Dividing Israel 2007
People's voice thunders a clear 'yes'
The Jerusalem Post (December 25, 2007) -
The issue of Palestinian recognition of Israel's identity as a Jewish
state is emerging once again as a controversial issue in
Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Israeli and Palestinian political and
opinion leaders have been debating this issue publicly, and leaders of
the Israeli Arab or Israeli Palestinian community have added their say.
In the process, this issue has become a tool in the hands of those who
contemplated to spoil the recent American initiative which began at
Annapolis and derail any ensuing peace process. We wish to add to the
public debate our insights based on our joint Israeli-Palestinian Public
Opinion Poll (JIPP). This project is an initiative of the Truman
Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University and the
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah, and
is supported by the Ford Foundation and the Adenauer Foundation. It
tracks Palestinian and Israeli public opinion on the conflict and the
attempts to resolve it since mid 2000. We repeatedly examined this hotly
debated issue since mid 2003, and not often does one obtain such
clear-cut and consistent results as we do here. Our findings have
significant implications for the negotiations following the Annapolis
conference. They clearly indicate that the best negotiating strategy is
one that frames this issue in the context of two parameters: (1) it must
be mutual; i.e., Palestinians too must receive an Israeli recognition of
the national identity of their state as they grant Israelis recognition
of the Jewish nature of their state, and (2) it must come as a crowning
step; one that seeks to assure the two sides of future intentions rather
than one that seeks to impose an Israeli precondition for future
concessions. IF FRAMED within these parameters, the people's voice
thunders a clear "yes" to mutual recognition of identity. We wish here
to expose this silent majority, and turn private opinions of the
citizens on both sides into public opinion, and a factor in public
discourse. The question we ask our Israeli and Palestinian respondents
draws on the two states for two peoples formula from the
Ayalon-Nusseibeh Peace Plan from July 2002. The question we pose to both
Israelis and Palestinians is the following: There is a proposal that
after the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and the
settlement of all issues in dispute, including the refugees and
Jerusalem issues, there will be a mutual recognition of Israel as the
state of the Jewish people and Palestine as the state of the Palestinian
people. Do you agree or disagree to this proposal? In nine polls we
conducted between 2003 and 2006, our findings show substantial and
consistent majority support in both publics for a mutual recognition of
Israel as the state of the Jewish people and Palestine as the state of
the Palestinian people when such recognition comes at the crowing stage
of negotiations. WHAT IS perhaps even more striking is the high level of
support for this formula among Palestinian citizens of Israel. As a
matter of fact, the Arab minority in Israel supports this formula at a
higher degree than Israeli Jews as well as Palestinians, and the pattern
of the findings is highly consistent. Over two thirds of Israeli Jews
and Arabs and an average of 60% of the Palestinians over the nine polls
support such a declaration. more...
Israel fears clash with U.S. over peace talks' impasse
Haaretz (December 25, 2007) -
The United States will conduct confidential assessments of whether
Israel and the Palestinians are meeting their peacemaking commitments
and share the results privately with the parties, U.S. and Western
officials said. Israel has sought to keep the U.S. process of judging
compliance with the long-stalled "road map" peace plan largely secret.
Palestinians say they favour disclosure of judgments on whether Israel
is halting all settlement activity and whether the Palestinians are
curbing militants as the plan demands. Though the Bush administration
has decided to keep the assessment process confidential, it reserves the
right to go public with its views if necessary, the officials said.
U.S. judgments will be crucial because Israel has said it
will not implement any peace deal until the Palestinians meet their
commitments to combat militants in both the West Bank and the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where militants continue to fire rockets
across the border into Israel. The monitoring process may be a test of
Washington's readiness to hold a key ally to its commitments. Despite
U.S. and Palestinian pressure on Israel to freeze settlements, the
Housing Ministry said on Sunday 740 new homes would be built in East
Jerusalem next year. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas agreed at U.S.-sponsored conference in
Annapolis, Maryland last month to relaunch final-status peace talks with
the goal of reaching a statehood agreement by the end of 2008.
more...
Javier SOLANA, EU High Representative for the CFSP, welcomes the completion of the procedures for the accreditation of EUPOL COPPS Europa Document (December 28, 2008) - Javier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), today welcomed the completion of the procedures for the accreditation of EUPOL COPPS and made the following statement: "I welcome the completion of the procedure that paves the way for the accreditation of the European Union police mission for the Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS) by the Government of Israel. I wish to thank Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mrs Tzipi Livni for her support. This agreement will facilitate the implementation of the mandate of the mission." The aim of the EUPOL COPPS mission is to work with the Palestinian civilian police to support the Palestinian Authority in taking responsibility for law and order, and improving its civilian police and law enforcement capacity. EUPOL COPPS helps to establish sustainable and effective policing arrangements under Palestinian ownership in accordance with the best international standards. This mission is a central pillar of the EU Action Strategy in support of renewed peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians launched in Annapolis last November.| Israel | Islam | Dividing the Land | EU/UN / 4th Kingdom | Solana | 1st Seal | Israeli ministry drops plans for Jerusalem homes Reuters (December 20, 2007) - Israel's Housing Ministry backed away on Thursday from a preliminary proposal to build homes on occupied land near Jerusalem that had been criticized by Palestinian and Israeli officials. "The construction is no longer being discussed," a ministry official said. The issue of Israeli settlement building in the Jerusalem area has clouded renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians launched at a U.S.-sponsored conference last month. Disputes over settlements and Jerusalem are central to the negotiations President George W. Bush hopes can be concluded before he steps down in January 2009. The ministry said on Wednesday it had been discussing the possibility of building homes near what Israel refers to as Atarot and the Palestinians call Qalandia in the occupied West Bank. Israel annexed Arab East Jerusalem after the 1967 Middle East war in a move that has not won international recognition. It regards all of Jerusalem as its capital. The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of the state they hope to create in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.