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JUNE - 2007

High Court Bans New Muslim Burial Site Next to Temple Mount

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) The High Court of Justice has upheld a decision by Public Security Minister Avi Dichter to ban Muslim burials on the grounds immediately southeast of the Temple Mount.

The area, which borders the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, is believed to contain important archaeological artifacts from the First Temple era and is designated as part of a national park. It is an extremely sensitive area in that the Temple Mount is considered Judaism's holiest site and the third holiest place in Islam.

Supporters of the committee and its petition included left-wing author A.B. Yehoshua, Hebrew University Jewish philosophy professor Avi Ravitsky, former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Shomron and senior archaeologists such as Gabriel Barkai, Eilat Mazar, Ehud Netzer, Ronny Reich and Ephraim Stern.

Police have been blocking Muslims from burying their dead at the site for several months, having identified dozens of plots sold by Silwan elders, who did not own the area, to Muslim families for their departed loved ones. At least 21 of the graves are occupied, 39 are empty and 35 other plots have not yet been opened. The committee has demanded in its petition that the unused gravesites be filled in.

“Muslim burial on the site, which was never a cemetery in the past, could end any possibility of excavating the area in the future, as has been done at the foot of the southern wall and the bottom part of the Western Wall” explained archaeologist Gabriel Barkai in the petition to block the burials.

An Islamic burial ground does exist outside the walls of the Temple Mount compound, at its southeast foot, but apparently Muslims had begun to extend their cemetery into the area defined as a national park.

Police had initially feared that stopping the burials would spark riots and other violence by Muslims. Jerusalem Police Chief Ilan Franco admitted to the court he had iniitially refused to escort city inspectors to hang up notices prohibiting use of the site after Muslims continued to build mausoleums, fearing the reaction by Islamic worshippers.

Repairs being made to a footbridge leading to the entrance of the Temple Mount at the Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate ignited days of violent protests across the country and massive demonstrations in Muslim communities worldwide. Muslims dumped tons of soil containing priceless artifacts into a riverbed in 1999 while digging a huge pit in the Temple Mount to build an entrance to Solomon’s Stables. The police did not act to stop the illegal digs despite numerous petitions and court orders to halt any such activity.

The area forms a seamline between construction from the Hasmonean and Herodian eras. Remains from the First Temple and 8th century B.C.E. sealing rings stamped “For the King” have been found in past excavations at the site, including one by British archaeologist Charles Warren 140 years ago.

Behind all the bravado lies a great deal of fear in the heart of Islam. They fear that the Bible will come true. They fear that the God of the Bible. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will destroy their Arabic god of the Koran. The Islamic Ottoman Turks are the ones who built the present wall around the old city of Jerusalem atop the ruins of the original wall rebuilt by Herod who built upon foundations laid down by Kings David and Solomon. The Turks rebuilt all the gates right where the originals stood. They were shocked to find that the Bible predicted the walls and gates would all be restored in anticipation for the coming Jewish Messiah. Immediately the Turkish authorities bricked up the East Gate knowing it was through this gate that the Jewish Messiah was predicted to enter into the city to establish His Kingdom. The next thing they did was to plant a Moslem cemetery that reached right to the wall itself knowing no Orthodox Jew would ever knowingly walk over a grave. Islam today is under the same fear of the coming Jewish Messiah. They know how they have hated the Jews over the centuries when they have had the upper hand. They know retribution is coming, and they are in fear.

Friend, do you fear the wrath of the Holy God of the Bible who will not accept anything less then perfection? There is only one man who ever was commended by this God for His perfect life.

Matthew 3:16-17

16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

KJV

2 Peter 1:17-18

17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

KJV

Friend, I doubt this Holy God will say the same about you. I know He can't say that of me. The books are going to be opened, and the works of men will be their condemnation. Islam is wise to fear the retribution due their hate filled religion. The Bible is clear there is a place of refuge, but it is not in religion. It is only in the one single man who never sinned. Only He was able to make a perfect sacrifice of His own body that would be acceptable to a Holy God. That is just what the LORD Jesus Christ did for you on Calvary. It is only to Him where you can go to find salvation. Friend, have you come to this Christ of the Bible for the forgiveness of your sin? He has revealed in the Bible His great love for you, but He will not force His love on you. You must come to Him. The choice is left in your hands. The price for sin has been paid. It is up to you to receive the grace so freely offered. The masses are on their way to an eternal hell. They despise the love of this wondrous God of the Bible. Soon they will face the fierceness of His wrath. A Holy God is a just God, and for all sin there must be an accounting. I have come to Christ, and by simple faith trust Him to account for my sin through His precious blood shed at Calvary. I have no other plea. There is no other way to be written down in the book of life. What about you? The choice is to come to His love for lost sinners today, or face His wrath as a rebellious sinner who never came tomorrow. What is your decision?

The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. He will pass through this bricked up East Gate, and enter into the last Holy Jewish Temple yet to be built where this filthy shrine to man made religion now stands. The wrath of God will cleanse this world of sin on that day. A new dispensation is coming to planet earth. A thousand year Kingdom of perfect peace will be established in this very place. It is not going to be Islamic. It is all going to be about one single person - the LORD Jesus Christ. Are you ready?

 

Sderot: Rockets Keep Raining, Reservists Threaten Refusal

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) IDF reservists who live in Sderot say they find it hard to protect others who won’t make an effort to help keep their own families safe from the Kassam rockets fired by terrorists in Gaza. Two rockets were fired Friday morning - one striking an auto garage in a western Negev kibbutz. No injuries were reported.

The group of enlisted men and officers sent a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, published today in the daily Yediot Ahronot, describing their disillusionment with the way the government has ignored their families’ need for protection.

The letter was translated by Dr. Aaron Lerner, director of the Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA) organization.

