Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been
predicting." >>
I have been searching for the TRUTH of How and Who
really runs the world for many years. It wasn't until I
saw the last episode of The Edge TV interviewing this
bloke called Freeman until all the pieces of the puzzle
finally came together.
He Predicted the 911 Terrorist Attack and the last
Market Crash October 13th to the day.
His latest Prediction is that the Vatican will take
control over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the 4th
July 2010 or 2011 which will start WWIII.
His Prediction starts @ 3.10 mins into Part 8 of a 10
part interview.
The PALASTINIANS In Ramallah told the US it is willing to give
the Old City of Jerusalem to a proposed joint committee to administer the
Temple Mount.
The Pope is longing to set up his throne on the
Temple Mount, and gains support from Islam. These wicked men are in
agreement.
Wikileaks have done it again. Displayed double standards, and the true
motives of the “peace makers” in the Middle East.
The battle is not for justice and democracy. The battle is for the
control of Mount Zion, the very site of the two Jewish temples in
Jerusalem. The man who soon will sit there will be worshiped as God, the
Father Jesus addressed as the “Holy Father“. But the man on the
Temple Mount, will be a fake, and a very powerful deceiver. Millions
will worship this man of lawlessness.
This is what the Israeli Daily Haaretz write on the latest catch of
“secret documents”.
The documents also reveal that the Palestinian negotiators, in an
effort to move forward on the hyper-sensitive issue of the holy
sites
in the Old City of Jerusalem, proposed a joint committee to
administer the Temple Mount.
The offers were made in 2008, in the wake of the Annapolis
conference, and were privately hailed by chief Palestinian
negotiator Saeb Erekat as giving Israel “the biggest
Yerushalayim [the Hebrew name for Jerusalem] in history.”
To get the full picture, please also read these two links:
2. The Special regime prompted by Old City of Jerusalem
Initiative.
The PA In Ramallah is on the pay role of the US and the Papacy.
They are not interested in grabbing land in East Jerusalem, for any
other purpose than bringing the head of the One World religion back
to his former throne in East Jerusalem. The Bishop of Rome ruled in
Jerusalem from 1090 A.D to 1291. A.D.
Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to concede almost all
Jewish areas of East Jerusalem to Israel, the Guardian newspaper and
Al-Jazeera TV reported on Saturday.
As many as 1,600 Palestinian documents on peace talks with
Israel, obtained by Al Jazeera TV and given to the Guardian,
covering more than a decade of exchanges, provide a unique look into
the breakdown of the peace process.
The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the
conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed
to accept Israel’s annexation of all but one of the neighborhoods,
Har Homa, built in East Jerusalem.
Dozens of people embarked on a procession at the end of the
Friday prayer at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, waving Hamas flags.
Hamas normally parade their flag in Gaza. Their last parade was in
Jerusalem, on top of the Temple Mount.
Meanwhile, dozens of youths marched in the east Jerusalem
neighborhood of Silwan.
The security forces are preparing for a possible riot. Two
firefighting teams are putting out a Molotov cocktail thrown at a
guarding post in Silwan. There have been no reports of injuries. (Yair
Altman)
The Israeli High Court Blocks Shurat HaDin’s Prosecution of
Islamic Waqf.
Jews are allowed on the Temple Mount. But if they pray, they will be
arrested.
The Israeli Government is very determined in its strange protection
of Islamic totalitarian rule on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Jews are denied even the right to pray at this, the most Holy site in
Judaism.
This is what the trust “Shurat HaDin” wrote in their website 4th of
November:
Israel’s High Court of Justice has handed down a decision which
blocks a first-of-its-kind private prosecution brought by Shurat HaDin
against the Islamic Waqf (“Trust”) in Jerusalem.
The Waqf is the radical anti-Israel authority which the government
allows to oversee Muslim holy places including the mosques on
Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
Following months of reports that the Waqf was utilizing bulldozers on
the Temple Mount to carry out unauthorized construction that was
obliterating ancient Jewish artifacts and the refusal of the Israeli
police to act to safeguard these relics, we decided to go to Court
against the Muslims.
On October 11, 2007, we filed a private criminal action against the
Islamic Waqf on behalf of more than 150 Israeli citizens, indicting the
Waqf members for the illegal bulldozing and destruction of Jewish
artifacts. Many of these relics being destroyed date back to the First
Temple Period!
We accused the Islamic Waqf of seeking to eradicate all evidence of
Israel’s ancient connection to this holy site and trying to rewrite
Jerusalem’s history.
We argued that it is nothing less than a religious, cultural and
archaeological crime against the entire world Jewish community. We were
seeking to imprison the Waqf’s leaders.
We turned to the High Court (BAGATZ) after the Attorney General (AG)
moved in May 2008, to have our indictment dismissed.
At that time we were notified by the AG, that his office was
attempting to halt our private prosecution on the grounds that an issue
with such broad public implications and interest cannot be prosecuted by
private citizens.
In essence, the AG refused, out of fear of the international
response, to prosecute these Islamic extremists and he moved to obstruct
Shurat HaDin from undertaking the litigation ourselves.
In response, Shurat HaDin argued that the AG’s motives in this case
were not of a pure legal nature and, thus, his office should step aside
completely and not involve itself in the proceedings. We demanded that
the AG be compelled by the High Court to either prosecute the case
himself or allow us to continue with our legal action independently as
provided for by the law.
At the oral arguments before the High Court in February 2009, we
argued that the AG has a political agenda and was voicing his political
considerations, rather than purely legal ones as he was mandated to do.
We insisted that the AG is simply too afraid of the Arab states, the
European Union, the UN and US State Department to legally defend
Jerusalem. Just to note the absurdity of the BAGATZ deliberations, at
one point one of the justices urged that we withdraw the petition
because status of “the Temple Mount is very emotionally charged.”
We replied we know, and that is why we brought the indictment and the
petition in the first place – it is Judaism’s holiest site. This week
the BAGATZ rejected our petition and gave the Islamic Waqf a free pass
to continue its destruction of Israel’s sacred heritage sites.
The justices held that our efforts to safeguard the ancient First
Temple artifacts on behalf of world Jewry could not be done by means of
a private prosecution. Alternatively, it refused to order the AG to take
action against the Waqf.
It is absurd that while the Israeli government is mounting an
international campaign against UNESCO to protest its labeling Rachel’s
Tomb and the Cave of the Macpelah in Hebron as Muslim mosques and
denying their Jewish origins, it obstructs Shurat HaDin from acting to
safeguard the status of the Jewish people’s holiest site.
To claim that the state of Israel upholds religious freedom in
Jerusalem, is only partly true. It is correct for Muslim, and it is
correct in regards to Christians.
But the Government of Israel do discriminate against its own Jewish
brethren. That is a huge paradox. While the Muslims cries foul without
reason, Jews who believe in God of Israel is forced to accept that their
holiest site is under Islamic occupation.
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The closing years
of the millennium have seen the intensifying of "The Battle for Jerusalem",
which has now revealed itself as the culminating flashpoint in the Middle East
Crisis. The Final Countdown to Armageddon has begun!
For decades, the
Arab-Israel conflict was a potential fuse to the igniting of an international
military confrontation - dreaded of nuclear magnitude. The historic signing of
the Oslo Peace Treaty on 15 Sept. 1993, suddenly turned the spotlight onto the
back stage of the world drama, as Jerusalem, in glittering array, stepped
challengingly through the darkened crimson curtains of history, onto the centre
of the stage - revealing itself as the pivotal, contentious issue in the
millennia-old struggle for control of it's soul.
As early as 1967,
after Israeli troops occupied Jerusalem, bringing Jews back for praying at the
foundations of their ancient, Roman destroyed Temple for the first time in 2000
years, Jerusalem was already important enough to warrant several United Nations
Resolutions to restrict Jewish claims on Jerusalem, their ancient Capital.
Gradually it is
becoming clear, that not Arab interests, not Palestinian oppression, not Jewish
occupation, not territory, nor Peace, is really the issue - but, control of
Jerusalem, now emerges as the flashpoint to, what Ancient Prophecies, as long as
3000 years ago, predicted would be the Cause for a Final World War of
catastrophic magnitude - marking "The End of the World".
Suddenly the Jewish
3000-year old claim to it's ancient Capital - the central theme of Jewish prayer
throughout its 2000-year exile from the Land - is vehemently opposed by the
Palestinians who have never yet had a capital city. And behind the scenes, the
Pope is making urgent overtures for internationalisation of Jerusalem under his
control as Peacemaker. In concert, the whole world has turned against Israel and
its Divinely mandated right to Jerusalem.
Why is control of
Jerusalem so important to these opposing interests?
Recent developments
in the Middle East Crisis, have been drawing the spotlight onto the real nucleus
of this explosive subject, which until now has been totally overlooked by the
news media, namely the real 'inner soul' of Jerusalem - the Sacred Temple Mount.
Here currently stands an internationally well known landmark - the golden domed
Muslim Bayt al Maqdas, known as the Dome of the Rock - and next to it, the
silver domed Al Aqsa Mosque (Masjid e Aqsa).
This, to Muslims,
is the third holiest site in the world. For Jews, it is the exact Site where
anciently two successive Jewish Temples stood, over a period of some 1000 years
preceding the Common Era - First, the Temple of Solomon, a masterpiece of
ancient architecture until its destruction at the time of the Babilonian Exile,
six centuries BCE. Second, the Temple of Herod, where Jesus, the contending
Jewish Messiah, attended Jewish worship Services. It also is the Site where,
according to the Bible, the future Third Temple of the Jews are to be erected
and where God will appear in Great Power at the time of the War of Armageddon.
And that is what
makes this Temple Mount Site, which is pivotal to the opposing interests of the
world's three major religions, the real flash point in "The Battle for
Jerusalem.
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Latest News from
Israel . . . .
February 7,
2007
Islamic Arabs now calling for another Intifada.
Confrontation at the Mughrabi
Gate excavations
- by Jerry Golden, Jerusalem
Once again
we are seeing the interference of Iran
and
Syria using any and everything they
can to promote more Arab kids being wrapped with bombs and sent into Jewish
public places to kill as many Israelis as they possibly can. You might remember
the rash of killings because of the excavation near the Western Wall known now
as the Western Wall tunnel, but originally it was known as the Hasmonean Water Tunnel, but actually it
dates back to the first TemplePeriod. What happened then is the Arabs
who like to call themselves “Palestinians” used the opening of the northern end
as a reason to kill more Jews. Before that tunnel was opened, tourists had to go
in one group at a time and the next group would have to wait until they came
back out the same entrance. All we did was open the far end (northern) so groups
could be moved through the tunnel more easily. But if you listened to the News
on CNN, BBC and others you’d think Israel
was doing some terrible thing to these poor Islamic Arabs.
