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Zionism And Its Impact By Ann M. Lesch(a Jordanians View, not a palestinians view)

4. Resolution 181 – the “Partition Plan”Recommended “Partition Plan,” November 29, 1947

Jews Against the Occupation
UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (a basic schiksa site of why Jews shouldnt be occupying there Homeland of Israel which God Promised, from Jews that dont read or study there Torah & Tanakh, also a known jewish cult)
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (Why God has called Jews back to Israel)


EARLY HISTORYPALESTINE ORIGIN Where did the name Palestine come from?
Sources and additional reading on this topic:
Reading the Old Testament
What did Rome call the Land of Israel and where were its borders?
Palestine: History
Ottoman Rule (1517-1917)
The Many States of Palestine
The History and Meaning Of "Palestine" and "Palestinians"
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Basic Facts, Nationhood
Politically motivated mythology of "Palestine"
Arafat's Jesus
Israel or Palestine? Which is it?
The Palestinian Misnomer
Strong's Hebrew Dictionary
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Tanakh & Torah Evidence that God has called(Aliyah) the Jews back to Israel

Deu 30:1 It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the LORD your God has driven you,
Deu 30:2 and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
Deu 30:3 that then the LORD your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where the LORD your God has scattered you.
Deu 30:4 If [any of] your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will the LORD your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:
Deu 30:5 and the LORD your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
Deu 30:6 The LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deu 30:7 The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deu 30:8 You shall return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his mitzvot which I command you this day.
Deu 30:9 The LORD your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
Deu 30:10 if you shall obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his mitzvot and his statutes which are written in this scroll of the Torah; if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
Deu 30:11 For this mitzvah which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.
Deu 30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
Deu 30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
Deu 30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.
Deu 30:15 Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
Deu 30:16 in that I command you this day to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his mitzvot and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.
Deu 30:17 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
Deu 30:18 I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Yarden to go in to possess it.
Deu 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Deu 30:20 to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Avraham, to Yitzchak, and to Ya`akov, to give them.

Deu 31:1 Moshe went and spoke these words to all Yisra'el.
Deu 31:2 He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and the LORD has said to me, You shall not go over this Yarden.
Deu 31:3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Yehoshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has spoken.
Deu 31:4 The LORD will do to them as he did to Sichon and to `Og, the kings of the Amori, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
Deu 31:5 The LORD will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the mitzvah which I have commanded you.
Deu 31:6 Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for the LORD your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
Deu 31:7 Moshe called to Yehoshua, and said to him in the sight of all Yisra'el, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
Deu 31:8 The LORD, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.
Deu 31:9 Moshe wrote this law, and delivered it to the Kohanim the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Yisra'el.
Deu 31:10 Moshe commanded them, saying, At the end of [every] seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of booths,
Deu 31:11 when all Yisra'el is come to appear before the LORD your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Yisra'el in their hearing.
Deu 31:12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
Deu 31:13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Yarden to possess it.
Deu 31:14 The LORD said to Moshe, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge. Moshe and Yehoshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
Deu 31:15 The LORD appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.
Deu 31:16 The LORD said to Moshe, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Deu 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?
Deu 31:18 I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.
Deu 31:19 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Yisra'el: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Yisra'el.
Deu 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
Deu 31:21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
Deu 31:22 So Moshe wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Yisra'el.
Deu 31:23 He gave Yehoshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Yisra'el into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.
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Eze 11:5 And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
Eze 11:6 Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
Eze 11:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Eze 11:8 Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 11:9 And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
Eze 11:10 Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:
Eze 11:12 And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about you.
Eze 11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
Eze 11:14 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 11:15 Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.
Eze 11:16 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.
Eze 11:17 Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.
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Isa 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
Isa 14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
Isa 14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
Isa 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
Isa 14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.
Isa 14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
Isa 14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
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Jer 31:1 At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Jer 31:2 Thus saith the LORD, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
Jer 31:3 The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Jer 31:4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

