Is Israel About to Regain Another Portion of its Ancient Promised Land?
May 17, 2020 22:14:43 #
Genesis 15:18 declared to Abraham, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” God later confirme this promise to Abraham’s son Isaac and Isaac’s son Jacob (whose name was later changed to Israel). When the Israelites were about to invade the Promised Land, God reiterated the land promise, in Joshua 1:4, “Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Great Sea on the west.”
Sunday May 17, 2020
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's parliament swore in a new unity government on Sunday led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz, ending the longest political crisis in the nation's history.
The new government was set to confront serious crises in its first weeks, including a looming battle over Israel's proposed annexation of large parts of the "occupied" West Bank.
Addressing the Knesset (parliament) before the vote, Netanyahu said his incoming government should apply Israeli sovereignty over Jewish West Bank settlements. "It's time to apply the Israeli law and write another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism," Netanyahu said.
Such a move is seen as likely to cause international uproar and inflame tensions in the West Bank, home to nearly three million Palestinians and some 400,000 Israelis living in settlements considered illegal under "international law." Netanyahu told the chamber that annexation "won't distance us from peace, it will bring us closer."
Simultaneously, King Abdullah II of Jordan threatened in an interview with Germany’s daily Der Spiegel on Friday, May 13th, that Israeli annexation of her communities in Judea and Samaria will lead to a major clash with his Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The communities are located in Area C – already entirely under Israeli administrative and security control according to the internationally-recognized Oslo Accords, signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization – precursor to the Palestinian Authority — in 1993.
King Abdullah warned that a “massive conflict” will start between Israel and Jordan if Israel moves ahead with extending sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in which Israeli citizens have been living, some of them for nearly half a century.
The king also did not rule out pulling out of his nation’s “peace treaty” with Israel in response to a question about the issue, which has been raised a number of times before in the Jordanian parliament, insisting the so-called “two-state solution” is the “only way forward” in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
“What would happen if the Palestinian National Authority collapsed? There would be more chaos and extremism in the region,” the king said. “If Israel really annexed the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” he warned.
“I don’t want to make threats and create an atmosphere of loggerheads, but we are considering all options,” he added, but did not go further. “We agree with many countries in Europe and the international community that the law of strength should not apply in the Middle East.” End Quote
King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is widely respected among the Muslim community around the world. He is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad of Islam, the proclaimer of the Qur'an who was born in Mecca, Arabia, as a member of the ruling Hashim clan of the tribe of Quraysh.
King Abdullah II is considered to be a symbol of modernity, educated in western culture, as he attended high school in the U.S., and graduated from a British University. He is married to an American woman, and rides a Harley Davidson.
Jordan's emergence as an independent nation traces to pre-World War I European colonialism. The Middle East had been part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years. But, the gradual weakening of their Muslim Empire led Britain and France to compete for influence and power in the region. The Ottoman Turks, in 1914, joined World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary against the British and French, who urged the Arabs to fight against the Turks. The idea of nationalism, triggered within the Arabs a desire for self-rule.
Sharif Hussein, a descendent of Islam’s prophet Mohammed, and a leader of the centuries-old Hashemite dynasty in Arabia, agreed to help Great Britain by leading a revolt against the Turks in exchange for post-war independence. (They fought for the British officer, T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.)
The British formalized in the McMahon-Hussein Pledge of 1915, a promise of Hashemite control over the Arabs in the Arabian peninsula and also in Syria and Iraq.
The Arabs kept their side of the bargain and, after the war, tried to be declared a nation
at the Versailles peace conference, but the League of Nations gave Syria and Lebanon to France, and Iraq and Palestine to Britain, as their mandates.
The Europeans were to administer these lands through the League of Nations until they considered "local peoples" ready for full independence. Angry and betrayed, Arab nationalism grew rapidly between the world wars, with the Arabs violently opposing the mandates and the Zionist Jews growing presence in Palestine.
In the early 1920s, Sharif Hussein was forced to abdicate from the throne of
his ancestral Arabian homeland and flee to Cyprus as the conqueror, Abdul Aziz
ibn Saud, a puritanical Wahabi Islamist, became king of the north central Hejaz region of the Arabian peninsula, naming it Saudi Arabia.
Hussein, although Muhammad's descendant, spent the rest of his life in exile, but his sons, Abdullah and Feisel, became kings of the arbitrarily created new countries Iraq and Syria under British tutelage. When the French received the Syrian mandate, they ousted King Feisel, who then stirred up Arab nationalism and opposed their rule. The British were forced to give Feisel the Iraqi throne that had been designated for Abdullah.