| Israel | Islam | Dividing the Land | Revealed: Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount WorldNet Daily (December 13, 2007) - In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, the Israeli government in 2000 agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – to the Palestinians during U.S.-backed negotiations, according to declassified documents made public today. The information comes as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month denied talks started at November's Annapolis summit would lead to Israel giving up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, while chief Palestinian negotiators tell WND the Jewish state already agreed to forfeit Judaism's holiest site to a coalition of Arab countries. According to declassified Israeli government documents published today by Israel's Haaretz newspaper, during U.S.-led negotiations in 2000 at Camp David, Ehud Barak, then prime minister, agreed sovereignty over the Temple Mount would be either "ambiguous" or control would be determined based on the bond of each party to the site. The Palestinians would therefore control the upper sections of the Mount, which houses the Al Aqsa Mosque and also is the site of the First and Second Jewish Temples. The 2000 negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem. Barak at times denied he offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but he also indicated during interviews he was willing to compromise over the site. Haaretz published excerpts from a 26-page document it obtained, signed by Barak's negotiator Gilad Sher and said to be summaries of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The document was titled "The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister." Sher also wrote in his book published after the 2000 negotiations, titled "Beyond Reach," that President Bill Clinton floated a plan that called for the Temple Mount to become Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty. Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to forfeit the Temple Mount. The 26-page document published by Haaretz also said Barak was willing to give up most of the West Bank and split Jerusalem into two capitals, one called Jerusalem and another Al-Quds. Negotiations would have seen Arab sections of Jerusalem being turned over to the Palestinians. The release of the document follow's last month's Annapolis summit at which Olmert committed to aim at creating a Palestinian state before the end of next year, handing strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. In a briefing to reporters upon returning to Israel from Annapolis, Olmert claimed Israel's sovereignty over the Temple Mount is not up for discussion. He said negotiations started at this week's Annapolis summit had no bearing on the situation on the Temple Mount. But a chief Palestinian negotiator, speaking to WND on condition of anonymity, said Olmert's denials were "false." "What Olmert said (regarding the Mount) is absolutely false. I think he's not yet ready to tell the Israeli public and is waiting for the right time, and he fears his coalition with religious extremists will fall apart if he announces it now," said the negotiator. Olmert's maintains a government coalition with the religious Shas party and Russian Yisroel Beiteinu party, but if those two bolt, the prime minister could create a new coalition with leftist parties. The chief Palestinian negotiator said that in the months leading up to Annapolis, the Palestinian team was "surprised" by Olmert's willingness to give up the Mount. "We had intense debates on many topics, which remain open and unsettled, but the Harem Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) is not a sticking point. The Israelis didn't argue with us. We were pleasantly surprised Olmert didn't debate about giving the lower section of the [Mount] either, which was a sticking point in the past." more... I believe the Temple Mount will be handed over in the dividing of Israel, but I also believe that the temple will be rebuilt, just the inner court, once God reveals Himself to Israel in the destruction of the Magog invaders from Russia, Turkey, Iran, Libya and others. The attitude of Israel and the world will shift dramatically, I believe, once God shows Himself in defense of Israel.
Blair
ducks MK question about Jewish state Jerusalem Newswire (December
12, 2007) -
Israeli parliamentarians were reportedly furious December
12 when former British Prime Minister Tony Blair refused to answer a
question directed at him about Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO]
Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' [Abu Mazen’s] recently reiterated refusal to
recognize Israel as a JEWISH state. While the PLO has consistently held
to its refusal to acknowledge and agree to Israel being a Jewish state,
it began to more blatantly and vociferously express this position in the
week before last month's Annapolis conference. And it has repeated its
position since. Blair, who is in Israel in his new role as special envoy
on behalf of the so-called Quartet of world powers, was addressing the
Knesset [Parliament] Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee when one of
its members, Likud MK Limor Livnat, questioned him on the issue.
"Members of the committee were furious when Blair did not answer,"
reported the leftist daily, Haaretz. The international community is
widely understood to agree with the Arab point of view that there should
be no Jewish state per se, but that the Jews who live in the Middle East
should agree to being citizens of a one-man-one-vote state. By contrast,
the Jews who founded Israel believed, as does virtually the entire
nation as it exists today, that a Jewish state is essential if they are
to survive as a people in this almost universally anti-Jewish world.
‘America has abandoned us’ Jerusalem
Watchman (December 9, 2007) - The newspapers
here in Israel made for sobering reading this weekend. In the words of a
visiting compatriot in the cause of Christian Zionism, it is as if, after years
of moving towards a cliff in Israel-US relations, we have suddenly arrived, and
tipped over the edge. The United States has betrayed the trust of its once
“faithful friend” in the Middle East, and things are spiraling at an alarming
speed - seemingly out of control. Israelis today believe that Washington
successfully worked to lure them to Annapolis by promising to stand
shoulder-to-shoulder with the Jewish state against Iran’s fevered efforts to
obtain, deploy and possibly use nuclear weapons. Largely as a result of this
“guaranteed” alliance, the Olmert government went to Annapolis despite the
refusal of the Palestinian Arabs to, among other things, recognize Israel as a
Jewish state. Once there, believing that America truly has Israel’s best
interests at heart, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed to work towards the
creation of a Palestinian state by the end of the Bush presidency, and gave the
US the right to judge whether or not Jerusalem is complying with its commitments
under the Road Map. And then, with this Israeli commitment in its pocket, and
before the news crews had barely departed the US Naval Academy, Washington
suddenly lifted its threat to use force against Iran, issuing a report whose
heading announced that the genocidal mullahs had in fact halted their nuclear
weapons program in 2003 and therefore no longer posed a serious threat to Israel
or anyone else within reach of their long range, surface-to-surface missiles.