“With a heavy heart and feelings of harsh disappointment we are writing this letter…..We have stopped believing that someone is doing everything he can in order to protect us. We cannot accept that our children and the rest of the residents of the region will continue to be the cannon fodder of the State of Israel,” the letter reads in part.

The reservists remind the prime minister that they answered the call for duty without hesitation last summer when they were called to serve in the Second Lebanon War and charge Mr. Olmert with a double standard.

“We went out of a feeling of reciprocal pact, national obligation and common fate with the residents of the north,” the letter points out. “We feel that this pact was violating by the Government of Israel in Sderot and the communities adjacent to Gaza!”

The reservists end their letter by saying they do not want to serve and “protect the rest of the residents of Israel,” given the current situation in which “we are abandoned and our dear ones are unprotected without hope on the front.”

Israel Radio correspondent Nissim Keinan reported that the leaders of the reserve soldiers told him that the final version of the letter they gave Yediot Ahronot did not say that the sderot soldiers would not serve - but instead "find it difficult," but the paper opted to publish an earlier draft of the letter.

Imagine this being a black/white issue, or Hispanic/Anglo lack of protection situation. The media would be all over the government for bias treatment of an innocent minority group. Yet in Israel the discrimination against the Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers is commonplace, and justified. They are looked upon as the hillbillies of the boarder towns. They are mostly the Russian Jews who flooded into Israel with the fall of the iron curtain. The cost of living skyrocketed with their arrival, and the mostly European resident Jews resented them. They represent the poor of which God speaks often in the Bible. It is the treatment of the poor that defines the culture of each generation. It is abundantly clear that this generation of Israelis are in big trouble with the God of the Bible.

Deuteronomy 15:11

11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

KJV

Leviticus 19:15

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

KJV

The wrath of God is a terrible thing, and mistreatment of the poor will always bring justice from the mighty God of the Bible. Character is measured in real terms with how any particular generation treats the poor. The very poorest among us are the little babies in the womb. They are the most helpless. This hedonistic generation of ours has condemned itself to everlasting torment by this culture which is so filthy in the eyes of a Holy God. Our fate is set as the generation that will go into Great Tribulation and Armageddon. This hedonistic generation is going to be fodder for the antichrist as he uses one filthy group against another in his rise to power.

Self inflicted blindness is the root of this generation's downfall. The bleeding heart liberals actually believe they are being just is supporting filthy rotten mothers who would murder their babies out of convenience. Thank God such injustice will be done away when Christ returns.

A Kingdom is coming. Dispensational change is upon us. It is all centered in Israel. The Jews are back in their Promised Land because the Jewish Messiah is about to return. All injustice either by the Jews to the Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers, or to the millions of little victims exterminated before they could ever take a breath by the blind liberals of America will end! It will be the wrath of God that will manifest itself in judgment, and that will set things straight once again.

Please note how blind the lost really are. They honestly believe that when they saw need they immediately took care of it. They will be blind to the end that what they perceived as need was only the fulfilling of their own hedonistic desires. Friend, how blind are you? Only Christ can reveal true righteousness. Only in Christ can the justice of the Holy God of the Bible be reconciled. We are all guilty, and in need of a Savior. Christ provided salvation at Calvary. Only His sin cleansing blood can open the blind eyes of this generation. Friend, are you saved? Have you come to this Christ of the Bible for the forgiveness of your sin? Now is the time! Come to Christ, and live!

A righteous man who is born again will do the right things. It will be automatic with him to chose the right side of every issue. It becomes so automatic that we do not even realize we are doing the will of the Holy God. The blind on the other hand are confident in their own righteousness. They justify everything they do even making it lawful to sin beyond imagination. Their fate is sealed in the words of the Bible. Their end will be eternal torment without the possibility of reprieve. Forever is a terrible condemnation. Friend, won't you come to Christ before it is too late?

 

Gaza Kindergarten Kids Get 'A" for Jihad

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority kindergarten children demonstrated in a graduation ceremony how well they had learned their lessons this year.

A video clip of the ceremony, televised on Hamas’ Al-Aksa TV, was distributed Friday by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)

The little boys in the video march in formation and then drop to the floor, crawl on their bellies and vow to become terrorists when they grow up.

In the last minute of the clip, the boys in the televised ceremony shout “Allah Hu Akbar!” (Allah is great!).

“Who is your role model?” they are asked. “The Prophet,” they chant.

“What is your path?” demands the leader. “Jihad!” they cry, in their little camouflage uniforms and black masks, brandishing toy guns and waving green Hamas flags.

“What is your most lofty aspiration?”

“Death for the sake of Allah!”

The kindergarten is run by the same group that spawned the Hamas terrorist organization – the Islamic Association in Gaza.

This is not the first time that the Hamas terrorist entity has used little children as bait, indoctrinating them to hate Israel, Israelis and Jews and train them from infancy to become suicide bombers.

A significant number of suicide bombings have been carried out by PA adolescents and young adults.

Hamas recently used a look-alike of the Disney character, Mickey Mouse, in a television program promoting Islamic conquest of the world.

Known as a benevolent social services organization among the PA’s poor, Hamas continues to call for the destruction of the State of Israel.

Teaching the children to carry out terrorist attacks against Israel is a direct violation of the the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement in 2005. The Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Fatah leader and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, agreed to halt incitement against Israel.

Hamas has said it is not bound by the pact, but the European Union (EU) and United States have declared it will not recognize the new Hamas-Fatah unity agreement if both factions do not accept previous agreements.