Jer 33:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
Jer 33:2 Thus saith the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to establish it; the LORD is his name;
Jer 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
Jer 33:4 For thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;
Jer 33:5 They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.
Jer 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Jer 33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
Jer 33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Jer 33:9 And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.
Jer 33:10 Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,
Jer 33:11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth forever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Jer 33:12 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
Jer 33:13 In the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands of him that telleth them, saith the LORD.
Jer 33:14 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Jer 33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.
Jer 33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.
Jer 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel;
Jer 33:18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
Jer 33:19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Jer 33:21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Jer 33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
Jer 33:23 Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 33:24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Jer 33:25 Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
Jer 33:26 Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
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Eze 36:1 Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD:
Eze 36:2 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
Eze 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Eze 36:4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
Eze 36:5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
Eze 36:6 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say unto the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the shame of the heathen:
Eze 36:7 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I have lifted up mine hand, Surely the heathen that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
Eze 36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come.
Eze 36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:
Eze 36:10 And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be built:
Eze 36:11 And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 36:12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
Eze 36:13 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
Eze 36:14 Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 36:15 Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 36:16 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Eze 36:18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:
Eze 36:19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
Eze 36:20 And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
Eze 36:21 But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Eze 36:22 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
Eze 36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Eze 36:24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
Eze 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Eze 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Eze 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Eze 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
Eze 36:31 Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
Eze 36:32 Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
Eze 36:33 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be built.
Eze 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.
Eze 36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
Eze 36:36 Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
Eze 36:37 Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.
Eze 36:38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Eze 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
Eze 37:2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
Eze 37:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.
Eze 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Eze 37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
Eze 37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
Eze 37:8 And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
Eze 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Eze 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Eze 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Eze 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Eze 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Eze 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Eze 37:15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
Eze 37:16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
Eze 37:17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Eze 37:18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these?
Eze 37:19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
Eze 37:20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
Eze 37:21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Eze 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
Eze 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Eze 37:24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
Eze 37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
Eze 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Eze 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Eze 37:28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore.

Eze 38:1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Eze 38:2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
Eze 38:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Eze 38:4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armor, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
Eze 38:5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
Eze 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
Eze 38:7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
Eze 38:8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
Eze 38:9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
Eze 38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
Eze 38:11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
Eze 38:12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
Eze 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
Eze 38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
Eze 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
Eze 38:16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
Eze 38:17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
Eze 38:18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
Eze 38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Eze 38:20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
Eze 38:21 And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother.
Eze 38:22 And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Eze 38:23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Eze 39:1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
Eze 39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
Eze 39:3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
Eze 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Eze 39:5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Eze 39:7 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.
Eze 39:8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.
Eze 39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
Eze 39:10 So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon-gog.
Eze 39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
Eze 39:13 Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:14 And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
Eze 39:15 And the passengers that pass through the land, when any seeth a man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of Hamon-gog.
Eze 39:16 And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
Eze 39:17 And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood.
Eze 39:18 Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Eze 39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
Eze 39:20 Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 39:21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
Eze 39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
Eze 39:23 And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
Eze 39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
Eze 39:25 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Eze 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid.
Eze 39:27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
Eze 39:28 Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Eze 39:29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
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Isa 62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
Isa 62:2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Isa 62:3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
Isa 62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
Isa 62:5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
Isa 62:6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
Isa 62:7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
Isa 62:8 The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast labored:
Isa 62:9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
Isa 62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
Isa 62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Isa 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
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Zec 12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Zec 12:2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:3 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.
Zec 12:4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Zec 12:5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
Zec 12:6 In that day will I make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.
Zec 12:7 The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.
Zec 12:8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
Zec 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
Zec 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
Zec 12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
Zec 12:13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
Zec 12:14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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Signing Off
Shofar
"The Shofar Has Sounded, Hear Its Call"

