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Yaalon: Israel Must Free Itself from Failed '2 - State' Paradigm
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelnn - Maayana Miskin
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel;Peace Process

Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe (Boogie) Yaalon believes that the time has come for Israel to “free itself from the failed paradigm” of the “two-state solution.” Yaalon spoke Tuesday at a meeting of MKs dedicated to finding an alternative to the creation of a Palestinian Authority-led Arab state.

While the creation of a PA-led state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is perceived as a necessity both in Israel and worldwide, such a state would not solve the Israel-PA conflict, said Yaalon. In fact, he said, it is doubtful that the possibility of creating such a state exists, due to Arab and Muslim reluctance to take any step that would imply recognition of Israel or compromise on Arab claims to the entire Land of Israel.

Israel's Mistakes
Israel's mistake lies in accepting a-symmetrical talks with the PA, Yaalon said. From the beginning of talks, he explained, Israel has accepted the idea of a Palestinian national movement with the PA as its representative, while the PA has resolutely refused to accept the Jewish national movement of Zionism or the idea of a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel.

Furthermore, while the PA demands that Arabs and Muslims be allowed to live in Israel, Israel accepts that a PA state would not have Jewish citizens, he said. And while Israel gives in on crucial issues such as the status of Jerusalem or the borders of a PA state, the PA refuses to bend in the slightest.

Israel has also been mistaken in assuming that the Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza is the cause of Israel-Arab tension, he said. Arab attacks on Israel began well before the 1967 Six Day War in which Israel gained control of those areas, he said, and the Arab world's real goal is not a state in those areas, but rather, on the ruins of the State of Israel.

For this reason, he said, the PA is actually uninterested in a “two-state solution.” Former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat waged war on Israel in order to avoid the creation of a PA state, he argued.

"There are those who will argue that the  PA wanted to establish a state in the 1967 borders but was unable to do so,” he said. “I say the problem was not one of ability, but of desire.”

If the PA does not desire an independent state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and will not accept such a state as the fulfillment of its national goals, the “two-state solution” has no chance to bring peace, he concluded.

The Solution
Israel must give up on seeking to fully solve its conflict with the PA and the Arab world as a whole, Yaalon said. “I believe we should not approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with the phrase 'solution' in the foreseeable future,” he told his audience. “Instead, we should seek 'crisis management' or long-term coping strategies.”

Israel should still seek a solution in the long term, he added. However, the process of seeking a solution should be “bottom-up,” and not “top-down.” Instead of hoping that a diplomatic agreement with the PA will lead to peace and security, the PA should prove that it is capable of self-rule prior to the signing of a diplomatic agreement, he argued.

Yaalon presented five crucial elements of the “bottom-up” process:

Educational Reform:
 The PA currently teaches Arab children that the entirety of Israel is an illegal colonialist entity, Yaalon said, and denies any historic Jewish connection to the Land of Israel. In addition, the PA teaches Jihad (holy war) against Israel and honors suicide bombers.

Changing the PA school system to teach the value of life, not of death, and to accurately portray Jewish history is crucial, he said.

Economic Reform:
 In order to create a viable economy, the PA must strengthen small businesses and create a stable middle class, Yaalon said.

Attempts to create a PA economy through international aid have failed due to a corrupt PA leadership that misappropriates funds, and terrorist groups that attempt to keep PA Arabs living in poverty, he said. To avoid the problems posed by corrupt leadership, the world should focus on PA businessmen and support their initiatives.

Political Reform:
Beyond creating a political entity, the PA must allow for freedom of expression, freedom of the press and protect human rights.

Yaalon referred to “the American mistake” of supporting strong dictators over true democratic activists. Activists who seek true democracy and freedom should win encouragement from the West, he said.

Legal Reform:
 The goal should be “One authority, one law, one weapon,” Yaalon said, referring to the disarming of rogue terrorist groups and the enforcement of law throughout the PA territories.

Security Reform:
 The PA must begin to truly fight terrorism, Yaalon said. Among other things, the PA must rid itself of the “revolving door” by which terrorists serve only light sentences, and the sentencing of terrorists who murdered Israelis for “harming the public interest” instead of “murder.” These things encourage terrorism, he said.

