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With events in America and worldwide it only seems plausible at least that biblical prophecy could well be happening before our eyes. And that being the case how can we not have a thread about the nation that is at the center of it all. One tiny Nation in the Middle East and yet it is in our news every day. The nation of Israel. The very core of Biblical prophecy. At what has been happening there lately also lends Credence to biblical prophecy.

But first there is a correlating news thread that you might want to read.

 

 

By ILAN BEN ZION

JERUSALEM (AP) — It wasn’t inevitable that the overlap of Jewish and Muslim holidays would lead to clashes at a Jerusalem site deeply revered by both faiths.

But when rumors circulated that Israeli police would allow Jews to visit the hilltop compound during Muslim prayers, it appeared to many Palestinians that Israel was further chipping away at their claims to the site.

As demonstrators massed at the gates and began throwing stones at the police, it became a self-fulfilling prophecy. After an outcry by right-wing Israeli leaders, the police reversed an earlier decision to bar the Jewish visitors and let them in, as stun grenades echoed and tear gas filled the air.

The holy site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, has long been a flashpoint for Israeli-Palestinian violence. But sensitivities are especially high at the moment, with the peace process a distant memory and Israel heading to elections next month

In the current atmosphere, even the smallest perceived changes to the status of the site — the emotional and symbolic center of the decades-old conflict — can spark violence.

A PERCEIVED THREAT

The compound is the holiest site to the Jewish people and the third holiest in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. It was the site of two Jewish temples in antiquity and is the home of the iconic gold Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.

On Sunday morning, tens of thousands of Muslims flocked to the site to mark the start of Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday honoring the time God stayed Abraham’s hand after asking him to sacrifice his son. Hundreds of Israeli religious nationalists also showed up in observance of Ninth of Av, when Jews mourn the destruction of the temples and other historical calamities.

The site is located in east Jerusalem, which Israel seized along with the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians want those territories to form their future state, with east Jerusalem as their capital. Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized internationally, and views the whole city as its capital.

The hilltop shrine is managed by an Islamic trust under Jordanian stewardship, and day-to-day affairs are governed by informal understandings with Israel known as the “status quo.” The Palestinians fear any erosion of the status quo could lead to an Israeli takeover or partition of the site.

According to those rules, Jews are allowed to visit the compound during certain times but are forbidden to pray there. The Islamic trust overseeing the site, known as the Waqf, said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to allow Jews to visit during a major Muslim holiday.

“It has been customary that on Muslim holidays, the site would be closed to non-Muslims in respect for the special sanctity of the days,” said Daniel Seidemann, founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, a group that tracks developments in the holy city.

“That basically was violated for the first time when Jerusalem Day and the final days of Ramadan overlapped (in June), and it happened again yesterday,” he said.

In response, the Waqf said it took the “exceptional decision” to delay morning prayers, typically held at 6:30 a.m., by an hour so that they would conflict with normal visiting hours. Soon thereafter the clashes erupted, wounding at least 14 Palestinians and four Israeli police.

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A ‘SHARED SITE’

For decades, most rabbis forbade Jews from visiting the site altogether, but a growing cadre of religious nationalist rabbis have endorsed visiting the holy site and their adherents have flocked there in increasing numbers in recent years.

The number of Jewish visitors to the shrine stood at around 5,800 in 2010, but by 2018 had grown to 35,600, according to statistics released by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan.

He said 1,729 Jews visited the site on Sunday, compared to 1,440 on the Ninth of Av in 2018, adding that he would “continue to work to strengthen Israeli sovereignty on the Mount.”

Jerusalem District police chief Doron Yedid said it was the Waqf that violated the status quo by delaying the prayers. Police said the site would remain closed to non-Muslim visitors until Thursday, following the end of the Muslim holiday.

“The message sent to the Palestinians and to the Muslim worshippers is: ‘This is a shared site. Get used to it,’” Seidemann said. “And that is a significant erosion of the traditional understandings of the status quo.”

Azzam Khateeb, the Waqf’s director, said Sunday’s altercation proved that “Israeli ambitions in the mosque are not limited to the extreme right-wing groups, but also to the Israeli government.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said he has no intention of changing the status quo, despite calls from his right-wing allies for expanded access.

That has left him vulnerable on the issue as he seeks to secure an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office in elections next month, which were called after he failed to form a coalition government following a vote in April.

“It’s very difficult for Netanyahu right now,” as he competes for votes with other right-wing parties, said Lior Lehrs, director of the Program on Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking at Mitvim, an Israeli think-tank.

That may encourage Netanyahu to adopt a tougher stance, especially after he was widely criticized by right-wing leaders in the wake of Sunday’s clashes.

In the meantime, Israeli hard-liners are hailing Sunday’s visit as a victory.

Assaf Fried, a spokesman for a group calling for the construction of a third temple on the site, expressed pride in the visit in a Facebook post.

“You need to remember,” he wrote, “that since the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem (in 637 A.D.), not a single Jewish foot stood on the Temple Mount on a Muslim holiday.”

