Saturday, October 31, 2015

Temple Mount Guide 1925 - Is Jewish territory - Draiman



Temple Mount Guide 1925 is Jewish territory



Click here for the 1925 Temple Mount Guide

One of the most disturbing end times propaganda being promoted today is the absurd notion that the Jews never had a presence on the famous Temple Mount area in Jerusalem. Anyone who is knowledgeable about history and aware of the recent archaeological discoveries on the Temple Mount area over the years knows that the propaganda being perpetuated by the Islamics, United Nations, and other ungodly organizations is simply a political ploy to deny the Jews their historical capital of Jerusalem and the sacred Temple Mount area. The Temple Mount area is the holiest place in Judaism and the remnants of the Second Temple area visible in the form of the "Wailing Wall" where religious Jews flock from around the world in order to pray near the site of the First and Second Temples. Some of the outstanding quotes from the official Temple Mount Guide are as follows:

“The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings” (2 Samuel 24:25). But, for the purposes of this Guide, which confines itself to the Muslim period, the starting point is the year 637 A.D.

“...It dates probably as far back as the construction of Solomon’s Temple. According to Josephus, it was in existence and was used as a place of refuge by the Jews at the time of the conquest of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70 A.D.”

“which was believed in medieval times to have been associated with Jesus Christ’s infancy. This belief was prevalent long before the advent of the Crusaders...”
Despite the recent archaeological discoveries such as coins, temple vessels, the pool of Shiloam, and many other biblical artifacts the Islamic community has simply dismissed these findings and continued on with their blatant lies about the Temple Mount and the Jews never having a presence there. This is despite the fact that the Bible mentions Jerusalem over 700 times in the scriptures while the koran never once mentions Jerusalem. In fact, I was recently made aware of twenty interesting facts about the current Israeli and Palestinian issue that I would like to share with you. I received these facts from an email I received recently. Here is the list:
1. Nationhood and Jerusalem : Israel became a nation in 1312 BC, two thousand (2000) years before the rise of Islam....
2. Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
3. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BC, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand (1000) years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.
4. The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 lasted no more than 22 years.
5. For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem , they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.
6. Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tanach, the Jewish Holy scriptures. Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran.
7. King David founded the city of Jerusalem. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
8. Jews pray facing Jerusalem. Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.
9. Arab and Jewish Refugees: in 1948 the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews. Sixty-eight percent left (many in fear of retaliation by their own brethren, the Arabs), without ever seeing an Israeli soldier. The ones who stayed were afforded the same peace, civility, and citizenship rights as everyone else.
10. The million Jewish refugees were terrorized and forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution and pogroms and their assets were confiscated, including over 70,000 square miles of real property.
11. The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be over a million families.
12. Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory of over 5 million square miles. Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands. Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel , a country no larger than the state of New Jersey ...
13. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Arabs are represented by eight separate nations, not including the Palestinians. There is only one Jewish nation. The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost. Israel defended itself each time and won.
14. The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel . Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, autonomy under the Palestinian Authority, and has supplied them.
15. Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.
16. The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs: of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel. The resolutions are not valid until it is accepted by all the parties.
17. Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
18. The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.
19. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like a policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
The Jordanians confiscated all Jewish assets, including businesses, homes and land and prohibited Jews from residing in Jordan.
If these "little known" facts about the Israeli and Islamic issue were not enough to persuade the casual reader to side with Israel on the matter of the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. Perhaps seeing the official "Temple Mount Guide" produced by the "Supreme Muslim Council" were they plainly listed the Temple Mount as the site of the Second Temple of Solomon. The Temple Mount Guides were produced from 1924 til sometimes in the 1960's. The guides were produced to provide visitors to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with background information on the sacred site. The pages of the Temple Mount Guide that contain the most explicit revelation of the site belonging to the Jews is contained in pages 4 and 16 of the guide. As a courtesy, we are providing a PDF copy of the Temple Mount Guide so that you can see for yourself in the words of the muslims themselves that the Temple Mount belonged to the Jews long before Islam was even invented.
Notes:
1. Facts from Jerry Golden email - www.thegoldenreport.com
2. Temple Mount Guide PDF courtesy of www.bibleplaces.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

United States official position on Jerusalem - YJ Draiman


United States official position on Jerusalem - YJ Draiman



United States official position on Jerusalem

In 1990 the United States Senate adopted a resolution "acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel's capital" and stating that it "strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city." The subsequent Clinton Administration refused to characterize East Jerusalem as being under occupation and viewed it as a territory over
which sovereignty was defined. Vice President Gore stated that the US viewed "united Jerusalem" as the capital of Israel. In light of this
designation, the US has since abstained
from Security Council resolutions which use language which construes East Jerusalem as forming part of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria). In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act which declared that Jerusalem should remain undivided and that it should be recognized as Israel's capital.