The fact that the body of the National Intelligence Estimate report soundly
contradicts its headline has done little if anything to alleviate the fallout
from its release. For Israelis, the announcement means that America has left it
dangling before the diabolical designs of the Islamic world - and particularly
of holocaust-threatening Tehran. This was the consensus of understanding, at
least on the staff of The Jerusalem Post, Israel’s biggest-circulation
English-language daily, who expressed their sense of shock and disbelief: We
have been
“bushwacked” exclaimed disbelieving editor-in-chief David Horowitz. America
has
“dropped a bomb on Israel” said reporter Ya’akov Katz. An American guest
columnist, Jonathan Tobin, said the “intelligence bombshell [had left] Bush’s
approach to Middle East peacemaking in ruins and Jerusalem isolated.” And
Post deputy managing editor and columnist Caroline Glick wrote a requiem
for Israel-US relations in her “Column One” piece hauntingly headlined:
“The abandonment of the Jews.” Elsewhere, in a
Ynetnews report Sunday Shas Party Minister Yitzhak Cohen slammed “the manner
in which the Americans relate to the intelligence report on Iran [as] similar to
the way in which they viewed those reports they received during the Holocaust on
railways transporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to their death at Auschwitz.
more... Pray for Israel. World politics are lined up against Israel as prophesied. The powers behind America have a secret agenda that falls in line with Bible prophecy as the whole world is coming against Israel. Zechariah 12:1-3 I'm learning that the world we are told of is not the world that is. Our perceptions are shaped by the powerful people who have consolidated their influence over media and politics to blind the population so they can carry out their dark plans.
Jerusalem To Be Divided, Declares Israeli Official WorldNet
Daily (December 9, 2007) - A top
member of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government today announced
Israel "must" give up sections of Jerusalem for a future Palestinian
state, even conceding the Palestinians can rename Jerusalem "to
whatever they want." "We must come today and say, friends, the
Jewish neighborhoods,
including Har Homa, will remain under Israeli sovereignty, and the
Arab neighborhoods will be the Palestinian capital, which they will
call Jerusalem or whatever they want," said Israeli Vice Premier
Haim Ramon. Positions held by Ramon, a ranking member of Olmert's
Kadima party, are largely considered to be reflective of Israeli
government policy. Ramon's statements follow last month's
U.S.-sponsored Annapolis summit at which Olmert committed to aim at
completing negotiations by next year to create a Palestinian state,
with Israel expected to evacuate swaths of Jerusalem and the
strategic West Bank. Ramon said due to the city's demographics, Arab
neighborhoods of Jerusalem "should not be under Israeli sovereignty,
because they pose a threat to Jerusalem being the capital of a
Jewish Israel." About 231,000 Arabs live in Jerusalem, mostly in
eastern neighborhoods. The city has an estimated total population of
724,000. Ramon listed population statistics as the reason Olmert's
government finds it necessary to split Jerusalem. But
WND broke the story last week that according to Jerusalem
municipal employees, during 10 years as mayor of Jerusalem, Olmert
instructed city workers not to take action against hundreds of
illicit Arab building projects throughout eastern sections of
Jerusalem housing over 100,000 Arabs squatting in the city
illegally. The workers and some former employees claim Olmert even
instructed city officials to delete files documenting illegal Arab
construction of housing units in eastern Jerusalem. Olmert was
Jerusalem mayor from 1993 to 2003. As mayor he made repeated public
statements calling Jerusalem the "eternal and undivided capital" of
Israel. Jerusalem municipal employees and former workers, though,
paint a starkly contrasting picture of the prime minister. "He did
nothing about rampant illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem while
the government cracked down on illegal Jewish construction in the
West Bank," said one municipal employee who worked under Olmert. She
spoke on condition of anonymity because she still works at the
municipality. One former municipal worker during Olmert's mayoral
tenure told WND he was moved in 1999 to a new government posting
after he tried to highlight the illegal Arab construction in
Jerusalem. He also spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for his
current job. more...
Evangelical Leaders Reiterate Call for Two-State Solution for Israel and
Palestine Christianity
Today (December 3, 2007) -
Over
80 educators and ministry heads affirm efforts to negotiate lasting
peace, and warn of consequences of failure.
This week the Bush State Department is devoting its full diplomatic
efforts toward bringing a two-state resolution to the Israel-Palestine
conflict. Over the past few months, they have put on a full-court press
to gather a broad representation of Arab world leaders to join Israeli
and Palestinian negotiators for a historic meeting in Annapolis,
Maryland. Now, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian
National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have agreed to a program of
sustained and focused negotiations throughout 2008. With these cautious
but hopeful beginnings, over 80 evangelical leaders have signed a
statement indicating their belief "that the way forward is for the
Israelis and Palestinians to negotiate a fair, two-state solution."