Israel Update 6/6/2006;New film to prove accuracy of Bible

New film to prove accuracy of Bible


6 World Powers agree on Iran Penalties
Six world powers meeting to discuss the crisis over Iran's nuclear program have reached an agreement on a package of incentives and penalties to be presented to Teheran...
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Analysis: Talking over Iran's shoulder
The main purpose of Wednesday's announcement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to convince Russia and China that the US was exhausting all diplomatic channels before moving forward on the path to sanctions.
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Shift in U.S. Stance Shows Power of Seven-Letter Word
The Bush administration's decision to consider sitting down with the Iranian government underscores a central truth of diplomacy today: Nuclear weapons buy leverage.
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PA Prime Minister: U.S. Is Enemy of Islam and Muslims
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called the U.S. an "enemy of Islam and Muslims" in an interview with the Iranian news agency IRNA. Haniyeh said "the United States is doing everything to bring about the downfall of the Hamas government."
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● The New York Times and Iran: Does the Times have a soft-spot in its pages for Iran's leader? Read...(read more)
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● Another Day Lost: Condi Rice announced that the United States would consider direct talks with Iran under certain conditions.Iran responded that the American offer was "propaganda."Another has been lost as the Iranians have not had to pay price for their bad behavior....(read more)
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● Abbas Unveiled: As M. Abbas condemns Israel for killing terrorists who are responsible for shooting rockets into Israel, Caroline Glick points out that the proposal Abbas is basing his "peaceful initiative" on calls for the destruction of the State of Israel. This...(read more)
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● Have You Seen Any Reports on Iranians Battling The Ayatollahs?: If you your answer is no its because the mainstream media is ignoring this ongoing story. The blogosphere is the best (only?) source of information. Pajamas Media has many links to newest stories of Iranians risking their lives as they battle...(read more)
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● Also On Memorial Day: Check out Gateway Pundit and a unique tribute to America's military....(read more)
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● Memorial Day: Just finished watching a very moving Memorial Day concert on PBS. Its worth checking out their site.Tomorrow, my wife and I will attend a Memorial Day ceremony sponsored by the Kings County Conservative Party. For many years the Party acknowledges...(read more)
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● U.S. Court Blesses Islamic Prayer: Read Michell Malkin....(read more)
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● Abbas and Hamas Agree: As Roger Simon shows, at their core the Palestinians agree that Israel must be destroyed....(read more)
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● Abbas Gets Tough?: Headlines are declaring that Abbas is demanding that Hamas support Israel's right to exist.Does anyone believe that even if Hamas changes his words it will mean a change of heart?It is especially ironic that this initiative is coming from Abbas who is one...(read more)
Together we can win the fight to maintain a united Jerusalem!

The Movement to Isolate Israel

"Moderate Muslims" at MPACUK rage, froth about Zionism

News updates from the World Jewish Congress website - 29 May 2006
Pope Benedict XVI pays emotional visit to Auschwitz The Pope has called for reconciliation and world peace at the site of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz.Read more...
Polish chief rabbi attacked with pepper spray; Jewish students threatened Poland's chief rabbi has been attacked and two Jewish student leaders have received anti-Semitic threats.Read more...
Young man confesses to vandalizing Florida Judaica store A teenager has confessed to vandalizing a Judaica store in southern Florida last week.Read more...

● Jerusalem Day: Today marks the liberation of Jerusalem 39 years ago and the reunification of the eternal capital of the State of Israel.Forty years ago Jerusalem was a divided city, a border city, with sniper fire and terrorist attacks occurring almost daily. ...(read more)
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● Jacoby On Olmert: Boston Globe's Jacoby on Olmert's Visit....(read more)
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● Olmert Comes Up Short: After meeting with President Bush and addressing Congress, Ehud Olmert clearly failed to get what he wanted. Coming to Washington his wish-list included a formal U.S. blessing of the next phase of his unilateral withdrawal and $10 billion to make it...(read more)
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● Olmert Meets Bush: While President Bush did not give Ehud Olmert the $10 billion dollars he wanted to pay for the next disengagement, he did give general approval to the possibility that Israel might have to draw its own boundries. Both Olmert and...(read more)
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● Defensible Borders For Israel: Berlin - The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Aspen Institute Berlin co-sponsored a forum with Dore Gold and Generals Amidror and Yaalon at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin. The forum capped two days of meeting with press and public officals...(read more)
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● Londonistan: Watch Melanie Phillips' lecture at The Heritage Foundation....(read more)
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● There is Nothing to Be Gained By Engaging Tehran: To Condi Rice, Henry Kissinger and all those elites who are pushing the idea of negotiating with the dangerous mad men in Tehran please read Michael Ledeen....(read more)

Spencer: The Swine are Christians and the Apes are Jews

Sources: 'Iran believes Israel to strike within year'