The god of the barbarians shows his face once again. We find this same god that caused those who worshipped him to cast their children as a living sacrifice into the fire with many names. He was called Molech, Moloch, Milcom, Malcham, and Chemosh down through the ages. Today he is called Allah! It is the same child sacrifice pagan god of the past. At his worst he was a bronze figure sitting with legs crossed, and out stretched arms. A fire was built in his lap that caused his arms to glow red with the heat. A family down on their luck were encouraged to cast their youngest child into his arms. This act of devotion was promoted as bringing prosperity back to the family. Desperate people do desperate deeds, and the worship of Molech brought out the most despicable religious worship the world has ever known. The cry Allah Hu Akbar (Allah is great) as well be Molech Hu Akbar, or Chemosh Hu Akbar. It is all the same god. The god that demands of the barbarians the sacrifice of their children. Death for the sake of Allah is taught to the kindergarteners of Islam as righteousness! The God of the Bible is clear that not only is the death penalty justified against these kindergarten teachers of Islam, but death is demanded of all who go a whoring after such teachers. The whoredom of Islam is rooted in their hate for the Jews. They have sold their souls to the devil as a result of their frustrated anger watching the Jews return to their Promised Land, and Islam is about to reap the whirlwind as a result. Molech worship is alive and well once again in the Holy Land thanks to Islam. The wrath of God is now kindled, and ready to pour down on these barbarians for such great sin.

The same type barbarians are working overtime here in America. Here we sacrifice our children while still in the womb. We cast them into the arms of Molech out of convenience for the promiscuous whores of our own making.  Six years of Republican rule did nothing to stop the worship of Molech here in the United States. We teach the little girls how to move that body in kindergarten so they will fit into this filthy culture of rap dancing, and provocative cheerleading. I tell you true, as fierce as the wrath of God is going to come down on Islam is as fierce it will come down on the feather bed Christian culture of this generation.

Oh for the righteousness of Christ to reign on planet earth. Friend, I doubt you are part of the sins of Islam, but what about the sins of our Christian America? The forgiveness of sin is why Christ went to Calvary. The hedonistic sacrifice of innocent babies is called an abomination by the Holy God of the Bible. The willing sacrifice of the only perfect man to ever walk this planet is called the only acceptable atonement for sin. The LORD Jesus Christ said He did it out of love. Our death is a worthless thing only fulfilling the truth that the wages of sin is death, but the death of Christ who knew no sin offers Godly righteousness to the worthless sinner. Oh friend, won't you come to this Christ?

2 Corinthians 5:21

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

KJV

 

 

Gaza Female Telecasters Must Dress Up or Die

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) The “Swords of Truth”, an Islamist vice squad responsible for bombing dozens of internet cafes, music shops, pool halls and at least two restaurants in Gaza, has now turned its attention to female TV broadcasters.

The group warned in a statement e-mailed to worldwide media Friday that it would behead female TV broadcasters in the Palestinian Authority who do not dress in strict accordance with religious Islamic standards.

“We will cut throats, and from vein to vein, if needed to protect the spirit and moral of this nation,” said the statement, which also called declared that female broadcasters are “without any…shame or morals.”

Female TV broadcasters in many Muslim countries wear headscarves and modest clothing. In some Arab countries, women are not allowed to broadcast at all.

This is the first time the Gaza terrorist organization has targeted a specific population. Until now, the Swords of Truth group has confined its activities to the destruction of places they consider to be venues of “immoral” activity.

Female broadcasters who were interviewed by the Associated Press (AP) said they had received death threats in calls to their cell phones. Many were frightened.

One PA anchorwoman said she did not go to work on Saturday as a result. “It’s a dangerous precedent in our society,” she said. “It will target all working women.” The journalist, who does not wear a headscarf, requested anonymity, fearing retribution.

The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), which is funded by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, said it was taking the threat seriously and had implemented security measures. PBC head Basem Abu Sumaya said, however, the company, which runs PA TV, could not protect broadcasters on their way to and from work.

Foreign Journalists Avoid On-site Coverage in Gaza

Gaza has become an increasingly hazardous place for journalists to ply their trade, with the Foreign Press Association warning its members several months ago to avoid entering Gaza when at all possible.

The last foreign journalist to maintain a full-time bureau office in Gaza City was British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) reporter Alan Johnston, who was kidnapped at gunpoint March 12. Mr. Johnston had not been seen or heard from until last week, when he appeared in a video clip on an internet website frequently used by Muslim terrorists. The 45-year-old Scottish national appeared on the Islamist al-Ekhlaas website in a video clip bearing the Army of Islam logo. There is no way to know when the tape was made, however. Hundreds of journalists in and outside the Palestinian Authority have held demonstrations to protest the BBC reporter's abduction.

A number of other network news reporters have also been kidnapped within the past year.

Sixty-year-old American Steve Centanni and his 36-year-old cameraman Olaf Wiig of New Zealand were held for two weeks by a Hamas-linked group called the Holy Jihad Brigades. In an interview an hour after being freed, the two Fox News journalists said they had been forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam and also to tape a video they did not want to tape.

Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti, an Italian national, was kidnapped in October 2006, also in Gaza City and released unharmed 15 hours later.

Prior to Alan Johnston’s abduction, a 50-year-old Peruvian photographer with the French news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) was abducted by masked gunmen in January. The hostage, Jaime Razuri, was released a week later.

Islam is intent on replacing democracy in the Holy Land with Islamic law. It is the barbarian cry "off with their head" being heralded with all the hate the barbarian god Allah can muster. Women are a special target of these self appointed swords of truth vice squads. Woman are chattel to the barbarian god Allah. They are sex toys for all eternity in the Islamic concept of paradise. Yesterday it was child sacrifice, today it is cutting off the heads of working women. Islam has reached the depths of depravity. Islam is beyond repentance. They have become modern day barbarians.