These leaders—including Christian college and seminary presidents,
denominational heads, and other ministry leaders—pledge their "ongoing
support for the security of Israel," and state that "unless the
situation between Israel and Palestine improves quickly, the
consequences will be devastating" for Israel. Palestinians with little
economic opportunity "are increasingly sympathetic to radical
solutions." The full text of their statement and the list of signatories
follow. more... I think this is one of the consequences of not understanding Bible prophecy and what it says about the future. These leaders aren't looking at what the Bible says will happen to those that come against Israel. God said He would put Israel in the land and Jeremiah 30:20 says, "Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them." Read Ezekiel 36,37 as well. Remember it is when everyone says peace and safety that sudden destruction comes. Recognizing the Bible's prophesies is much different from actively participating in what it says will happen. These things will happen without our help and given the judgment for those that come against Israel and God's putting Israel in the land, I think it is an error for Christians to get involved. We should pray for the peace of Jerusalem and Israel knowing that will only happen when Christ returns and sets up His eternal kingdom. Who doesn't want peace and security? But be careful of who you are trusting to give it to you. The Bible says the end-times is anything but a time of peace and security and the men fomenting the chaos are doing so to implement their control of the world, not to bring peace. The spirit of antichrist destroys many with peace, Daniel 8:25, much like the loss of freedom because of terrorism and in the name of peace and security. It's all about control and power for these elite who are working with the spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:11-20 Israel's security is guaranteed by God and will be shown when Iran, Turkey, Russia, Libya and others are destroyed in the mountains of Israel. However, I do believe Israel will be divided, I just don't want to be involved with it happening. The Hammer and Tongs behind the Hugs of Annapolis DEBKAfile (December 1, 2007) - No one at UN headquarters in New York remembers a case of a draft resolution being abruptly withdrawn hours before a UN Security Council session was scheduled to approve it. This is what happened to a US draft that would have endorsed President Bush’s announcement three days earlier at the Annapolis Middle East conference of Israeli and Palestinian consent to work toward a settlement of their conflict before the end of 2008. The Council had been called into closed session Thursday night, Nov. 30 to endorse the Annapolis declaration. The text was buried hastily in an undignified scramble by the Bush administration after two days of sharp words between the White House and prime minister Ehud Olmert and his threat not to turn up for talks with the Palestinians. This incident led also to the first real falling-out between President George W. Bush and his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. He blamed her for seeking to bolster the Annapolis declaration by Security Council endorsement, thereby exposing the hyped-up event to the world as a charade and his own declaration as too flimsy to stand up. The head of the Israeli mission, Danny Gillerman, denied being fully briefed on the American text - a diplomatic figure of speech which applies equally to the situation of the Israeli delegation at the Middle East conference in Annapolis and since. But as soon as the Israeli ambassador heard that Khalilzad had obtained the consent of the five permanent members of the Security Council to a closed session for approving the US draft, he urgently alerted Olmert and Livni in Jerusalem. Gillerman warned them that a closed session means that neither Israel nor the Palestinians would be present or given a hearing. And that was not the only undesirable aspect:
Ambassador Gillerman alerted the
Israeli prime minister and foreign minister to the short distance from
UN sponsorship of the process to the dispatch of international troops to
the region as a buffer between Israel’s counter-terror forces and the
Palestinian terrorists ruling the Gaza Strip and West Bank. In the
Israeli ambassador’s opinion, the US initiative to bring the world body
in as a party to the Annapolis declaration originated with Secretary
Rice. She sought to punish Israel for not following her lead at the
conference. He pointed out that the application to the UN directly
contravened Rice’s own accords with the Israeli foreign minister.
Gillerman’s heads-up to Jerusalem sparked an urgent series of phone
calls between the prime minister’s office and the White House. Olmert
made no bones about threatening to pull out of the entire diplomatic
track charted at Annapolis if the Security Council were to be brought in
over its head. After 36 hours of hammer and tongs, US ambassador to the
UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, was instructed to call off the Council session and
withdraw the text. But recriminations on the American side for an
unprecedented loss of face were just as bitter. The White House accused
state department officials of egging Rice on to circumvent the
agreements Bush and Olmert had concluded and running off half-cocked to
the world body in a manner which left the administration red-faced.
Khalilzad was urgently recalled to Washington. When State Department
officials pushed the blame for the shambles on him, accusing him of
drafting the Security Council resolution without consulting the
secretary of state, the US ambassador’s aides shot back with a strong
denial. This incident also brought to the surface the frustrations
experienced by Israel’s delegation to the Annapolis conference, DEBKAfile’s
political sources report. US officials consistently neglected to inform
Olmert or foreign and defense ministers Tzipi Livni and Ehud Barak of
steps pre-coordinated with the Palestinians and Arab ministers,
presenting them as accomplished facts. When Israeli leaders flew out of
Washington Wednesday night, Nov. 28, none had yet been informed that the
White House had named Ret. Gen. James Jones to chair the
“US-Israel-Palestinian mechanism” accompanying the Palestinian-Israel
talks. When they read about it in the media, Olmert protested the
general's role, and it was downgraded to liaison officer. Neither did
the Americans bother to inform Israel about consultations with the
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov for a follow-up conference in
Moscow at the beginning of 2008. There, Israel will be required to agree
to the return of the Golan to Syria.
After Annapolis: PA Television Erases Israel From Map Israel
National News (November 29, 2007)
- Just one day after the Annapolis conference at which the PA recognized
the State of Israel's right to exist in peace and security, the PA's
official television station screened a map that shows a Palestinian
state in place of Israel. U.S. President George Bush, at the conference
on Tuesday, read aloud the summit's agreed-upon joint statement, which
declares, "In furtherance of the goal of two states, Israel and
Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, we agree to
immediately launch good-faith bilateral negotiations in order to
conclude a peace treaty." However, Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of
Palestinian Media
Watch (PMW)
report that just a day later, "Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority
continues to paint a picture for its people of a world without
Israel." Specifically, PMW reports that an information clip produced a
while ago by the PA's Central Bureau of Statistics was rebroadcast on
Wednesday on Abbas-controlled PA television. The
clip shows a map in which the
Land of Israel is painted in the colors of the Palestinian flag,
symbolizing the replacement of Israel by a Palestinian state. The
Palestinian entity depicted as replacing Israel includes all of Judea,
Samaria and Gaza, though not the Golan Heights. The depiction of all of
Israel as "Palestine" is not coincidental, PMW reports, "and is part of
a formal, systematic educational approach throughout the Palestinian
Authority. This uniform message of a world without Israel is repeated in
school books, children's programs, crossword puzzles, video clips,
formal symbols, school and street names, etc. The picture painted for
the Palestinian population, both verbally and visually, is of a world
without Israel." PMW concludes: "The fact that this campaign continues
before the ink on the Annapolis agreement is even dry appears to
contradict the central promise of the Palestinians at the Annapolis
conference: that Israel has a right to exist." The television clip
appears to be loyal to widespread public opinion on the PA street. PA
forces were forced to put down anti-Israel and anti-Annapolis rallies in
several cities this week, and one protestor was even shot and killed.