PUBLIC LAW 104–45—NOV. 8, 1995
JERUSALEM EMBASSY ACT OF 1995
Public Law 104–45 104th Congress 
An Act To provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1.
SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995’’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own capital.
(2) Since 1950, the city of Jerusalem has been the capital of the State of Israel. (3) The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel’s President, Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous government ministries and social and cultural institutions.
(4) The city of Jerusalem is the spiritual center of Judaism, and is also considered a holy city by the members of other religious faiths.
(5) From 1948–1967, Jerusalem was a divided city and Israeli citizens of all faiths as well as Jewish citizens of all states were denied access to holy sites in the area controlled by Jordan.
(6) In 1967, the city of Jerusalem was reunited during the conflict known as the Six Day War.
(7) Since 1967, Jerusalem has been a united city administered by Israel, and persons of all religious faiths have been guaranteed full access to holy sites within the city.
(8) This year marks the 28th consecutive year that Jerusalem has been administered as a unified city in which the rights of all faiths have been respected and protected.
(9) In 1990, the Congress unanimously adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 106, which declares that the Congress ‘‘strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected’’.
(10) In 1992, the United States Senate and House of Representatives unanimously adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 113 of the One Hundred Second Congress to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, and reaffirming congressional sentiment that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city.

(11) The September 13, 1993, Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements lays out a timetable for the resolution of ‘‘final status’’ issues, including Jerusalem.
(12) The Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area was signed May 4, 1994, beginning the five-year transitional period laid out in the Declaration of Principles.
(13) In March of 1995, 93 members of the United States Senate signed a letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher encouraging ‘‘planning to begin now’’ for relocation of the United States Embassy to the city of Jerusalem.
(14) In June of 1993, 257 members of the United States House of Representatives signed a letter to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher stating that the relocation of the United States Embassy to Jerusalem ‘‘should take place no later than . . . 1999’’.
(15) The United States maintains its embassy in the functioning capital of every country except in the case of our democratic friend and strategic ally, the State of Israel.
(16) The United States conducts official meetings and other business in the city of Jerusalem in de facto recognition of its status as the capital of Israel.
(17) In 1996, the State of Israel will celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem since King David’s entry.
SEC. 3. TIMETABLE.
(a) STATEMENT OF THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES.—
(1) Jerusalem should remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected;
(2) Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel; and
(3) the United States Embassy in Israel should be established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.
(b) OPENING DETERMINATION.—Not more than 50 percent of the funds appropriated to the Department of State for fiscal year 1999 for ‘‘Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad’’ may be obligated until the Secretary of State determines and reports to Congress that the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has officially opened.
SEC. 4. FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997 FUNDING.
(a) FISCAL YEAR 1996.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated for ‘‘Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad’’ for the Department of State in fiscal year 1996, not less than $25,000,000 should be made available until expended only for construction and other costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem. (b) FISCAL YEAR 1997.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated for ‘‘Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad’’ for the Department of State in fiscal year 1997, not less than $75,000,000 should be made available until expended only for construction and other costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem. SEC. 5. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION. Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate detailing the Department of State’s plan to implement this Act. Such report shall include— (1) estimated dates of completion for each phase of the establishment of the United States Embassy, including site identification, land acquisition, architectural, engineering and construction surveys, site preparation, and construction; and (2) an estimate of the funding necessary to implement this Act, including all costs associated with establishing the United States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.
SEC. 6. SEMIANNUAL REPORTS. At the time of the submission of the President’s fiscal year 1997 budget request, and every six months thereafter, the Secretary of State shall report to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on the progress made toward opening the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
SEC. 7. PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER. (a) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—
(1) Beginning on October 1, 1998, the President may suspend the limitation set forth in section 3(b) for a period of six months if he determines and reports to Congress in advance that such suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.
(2) The President may suspend such limitation for an additional six month period at the end of any period during which the suspension is in effect under this subsection if the President determines and reports to Congress in advance of the additional suspension that the additional suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States.
(3) A report under paragraph (1) or (2) shall include—
(A) a statement of the interests affected by the limitation that the President seeks to suspend; and
(B) a discussion of the manner in which the limitation affects the interests. (b) APPLICABILITY OF WAIVER TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.— If the President exercises the authority set forth in subsection (a) in a fiscal year, the limitation set forth in section 3(b) shall apply to funds appropriated in the following fiscal year for the purpose set forth in such section 3(b) except to the extent that the limitation is suspended in such following fiscal year by reason of the exercise of the authority in subsection (a).