Recognize this is just not a few radicals doing these barbarous acts. It may be a few who take the leadership rolls, but they could not do their dirty deeds if it were not for the support they have from the Islamic religion. The entire Islamic world is a world in bondage. Allah, the Arabic god of the barbarians has them all under lock and key. There was a moment in time when Arabs had an opportunity to come to the God of the Bible. They could have come to Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, and would have been fully accepted. Mohamed read both Old and New Testaments before he rejected Christ and the Bible. I would assume the Arabic world had the same opportunity. When Mohamed outright rejected the Christ of the Bible he had a long line of fellow rejecters ready to follow his lead when he wrote the Koran. Islam is without excuse! It may have taken 1700 years, but the Islamic vine is now ready for harvest. The wine press is full, and the wrath of God is about to crush these Christ rejecters for their most heinous sin. The fruit of their deception is clear to the entire world. Their mistreatment of women and children is legion. Their condemnation is fixed.

When they rejected Christ, they rejected truth. They turned to the lie, and the prince of liars. They purposely seared their consciences so that the lie would become palatable. Today, one of the worst generations of barbarians have been nurtured, and released on the planet. Each coming generation is being nurtured to be even more horrific then the one that went before. I can only wonder how this coming generation will treat women when they grow up? Their kindergarten training at age 5 is intended to make them far more depraved then these present sword of truth barbarians.  Judgment is coming to Islam for these reasons. The wrath of God will not be contained for much longer.

Friend, it is not just Islam that is in a self willed bondage to sin. We were all born in sin after our father Adam who put us into this terrible bondage. God provided freedom from this bondage at the very beginning with the promise of a coming redeemer. Jesus Christ was that promised redeemer come from a virgin so as not to ever have been tainted with evil. His perfectly sinless sacrifice at Calvary provided the only atonement for sin that was acceptable to our Holy God. All men are without excuse for remaining in bondage. The deliverance has been accomplished as scripture always said would be the case. In our present dispensation all men are at liberty to receive Christ as Savior. He was the sure promise of the Old Testament, and the living Savior of our present dispensation. He is soon to be the King of Glory in the next dispensation. Friend, have you been delivered from the bondage of sin into the glorious liberty found in Christ? All you need do is come to Him for this eternal salvation He offers through His shed blood. Sin can be forgiven, but only through this Christ of the Bible. Won't you come right now? Won't you come to Christ, and live?

Romans 8:21

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

KJV

 

Remaking the world in six days

Though it failed to bring peace, Israel's 1967 military triumph saved the country and changed the global landscape.

By Michael Oren, MICHAEL OREN, a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center, is the author of "Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East" .

BY ALL contemporary accounts, it was one of the most stunning military victories in history. In six intense days of fighting that began on June 5, 1967, Israeli forces saved their country from an imminent existential threat, defeated three major Arab armies and almost quadrupled the territory under their country's control.

Israeli flags flew on the banks of the Suez Canal, over the Golan Heights and above the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism. The victory was so great that Israelis naturally assumed that this would be their last war and that the spoils of their triumph could be traded for a permanent peace.

Needless to say, it did not come to pass. Today, Israel still occupies much of the land it conquered in 1967, while peace remains maddeningly elusive. This week, 40 years after they astonished the world, and themselves, with their lightning-quick feat, many Israelis are questioning whether they indeed won the Six-Day War — or whether it was in fact a Pyrrhic victory leading to more wars, prolonged occupation, internal political turmoil and terror.

But that view ignores history and fails to consider Israel's position before the war began. Compare, for example, Israel's diplomatic and strategic situation on June 4, 1967: The country was surrounded by Arab states bent on its destruction, utterly isolated and outgunned. Egypt alone had five times as many soldiers as Israel, and 10 times the tanks. Beyond the Middle East, Israel faced an inimical Soviet bloc that generously armed the forces of Egypt, Syria and Iraq, as well as the animosity of China and India. Though generally friendly, the United States still refused to sell weapons to the Israelis, who remained militarily dependent on France. Worse yet, on the eve of the war, the French concluded that they had more to gain from Arab oil producers and abruptly switched sides, imposing a total arms embargo on Israel.

All of that changed within a week. Having begun the conflict with Arab guns pointed at all of its cities, Israel concluded the war with its own troops in artillery range of every neighboring Arab capital — an achievement that convinced Arab leaders of the impossibility of destroying the Jewish state by conventional means. Israel, as a result, was eventually able to reconcile with Jordan and to trade territory captured in the 1967 war for a peace agreement with Egypt, its strongest Arab adversary.

The victory over Soviet arms hastened the collapse of the Kremlin's influence in the Middle East and impressed the Indians and the Chinese, who later established excellent relations with Israel. Most significantly, the United States, which previously regarded Israel as a friendly country but one that impaired its relations with the Arab world, suddenly realized that the Jewish state was in fact a regional superpower. The U.S. subsequently forged an alliance with Israel that has remained robust ever since.

In addition to bringing geopolitical advantages, the Six-Day War vastly enhanced Israel's relationship with Jewish communities abroad. Before the war, some of the leading Jewish organizations in the U.S. were reserved, if not distant, in their relationship with Israel. Political mobilization for the Jewish state was minimal. But as Arab armies massed on Israel's borders, Diaspora Jews confronted the possibility of witnessing a second Holocaust within a single generation, and later, reveled in the joy of Israel's success. Many were inspired by the reunification of the state of Israel with the biblical Land of Israel — with Bethlehem, Hebron and, above all, Jerusalem. Contributions poured into Israel, enabling it to strengthen its economy and its ability to absorb new immigrants, and American Jewish organizations lobbied for its defense.

Of course, there can be no overlooking the fact that the Six-Day War led to the establishment of controversial Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, to the ongoing conflict over Jerusalem and to the relentless debate over Palestinian statehood. And yet it was also the 1967 war that inaugurated the peace process — U.N. Resolution 242, enacted in its wake, remains the cornerstone of all negotiations — and created the conditions for Palestinian self-rule. The current Arab League peace plan calls for "full Israeli withdrawal … to the June 4, 1967, lines," and the "road map" plan endorsed by the United States and much of the international community provides for the emergence of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.