The PA must be able to fight terrorism properly on multiple levels, he said, from gathering intelligence information to putting terrorists on trial.

No Guarantees
There is no guarantee that the “bottom-up” proposal can be put into effect, Yaalon said, because it relies on the Palestinian Authority to take the necessary action.

In order to increase the chances that the PA will do what is necessary, Israel must make it clear that the PA has no chance of defeating Israel, he said, or of forcing further Israeli concessions and withdrawals without making concessions of its own.

"The Palestinians' extreme violence does not stem from despair over their situation, as the West tends to assume, but rather from hope – hope that the State of Israel will disappear,” he said. “Destroying the hope of defeating Israel will encourage new ideas.”

World's Ills Trigger Record Red Cross Outlay
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsAFP
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

A lethal cocktail of war, natural disasters and economic volatility has led the international Red Cross to paint a picture of rising global instability as it announced record annual expenditure.

The Geneva-based humanitarian organisation's annual report shows it spent 724 million euros (just over one billion dollars) in 2008 with Sudan and Somalia ahead of Iraq and Afghanistan in the league table of aid priorities.

"Millions of people affected by armed conflict have become more vulnerable because of the combined effects of war, natural disasters and continued high food prices," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

"Afghanistan, Somalia and Pakistan are three examples of countries where natural disasters and high food prices have made life even harder for poor people already struggling to cope with the effects of war," said Jakob Kellenberger, ICRC president.

Western Aliyah Rises in First Four Months of 2009
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Yehudah Lev Kay
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Aliyah, or Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel, rose from western countries in the first four months of 2009, according to the Jewish Agency, the government body responsible for worldwide Aliyah.

In total, 749 people made Aliyah from western Europe between January and April, a positive change of 20 percent from the same period of time in 2008.

The greatest jump came in Aliyah from Great Britain - 201 British citizens arrived in Israel, a growth of 53 percent from the previous year. The Jewish Agency attributed the rise to a British campaign entitled, “Aliyah – find your way home.”

Aliyah rose from other English-speaking countries as well. Five hundred and sixty-five people made Aliyah from North America, a growth of 12 percent from 2008, while 107 immigrants arrived from South Africa, representing a positive change of 22 percent.

“The Jewish Agency views Aliyah from western countries as a central tenet of its operations,” General Director Eli Cohen said. “We will continue to invest a large amount of resources into absorbing immigrants in Israel.”

Radical Muslims Drive Church from Worship Place in Zanzibar
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsCOMPASS DIRECT NEWS
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Church;Persecution

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 26 – Worship in a house church near Zanzibar City, on a Tanzanian island off the coast of East Africa, did not take place for the third week running on Sunday (May 24) after Muslim extremists expelled worshippers from their rented property. Radical Muslims on May 9 drove members of Zanzibar Pentecostal Church from worship premises in a rented house at Ungunja Ukuu, on the outskirts of Zanzibar City. Angered by a recent upsurge in Christian evangelism in the area, church members said, radical Muslims had sent several threats to the Christians warning them to stop their activities. The church had undertaken a two-day evangelism campaign culminating in an Easter celebration. On the morning of the attack, more than 20 church members had gathered for Saturday fellowship when word reached them that Muslim extremists were about to attack. As the radical group approached, the Christians fled in fear of their lives. “The group was shouting, saying, ‘We do not want the church to be in our locality – they should leave the place and never come back again,’” said one church member who requested anonymity.

Raad Salah: Netanyahu will Try to Rebuild the Jewish Temple
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsraelNN - Gil Ronen
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Sheikh Raad Salah, leader of the Northern Wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, believes Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will try to rebuild the Jewish Temple.

Speaking at a conference organized by website Islam Online in Doha, Qatar, Salah stated his belief that Netanyahu may try to build the Jewish Temple – which the Islamic preacher called “the false temple” – during his current term after allegedly failing to do so in his first term as Prime Minister in the late 1990s.

“I ask that those with the power to make the political decision hear me,” Salah exhorted his audience. “Netanyahu is about to build the false Temple, and when the Jews build the Temple they will do so upon the ruins of the Al-Aqsa [Mosque].”