JERUSALEM EMBASSY ACT OF 1995 Public Law 104-45 104th Congress
[104th Congress Public Law 45]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


<DOC>
[DOCID: f:publ45.104]

                      JERUSALEM EMBASSY ACT OF 1995
Public Law 104-45
104th Congress

                                 An Act


 
To provide for the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel to 
 Jerusalem, and for other purposes. <<NOTE: Nov. 8, 1995 -  [S. 1322]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Jerusalem 
Embassy Act of 1995. Foreign relations.>> 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Each sovereign nation, under international law and 
        custom, may designate its own capital.
            (2) Since 1950, the city of Jerusalem has been the capital 
        of the State of Israel.
            (3) The city of Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's President, 
        Parliament, and Supreme Court, and the site of numerous 
        government ministries and social and cultural institutions.
            (4) The city of Jerusalem is the spiritual center of 
        Judaism, and is also considered a holy city by the members of 
        other religious faiths.
            (5) From 1948-1967, Jerusalem was a divided city and Israeli 
        citizens of all faiths as well as Jewish citizens of all states 
        were denied access to holy sites in the area controlled by 
        Jordan.
            (6) In 1967, the city of Jerusalem was reunited during the 
        conflict known as the Six Day War.
            (7) Since 1967, Jerusalem has been a united city 
        administered by Israel, and persons of all religious faiths have 
        been guaranteed full access to holy sites within the city.
            (8) This year marks the 28th consecutive year that Jerusalem 
        has been administered as a unified city in which the rights of 
        all faiths have been respected and protected.
            (9) In 1990, the Congress unanimously adopted Senate 
        Concurrent Resolution 106, which declares that the Congress 
        ``strongly believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city 
        in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are 
        protected''.
            (10) In 1992, the United States Senate and House of 
        Representatives unanimously adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 
        113 of the One Hundred Second Congress to commemorate the 25th 
        anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, and reaffirming 
        congressional sentiment that Jerusalem must remain an undivided 
        city.
            (11) The September 13, 1993, Declaration of Principles on 
        Interim Self-Government Arrangements lays out a timetable for 
        the resolution of ``final status'' issues, including Jerusalem.
            (12) The Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area 
        was signed May 4, 1994, beginning the five-year transitional 
        period laid out in the Declaration of Principles.
            (13) In March of 1995, 93 members of the United States 
        Senate signed a letter to Secretary of State Warren Christopher 
        encouraging ``planning to begin now'' for relocation of the 
        United States Embassy to the city of Jerusalem.
            (14) In June of 1993, 257 members of the United States House 
        of Representatives signed a letter to the Secretary of State 
        Warren Christopher stating that the relocation of the United 
        States Embassy to Jerusalem ``should take place no later than . 
        . . 1999''.
            (15) The United States maintains its embassy in the 
        functioning capital of every country except in the case of our 
        democratic friend and strategic ally, the State of Israel.
            (16) The United States conducts official meetings and other 
        business in the city of Jerusalem in de facto recognition of its 
        status as the capital of Israel.
            (17) In 1996, the State of Israel will celebrate the 3,000th 
        anniversary of the Jewish presence in Jerusalem since King 
        David's entry.

SEC. 3. TIMETABLE.

    (a) Statement of the Policy of the United States.--
            (1) Jerusalem should remain an undivided city in which the 
        rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected;
            (2) Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the 
        State of Israel; and
            (3) the United States Embassy in Israel should be 
        established in Jerusalem no later than May 31, 1999.

    (b) <<NOTE: Reports.>>  Opening Determination.--Not more than 50 
percent of the funds appropriated to the Department of State for fiscal 
year 1999 for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad'' may be 
obligated until the Secretary of State determines and reports to 
Congress that the United States Embassy in Jerusalem has officially 
opened.

SEC. 4. FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997 FUNDING.