None of this would be possible if the West Bank and Gaza were still occupied by Jordan and Egypt, respectively, as they were in 1967, and if the Arab world were still consumed with how best to make war, rather than peace, with Israel.

Even the most justified wars can have untold, negative consequences — World War II, for example, inaugurated the Cold War and communist control of Eastern Europe. The American Revolution, it could be argued, prolonged slavery in the United States and set the stage for the Civil War.

The Six-Day War was no exception. Though it resulted in a turbulent occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and contributed to the rise of terror, it also saved Israel from destruction and strengthened its economy, society and foreign relations. Most important, it opened opportunities for resolving the core issues of the Arab-Israeli conflict (which had already been underway for decades), for guaranteeing Israel's security and legitimacy and for achieving Palestinian independence.

It is now official. 40 years have pasted since God gave the Jews of Israel their greatest blessing. He gave them the city of Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount. The Jews of this generation have proved themselves as great a failure as the generations of the past when God cast them off into dispersion for their faithlessness. It is the Jews of this generation that have turned the blessing into a curse! They have refused to obey the LORD their God to keep and do His statutes and, judgments. This is a generation of mostly liberal secular politically motivated Jews of which a recent poll showed 80% do not even believe in God. Those Jews who do claim belief follow the leaven of the Pharisees. They turned to legalism, and pride in their own efforts to keep statutes of their own making. The God of the Bible demands perfection! He wants a humbled heart seeking forgiveness. The religious Jews of today give Him a mere 619 areas of obedience, and  would obligate God to save them on such a pittance of attempted obedience. The religious Jews of today filled with the pride of the Pharisees are in the same condition of the Jews during the days of Amos.

Amos 5:21-26

21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

KJV

 

The star of your god, which ye made yourselves is what the Star of David represents in modern Israel. These Jews do not even offer burnt offerings, and meat offerings as did the Jews in the days of Amos. Offerings for sin at the altar are not listed among the 619! 40 years have pasted as was the time in the wilderness for that pitiful generation which witnessed the great miracles of God in Egypt, but proved unfaithful. 40 years to die off so a new generation could be raised up to be faithful. Today, all that the Jews nurtured are Jews as unfaithful as themselves. The Jews of today are no closer to building Ezekiel's Temple on the Temple Mount as were the Jews of 40 years ago.

Friend, the LORD Jesus Christ has expectations for His children as this present dispensation draws to a close. It is a changed heart that He seeks. A heart that arbores sin! A heart that desires to do the statutes, and judgments of God. We fall short! We have to continually, and humbly cast ourselves before the altar of Calvary. We must acknowledge that it is only through Christ that we can do anything that would be a sweet savor to the perfect Holy God of the Bible. We must be born again, or all our efforts will be despised by this absolutely Holy God which we worship. Are you born again? Have you come to this Christ of the Bible who willingly sacrificed Himself on Calvary so sin for all time could be atoned? Christ paid it all with His precious blood, but you must come to Him for forgiveness. Won't you come? Have you been severed from this world of sin? Are you resting in Christ, and Christ alone?

James 1:22

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

KJV

 

 

Jews Counter-Rally Against Peace Now in Hevron

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) The radical-left Peace Now group demands, in Hevron, an end to the Jewish presence there. The Jews counter-protested.

Though the Jewish Community in Hevron was unhappy with the Supreme Court's recent decision to allow the protest, the Jews decided not to fall into the trap set for them by Peace Now. "The leftists want to cause a provocation," said resident and activist Itamar Ben-Gvir, "and we won't let it happen. They're expecting us to throw tomatoes so that they can have photos all over the world - but we won't give them the pleasure."

Ben-Gvir explained, however, that they couldn't simply ignore those whose "traitorous actions caused us to run away from Gush Katif and most of Hevron."

In that spirit, therefore, a small but enthusiastic group of some 50 people - including many who do not live in Hevron - demonstrated and held signs boasting of the Jewish People's eternal connection to Hevron and the Land of Israel. The signs read, "Our parents are buried here" [a reference to the Machpelah Cave of the Patriarchs], "No more disengagement from our legacy," "The Kibbutzim are on stolen Arab land," "Hevron is like Tel Aviv," and even just "Traitors".

Many of the Land of Israel protestors arrived on a bus organized by Kumah and sponsored by Friends of the National Young Israel USA, together with representatives of Women in Green and the Nahalal Forum. They stood not far from the Machpelah Cave, separated by police from the 300 leftist protestors who came to demand an end to the Jewish Community in Hevron. The Peace Now group chanted slogans such as, "1, 2, 3, 4 (Arba) - Evacuate Kiryat Arba!" and "Peace yes, Occupation no."

Peace Now is dedicated to destroying the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria [Yesha], and often seeks out Arabs who will claim that Jewish towns are built on their land.

The PA news agency Ma'an recently thanked Peace Now for publishing a report - false, according to the Yesha Council - alleging that 40% of Yesha communities are built on private Arab land. A Ma'an editorial wrote that the report "shows part of the true face of the Hebrew State... Where are all the Israeli mottos about justice, democracy and civil rights?... This is now a 'ready-to-go' case for the International Court... Now that Peace Now has given this gift to the land-owners, we must thank this organization, and see what the land-owners and the PA will do; for there is much to do..

Ben-Gvir said that now that the Supreme Court has allowed a near-provocation by approving the Peace Now rally in Hevron, "we will submit a request to hold a public protest in [the Israeli-Arab city] Um el-Fahm."