The protestors stated that Abbas has no right to make "concessions"
regarding Jerusalem, refugees and the like in the name of the
Palestinian people, and that any deal he makes with Israel will not be
binding. In Hevron, PA security forces killed a demonstrator, injured
dozens, and arrested 29 when using force to disperse a mass protest. PA
forces also dispersed large protests in Ramallah, Shechem (Nablus), and
Bethlehem, making several arrests. In Hamas-controlled Gaza, the
protests were much more intense, and hundreds of thousands of people
rallied in Gaza City, emphasizing the importance of the "right of
return" for millions of Arabs and their descendants, the "liberation" of
Jerusalem, the retention of "every inch of Palestinian land" and “the
path of resistance and jihad,” i.e., terrorism. Well it seems clear what the population is being told to expect of the future. We know from Bible prophecy that a period called the time of Jacob's trouble will occur after the abomination of desolation and will involve a supernatural army that goes through Judea murdering any Jews they find. Joel 2:1-10 We also see the rhetoric calling for the destruction of the State of Israel coming from the same nations that are supposedly backing the land-for-peace deal. So it seems in reality they view this as just a first step, taken with the backing of the international community, to reach their ultimate goal of a world without Israel. The extremists working to produce the chaos their prophecies tell precede the 12th Mahdi's return from the earth are going to keep railing publicly against Israel while the front-men to the international community will work with lies and deceit to bring about the same goal in steps. Understand Muslim goals and you will readily see where this is going, right where the Bible said it would thousands of years ago. Keep watching and praying! If anyone hasn't seen Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran And The Revolt Of Islam I would recommend checking it out. They point out some of the miscommunication based on the different societies and how even speaking the same words don't have the same meaning in the two worlds. This has disastrous ends of course when you know what the two sides actually mean, not just what they say. PA official: Olmert lying about Temple Mount YNet News (November 29, 2007) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's statements on Wednesday that Israel's sovereignty over the Temple Mount is not up for negotiation are "false," according to a chief Palestinian negotiator, who told WND the Israeli leader already agreed to forfeit Judaism's holiest site to a coalition of Arab countries. "What Olmert said (regarding the Mount) is absolutely false. I think he's not yet ready to tell the Israeli public and is waiting for the right time and he fears his coalition with religious extremists will fall apart if he announces it now," said a senior Palestinian negotiator Thursady on condition his name be withheld. The chief Palestinian negotiator said in months leading up to Annapolis the Palestinian team was "surprised" by Olmert's willingness to give up the Mount. "We had intense debates on many topics, which remain open and unsettled, but the Harem Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) is not a sticking point. The Israelis didn't argue with us. We were pleasantly surprised Olmert didn't debate about giving the lower section of the Mount either, which was a sticking point in the past." According to the chief Palestinian negotiator, Olmert agreed to evacuate the Mount but not to turn it over to the Palestinians alone. The negotiator said both sides agreed the Temple Mount would be given to joint Egypt, Jordan and Palestinian Authority control. He said the Israeli government felt an umbrella group of several Arab countries controlling the holy site instead of only the PA would help ease Israeli domestic opposition to giving up the Temple Mount, since Egypt and Jordan are considered by Israeli policy to be moderate countries. The Palestinian negotiator pointed out Israeli prime ministers previously denied withdrawal plans only to later carry them out. Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, elected on a platform against evacuating territory, denied for his first year in office he would retreat from the Gaza Strip but in 2005 he carried out a Gaza withdrawal. In a briefing to reporters yesterday, Olmert claimed Israel's sovereignty over the Temple Mount is not up for discussion. He said negotiations started at this week's Annapolis summit had no bearing on the situation on the Temple Mount. At the start of Tuesday's summit, President Bush read a joint declaration agreed to by Olmert and PA President Mahmoud Abbas committing the two to launch immediate negotiations aimed at "two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side." The parties said they would aim to conclude an agreement before Bush leaves office next year, with Israel widely expected to evacuate large swaths of the West Bank and speculation about eastern sections of Jerusalem, handing Abbas the strategic territories. Israel recaptured the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, in 1967. "The negotiations will address all of the issues which we have thus far avoided dealing with," said Olmert on Tuesday. "I am convinced that the reality that emerged in our region in 1967 will change significantly. I know this. Many of my people know this. We are prepared for it." I'm thinking that we may indeed see the Temple Mount handed over in the name of peace. I also believe that the Magog invasion will come after that division of Israel while the temporary peace is built. Ezekiel says that Israel is dwelling in safety when attacked from the North and this will only happen prophetically between now and the abomination of desolation. After that 2/3 of Israel are killed and 1/3 is taken to the wilderness for the remainder of the 70th week until Christ returns in glory. So clearly they won't be living in peace and safety then. So I believe we could see the Temple Mount handed over in the name of peace with a sudden shift in Israeli consciousness once God demonstrates His power in the destruction of the attackers with fire and brimstone from heaven. I think at that point nobody will desire to stop Israel from rebuilding the temple and many won't want to after seeing God's hand in the destruction of those coming against Israel. Time will tell, but it seems to fit together pretty well that way. Annapolis: A Day for the Prophetic History Books Fulfilled Prophecy (November 29, 2007) - Organizers and attendees appear to agree: the Annapolis Conference, Tuesday, was a success. But more than that, I think it was prophetically significant. For the first time, the entire international community -- including the United States, Israel and even the Arab nations -- gathered to declare their joint support for the creation of a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas committed to working for a peace treaty by the end of 2008. (Read their statement of Joint Understanding here.) They're now creating a steering committee that will start continuous negotiations on Dec. 12. Olmert and Abbas will meet every two weeks to advance the negotiations. Olmert and Abbas also agreed to begin immediate implementation of their nation's obligations under the Road Map for Peace, created in 2003 by the Quartet on the Middle East (the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations). They even agreed to let the United States monitor the implementation of the Road Map and judge whether both parties are fulfilling their obligations. And, today, the United States appointed a Special Envoy for Middle East Security -- General James Jones, an ex-NATO commander -- to help Abbas' government bring security to Palestine. Read about it here. Despite the naysayers, I think we may see a peace deal within the next year. Of course, that's what we'd expect if we've entered the 70th week of Daniel. That's not to say there won't be bumps in the road and times when negotiations look like they've stalled. But we may look back to this conference as the breakthrough. In my father, Herb Peters', book, Recommendation 666 (available to read free here), he cited the 1992 Israeli election as the first time Israelis began saying "Peace and safety!" -- when they voted for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who ran on the platform of trading land for peace. According to 1 Thessalonians 5:3, when they are saying "peace and safety!" (in other words, when Israel is willing to give up its God-given land and turn to its enemies for protection) then destruction will come on Israel suddenly. Note two very similar words in the statement of Joint Understanding read by Bush at the conference:
This is a formal
declaration made by Israel -- and witnessed by the nations of the world
-- that Israel has chosen to give up its land for peace. And it was a
U.S. president -- sad for me to say -- that pushed for it.
