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The Coming War won’t be as Those since 1948,

Israel has Good Reason for its Growing Concern,

The NEXT WAR will initially be SUDDEN Destruction,

For some three and one-half years Israel will Suffer,

Entrapped in the Negev Wilderness on all its Borders,

But AT Armageddon Israel will BE delivered BY Messiah,

Jesus Christ will return as Israel’s King at his 2nd Advent,

Israel will rush north out of the Negev into Promised Land,

And take over the Abrahamic LAND GRANT of Genesis 15:18,

So the Lord Jesus Christ will Be King of the Earth 1000 Years!

THE NEXT WAR WILL INITIALLY BE SUDDEN DESTRUCTION

I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

FOR SOME THREE AND ONE-HALF YEARS ISRAEL WILL SUFFER

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

ENTRAPPED IN THE NEGEV WILDERNESS ON ALL ITS BORDERS

Daniel 7:24,25 – And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. [25] And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his h

and until a time and times and the dividing of time.

BUT AT ARMAGEDDON IT WILL BE DELIVERED BY MESSIAH

Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

JESUS CHRIST WILL RETURN AS ISRAEL’S KING AT HIS 2ND ADVENT

Luke 21:25-27 – And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

ISRAEL WILL RUSH NORTH OUT OF NEGEV INTO PROMISED LAND

Micah 5:5,6 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

AND TAKE OVER THE ABRAHAMIC LAND GRANT OF GENESIS 15:18

Genesis 15:18 – In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Ezekiel 47:17 – And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

Ezekiel 47:19 – And the south side

southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

SO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL BE KING OF THE EARTH 1000 YEARS

Zechariah 14:8,9 – And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. [9] And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.

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Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post

Official: New Hizbullah arms may alter balance

August 6, 2009

Yaakov Katz , THE JERUSALEM POST

Increasing tensions between Israel and Hizbullah are the result of growing concern that Syria will transfer “balance-altering” weaponry to the Iranian-backed group in the event of a new conflict with Israel, a top defense official has told The Jerusalem Post.

“Our assumption is that whatever Iran and Syria have, Hizbullah could one day also have,” the official said this week.

The impact on IDF operations is that surveillance planes fly at higher altitudes out of fear that Hizbullah has obtained advanced air defense systems, and navy ships patrol further from the coast out of fear that the group has obtained advanced anti-ship missiles.

The navy also recently tested an upgraded version of the Barak missile defense system – which c

an intercept anti-ship missiles – amid concern that Hizbullah may soon receive an advanced anti-ship missile system.

Earlier this week, an Italian newspaper revealed that an Iranian plane crash last month had been caused by the explosion of sophisticated explosive fuses that were on their way to Hizbullah.

According to Globalsecurity.org, Damascus is known to have a significant arsenal of Scud ballistic missiles that are capable of hitting targets with fair accuracy throughout Israel. Syria also has advanced anti-aircraft systems, according to the Web site.

“A truck carrying a launcher and a missile can leave Damascus and arrive in the Bekaa Valley Hizbullah stronghold in just a few hours,” the official said.

On Tuesday, Defense Minister Barak warned in the Knesset that Israel would consider military action if Hizbullah altered the military balance with Israel.

“We have relayed messages to different authorities, and if the balance is altered, we will consider our next steps,” he said.

Officials said that Barak’s remarks had been made because of worries that Iran and Syria were considering transferring advanced military equipment to Hizbullah in Lebanon.

Earlier this year, he issued a similar threat to Syria and Lebanon after Israel grew concerned that Damascus was planning to transfer advanced technology to Hizbullah.

Barak said Thursday that if another war erupted along the northern border, the IDF would have more operational freedom to target Lebanese infrastructure than it had three years ago.

During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Barak said, there was tacit agreement with the United States to avoid targeting state infrastructure such as roads, power stations, airports and other state institutions.

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THE GREAT CHESS GAME BETWEEN ISRAEL AND IRAN,

ENDS IN VICIOUS WAR STOPPED AT 2ND ADVENT,

ISRAEL MAY BE ABLE TO TAKE IRAN’S QUEEN,

BUT CHECKMATE COMES AT 2ND ADVENT!