Activist Tzafrir Ronen of the Nahalal Forum said, "If an Israeli organization had organized a rally calling for the expulsion of Arabs from Hevron and from the Biblical Land of Israel that belongs to the Jewish People, what would all the righteous people of the legal system say then? Is it legitimate to call publicly for the destruction of the Jewish community in Hevron?"

Also addressing the crowd was IsraelNationalRadio.com broadcaster Yishai Fleisher, who said, "They use the right term when they say they wish to uproot us - for here is where our roots truly lie...  This land is not 'occupied,' as some claim; we are rather 'pre-occupied' with this land, and have been for thousands of years... We are about to read the Torah portion dealing with the spies sent by Moses, who returned with a negative report about the Land; we dare not stand silently by as modern-day spies try to tear us away from our Land once again."
 

Ten of the spies said "we be not able to go up against the people for they are stronger then we." So also is Peace Now telling the Jews of this generation that they can't go up against the Islamic world because Islam is stronger then we. The whole idea is for the Jews to go up against people stronger then they. It is their God who gives them the victory, and His power would be meaningless if they had the power amongst themselves. The whole purpose of every Exodus is to prove not only to the Jews, but also to the gentile nations the power of this God of the Bible! It matters not what the enemy's strength may be, this God can't be resisted. His power can destroy the heathen no matter how big they may be. The faithful Jews of Hebron live right in the midst of the worst barbarians in the world,, and they have no fear. The barbarians are in turmoil that their fearsome faces have no effect on these faithful Jews. So it was also in Gaza until the forced expulsion of the 8,000 Independent Fundamental Jewish Settlers. Expelled because of evil reports by their own government. The truth in the days of the first Exodus was that God was able to drive out the giants with the grasshoppers. The truth today is that the Islamic barbarians are no match against the God of the Bible. It is not an issue of Islamic strength as much as it is an issue of Jewish faith. The vast majority of the Jews of this third Exodus have no faith. They think they can tame the savage barbarians through their own wit without any help from God.  Oh what chastening God has prepared for this stiff-necked generation. Great Tribulation is coming to planet earth, but the end will loosen the neck. Then God will be acknowledged as their God, and they shall be His people.

Friend, God is about to set His tabernacle among the Jews one more time. Ezekiel's Holy Jewish Temple will be built on the Temple Mount. All the filth of Al Aqsa will be bulldozed away pushed into the Kidron Valley where all the smashed idols to false gods were dumped in past times. Oh friend, I pray you will hearken unto the God of the Bible, and come to Christ for your salvation.

 

Nation Up in Arms at Olmert's Golan Offer

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) As polls continue to show overwhelming national opposition to giving up the Golan, opposition MKs blast PM Olmert for offering it to Syria. Left-wing MKs, on the other hand, want him to act, not just talk.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's latest offer to give the Golan Heights to Syria flies in the face of polls showing public opposition to ceding the Golan, and has many MKs on both sides of the political spectrum up in arms

Olmert reportedly informed Syria last month that he is willing to cede the Golan to Syrian sovereignty, but wishes to verify that Syria will, in turn, cut its ties with Iran, Hizbullah and Palestinian terrorist organizations.

Likud MK Calls on Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu to Quit Government-
MKs from the Likud and National Union/National Religious Party came out vehemently against Olmert. Likud faction head Gideon Saar called upon Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu - two coalition parties whose voters are nearly all right-wing - to immediately quit the government. "Olmert has no public legitimacy for a withdrawal from the Golan," Saar said. "Far from our eyes, processes are taking place that will be hard to stop in the future. The responsibility for this lies upon all the members of the government and coalition."

Likud MK Yisrael Katz was more succinct, saying, "It would be better to replace Olmert than to give up the Golan Heights."

MK Effie Eitam (National Union), a former IDF Galilee Formation Commander and a resident of the Golan, told Ynet that the initiative is merely an attempt by the government to cover up its responsibility for its failures in the Second Lebanon War.

Along the same lines, National Religious Party leader Zevulun Orlev said, "Olmert is willing to sell the Golan to save his seat... This is his last-gasp effort to survive."

From the Left: Give it Away Now
Left-wing MKs, on the other hand, attacked Olmert for only offering the Golan and not actually taking steps to actualize the offer. Meretz Party leader Yossi Beilin said the agreement to give back the Golan has been ready to sign "ever since 2000 when [then-PM] Ehud Barak became scared of himself and ended the meeting with the Syrians in Shepherdstown, West Virginia." Barak is currently running once again for leadership of Labor; the internal election will be held this Tuesday.

MK Zahava Gal'on of Meretz said that Olmert must not suffice with declarations, but initiated a meeting with Syria's Foreign Minister.

Polls Show Support for Golan
A poll commissioned last summer by the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University found that 56% of the Israelis oppose full evacuation of the Golan Heights in return for a full peace agreement with Syria.

A more recent poll, carried out this week by Teleseker for Maariv, shows that a full 84% of the public opposes a full withdrawal from the Golan. Some 44% oppose a withdrawal from any part of the Golan Heights, and 40% said they support only a partial withdrawal. In addition, 74% of the public do not believe that Assad is interested in peace.
 

The Jews of this generation now celebrating 40 years since the restoration of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount into Jewish hands are the give it all away generation. The Golan Heights were part of the 1967 victory blessing from God. It should be no surprise that the Olmert Liberal secular government would be ready to include the Golan giveaway as an intended goal of their reign. I question the poll that says 84% of Israelis are opposed to the Golan giveaway. I'm sure it has more with the way the poll questions were asked then revealing the truth of what is in the heart of this generation of Jews. I know that if Olmert were to give away the Golan 84% of the Israelis would not put up a fuss. The Jews of today are no less hedonistic a society as any other. The issue as far as the Bible goes is that God expects them to rise above all others. God has given them the Promised Land once again, and this generation is bending over backwards to give it to the barbarians. They treat God's blessings as a curse in need of being put into barbarian hands. God has not called the barbarians to lead the way to the promised Kingdom Age. He has called the stiff-necked Jews of this generation. It is not God who will change as a result of Jewish disobedience. It is Jewish disobedience that must change. A new heart is the only solution. A circumcised heart that will forever submit to the ordinances, statues, and commandments of God. A heart that would be acceptable by the Holy God of the Bible to build the next Holy Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.