We
are seeing the same thing happen again, but this time I want to show you a
couple of pictures and explain what is being done so when you hear this on the
news you will know the truth and possible be able to tell otters.
For those of you who have been to the TempleMount while visiting
Israel - you will remember going
through a gate near the Western Wall. In Arabic it is called the Mughrabi Gate
and you will be hearing that name in the news for a while.
You will notice in this picture that there is a temporary ramp that was built.
The first reason was, that the old earth ramp was the only thing left after the
excavation on both sides of the Western Wall many years ago in order to expose
more of the Western Wall. This mount was left as a ramp to give entrance to the
Mughrabi Gate. You will also notice that it has absolutely nothing to do with
the Al-Aksa Mosque that you will be hearing so much about. You will also notice
that the new ramp has a roof over the walk way, the reason for that roof was to
protect tourists from getting hit in the head by Arab rock throwers. What caused
the building of the wooden ramp, was the earth quake a couple of years ago that
caused much of that ramp to collapse.
Explanation:
Looking East - The Wailing Wall Prayer square. with the 2 ramps on its right,
leading to the Temple Square.
The
temporary roofed Ramp in the right hand foreground (blue tinted)
To the right
of it, the old silver domed ramp on a mound of earth which covers the ancient
ravine which also passes under the prayer square.
The Al Aqsa
Mosque is between the clumps of trees on the Temple Square.
The Dome of
the Rock, Muslim Temple on the Site of the ancient Jewish Temples is directly
outside the left side of the photo, on the Temple Square, to the left of the Al
Aksa Mosque.
Refer to the
photo at the top of this Page - which is taken from the opposite (Eastern side),
looking West.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque is at least 150 yards from the
retaining wall of the TempleMount (visible on the photos behind the Mughrabi
Gate at the top of the Ramps) and could in no way be
affected by building a better and more permanent ramp for Tourists to enter the
TempleMount. Once again we are
seeing the Islamic Arabs using any and every possible event to kill Jews and we
can be sure to see the Liberal Media assist them in every way possible.
T
he
2nd photo gives
a closer look
- where you can see the entrance to the Gate and the old mount of earth that
must be removed. But removed in the Holy Land
means excavated.
One thing the Moslems are frightened of is
that Israel
will find much more Jewish History as this mount goes right over one of the main
Roman roads (in the ravine) that ran near the Wall. Already we are
finding many items in the KidronValley where they (the bArabs - refer
below) have dumped the earth removed from Solomon’s Stables.
(Refer to the latest report about the
excavations now stopped, while they are investigating new archeological finds
due to the repair work to the Ramp)So now when you hear
the news, you will better understand it. As usual, these people, who love to
kill Jews and even each other, are simply trying to set the world stage to
excuse another round of Islamic killings.
As the controversy swirls around the construction of the new bridge leading to
the Temple Mount at the Mughrabi Gate, archeologists have already uncovered
finds from the medieval period and early Islamic era that shed new light on
Jerusalem's history.
"We have dug three meters down and discovered massive walls which we believe are
from the early Islamic Umayyad period," Jerusalem's chief archeologist Yuval
Baruch said. "Because of its proximity to the Wohl Archeological Park, I
personally hope to find the rest of the Umayyad palaces."
The archeological park currently has the only uncovered ruins of the Umayyad
palaces which were destroyed in 749 CE by an earthquake. They were built in the
eighth century as the seat for the Caliphate when visiting Jerusalem. The
uncovered complex includes a harem for the caliph's wives, bathhouses, a
kitchen, a dining area, and quarters for the caliph's family and servants. The
palace also featured a bridge that allowed the caliphs direct access to the Aksa
Mosque
Among the findings at the site currently being excavated for the rebuilding of
the bridge to the Mughrabi Gate, the archeologists have found pipes belonging to
a medieval water system, but for Baruch, "the most interesting find is that we
have found the evidence which suggests that right under the Umayyad ruins are
Byzantine ruins [135-638], and under these, we believe there are Herodian
roads and other ruins from the Second Temple period." (Ed. These are thee
facts that the Palestinians try to smother).
"The main excavations of the Umayyad and Byzantine ruins at the Mugrabi area
will begin in a couple of days, and if we are patient enough, in five or six
months time we could find Second Temple period ruins" to add to what has already
been discovered in the adjacent archeological park, Baruch added. (Refer
'Digs, Lies and the Mugrabi Bridge - next article hereafter).
"We have uncovered pieces of Jerusalem's history," Baruch said, "but we are
unsatisfied with the amount of archeological results in Jerusalem. We need to
continue with our work so we can find out more of the history of these buildings
which gives us more information."
Baruch also expressed concern that if the excavations stopped, the new ruins
would be damaged if they are not immediately and properly salvaged.
The findings at the excavation site could pose a problem for the initial project
to reinforce the Mugrabi bridge. The original plan would have seen pillars
placed under the bridge for support. Now, due to the findings, Baruch
acknowledged that some re\planning might be necessary.
February 17, 2007
Digs, lies and the Mugrabi Bridge
By Nadav Shragai
HaAretz Daily Newspapers, Jerusalem
The Mugrabi bridge plan exposes the great Muslim denial - the denial of. the
Jewish bond to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Temple.
Who among us knows, for example, that the al-Aqsa Mosque, which according to
contemporary studies was built some 1,400 years ago, is now claimed to have been
built at the time of the world's creation, during the days of Adam or Abraham?
And who is aware of the fact that increasing numbers of Muslim academics and
religious leaders claim it existed even before Jesus and Moses and that Islam
preceded Judaism in Jerusalem?
Today, thousands of Islamic rulings, publications and sources deny the Jewish
roots in Jerusalem and its holy places. They claim that the Temple didn't even
exist in Jerusalem but was located in Nab1us or Yemen. An Islamic legal
pronouncement (fatwa) on tbe Jerusalem Waqf (Muslim religious trust) Web site
says King Solomon and King Herod did not build the Temple at all, but merely
refurbished an existing structure that had been there from the days of Adam.
Today, many Muslims call the Temple "the greatest fraud crime in history" and
many Muslim adjudicators attach the world "so¬called" to the word "temple."
Muslim religious figures attempt to portray the Jewish presence in Jerusalem as
having been short-term. The Western Wall is a Muslim site, they argue, and say
Jewish affinity for it was invented for political purposes and dates only to the
19th and 20th centuries. Their aim is to disprove the centrality of Jerusalem to
Judaism. Above all they stress the "precedence and supremacy of Islam-over
Judaism, which contaminates the city's Muslim character."
Muslim religious leaders, with at least partial academic backing, are today
rewriting Jerusalem's history and introducing new terms and content into Muslim
and Palestinian discourse. These terms are total nonsense, even according to
known Muslim historians like al Makdessi' (who lived in the 11th century).
It is therefore easy to understand why the Muslims are so afraid of
archaeological digs, not only on the Temple Mount itself but also around it,
although these digs also shed light on Jerusalem's Muslim history. Muslims fear
these excavations, not because they physically endanger al-Aqsa's foundations,
but because they undermine the tissue of lies proclaiming that the Jews have no
valid historical roots in the city and its holy sites.
Sept. 26, 2004
'
Temple Mount Wall
in
serious danger
of collapse'
The bulge, hidden by
scaffoldings
S
enior
Israeli Defense Officials report that Israel is very concerned that the area on
the Temple Mount known as "Solomon's Stables" could collapse and bury thousands
of Moslem worshipers expected to arrive at the Mount during the month of Ramadan
(mid-Oct. 2004 onwards).
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has already
instructed officials to take every measure in order to prevent such a disaster
which the army says is virtually certain if the expected 100,000 worshipers come
to Jerusalem.
In three weeks, scores of worshipers are to
arrive at the Temple Mount, with many opting for the area of "Solomon's
Stables", an underground space on the east side of the Mount. Eight years ago,
the Moslem Waqf turned the area into a mosque and concentrated the worshipers on
two main plateaus, on the ground level and on the roof. The unsupervised digging
carried out under the site, together with a heavy set of tiles constructed on
its upper plateau, the effect of recent regional earthquakes and the 'wear and
tear', have turned the area into a very dangerous spot as the levels and walls
shifted, creating cracks in the supporting pillars.
Unnamed senior officials have met privately
with King Abdullah of Jordan to inform him of the seriousness of the danger and
ask for his assistance in dissuading people from coming to the Mount. The Arab
reaction was predictable. Spokesmen are claiming that this is just a ploy by
Israel to keep Muslims from praying. However, given the collapse of two walls of
the Temple Mount area in the past year and the bulge in the Southern Wall, the
Arab protest is hardly valid.
This fear
has been constantly raised
by Israeli authorities over the last two years but it the controlling Waqf (Arab
body) showed no concern and offered no co-operation. Last year, the Temple Mount
and Land of Israel Faithful Movement sent an open letter to Ariel Sharon. In
which the chairman of the Movement, Gershon Salomon, stated that the reason for
the bulge and the “danger” of the wall collapsing is the Hand of the G–d of
Israel. Gershon wrote in the letter that the bulge and probable collapse is no
accident but the commencement of a godly move for the collapse of all the
strange, pagan Arab presence on the Temple Mount which is the most holy site of
the Temple. This is a fulfilment of the prophecies of the prophets of Israel for
the redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world. Gershon called on
the Israeli authorities and the archaeologists not to interfere in G–d’s
activities and to prevent any activity to repair the wall. The G–d of Israel is
moving the end-time history of Israel and all the world towards the purification
of His holy hill from the foreigners and their desecration and towards the
rebuilding of the Temple. This is also the start of G–d’s judgement on these
foreign enemies on the Temple Mount who have desecrated, vandalised and
destroyed the remains of the First and Second Temples,
built new mosques on the holy site of G–d and still continue their activities to
convert the Temple Mount into an Islamic site by eliminating the remains of the
Jewish Temples. They dared to lift their hands against the G–d of Israel and the
people of Israel. They were deluded into thinking that they could deny and
ignore the existence of the Temple on the Temple
Mount and in this way prevent the godly historical end-time step of the
redemption of the Temple Mount, Israel and all the world.
The G–d
of Israel showed them that no one can raise their hands and fight against Him.
So many enemies of Israel who have occupied the Temple Mount and Jerusalem since
the destruction of the Second Temple in 70CE have completely disappeared from
the stage of history like dust in the wind under the judgement of G–d. This and
even worse will be the fate of the current enemies of the G–d and people of
Israel on the Temple Mount and all over the land of Israel.
"It
looks like a scenario that could ignite the entire region: Part of the
Temple Mount collapses, hundreds of worshippers are
killed, thousands more stream to the holy place in
fury," the Maariv newspaper said Wednesday.
January 21, 2002
Opposition against
letting Jews on Temple Mount
By Nina Gilbert and
Tovah Lazaroff
JERUSALEM - Reports
that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to allow Jews on the Temple Mount for the
first time since October 2000 on the advice of the Shin Bet, aroused widespread
consternation among Israeli and Palestinian politicians, who warn the move would
further escalate the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
"Sharon is liable to
drown us all in a deluge of terror," said Meretz leader Yossi Sarid.