The Return of the Mahdi
Michael D. Evans
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at the United Nations in October 2005. At the conclusion of his discourse, he called upon Allah to quickly usher in the re-emergence of the Twelfth or Hidden Imam, sometimes referred to as the mahdi.
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Olmert urges action to head off nuclear Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday Iran's nuclear ambitions posed "the test of our time" and urged swift international action
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Bush and Olmert Meet the Press
President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert held a press conference Wednesday at the White House.
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Bush, Olmert Discuss Peace, Regional Security
The search for Middle East peace and the threat to regional security posed by Iran's nuclear intentions topped the agenda when President Bush met Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the White House.
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Iran Tests Long-Range Missile
Iran test-fired a Shihab-3 missile with a range of 900 miles, Israeli defense officials said Wednesday.
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Many arguments have come and gone regarding Jerusalem. Some I've personally heard in the last week are very far-fetched. But as my own question states -- why can Jerusalem be a holy Jewish city? If Bethlehem is understood as a Christian holy city and Mecca/Medina, then why not Jerusalem? Is it always a separte rule for Jews then for non-Jews?

Today I'm told it is an interfaith/international city. Perhaps that's true in some ways but spiritually it is more important to Jews than to other faiths. In folklore is the tale of Mohammed, the Muslim Prophet, scaling the wailing wall (holy to Jews) and flying on a Burqat (spelling may be wrong -- sorry to say) which is half human/half animal, to the heavens to meet with Moses (Jewish) and Jesus (Christian). But other than that, Jerusalem is not even mentioned in Islamic texts at all.

The following explains better than me how Jerusalem is more for Jews than for others. Yet as in ancient times, it is still a center for all. Please read with an open mind.


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If we cut ourselves off from 3,000 years of Judaism, we will lose the right to our existence in our historic homeland.

Muslims Attack Woman in Germany for Speaking Hebrew

Muslims Attack Woman in Germany for Speaking Hebrew

Abbas loyalists set up militia to counter Hamas

NYC borrows from Israelis to protect airports

Israel Offers Outline to Divide Jerusalem

Anti-Christian Film 'The Beast' To Be Released On 06-06-06

Israeli Jewish population now biggest

Egyptian Cleric and Former Islamic Lecturer in the U.S. Hazem Sallah Abu Isma'il on Al-Risala TV: Lectures on the Jews' Conflicts With Islam's Prophet Muhammad, Stating U.N. Documents Assert "82% of All Attempts to Corrupt Humanity Originate From the Jews"

Dear Friend of Jerusalem,One Jerusalem's Chairman Natan Sharansky, Daniel Pipes, and Steve Emerson are urging everyone to buy and read Melanie Phillip's brand new book, "Londonistan."Reviewers agree.Londonistan tells an important developing story of radical Islam in the United Kingdom. The lessons to be learned can save America and other countries from experiencing similar problems.Melanie Phillips is an important voice that must be heard.Melanie is in the United States, appearing on television and radio. Some of the national programs include Laura Ingraham, Fox Morning Show and Dennis Prager.Get this important book.Thank you,
Allen RothPresident, One Jerusalem

Qaeda-linked network vows to hit Israel, US

News from the M.E

A LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN – Part 2
Michael D. Evans
My dear friend, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was asked by President Clinton to take a “brave gamble.” I appealed to my dear friend, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in person and by letter not to believe that lie...
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ANNOUNCING THE SAN ANTONIO JERUSALEM PRAYER SUMMIT
May 5, 2006, 7 PM New Life Christian Center 6610 US Highway 90 West San Antonio, TX 78227
For information, call 210-675-4023 or visit www.jerusalemprayerteam.org
New Israeli Cabinet Sworn In