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Begin Excerpts from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert

Excerpt 1 – Jerusalem Post

Hizbullah Stockpiles 40,000 Rockets Near Israel Border

Richard Beeston and Nicholas Blanford

Hizbullah, the Shia Muslim militia, is stronger than it was in 2006 when it took on the Israeli army.

Hizbullah has up to 40,000 rockets and is training its forces to use ground-to-ground missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv, and anti-aircraft missiles that could challenge Israel’s dominance of the skies over Lebanon. Hizbullah is believed to have acquired large numbers of SA8 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and Western intelligence sources said Hizbullah fighters were receiving training in Syria on the SA8 system.

Brig.-Gen. Alon Friedman, deputy head of the Israeli Northern Command, said that the peace of the past three years could “explode at any minute.” Last month the scale of the Hizbullah build-up was revealed after an explosion at an ammunition bunker in the village of Khirbet Slim, 12 miles from the Israeli border. (Times-UK)

Excerpt 2 from the Times Online

Hezbollah rockets part of Iran and Israel’s political game of chess

Richard Beeston: Analysis

August 5, 2009

Surveillance footage obtained by The Times, reveals that Hezbollah fighters desperately tried to salvage rockets and other munitions after an explosion at a huge ammunition bunker in the village of Khirbet Slim

There is no better place to understand Iranian strategy than the Laleh Park in central Tehran, where young and old gather most afternoons to engage in an ancient form of combat.

Chess has helped sharpen the Persian mind for centuries and may explain how today’s regime is plotting its next move to become a superpower.

Some time over the coming two to three years, Iran will be able to build its first nuclear weapon, granting it membership of the world’s most elite club and putting it on par with Israel as the dominant forces in the Middle East.

If diplomatic efforts fail to halt Tehran, then there is only one last obstacle — the open threat by Israel to destroy Tehran’s nuclear sites before it can complete an atomic weapon.

Israel has the political will and the military muscle to execute an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The range may be beyond anything attempted by the Israeli Air Force, but Iran’s conventional forces are outdated and defences weak. It is assumed that Arab states, whose airspace Israeli bombers and fighters would have to fly through to reach Iran, would secretly cooperate on a mission to blunt the Persian threat.

That is why Tehran is investing so heavily in its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah. The Shia Muslim militia has rebuilt and strengthened its arsenal since the bloody war it fought with the Israelis in 2006.

It has amassed tens of thousands of rockets and missiles capable of bombarding half the country.

Israeli planners have no doubt that should they make the fateful decision to attack Iran, they will provoke massive retaliation on an unprecedented scale.

The most densely populated areas of the country would come under Hezbollah range, including Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ben Gurion, Israel’ s only international airport.

Israel may be able to take Iran’s queen. But in the process it could put itself into check.

Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post

Analysis: Hizbullah turns up the temperature in the North

July 29, 2009

jonathan spyer , THE JERUSALEM POST

Israel’s border with Lebanon is currently at its most tense since the cease-fire which ended the war of 2006. This tension has been brought on by the combination of a number of factors.

Ongoing internal political frictions in Lebanon and a series of recent setbacks suffered by the Iran-led regional bloc are both key elements contributing to the situation. Inflammatory rhetoric and orchestrated provocations by Hizbullah supporters in the south, against the ominous background of the movement’s ongoing rearmament, are helping to ratchet up the uncertainty.

Coalition negotiations have been deadlocked in Lebanon in recent weeks. Hizbullah has conceded to the opposition’s demand that its bloc receive only 15 ministerial portfolios (one less than the number required for a veto). This does not settle the matter, however. The focus now turns to efforts to ensure that at least one of the ‘independent’ ministers linked to President Suleiman is of a pro-Hizbullah orientation, ensuring the de facto continuation of the movement’s power to block government decisions not to its liking.

Feeling itself under internal pressure, Hizbullah has sought once again to cast itself as the force of ‘resistance’ in Lebanon.

It was this role which originally propelled the movement from its status as a secondary, pro-Iranian Shia force to its current prominence. During the past several years, Hizbullah’s problem has been finding issues which could justify its continued belligerent stance against Israel. The two matters on which it has chosen to focus are Israeli control of the Mount Dov (Shabaa Farms) area, and the matter of Lebanese citizens supposedly incarcerated in Israel.