To placate Abdullah, Foreign Secretary Winston Churchill, “temporarily” divided the
Palestine mandate of the Jews, creating "Transjordan" for Abdullah until France could be persuaded to restore Feisel in Syria, which never happened. The temporary label assigned to Transjordan ignored Britain’s commitment to the Jewish homeland in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 – referencing both sides of the Jordan River. The Zionist movement and the League of Nations understood the Jewish homeland to be situated in the entire Palestine mandate.
Abdullah, with his Arabian horsemen, conquered the East Bank of the Jordan and made alliances with indigenous Bedouin, Circaucasians, and Arab migrants. (Although the British had named him the nominal ruler, he had to impose his leadership on the sparse population, which had no sovereign authority.) Throughout the inter-world war period, the Hashemites of Transjordan recognized Jewish legitimacy in Palestine and welcomed the Jewish immigrants, whose energy, skills, and money greatly increased the prosperity of Palestine. They made agreements with Zionist leaders as a prelude to Arab and Jewish independence.
The Feisel-Weizmann Pact of 1919 gave premature recognition to a Palestinian
Jewish homeland, and Abdullah cooperated with the kibbutzim and moshavim
that had been founded on the East Bank. He even offered to lease additional East Bank lands to the Jewish Agency, pre-statehood governing body. These agreements collapsed in the wake of increasing Jewish immigration (the flight from Hitler in the 1930s),
causing growing Arab hostility. The East Bank settlements were reluctantly abandoned as Transjordan denied the Jews any presence in their own ancient territories of Judea and Samaria. The stage was set for violence by the conflicting British promises to both the Arabs and the Jews.
In 1946, as Jewish refugees poured into Palestine in the aftermath of the
Holocaust, the Kingdom of Transjordan formally received independence from
Britain. The UN partition plan of November 1947, which attempted to solve
the problem by dividing Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) into a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state.
After the declaration of the State of Israel, in May 1948, the Arab states refused to accept it, fomenting Arab insurrection within the nascent Jewish state while preparing their armies for war. Following the declaration of the State of Israel, the Hashemite monarchs, Abdullah of Jordan and Feisel (of Iraq), as champions of Arab independence, declared an imminent invasion into their Arab state, enraging the Arabs, who refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty over them.
The new Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion made a futile attempt to keep Transjordan out of the Arab coalition. As the people celebrated independence with dancing in the streets, Ben Gurion prepared for the next day’s war. He sent Golda Meir to meet with King Abdullah disguised as a veiled Arab matron. She was ushered into the royal chambers hoping to persuade Abdullah against war. Her modern socialist Zionist leadership insulted the Arab cultural world of Abdullah, viewing the female representative as a slight and a mockery.
Abdullah politely offered tea, but firmly pursued war, stating he had agreed on the invasion with his nephew Feisel of Iraq, and other Arab belligerents and could not back out. Feisel’s Iraqi Army had already crossed into Transjordan to join his own army, called the Arab Legion. The world and Abdullah presumed victory but promised Golda Meir Palestinian - Jewish continuity under “benevolent” Arab Moslem sovereignty. Meir rushed home to warn that Abdullah’s attack was inevitable.
The next day, May 15, 1948, the five Arab armies invaded Palestine along
with mercenary legions from other Arab countries, as the West declared an arms embargo amid growing Jewish casualties. The Egyptian army conquered Gaza, the Negev, and the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Abdullah’s Arab Legion conquered Jerusalem’s Old
City, Yehudah, and Shomron, sending thousands of Jewish refugees pouring
into areas of armed Jewish resistance, predominately within the Green Line. Syria attacked the Galil.
With the new Jewish state in the noose, new immigrants, Holocaust survivors fresh off the ship, were sent to bolster the new Jewish army. A Soviet-sponsored influx of arms from Czechoslovakia replenished the Jewish defense forces with desperately needed supplies. The flight of Arab nationals, mercenaries, and sojourners from Palestine enhanced Jewish demographics and ended a fifth column insurrection. The Arabs fled in response to Arab radio broadcasts advising temporary evacuation in order to facilitate the Jews’ annihilation ahead of their own triumphant return.