On Thursday, May 4, 2006 newly-elected Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet were sworn into office in Jerusalem. Please pray for the newly elected government and for Mr. Olmert’s Cabinet that consists of:
Shimon Peres - Vice Prime Minister, Minister for the Development of the Negev and Galilee Tzipi Livni - Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Peretz - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense Eliyahu Yishai - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Shaul Mofaz - Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transportation and Road Safety Ariel Atias - Minister of Communications Ronnie Bar-On - Minister of the Interior Yacov Ben Yizri - Minister of Health Benjamin Ben-Eliezer - Minister of National Infrastructures Ze'ev Boim - Minister of Immigrant Absorption Eitan Cabel - Minister (responsible for the Israel Broadcasting Authority) Yitzhak Cohen - Minister (responsible for the religious councils) Abraham Dicter - Minister of Public Security Ya'akov Edery - Minister, responsible for liaison with the Knesset Rafi Eitan - Minister (responsible for pensioners) Gideon Ezra - Minister of the Environment Isaac Herzog - Minister of Tourism Abraham Hirchson - Minister of Finance Meshulam Nahari - Minister without Portfolio Ophir Pines-Paz - Minister of Science and Technology Haim Ramon - Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit - Minister of Housing and Construction Shalom Simhon - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Yuli Tamir - Minister of Education, Culture and Sport
Top Iran Commander Says Israel Will be Target if U.S. Attacks
A top Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday that Israel would be Iran's first retaliatory target in response to any U.S. attack.
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THE RETURN OF THE MAHDI
Michael D. Evans
The world may smirk as they hear the President of Iran talking of the return of the Mahdi as just a bunch of religious foolishness. But, he is dead serious.
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Hamas Chief Says Suicide Bombings "a Natural Right"
Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal has defended Palestinian suicide bombings as a "natural right" while denouncing what he called Washington's ambitions to dominate the Middle East. "
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● Israel Offers Outline To Divide Jerusalem: The article following this Washington Post headline, includes this line, "The plan to divide Jerusalem reflects a sea change in the thinking of most Israelis, who once considered sacrilegiouseven the idea of abandoning part of the holy city."Make no mistake...(read more)
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● Olmert's Plans Continued: Boker Tov Boulder has it right: Olmert if fighting the wrong enemy....(read more)
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● The Borders of Israel Will Be Significantly Different: Today, Ehud Olmert declared his commitment to changing the the face of Israel.Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyhau reacted by saying, "There has never been a government that has given up so much ahead of time."Meanwhile as his new governemnt became offical...(read more)
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● Did You Hear The One About The French and the Terrorist?: Captain's Quarters has uncovered the French running to the aid of Moussaoui....(read more)
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● Suicide Bombings: Power Line has an excellent analysis titled, Natural Law, Hamas Style. (Little Green Footballs is also worth reading on this sick topic.)Today, the Hamas chief defended the "right" to suicide bombings. "Our enemies...don't understand that a suicide operation...is a natural right."...(read more)
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● Israel's President Breaks The Silence: At last, an Israeli public official has spoken the truth about past and future unilateral withdrawals. On the day that Israel mourned its war dead President Katsav said, "We are managing a war for our existence for over a 100...(read more)
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● Remembering Israel's Fallen: Today is Yom Hazikaron, a day to remember fallen soldiers and victims of terror.In Israel, stores and offices are closed, families come together for memorial ceremonies, the radio plays only somber music, and most television stations suspend their broadcasting.It is...(read more)
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● May God Bless Those Who Serve: Last week, while traveling to Chicago on business, I noticed a Marine sergeant traveling with a folded bag, but did not put two and two together. After we'd boarded our flight, I turned to the sergeant, who'd been invited to...(read more)
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● Sweden Rejects Israel: The EU Referendum blog reports that Sweden has withdrawn from European military exercises because of Israel's participation.I wonder if this an example of Olmert's contention that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza (and possibly) beyond has brought Israel new friends in the...(read more)
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● Israel's Elections Did Not Support Continued Withdrawals: We have maintained that Israeli voters did not give the go ahead to more withdrawals as Ehud Olmert is contending. In the May issue of Commentary Magazine, analyst Hillel Halkin has published an excellent article on the Israeli election and includes...(read more)
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● Condi Again: Michelle Malkin does an excellent job dissecting Secretary of State Rice's defense of a recording of the United States National Anthem in Spanish. Rice's response to this highjacking of a symbol of national unity is at odds with President Bush's opposition....(read more)
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● Jerusalem Under Assault: A story on the Jerusalem Newswire wonders if "Judeo-Christian leaders will be willing and able" to stop a planned homosexual march in Jerusalem. As the article points out this planned attack on Jerusalem will be similar to raunchy marches that have...(read more)
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● The BBC Gets It Right!: Rarely does the British Broadcasting Corporation present an accurate report about Israel. Its anti-Israeli bias gets in the way.But this morning in its report about Kadima and Labour having reached a coalition agreement to form a new government it included the fact that...(read more)
Together we can win the fight to maintain a united Jerusalem!
JNW HEADLINE NEWS'Farewell to the land of our forefathers'Olmert's 'convergence' coalition made new government of IsraelWith its eyes wide open, Israel took a step closer to catastrophe Thursday as the Knesset (Parliament) gave its approval for Ehud Olmert’s convergence coalition to govern the Jewish state.
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JNW HEADLINE NEWS'You have been warned'Veteran Christian Zionist leader says 'convergence' plan will explodeA long-standing leader in the international Christian Zionist movement Thursday sent a strongly-worded warning to the brand new Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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Pakistan Detains al-Qaida Fugitive NasarTue, 02 May 2006 05:26 am PDT AP - A top al-Qaida leader whose links stretch from Afghan terror training camps to extremist networks operating throughout Europe has been detained in neighboring Pakistan and possibly handed over to American authorities, according to a U.S. law enforcement official. Full Story
Iran Discovers New Uranium DepositsTue, 02 May 2006 06:12 am PDT AP - Iran has discovered new deposits of uranium and was continuing its nuclear enrichment program despite international protests, a top Iranian nuclear official said Tuesday. Full Story
Official Urges Iraqis to Renounce ViolenceTue, 02 May 2006 05:29 am PDT AP - Iraq's parliament speaker said in a nationally televised speech Tuesday that the new government's top priority will be ending widespread bloodshed in cities such as Baghdad. But insurgents launched new attacks, killing at least seven Iraqis and a U.S. soldier. Full Story
Olmert Plans Meeting With AbbasTue, 02 May 2006 04:48 am PDT AP - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans to meet with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas after visiting Washington later this month, a senior Israeli government official said Tuesday. Full Story
US, Europe push for strong UN action on Iran nuclear standoffTue, 02 May 2006 06:37 am PDT AFP - US and European officials pushed for a tough, binding UN resolution against Iran ahead of key talks here on Tehran's nuclear programme, which the West fears could be hiding a drive for the atom bomb. Full Story
Hamas Leaders in Dispute Over IdeologyTue, 02 May 2006 06:33 am PDT AP - Hamas' turbulent first month in power has laid bare brewing friction between the militant group's Syria-based hard-line chief and elected leaders in the West Bank and Gaza. Full Story