"It will cause a blood
bath", warned MK Abdel Malik Dehamshe (United Arab List), head of the Islamic
Movement.
"We all know what
happened when Sharon (then the opposition leader) visited there," Dehamshe said.
Sharon's visit in late September was followed by a series of riots that led to
the breakdown of the seven-year Oslo peace process.
But Jerusalem Mayor
Ehud Olmert said he supports returning Jews to the Temple Mount. He said he
isn't familiar with any recent decision by the security services to allow such a
move, but said that he knows they support it.
"It's time that Jews
will be given the same privilege as Muslims to visit the most sacred and
important place in Jewish history," Olmert said. "It can be orchestrated in a
peaceful way. We are not interested in antagonizing anyone. Arab MKs who claim
entry of Jews onto the Temple Mount will cause violence do so as "provocateurs"
of the Palestinian Authority and in "complete disloyalty to Israel,"
But speaking in a radio
interview on the Voice of Palestine, Sheikh Ikrema Sabri, the mufti of
Jerusalem, said the presence of Jews on the Temple Mount would certainly
escalate violence at this time. Such violence would be Israel's fault, Sabri
said.
MK Ran Cohen (Meretz)
said everyone has a right to visit the Temple Mount. However, he said that since
the government gave control of the mount to the wakf (Islamic trusteeship),
visitation there should be coordinated with it and not "imposed in a manner that
will cause conflagration and bloodshed."
The "Voice of Judea"
pointed out that Jews were expected to endure discrimination in their own land,
so as not to upset the Arabs. "If Israel truly wants to make the Arabs happy,
then they need to take an immediate, collective jump into the sea, " the Judean
Voice commented. "The new decision which would return the status of the Mount to
the "second class Jew status" before the last intifada began, should not fool
anyone. Jews will still be permitted to ascend the mount, only as individuals
and they will be prohibitted from praying."
BIBLE REVELATIONS COMMENT - What we have here,
and seemingly unnoticed, is that the Jews are gradually loosing more and more of
their restricted rights and movement in the City which the Bible awarded them as
their Inheritance. Now the Arabs, supported by the noisy Israeli left, is even
opposing the limited rights that the Jews enjoyed up to Oct. 2000, the start of
Arafat's War to procure Jerusalem for the Palestinians who has never had a
capitol in history before! The restoration of these limited rights will then be
enough reason to arouse the Palestinians in their 'legitimate struggle', to
further 'justified' murders of the 'occupying Israeli Zionists' .
17 July 2001
A Flare of
Sudden Renewed Jewish Interest in the Temple Mount
As the Jewish commemoration of
Tisha B'Av approaches, this year (29 July 2001), sudden flares of interest are
shooting up all over.
For the last 2 years, reports of
flagrant desecration of the Temple Mount by the Palestinians, have been shunned
by the Israeli government and authorities (ref. reports elsewhere on this Page).
On 17 July 2001 the Knesset's
Education and Culture Committee heard and examined evidence by the commander of
police in Jerusalem's Old City about a large electric saw which is hacking away
at stones every day on the Temple Mount. Photographs of the four-meter wide, one
meter high power tool, with sawed-off stones lying next to it, were shown to the
committee. Also submitted were photographs taken from a helicopter rented by
members of the Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities,
showing a bulldozer on the Mount on July 4th. At one point in the meeting, the
Department of Antiquities director walked out in protest against the submission
of evidence.
19 July 2001 - The Rabbinical
Council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza called on all rabbis to bring their
communities to visit the Temple Mount - "in accordance with halacha (religious
law)" - and it urged the Israel public to do the same.
This is the first time a group of
rabbis representing a substantial segment of the religious Zionist public, has
ruled it is permissible for Jews to ascend the Temple Mount, as long as certain
areas are avoided. Most leading Torah sages have ruled that Jews are not allowed
on the mount at all, lest they accidentally tread on the sites to which they
would have been forbidden entry when the Temple was standing.
The Rabbis, who met in Jerusalem,
plan to ask the Yesha Council of Jewish settlements to organize mass trips to
the mount from the settlements.
They concluded their meeting by
"calling on all the rabbis of Israel to put their shoulders into saving the
honor of the Temple Mount, which is closed to Jews [since the outbreak of the
Intifada in Oct 2000], and to participate in demonstrations and marches that
will take place on Tisha b'Av. Rabbis who disagree with the council's new
ruling, were urged to show respect for it nevertheless, arguing that Jewish
apathy toward the Temple Mount is one cause of the difficulties Israel is
currently experiencing.
Rabbi Yitzhak Shilat added that
since religious law does permit Jews to visit certain areas of the mount, "our
right, obligation and ability to pray on the mount is many times greater than
that of the Muslims, and we need to say this openly."
This is a surprising change in
Rabbinic attitude towards the holiest Site in Judaism. An essay by Rabbi Levi
Zipperstein which was circulated on the Internet at this time also, pointed out
that "the vast majority of Rabbis of this generation, have prohibited the Jewish
people from entering the Temple Mount." His discourse examined the rights and
obligations of Jews to visit the Mount within certain parameters.
"The impression that world Jewry
now maintains concerning the issue of entering and maintaining control over the
Temple Mount, is a false one", he writes. In support of this statement, he
quotes various Rabbinic leaders of the past on the rights and obligations of
Jews to enter there. "Perhaps the most important aspect of the Temple Mount
issue, deals with the concept of 'conquest'. that is to say, gaining and
maintaining control over the Temple Mount", he concludes. He emphasises the
Torah directives to conquer and settle the Land, removing foreign ownership
especially of the Temple Mount.
"After 2000 years of prayers,
asking that G-d return us to Zion and speedily rebuild the Temple, what excuse
could there be for preferring the Wall of Tears over the House of G-d?"
"Remaining in a state of atrophy,
will not only allow the status quo to continue, it will cause needless and
unimaginable suffering to the Jewish people. Just as we witnessed the
destruction of six million Jews because of inaction concerning the return to
Zion, so will we endure terrible tragedy should we opt for the same inaction
concerning the Temple Mount", he concludes. "If the Mount is redeemed, and the
Temple replaces the desecrations that now stand in its place, then the Jewish
obligation to the G-d of Israel is attained."
On July 19th 2001, the “Temple
Mount Preservation Act of 2001" was introduced at a press conference in
Washington D.C. in the USA.
The bill calls for the cutoff of
all funding to the Palestinian Authority because of their desecration of the
Temple Mount and sends a clear message to Yasir Arafat that it will no longer be
tolerated. The bill specifically asks that all assistance [US dollars] provided
to the Palestinian Authority, or its instrumentalities be halted unless the
President certifies that no excavation of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is under
way.
Enclosed within the bill is a
detailed description of illegal activities by the Palestinian Authority after
their subversion of the WAQF (Islamic Religious Trust), the Islamic group
responsible for the daily oversight of the Mount. Additionally, the bill details
illegal construction and destruction of theTemple Mount It also expresses its
concern over Yasir Arafat’s and the Palestinian Authority’s actions as an
attempt to destroy all historical evidence of Jewish presence on Temple Mount
thereby discrediting Israel’s claim to sovereignty over the Mount.
It is the conviction of the
publishers of BIBLE REVELATIONS, that when the Jews return to the Temple Mount
and insist on their God-given Rights to the Land, thereby reinstating its
Sacredness to the God of Israel, the Blessings on Israel will return, the
current devastating drought will be broken, the hold of the Palestinian usurpers
will be smashed and security and freedom within the Borders of the Promised
Land, will return to its Jewish inhabitants - the Divinely mandated heirs
thereto.
After the conclusion of the Arab leaders' Summit in Cairo on the last Festive
Day of the Jewish Feasts of the 7th month (21 Oct. 2000), Arafat vowed to
continue the Intifada against Israel with the "Palestinian March to Jerusalem" -
and if Barak did not like this, "He can go to hell!".
The War of Attrition that ignited at the start of the Jewish Festive Season
between Israel and the Palestinians, this time reached the outskirts of Israeli
cities. By the end of the Festive season, it reached Gilo, a suburb of
Jerusalem, a few kilometers from the Holy Mount.
Truly, the Battle for Jerusalem has now taken war-format. Whether neighboring
Arab countries will come to the assistance of the Palestinians, will determine
the further development of this Battle for Jerusalem - into Armageddon? It could
take yet some time for the forces of 'Gog and Magog' to consolidate for the
Final onslaught on Jerusalem
17 October 2000
Can a Jewish
leader's Visit to the Holy Mount
start the War of Armageddon?
YES! Absurd as it
may seem to those who are well versed in the Scriptures.
On Thur. 28 September 2000, two days before the Jewish New Year which
inaugurated a series of Sacred Biblical Feasts of the 7th month of the Sacred
Calendar (Feasts which all prefigure the Time of the Final Judgment), Israel's
Minister Ariel Sharon and a group of Jewish 'rightist' government officials
visited the Site of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This antagonised not only the
Palestinians, who's Sacred 'Dome of the Rock' stands on the same Site where, in
Biblical Times, two successive Jewish Temples stood, but also several western
nations and the Left Wing in Israel, which controls the Media and Television in
Israel.
This visit, sparked the current escalating disturbances in Israel which, for the
first time, involved all of Israel and not only the 'hot spots' in Gaza and
Hebron. Main roads were cut off by the Israeli Army and Arab cities sealed off
in order to prevent the further spreading of unrest to Israeli areas and for the
protection of road users who were stoned and shot at by Palestinian rioters.
When Israel brought in helicopters, the Western media spewed out accusations
against Israel for its overpowering might against the stone throwing
Palestinians. TV commentators seemed ignorant of
the fact that stoning was the ancient method of execution, and ignored the fact
that Palestinians (yes, even police officers), were using guns (originally
issued to them by Israel as part of the 'Peace Agreement') against Israeli
civilian road users. Two Israeli civilians were mowed off by gun swinging
Palestinians while shopping, another while changing a tyre on his car along side
the road, a Rabbi for daring to take a short cut through a Palestinian area. In
the estimation of the media, swung by the loud outcries and threats of the
Palestinian authorities and commentators, only the Israelis were guilty, and
this was stated loud and clear around the world. How could 12-year old
Palestinian children be shot? - and they had powerful video evidence.
Not one of the Israeli commentators who were aggressively posed the same
question over and over by international TV commentators, drew the viewers
attention to the long footage TV News evidence of stone throwing children in the
Palestinian rioting crowds, Palestinian authorities are well aware of the
propaganda power inherent in such incidents involving children, to gain
international support. According to Israeli sources, these authorities
financially reimburse families in case of injury or death of 'children in
action'.