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NYPD Hate Crimes Unit Investigating After 3 Hasidic Jews Attacked Within An Hour 

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/08/12/hasidic-jews-attacked-in-williamsburg-brooklyn/

 

https://cbsloc.al/33vY0Fw

 


NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – At least three people were violently mugged early this morning in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The first attack happened on Ross Street, the second on Wythe Place and a third on Clymer Street

 

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Over 100 tires slashed in Orthodox Jewish community, police say

 

 

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Aug 12, 2019

 

 

More than 100 tires have been slashed in a predominately Orthodox Jewish community in New Jersey in recent days, according to authorities there.

All of the vehicles targeted in Lakewood Township, New Jersey, were owned or driven by Jewish people. The incidents are being investigated as bias crimes, police told ABC New York City station WABC

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For those that are not familiar with that verse;

 

Zechariah 12:3     King James Version (KJV)

3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

 

Thanks @ladyGrace'sDaddy, I believe we are looking at the beginning of the end as well. They will build the third temple. Something has to happen to the Dome of the Rock in order for that to happen. Although I did read recently that the temple may be built next to it according to newly discovered historical information. I do know it will be and is a hot potato.

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JEWISH MAN ATTACKED BY MOB IN EAST JERUSALEM
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
ShowImage.ashx?id=360535&w=414&h=290 A man stands near a mosque opposite to a neighborhood in east Jerusalem November 13, 2016.. (photo credit:" REUTERS)
The driver was taken to the hospital, treated and released with minor injuries.
A Jewish driver was attacked on Salakh a-Din Street in east Jerusalem Saturday night by a group of young Arab men, according to Channel 12. 

The group saw the man driving down the street and began to attack his car. They threw stones and tried smashing his windows. 

A police officer, who just finished his shift, was driving behind the man. He got out of his car and began shooting his gun in the air to disperse the mob. 

The officer was able to get the driver out of his car.
The driver was taken to the hospital, treated and released with minor injuries. The same cannot be said for the car. 

Two of the suspects involved have been arrested.
 
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By BLOOMBERG NEWS/TNS
444358 U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Morristown municipal airport en route to Washington after a weekend in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 4, 2019. . (photo credit:" YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS)
"We are not looking for a regime change, President Abbas is the leader of the Palestinians, so we hope that he will be able to come to the table," Greenblatt said.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump hasn't decided whether to unveil his Middle East peace plan before or after Israeli elections set for next month, and the U.S. hopes eventually to engage with the Palestinian Authority on an accord, special envoy Jason Greenblatt said.

Greenblatt, who along with Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been drafting a Middle East peace proposal for the last two years, said the U.S. isn't looking for regime change with the Palestinian Authority, which governs in the West Bank. But he signaled the U.S. would continue to avoid any dealings with Hamas, the Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip.

"We are not looking for a regime change, President Abbas is the leader of the Palestinians, so we hope that he will be able to come to the table," Greenblatt said in an interview Monday with Kevin Cirilli on Bloomberg Television, referring to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. "We do hope to have continued engagement or an eventual re-engagement with the Palestinian Authority."

Greenblatt gave no indication of what the political plan would look like, but said Trump would have to "decide soon" whether to roll it out before the Israeli elections or after _ and whether to wait until after a new government has been formed. Those elections are set for Sept. 17 and surveys indicate a close race between blocs led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz. An election earlier this year ended in stalemate after Netanyahu failed to form a governing coalition.
"This conflict will only be resolved by direct negotiations between the parties," Greenblatt said. "It's not for the United States or the European Union or the United Nations to demand how this conflict can be resolved."

Kushner promoted the economic component of his proposal in Bahrain in June, but the event was deliberately short on key political questions, and the conference didn't include Palestinian officials. Kushner called for about $50 billion in proposed investments in the Palestinian territories and neighboring countries that host refugees.
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UN ASKS PALESTINIANS TO EXPLAIN HATE SPEECH, ANTISEMITISM
By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 
:" MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/REUTERS)
PA undergoes first ever review by Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The Palestinian Authority was called to task for hate speech and antisemitism in its official statements and in its textbooks during the government’s first ever review by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held in Geneva on Tuesday.

“Several NGO reports pointed out antisemitic and anti-Israel prejudice and incitement to hatred, especially in the [Palestinian] media and speeches of state officials. Can the state party [the PA] provide any explanation in this regard?” asked committee member Chinsung Chung of South Korea. She is the special rapporteur for the Palestinian Authority’s review by the committee. Its members paused to note the “historic” quality of the moment before tackling the more complex issues at hand.

Committee member Silva Albuquerque said he had been briefed by NGOs earlier in the day on examples of racism and antisemitism in the PA, particularly in its school books.

“Our convention obliges state parties to adopt immediate and effective measures, particularly in education,  to combat racial discrimination and prejudice between different racial and ethnic groups, over jurisprudence,” he said.
Albuquerque asked the PA delegation in the room for specific examples of how it had tackled this problem. PA Foreign Ministry representative Ammar Hijazi, who led a delegation of over a dozen officials, spoke briefly at the end of the hearing. The meeting will continue on Wednesday to explore issues of discrimination in Areas A and B of the West Bank and in Gaza.