No Welfare for Burqas
A Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent has more common sense than most multiculturally self-blinded Dutch officials: Amsterdam Mulls Axing Dole for Women in Burqas.
An official in Holland’s biggest city wants to introduce legislation that would ban unemployed women who wear a burqa from receiving welfare payments if it prevents them from finding a job. The issue is the latest Dutch soul-searching over its relations with its own immigrants.
If this burqa is keeping you from getting a job, Amsterdam Social Affairs Alderman Ahmed Aboutaleb argues, you shouldn’t be wearing it.
The Multicultural Netherlands is having a serious identity crisis. These days, the country’s immigrant melting pot is feeling more like a powderkeg. The latest spark in Holland’s mini culture war came this week from the social affairs alderman for the city of Amsterdam, who says women who wear burqas are having trouble finding jobs. His solution? Take it off or lose your benefits.
Ahmed Aboutaleb has proposed introducing legislation that would allow the city to cut welfare payments to women who insist on wearing a burqa if it can prove the full-body covering is the reason she can’t find a job.
“Nobody wants to hire someone with a burqa,” he told the Dutch women’s magazine Opzij. “In that case, I say: off with the burqa and apply for work. If you don’t want to do that, that’s fine, but you don’t get a benefit payment.”
Aboutaleb, a member of Amsterdam’s Labor Party (PvdA) and a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, made the comments in response to a recent ruling by Holland’s Equality Commission siding with a Muslim woman who refused to shake hands with men at work.
The politician questioned whether she should be involved in education, with such rigid self-restrictions. “She has to realize that her behavior is building enormous obstacles for her in almost every situation. This woman must recognize that she is sidelining herself and that she runs the risk of being turned down for other jobs, too.”