The Arab invasion was massive but ill coordinated; inter-Arab rivalry hindered cooperation between the armies, as each mercenary force entered Eretz Yisrael to seize the spoils of war for its own designs. The Egyptian army was pushed back, Syrian forces were held at the Kinneret, and Jewish forces occupied south Lebanon in response to
cross-border artillery fire. With Jewish victory, the world intervened to push for signed armistices between Israel and several Arab countries. Abdullah signed the armistice in April 1949. (Only Iraq refused, and resumed war again in 1991.)
Arab defeat sparked bloody regime changes, and the Hashemites were not
immune: Abdullah – with his grandson, the future King Hussein, by his
side – was gunned down in July 1951, at the Al Asqua mosque on Har Habayis. The assailant stepped before the monarch and his grandson firing several bullets into
Abdullah at point blank range. One bullet aimed for Hussein’s chest miraculously ricocheted off a medal he wore, leaving him unblemished. The assassination came with disclosed reports that Abdullah had come to Jerusalem’s divided city to pursue secret peace negotiations.
The assassination left a power vacuum in the kingdom. The Hashemites were
traditionalists, and succession followed the male line. Hussein had not
reached the age of maturity to reign, so his father, Talal, although suffering
from schizophrenia (a family malady), at a Swiss sanitarium, was called home to assume the throne. The reign of Talal was brief but prosperous. The shy, charming, and
intelligent monarch secured relations with the emerging revolutionary Arab world and implemented greater constitutional government at home.
Despite his popularity, humility, and champion of the common people, his policies were turned against him by the British, who were heavily involved in administering the government under General Glub. The British strategic position was threatened by revolutionary regimes, and they used their influence to oppose Talal’s pan-Arab overtures. Although formally independent, Transjordan still relied heavily on Britain for financial and administrative expertise.
As Talal continued to struggle with his medical relapses, the parliament, to which Talal had granted new powers to assure the monarchy’s accountability, betrayed him by declaring him mentally incompetent after less than a year as king. Talal was forced to abdicate and was sent to a Turkish sanitarium. The British arranged for a regency council to take control of the Kingdom until Hussein could assume the throne at age 18, in 1953. Hussein, resentful of British interference, turned to the U.S. to eventually replace British suzerainty.
Abdullah realized Transjordan’s viability as a state demanded the integration of the Palestinian Arab majority. Abdullah convened a conference at Jericho declaring the unification of the West Bank with Transjordan, changing the country’s name to Jordan to formalize the incorporation of the "West Bank of Jordan."
After Israeli independence, the Hashemite kingdom portrayed itself as the successor state to Arab Palestine. While the Palestinian Arabs were denied any distinct identity, Jordan facilitated their political expression by integrating the Palestinian Arabs into its own national identity, as a large chunk of its claimed territory was historically Palestine, previously Israel.
Palestinian Arabs received citizenship and leadership positions, including prime minister. Jordanian postage stamps labeled the country Palestine, with maps of the former British mandate inclusive of both Israel and Jordan. King Hussein often declared, “Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,” as though the much repetition of it could ever make it historically true.
God stated all of the land modern Israel currently possesses, plus all of the land of the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised.
Sunday May 17, 2020
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's parliament swore in a new unity government on Sunday led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former rival Benny Gantz, ending the longest political crisis in the nation's history.
The new government was set to confront serious crises in its first weeks, including a looming battle over Israel's proposed annexation of large parts of the "occupied" West Bank.
Addressing the Knesset (parliament) before the vote, Netanyahu said his incoming government should apply Israeli sovereignty over Jewish West Bank settlements. "It's time to apply the Israeli law and write another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism," Netanyahu said.
Such a move is seen as likely to cause international uproar and inflame tensions in the West Bank, home to nearly three million Palestinians and some 400,000 Israelis living in settlements considered illegal under "international law." Netanyahu told the chamber that annexation "won't distance us from peace, it will bring us closer."
Simultaneously, King Abdullah II of Jordan threatened in an interview with Germany’s daily Der Spiegel on Friday, May 13th, that Israeli annexation of her communities in Judea and Samaria will lead to a major clash with his Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The communities are located in Area C – already entirely under Israeli administrative and security control according to the internationally-recognized Oslo Accords, signed by the Palestine Liberation Organization – precursor to the Palestinian Authority — in 1993.
King Abdullah warned that a “massive conflict” will start between Israel and Jordan if Israel moves ahead with extending sovereignty over Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley in which Israeli citizens have been living, some of them for nearly half a century.
