ISRAEL EXISTS 59 YEARS LATER

ISRAEL WILL BECOME A NATION. LITERALLY IN THE SPRING.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

EZEKIEL 36:24
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.

EZEKIEL 37:9-28
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,(ALL THE WORLD) O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.(COME TO LIFE)
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.(ISRAEL WILL HAVE A POWERFUL ARMY)
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.(BURNED BY HITLER)
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.(THE DRY BONES COME TO LIFE IN ISRAEL)
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,
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.
15 The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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:
17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
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.
20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
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:
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:
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 dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
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.
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 for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
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 for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

MATTHEW 24:32
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL WAS LITERALLY REBORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER,MAY 14,1948).

MARK 13:28
28 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:

DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

ISRAEL WILL BE IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM, THE SIGN OF THE START OF THE LAST GENERATION.

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

59 YEARS AGO TODAY BY OUR CALENDAR THE SIX POINTED STAR OF DAVID MADE ITS MIRACULAS APPEARANCE IN ONE DAY. GOD'S PROMISE TO ISRAEL WAS KEPT AND PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED.

Isaiah 66:7-8: Before going into labor, she gave birth; before her pains came, she delivered a male child. Who ever heard of such at thing? Who has ever seen such things? Is a country born in one day? Is a nation brought forth all at once? For as soon as Tziyon went into labor, she brought forth her children. - Stern's Complete Jewish Bible

Isaiah 66:7-8

Israel would reborn in just one day....
Bible passage: Isaiah 66:7-8
Prophet: Isaiah
Written: perhaps between 701-681 BC
Fulfilled: 1948

In Isaiah 66:7-8, the prophet foreshadowed the re-birth of Israel, which happened in 1948. Isaiah describes a woman giving birth before going into labor, and he speaks of a country being born in one day. This accurately describes what happened on May 14, 1948 - when the Jews declared independence for Israel as a united and sovereign nation for the first time in 2900 years.

During that same day, the United States issued a statement recognizing Israel's sovereignty. And, only hours beforehand, a United Nations mandate expired, ending British control of the land. During a 24-hour span of time, foreign control of the land of Israel had formally ceased, and Israel had declared its independence, and its independence was acknowledged by other nations. Modern Israel was literally was born in a single day.

Isaiah said the birth would take place before there would be labor pains. And that too is precisely what happened. A movement called Zionism began in the 1800s to encourage Jews worldwide to move to Israel, which at that time was called Palestine. Within hours of the declaration of independence in 1948, Israel was attacked by the surrounding countries of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

When reading Isaiah 66:7-8, keep in mind that Israel's status as a sovereign nation was established and reaffirmed during the course of a single day, and that it was born of a movement called Zionism, and that its declaration of independence was not the result of a war but rather the cause of one.

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EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Mon May 14 11:00 AM EDT

MAY 14,07
MAP 2.7 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.2 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.7 KENAI PENINSULA, ALASKA
MAP 4.9 IZU ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.5 NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
MAP 5.0 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
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MAP 5.2 MOLUCCA SEA
MAP 2.6 SOUTHEASTERN MISSOURI
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MAP 3.1 ALASKA PENINSULA
MAP 4.7 SOUTH OF THE FIJI ISLANDS
MAP 2.9 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA

MAY 13,07
MAP 3.0 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 3.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 2.6 ANDREANOF ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN IS., ALASKA
MAP 3.0 SOUTHERN ALASKA
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MAP 4.5 HINDU KUSH REGION, AFGHANISTAN
MAP 2.5 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 5.3 FIJI REGION
MAP 2.5 ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII
MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 NICARAGUA
MAP 4.4 FIJI REGION
MAP 3.1 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 4.9 FIJI REGION
MAP 5.1 WEST CHILE RISE
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MAP 3.1 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

The Nation's Weather By WEATHER UNDERGROUND, For The Associated Press
Mon May 14, 6:34 AM ET

A storm system moving out of the northern Rockies Monday will speed across the northern Plains, pushing a cold front from Central Colorado to Northern Wisconsin. Thunderstorms are expected to pick up in intensity throughout the day, and while high winds were likely to be the main threat, isolated twisters were possible. Thunderstorms were also likely across Florida. While rain may put out wildfires in the state, winds and lightning could make them worse.The rest of the East as well as the West will have mostly clear skies.Temperatures in the Lower 48 states Sunday ranged from a low of 17 degrees at Spincich Lake, MI to a high of 105 degrees at Gila Bend, Ariz.