JNW HEADLINE NEWSMourning death, celebrating lifeIsrael’s annual emotional rollercoaster gets underway Monday nightAt sundown on Tuesday, after a day spent laying wreaths and visiting gravesides of fallen soldiers across the land, laughter will replace tears; mourning will give way to celebration as Independence Day begins.
Many feel that the commemorating the dead soldiers and then immediately celebrating the reason for which they died has a powerful cathartic and encouraging affect on Israel as a whole.
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EU Will Make Islamic Terrorism Disappear
Last Tuesday we noted that the European Union is preparing to make Islamic terrorism vanish.
No, not the actual thing, but the words “Islamic terrorism.” To avoid enraging Muslims, of course.
Here’s a piece at Turkey’s Zaman Online, whose author is quite pleased with the EU’s willingness to blind itself to reality: EU Removes ‘Islamic Terrorism’ from its Dictionary.
The European Union (EU) also admitted that the concept of “Islamic terrorism” is misused by racist groups in Europe and terror networks such as al-Qaeda.
The Union, taking action to rid such expressions, which are offensive to Muslims, from its dictionary, searches for new concepts behind closed doors. The European bloc is expected to release its new dictionary in June. ...
Many experts believe that the words “Islam” and “terrorism” must not be used together, and concluded that the use of such expressions “alienates” Muslims in Europe.
As a result of long consultations with academic experts, the EU will review expressions such as “Islamic terrorism,” “Islamist terrorism,” “fundamentalist,” and “jihadi.”
EU counter-terrorism chief Gijs de Vries, told Reuters, terrorism does not exist in the essence of any religion and praised Muslims struggling against those conducting terrorism in the name of religion.
Professor Rik Coolsaet, one of several authorities serving as an adviser to the EU, in the statement he made to Zaman, emphasized that Brussels realized such words can be used as “political weapons.”
Instead of expressions like “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamofascist,” a phrase the United States insistently uses, Brussels is trying to develop new concepts that will not cause offense to Muslims.
And the unelected bureaucrats and myopic wacademics of the European Union really turn their noses up at the word “Islamofascism.”
Europeans have to formulate a particular method, dissimilar to that of the United States, for dealing with religion-based terrorism, said Rik Coolsaet, a professor of political sciences at Gent, and head officer of the Royal Institute of Belgium. The term “Islamic terrorism” has for years provoked objections from Coolsaet, whom the European Union conferred with over the upcoming edition of the dictionary.
“We have to care for the kind of people living here together with us, most of who have already worked very hard for citizenship from a European country. We should, therefore, desist from helping the right-wing extremists.”
The European outlook on Islamic terrorism, unlike the United States, does not view it as a problem brought in from overseas, said Coolsaet, who also spoke out against a reference from George W. Bush, President of States, to Islamofascism.
“That is a silly expression. Fascism is ironically a gift from Western Europe to the rest of the world. Islam, on the other hand, is a religion like any other religion, and cannot by any means be associated with fascism. The expression in question is invented with the intent of bolstering their assumptions and for use by neo-conservatives in the United States. This term is also in danger of being abused by such terrorist organizations as al-Qaeda.
UPDATE at 4/15/06 9:26:30 am:
The EU’s next step after making these offensive words vanish will be to criminalize their use as “hate speech.”
If the visit to Washington last week by the head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, was not enough to communicate Israel's growing impatience with the international community's failure to deal with Tehran's unchecked development of nuclear technology and bellicose threats to wipe the Jewish state "off the map," Ehud Olmert, prime minister designate, made it clear yesterday by denouncing Iran's president as a "psychopath" and comparing him to Hitler.
Mossad chief Meir Dagan, in Washington last week in preparation for a visit to the U.S. by Olmert on May 23, held secret meetings with U.S. officials to discuss Iran's nuclear program, reports the London Times. While details of the meetings were not revealed, it is believed Dagan met with his counterparts at the CIA, the Pentagon and the National Security Council.
"Dagan is not given to small talk and niceties," said an Israeli intelligence source, who believes Dagan's message to Washington policy makers was simple and blunt: "This is what we know and this is what we'll do if you continue to do nothing."
"When I read the recent reports regarding Iran, I saw a monster in the making," said Dr. Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Israeli parliament's foreign and defense committee.
Steinitz, who oversees Mossad's activities in Iran, fears Iran's first nuclear bomb is just one year away. "There is only one option that is worse than military action against Iran and that is to sit and do nothing," he said.
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A LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN – Part 1
Michael D. Evans
My dear friend, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was asked by President Clinton to take a “brave gamble.” I appealed to my dear friend, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in person and by letter not to believe that lie…