Both these issues are now once more being deliberately placed in the foreground.

It is worth remembering that the 2006 war was sparked by an attempt by Hizbullah to kidnap IDF soldiers in order to exchange them for Samir Kuntar and a number of other Lebanese jailed in Israel for involvement in terror.

The attack in July 2006 was not the first attempt of this kind. Each was accompanied by a ratcheting up of rhetoric by the Hizbullah leadership, which sought to focus attention on the prisoners.

On July 17, Nasrallah gave a speech to mark the first anniversary of the release of Samir Kuntar and other Lebanese captives from Israeli custody.

In the speech, he raised the issue of another supposed Lebanese ‘prisoner’ who, he claimed, rema ins

in Israeli hands. The individual named, one Yahya Skaff, was killed while taking part in a Palestinian terror operation in Israel in 1978.

It was long rumored in Lebanon that he was in fact alive and in Israeli custody. Skaff’s remains were returned to Lebanon, but Hizbullah maintains that tests were unable to confirm the identity of the remains.

Nasrallah’s speech suggests that the movement wants to inflate this issue so that it may serve as ‘justification’ for further aggression against Israel.

In addition, Hizbullah is turning up the temperature in the Mount Dov area. Against the backdrop of the explosion at Khirbat Silm, the movement has carried out a series of provocations – including a crossing into the Mount Dov area by Hizbullah-supporting civilians, who placed a movement banner and a Lebanese flag on an unmanned Israeli observation post in the Kafr Shuba hills.

The present escalation is taking place against the backdrop of Hizbullah’s continued re-arming, both south and north of the Litani River. Israel is carefully monitoring this process. There are certain red lines beyond which Israel may consider some form of preventive action necessary, according to sources. These would include the acquisition and deployment by Hizbullah of an anti-aircraft capacity.

The situation on the northern border must be viewed through a regional prism, as well as a narrow Israeli-Lebanese one. The region remains divided between a bloc of states and movements aligned with Iran, which includes Hizbullah, and a de facto counter-alliance of pro-US states including Israel. Israel is the totemic enemy of the pro-Iranian bloc, which is committed to its destruction.

It has not been a good year for the pro-Iranian bloc. An important asset for the Iranians and their allies has been their sense of themselves as the ‘sunrise’ power in the region – the force of tomorrow. This perception h ad been

aided by a string of achievements in the past few years. But 2009 has witnessed the cessation and partial reverse of this process – with a number of setbacks for Teheran and its various assets.

Israel’s Gaza operation dented their sense that they had discovered a means of nullifying Israel’s conventional advantage through the use of attrition and war against civilians.

This setback was then followed by defeat for Iran’s Lebanese clients in the June elections. Following this, the unrest after the rigged elections in Iran itself made a mockery of the Teheran-led bloc’s claim to represent the regional popular will against its opponents.

The charging of a number of Hizbullah activists, recently apprehended in Egypt, has added to the movement’s woes.

Could this combination of local and regional frustrations be leading Hizbullah, creation and chief asset of the Iranians, down a road of dangerous brinkmanship – in an effort to recover some of its lost momentum and charisma?

What is clear is that the events sparked by the Khirbat Silm explosion have not yet run their course, the potential for miscalculation is very real, and hence further deterioration cannot be ruled out.

Jonathan Spyer is a senior researcher at the Global Research in International Affairs Center, IDC, Herzliya.

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Republic of Iran Manifests a Genuine Fanatical Dictatorship,

Ahmadinejad and his Army of Fanatical Basijis Rule by Force!

Iran will be among nations coming against Israel in FINAL War,

But it will be Syria on Israel’s front border lines leading the Jihad!

August 6, 2009

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Ezekiel 38:5,6 – Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: [6] Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.

Verse 5 names three of the peoples from which the Antichrist will draw his initial attacking horde: “Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:” Persia was basically the peoples east of the Euphrates, which today would be Iran and Iraq. Libya corresponds with the location of modern day Libya.

And Ethiopia in Ezekiel’s day was made up mostly of what we call Sudan today.