The king also did not rule out pulling out of his nation’s “peace treaty” with Israel in response to a question about the issue, which has been raised a number of times before in the Jordanian parliament, insisting the so-called “two-state solution” is the “only way forward” in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
“What would happen if the Palestinian National Authority collapsed? There would be more chaos and extremism in the region,” the king said. “If Israel really annexed the West Bank in July, it would lead to a massive conflict with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,” he warned.
“I don’t want to make threats and create an atmosphere of loggerheads, but we are considering all options,” he added, but did not go further. “We agree with many countries in Europe and the international community that the law of strength should not apply in the Middle East.” End Quote
King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is widely respected among the Muslim community around the world. He is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad of Islam, the proclaimer of the Qur'an who was born in Mecca, Arabia, as a member of the ruling Hashim clan of the tribe of Quraysh.
King Abdullah II is considered to be a symbol of modernity, educated in western culture, as he attended high school in the U.S., and graduated from a British University. He is married to an American woman, and rides a Harley Davidson.
Jordan's emergence as an independent nation traces to pre-World War I European colonialism. The Middle East had been part of the Ottoman Empire for over 400 years. But, the gradual weakening of their Muslim Empire led Britain and France to compete for influence and power in the region. The Ottoman Turks, in 1914, joined World War I on the side of Germany and Austria-Hungary against the British and French, who urged the Arabs to fight against the Turks. The idea of nationalism, triggered within the Arabs a desire for self-rule.
Sharif Hussein, a descendent of Islam’s prophet Mohammed, and a leader of the centuries-old Hashemite dynasty in Arabia, agreed to help Great Britain by leading a revolt against the Turks in exchange for post-war independence. (They fought for the British officer, T.E. Lawrence, known as Lawrence of Arabia.)
The British formalized in the McMahon-Hussein Pledge of 1915, a promise of Hashemite control over the Arabs in the Arabian peninsula and also in Syria and Iraq.
The Arabs kept their side of the bargain and, after the war, tried to be declared a nation
at the Versailles peace conference, but the League of Nations gave Syria and Lebanon to France, and Iraq and Palestine to Britain, as their mandates.
The Europeans were to administer these lands through the League of Nations until they considered "local peoples" ready for full independence. Angry and betrayed, Arab nationalism grew rapidly between the world wars, with the Arabs violently opposing the mandates and the Zionist Jews growing presence in Palestine.
In the early 1920s, Sharif Hussein was forced to abdicate from the throne of
his ancestral Arabian homeland and flee to Cyprus as the conqueror, Abdul Aziz
ibn Saud, a puritanical Wahabi Islamist, became king of the north central Hejaz region of the Arabian peninsula, naming it Saudi Arabia.
Hussein, although Muhammad's descendant, spent the rest of his life in exile, but his sons, Abdullah and Feisel, became kings of the arbitrarily created new countries Iraq and Syria under British tutelage. When the French received the Syrian mandate, they ousted King Feisel, who then stirred up Arab nationalism and opposed their rule. The British were forced to give Feisel the Iraqi throne that had been designated for Abdullah.
To placate Abdullah, Foreign Secretary Winston Churchill, “temporarily” divided the
Palestine mandate of the Jews, creating "Transjordan" for Abdullah until France could be persuaded to restore Feisel in Syria, which never happened. The temporary label assigned to Transjordan ignored Britain’s commitment to the Jewish homeland in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 – referencing both sides of the Jordan River. The Zionist movement and the League of Nations understood the Jewish homeland to be situated in the entire Palestine mandate.
Abdullah, with his Arabian horsemen, conquered the East Bank of the Jordan and made alliances with indigenous Bedouin, Circaucasians, and Arab migrants. (Although the British had named him the nominal ruler, he had to impose his leadership on the sparse population, which had no sovereign authority.) Throughout the inter-world war period, the Hashemites of Transjordan recognized Jewish legitimacy in Palestine and welcomed the Jewish immigrants, whose energy, skills, and money greatly increased the prosperity of Palestine. They made agreements with Zionist leaders as a prelude to Arab and Jewish independence.