Not one of the agrressively accusing TV commentators, using snide remarks in
judgment of Israel's and Sharon's actions, seemed to be acquainted with the
overwhelming Biblical evidence of the role which this very same Temple Mount
played in Jewish history, going back 3 000 years. They all side with the
Palestinians and their totally unfounded propaganda, claiming that Jews have no
rights to the Sacred Mount, neither any historic links to it. This is tantamount
to a total rejection of the Bible which contains Oath upon Oath of the Divine
Intention of Israeli and Jewish Guardianship of this Sacred Mount! Western Media
has labeled Sharon's visit to this Jewish center of 'Guardianship' as 'extreme
provocative action!'
Yes, Jewish leaders 'dared to visit' their own historic religious sites, over
which they have sovereignty at this time! This was enough reason for the
Palestinians to turn Israel into chaos - for according to their claims
(unfounded in the Bible), Jerusalem's Temple Mount and Holy Sites belong to
them. At least, Sharon has proven by his visit, that Jewish sovereignty over the
Temple Mount (supposed to be an Israeli right) does not exist in the estimation
of the Palestinians, nor of the world media, neither any of the nations of the
world. That makes the Palestinian demand for sovereignty over the Holy places,
"so as to ensure religious freedom", a total hoax - as is proven by the
discrimination against Jews and Christians in Arab lands. What has become clear
from the current developments in Israel regarding the Palestinian claims on the
Temple Mount, is that Palestinian sovereignty over ancient Jerusalem, if
granted, has no place for a Jewish presence of any kind on this Biblically
Jewish, and ancient Jewish Most Holy Site.
Secondly, and deservedly so, the Jewish attitude towards and the lack of their
physical presence on the Mount, earned them the arrogant denial of ownership by
the Palestinians. Since the 1967 Six Day War, when Moshe Dayan conquered the
Mount, but, 'for the sake of peace', granted the Arabs temporal jurisdiction
over this Most Sacred Jewish Site, Jews avoided visiting their ancient Holy
Site. Rabbinic leadership has also dissapproved of Jews visiting the Site, being
such Sacred Territory. The world now has no interest in any Jewish claims and
support the Palestinians in the protection of the sacredness of their third only
most holiest Muslim site in the world. The Arab Mosques adorning the Site, were
built 6 centuries after the Jewish Temple, in which even the
'Christian' Messiah worshipped and preached (as a practising Jew to Jews) 2000
years ago! It was built on the very ruins of the ancient Jewish Temple, to which
history testifies of its destruction by the Romans in the year 70, C.E. The
Mount on which the Islamic Golden domed Bayt al Maqdas
Temple today stands, holds the ricchest archeological proof of the two Jewish
Temples that adorned this Site, centuries before - which is the very reason why
the Palestinians so frantically build and destroy the archeological evidence
today!
BIBLE REVELATIONS' interpretation of Biblical Prophecy has been stated all
along, that the Temple Mount will be the ultimate spark to ignite the Armageddon
nuclear holocaust, to end this Dispensation of worldly kingdoms and to
inaugerate the Kingdom of God on earth.
The question which arised after the Palestinian uprising in response to Sharon's
visit to the Mount, was: "How could this stone throwing uprisal ever develop
into Armageddon?"
The answer took
shape by the 7th day of the uprising, when neighbouring Arab countries Syria,
Egypt, Iraq and Iran, expressed their support and concern for the Palestinians.
Commentators in the Western News and TV media started discussing the serious
escalation and the probability of what has always been referred to as the
'unthinkable' - a war of grave implications in the Middle East. Once other
nations get involved, the rest will depend on where the final line will be drawn
- this side of Armageddon or not. The stage is set - Jerusalem has become "an
intoxicating cup to the surrounding nations" (Zech. 12:2,3).
Copy of a Newsletter
published by The Temple Mount Faithful (an Orthodox Jewish organization, Jerusalem, Israel)
As we have previously
stated in this news-letter, Israel is now living in the most critical time in
her history. On the one hand Israel is in the midst of her godly end-time
redemption while on the other hand she is in the midst of the political and
violent attacks of he Arab enemies in the Middle East together with their
backing of many Islamic nations as well as their supporters all over the world
led by the UN and the President of the United States, Bill Clinton.
Using the false and
evil Oslo so-called “Peace” agreements, they cut off piece after piece from the
body of the land of Israel and give them to the foreign “Palestinian Authority”
which grows like a cancer in the midst of the body of the Holy Land of Israel.
These agreements were signed by the weak and secular government of Israel under
the pressure of the above powers. Now these powers are putting pressure on
Israel to give away more parts of the land and the main pressure is now on
Jerusalem, the capital of the G–d and people of Israel.
The former terrorist
and murderer, Yasser Arafat, has stated that there will never be peace and that
he will renew the Intifada, the battle against Israel, unless Israel agrees to
give him Jerusalem as the capital of a “Palestinian” state and give up her
sovereignty over Jerusalem. More than this, he is demanding all the area of
Judea, Samaria and Gaza to be immediately given to him and that he will declare
a “Palestinian” state in those areas with Jerusalem as its capital which he
knows that the UN and all the nations will recognise.
The agents of Arafat on
the Temple Mount are now in the midst of an intensive, violent campaign to
destroy and remove all the remains of the First and Second Temples and to change
the identity of the Temple Mount into an Islamic site. They realise that,
whether they want it or not, the Third Temple is going to be built on the Temple
Mount as a major event in G–d’s end-time prophetic plans. By this barbaric
violence against the G–d and people of Israel they try to prevent this even
through such a terrible revolt and violence against G–d and His holy house.
In a speech which
Arafat gave in Ramallah (the Biblical city of the Hill of G–d, Givat Elohim, and
was a Jewish city settled by Jews but occupied by the Arabs in 630 CE) he stated
that he is ready for a war and that he is not afraid of the Israeli tanks and
aircraft. The same threats of war are coming closer and closer to Israel from
the north from the Hisb’allah terrorist organisation in Lebanon which has stated
that their battle will not stop until they have occupied Jerusalem. The same
spirit of war is coming form Syria, Iraq, Iran and Egypt, all these enemies of
Israel who are preparing their weapons including nuclear, biological and
chemical warheads and who are preparing their forces to destroy Israel. The UN
and the European Union have stated on more than one occasion and made
resolutions that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel but occupied territory
and that Israel should withdraw from Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights.
All of this brings
Israelis to the conclusion that the time is very critical and that the
prophecies of the prophet Ezekiel about the War of Gog and Magog against Israel
and Zechariah’s and other prophets’ prophecies about the war of all the nations
against the land of Israel and Jerusalem are soon to be fulfilled. Never since
the foundation of the State of Israel in 1948 has Israel felt that the black
clouds of this terrible war were so close to Jerusalem. This war will not be a
simple war and Israel will pay a high price because of the sinful weakness over
her leadership. Zechariah states that half of the population of Jerusalem will
go into exile. However, the Israelis, after great disappointment in the
behaviour of their leadership, are coming closer to the G–d of Israel and
understanding that they can only trust in their One Father, the G–d of Israel,
Who saved has repeatedly saved them over the last 4000 years and Who will save
them again now from all those powers and nations who will attack them and that
He will severely judge all their enemies as He promised in His Word. “Son of
man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech
and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I
am against you, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal; ... After many
days you shall be called upon; in the latter years you shall come against the
land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered from many peoples,
against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste; but it is brought
out from the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. You shall ascend
and come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all
your bands, and many people with you. ... And you shall come up against my
people of Israel, like a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter
days, and I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I
shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes. ... And it shall come to
pass on that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord
God, that my fury shall be roused. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my
wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the
land of Israel; ... And I will contend with him by pestilence and by blood; and
I will rain down upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are
with him, a torrential rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus
will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will make myself known in the
eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord. ... You shall fall
upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, and the peoples that are
with you; I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts
of the field to be devoured. ... And I will send a fire on Magog, and among
those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
And I will make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will
not let them profane my holy name any more; and the nations shall know that I am
the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.” (Ezekiel 38:2,3,8,9,16,18,19,22,23; 39:4,6,7)
“For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall
be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women raped; and half of the city shall
go into exile, and the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought
in the day of battle. ... Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all
the people around, and it shall also be against Judah in the siege against
Jerusalem. And on that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the
peoples; all who burden themselves with it shall be grievously hurt. And all the
peoples of the earth shall be gathered together against it. ... And the Lord
shall be king over all the earth; on that day the Lord shall be one, and his
name one. All the land shall be changed like the Arabah from Geba to Rimmon
south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and remain in her place, from
the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the first gate, to the Corner Gate, and
from the Tower of Hananeel to the king's wine presses. ... And men shall dwell
in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall dwell
secure.” (Zechariah 14:2,3;12:2,3,6,9; 14:9,11)
The prophet Zechariah
states that the weapons (the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons) used
against Israel will backfire and will hurt the enemies of Israel and not Israel:
“And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who
fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon
their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue
shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to pass on that day, that a
great panic from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold everyone
on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbour.” (Zechariah 14:12,13)
We know that the coming
time will not be an easy time in Israel. This will be the climax of all the
end-time troubles which Israel through which Israel is now passing. Israel must
trust in G–d and be strong and, together with the G–d of Israel, we will
overcome these terrible events. The G–d of Israel is determined to accomplish
the redemption of Israel and all the universe and nothing can or will prevent
Him.
The Temple Mount and
Land of Israel Faithful Movement and all the others in Israel who are with the
G–d of Israel and who are in His army to serve and fight with all their devotion
and dedication for Him and His end-time plans are ready to face these events and
their challenges as they have been up to this time. We do not fear the enemies
of the G–d and people of Israel but only G–d and we trust and love Him and we
shall continue to serve Him and His prophetic plans with all the strength which
He gave us.
We warn all the enemies
of Israel and their allies all over the world that G–d will severely judge and
punish them because of their violence and there battles to destroy Israel.
To all the wonderful
friends of Israel all over the world who decided to be with the G–d and people
of Israel at this great and critical time we send our sincerest thanks and love
and the deep appreciation of the G–d and people of Israel. Exactly as the
prophets prophesied, you will be redeemed together with the people of Israel
whom you love and support with such devotion. It is so good to know that,
together with the G–d of Israel, we have righteous friends and brothers and
sisters like you who have placed themselves together with Israel at a time when
it is so needed. You are an important sign, example and a great hope for this
prophetic, godly time in which we are now living. Continue to be strong with the
G–d and people of Israel and the G–d of Israel and the Universe will continue to
bless you richly.
Reports about
Palestinian construction of new Mosques on the Temple Mount have been constantly
surfacing over the last few months. Truckloads of soil have been removed without
any regard whatsoever for any archeological relic treasures in this richest of
archeological sites in the world.