Verse 6 continues to name the peoples of Ezekiel’s day from which he will draw his support, and by knowing where they lived at that time, we can at least attempt to identify those nations that occupy these areas today: “Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.” Quite frankly, I have searched, and researched, the writings of many historians, both ancient and modern, and, in the end, knowing that honesty is the best policy I can only say that there is a wide diversity of opinion. Up to this point, as regards the locations of Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Persia, Libya, and Ethiopia, I have presented a case in my previous Blogs from both the Scriptures and historical records, which I believe is substantial. But in the case of Gomer, and the house of Togarmah, as to where they were settled in Ezekiel’s day, I can only give a rough approximation. The house of Togarmah and the descendants of Gomer were sandwiched between the Magogites (Scythians) to the north, and Meshach, Tubal, and Persia to the south. They stretched from west to east across modern day Turkey into the area south of the Caucasus Mountains, and through extreme northern Iraq and Iran.

The first two excerpts are from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs/Daily Alert

Excerpt 1 from National Interest

Mullahs and Generals

Hossein Askari

August 6, 2009

The Iranian regime’s claim of religious legitimacy is no longer credible. Iranians did not sacrifice their lives in a revolution and in a brutal eight-year war with Iraq to have their freedom stolen by a supreme leader and a president. Shia Muslims see it as their duty to reject an oppressive regime. The cycle of demonstrations will not stop, and if stopped by force, the opposition will go underground as it did under the shah. The senior religious establishment will not give its support to the supreme leader or to President Ahmadinejad. The regime has lost its appeal to the Muslim masses outside of Iran. The brutality of the regime has bared its ugliness for the whole world to see.

The government may survive for a few weeks, months, or even for a few years, not as an Islamic Republic but as a military dictatorship. The writer is the Iran Professor of Business and International Affairs at George Washington University. (National Interest)

Excerpt 2 from Los Angeles Times

Iran’s Nuclear Aspirations Threaten the World

Dore Gold (Los Angeles Times)

August 6, 2009

Iran has consistently used the West’s willingness to engage as a delaying tactic, a smoke screen behind which Iran’s nuclear program has continued undeterred and, in many cases, undetected.

In 2005, former chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani confessed that in the period during which he sat across from European negotiators discussing Iran’s uranium enrichment ambitions, Tehran quietly managed to complete the critical second stage of uranium fuel production: its uranium conversion plant in Isfahan. Former deputy foreign minister Mohammed Javad Larijani has said: “Diplomacy must be used to lessen pressure on Iran for its nuclear program.”

Israel is not Iran’s only target. If that was the case, the Iranians would have had no reason to develop missiles that fly well past Israeli territory to Central Europe and beyond.

An Iran that crosses the nuclear threshold after repeated warnings that doing so is “unacceptable” would be even less likely to be deterred in the future.

It would provide global terrorism the kind of protective umbrella that al-Qaeda never had back on 9/11, including for Hizbullah cells located at present in Central Europe and Latin America.

Halting the Iranian nuclear program is a global imperative; acquiescing to a nuclear Iran in the hope that it will pragmatically understand the limits of its own power would be a colossal mistake.

The writer served as Israel’s UN ambassador from 1997 to 1999 and is now president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. His new book, The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West, will be published next

Begin Excerpt from BBC News via World News

Tension as security forces flood Tehran

August 6, 2009

As Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in as president on Wednesday opposition supporters gathered outside the Iranian parliament and were met by hundreds of riot police.

Mehdi, not his real name, told BBC Persian of the huge security presence at Baharestan Square near the parliament.

“As I turned off the square, I froze on the spot – I couldn’t believe my eyes at the number of vehicles and motorbikes lined up on the road ”

I realised the situation was serious when the metro driver said the train would not be stopping at Mellat or Baharestan stations near the parliament.

People had planned to come by car and cause a traffic jam.

But all the roads to the square were blocked and cars were not allowed in the area.

Anti-riot police were out in force, and there was a severe security crackdown. At the top of every street there were Basijis [militia] and plain clothed guards – in extraordinary numbers.

I think out of every ten people, three of them were security personnel.

When I arrived Baharestan Square, I saw more Basijis on motorbikes with batons in their hands.

As I turned into Safi Ali Shah Road off the square, I froze on the spot – I couldn’t believe my eyes at the number of vehicles and motorbikes lined up on the road.