Iranian leader threatens retaliation By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 14, 7:32 AM ET

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The Iranian president said Monday Iran will retaliate if the U.S. strikes the country — a tough response to recent comments by the Vice President Dick Cheney that Washington would prevent the Islamic republic from dominating the Middle East.

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Iran had agreed for the benefit of the Iraqi people to meet with the U.S. in Baghdad to discuss security in Iraq.They (the U.S.) cannot strike Iran, he said at a press conference during a two-day visit to the United Arab Emirates. The Iranian people can protect themselves and retaliate. The Iranian president's comments followed those on Friday by Cheney, who said from the deck of an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf that the U.S. and its allies would prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and dominating the region.Despite the tense words, the U.S. and Iran announced Sunday that they have agreed to meet in Baghdad to discuss security and stability in Iraq.

Both parties have confirmed the talks will take place in Baghdad in the presence of the Iraqi government, Ahmadinejad said Monday. We decided we were ready and prepared to do this to support the Iraqi people.The Iranian president, in a subdued mood after the previous night's raucous anti-American rally in a Dubai soccer stadium, repeated his calls for the United States to leave the Gulf region. Washington holds military bases in all Gulf countries except Saudi Arabia.In stark contrast to Cheney's low-key visit, Ahmadinejad was greeted with fanfare by the top leaders of the Emirates, who apparently had no objection to Sunday's rally.

Ahmadinejad said relations with the Emirates had taken a quantum leap, with the two countries agreeing to create a joint committee headed by their foreign ministers to boost cooperation in tourism, trade, energy and development.There's a willingness on both sides to upgrade relations, he said. Relations between Iran and the UAE can be a model for all the countries of the region.Ahmadinejad appeared to be pushing his agenda at a time when the U.S. administration's popularity in the region is at a low point. He said Iran is ready to band together in a Gulf-wide security alliance with Washington's traditional regional allies.

He also called for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations with Egypt that were broken in 1979, saying it would strengthen regional security and stability.The U.S. presence in the Gulf, Ahmadinejad said, runs counter to the best interests of the Muslim-majority countries on both sides of the oil-rich sea. Similar pleas for a regional security alliance have come during recent visits by Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and national security adviser Ali Larijani.Ahmadinejad said the Americans had overextended their welcome in the region and were advocating tough actions that reached beyond what their Arab allies wished.What are these others doing in our region? he replied when asking to comment on Cheney's remarks aboard the USS John C. Stennis on Friday. Are they more keen with regard to the nuclear issue than everyone else in the region?

The U.S. has accused Iran of covertly developing nuclear weapons, but Iran has denied the charge, saying its nuclear program is peaceful. Tehran has also objected to U.S. claims that Iran is supplying Iraqi Shiite militias with deadly roadside bombs that kill American troops.Ahmadinejad said the U.S.-allied Emirates backs Iran's position that the U.S. military should leave the Gulf.This region won't allow other powers from thousands of miles away to threaten the region and create enmity, he said. Our talks with our brothers in the United Arab Emirates reiterated this truth again and again.

Emirati officials had no immediate comment. They have previously expressed strong concerns about growing U.S.-Iranian tensions and elevated U.S. rhetoric against Iran, but have shown no indication they intend to ask the U.S. military to leave.

A pair of newspaper editorials in the Dubai pro-government Gulf News expressed concern about Cheney's speech and supported closer relations with Iran. On Sunday, the paper lambasted Cheney for lumping the Gulf Arab countries into his anti-Iran rhetoric, saying he had needlessly stoked tensions with Iran.

Such careless talk by the vice president is not only unwelcome but is likely to have created an all-inclusiveness that is not welcome to the Arab states, the paper said. On Monday, the paper said Ahmadinejad's landmark visit had opened a new page in relations and backed the decision to form a bilateral commission. No Gulf leader has publicly backed Iran's call for a security alliance or for the removal of U.S. troops from the region.