Latest
development - Opportunity for concerned people to participate with
positive reaction
27
September 2004
This
Web Site has featured the above photos since 2000. Zachi Zweig, the
producer, is one of the pioneers for bringing this untenable
situation to the attention of Jews and Israeli authorities. He has
now obtained
the
appropriate licenses for executing the project for sifting the
Temple Mount dumps. This project urgently needs funding support
since it has to begin before the winter. There are also other ways
in which you can assist.
The Israeli government,
Israel's official archeology authorities and the media have smothered or played
down this flagrant disregard of the Palestinians for the tons of Biblical
evidence that lie buried in this, to the Creator God, the Most Holiest Site in
all the world. This is the Place where 2 Jewish Temples were built to His Glory
and according to His Divine Directives. This is the exact Place where the New
Jerusalem, Center of His Coming World Kingdom Rule, will be erected, after the
kingdoms of the nations will have disintegrated in Chaos at the time of the War
of Armageddon ('Gog & Magog', according to Scriptural Prophecy).
The reports of this
destruction, mainly by religious 'rightist' Jews, 'guardians of the Walls of
Jerusalem', have been disputed by the leftist secular authorities and these
witnesses were labeled a 'risk to State Security'. Contra reports were made of
'exaggeration' by these witnesses and the public was assured that there was no
such damage being done. In the mean time, investigations by the press and media
were officially barred and authorities were withheld from doing proper
investigation.
The matter has now
however become a main topic in Israel and true evidence points to exactly such
desecration and destruction. It is eerily strange and unbelievable why Mr.
Barak, the previous Prime Minister of Israel, seemed to have willfully supported
this destruction by allowing it to continue without official interjection. The
present government under Mr Ariel Sharon is doing no better.
Following are reports
that you may not easily find in the normal news media which are adding their
support to the destruction by covering it up. It is not hard to envisage the
condemnation if Israel were to have been guilty of such disregard in conduct.
Is it simply because
these ruling authorities and the media have no longer any place whatsoever for
anything to do with a Biblical tie-up - and their endeavouring to route out the
last symptoms of these 'misguided tendencies' in modern mankind?
22 June 2000
Eyewitness Report by THE TEMPLE
INSTITUTE, Jerusalem
For eight months, we
have reported on the Moslem Waqf’s illegal excavations in the southern part of
the Temple Mount. It has been established that these unsupervised excavations
have facilitated the deliberate and calculated destruction of archaeological
remnants from the Holy Temple. Now, the desecration and destruction has moved
into a new phase. Recently, new reports have begun to circulate that the Wakf
has renewed its illegal construction activities on the Temple Mount. A number of
articles on the subject have appeared in the Israeli press over the past few
days. In one of these articles, appearing in the Hebrew daily Ha’aretz,
correspondent Nadav Shragai wrote: “The Islamic Movement in Israel has a master
plan to build a forth mosque on the eastern side of the Temple Mount, according
to a detailed report prepared by security officials.”
We were recently able
to ascend to the Temple Mount to view this construction activity firsthand. What
we saw there was so staggering that it is difficult to convey the images in
words. Under the open skies, and with no pretenses, the entire eastern section
of the Mount has been turned into a busy construction site. Activity is taking
place at a fever pitch. Not one inch of the eastern section of the mount remains
untouched. Haphazard heaps of archeological remnants of major significance,
freshly unearthed, are strewn about everywhere. Next to these sit large
consignments of newly hewn masonry stones, still wrapped in neat plastic
packaging, just delivered to the site. A structure near the Golden Gate is
already at an advanced stage of construction. Tractors are at work and other
heavy machinery can be heard; there is activity of paving and other aspects of
ground preparation, digging, masonry and more. It should be noted that this
construction is taking place in areas that are clearly within the boundaries
wherein chambers of the Holy Temple stood. Thus the actual site of the Holy
Temple is now being turned into a Moslem site, all over again.
In the southern end of
the Mount, new ornamental skylights have been fixed over the area of the new
underground mosque now in use. Many other permanent changes in the area can also
be plainly seen.
The plans of the Waqf
and the Islamic movement also include a number of other changes. However these
plans have not been published and are not publicly acknowledged. A petition has
been made to the Jerusalem District Court by Yehuda Etzion of the Chai V’kayam
movement, demanding that the Waqf reveal their plans for the site based on the
Freedom of Information Act. However the state has refused to divulge this
information on the grounds that it is “secret,” and the court has yet to hear
this petition. Similarly, several months ago the commander for the Jerusalem
District of the Israel Police revealed to the Knesset Education Committee that
the Waqf has six plans for the Temple Mount – but he refused to elaborate,
citing state security. Meanwhile, the Israel Antiquities Authority as well as
the Committee for Prevention of the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple
Mount, have called upon both the Attorney General and the Prime Minister to
personally intervene and put a stop to the illegal activity.
What we were able to
see on our own visit substantiated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what we have
always known: Motta Gur’s immortal declaration “The Temple Mount is in Our
Hands,” uttered in June 1967, is a fantasy that has no basis in reality. It is
an unhealthy dream from which the people of Israel must wake up. It has been
completely shattered; even the most skillful ostrich can no longer delude
himself. Israel exercises no sovereignty whatsoever on the Temple Mount. On the
very day of our own visit, a group of Knesset Members on a fact-finding mission
to the Mount were prevented by the Israel Police from carrying out their task –
and the police, in turn, while entrusted with carrying out the law of the State
of Israel, were simply manipulated by the Waqf, the real power and control on
the Temple Mount. Thus the Knesset members, who are the lawmakers of our nation
and who are entitled to Parliamentary immunity and extra-legal status, were
prevented from photographing the illegal construction; they were prevented from
moving about freely on the Mount, and were not able to enter the underground
structures. The group’s guide, archeology student Zachi Zweig
(www.miac.com/bait), was physically attacked and threatened by the commander of
the police.
However, the worst is
yet to come. The Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Antiquities
on the Temple Mount has pointed out that if the Waqf implements all its plans,
the face of the Mount will be completely altered, aside from the damage that
will be caused to the antiquities at the site.
All the deliberate
destruction of archeological remains, and the dumping and trashing of hundred of
tons of precious Temple remnants that we have focused upon until now, is ancient
history – for the Waqf has now moved on from the destruction of Temple remains,
to the complete and permanent alteration of the Temple site.
The matter is clear.
The Waqf saw that they were able to destroy archeological remains that are
precious to the people of Israel with impunity. They were not stopped. Now they
are confident that in the face of Israel’s weakness, they can truly do anything.
Thus they are rapidly attempting to change the physical reality of the Mount, in
a permanent fashion. By creating new facts on the ground, the Waqf is
successfully de-Judaizing Jerusalem, and wresting the city from the people of
Israel.
We call upon all
people, wherever you may be, to appeal to the Prime Minister of Israel to
exercise Israeli law on the Temple Mount and put an end to this destruction. He
has the power to change Israel’s power concerning the Mount. We also call upon
you to communicate with your elected representatives, and ask them to condemn
the outrageous actions of the Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority, who
receive funding and use those funds to destroy precious archeological artifacts.
Building a new mosque over the area of Israel’s ancient Temple is a contemptible
sacrilegious act which reveals the true intentions of the Palestinians towards
Israel – as reflected in the official Palestinian Charter, which remains
unchanged and still calls for the annihilation of Israel. Israel has zealously
protected the shrines of other religions, including Moslem sites. Yet Islam is
destroying the holiest shrine of Judaism, and the Government of Israel, whose
only interest is the quick implementation of the American “peace process,” is
impotent.
The continued
destruction at the site of the Holy Temple will result in an irreparable loss
for the entire world. We urge you to act immediately.
Rabbi Chaim Richman THE TEMPLE INSTITUTE temple@temple.org.il
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BARAK GIVES
PALESTINIANS THE GREEN LIGHT TO CONTINUE DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLE MOUNT!
Associated Press
reported today:
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak gave Palestinian religious
authorities the go-ahead Wednesday to keep expanding prayer space on the Temple
Mount, prompting protests from politicians and archaeologists.
Also Wednesday, Palestinians clashed with a small group of hard-line Jews
protesting digging on the mount. Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said five
Palestinians were detained.
The Wakf - the Islamic religious council that administers the Temple Mount,
which is holy to Jews and Muslims - recently launched the work at the site,
saying it can barely accommodate the thousands who arrive for Friday prayers.
Work may continue at the site known as the Temple Mount to Jews and Christians
and the Haram as-Sharif to Muslims, Barak's office said in a statement. The
statement said measures are in place for ``maintaining the status quo and not
damaging archeological artifacts.''
The Temple Mount, site of the First and Second Jewish temples, abuts the Western
Wall - the only remainder of the Roman sacking of the Second Temple in 70 A.D.,
and Judaism's holiest site.
Two mosques in a 13th century Muslim sanctuary atop the Temple Mount make it the
third holiest site in Islam. The site has remained under Muslim control even
after Israel captured the walled Old City in the 1967 Mideast War.
Barak's decision prompted outrage from politicians and archaeologists, who say
the expansion is destroying rare Jewish and Islamic relics at the site.
``Barak gave a green light to an explosive situation,'' said Eilat Mazar, an
archeology professor at Hebrew University.
When news of the construction work first emerged earlier this year,
archeologists identified rare and ancient shards in a dump outside Jerusalem
where workers left debris.
Wakf officials have said that Israeli protests are a political attempt to
undermine the Muslim claim to the site.
Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, a leader of the hard-line opposition Likud party,
said he was concerned that important historical artifacts could be lost forever.
Olmert said the Wakf was promoting a political agenda to wipe Jewish traces from
the area so that Israel can no longer claim it has ties.
He described Barak's decision as a ``big mistake.''
(Ed. 2006 - Today, Olmert is PM and leader of the leftist party Kadima, and
follows exactly the weak-kneed policy of Barak and other leftist leaders.)
Danny Yatom, a senior Barak adviser, said the presence of archaeologists would
guarantee the preservation of antiquities. ``The decision is excellent,'' Yatom
said.
Tensions over the rival religious claims sparked bloody riots in 1929 and 1990.
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(July
13) - Under the premiership of Ehud Barak, (current Internal Security Minister
Uzi) Landau was one of the loudest voices protesting against the government's
disregard for the wanton and unsupervised destruction of antiquities on the
Temple Mount by the Wakf, which was engaged in seemingly endless construction
projects there. It is particularly disturbing to see his 180-degree turnabout on
the issue of protecting antiquities on the Temple Mount. Landau probably did not
imagine that within months he would be the minister of internal security, and
therefore would have a pivotal role in ensuring that such destruction did not
continue.
The fact that Landau's
role is so pivotal is one of the problems he was meant to solve. Since last
September, the Israel Police and the Wakf have together blocked all non-Muslims
from entering the Temple Mount. This prohibition includes archeologists from the
Antiquities Authority and all journalists - except those hand-picked by the
Wakf. The police, therefore, are the only thin reed by which the outside world
knows anything about whatever construction is taking place on the Mount.