It was packed full of special guards in black uniforms, they were standing around chatting and laughing, but ready for action.

There were minibuses full of Sepah forces [Revolutionary Guards], and many of them were still asleep – I suppose they had been brought in early in the morning.

I came round the front of the station again and saw that the security forces had formed a human chain in front of the parliament.

‘Guards were right amongst the people’

Protestors had planned to circulate around the parliament building.

But if anyone stood still for a moment, they would be quickly pounced on by four or five guards.

On previous demonstrations, the guards had stood back from the crowds. But on this day, they were right amongst the people. On the slightest suspicion, they would grab individuals and take them away to a side street.

“ One Basiji stopped me and said: ‘I’ve been watching you for an hour now, you’ve been hanging around here, what exactly are you up to?’ ”

If they saw anyone using a mobile, even just to make a call,

they would seize them.

Then a helicopter passed over our heads towards parliament. Later we realised this must be have been Ahmadinejad arriving for the ceremony.

The Basijis on bikes had circled the whole square – they formed a chain, each about three metres apart. One of them stopped me and said: “I’ve been watching you for an hour now, you’ve been hanging around here, what exactly are you up to?”

I tried to laugh it off and be relaxed and said: “I’m not up to anything, I’m just looking, I will go now.”

He replied: “If I see your face here one more time, I’ll sort you out.”

But it was clear they were really nervous, because the crowds had really grown.

They worked in teams of three or four, not alone. I saw some people being arrested too.

At around 10am there was a struggle in one corner. Basijis suddenly descended on the scuffle from all sides.

There had been some chanting on the metro in 15 Khordad station – people were chanting “death to the dictator” and “God is great”.

But there were no chants in Baharestan Square itself.

If anyone dared raise their voice, they would be arrested.

I left around noon and headed back home.

Story from BBC News

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Feeling like a Chinam

an?

I’m Not of Chinese Descent

But am rather of Irish Ancestry

I’ve never approved of Prostitution

But in watching Washington Escapades

I do trust prostitutes more th an

US leaders

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Jeremiah 5:30,31 – A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; [31] The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

Similar to Pre-Babylonian Captivity!

Obama’s Czar’s all do prophesy falsely!

His Cronies surround him by Appointment!

His religious Buddies bear rule by their Means,

And

the liberals who elected him love to have it So,

And WHAT INDEED WILL America do in THE END Thereof

?

Begin excerpt from The Irish Times via World News

Chinese trust Prostitutes more than party cadres

CLIFFORD COONAN

Wed, Aug 05, 2009

THE FIVE most trustworthy groups in China are farmers, religious workers, sex workers, soldiers and students, a survey has shown, while Communist Party cadres are way down the list, a sign of how serious an issue corruption has become.

A survey by the research centre of Xiaokang Magazine, reprinted in the China Daily newspaper, was described as “surprising and embarrassing”, especially given that prostitution is illegal in China.

“The sex workers’ unexpected prominence on this list of honour, based on an online poll of more than 3,000 people, is indeed unusual,” ran a commentary.

Scientists and teachers were also given a low ranking alongside government officials.

“Yet given the constant feed of scandals involving the country’ s elite, thi

s is not bad at all. At least they have not slid into the least credible category, which consists of real estate developers, secretaries, agents, entertainers and directors,” the commentary said.

More than 91 per cent of the respondents admitted that they would take government data with a pinch of salt, a rise from 79 per cent in 2007.

Pollsters concluded that the steep decline reflected a “quite severe” drop in government credibility, evidenced by recent “mass incidents”, China’s term for protests involving more than five people.

Security services registered 80,000 such mass incidents in 2007, the most recent year for which state media have published a figure.

“In most recent cases of mass protests, distrust of local authorities turned out to be a powerful amplifier of public indignation,” the article said.

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Future Jerusalem not shared with Arabs,

Exodus manifested God’s Jerusalem Decree!

Future Mandate for Jerusalem by Human Degree

Is quite different from God’ s future Jeru

salem Mandate!

Man mandates ‘Jews & Arabs are destined to share this City’

According TO LAST Paragraph Statement IN Following J.P. EXCERPT,

But the Word of God mandates that all future Jerusalem belongs to Israel!