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New Iranian missiles put Europe in firing range
Iran has purchased ground-to-ground missiles from North Korea with a range of 2,500 kilometers, the head of the Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Branch, Major General Amos Yadlin, said yesterday.
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Islamist protest in N.Y. – 'Mushroom cloud on way'
Rally at Israeli consulate features pictures of Muslim flags flying over White House.
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Why We Fear Iran
Most of the Arabs outside of the Gulf region believe that Iran's possession of a nuclear weapon is a positive development that achieves a balance of power with Israel. The Gulf Arabs, however, believe that the power of Iranian nuclear deterrence represents the biggest danger of a military threat.
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The problem is: Iran does pose a threat in every way Iraq did not
True, the Iranians claim that all this work is merely in pursuit of civilian nuclear power. But it's hard to believe that a country drowning in oil is running short of energy. I spoke this week to an expert in the field, who estimates that Iran will have the technology to make nuclear weapons "before the year is out".
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● Olmert and Jerusalem: Israel's Prime Minister has ordered security forces to close gaps in the Jerusalem security fence. Olmert's decision is a good one but it should not be seen as a move to demonstrate that Israel will maintain a united Jerusalem. The operable...(read more)
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● What's With Condi and the United Nations?: Just as the intentions of Iran's government to destroy Israel is very clear, so is the fact that Iran has used the United Nations to buy time as it pursues its evil plans.What is not understandable is why the Bush Administration...(read more)
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● Mofaz Gets Stabbed In The Back: Israel has many examples of Generals who entered politics and got chewed up by the system. The latest is Shaul Mofaz. He is not happy that he is being replaced as Defense Minister. And he sounds particulary upset that he...(read more)
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● Olmert's Irony: Today, at a ceremony commemorating the Holocaust, Ehud Olmert said that appeasement led to the destruction of 6 million Jews.What does he call the policies of his government that rewards Hamas terrorism with more land for the terrorists? And at...(read more)
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● Israel Continues To Help Its Enemies: The President of the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the Palestinian Authority has earned the rights and the protection afforded a sovereign state. That it is a terrorist entity - an outlaw body - doesn't seem to bother this jurist.It appears...(read more)
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● The American Jewish Congress Inadvertently Helps The Enemy: In a letter to Secretary of State Rice, Jack Rosen Chairman of the American Jewish Congress, urges the State Department to eliminate a rule in its manual that puts the legitimacy of the State of Israel in question. The letter...(read more)
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● There Goes The State Department Again: The United States State Department seems to be courting the favor of the Muslim Brotherhood. Contacts with this granddaddy of terrorist ideology are proliferating in Washington and Europe. Rachel Ehrenfeld brought our attention to this a few days ago and...(read more)
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● A Death In Jerusalem: We reported on the death of an innocent Arab who sold land to Jews in Jerusalem Caroline Glick has written an important article on this tragedy....(read more)
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● Something Is Seriously Wrong In Israel: On the day a terrorist killed nine innocent Israelis in Tel Aviv,Israel's political leaders toasted themselves.Not long ago the nation would mourn such deaths. Today, some lip service is paid to the dead, excuses are made not to take action...(read more)
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● Jack Straw and Legitimizing Hamas: Today, there are reports that British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has "considerably" watered down the actions Hamas must take to become acceptable. Straw made his comments on trip to Saudi Arabia.Speaking about the Saudi's, there are press reports that they have...(read more)
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● Hamas Wins Another One: Hamas praises the terrorists who killed nine innocent Israelis.Mofaz, Olmert, and the rest of Kadima belive it is wrong to declare war on the Hamas led government.While the United States clearly denounced the attack, Noway says it will meet with...(read more)
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● Tel Aviv Bombing: As we have noted the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza would eventually bring terrorist attacks closer to Israel's population centers. Today, nine innocents were murdered in Tel Aviv. Hamas (the leaders of the Palestinians) applauded the attack.The attack comes a day...(read more)
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● Jerusalem Attack: The Times (London) reports that an Arab who sold land to Jews in East Jerusalem was murdered for his action.A friend who brought this to my attention wrote, "How sick are they?"...(read more)
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