Yes, I think we'll look back on
this day as prophetically significant.
Summary of remarks by Javier SOLANA on the occasion of the Annapolis
Conference Europa
(November 27, 2007) - NEW MOMENTUM IN THE
PEACE PROCESS: Recent developments have created a sense of cautious
optimism for progress towards resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict. President Abbas and Prime Minister Olmert are engaged in a
substantive and wide-ranging bilateral dialogue. The United States
Government is actively supporting their efforts, including by calling
for an international meeting before the end of the year, in order to
launch a bilateral negotiation process that would lead to the
establishment of a Palestinian state. The new momentum in the peace
process benefits from the full backing and active involvement of the
Quartet. Arab support has been expressed through the voice of the Arab
League follow-up Committee. Comprehensive peace in the Middle East is a
strategic objective for the European Union. Any lasting and just
settlement to the conflict should be based on the principle of land for
peace, relevant UNSC resolutions, the Arab Peace Initiative, the Roadmap
and previous agreements reached between the parties. The EU considers
that the present opportunity should not be missed and is ready to take
its responsibilities, in accordance with the vital European interests
involved. The EU is therefore committed to supporting current efforts in
a serious and substantive way, offering a comprehensive and coherent
contribution to the process, including during the crucial implementation
period. The European Union calls on all other interested parties to
support the current process, bearing in mind the high cost of failure
for everyone involved. The forthcoming international meeting in
Annapolis should launch a bilateral negotiation between Israel and the
Palestinians on final status issues, as a first step towards a
comprehensive settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It should
establish a robust follow-up process under the auspices of the Quartet
and with the involvement of the international community. The EU calls on
its Quartet, Arab League and other international partners to contribute
to the success of the upcoming donors conference in Paris, which will
constitute an indispensable complement to the political process launched
at Annapolis. more...
Joint
Understanding Read by President Bush at Annapolis Conference US
Department of State (November 27, 2007)
- PRESIDENT BUSH: The representatives of the government of the state of
Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, represented
respective by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, and President Mahmoud Abbas in
his capacity as Chairman of the PLO Executive Committee and President of
the Palestinian Authority, have convened in Annapolis, Maryland, under
the auspices of President George W. Bush of the United States of
America, and with the support of the participants of this international
conference, having concluded the following joint understanding. We
express our determination to bring an end to bloodshed, suffering and
decades of conflict between our peoples; to usher in a new era of peace,
based on freedom, security, justice, dignity, respect and mutual
recognition; to propagate a culture of peace and nonviolence; to
confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed by Palestinians or
Israelis. In furtherance of the goal of two states, Israel and
Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, we agree to
immediately launch good-faith bilateral negotiations in order to
conclude a peace treaty, resolving all outstanding issues, including all
core issues without exception, as specified in previous agreements. We
agree to engage in vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations, and
shall make every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008.
For this purpose, a steering committee, led jointly by the head of the
delegation of each party, will meet continuously, as agreed. The
steering committee will develop a joint work plan and establish and
oversee the work of negotiations teams to address all issues, to be
headed by one lead representative from each party. The first session of
the steering committee will be held on 12 December 2007. President Abbas
and Prime Minister Olmert will continue to meet on a bi-weekly basis to
follow up the negotiations in order to offer all necessary assistance
for their advancement. The parties also commit to immediately implement
their respective obligations under the performance-based road map to a
permanent two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, issued
by the Quartet on 30 April 2003 -- this is called the road map -- and
agree to form an American, Palestinian and Israeli mechanism, led by the
United States, to follow up on the implementation of the road map. The
parties further commit to continue the implementation of the ongoing
obligations of the road map until they reach a peace treaty. The United
States will monitor and judge the fulfillment of the commitment of both
sides of the road map. Unless otherwise agreed by the parties,
implementation of the future peace treaty will be subject to the
implementation of the road map, as judged by the United States.
Israel, Palestinians OK negotiating plan Associated
Press (November 27, 2007) -
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Tuesday to immediately
resume long-stalled talks toward a deal by the end of next year
that would create an independent Palestinian state, using a
U.S.-hosted Mideast peace conference to launch their first
negotiations in seven years. In a joint statement read by
President Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to start discussions
on the core issues of the conflict next month and accepted the
United States as arbiter of interim steps. "We agree to
immediately launch good-faith bilateral negotiations in order to
conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues,
including all core issues without exception, as specified in
previous agreements," it said. "We agree to engage in
vigorous, ongoing and continuous negotiations and shall make
every effort to conclude an agreement before the end of 2008,"
said the document, which was reached after weeks of intense
diplomacy and was uncertain until just before Bush announced it.
The conference at the U.S. Naval Academy has been greeted by
heavy skepticism, with many questioning its timing and prospects
for success, especially given the weaknesses of Olmert and
Abbas, whose leadership is challenged by the militant Hamas
movement. And the task is complicated by Arab pressure to
resolve other long simmering disputes Israel has with Syria and
Lebanon. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, in his
remarks to the conference, called for the earliest possible
resumption of talks with Lebanon and Syria, which wants the
return of the Golan Heights, land seized by Israel during the
1967 war. "We have come to support the launching of serious and
continuing talks between the Palestinians and the Israelis that
will address all the core and final status issues," Saud said.