The Feisel-Weizmann Pact of 1919 gave premature recognition to a Palestinian
Jewish homeland, and Abdullah cooperated with the kibbutzim and moshavim
that had been founded on the East Bank. He even offered to lease additional East Bank lands to the Jewish Agency, pre-statehood governing body. These agreements collapsed in the wake of increasing Jewish immigration (the flight from Hitler in the 1930s),
causing growing Arab hostility. The East Bank settlements were reluctantly abandoned as Transjordan denied the Jews any presence in their own ancient territories of Judea and Samaria. The stage was set for violence by the conflicting British promises to both the Arabs and the Jews.
In 1946, as Jewish refugees poured into Palestine in the aftermath of the
Holocaust, the Kingdom of Transjordan formally received independence from
Britain. The UN partition plan of November 1947, which attempted to solve
the problem by dividing Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) into a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian state.
After the declaration of the State of Israel, in May 1948, the Arab states refused to accept it, fomenting Arab insurrection within the nascent Jewish state while preparing their armies for war. Following the declaration of the State of Israel, the Hashemite monarchs, Abdullah of Jordan and Feisel (of Iraq), as champions of Arab independence, declared an imminent invasion into their Arab state, enraging the Arabs, who refused to accept any Jewish sovereignty over them.
The new Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion made a futile attempt to keep Transjordan out of the Arab coalition. As the people celebrated independence with dancing in the streets, Ben Gurion prepared for the next day’s war. He sent Golda Meir to meet with King Abdullah disguised as a veiled Arab matron. She was ushered into the royal chambers hoping to persuade Abdullah against war. Her modern socialist Zionist leadership insulted the Arab cultural world of Abdullah, viewing the female representative as a slight and a mockery.
Abdullah politely offered tea, but firmly pursued war, stating he had agreed on the invasion with his nephew Feisel of Iraq, and other Arab belligerents and could not back out. Feisel’s Iraqi Army had already crossed into Transjordan to join his own army, called the Arab Legion. The world and Abdullah presumed victory but promised Golda Meir Palestinian - Jewish continuity under “benevolent” Arab Moslem sovereignty. Meir rushed home to warn that Abdullah’s attack was inevitable.
The next day, May 15, 1948, the five Arab armies invaded Palestine along
with mercenary legions from other Arab countries, as the West declared an arms embargo amid growing Jewish casualties. The Egyptian army conquered Gaza, the Negev, and the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Abdullah’s Arab Legion conquered Jerusalem’s Old
City, Yehudah, and Shomron, sending thousands of Jewish refugees pouring
into areas of armed Jewish resistance, predominately within the Green Line. Syria attacked the Galil.
With the new Jewish state in the noose, new immigrants, Holocaust survivors fresh off the ship, were sent to bolster the new Jewish army. A Soviet-sponsored influx of arms from Czechoslovakia replenished the Jewish defense forces with desperately needed supplies. The flight of Arab nationals, mercenaries, and sojourners from Palestine enhanced Jewish demographics and ended a fifth column insurrection. The Arabs fled in response to Arab radio broadcasts advising temporary evacuation in order to facilitate the Jews’ annihilation ahead of their own triumphant return.
The Arab invasion was massive but ill coordinated; inter-Arab rivalry hindered cooperation between the armies, as each mercenary force entered Eretz Yisrael to seize the spoils of war for its own designs. The Egyptian army was pushed back, Syrian forces were held at the Kinneret, and Jewish forces occupied south Lebanon in response to
cross-border artillery fire. With Jewish victory, the world intervened to push for signed armistices between Israel and several Arab countries. Abdullah signed the armistice in April 1949. (Only Iraq refused, and resumed war again in 1991.)
Arab defeat sparked bloody regime changes, and the Hashemites were not
immune: Abdullah – with his grandson, the future King Hussein, by his
side – was gunned down in July 1951, at the Al Asqua mosque on Har Habayis. The assailant stepped before the monarch and his grandson firing several bullets into
Abdullah at point blank range. One bullet aimed for Hussein’s chest miraculously ricocheted off a medal he wore, leaving him unblemished. The assassination came with disclosed reports that Abdullah had come to Jerusalem’s divided city to pursue secret peace negotiations.
The assassination left a power vacuum in the kingdom. The Hashemites were
traditionalists, and succession followed the male line. Hussein had not
reached the age of maturity to reign, so his father, Talal, although suffering
from schizophrenia (a family malady), at a Swiss sanitarium, was called home to assume the throne. The reign of Talal was brief but prosperous. The shy, charming, and
intelligent monarch secured relations with the emerging revolutionary Arab world and implemented greater constitutional government at home.