This week, the
Committee to Prevent the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount, a
non-partisan group of archeologists, authors, and public figures, released
photographs of heavy equipment working in this sensitive area, and a large saw
used to cut massive ancient stones for reuse in construction projects. The
committee has repeatedly charged that the police have misinformed the public and
its minister as to the extent of the work going on, and has demanded that the
area be open to the press and subject to archeological supervision. The
committee further claims that, contrary to an assurance by Landau this week in
the Knesset, the saw is still being used, large amounts of construction
materials have been brought in, and hundreds of volunteers from the Islamic
movement have been working on construction projects on the Mount.
Today, for only the
second time since the formation of the (new) government, and only after
significant attention by the press and the Knesset, Landau will be meeting with
the committee to review the evidence it has collected. So far, Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon, the heads of the Antiquities Authority, the police, and Education
Minister Limor Livnat (who has jurisdiction over the Antiquities Authority) have
all refused to meet with the committee.
The behavior of the
government in this instance is as inexplicable as it is inexcusable. Sharon,
Landau, and Livnat were all at the forefront of demanding that the Barak
government not allow one of the most sensitive archeological sites in the world
- certainly to the Jewish people - to be exempt from the supervision to which
almost any road or construction project is routinely subjected, as required by
law. The police are not in position, nor do they have the expertise, to do this
themselves. Furthermore, the police have, by consistently minimizing what the
Wakf has done, demonstrated that they have a clear conflict of interests - it is
simplest for them to let the Wakf go about its business.
It is absurd, even
pathetic, that Israel and the world must rely upon smuggled and aerial
photographs to get some sense of what is happening in the heart of Jerusalem, at
a site of unmatched historical and religious significance to the Jewish people.
The first, most urgent way to shed some light on the situation is to lift the
ban on press access to the Temple Mount.
Perhaps security
considerations can justify preventing tourists and the non-Muslim public from
visiting the Temple Mount, though this, too, should not be considered a normal
and acceptable situation. But even if such a general prohibition makes sense, it
cannot justify the imposition of a journalistic blackout on the area. In other
areas, such as parts of the Gaza Strip, that have been closed to Israelis for
security reasons, an exception has been made for journalists.
The introduction of
journalists into the Temple Mount should not be considered a sufficient form of
supervision of the area. The committee correctly demands that all construction
and destruction on the Temple Mount
be subject to a detailed, transparent approval process, and close supervision by
the Antiquities Authority.
The Temple Mount has a
rich history stretching over thousands of years, and bears the imprint of
Jewish, Islamic, and Christian civilizations. If any other country had entrusted
the Temple Mount to Islamic authorities - which deny any non-Muslim connection
to the area and have a record of destroying non-Muslim artifacts in keeping with
their extremist ideology - Israel and the Jewish people would be up in arms. If,
in addition, this other country had prevented a modicum of supervision by
archeologists and the press, Israel would be screaming bloody murder.
With Jerusalem and the
Temple Mount now "on the table" in the Peace negotiations, it is interesting to
hear the views of a leftist leader, who has in the past been instrumental to get
the Peace Talks and the gradual surrender of Israel territory to the
Palestinians, going. Mr Peres is highly critical of Israeli Prime Minister
Barak's handling of the Camp David negotiations and sees very little hope of
permanent Peace.
The Israeli daily,
Ha'aretz reports as follows on 24 Aug. 2000: "In private conversations Shimon
Peres fears deeply for the fate of the peace process with the Palestinians, and
is scathingly critical of Barak.
"The Camp David focus
on the issue of sovereignty over the Temple Mount was a recipe for an impasse,
Peres believes. Compromises are possible in politics, he says, but logic stops
where matters of religion begin. Now, with the Old City of Jerusalem and the
Temple Mount on the table, it will be far more difficult, perhaps impossible, to
reach a partial agreement, or to defer the resolution of the Jerusalem question.
"Substantively, Peres
believes the Palestinians should not be given sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
Barak was also wrong to agree to debating the division of the Old City between
Israelis and Palestinians, as suggested by President Bill Clinton.
August
2000
BUILDING OF A SYNAGOGUE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT
NOW CONSIDERED
Israel's High Rabbinate
considered a proposal to build a synagogue on the Temple Mount. Debate over the
proposal is believed to have been shelved due to behind-the-scenes pressure from
the Israeli government, who is mindful of the likelihood of angry reactions by
Palestinian Muslims.
Protesting Arab
newspapers expressed Arab fears that "the Israeli government seems to begin
reconsidering its policy on that matter. A manifestation of that change of
policy.occurred at Camp David when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak reportedly
proposed ... that in the context of a final settlement for the Old City of
Jerusalem, Israel should control the area "underneath" the two mosques on the
Temple Mount."
"This is a criminal
proposal -- a direct invitation to war," said Jerusalem's mufti, Ikrema Sabri
{Arafat's appointee) in reaction to the proposal, adding that "these criminal
intentions could set the entire region on fire because Muslims are not going to
sit idle while their holy places are taken away from them."
Hamas, founder and
leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, warned that "the destruction of Al-Aqsa mosque
would be followed by the destruction of Israel. ..."
What really was said at Camp David
over Jerusalem's Holy Places
Source:Middle East Media
Research Institute (MEMRI) 1815 H Street, NW Suite 404 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 E-mail: MEMRI@erols.com Website: www.memri.org
The Jerusalem issue was
at the core of the Camp David Summit negotiations. The Palestinians regard East
Jerusalem as a part of the occupied territories falling under UN Security
Council Resolution 242, and therefore demand full Israeli withdrawal to the June
4, 1967 lines. For Israel, East Jerusalem is an indivisible part of its
territory after being annexed by Israel in 1967.
However, it is the
Christian, Jewish, and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem that place the question of
Jerusalem in the center of the negotiations. On July 23, the United States
submitted a proposal - based on an Israeli proposal - to grant the Palestinians
full sovereignty in the Muslim and Christian quarters [including Christian holy
sites] while leaving the Jewish and Armenian quarters under Israeli sovereignty.
In response to this
proposal, Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat told US President
Clinton, "I will not agree to any Israeli sovereign presence in Jerusalem,
neither in the Armenian quarter, nor in the Al-Aqsa Mosque, neither on the Via
Dolarosa, nor in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. They can occupy us by force,
because we are weaker now, but in two years, ten years, or one hundred years,
there will be someone who will liberate Jerusalem [from them]." (1)
Palestinians Claim Holy Sites
Palestinian claims to
sovereignty over Temple Mount are based primarily on its holiness in Islam. They
stated repeatedly that the Muslim holy places have the status of an Islamic Waqf
[religious endowment].
Arafat stated again and
again that he represents all Muslims, reminding President Clinton that he serves
as the permanent deputy chairman of the 'Islamic Conference' organization, (2)
and that: "The Arab leader who would give up Jerusalem has not yet been born."
(3)(I)
Regarding himself as
the heir to the legacy of the Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem (in 638), Caliph
Omar Ibn Al-Khattab who protected Jerusalem's Christians, Arafat also demanded
recognition as the defender and custodian of Christian holy sites in Jerusalem.
"Arafat told us," said PA negotiator Saib Ereiqat, "that the Christian quarter
is more important to him than the Muslim quarter because of his wish to uphold
the terms of the 'Omar Pact' [regarding the status of non-Muslim monotheist
religions according to Muslim tradition]." (4)
Israeli Claims and the Palestinian
Reactions
Israel too
presented its demand for sovereignty over the Temple Mount on the basis of its
holiness in Judaism, as the site of the first and second temples. On this basis,
it raised - for the first time - a demand for a Jewish prayer site on the edge
of the mountain.
_____________________________ Footnote:
(I) The secretary-general of the Arab League, Dr. 'Ismat Abd Al-Maguid, also,
stated that "no Arab leader is allowed to relinquish Jerusalem." Saut Al-Haqq Wa
Al-Hurriyya, August 18, 2000.
__________________________
The Palestinians
rejected both demands, regarding them as an attempt to foil any chance for an
agreement. The Islamic Waqf [Islamic endowments] Council in Jerusalem explained
this position: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque belongs to the Muslims alone, according to a
divine decision, and is part of the Muslim faith. Prayer in it by non-Muslims is
forbidden by [religious] law. Any attempt to harm its holiness or the site
itself, or to desecrate it would injure Muslims all over the world." (5) (II)
The PA Mufti of
Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh 'Ikrima Sabri explained that the buildings
surrounding the Al-Aqsa mosque are also holy and therefore establishing a
synagogue there would be impossible: "All the buildings surrounding the Al-Aqsa
mosque are an Islamic waqf. These buildings have direct openings, doors and
windows, to the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque, and therefore their status is
similar to that of Al-Aqsa in terms of blessing and holiness. Therefore,
according to Islamic law, it is impossible to plunder any of these buildings and
turn it into a synagogue for the Jews." (6)
The Palestinian
rejection of Israel's demands to sovereignty and prayer sites on Temple Mount is
based on a complete denial of any Jewish affiliation with Temple Mount.
According to the Palestinians, the "so-called temple" that Israel recalls, has
never been there, and there is no evidence to suggest its existence. This
position was voiced by Arafat as well as many high-ranking Palestinians, such as
PA Minister of International Planning and Cooperation Nabil Sha'ath (7), Saib
Ereiqat, (III) and PA Legislative Council Chairman Abu 'Alaa.
Arafat told Clinton in
this regard: "I am a religious man, and I will not allow it to be written of me
[in history] that I. confirmed the existence of the so-called temple underneath
the mountain." (8)
Abu 'Alaa claimed that
the Israeli demand is nothing but a plot: once it is accepted that the temple
existed beneath the mosques, and Israel gains sovereignty over the land under
the mosques - "It will mean that within a few years they will destroy the
mosques." (9) This was a reference to the September 1996 Western Wall Tunnel
riots, in which the Palestinians claimed that the tunnel was dug with the aim of
destabilizing the foundations of the mosques, to ultimately destroy them.
Abu 'Alaa also claimed
that "at Camp David the Israelis offered Palestinian sovereignty over the ground
and Israeli sovereignty under the ground. Who would agree to this? They offered
Palestinian sovereignty, and Israeli super-sovereignty. There is no precedent
such a thing. They also offered Palestinian control under Israeli sovereignty,
in a sort of diplomatic representation, similar the status of an embassy that
has sovereignty in Israeli land. Whoever agrees to such offers betrays faith."