Jordan's king warns Cheney on Mideast By JAMAL HALABY, Associated Press Writer Mon May 14, 7:01 AM ET

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's king warned visiting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney Monday that time was running out to use an Arab peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a royal palace statement. King Abdullah II, a moderate Arab leader and a key U.S. ally, also called for a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, the statement said.Jordan stands in support of a peaceful resolution to the issue of Iran's nuclear capabilities that would spare the region further tensions, Abdullah told Cheney in a closed-door meeting at the king's beachside residence in the Red Sea resort of Aqaba.Abdullah said the Arab peace initiative, which was first launched in 2002 and revived at an Arab summit earlier this year, still represented an opportunity to advance peace and end the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Time is not on anyone's side, Abdullah warned. He did not elaborate, but he has previously said that the absence of peacemaking is increasing the popularity of extremists across the Muslim world.The Palestinians have embraced the Arab plan, which calls for full peace with all Arab nations if Israel withdraws from territories captured in the 1967 Middle East War and agrees to the creation of a
Palestinian state. It also calls for a just solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees.Israel and the United States have said the plan could be a basis for reviving the peace process.

But Israel has expressed reservations over many of its provisions, including the call to solve the Palestinian refugee issue.The king suggested to Cheney that there was a need to set a time frame to establish tangible results on the ground related to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.Abdullah also emphasized that the United States plays a key role in helping the Palestinians and Israelis return to the negotiating table to reach a final settlement to the Palestinian issue.

Cheney's visit to Jordan is part of a regional tour that has taken him to Iraq, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The vice president is trying to build support for efforts to ease tensions in Iraq, end sectarian violence and encourage national reconciliation between disputing Iraqi factions. Abdullah reiterated the importance of achieving national reconciliation and including all segments of Iraqi society in Iraq's political process a reference to minority Sunnis, who complain they are being sidelined by their Shiite-dominated government.

The king said reinforcing security and establishing stability in Iraq is in the interest of the country as well as a key Jordanian interest. Jordan has complained that terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq are infiltrating the Iraqi-Jordanian border to carry out terror attacks in the country.In November 2005, al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for Amman's triple hotel blasts, which killed 63 people, including three Iraqi suicide bombers.

Pope assails Marxism and capitalism By ALAN CLENDENNING, Associated Press Writer MAY 14,07

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Pope Benedict XVI lamented the deep divide between rich and poor in Latin America but told priests to steer clear of politics as they work to reverse Roman Catholicism's waning influence in the region.

Wrapping up five-day visit to Brazil, the 80-year-old pontiff denounced Marxism in an hour-long speech Sunday opening a 19-day conference of Latin American bishops in the shrine city of Aparecida.The Marxist system, where it found its way into government, not only left a sad heritage of economic and ecological destruction, but also a painful destruction of the human spirit, the pope said.He also warned of unfettered capitalism and globalization. Before boarding a plane for Rome later Sunday, he said the two could give rise to a worrying degradation of personal dignity through drugs, alcohol and deceptive illusions of happiness.Marxism still influences some grassroots Catholic activists in Latin America, remnants of the liberation theology movement Benedict worked to crush when he was cardinal. Liberation theology holds that the Christian faith should be reinterpreted specifically to deliver oppressed people from injustice.

Benedict also defended the church's campaign centuries ago to Christianize indigenous people, saying Latin American Indians had been silently longing to become Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors violently took over their native lands centuries ago.In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture, he told the bishops.Throughout his first papal visit to the region, Benedict emphasized Catholic moral values as the answer to Latin America's social and economic problems. Returning to that theme Sunday, he warned that legalized contraception and abortion in Latin America threaten the future of the peoples and said the historical Catholic identity of the region is under assault.Speaking in Spanish and Portuguese, the pope called on the bishops to reinvigorate the church, still the dominant faith in the region but rapidly losing ground to evangelical Protestant churches.

He urged bishops to mold a new generation of leaders, saying Latin America needs more dedicated Catholics at high levels in government, the media and at universities. While Brazil is the most populous Roman Catholic country, home to more than 120 million of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, the census shows that people calling themselves Catholics fell to 74 percent in 2000 from 89 percent in 1980.

Those calling themselves evangelical Protestants rose to 15 percent from 7 percent.The pope did not name any countries in his criticism of capitalism and Marxism, but left-leaning leaders govern most of South America. The region's most prominent promoter of Marxism is Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose spokesman deflected the criticism on Monday. We all know that the current Pope is characterized as a conservative man, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we must automatically think that any word he utters ... is against Venezuela, Willian Lara said.

