On 10/7/2014 4:37 AM, blue_bungalow2 wrote:
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/So, some Jewish residents of Jerusalem bought apartments legally from
Arabs in a predominately Arab neighborhood. Go figure./
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No referendum was held in that territory. So how
"legal" the UN partition plan would be.
Secondly, the partition plan itself is haphazard.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/UN_Partition_Plan_For_Palestine_1947.png
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Jerusalem has been the capital city of the Jewish People for the last
3,000
years. Still, Jerusalem warmly opens its arms to a variety of
cultures and
religions, and many Muslims and Christians call it home.
Keep reading to the end of this email for the story on the architectal
plans for the Third Temple.
Nations Up in Arms Over Additional Housing in Jerusalem Neighborhood
"I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding
peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem."
(Zechariah 12:2)
Last week, the Jerusalem municipality announced the final approval for
a building project that will add over 2,500 homes to Jerusalem's Givat
Hamatos neighborhood. Although the plan was announced last week, it
was put into play about two years ago.
The United States, France and Germany criticized the move, seeing the
growth of the neighborhood as endangering the two-state peace process,
and calling for a reversal of the decision.
This sentiment, of course, aligns with a dramatic universal shift
toward the insistence that Jerusalem be divided so that it becomes the
capital of an Arab state and the capital of a Jewish state.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said of the mixed
Jewish-Arab neighborhood that its expansion would "poison the
atmosphere not only with the Palestinians, but also with the very Arab
governments with which Prime Minister Netanyahu said he wanted to
build relations."
She also said that it called "into question Israel’s ultimate
commitment to a peaceful negotiated settlement with the Palestinians.”
"We condemn the Israeli authorities decision to build 2,610 homes in
Givat Hamatos," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a
statement.
"One cannot claim to support a solution and at the same time do things
against without consequences being drawn, including at the European
Union level," Fabius threatened. (JPost)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the condemnation,
indicating that internationals had not learned the facts before
responding.
"It’s worth learning the information properly before deciding to take
a position like that," he said. The last phase of a building project
is "a statutory formality that does not require publicizing."
Although the Givat Hamatos expansion was widely publicized two years
ago during the first phase, its recent approval was again widely
publicized by incendiary anti-settlement group Peace Now—leading to
the condemnations.
"If this decision is upheld, it would mark the creation of a new
settlement in east Jerusalem for the first time in more than 15
years," Fabius erroneously stated, disregarding the reality of the
already existing, mixed-ethnicity neighborhood.
Netanyahu reminded world leaders that "Arabs in Jerusalem purchase
homes freely in the west of the city and nobody says that’s forbidden.
I don’t intend to tell Jews that they can’t buy homes in east
Jerusalem," he said.
Nevertheless, that is the very thing that the proposed two-state peace
plan intends to accomplish—in addition to divvying up the rest of the
Promised Land in a dangerous patchwork quilt of unworkable borders.
"The Obama plan would force Israel to give it all up, to divide
Jerusalem, and return to indefensible borders. This would be a grave
error," writes author Joel Rosenberg. "It would severely jeopardize
Israeli national security. It would do so in direct defiance of the
Holy Scriptures. And it would draw the judgment of the Lord Almighty
against the United States and all other countries involved in the
process."
As the world increasingly pressures Israel to return to the
Israel-Jordan truce lines (aka the 1967 borders or Green Line) even
though Jordan itself has renounced all claim to those lands,it becomes
increasingly clear that key end-time prophecies concerning Israel and
Jerusalem are being fulfilled.
The prophet Joel, as one example, warns that God is not on board with
plans to divide His land:
"I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of
Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my
inheritance, my people Israel, because they scattered my people among
the nations and divided up my land." (Joel 3:2)
However, Yeshua (Jesus) reassures us that Believers who live in these
last days should not fear, but eagerly await His return.
"When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your
heads, because your redemption is drawing near." (Luke 21:28)
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