    (a) Fiscal Year 1996.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad'' for the 
Department of State in fiscal year 1996, not less than $25,000,000 
should be made available until expended only for construction and other 
costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in 
Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.
    (b) Fiscal Year 1997.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated 
for ``Acquisition and Maintenance of Buildings Abroad'' for the 
Department of State in fiscal year 1997, not less than $75,000,000 
should be made available until expended only for construction and other 
costs associated with the establishment of the United States Embassy in 
Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.

SEC. 5. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION.

    Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
detailing the Department of State's plan to implement this Act. Such 
report shall include--
            (1) estimated dates of completion for each phase of the 
        establishment of the United States Embassy, including site 
        identification, land acquisition, architectural, engineering and 
        construction surveys, site preparation, and construction; and
            (2) an estimate of the funding necessary to implement this 
        Act, including all costs associated with establishing the United 
        States Embassy in Israel in the capital of Jerusalem.

SEC. 6. SEMIANNUAL REPORTS.

    At the time of the submission of the President's fiscal year 1997 
budget request, and every six months thereafter, the Secre-
tary of State shall report to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on 
the progress made toward opening the United States Embassy in Jerusalem.

SEC. 7. PRESIDENTIAL WAIVER.

    (a) <<NOTE: Reports.>>  Waiver Authority.--(1) Beginning on October 
1, 1998, the President may suspend the limitation set forth in section 
3(b) for a period of six months if he determines and reports to Congress 
in advance that such suspension is necessary to protect the national 
security interests of the United States.

    (2) The President may suspend such limitation for an additional six 
month period at the end of any period during which the suspension is in 
effect under this subsection if the President determines and reports to 
Congress in advance of the additional suspension that the additional 
suspension is necessary to protect the national security interests of 
the United States.
    (3) A report under paragraph (1) or (2) shall include--
            (A) a statement of the interests affected by the limitation 
        that the President seeks to suspend; and
            (B) a discussion of the manner in which the limitation 
        affects the interests.

    (b) Applicability of Waiver to Availability of Funds.--If the 
President exercises the authority set forth in subsection (a) in a 
fiscal year, the limitation set forth in section 3(b) shall apply to 
funds appropriated in the following fiscal year for the purpose set 
forth in such section 3(b) except to the extent that the limitation is 
suspended in such following fiscal year by reason of the exercise of the 
authority in subsection (a).

SEC. 8. DEFINITION.

    As used in this Act, the term ``United States Embassy'' means the 
offices of the United States diplomatic mission and the residence of the 
United States chief of mission.

                                <H-dash>

  [Note by the Office of the Federal Register: The foregoing Act, having 
been presented to the President of the United States on Thursday, 
October 26, 1995, and not having been returned by him to the House of 
Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the 
Constitution of the United States, has become law without his signature 
on November 8, 1995.]

      

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 1322:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 141 (1995):
            Oct. 23, 24, considered and passed Senate.
            Oct. 24, considered and passed House.

                                  <all>

20 Years of Research Reveals: Jerusalem Belongs to Jews - Draiman


20 Years of Research Reveals: Jerusalem Belongs to Jews

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Jacques Gauthier, a non-Jewish Canadian lawyer who spent 20 years researching the legal status of Jerusalem, has concluded: "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, by international law."

Gauthier has written a doctoral dissertation on the topic of Jerusalem and its legal history, based on international treaties and resolutions of the past 90 years. The dissertation runs some 1,300 pages, with 3,000 footnotes. Gauthier had to present his thesis to a world-famous Jewish historian and two leading international lawyers - the Jewish one of whom has represented the Palestinian Authority on numerous occasions.

Gauthier's main point, as summarized by Israpundit editor Ted Belman, is that a non-broken series of treaties and resolutions, as laid out by the San Remo Resolution, the League of Nations and the United Nations, gives the Jewish People title to the city of Jerusalem. The process began at San Remo, Italy, when the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I - Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan - agreed to create a Jewish national home in what is now the Land of Israel.

San Remo
The relevant resolution reads as follows: "The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust... the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory [authority that] will be responsible for putting into effect the [Balfour] declaration... in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

Gauthier notes that the San Remo treaty specifically notes that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" - but says nothing about any "political" rights of the Arabs living there.

The San Remo Resolution also bases itself on Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which declares that it is a "a sacred trust of civilization" to provide for the well-being and development of colonies and territories whose inhabitants are "not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world." Specifically, a resolution was formulated to create a Mandate to form a Jewish national home in Palestine.

League of Nations
The League of Nations' resolution creating the Palestine Mandate, included the following significant clause: “Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country." No such recognition of Arab rights in Palestine was granted.