Religious experts said Benedict failed to address key challenges to the church in Latin America, including a severe shortage of priests or a specific strategy for how parishes should try win back Catholics who have turned into born-again Protestants or simply stopped going to church. Psychologists say what you don't talk about are often the most important things, and that was the case with the pope, said Fernando Altermeyer, a theology professor at Sao Paulo's Catholic Pontificate University.

Added former Vatican Radio reporter David Gibson: By not looking to the church's structural problems, he's handicapping the chances for success.In events in and near Sao Paulo that attracted more than 1 million people, Benedict criticized the rising tide of Latin Americans flouting the church's prohibition on premarital sex and divorce and told drug dealers they will face divine justice for the misery they cause.Then he headed to the shrine city of Aparecida, telling the bishops to convince Catholics from all walks of life to bring the light of the Gospel into public life, into culture, economics and politics.Benedict called the institution of the family one of the most important treasures of Latin American countries, but said it is threatened by legislation and government policies contrary to church doctrine on marriage, contraception and abortion.Mexico City lawmakers recently legalized abortion and gay civil unions, and the Brazilian government routinely hands out millions of free condoms to prevent AIDS. The pope called the region the continent of hope during a Sunday Mass before 150,000 faithful in front of the mammoth basilica of Aparecida home to the nation's patron saint, a black Virgin Mary. But the turnout fell far short of the 400,000 to 500,000 worshippers local organizers hoped would show up for Benedict's last big public event of the papal tour, his longest since becoming pope two years ago. Waiting to catch a glimpse of the 80-year-old pope at Aparecida's basilica, 68-year-old Maria Costa said she hoped his trip would revitalize the church in Brazil. Catholics weren't feeling very good with the Church, and that's why so many were leaving, she said. I think that could change now. Let's hope so.Associated Press Writers Tales Azzoni and Victor L. Simpson contributed from Aparecida.

THIS IS A DECEPTIVE HEADLINE IT SHOULD READ ISRAEL MARKS 40 YR RULE OF ISRAELI JERUSALEM. ITS ISRAELS CAPITAL NOT THE ARABS.

Israel marks 40 year rule of Arab east Jerusalem Mon May 14, 7:29 AM ET

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Monday began marking 40 years since it conquered and annexed Arab east Jerusalem but the ceremonies were boycotted by European and US diplomats. The last 40 years were only the beginning, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a special parliamentary session marking the anniversary according to the Hebrew calendar.I believe, I hope and I pray that we will continue to work together to reinforce Jerusalem in order to extend its boundaries.Israel captured Arab east Jerusalem on June 7, 1967, the third day of the six-day Middle East war, and unilaterally annexed the sector in a move not recognised by the international community.Israel in 1980 passed a law declaring Jerusalem the unified and eternal capital of Israel, but the Palestinians want occupied east Jerusalem to be the capital of their future sovereign state.

Israel's unilateral moves in Jerusalem have been condemned by UN Security Council Resolutions, including one in 1980 that resulted in 13 Jerusalem-based foreign embassies being moved to Tel Aviv.

US and EU ambassadors have refused to attend Monday's parliamentary session as well as ceremonies due to be held on Jerusalem Day on Wednesday.They say Jerusalem's fate must be decided as part of final status negotiations to end the Middle East conflict and that in the meantime the status quo should be preserved in accordance with international law.A statement from a group of Israeli left-wing groups issued a statement deploring the deliberate marginalisation of Palestinian districts in Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities since 40 years.

Rabbis Call for Temple Mount Visits
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAY 14,07

Close to 30 leading religious-Zionist rabbis visited the Temple Mount in purity on Sunday, after taking the necessary Halakhic precautions. The precautions involve immersing in a mikveh (ritual bath), taking off one's shoes, and clarifying the precise areas forbidden for entry - or else going only with a guide who knows the area. The visit was unique in that it marks the first time such a large group of
rabbis ascended together to the holy site. Among today's visitors were Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dov Lior, Yeshivat Har Etzion Dean Rabbi Yaakov Meidan, Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz of Maaleh Adumim, Rabbi Daniel Shilo of Kedumim, Rabbi Shalom Gold of Har Nof, Jerusalem, and others.