"These talks must be followed by the launching of the Syrian and
Lebanese tracks at the earliest." more... Olmert Addresses the Annapolis Mideast Conference Washington Post (November 27, 2007) - PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): The honorable president of the United States, George Bush, my colleague, president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, heads of delegations, and distinguished guests, I came here today from Jerusalem, Mr. President, at your invitation, to extend, on behalf of the people of Israel and the state of Israel, to the Palestinian people and to our neighboring Arab states, to extend a hand in peace, a hand which marks the beginning of historic reconciliation between us and you, the Palestinians, and all of the Arab nations. I had many good reasons not to come here to this meeting. Memory of failures in the near and distant past weighed heavy upon us. The dreadful terrorism perpetrated by Palestinian terrorist organizations has affected thousands of Israeli citizens, has destroyed families and has tried to disrupt the lives of the citizens of Israel. I witnessed this when I served as mayor of Jerusalem in days of bombings at cafes, on buses, and in recreational centers in Jerusalem, as well as in other cities in the state of Israel. The ongoing shooting of Qassam rockets against tens of thousands of residents in the south of Israel, particularly in the city of Sderot, serves as a warning sign, one which we cannot overlook. The absence of governmental institutions and effective law enforcement mechanisms, the role of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the ongoing activity of murderous organizations throughout all the territories of the Palestinian Authority, the absence of a legal system that meets the basic criteria of democratic government, all of these are factors which deter us from moving forward too hastily. I am not overlooking any of these obstacles which are liable to emerge along the way. I see them. But I came here, despite the concerns and the doubts and the hesitations to say to you, President Mahmoud Abbas, and through you to your people, and to the entire Arab world, the time has come. We no longer and you no longer have the privilege of adhering to dreams which are (inaudible) from the sufferings of our peoples, the hardships that they experience daily, and the burden of living under ongoing uncertainty, which offers no hope of change or of a better future. We want peace. We demand an end to terror, an end to incitement and to hatred. We are prepared to make a painful compromise, rife with risks, in order to realize these aspirations. I came here today not in order to settle historical accounts between us and you about what caused the confrontations and the hatred, and what for many years has prevented a compromise, a settlement of peace. more... | Israel | Islam | Dividing the Land | EU/UN / 4th Kingdom | America |
Thousands rally in Jerusalem against parley Jerusalem
Post (November 27, 2007) - Any
Israeli concessions that would be forged in Annapolis would make
Jerusalem and the center of the country vulnerable to the kind of
Palestinian-launched rocket attacks that the border city of Sderot has
endured for years, Sderot resident Alon Davidi said on Monday night.
"Your actions in Annapolis will cause rockets to rain on Jerusalem,"
Davidi warned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he looked out at thousands
of right-wing protesters who packed Paris Square in Jerusalem. "You have
sacrificed Sderot and now you want to sacrifice the rest of the
country," Davidi said. "There is a moment in the life of a nation when
you have to say, enough is enough." The prime minister, Davidi said, "is
disconnected from the nation, but we are united." Shouting out "no" to a
divided Jerusalem and "yes" to the construction of more settlements and
Jewish homes in the West Bank, the protesters sent a message to Olmert
in advance of Tuesday's peace conference in Annapolis. They followed a
larger demonstration at the Western Wall in which some 15,000 prayed for
the Annapolis talks on any territorial withdrawal to fail. Standing on a
podium set up a block from Olmert's residence, politicians
and religious leaders buoyed by cheers from the crowd of
mostly teens and young adults vowed to prevent any further concessions
to the Palestinians. Many in the crowd held large black, red and white
signs that stretched over their heads proclaiming: "The agreement of
Olmert and Abu-Bluff will explode in our faces." Between the speeches,
protesters danced to live music performed by religious bands, the songs
reminiscent of the many anti-disengagement rallies that preceded the
2005 withdrawal from Gaza. But one speaker warned that Olmert should not
be fooled and that the new campaign against further territorial
withdrawals would not be like the anti-disengagement campaign, in which
the slogan was: "With love we will win." The stakes are high and the
fears of those gathered are not a minority concern, given that the
Annapolis talks endanger all of Israel, warned Dani Dayan, who heads the
Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. "We
have not come just to defend the homes of Judea and Samaria, but first
and foremost the unity of Jerusalem and the security of Tel Aviv," Dayan
said. "We say 'no' to the 1967 border," which the Palestinians are
demanding, said Dayan. more... Mahmoud Abbas Remarks at Annapolis Conference Washington Post (November 27, 2007) - SPEAKER: PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): In the name of God, the compassionate, (SPEAKING IN ARABIC) with great hope, but it is accompanied with great worry that this new opportunity might be lost. But the meanings of your message are well known and they carry your personal bridge and commitment by your great country and its determination to embrace the Palestinian and Israeli peace and the Arab-Israeli peace to be converted in the arena of negotiations to be the first and foremost arena for making peace. And that this initiative would culminate your term of office is an outstanding achievement which would add a new shining star in the skies of the world, the world of the future free of violence, oppression and bigotry. And also we would like to applaud you, Mr. President, for choosing this charming city, Annapolis, as a venue for convening this international conference. In addition to its beauty and distinctive location, it bears the symbol of freedom; the most sublime value in our life. "Freedom" is the single word that stands for the future of the Palestinians and captures the meanings of all their generations. It is their sunshine and it is the life that inspires their future. It is the last word voiced by the martyrs and victims, and it is the lyric (ph) of their prisoners. I must also pay tribute to the role played by Dr. Condoleezza Rice and her aides. For without here relentless resolve and determination and her vision vis-a-vis all aspects of conflict in our region, we would not have been convening here. Dr. Rice took important strides with us in order to affirm that the path of peace is the only choice and it is irreversible. And that the path to negotiations for peace and to achieve peace is the right path. It is important for me to indicate here that this distinguished participation and large participation from sister Arab and Islamic countries, the quartet, and the group of great industrial countries, and the permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations, and many prominent European and Asian countries, as well as non-aligned countries and African states and from South America, in a unique conference in the history of the conflicts would provide impetus and protection, in addition to the fact that it carries the meanings of encouragement to pursue the path of Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations and move that forward and the need to reach the solution of two states, based on ending occupation and the establishment of the state of Palestine side by side to the state of Israel, and the resolution of all issues relating to the Palestinian- Israeli conflict, Arab-Israeli conflict in all their aspects, as an indispensable qualitative step, so that comprehensive and normal peace relations would be established in our region. I am proud that this Arab and Islamic contribution and this broad international that this Arab and Islamic contribution and this broad international participation in the work of this conference is a testimony to the fact that sister and friendly states are standing by us, the people of Palestine, as a leadership, and for our efforts to achieve peace. It is a support of our approach that calls for a balanced historical settlement that would ensure peace and security for our independent state and for Israel, as well as for all countries in the region. more...