Despite his popularity, humility, and champion of the common people, his policies were turned against him by the British, who were heavily involved in administering the government under General Glub. The British strategic position was threatened by revolutionary regimes, and they used their influence to oppose Talal’s pan-Arab overtures. Although formally independent, Transjordan still relied heavily on Britain for financial and administrative expertise.
As Talal continued to struggle with his medical relapses, the parliament, to which Talal had granted new powers to assure the monarchy’s accountability, betrayed him by declaring him mentally incompetent after less than a year as king. Talal was forced to abdicate and was sent to a Turkish sanitarium. The British arranged for a regency council to take control of the Kingdom until Hussein could assume the throne at age 18, in 1953. Hussein, resentful of British interference, turned to the U.S. to eventually replace British suzerainty.
Abdullah realized Transjordan’s viability as a state demanded the integration of the Palestinian Arab majority. Abdullah convened a conference at Jericho declaring the unification of the West Bank with Transjordan, changing the country’s name to Jordan to formalize the incorporation of the "West Bank of Jordan."
After Israeli independence, the Hashemite kingdom portrayed itself as the successor state to Arab Palestine. While the Palestinian Arabs were denied any distinct identity, Jordan facilitated their political expression by integrating the Palestinian Arabs into its own national identity, as a large chunk of its claimed territory was historically Palestine, previously Israel.
Palestinian Arabs received citizenship and leadership positions, including prime minister. Jordanian postage stamps labeled the country Palestine, with maps of the former British mandate inclusive of both Israel and Jordan. King Hussein often declared, “Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan,” as though the much repetition of it could ever make it historically true.
God stated all of the land modern Israel currently possesses, plus all of the land of the Palestinians (the West Bank and Gaza), plus some of Egypt and Syria, plus all of Jordan, plus some of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Israel currently possesses only a fraction of the land God has promised.
May 18, 2020 00:56:48 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
Very educational. The Brits really did a number on Israel. And the Arabs kept the Palestinians trapped in Israel.
Where they take their anger out on the Jews in an almost daily occurrence. From rocks to motar fire and kite bombs.
King Abdullah is in a no-win position. If he attacks Israel he will be decimated and if he doesn't his own people in Jordan will try and oust him. Plus Israel has allowed Jordan extra water and if they cut that off Jordan will become very thirsty.
Iran, even under pressure in their own nation financially, virus wise, and from their own population, says they will not withdraw from Syria. So I guess Israel's only option is to keep bombing them and maybe take over Syria also? Someone is allowing Iran into the country. But it could be Russia, Turkey, or President Assad of Syria. Damascus is slated to cease being a city in one day. And that day seems much closer.
Maybe the day is dawning when Israel reclaims all her land. Eygpt is in no position to help anyone. If they do Israel can always blow up the dam nearer the headwaters of the Nile. It was poorly built and is unstable and a threat to much of Egypt. It's called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. If it collapses it might take out the Anwar Dam which is closer to Cairo. If both fail Cairo could be largely washed away and the Nile could become Israel's southern border.
Nothing is impossible with God. It may be the best way to save the most people. But anything with two heads is a freak and now Israel has two heads. Might be we are seeing things going in reverse and a northern and southern kingdom, one ruled by Netenyahu and one by Gantz? Bibi may get Syria and northern Israel and Gantz may get Jordan and southern Israel. Reclaiming Judea and Samaria could be the best thing Israel has ever done. They get attacked again and gain territory again. Jews returning home in mass could happen with all that land under their control. If prices were lower and they allowed Christians to become Israelis to beef up their population and settle the land, I might consider moving there. I'd love to live in the Negev, near the coast.
Where they take their anger out on the Jews in an almost daily occurrence. From rocks to motar fire and kite bombs.
King Abdullah is in a no-win position. If he attacks Israel he will be decimated and if he doesn't his own people in Jordan will try and oust him. Plus Israel has allowed Jordan extra water and if they cut that off Jordan will become very thirsty.
Iran, even under pressure in their own nation financially, virus wise, and from their own population, says they will not withdraw from Syria. So I guess Israel's only option is to keep bombing them and maybe take over Syria also? Someone is allowing Iran into the country. But it could be Russia, Turkey, or President Assad of Syria. Damascus is slated to cease being a city in one day. And that day seems much closer.