Rabbi Shilo, asked to explain the timing of the visit, told Arutz-7, For one thing, Jerusalem Reunification Day is approaching. In addition, our hold on the Temple Mount is not yet strong among many people of Torah and others, because of halakhic [Jewish-legal] obstructions that we feel are no longer relevant. Biblical law forbids one from entering the holy areas of the Temple Mount, and some feel that the precise boundaries of those areas are not known. However, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel of the Temple Institute has shown that the rock under the Dome of the Rock is in fact the Holy of Holies, and most scholars agree.

Police accompanied the rabbis, and the representatives of the Islamic Waqf [the Moslem body that oversees the site - ed.] looked quite miffed, Rabbi Shilo said. MK Uri Ariel (National Union) expressed approval of the rabbis' move, saying, It appears that the police now understand that the current situation of restricting Jewish presence on the Jews' most sacred site is absurd and must change... This disgrace must be stopped. Jewish prayer must be allowed on the site, in a gradual
manner and in the places permitted by Halakhah.Last week, a group of over 40 rabbis signed a declaration calling upon the religious public - those who know the laws and restrictions - to frequent the permitted sites on the Temple Mount and to arouse love for this holy site in which our prayers are most accepted.Among the signatories are Rabbi Chaim Druckman, head of the Yeshivot Bnei Akiva organization; Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat; Kiryat Shmonah Chief Rabbi Tzefaniah Drori; Rabbi Bnayahu Bruner of Tzfat; Rabbi Re'em HaCohen of Otniel; Rabbi Daniel Cohen of Bat Ayin; Rabbi Chanan Porat of Kfar Etzion; Rabbi Gideon Perl of Alon Shvut; Rabbi Moshe Tzuriel of Bnei Brak; and more. Former Chief Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, however, issued an opposite call, saying that visits to the Temple Mount could lead to the grave sin of entering forbidden sacred locations.

It's not that anyone is apathetic to our inability to pray on the Temple Mount, his son, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu of Tzfat said in his father's name. Our pain over this is almost physical. Rabbi M. Eliyahu is of the opinion that a synagogue should be built in a permitted area of the Temple Mount.

The Six Day War: Not Only Jerusalem
by Hillel Fendel (INN) MAY 14,07

There is a purposeful disregard of the liberation of Judea and Samaria during the Six Day War, says geographer and historian Avraham Shvut. Speaking with Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine, Shvut author of a work on the modern history of Judea and Samaria said that ignoring these results of the Six Day War means also ignoring the fact that the Six Day War was the finale of the War of Independence. By doing so, they are purposely harming the nation's attitude towards the areas of Judea and Samaria.It's part of our national sickness of ignoring large parts of our Land, the Land of the Bible, Shvut said. Shvut's book HaAliyah El HaHar (The Ascent to the Mountain), published in 2003, reviews the history of Jewish settlement in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the past 40 years.

Almost immediately after the Six Day War, construction began in the areas of Jerusalem liberated from Jordanian control, leading to the addition of neighborhoods such as Ramat Eshkol, Sanhedria Murhevet, Talpiot, Gilo and others. The other areas redeemed from Jordan - Judea and Samaria - were, in many ways, overlooked and viewed as not to be settled. Then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan even said, We are waiting to negotiate with King Hussein. Years were wasted as the Land of Israel loyalists expected the government to take the lead in inhabiting the areas, as it did in the Golan, the Jordan Valley and even the Sinai Desert. When Judea and Samaria finally began to be settled, it was the first time that modern Israel was settled by a non-political organization - Gush Emunim - essentially a group of private people, as opposed to a government movement. It was also the first time, Shvut noted, that massive settlement began in mountainous regions. In the Galilee, as well, mountainous overlooks were first built around the same time, in the 1970's. Another first-time aspect of the Yesha communities was the lack of dependency on agriculture. Until then, communities were built where the land could be farmed, and much money was spent on preparing the ground, building hothouses, chicken coops and cowsheds. But in Yesha, the new style of communal towns enabled the construction of many of them. All you needed was a few caravans for living and public buildings, and you had a town!