(10)
A classified report by
the Palestinian leadership on the Camp David summit refers to this Israeli
offer: "The Israelis offered to divide the sovereignty .so that the Palestinians
would have vertical sovereignty from the sky to the ground, and the Israelis
would have sovereignty from the surface to the center of the earth. What they
intended by this offer was the right to dig for the remains of the so-called
temple, which [archeological] digs have failed to find for the last seventy
years." (11)
PLO Executive Committee
Chairman Abu Mazen too denied the right of the Jews to a prayer site on Temple
Mount. He raised a practical argument: the Palestinian experience with Jews in
joint Jewish-Muslim prayer sites. He stated: "We have learned the lessons of the
Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem. The Jews asked
to visit them, then it became the basis for [further] demands. In the Hebron
mosques, they asked to pray at the site, and today anyone who visits the Tomb is
beaten [by them]. For these reasons, as a matter of principle we will allow
neither [Jewish] sovereignty nor prayer in, around, or above the mosques. (12)
_________________
Footnotes:
(II) Arafat recalled that even Moshe Dayan himself prohibited Jews from
praying on the Temple Mount after 1967: " [So] why do they want to do it now?
The [Israeli] proposals are like mines that will ignite fires in the region and
throughout the world. Beware not to repeat these proposals [because] they are
dangerous and destructive." Al-Ayyam. August 6, 2000.
(III)
According to the reports, Ereiqat made this denial at a Camp David meeting in
the presence of President Clinton, who noted that the Christian Minister at Camp
David believes Israel's version. Ha'aretz (Israel), July 27, 2000.
___________________________
Akram Haniya, editor of
Al-Ayyam and an Arafat advisor who participated in Camp David, criticized the
Israeli demands, and furthermore their acceptance
by the US: "The secular [Israeli] negotiators began speaking the language of
extremist religious Jews. Suddenly, the Jewish access to the [Muslim] holy sites
and Israeli sovereignty over the mountain became a basic Israeli demand. But the
dangerous thing about it was that the Americans endorsed these demands without
hesitation or any thought about the implications." (13)
Palestinian claims to
the Western Wall
The Palestinians state
that the Western Wall is also a holy Islamic site and an Islamic Waqf. Its
holiness derives, according to The Koran and Muslim tradition, from its being
the site where the Prophet Muhammad landed in his divine nocturnal journey from
Mecca to Jerusalem. The Western Wall is where he tied his horse called
'Al-Buraq,' and it is known in Islam as 'The Al-Buraq Wall.'
At Camp David, Arafat
also based his claim to the site on an "assertion by the British mandatory
government in 1929 that the Western Wall is the Wall of Al-Buraq, and that it is
regarded as an Islamic Waqf and an historic Islamic right." (14)
The PA mufti of
Jerusalem and Palestine, Sheikh 'Ikrima Sabri explained that the Western Wall is
part of the Al-Aqsa Wall, and therefore is an Islamic Waqf. On the other hand,
he asserted: "no stone of the Al-Buraq Wall has any relation to Judaism. The
Jews began praying at this wall only in the nineteenth century, when they began
to develop [national] aspirations, as Yossi Beilin has said." (15)
Nevertheless, the
Palestinians are ready to acknowledge the right of Jews to pray at the Western
Wall out of "respect to Judaism," but only on the condition that the sovereignty
over it will be Palestinian.
PA Minister for
Jerusalem Affairs Feisal Al-Husseiny explained that: "The PA is ready to discuss
all the arrangements relating to free access, worship and Jews visiting
Jerusalem, on the condition that the sovereignty over the city be fully
Palestinian." (16) However, as Abu 'Alaa asserted: "there is no point in
discussing the details of these arrangements, before Israel has recognized
Palestinian sovereignty over [East] Jerusalem." (17)
Abu Mazen recognized
the fact that "Jerusalem is holy for all [religions]" and explained that even
though the Jews would be granted the right to pray at the wall - the wall will
remain an Islamic Waqf: "All parties have a right to their religious worship on
the mountain. The Jews have the right to visit the Western Wall and pray there,
despite the fact that the British Commission asserted in 1929 that the wall is
an Islamic Waqf. Arafat has always said that he will allow them to pray at the
site." (18)
Arafat expressed this
idea in an interview with the Japanese news agency NHK during his last visit to
Tokyo. While rejecting Israel's claim to sovereignty on Temple Mount, he added:
"However, I offered them [the Jews] freedom of prayer at the Western Wall. They
are praying there, and I offered that they would be able to continue with their
prayers, because I respect Judaism." Arafat reiterated this statement repeatedly
during the interview. In an answer to the interviewer's question about the
holiness of the Wall to the Jews too, he said: "I have offered them free access
to pray at the Western Wall .they will have an open corridor to reach the
Western Wall." (19)
PA Mufti Sheikh 'Ikrima
Sabri, dismissed the concern that the prohibitions that kept Jews from reaching
the "Al-Buraq Wall" from 1948 and 1967, may be repeated if a Palestinian State
is granted sovereignty over the Western Wall. "Circumstances have changed," he
said, "[now] there is international recognition [of the right to religious
worship] - and the Jews are able to reach the Wall. Arafat can tell them: 'Give
me sovereignty over Jerusalem, and I will make it possible for you to reach the
'Al-Buraq Wall' and pray there. I promise you freedom of worship.' [However]
granting free access to the wall does not mean that the Wall will belong to
them. The Wall is ours." (20)
Abbas:
All hell has broken loose ahead of UN statehood bid
By JPOST.COM
STAFF AND REUTERS 09/19/2011
15:52
Palestinian Authority president admits he is under "huge" international pressure
over statehood gambit as US, Russian, EU and UN diplomats meet in ongoing effort
to persuade PA to forgo move.
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday said that he remains committed to
seeking full membership for a Palestinian state at the United Nations despite
the fact that that he is facing "huge" international pressure to abandon the
plan and he expects "difficult times" in the aftermath of the bid.
"We decided to take this step and all hell has broken out against us," Abbas was
quoted by the Ma'an news agency as tellling reporters on his flight to New York.
“The Palestinian people and their leadership will pass through very difficult
times after the Palestinian approach to the United Nations through the Security
Council to seek full membership for the Palestinian state on the 1967 borders
with east Jerusalem as its capital,” Abbas added, according to AFP.
A last-ditch international push began in New York on Sunday to try to relaunch
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and avert a crisis over Palestinian statehood at
the United Nations as members of the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators
met in New York.
Officials met two days after Abbas said he would demand full
membership of the world body for a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly
this week, setting up a diplomatic clash with Israel and the United States.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held talks with EU foreign policy chief
Catherine Ashton. Asked before the meeting if either could report any progress,
Clinton replied, "We are meeting to talk about the way forward." Asked if that
meant no progress, she said, "I didn't say that."
Senior diplomats from the United States, Russia, the European Union and the
United Nations - the Quartet - met on Sunday, an EU official said, as part of an
intense effort in recent weeks to persuade the Palestinians to drop their UN
plans.
The official said the diplomats were assessing the situation, but gave no
further details.
The United States says it will veto in the Security Council a Palestinian
application for full UN membership, but former British Prime Minister Tony
Blair, who serves an an envoy for the Quartet, said on Sunday a showdown could
still be averted.
Blair told reporters, "The Palestinians are here at the UN now, so the question
is ... can people find a way that enables the Palestinians to take a significant
step forward to statehood at the same time as not ending up in a situation where
the UN replaces negotiations?"
Abbas said that he had considered proposals put forth by the Quartet to stave
off the statehood bid, but they did not support the PA's goal of a sovereign
Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital.
"We told them that any proposals which do not include a Palestinian state based
on 1967 borders and an end to settlement expansion are unacceptable," he was
quoted by Ma'an as saying.
Abbas was scheduled to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to
discuss the statehood bid on Monday in New York
NOTE FROM DEE: IS PALESTINIAN RESIDENT MAHOUD
ABBAS THE FAMOUS MABUS NOSTRADAMUS WARNED US ABOUT?
Mabus plus tost alors mourra, viendra,
De gens & bestes vn horrible defaite:
Puis tout à coup la vengeance on verra,
Cent, main, faim quand courra la comete.
Mabus then will soon die, there will come
A horrible undoing of people and animals:
At once vengeance one will see vengeance,
One hundred hands, thirst, famine, when the comet will run.
The man we know as Mabus may be some obscure future terrorist who,
if he is not identified and restrained in time, will trigger World War III and
the extinction of civilization as we have known it.
The time we have left to positively decode who or what Mabus is, and how
to prevent the foretold terrible destiny, may already have passed. The final
line could date the beginning of his legacy of terror around the time of the
appearance of Halley’s Comet (1985-86), the collision of the comet
Shoemaker-Levi (1994), or the comet Hale-Bopp (1997), which appeared right at
the millennium of the Jewish lunar calendar.
Mabus could be a cryptogram for Thurbo Majus, the classical Roman name
given to the infernal god of Hannibal, or a cryptogram for Megabyzus, one of
several conspirators who overthrew a Zoroastrian priest who had usurped the
throne of Persia.
An argument could be made that upon this classical foundation, Nostradamus
is building a prophecy for the near-future debacle of Saddam Hussein from
within, by a Persian (Iranian) ally.
The
time has come to reexamine the 16th-century prophet’s dire warnings if
full-scale war should be the next step. Such a war could trigger the fulfillment
of certain important predictions that will enable us to clearly name who
Nostradamus intended to be this third and final “man of evil.” We may also
discover how the death of this man, early in the next conflict between Arab and
Jew, may scourge the world with a twenty-seven year war of terrorism.
A number of Nostradamus’ prophecies infer that the first Antichrist was Napaulon
Roy (Napoleon King), the second Hister (Hitler). The third is code named Mabus.
His fate in the prophecy mentioned above possibly implicates him as one of the
first to fall in a devastating war that only begins with his death. The
reference to the “undoing” of people and animals not only suggests war but also
a plague — perhaps one caused by the use of nuclear, biological or chemical
weapons. The undoing or unraveling of civilization in a future 21st-century
Balkanization of the world is a common theme in Nostradamus’ prophecies. Such a
world civil war comes as a result of a possible breakdown of the climate and the
human food chain (“thirst, famine”). The stress of these added to the demands of
an exploding population drags a hundred “powers,” or nations, into a world war
“free-for-all” fought over dwindling resources no later than the 2020s.
Nostradamus chases home the theme of a long and devastating war coming
“after” the early death of its perpetrator in Quatrain 77 of Century 8, when he
says: “The Third Antichrist very soon annihilated. Twenty-seven years his war
will last. The heretics dead, captives exiled. Blood-soaked human bodies, and a
reddened, icy hail covering the earth.”
Many historical facts support the prescient clues of Nostradamus that the
present day is slotted for Mabus and his war to appear. A “great comet” did pass
through the skies as a harbinger of things to come—Comet Hale/Bopp in 1997. The
turn of the millennium saw human population cross the threshold of 6 billion.
