Posted on 08/24/2008 6:45:22 AM PDT by Publius804
Russia seeks to restore its prestige in the Holy Land
JERUSALEM (AFP) — Eager to revive its prestige in the Holy Land, Russia is pressing a claim to ownership of an historic Jerusalem building formerly owned by a tsarist prince and which once housed aristocratic pilgrims.
The 19th century Sergei Building is in the centre of Jerusalem and at the heart of complex negotiations in which even British royal consort Prince Philip has been mentioned as a potential, though unlikely, heir.
The Russian state had initially hoped to take possession in June of the impressive property that once belonged to Prince Sergei, a brother of Tsar Alexander III.
Since 1948, the building, topped by a crenellated tower, has housed the Israeli agriculture ministry and other agencies and been administered by the government's custodian general, responsible for property listed as abandoned.
A tangle of legal issues has held up the transfer, but Moscow remains determined to push the deal through and revive the building's past.
"We want to restore our historic heritage in the Holy land," says Russia's charge d'affaires in Israel, Anatoli Yurkov, who believes the deal could be completed as early as next month.
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Heck, they can just send in the tanks and take it, right?
Gog
PING
Which means they roll in the tanks?
Saint Pooty Poot.
Canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church?
Gog is right. The Georgia affair and allied with Iran( Persia) is only the beginning...
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If it's administered by the government's custodian general, then someone likely owns it, whether Russia or Prince Charles or whoever, who knows. The courts will sort is out. If Russia gets title, maybe they'll pay the back taxes. Of course 17,000 different palestinians have keys to the buliding, because their grandparents lived there.
Bump.
Gog and Magog. Could this be what draws the Russians into the battle of Armageddon? They seem to be drawing closer to Islam every day.
Too early.
There is another battle that is prophecied in Psalm 83, between Israel and its local neighbors, that has to happen first. This may be the war that so weakens Islam that entry of "the Antichrist" becomes politically possible.
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