GENESIS 12:1-3
1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram,(CHANGED TO ABRAHAM LATER) Get thee out of thy
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:(PALESTINE,ISRAEL)
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

WELL ALL I HAVE TO SAY AMERICA ITS GONNA BE A DANGEROUS HURRICANE SEASON THIS YEAR, GOD WILL HAVE THE LAST SAY ON ISRAELS CAPITAL JERUSALEM, NOT THE ARABS CAPITAL.

After 40 Years, U.S. Avoids Jerusalem Reunification Day
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (INN) MAY 14,07

The United States will avoid Jerusalem Reunification Day festivities this week despite a 12-year-old Congressional bill calling for the American embassy to be located in the capital. Since then, every President has exercised a waiver in the bill allowing the move to be deferred for a renewable period of six months.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni insisted that the connection between Israel and Jerusalem is inseparable despite the boycott by the U.S. and most of the international community. Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski went further and declared, Anyone who doesn't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel does not recognize the State of Israel.Anyone who doesn't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel does not recognize the State of Israel.American officials, including former Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, have stated that moving the embassy is not likely to happen until there is a final peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA).

The U.S. did not issue an official statement explaining why the current Ambassador, Richard Jones will not be attending the ceremonies, but Ambassador Dr. Harald Kindermann from Germany, which heads the European Union (EU) this year, specifically said EU countries will not participate because of Arab claims of sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem, which includes the Old City. The Foreign Ministry said Sunday it is unhappy and disappointed that most delegations announced they were not coming to the festivities but added that officials from several embassies will attend. Two American lawmakers have launched an effort to put a stop to the continuing deferral of the Congressional bill to move the embassy from Tel Aviv. Republican House of Representatives members Joe Wilson and Mike Pence recently introduced a resolution stating that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past 40 years.Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past 40 years.

The new resolution strongly urges American President George W. Bush to stop exercising the waiver to delay the move of the embassy. It also calls on him and American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to repeatedly affirm publicly, as a matter of United States policy, that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of the State of Israel.The congressmen also noted that the 2003 Foreign Relations
Authorization Act directs that the birth of any U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem should be recorded as Jerusalem, Israel upon the request of the citizen or his or her guardian. That requirement has never been implemented, and the city is listed without its being designated that it is in Israel. Israel officially incorporated all of Jerusalem into the municipality in 1980, a move that caused virtually all of the embassies that had been located in Jerusalem to move away. The last holdouts were El Salvador and Costa Rica, which pulled out several months ago.

The New Sabbath According to Orlev
by Hana Levi Julian (INN) MAY 14,07

Knesset Member Zevulun Orlev is stepping onto a tightrope by proposing two new laws that could change the face of Israeli society.The pair of bills written by the National Union / National Religious Party Chairman are also likely to reawaken the age-old debate over Israeli laws pertaining to the Sabbath. One bill would change the length of the traditional Israeli weekend; the second would change its character. If passed, they will also change the way Sabbath is traditionally observed in Israeli society, both in the religious and secular populations.One of the bills would end the practice of beginning the regular work week on Sundays. Instead, the weekend break which traditionally begins on Friday afternoon would not end until Monday morning.

Industry and trade will, if the law passes, no longer be completely forbidden on the Sabbath, nor would public or state services, as they are at present. This would allow an increase in recreational and cultural activities, provided they would comply with noise regulations.The main purpose for the change, said MK Orlev, is to allow Sabbath-observant Jews to have a day to travel and enjoy cultural and recreational activities as a family. Due to the six-day work week, this currently causes hardship for the religious population. A worker must use a paid (or unpaid) vacation day and a student must skip school in order for the family to take the day off together.The second proposal would change the public transportation system.If passed, the new law would allow limited public transportation to become available on the Sabbath. At present public transportation is permitted only six days a week Sunday through Friday. The new Sabbath lines would be serviced by vans similar to the private sheirut or mini-buses run by private companies along the regular public bus routes. None would be allowed to travel through religious communities or neighborhoods.