Such accusations of hate speech are “regrettable,” Hizjazi said. “We do not discriminate against any of our citizens based on ethnicity and religion or sex. We are a state that is trying to find its path and still formulating its laws,” Hijazi said.

He accused the committee members of accepting at face value charges by NGOs that were “founded and funded to deny Palestinians their rights, their narrative and to spread untruths about them.” These organizations are dedicating to attacking the integrity of the UN, he added.
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I asked Israel's only journalist in Palestine to show me something shocking – and this is what I saw

This is the old road from Ramallah to Jerusalem, lined with lost wealth and forgotten hopes and once-loved homes. They all now end, of course, at The Wall

 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/amira-hass-robert-fisk-west-bank-palestine-israel-wall-show-me-something-shocking-a8547216.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s what I found out when I spent the day with Israel’s most controversial journalist, Gideon Levy

 

 

Journalism and Israel can be combined in the Levy story. His love-hate relationship with the one can get mixed up with his horror of the path down which his country is now travelling

 

 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/gideon-levy-robert-fisk-haaretz-israel-palestine-gaza-a8557691.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why I’ve Always Been Silent About Israel and Palestine. And Why I’m Speaking Out Now.

My great-great-grandparents were among the first Zionists. But once I finally started talking, I learned I’m not the only one grappling with my thoughts on the Jewish state.

 

Story by Caroline Rothstein  ·  Illustrations by Gracey Zhang  ·  Center photo of author by Christopher Clauss; archival photos courtesy Caroline Rothstein   ·  10.14.16

 

 

 

https://narratively.com/why-ive-always-been-silent-about-israel-and-palestine-and-why-im-speaking-out-now/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debunking the myth that anti-Zionism is antisemitic

 

All over the world, it is an alarming time to be Jewish – but conflating anti-Zionism with Jew-hatred is a tragic mistake

 

Thu 7 Mar 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Mar 2019 16.50 GMT

by Peter Beinart

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Journalist Max Blumenthal Articles about Israel-Palestine issue

 

 

 

https://electronicintifada.net/people/max-blumenthal

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal

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Israel thwarts Iranian armed drone attack

By Geller Report Staff - on August 25, 2019
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Israel is the only country in the world that is confronting the Iran terror regime militarily. What would happen to the Middle East if Israel was not safeguarding it? It would totally collapse. When Israel takes military action against Iran (and it’s proxy armies) it is protecting the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. Many Democrats (led by Bernie Sanders) want to disarm Israel at the behest of the neo-Nazi Palestinian Authority. #Jexodus.

 

Netanyahu Holds Emergency Security Meeting Following Thwarted Iranian Drone Plot

ISRAEL THWARTED IRANIAN ARMED DRONE ATTACK

IDF confirms strikes against Iranian targets after intelligence reports of planned attack on northern Israel.

By Israel National News, August 24, 2019:

IDF FIGHTER JETS RECENTLY TARGETED A NUMBER OF TERROR TARGETS IN AQRABA, SYRIA, SOUTHEAST OF DAMASCUS

THE IDF HAS CONFIRMED MULTIPLE STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN TARGETS OUTSIDE DAMASCUS FOLLOWING INTELLIGENCE THAT IRAN WAS PLANNING TO LAUNCH ARMED DRONES AT NORTHERN ISRAEL.

The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last few days.

 

The thwarted attack included plans to launch a number of armed drones intended to be used to strike Israeli sites.

“The IDF is prepared to continue defending the State of Israel against any attempts to harm it and holds Iran and the Syrian regime directly responsible for the thwarted attack,” an IDF statement said.

Israel Defense Forces

 

 

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And he shall make peace with Israel for 7 years

 

Daniel 9:27

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”

 

Muslims supporting Israel

 

 

 

Saudi Arabia and Bahrain alongside Israel: "Netanyahu knows what to do with Hizbullah"

Saudi and Bahrain officials have expressed support for Israel over the escalation in the north, calling on the Lebanese government to take action against Hezbollah: "We support Prime Minister Netanyahu, he knows what to do with Hizbullah"

Uriel Bari , 
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain alongside Israel: "Netanyahu knows what to do"
 

 

Surprising support:  Saudi and Bahrain officials on Sunday expressed support for Israel against the escalation in the north and Hezbollah's anti-missile rocket fire from Lebanon to Israel. They said they oppose Hezbollah's terrorist activities and wished success to the IDF and the State of Israel.

"I send peace and blessings from Saudi Arabia to Palestine," said Saudi social activist Mohammed Saud in a video posted on Twitter. "We support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He already knows what to do in the north against Hezbollah."

At the same time, Bahrain's foreign minister, Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad al-Halifa, attacked the Lebanese government in the wake of the northern border incident and also sided with Israel. "Attacking one country against another is prohibited by international law," he said. When a country watches fights within its borders that endanger its residents and does nothing - it is irresponsibility on the part of that country. "He called on the Lebanese government to take action against Hezbollah and calm the border with Israel.

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