| Israel | Islam | Dividing the Land | EU/UN / 4th Kingdom | America | Hamas rejects Abbas speech at Annapolis conference Jerusalem Post (November 27, 2007) - Watching on TV Tuesday as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for peace with Israel at the beginning of a Middle East conference in the United States, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza rejected his call and said Abbas speaks only for himself. The spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, watched the opening speeches at his office in Gaza City. He said Abbas "has no mandate to discuss, to agree, or to erase any word related to our rights." Barhoum said Abbas went to the conference "without any support from his people. He is isolated (and) represents himself only." Barhoum expressed disappointment in the participation of Arab nations in the summit. Their presence is seen as support for renewed peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Instead, Barhoum indicated that Hamas would continue its violence against Israel. "We will use all the tools of resistance to achieve our rights," he said.| Islam | Dividing the Land |
Text of Bush’s Remarks at Annapolis Conference NY
Times (November 27, 2007) - Here are
the remarks President Bush delivered today at the United States Naval
Academy in Annapolis, Md., as transcribed by Federal News Service, Inc.,
a private firm not affiliated with the government. Mr. Bush’s remarks
opened a meeting of Middle Eastern leaders seeking peace in that region,
and were addressed to the leaders. Thank you for coming. Prime Minister
Olmert, President Abbas, Secretary-General Ban, former Prime Minister
Blair, distinguished guests, welcome to one of the finest institutions
we have in America, the United States Naval Academy. We appreciate you
joining us in what I believe is an historic opportunity to encourage the
expansion of freedom and peace in the Holy Land. We meet to lay the
foundation for the establishment of a new nation, a democratic
Palestinian state that will live side by side with Israel in peace and
security. We meet to help bring an end to violence that has been the
true enemy to the aspirations of both the Israelis and Palestinians.
We’re off to a strong start. I’m about to read a statement that was
agreed upon by our distinguished guests. “The representatives of the
government of the state of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation
Organization, represented respectively by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
President Mahmoud Abbas, in his capacity as chairman of the P.L.O.
Executive Committee and president of the Palestinian Authority, have
convened in Annapolis, Maryland, under the auspices of President George
W. Bush of the United States of America, and with the support of the
participants of this international conference, having concluded the
following joint understanding. “We express our determination to bring an
end to bloodshed, suffering and decades of conflict between our peoples;
to usher in a new era of peace, based on freedom, security, justice,
dignity, respect and mutual recognition; to propagate a culture of peace
and nonviolence; to confront terrorism and incitement, whether committed
by Palestinians or Israelis. In furtherance of the goal of two states,
Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security, we
agree to immediately launch good-faith, bilateral negotiations in order
to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including
all core issues, without exception, as specified in previous agreements.
more...
Bush: I remain personally committed to two state solution Jerusalem
Post (November
26, 2007) - "I remain personally committed to implementing my
vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by
side in peace and security," US President George W. Bush pledged in a
statement released by the White House Sunday, ahead of the Annapolis
conference. Bush said the conference would signal international support
for the Israelis' and Palestinians' intention to commence negotiations
on the establishment of a Palestinian state and the realization of peace
between the two peoples. "The broad attendance at this conference by
regional states and other key international participants demonstrates
the international resolve to seize this important opportunity to advance
freedom and peace in the Middle East," continued the statement. [Israel] for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey. For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after. [Pre 1948] Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof. And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small. [Technology of Israel] Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all that oppress them. And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD. And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. Behold, the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until he hath done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. Remember Andrew and Katrina? Bill Koenig wrote a book, Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel journaling the events that transpired and the touchdown of these two hurricanes on the very days that America was working to divide the land of Israel. Coincidence? You decide. BTW, this plays right in with the comments of the story above regarding the earth changes and what is causing them. God's wrath is coming and acceptance of Yeshua is our ONLY escape. Those too proud to come humbly before Him will get to not be near Him. His wrath will make many humble and shake their foundations (wealth, strength, power, life). These all fade and every one of us comes before the God of the universe. I recommend you get His Son as your defender before the Father as your judge. American politics are not going to stop their dividing of Israel, there may be a reason they are acting the way they are. Watch this ( 1:30:27) and read through the America page.EU expected to follow Middle East peace conference with major aid push International Herald Tribune (November 21, 2007) - The European Union goes to next week's Middle East peace conference ready to back up an agreement with financial aid, recognizing that without giving Palestinians hope for improved living standards, a political settlement will remain out of reach. The EU, which will be represented by its key Mideast envoys and a number of foreign ministers, is expected, however, to take a back seat to the United States in the diplomatic drive to restart a peace process between Israeli and the Palestinians. The conference takes place Monday through Wednesday in Annapolis, Maryland, and Washington. "The European Union is a bit on the sidelines for this pro |
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