MK Orlev also recommended establishing a committee to oversee the development of Sabbath services under his proposals.According to the Jerusalem Post, a number of senior religious Zionist rabbis and senior members of the Knesset are supporting the proposals; however, MK Orlev could not be reached to confirm the claim.Both bills are expected to face an initial Knesset hearing in the near future. Reactions from Sabbath-observant Knesset members were not long in coming, however. Minister Eli Yishai, Chairman of the Sephardic religious Shas party, slammed the proposals and the NU / NRP parties, saying, Any initiative by parties calling themselves religious and turning reform on Shabbat (Sabbath) matters should be foiled.Meretz Knesset Member Zahav Gal-On had a different take on MK Orlev's motivation for proposing the measures, saying it was a red herring. As long as the religious-rabbinical establishment dictates how we should marry, divorce and what we should eat, she declared, all these proposals are insignificant.

Portugal pushes for June treaty deal
14.05.2007 - 09:18 CET | By Honor Mahony

As incoming EU presidency in the second half of this year, Portugal has made it clear that if there is no significant agreement on a new treaty in six weeks time, it will put the issue on the political back burner for its six month tenure of the bloc.Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates said that Berlin, as current EU presidency, will have to secure a precise mandate during the EU leaders summit on 21-22 June, otherwise Lisbon would not continue individual negotiations with member states. He made the announcement after an informal meeting over the weekend in the Portuguese town of Sintra including German chancellor Angela Merkel and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso to assess the state of play on the treaty negotiations.

While appearing to up the public pressure for a deal, Mr Socrates' words dovetail with Germany's own policy of trying to get as much agreed at the summit as possible. Mrs Merkel is pushing to get all the big issues out of the way in order to have an intergovernmental conference on the rest of the issues during Portugal's presidency - beginning 1 July that is to be as technical as possible, according to diplomats.

The strategy stems in part from the fear that Portugal, followed by Slovenia, taking over the presidency in January 2008, will not have the political clout to force other - bigger - member states to come to a deal.EU presidencies give political guidance to the bloc and are tasked with trying to find agreement among the 27 member states on the issues of the day.

For its part, Germany has also attached significant public importance to the constitutional task seeing its presidency as the last chance to set in motion a timetable that would see all member states ratify a new treaty by mid 2009 the date of the next European elections.Speaking after the Sintra meeting, the German chancellor called on other EU member states to work together on the issue.I am certain that we will accomplish it if we remain united, if we work together, she said, according to AFP. It is in our interest and it is our responsibility to allow Europe to act in the face of the challenges that confront us.According to Spanish daily El Pais, quoting a senior official attending the Sintra meeting, quite some time in the gathering was spent analysing the proposals of French president-elect Nicolas Sarkozy, the ideas of Gordon Brown, the likely successor to British leader Tony Blair, as well as the difficulties that the Dutch and Polish governments have in relation to a new treaty.

Germany revived negotiations on a new-look treaty for the bloc at the beginning of the year following 18 months of almost complete political silence after France and the Netherlands rejected the EU constitution in mid-2005.In order to get a deal, Berlin has to keep as much of the original treaty as possible intact to please the 18 countries that have already largely ratified the document, while taking into account the sceptical public in many of the remaining nine countries.However, this delicate balancing act looks to be upset by two key member states – Poland, which wants to renegotiate the voting system and the UK which wants as small a treaty as possible, keeping member states' right to veto in as many areas as possible.

Liberal Democrats are out to silence you! MAY 14,07
Urgent Telephone Alert on the Meehan Amendment (H.R. 2093)!

Dear Stan,

I wrote to you in January about legislation in the U.S. Senate that could have silenced grassroots communication from groups like American Family Association. Thankfully, that part of the legislation was defeated after you and other concerned citizens let your voices be heard.

Unfortunately, the House Judiciary Committee is expected to reconsider the grassroots gag order when the Meehan Amendment (H.R. 2093) will be offered on Tuesday, May 15, during debate on a broader lobbying reform bill. This amendment, sponsored by Rep. Martin Meehan (D-Mass.), would establish, for the first time, federal regulatory authority over efforts aimed at motivating citizens to communicate with their representatives about bills moving in Congress.This threat is so serious that American Family Association has joined with other pro-family groups, as well as organizations from the left of the political spectrum, including the ACLU, to oppose the bill. Last week, we signed a joint letter calling on members of Congress to reject this dangerous effort to exclude men and women like you from the democratic process. The full House of Representatives is expected to act on the lobbying reform legislation on May 22. Depending on what happens in the Judiciary Committee on May 15, the full House may also vote on whether to include the Meehan provision in the broader bill.

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