There are over 100 nations that one could say are suffering the widespread
distresses of malnutrition and a lack of fresh water (“famine, thirst”) that
could lead to a plague of civil and national wars. Worldwatch Institute reported
in the 1990s that in the coming decades over 100 nations could go to war over
water disputes alone. These nations include Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria,
Turkey, Iraq, and also the West Bank region which at any time could declare its
nationhood as Palestine. The eight months of fighting so far in this new and
more deadly chapter of the Intifada is indeed a war of vengeance and counter
vengeance. The “hundred hands” or “powers” could stand for Middle Eastern
nations, terrorist factions (be they Jewish, Arab and Iranian) that spring to
action if “Mabus” the Third Antichrist should fall.
Who is Mabus?
According to my interpretation of this enigmatic code name in such books as
Nostradamus: The Complete
Prophecies and
Nostradamus: The New Revelations, I posed that Mabus is a North African or
Middle Eastern Arab terrorist. I base my theory on Nostradamus’ habit of hiding
his messages in classical cryptograms. To me, Mabus stands for Thurbo Majus, the
classical Roman name given to the “infernal God of Hannibal” referred to in
Quatrain 30 of Century 2 (See pages 177-179 of
Nostradamus: The Complete
Prophecies). Majus (Mabus) is the Romanized name for the city God of
Carthage in North Africa. The ruins of Carthage, in Tunisia, are but a few miles
from what was once the chief headquarters for the PLO (Palestinian Liberation
Organization) for much of the 1960s and 70s. Thus any number of shadowy figures
of Arab terrorism have spent their time near Thurbo Majus, hiding their true
identities under code names beginning with “Abu” (Arabic for “father”).
The wide use of Abu fits the prophet’s rules of anagram decoding. You can drop
one or two letters in a word, for instance, the “m” and “s” from “mABUs” and you
get “Abu.” The Majus-Mabus link implies those individuals or organizations using
that PLO North African base or those organizations and their operatives who are
code named “Abu” — such as Abu Amar, Abu Nidal, or Abu Abbas, etc. — as
candidates for the Third Antichrist.
Beyond the PLO connection, Nostradamus scholar, Bardo Kidogo, uses classical
Persian metaphors to unveil Mabus as a modern-day Iranian Ayatollah. He sees
Mabus as a cryptogram for Gobrayas Megabyzus who was one of several conspirators
who overthrew a Zoroastrian priest (or magus) who had usurped the throne of
Persia (Iran) in ancient times. Megabyzus (Mabus) later helped Darius become
Emperor of Perisa. Later, as a governor of Persian holdings in Europe, Megabyzus
showed himself to be a real tyrant with a flair for terrorism. His favorite
modus operandi was to attack enemy states from within. I would add that
currently leading Ayatollahs in Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist leadership are
encouraging and financing fringe Palestinian terrorist organizations such as
Hamas, as well as the Shi’ite-Lebanese Hizbullah. Hizbullah regularly shells
Israeli targets from Lebanon and more than once has nearly triggered a widening
Middle Eastern war in the last eight months of the new Intifada. Spokesmen for
Hamas have stepped forward and claimed responsibility for the recent Tel Aviv
disco bombing.
Mabus could also be currently hiding out in Afghanistan. The Saudi terrorist,
Osama Bin Laden, who commands his war of jihad on America and Israel from a base
camp in remote Afghanistan, often sees Western reporters phonetically misspell
the Arabic pronunciation of his first name. It is “Usama.” Thus a true phonetic
spelling makes his name a classic fit for Mabus if one follows Nostradamus’
rules of wordplay. “Usama” = maaus. Drop the redundant “a” and replace with a
single letter allowed by the rule and Insert a “b” = Mabus.
Then there is Saddam Hussein of Iraq. You can find his name matching that of
Mabus by using a simple occult word game. First spell m-a-b-u-s backwards; then
turn any letters around that can represent a new letter once reversed, such as
“b” turned to a “d.” Thus, Mabus spelled backwards is “Sudam.” Use the law of
replacing one letter and you get “Sadam.” Phonetic redundancies allow you to
spell it with an extra “d” and it becomes “Saddam.”
Despite the current bellicose climate between Israelis and Palestinians, I still
hold that Saddam Hussein of Iraq is the chief candidate for Mabus, to date. He
considers himself the protector of extremist Palestinian aspirations—namely; the
deep rooted desire to push Israelis into the sea and take back all Palestinian
lands seized in Israel’s 1948 war of independence. He has pledged a force of up
to 5 million armed Iraqi Mujahadeen poised to assist their Palestinian brethren
in the coming conflict. Intelligence reports indicate that Saddam Hussein is
rapidly rebuilding his chemical and biological weapons arsenals. He may yet
produce atomic bombs — either smuggled from former Soviet sources or through
manufacturing a crude bomb of his own. The most conservative Pentagon estimates
say Iraq could build or procure an atomic weapon in less that five years.
One cannot rule out that Nostradamus intended Mabus to be a thing rather than
a person. There is possibly one of Nostradamus’ complicated double entendres
working in this enigmatic code name. Mabus the “thing” then is Saddam the
“person’s” weapon of mass destruction, hurled at Israel. One of the Iraqi
leader’s arsenal of “al-Abbas” (Mabus) scud missiles could be the payload for a
future chemical, biological, or even nuclear attack on Tel Aviv. In such a
scenario the famous “Mabus” prophecy could describe the launch of an al-Mabus
missile that “soon dies” in the flames of its own successful explosion after its
seven minute supersonic journey. If the target is Israel, she may reply with one
of her own 200 nuclear weapons. The last Gulf War clearly demonstrated how scuds
or other intermediate-range missiles are perfectly designed for surprise in the
compact theater of the Middle East. The chemical or nuclear extermination of
just one of the region’s cities would set alight “all at once” the Holy Land’s
ancient vengeances in an “undoing” of men and animals” in a region-wide
Armageddon. Mabus the missile and/or the person would be instantly consumed in a
World War III in miniature that erases the land where Moses wandered, Jesus
walked, and Muhammad drove his camels.
Although I deem Mabus to be Saddam Hussein, there is one last important
candidate who at this very moment may hold the key to peace or Armageddon waged
between Israeli and Palestinian, Chairman Yasser Arafat. Before he became a
peace broker for his people, his PLO secret code name was “Abu Amar.” Drop the
last two letters “ar” and replace with “s” to get Maabus. The “aa” phonetically
stands for one “a” = Mabus.
Given the volatile situation in the Middle East, an observation I made back in
late 1997 deserves review. It speculated on how the successor to Pope John Paul
II may be drawn into collapsing Middle Eastern peace efforts to play a
significant part as a peacemaker in the near future. On page 334 of my book
The Last Pope [a study of
the Latin papal prophecies attributed to the medieval Irish St. Malachy], I said
the following:
“Arafat and the Palestinian leadership are preparing for a defensive war they
cannot win code-named Field of Thorns. The pope’s role as peacemaker may be set
in motion after Israeli troops get bogged down in bloody warfare and negative
global public opinion when they fight an intifada of lead bullets rather than
stones in street wars with West Bank Palestinian police.”
If, in the coming days, Yasser Arafat where to “soon die” in Israel’s expected
retaliation — or he dies in subsequent fighting as the current intifada becomes
a full fledged war — the vengeance sought for Arafat’s martyrdom could trigger a
27-year war of terrorism.* The same could also be said if in the coming conflict
missiles find their mark in one of Saddam Hussein’s bunkers as retaliation for
drawing Iraq into such a war.
If I am reading these prophecies correctly the clues unlocking who Mabus is
requires the following facts and events to transpire:
1.) He is a figure from the North African/Middle East axis of nations using
desperate acts to achieve his goals.
2.) He will be one of the first to fall in the coming war.
3.) It will only appear that his death ends hostilities. Decades of vengeance
attacks by means of terrorism will follow.
4,) He could be a known leader of an organization or state that is overwhelmed
and destroyed by an overpowering counterattack.
5.) Unlike the first two Antichrists, Mabus could be a minor political figure
— even the terrorist bomber himself — who, in detonating his weapon, vaporizes
himself and triggers 27-years of warfare as a repercussion of his one violent
act. For example, if peace cannot be found, the mystery bomber who detonated his
lethal explosion in the cue of a Tel Aviv beach side disco on 1 June 2001, may
yet be remembered as the one who was soon annihilated by his own explosion, yet
triggered the next great slaughter of people and animals in the Middle East.
I await events.
I pray that none of my interpretations of Nostradamus’ fearsome and shadowy
“Mabus” come true.
*UPDATE 30
June 2001: So far both sides continue to stare at the abyss rather than jump in
as they try to sustain a cease fire. The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon,
in a recent interview for Newsweek made what sounded to me like a veiled threat
to take Yasser Arafat out of action in the near future. Clearly he believes
Arafat is in the way of achieving at least his idea of peace terms. I cannot
help sensing that the Israeli government is contemplating some kind of
assassination or bombing “accident” that could take out the Chairman of the
Palestinian Authority. And, if they do, then Arafat’s death as “the first to
fall” in the coming conflict will make him a martyr and a means for others to
wage a 27 year war of terrorism on Israel and the world.
I'm re-sending the following now that Obama at
the UN has announced the absurdity of rejecting
Palestinian UN membership - while okaying the
membership of an un-elected, illegitimate,
"rebel" mob in Libya!
If any naively still think the Israeli
government will EVER allow Palestinians to live
free, just examine history and past Israeli
statements. "Negotiations" will never end, while
more and more Palestinian land is gradually
confiscated by the State of Israel! - D.F.
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"Every time we do
something you tell me America will do this and
will do that... I want to tell you something
very clear: Don't worry about American
pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people,
control America, and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon to Shimon
Peres, October 3, 2001 (just after the 9/11
attacks) as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
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When the U.S. Goverment
this week VETOES Statehood for Palestine, it
will confirm that Ariel Sharon was correct with
his above boast!
The State of Israel,
with its all-powerful ZIONIST LOBBY now dictates
American Foreign Policy - and demands our
continuing murderous wars against Muslim nations
targeted by Israel
The past several White
Houses and nearly every one of our Senators and
House Members have been slavishly obedient to
Israel's all powerful Zionist Lobby. That was
evident when the vast majority in Congress
supported, even applauded, Israel's one-sided
military slaughter in Lebanon and more recently
in Gaza. Soon, we may also attack Iran to
"defend" the "frightened" little State of Israel
(which possesses an estimated 600+ "defensive"
nuclear warheads).
The Zionist Lobby's
zealous members either outright OWN all our
major "news" media (and entertainment) - or
dominate the few remaining through pressure from
Corporate Zionist advertisers. The Lobby's
influential members also saturate the upper
echelons of major Corporations, Banking and high
Finance in America.
Amazing when one considers
Jewish Americans make up less than 2% of our
nation's population - and the above Zionist
influence peddlers are only a small percentage
of the 2%.
Perhaps we should move
the White House and Congress to Israel, where
they can get their daily instructions more
directly!
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