Deuteronomy 30 is about to be fulfilled for the Jews of this generation. What about you dear friend? Have you allowed this God of the Bible to circumcise your heart, or have you resisted Him at every turn? It is only through Christ that the heart can be changed. It is only the miracle working Christ who has such power. Friend, you must come to Him, or you will remain forever His enemy. It is His shed blood on Calvary that provides the power of salvation. It is His blood that is the basis for the forgiveness of sin. Friend, have you come to this Biblical Christ?

 

Egypt not stopping weapons flow into Gaza

The Israeli defense establishment is growing increasingly frustrated with Egypt's inability to put a stop to the continuous flow of illegal weapons into the Gaza Strip via Sinai. Some senior Israelis have come to believe that Cairo might just be interested in "seeing Israeli blood spill." Last month, The Jerusalem Post reported that Egypt had told Israel that it would consider digging a moat along the corridor separating the Gaza Strip from Sinai. Dozens of tunnels used to smuggle weapons into the Strip run under the corridor, and some 750 Egyptian border policemen are currently stationed in the area and charged with the sole task of curbing the smuggling. "If the Egyptians wanted to, they could have stopped the smuggling a long time ago," an Israeli official recently said, adding that the likelihood of an Egyptian moat being built along the border is very low.

Islam follows the prince of the air, the father of liars, and so it should be no surprise that all Islamic nations have no convictions about what they say as opposed to what they do. Islam as a religion teaches every faithful Moslem to hate the Jew. This hate has reached a new fervor ever since God began this Third Exodus of our times bringing the Jews back to their Promised Land. Islam wants the Holy Land for themselves, and will never share it most of all not with the hated Jews. The fox is in the hen house as long as the Egyptians are expected to stop the flow of weapons into the Gaza. Islam is preparing to wipe Israel off the map, and the liberal politics of today are tying the hands of any who could stop them. It is only a matter of time before war breaks out. Syria is already stacking up the boarder with military units ready for invasion. The liberal Jewish politicians are scurrying to give the Syrians the Golan in hopes it will pacify these barbarians. The Syrians smell the fear of the hated Jews, and see victory in the air. They are not going to stop even if Olmert gives them the Golan as a free gift. The lust for Jewish blood is too great among the this generation of Moslems. I don't know how this latest crises will proceed, but I do know a much greater Islamic invasion is in the wind. An invasion bringing the Islamic barbarians North of the Caucasus Mountains into the fray as the Northern prong of the invading Islamic force. Iran is already prepared to be the Eastern prong, and the Moslems of North Africa will quickly join the fray as the Southern prong. I see this very clear future prophecy laid out in Ezekiel 38 & 39 as the "Last Jihad."

 

 

I assume the US will have pulled out of Iraq as the liberal Democrats are promising the American public. I also assume that the political hands of the US will be tied forcing us into inaction. We will just comfortably sit back, and watch once extricated from the Middle East. God is going to intervene on behalf of His Jewish seed. Ezekiel 39 describes the end of Islam. This filthy religion of the barbarian is already relegated to the dung heap of history. The Bible tells us that as a result of Ezekiel 38 & 39 the Jews will acknowledge their God once again.

Ezekiel 39:6

7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

KJV

 

Once Islamic influence over the Holy Land is destroyed, the Jews will be free to build their last Holy Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. The Bible tells us the antichrist will make his appearance at this time signing a treaty with the Jews as a representative of the Western world. He will sign the peace treaty that will allow the Jews to build Ezekiel's Temple on the Temple Mount as described in Ezekiel 40 - 48. The chronology of Ezekiel is indisputable. The last Jihad then the Last Holy Jewish Temple! A great change takes place in the Jewish heart after God saves them from the barbarians. They will no longer pollute His Holy Name. The Jews will have the right kind of heart that will be acceptable to this Holy God of the Bible. They will be ready to bring in the transition from one dispensation to the next. The Church Age will have ended, and preparation for the Jewish Kingdom Age with Ezekiel's Temple will have begun.

Friend, are you ready? There is only one place of refuge from the horrors that are coming to planet earth, and that place is the LORD Jesus Christ. Are you born again? Have you come to Christ for the application of His precious blood shed a Calvary for the remission of your sins? Another Holy Jewish Temple with an Altar for blood sacrifice is predicted to be built for the kingdom Age. All blood will be offered in remembrance of Calvary. Friend, are you covered by the blood for the remission of sins?

 

Syria Continuing to Mobilize for War

by Hana Levi Julian

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF is preparing for a defensive war with Syria, even as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert continues to send messages of peace to President Bashar Assad.

The prime minister told the Syrian president last month that Israel would be willing to withdraw from the Golan Heights if Syria were prepared to make peace, according to the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Aharonot. The Syrian ruler responded positively to the offer, the newspaper stated.

The report said Prime Minister Olmert instructed his aides to make contacts with Assad following an hour-long phone conversation with American President George W. Bush in May. The U.S. president reportedly gave his go-ahead for the contacts despite the stated American policy that dissuades Israel from dealing with Syria as long as it supports terrorism.

A number of other government officials are supporting continued efforts to cool down the situation.

IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi has reportedly advised the government to conduct secret negotiations with Syria in the hopes of staving off a conflict. The army chief of staff warned in a speech to the IDF Officers Training School earlier this year, “The IDF is preparing for an escalation on both the Palestinian and the northern fronts.”

Defense Minister Amir Peretz also added his hope that negotiations with Syria would prevent such an escalation.

Nonetheless, Mossad Chief Meir Dagan strongly opposed suggestions that Israel respond to President Assad’s public overtures. The head of international intelligence said the Syrian president is simply trying to relieve international pressure to end its support for terrorist organizations and has no intention of avoiding a war.

Damascus is home to Hamas political bureau chief and arch-terrorist Khaled Masha’al, who is largely responsible for the continued captivity of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit, kidnapped a year ago in a cross-border raid by Hamas terrorists from Gaza.

Syria also provides generous support to the Iranian-backed Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon. It was Hizbullah which ignited the Second Lebanon War last summer with a simultaneous cross-border attack that sent Katyusha rockets flying toward northern Israeli communities while operatives kidnapped IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and killed eight others.

Thousands of weapons, ammunition and other materiel have made their way to Hizbullah terrorists from Iran through the Syrian border, despite a United Nations mandate that Lebanon prevent the smuggling. UNIFIL (the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) has reported the arms transfers but is powerless to stop them unless authorized by the Lebanese government to do so. At least five cabinet members in the Lebanese government are linked to Hizbullah.

Meanwhile, the IDF continues its preparations for a possible conflict in case Mr. Olmert fails in his efforts to convince the Syrians not to attack. A large-scale military exercise held three days ago at the Shizafon base in the south of Israel simulated an invasion of Syria within the context of a war, involving infantry units, tank divisions and the Air Force.

Defense Minister Peretz admitted in an interview on Army Radio that the IDF is indeed preparing for the possibility of war.

The defense minister stressed, however, that the IDF drills are “not an indication of any decision, either by us or the Syrians, to go to war. These are purely defensive measures,” he added.

IDF intelligence chief Major-General Amos Yadlin also hastened to play down the significance of the preparations, saying that the army exercises were “merely precautionary.”

But Syrian MP Muhammad Habash confirmed on Al-Jazeera Arabic world news satellite television network Tuesday that Syria is indeed actively preparing for war with Israel, which it expects to start this summer. He claimed it was Israel’s government, however, that wants the war, in order to survive politically.

In response, Social Affairs Minister Yitzchak Herzog warned at a meeting in Europe this week that Syria would be wise to reconsider its hostility.

"The Syrians should not miscalculate," Herzog said. "The chances for negotiations are dependent on the seriousness of President Assad's intentions. In recent days, we have made it clear that Israel has no intention of opening up a front with the Syrians. We hope that on their side, as well, there is no intention to drag the region into unnecessary tensions."

Israel is preparing for a conventional war while the Syrians are preparing from the lessons learned in Lebanon. They will let Israel come in, and then close the trap with gorilla tactics  using road side bombs in populated areas where detection is near impossible. Russian made tank busters will be used not as tactical weapons, but solely aimed at the psychological effect this will have on the Jewish populous. The invincibility of the Merkvah reflects on the invincibility of the IDF. The Islamic world has found the winning combination. Draw the Jews into a forever battle that will never end. Kidnapping one or two is far better then killing a thousand soldiers in conventional warfare. It is very obvious Olmert is undeterred, and never learning. He is going to make the same mistakes he made in Lebanon. He is preparing for another Israeli defeat. This will be another war run by the politicians. Every move by the Israeli Defense Force will be measured not for victory, but for political consequences. Israel may even go so far as to check with Bush before issuing an order.

It is a sad thing that Bush is again making decisions that would give parts of the Holy Land to the barbarians. I'm convinced the downward spiral of the Bush presidency started with his adoption of the Road Map. Afghanistan was an astounding success. The conventional war in Iraq was icing on the cake, but then came the announcement by Colin Powel that the Evangelical White House would back the Road Map peace plan for the Holy Land that was designed by the Russians. The atheistic Europeans had already gotten aboard, and Bush looking to counter all the "going it alone" criticism made the crucial decision to adopt the Road Map. This is the plan that turned the 1967 blessings of God into a curse! This is the plan that will give Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount to the barbarians. This is the plan that is the greatest attempt in our age to stop the LORD Jesus Christ from returning because the capital of His coming Kingdom would be in Islamic hands. I doubt our Evangelical White House had this in mind when they adopted the Road Map, but that is certainly what is happening. We have become the enemies of the Bible by supporting the Koran over the Bible in the Holy Land. We have become the enemies of God, and His only begotten Son the LORD Jesus Christ! We are the stumbling stone put in the path of those who will build the last Holy Jewish Temple from where Jesus is predicted in the Bible to rule the world. We are doing our best to stop any Biblical prophecy from taking place during our generation.

I attribute White House Evangelical acceptance of the Road Map to Biblical ignorance. Our neither cold or hot last generation of the Church Age fittingly fills the lukewarm indictment made in the Bible against us where the Road Map is concerned. God has performed a miracle in 1967 by putting Jerusalem, and the Temple Mount in Jewish hands for the first time in almost 2000 Years. It is this Evangelical generation that would take away from the Jews the Gaza, the Golan heights, most of Jerusalem, and with Jerusalem will go Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount. We are the guilty party throwing stumbling stones in front of God as He is working to change dispensations in our generation. What about you dear friend? What are you throwing in the path of God? He intends that you be saved through Christ. Have you submitted to His plan of salvation, or are you doing all you can to evade your need of coming to Christ? Jesus died on Calvary a most cruel death so that sinners could be freed from the bondage of sin. Do not throw His love back in His face by avoiding the issue of your salvation. Won't you come to this Christ of the Bible, and live. Be warned, what you do with Christ has eternal consequences.