In 1945, the United Nations took over from the failed League of Nations - and assumed the latter's obligations. Article 80 of the UN Charter states: "Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed, in or of itself, to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties."

UN Partition Plan
However, in 1947, the General Assembly of the UN passed Resolution 181, known as the Partition Plan. It violated the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine in that it granted political rights to the Arabs in western Palestine - yet, ironically, the Arabs worked to thwart the plan's passage, while the Jews applauded it.

Resolution 181 also provided for a Special regime for Jerusalem for 10 years only, with borders delineated in all four directions: The then-extant municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns up to Abu Dis in the east, Bethlehem in the south, Ein Karem and Motza in the west, and Shuafat in the north.

Referendum Scheduled for Jerusalem
The UN resolved that the City of Jerusalem shall be established as a separate entity under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations. The regime was to come into effect by October 1948, and was to remain in force for a period of ten years, unless the UN's Trusteeship Council decided otherwise. After the ten years, the residents of Jerusalem "shall be then free to express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modifications of regime of the City."

The resolution never took effect, because Jordan controlled eastern Jerusalem after the 1948 War of Independence and did not follow its provisions.

After 1967
After the Six Day War in 1967, Israel regained Jerusalem and other land west of Jordan. Gauthier notes that the UN Security Council then passed Resolution 242 authorizing Israel to remain in possession of all the land until it had “secure and recognized boundaries.” The resolution was notably silent on Jerusalem, and also referred to the "necessity for achieving a just settlement of the refugee problem,” with no distinction made between Jewish and Arab refugees.

Today
Given Jerusalem's strong Jewish majority, Gauthier concludes, Israel should be demanding that the long-delayed city referendum on the city's future be held as soon as possible. Not only should Israel be demanding that the referendum be held now, Jerusalem should be the first order of business. "Olmert is sloughing us off by saying [as he did before the Annapolis Conference two months ago], 'Jerusalem is not on the table yet,'" Gauthier concludes. "He should demand that the referendum take place before the balance of the land is negotiated. If the Arabs won’t agree to the referendum, there is nothing to talk about."
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O Israel
The LORD bless you and keep you; 
The LORD make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; 
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.

Asymmetric Warfare It’s not just for the “Other Guys”