God took it from Palestinian Canaanites, giving it to Israel as their Promised Land!

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Zechariah 14:21 – Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more

the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 66:10-16 – Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: [11] That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. [12] For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a r

iver, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. [13] As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

[14] And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies. [15] For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and

with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. [16] For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Begin Excerpt from Jerusalem Post

Jews & Sheikh Jarrah

August 3, 2009

THE JERUSALEM POST

It was not a pretty picture.

The belongings of two Palestinian Arab families dumped in the street after they were evicted from their homes in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. They were expelled on Sunday after Israel’s Supreme Court ruled that the land upon which their homes were built belonged to the Sephardi Jewish community.

This area, also known as “Simon the Just,” was purchased by Jews at the end of the 19th century during the Ottoman Empire. According to The New York Times, the evacuated houses were built in the 1950s by the United Nations for refugees who had fled west Jerusalem during the 1948 war. When Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan and united the city, after the 1967 Six Day War, the families were permitted to stay on as tenants. At some point, they stopped paying rent having become convinced – we know not by whom – that the Jews’ deed to the land was a forgery.

It took a large force of police to carry out the evictions in the face of opposition from the residents, left-wing Jewish supporters and foreign demonstrators.

Coming on the heels of the controversy surrounding the nearby Shepherd Hotel complex, which was also purchased to create Jewish residential housing, the evictions drew worldwide condemnation.

The international community says Israel has no legal claim to east Jerusalem; nor does it accept Israeli sovereignty over west Jerusalem.

Israel finds itself in the anomalous position in which not a single nation recognizes Jerusalem as our capital.

All foreign embassies are located in Tel Aviv.

Meanwhile, European governments, with Britain often in the lead, have invested vast resources, sometimes surreptitiously, in promoting Arab claims to east Jerusalem (and the West Bank)

, bankrolling organizations, many staffed with Israelis and sporting Hebrew names, whose mandate is, in effect, to promote EU policy vis-à-vis Jerusalem and the West Bank.

The British Consulate in Jerusalem explicitly denies that Israeli courts have jurisdiction over east Jerusalem.

Its diplomats term the Arab connection to Sheikh Jarrah “ancient.”

Media coverage of the issue has been overwhelmingly supportive of the Palestinian position.

THERE happens to be another side to this argument.

Put aside, for our purposes here, the ancient Jewish connection to Jerusalem and Zion’s centrality to Jewish civilization over the millennia.

Begin instead with the fact that there is no neatly delineated “east” and “west” Jerusalem – one section housing Arabs and the other Jews. Jerusalem beyond the Green Line is home to some 200,000 Jews and 270,000 Arabs, though 66 percent of all residents are Jewish.

The city is built on a range of hills and valleys. Arab and Jewish neighborhoods crisscross in the north, east and southern sectors.

Sheikh Jarrah, in the northeast, is strategically situated on the way to the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University. During the 1948 war, Arabs massacred 78 doctors and others who were heading by convoy to Hadassah hospital, also on
Mount Scopus. Today, in addition to the hospital (which serves both Israelis and Palestinians) and the university (which has thousands of Arab students), the area is also home to Israel’s police headquarters and Justice Ministry.

Staunchly right-wing Orthodox groups have been competing with Gulf Arabs in the quest to purchase properties in the area. (Israel does not forbid Arabs from buying land in Jerusalem.)

In this particular rivalry, we side with the Jewish groups, even if this newspaper is sometimes put-off by the way they see the world, because whatever arrangements may ultimately be negotiated for sharing Jerusalem, mainstream Israelis will insist on unfettered access to Mount Scopus via Sheikh Jarrah.

As far as British claims of an “ancient” Arab connection to the area, Nadav Shragai convincingly documents, in the latest “Jerusalem Issue Brief” published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (www.jcpa.org), that the Jewish connection to what is today Sheikh Jarrah predates the founding of both Christianity and Islam.

That said, we are not enthusiastic about the purchase of property or the construction of Jewish residential housing in heavily Arab neighborhoods when not dictated by strategic imperatives.

Jews and Arabs are destined to share this city.

Both peoples would be wise to avoid actions that exacerbate tensions.

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