Maybe the day is dawning when Israel reclaims all her land. Eygpt is in no position to help anyone. If they do Israel can always blow up the dam nearer the headwaters of the Nile. It was poorly built and is unstable and a threat to much of Egypt. It's called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. If it collapses it might take out the Anwar Dam which is closer to Cairo. If both fail Cairo could be largely washed away and the Nile could become Israel's southern border.
Nothing is impossible with God. It may be the best way to save the most people. But anything with two heads is a freak and now Israel has two heads. Might be we are seeing things going in reverse and a northern and southern kingdom, one ruled by Netenyahu and one by Gantz? Bibi may get Syria and northern Israel and Gantz may get Jordan and southern Israel. Reclaiming Judea and Samaria could be the best thing Israel has ever done. They get attacked again and gain territory again. Jews returning home in mass could happen with all that land under their control. If prices were lower and they allowed Christians to become Israelis to beef up their population and settle the land, I might consider moving there. I'd love to live in the Negev, near the coast.
May 18, 2020 05:03:07 #
Your post, too, is educational as always, Peewee. 
Fulfillment of prophecies in Isaiah 18 and Jeremiah 49 appear to loom large.
When Israel enlarges its borders, which it will, many of the six million Jewish citizens of the United States, many residing in New York City and New Jersey, and under increasing attack by anti-Semitic organizations in the Liberal major universities, by Democrat anti-American and anti-Semitic Muslim congressional members, and by Communist mayors like De Blasio, will be drawn home to their ancient homeland in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and will make "Aliyah," which is the returning immigration of Jews into Israel which God has promised.
Fulfillment of prophecies in Isaiah 18 and Jeremiah 49 appear to loom large.
When Israel enlarges its borders, which it will, many of the six million Jewish citizens of the United States, many residing in New York City and New Jersey, and under increasing attack by anti-Semitic organizations in the Liberal major universities, by Democrat anti-American and anti-Semitic Muslim congressional members, and by Communist mayors like De Blasio, will be drawn home to their ancient homeland in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, and will make "Aliyah," which is the returning immigration of Jews into Israel which God has promised.
Peewee wrote:
Very educational. The Brits really did a number on... (show quote)
May 18, 2020 09:09:31 #
Peewee
Loc: San Antonio, TX
Zemirah wrote:
Your post, too, is educational as always, Peewee. ... (show quote)
Aliyah was a word I was searching for in my head and couldn't come up with. My thoughts exactly. Avi Lipkin has started a party in Israel of Christians and Jews. He's been trying for years and now it's finally a real party. It should tie in nicely with the growing number of Israeli Christians in Israel, like Zev Porat. Both are on YT if you're curious. I'll see if I can find some links you might enjoy.
Zev Porat
https://youtu.be/R8NDUhmvdrY
Avi Lipkin
https://youtu.be/YP9dZUcmLsA
Aaron Lipkin
https://youtu.be/8KzwLp33kyU
May 18, 2020 10:45:53 #
Peewee wrote:
Aliyah was a word I was searching for in my head a... (show quote)
Thank you both Peewee and Zemirah for that wonderful education. All of those things going on and our MSM is silent but again they are mostly atheist so it is no surprise.👍👍👍👍👍
May 18, 2020 13:38:55 #
bahmer, Here's one source of this past weekend's news coverage of these current conflicting statements by Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah II:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/17/west-bank-settlements-must-annexed-says-benjamin-netanyahu-israeli/
West Bank settlements must be annexed, says Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli government sworn in
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Jordan warns Israel of 'massive conflict' over West Bank annexation
Associated Press, NBC News•May 15, 2020
Jordan’s King Abdullah II Threatens ‘Massive Conflict’ If Israel Annexes Her Communities
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/17/west-bank-settlements-must-annexed-says-benjamin-netanyahu-israeli/
West Bank settlements must be annexed, says Benjamin Netanyahu as Israeli government sworn in
https://www.yahoo.com/news/Jordan warns Israel of 'massive conflict' over West Bank annexation
Associated Press, NBC News•May 15, 2020
Jordan’s King Abdullah II Threatens ‘Massive Conflict’ If Israel Annexes Her Communities
bahmer wrote:
Thank you both Peewee and Zemirah for that wonderful education. All of those things going on and our MSM is silent but again they are mostly atheist so it is no surprise.👍👍👍👍👍
May 18, 2020 13:53:16 #
Zemirah wrote:
bahmer, Here's one source of this past weekend's n... (show quote)
I can see where there will be more turmoil on the middle east around israel over this point of contention. Thanks Zemirah.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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