MUSLIMS IGNORE THEIR OWN QURAN WHICH SAYS JEWISH TEMPLE STOOD ATOP TEMPLE MOUNT - Draiman


MUSLIMS IGNORE THEIR OWN QUR'AN WHICH SAYS JEWISH TEMPLE STOOD ATOP TEMPLE MOUNT

Muslims Ignore Their Own Quran Which Says Jewish Temple Stood Atop Temple Mount


On Sunday, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the Muslim cleric in charge of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, said there has never been a Jewish temple atop the Temple Mount, and that the site has been home to a mosque “since the creation of the world.” He said on top of Mount Moriah there was a mosque “3,000 years ago, and 30,000 years ago” and has been “since the creation of the world.”
The Mufti is echoing the propaganda of Palestinian Chairman Abbas, and Muslims across the Middle East. But when he spews that nonsense he is ignoring the fact the ancient Greeks, Romans, Christians, and even the ancient Muslims reported that Jerusalem and Temple Mount were Jewish lands.
After the Bar Kochba revolt in 135 CE  the Romans punished the Judeans (Jews) for revolting once again by changing the name of their country from Judea to Syria Palaestina (after the Philistines the ancient Jewish enemy who no longer existed). At the same time they changed the name of the holy city from Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina (literally Capitoline Hill of the House of Aelius).
But for ancient Greek and Roman pagan authors, Jerusalem definitely was a Jewish city. An examination of their texts indicates the unanimous agreement that Jerusalem was Jewish by virtue of the fact that its inhabitants were Jews, it was founded by Jews and the Temple, located in Jerusalem, was the center of the Jewish religion.
These ancient texts, disprove recent attempts by Muslims and others to deny the historic connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the location of the Temple in Jerusalem through fabrications and lies. 
Below are just some of examples from Greek and Roman times published in a November 2008 Report issued by the JCPA:
  • Some writers recall distinctive Jewish customs, such as the absence of representations of the deity, male circumcision, dietary laws and the observance of the weekly day of rest, the Sabbath. Indeed, in 167 BCE, the Greek Seleucid King Antiochus IV ordered Jews to place an idol of Zeus in the Temple, outlawed circumcision, demanded the sacrifice of swine and forbade Sabbath observance (I Maccabees 1:41-50). He thus desired to eliminate those unique features of the Jewish religion which had been noted by pagan writers.
  • In an account by Hecataeus of Abdera (c. 300 BCE), Jerusalem appears toward the conclusion of his counter-Exodus account and before his description of Jewish society and practices. He attributes the expulsion of the Jews to the pestilence which the Egyptians blamed upon the presence of foreigners, not only Jews, who caused the natives to falter in religious observance. “Therefore, the aliens were driven from the country.” While some went to Greece, most “were driven into what is now called Judaea … at that time utterly uninhabited … on taking possession of the land, he [Moses] founded, besides other cities, one that is the most renowned of all, called Jerusalem. In addition, he established the temple that they hold in chief veneration, instituted their forms of worship and ritual, drew up their laws and ordered their political institutions.”
  • Several of the selections in Against Apion which include the anti-Exodus narrative also provide descriptions of the interior and exterior of the Temple and some of its rituals. For example, Hecataeus states that in the center of the city is an enclosure where there is “a square altar built of heaped up stones, unhewn and unwrought.” The Temple itself is “a great edifice containing and altar and a lamp stand, both made of gold … upon these is a light which is never extinguished … there is not a single statue or votive offering, no trace of a plant in the form of a sacred grove, or the like.”Hecataeus “On the Jews”, in Against Apion I, 198-199; Stern, I, V, No.12, 36-37
  • And in his account of Titus’ siege of Jerusalem, Tacitus describes the Temple as “… built like a citadel, with walls of its own … the very colonnades made a splendid defense. Within the enclosure is an ever-flowing spring.”[Tacitus, Historiae V:12:1 (Stern, II, XCII, no. 281) 22,30.
  • In addition to physical descriptions, the authors mention the religious aspect of the Temple which differed radically from Greek and Roman paganism. In the text preserved by Diodorus, Hecataeus mentions the priests and their duties in the Temple and even describes a worship service and sacrifice. Similarly, the first century Roman historian Livy remarks that the Jews do not state “to which deity pertains the temple at Jerusalem, nor is any image found there, since they do not think the God partakes of any figure.”Hecataeus, in Diodorus, Aegyptiaca, Bibliotheca Historica XL, 3, 4-6; Stern, I, V, No. 11, 26-28.
From The Second Temple, Warning In Greek delineating a section of the Temple complex which was off-limits to Gentiles
From The Second Temple, warning in Greek delineating a section of the Temple complex which was off-limits to Gentiles.
It is noteworthy that an earlier capture of Jerusalem by the Greek-Egyptian King Ptolemy, son of Lagus, provided an opportunity for the obscure Agatharchides of Cnidus (second century BCE) to remark about the fact that “the people known as Jews, who inhabited the most strongly fortified of cities, called by the natives Jerusalem” lost their city because they would not defend it on the Sabbath. Josephus includes this selection in Against Apion as one of the early pagan critiques of the Jewish Sabbath which Agatharchides deemed as “folly,” “dreams,” and “traditional fancies about the law.”
The Palestinians point to the fact that their is little archaeological evidence that either Temple existed, but ignore the very convenient fact that there is no digging allowed on the Temple Mount in respect of its holiness to the Muslims. And when the Muslims dug up part of the Temple Mount to add to their Mosque, the dumped the tons of dirt with artifacts outside the holy city:
The Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the institution overseeing the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, carried out excavations on the Temple Mount between 1996 and 1999 as part of the construction of a subterranean mosque in an area known as Solomon’s Stables. Tens of thousands of tons of dirt — roughly 400 truckloads — were excavated by heavy machinery, without the supervision of archaeologists, and were dumped outside the Old City.
Archeologists have been sifting through the dirt for years (the project’s called the Temple Mount Sifting Project, and have found artifacts from the Holy Temples. For example in 2005 the archaeologists found what is now known as the Gaalyahu Seal which in Hebrew says belonging to Gaalyahu son of Imer.  The house of Imer was a well known priestly family at the end of the First Temple period, roughly from around the 7th – 6th Centuries BCE.
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There are references to the Jewish Temple in the holy Muslim texts the Grand Mufti ignores  as reported n the Jewish Virtual Library:
The Qur’an refers to the existence of both temples in verse 17:7. In this passage, the Qur’an deals with God’s punishment of the Children of Israel for their transgressions:

