http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jerusalem/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:45:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418298/posts Israel must simultaneously pursue three interdependent tracks for advancing Israeli-Palestinian relations: capacity-building measures that foster the rule of law within the Palestinian Authority, regional economic cooperation, and meaningful political dialogue. Although conducting dialogue with the Palestinians is a matter of utmost importance for Israel, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's recent plan to unilaterally declare statehood after a two-year state-building process is unrealistic. The emergence of a future Palestinian state will only be a result of consensus and successful negotiations, not an artificial timeline. If we are to proceed with a viable diplomatic process with the Palestinians, it is critically important... Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418298/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:45:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416553/posts JERUSALEM — Israel announced Monday that it would build nearly 700 housing units in Jewish areas of Jerusalem, on territory conquered in the 1967 war that the Palestinians claim for their future state. The move was criticized by Washington and condemned by Palestinian leaders, who cited it as evidence that the Israelis were undermining efforts to restart peace talks. Tenders for the 692 new units were issued by the Housing Ministry as part of the third and last batch of construction permits for 2009 across Israel. The other tenders issued, for almost 6,000 units in about 54 towns and communities,... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416553/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:34:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412305/posts The recent Swiss vote to ban minarets was seen by many as a further indication that European populations are waking up to the threat of Europe’s Islamization and the need to stop the trend. If so, the European Union—the centralized bureaucracy that, as documented in Bat Ye’or’s important book Eurabia, went “over the heads” of European publics to meld the European and Arab/Muslim civilizations in the first place—still hasn’t caught up and remains locked in a pro-Arab/Muslim disposition. At least, the EU’s stance on Jerusalem would suggest so. Last week the new EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, “came down... Frontpage Mag. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412305/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:09:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412086/posts A prestigious Palestinian professor told WND that the Muslim denial of a Jewish connection to the Temple Mount is political and that historically Muslims did not dispute Jewish ties to the site. "If you went back a couple of hundred years, before the advent of the political form of Zionism, I think you will find that many Muslims would not have disputed the connection that Jews have toward [the Mount]," said Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2412086/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411835/posts A message to observant Christians, you should know that if there ever is a Palestinian State you can say goodbye to holy sites Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Ascension. Christian holy sites and populations are endangered whenever Palestinians gain control. Christian towns and churches, including the sacred Church of the Nativity, have been used as bases for Palestinian snipers and launching-sites for terrorist attacks. Many historically Christian towns that came under Palestinian control through Oslo — Bethlehem being only the most famous example — quickly lost their Christian majority as those citizens steadily fled Muslim oppression... Schmoozing With Terrorists/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411835/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409268/posts A team of archaeologists and scientists says it has, for the first time, found pieces of a burial shroud from the time of Jesus in a tomb in Jerusalem. The researchers, from Hebrew University and institutions in Canada and the US, said the shroud was very different from the controversial Turin Shroud. Some people believe the Turin Shroud to have been Christ's burial cloth, but others believe it is a fake. The newly found cloth has a simpler weave than Turin's, the scientists say. The body of a man wrapped in fragments of the shroud was found in a tomb... bbc http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409268/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:53:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408514/posts British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called Kadima head Tzipi Livni and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman Tuesday evening in an apparent effort to prevent the diplomatic crisis stemming from a British arrest warrant issued against Livni from spinning completely out of control. Israeli officials react to Livni's UK arrest warrant According to a statement put out by Livni's office, Miliband expressed his "shock" at the arrest warrant and promised to work immediately to ensure that a similar occurrence would not happen in the future against Livni or other Israeli leaders. Miliband told Lieberman that the warrant was "completely unacceptable." Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408514/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:49:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407855/posts A resident of the Jewish community of Eli in Samaria has discovered that the giant Google search engine is apparently not waiting for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to complete final status negotiations. In Google's Internet world, life for Jews in the region has already taken on a new reality. Eliezer Tabor picked up a connection on the community’s wireless router as usual this week. But he found that despite the fact that the rest of the sites he surfed recognized his location as within Israel, Google named his location as within “Palestinian territory.” Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2407855/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:53:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2404454/posts A Jewish bride and her father were arrested on the Temple Mount the day before her wedding, after an Arab policeman claimed he saw the father muttering prayers and the bride nodding her head. The father and daughter were being taken around the site on Wednesday morning by her brother Eli, a volunteer who conducts regular tours at the Temple Mount, when suddenly they were accosted by the Jerusalem policeman. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2404454/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403318/posts European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday that Jerusalem should be the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state, as part of a negotiated settlement, EU diplomats said. The foreign ministers, meeting for a second day of talks in Brussels, adopted a text agreeing that Jerusalem should provide "the future capital of the two states", one diplomat said. The move is bound to anger Israel which has already warned Europe against seeking to foist a solution to the Middle East problem on the parties involved. However, an earlier proposal by the Swedish EU presidency, to explicitly support the... Nine News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403318/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:01:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403290/posts European Union foreign ministers pulled back from a confrontation with Israel by dropping a call for east Jerusalem to be recognised as the future capital of a Palestinian state. At a meeting in Brussels, they instead said that Palestinian territory must simply include part of the city. Israel reacted with relief that a concerted campaign by its diplomats persuaded European foreign ministers to stop short of endorsing the division of half the city as the Palestinian capital. An Israeli foreign ministry statement said: "In light of the extreme draft originally presented by the Swedish presidency at the start of discussions,... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403290/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 00:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399145/posts JERUSALEM -- Israel last year revoked the Jerusalem residency of more than 4,500 Palestinians, far more than in any other year since Israel took full control of the city in 1967, according to government figures obtained under the country's freedom of information act by a local human rights group. In what an official for the group on Wednesday called a "frightening" escalation in the enforcement of Jerusalem residency laws, the Interior Ministry said that a sweep of its files last spring turned up thousands of names of Palestinian Jerusalemites who had left the country for longer than the allowed seven... Washington Post via The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399145/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398233/posts (IsraelNN.com) A “welcoming” committee of Arabs and foreign anti-Israel activists, including those from the United States and Sweden, attacked Jews with clubs and stones Tuesday as a new family moved into a home in eastern Jerusalem. Police stopped the attack but not before blood was streaming down the face of a Jewish guard at the site. The clash came as Sweden plans to present a proposal to the European Union that it recognize eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian Authority, a step that would give the PA de facto status as a state and weaken Israeli sovereignty over... Arutz Sheva http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398233/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:53:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397475/posts The Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday morning that a Swedish-led attempt to have the European Union recognize eastern Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian Authority will backfire. The draft proposal, expected to be placed on the EU table next week, would damage efforts to reach peace with the PA and damage the EU’s standing as a trusted entity, ministry spokesman Yossi Levy said. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397475/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397349/posts The European Union usually goes out of its way to appease Palestinian Terror and prove its disdain for Israel, but the latest report goes beyond the pale even for the EU. Ha'aretz is reporting that the European Union foreign ministers are expected to officially call next week for the division of Jerusalem, to serve as the capitals of both Israel and Palestine. A draft document authored by the current holder of the rotating EU presidency, Sweden, and implying that the EU would recognize a unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, has been obtained by Haaretz. Jerusalem is waging a diplomatic campaign... The Lid/Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397349/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:56:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396876/posts An Arab university lecturer and writer is hiding underground out of fear for his life after shocking the Palestinian Authority with a book that links Jews with the Temple Mount. The Arab world has been conducting a campaign, including removal of tons of dirt containing archaeological evidence, to try to eliminate historical Jewish links with the Temple Mount. Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, of Birzeit University in Ramallah, threw acid on the propaganda campaign that tries to convince Arabs that the First and Second Temples never existed. He wrote in a book, “The legendary Temple of Jerusalem may be the place of... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2396876/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:45:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392352/posts Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Wednesday called US President Barack Obama's strong criticism of the building of additional Jewish homes in a Jewish neighborhood of the Israeli capital a position based on racism. Said Barkat: "Israeli law does not discriminate between Jews, Muslims, and Christians or between eastern and western Jerusalem. The demand to halt construction by religion is not legal in the United States or in any other free place in the world. I do not presume that any government would demand to freeze construction in the United States based on race, religion or gender and the attempt to... Israel Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392352/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:13:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2391882/posts White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was ordered by the Obama apparatchiks to express displeasure at the decision by Israel to build houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But Gibbs failed to disclose that the land on which Gilo was built, as with other suburbs in "disputed" parts of East Jerusalem, was home to many Jews who were driven out in 1948 by the British officered Arab Legion of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It was not liberated by Israel, and the land restored, until the June, 1967 Six Day War, nineteen years later. King Hussein of Jordan had... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2391882/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:48:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390261/posts Dsvid Littman, 75, was awarded the Order of "Hero of Silence" last Summer 2009 by the Israeli Mossad for having been an undercover volunteer helping 500 children leave Morocco clandestinely in 1963. The Order of "Hero of Silence" is a very rare award. Only nine people have received it, seven whose identities remain classified. "drzz.info" obtained exclusive photographs of this private event taking place at the heart of Israel's intelligence community and featuring Ephraim Halevy, the Mossad's former director general, and the current Mossad's deputy director whose face has been "blacked" for confidentiality restrictions. See the pictures http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2390261/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389938/posts The Great Rift Valley extends some 4,000 miles southward from Syria north of Israel, through the Gulf of Aqaba, through Ethiopia, and all the way to Mozambique in southeast Africa. It harbors a giant fault, which has been under investigation as a model for sea floor spreading. A recent geologic event rent a gaping crack through the desert of Ethiopia, causing safety concerns for locals. These crustal plate motions may foreshadow rifting events further north in the Great Rift Valley... ICR News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389938/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388525/posts A White House spokesman on Wednesday condemned a decision by the Israeli government to proceed with settlement expansion in Jerusalem. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration is “dismayed” by the Jerusalem Planning Committee’s decision that moved “forward on the approval process for the expansion of Gilo in Jerusalem.” Gilo is a neighborhood in Eastern Jerusalem. Gibbs said the move would hamper future peace negotiations in the Middle East the administration is trying to move forward. “At a time when we are working to re-launch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed,” Gibbs... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388525/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388435/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Tuesday that it was "dismayed" over Israeli approval to expand the Gilo settlement in Jerusalem and sharply criticized the ongoing evictions and demolition of Palestinian homes. "At a time when we are working to relaunch negotiations, these actions make it more difficult for our efforts to succeed," White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a statement. U.S. President Barack Obama has urged Israel to curb settlement expansion as a gesture of goodwill to Palestinians in an effort to restart the peace process. Israel on Tuesday approved the building of 900 homes... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388435/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:25:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385323/posts A bright blue sky could not hide the gray shadows of pain that marked the eyes of the families of the victims of the "9/11" terrorist attack that found themselves in Arazim Park in Jerusalem on Thursday. They had gathered together with international dignitaries and Israeli leaders to dedicate a new monument to the their loved ones, who lost their lives in the senseless 2001 attack on America by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385323/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382500/posts Obama Drags America Into the Darkness Monumental Meeting Tonight Goodbye, Jerusalem? Hello “Al Quds”? thelastcrusade.org Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet this evening with President Obama this evening to discuss the immediate formation of a Palestinian State, with [East] Jerusalem as its capital. The meeting comes on the heels of reports that President Obama has pledged his support to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad for a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence and the confinement of Israel to its 1967 borders. At the meeting, Mr. Obama is expected to employ a carrot and stick technique to exact Mr.... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382500/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382298/posts OBAMA HEARTS TERRORISM America’s Gift to Islam: Jerusalem Barry's Kristallnacht Surprise Armageddon Dawns thelastcrusade.org President Barack Obama has come to an agreement with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to offer America’s official recognition of an independent Palestinian state with the old city of Jerusalem as its capital.The Palestinian Authority Prime Minister is also seeking a UN Security Council resolution to replace Resolutions 242 and 338 in a bid to win the international support for the borders of the new Palestinian state.The resolution is expect to apply stronger pressure on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank.Several Israeli officials... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382298/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 18:58:43 GMT