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| Opening tense week, government okays huge East Jerusalem ‘sovereignty plan’ |
| 2018-05-14 |
| [IsraelTimes] Ministers authorize NIS 2 billion ($560 million) for plans to formalize land ownership claims, apply Israeli curriculum to Paleostinian schools, and build cable car to Western Wall Government ministers vowed Sunday to "deepen Israeli illusory sovereignty" in East Jerusalem as they approved a hefty series of plans to fete Jerusalem Day ‐ the anniversary of when Israeli forces took control of the Old City and Arab-majority East Jerusalem in 1967 ‐ in what they described as a unique opportunity created by President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s decision to move the US embassy to Israel’s capital. At a celebratory cabinet meeting held in Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum, the cabinet authorized programs in the capital estimated at some NIS 2 billion ($560 million), which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said were intended to "​build up and develop Jerusalem, east and west, north and south." ​The proposals given the go-ahead include plans to formalize land ownership claims in East Jerusalem and transfer Paleostinian schools in the area to use of the Israeli curriculum. Ministers also earmarked budgets for the development of increasingly Jewish areas of the majority-Arab Old City and Mount of Olives, and to build a cable car from West Jerusalem to the Western Wall. "​We will make a series of decisions to​ ​build up and develop Jerusalem, east and west, north and south, in all directions ‐ to both reveal its past and build its future," Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting. "We dreamed of returning to rebuild it, the city that is joined together ‐ this is exactly what we are doing today​." Telling ministers that Jerusalem is "the capital of our people, and only of our people," Netanyahu also acknowledged the controversial nature of the plans, which encroach on parts of the city claimed by Paleostinians as the capital of a future Paleostinian state. "I know that there will be difficulties along the way; there have been difficulties for the past 70 years. We have met them since 1949 and up to recent years. We will also meet them in the future​," the prime minister said. The meeting came at the start of a politically tense week for Jerusalem that will see the US move its embassy to the capital on Monday, and the culmination of over six weeks of protests along the Gazoo border, when Paleostinians mourn the "catastrophe" of the creation of the Jewish state, on both Monday and Tuesday. Later on Sunday, thousands of Israelis took part in the annual Jerusalem Day parade celebrating 51 years since the reunification of the city during the 1967 Six Day War. The march, in which primarily religious teenagers parade through the Old City decked in white and blue, the colors of the Israeli flag, has raised tensions over its route through the Old City’s Moslem Quarter. In previous years, the march has sparked sporadic incidents of violence between Israeli revelers and local Paleostinian residents in East Jerusalem. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Nobody is rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. We replaced animal sacrifice with prayer during the Babylonian Exile aftr the fall of the first Temple in 587 BCE. Yes, some Jews partook of the sacrifices after the Second Temple was built in 516 BCE (and then rebuilt on a glorious scale by King Herod centuries later), but most Jews never returned to the land of Israel, just as the majority of the world’s Jews do not live in Israel now. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-14 22:30 |
| #4 Setting the Bible aside for a moment, let's just hope Bibi doesn't over play his hand. Trump has given him more than an inch, I pray he uses it well. |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2018-05-14 08:23 |
| #3 There once was a period in History when Revelations chapters concerning the return of the Jews to their Land of Israel was an un-fulfilled dream. A figment without a Sykes-Picot to its name. There once was a time when a whole lot of people laughed at the Book of Revelations as a mythical BS joke. Not a chance, right? 1898 and hogwash? Its a grim book. Seems to have an Atomic war in it somewhere. But, then again, I could be wrong. Something about the rebuilding of the Jewish temple ? Something about "the Two Witnesses", whatever that's all about. Another name for the Book is "the Apocalypse " Stuff that bringing an umbrella along won't fix. |
| Posted by: Snakes Hupoluse7121 2018-05-14 07:14 |
| #2 We are stuck in REV 14 and meddling in REV 19 and others. It is okay to have a FRAGO or more. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-05-14 03:30 |
| #1 An old preacher once told his congregation a few decades ago that when Jerusalem becomes all Israeli, set your watch to the last chapters of The Book of Revelations. |
| Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-05-14 00:18 |