(We permitted your enemies)
To disfigure your faces,
And to enter your Temple
As they had entered it before,
And to visit with destruction
All that fell into their power.
The word translated as “Temple” by Abdullah Yusuf Ali (and by the influential translator Marmaduke Pickthall before him) is masjid. This word, which is usually translated as mosque, has the meaning of a sanctuary wherever it appears in a pre-Islamic context. The usual Muslim exegesis of this verse (including that of Abdullah Yusuf Ali) holds that it refers to the destruction of the First and Second Temples.
Muslim tradition is especially adamant about the existence of the First Temple, built by Solomon, who appears in the Qur’an as a prophet and a paragon of wisdom. Verse 34:13 is an account of how Solomon summoned jinn (spirits) to build the Temple:
They worked for him
As he desired, (making) Arches,
Images, Basons
As large as wells,
And (cooking) Cauldrons fixed
(In their places)
Found By the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount-From Second Temple Inscribed, "To the Place of Trumpeting." The spot where the Priests blew the Shofar to announce the Beginning and end of the Sabbath and Holidays.
Found By the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount-From Second Temple Inscribed, “To the Place of Trumpeting.” The spot where the Priests blew the Shofar to announce the Beginning and end of the Sabbath and Holidays.
The very verse in the Quran that makes the Temple Mount holy to Muslims proves that the spot was occupied by the Jewish Temple:
The Islamic sanctity of the Haram al-Sharif [what the Muslims call the Temple Mount] is based upon verse 17:1:
Glory to (Allah)
Who did take His Servant
For a Journey by night
From the Sacred Mosque
To the Farthest Mosque
This is the textual proof of the isra’, the earthly segment of the Night Journey of the Prophet Muhammad: overnight, Muhammad was miraculously transported, round-trip, from “the Sacred Mosque” (al-Masjid al-Haram)-that is, the Ka’ba (or its vicinity) in Mecca-to “the Farthest Mosque” (al-Masjid al-Aqsa). Later Muslim tradition came to identify “the Farthest Mosque” with Jerusalem. But during Muhammad’s lifetime, no mosque stood in Jerusalem; the Muslims conquered the city only several years after his death. Abdullah Yusuf Ali’s commentary on this verse summarizes the traditional explanation: “The Farthest Mosque,” he writes, “must refer to the site of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem on the hill of Moriah.”
When Muslims did build a mosque on this hill, Muslim tradition holds that it was built deliberately on the verified site of earlier sanctuaries. According to Muslim tradition, when the Caliph Umar visited Jerusalem after its conquest, he searched for David’s sanctuary or prayer niche (mihrab Dawud), which is mentioned in the Qur’an (38:21). (David was believed to have chosen the site on which Solomon built.) When Umar was satisfied he had located it, he ordered a place of prayer (musalla) to be established there. This evolved into a mosque-precursor of the later Aksa Mosque. Thus began the Islamization of the complex that later came to be known as the Haram al-Sharif. It became the tradition of Islam that Muslims restored the site to its earlier function as a place of supplication venerated by all the prophets, including Abraham, David and Solomon.
“…They would not follow thy direction of prayer (qiblah), nor art thou to follow their direction of prayer; nor indeed will they follow each other’s direction of prayer…”
Commentators explain that “thy qiblah” (direction of prayer for Muslims) clearly refers the Ka’bah of Mecca, while “their qiblah” (direction of prayer for Jews) refers to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
This Koranic passage appears to show that the holiness of Jerusalem a Jewish concept, and should not be confused with an Islamic concept, as the 13th-century Arab biographer and geographer Yakut noted: “Mecca is holy to Muslims, and Jerusalem to the Jews.”
The Official 1925 Supreme Moslem Council (Wakf) Guide Book To Al-Ḥaram Al-Sarifrecognized the presence of the Jewish Temples atop the Mount.  Shown below is paragraph two on page four, which says, “Its [the Temple Mount] identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”  Now 90 years later the head of the Wakf is disputing it.
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And lets not forget that the Jewish Temple is mentioned in the Christian Gospels which pre-date Islam. For example in Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47 Jesus accused the Temple authorities of thieving and this time names poor widows as their victims, going on to provide evidence of this in Mark 12:42 and Luke 21:2. Dove sellers were selling doves that were sacrificed by the poor who could not afford grander sacrifices and specifically by women. According to Mark 11:16, Jesus then put an embargo on people carrying any merchandise through the Temple—a sanction that would have disrupted all commerce. And in In the Gospel of John 2:15-16 Jesus refers to the Temple as “my Father’s house”, thus, making a claim to being the Son of God.
He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.”
What does this all mean?  Ancient text, Muslim text, and Christian text all agree with the Jewish text that there was a holy temple on top Mount Moriah in Jerusalem.  So it’s time for the American Government and other world leaders to press the BS button on Palestinian President Abbas, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and UNESCO to point out the truth, and that the only reason they are agitating people about Jerusalem is that they are trying to make a case that there is no Jewish connection to the city.
The Jews believe that Israel is the heart of the Jewish people, Jerusalem is the heart of Israel, and the Temple Mount is the heart of Jerusalem, and no one can take that away except for God himself.

Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish

The widely-disseminated Arab claim that the Temple Mount isn't Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf), in a 1925 pamphlets

First Publish: 9/1/2008, 5:34 PM

The widely-disseminated Arab Muslim position that the Temple Mount is not Jewish has been debunked - by the Supreme Muslim Council (Waqf) of Jerusalem, in a Temple Mount guide published in 1925.

Wakf guidebook, 1925, cover
The Temple Institute

http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf



Temple Mount is Jewish Territory
Treaty of Peace Between The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
And The State of Israel October 26, 1994

Status Quo – Jews and non-Jews are permitted to pray on Temple Mount – This is confirmed by Israel’s Supreme Court.


Article 9 - Places of Historical and Religious Significance and Interfaith Relations

1.       Each Party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance.
2.       In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines.
3.       The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace.

Supreme Muslim Council: Temple Mount is Jewish
Wakf guidebook, 1925, cover
The Temple Institute

http://www.raptureforums.com/IsraelMiddleEast/guide.pdf

YJ Draiman

Has the Ultimate Battle for the Temple Mount Begun? - Draiman



Jan-EAppeal-Banner---BLOG, Israel, Jerusalem, Holy Land, Temple Mount, Wailing Wall, Western Wall
Should Jews have the right to visit the Temple Mount in Israel — and perhaps even pray there
if they desire?
Should Jewish People have the right to buy or rent a home in any part of
Jerusalem they choose?
You would think that the reasonable answer to these questions would be a self-evident and resounding . . . “Yes.”
After all, Jerusalem has been the geographic heart and soul of Judaism for roughly 3,000 years — since the time King David made it his capital city.
And no other spot on Earth holds more meaning or sacred significance to the Jewish People than the Temple Mount, at the base of which the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall) of the old Temple courtyard still stands.
The Temple Mount is where Abraham prepared to offer his son Isaac in obedience until (foreshadowing the eventual coming of Messiah) God stopped him and provided a substitute sacrifice.
One thousand years later, King David purchased the threshing floor of Araunah on this spot (see 2 Samuel 24:24) and designated it to be the site for the Temple that would become a permanent habitation for the presence of God among the Jewish People.
It is the site of the Second Temple that stood in Yeshua’s (Jesus’) day — where the promised Messiah walked, taught, and worshipped.
Only the overwhelming force of invading armies have ever been able to drive the Jews from that rocky, sacred hill — and then, only temporarily. The Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, and finally the Muslim hoards have all tried.
But each time, the Jewish People have been drawn back to their historic, God-granted place of origin.
In other words, for 4,000 years, Jerusalem in general and the Temple Mount in particular have served as the geographic focal point for the Jewish People.
And yet, since 1948, it has been illegal for Israel’s Jewish citizens or pilgrims to pray on that site, lest delicate Muslim sensibilities be inflamed.
In fact, Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount have been forbidden to even move their lips, lest they quietly speak to God on the holiest ground known to Judaism.
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But now . . .
. . . As I write these words, we are witnessing a growing passion and yearning among the people of Israel to gather and pray on God’s holy mountain.
God is stirring that yearning to pray. I also believe that it is part of His plan to soften Jewish hearts and open Jewish eyes to the truth that Yeshua is the promised Mashiach (Messiah)!
Ezekiel may have foreseen this movement when he prophetically wrote:
For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, there in the land all the people of Israel will serve Me, and there I will accept them (Ezekiel 20:40).

That passion is growing into a full-fledged movement. And this movement could very well be a spark that ignites an explosive conflict that engulfs Israel and spreads throughout the Middle East.
Of course, this subject is a major hot-button for the Muslim Arabs of Jerusalem and beyond.
In fact, one of Israel’s most visible activist leaders of the Jewish Temple Mount prayer movement was nearly assassinated by a Palestinian Muslim just a few weeks ago.
He survived the attempt, but it serves as a chilling reminder of how ugly things might get over the next few weeks and months.
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