Immediate danger
The danger to Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque is “tangible and immediate,” Salah said, echoing similar dramatic statements he has made over the years. “I warn, I ask for aid and I call out,” he said. “We should expect deadly surprises that could hurt Jerusalem in general and Al Aqsa in particular,” he said. “We live in years that will determine if Jerusalem survives and in Al Aqsa will remain standing,” he added.

Salah said that in an effort to prepare world opinion for the realization of its goals in Jerusalem, Israel sends tourists to the Al Aqsa mosque and tells them that it was built upon the ruins of the Jewish Temple.

The solution to “the threat against Jerusalem,” according to Salah, is a complete mobilization of the Arab world, including the religious imams, who need to act and “recruit the masses.” He asked Muslim scholars to pronounce edicts that will force “the Muslim nation and its leaders to confront their duty towards the problem of Jerusalem and Al Aqsa.”

“A thousand politicians can talk without changing a thing,” Salah said. ‘One religious sage can do what the politicians cannot carry out."

The Jewish Temple was first built by King Solomon (Shlomo) about 3,000 years ago. It served as the spiritual center of the Hebrew nation and as a place of national pilgrimage and sacrifice. Serviced by the priestly class (Kohanim) and Levites, the Temple contained the Seven-Branched Menorah and housed the golden Holy Ark within a room known as the Holy of Holies.

Coming soon: the Third Temple
The First Temple was razed by Babylonian conquerors, rebuilt by Jews by permission of a Persian emperor, defiled by Greeks and then re-consecrated by the Hasmoneans, and burnt down again by Romans.

Jewish religion commands the Jews to rebuild the Temple as part of a Divine plan for the salvation of the Jewish people and the entire world, but Prime Minister Netanyahu, who is not considered observant, never has associated himself with efforts by Jews to pray on the Temple Mount.

Palestinians Desecrate Christian Cemetery
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;Persecution

A mob of Palestinian Arab Muslims on Sunday destroyed 70 graves and several statues at a Christian cemetery in Samaria, reported Israel National News.

The vandals smashed gravestones and knocked metal crosses to the ground, and also severed the heads of several statues of Christian figures outside the Ramallah-area village of Jiffna, homes to 900 Christians and 700 Muslims.

Palestinian Authority-controlled media did not report the incident.

Muslim harassment of local Palestinian Christians, long documented by several Israeli organizations, has in recent years resulted in a massive exodus of the area’s previously strong Christian population.

Obama Set to Create a Cybersecurity Czar With Broad Mandate
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsWashington Post - Ellen Nakashima
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

President Obama is expected to announce late this week that he will create a "cyber czar," a senior White House official who will have broad authority to develop strategy to protect the nation's government-run and private computer networks, according to people who have been briefed on the plan.

The adviser will have the most comprehensive mandate granted to such an official to date and will probably be a member of the National Security Council but will report to the national security adviser as well as the senior White House economic adviser, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deliberations are not final.

The announcement will coincide with the long-anticipated release of a 40-page report that evaluates the government's cybersecurity initiatives and policies. The report is intended to outline a "strategic vision" and the range of issues the new adviser must handle, but it will not delve into details, administration officials told reporters last month.

Cybersecurity "is vitally important, and the government needs to be coordinated on this," a White House official said Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "The report give conclusions and next steps. It's trying to steer us in the right direction."

The document will not resolve the politically charged issue of what role the National Security Agency, the premier electronic surveillance agency, will have in protecting private-sector networks. The issue is a key concern in policy circles, and experts say it requires a full and open debate over legal authorities and the protection of citizens' e-mails and phone calls. The Bush administration's secrecy in handling its Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, most of which was classified, hindered such a debate, privacy advocates have said.

The White House's role will be to oversee the process, formulate policy and coordinate agencies' roles, and will not be operational, administration officials have said.

Obama was briefed a week ago and signed off on the creation of the position, the sources said. But as of Friday, discussions were continuing as to what rank and title the adviser would have. The idea is to name someone who can "pick up the phone and contact the president directly, if need be," an administration official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.Obama pledged during his presidential campaign to elevate the issue of cybersecurity to a "top priority" and to appoint a national cybersecurity adviser "who will report directly to me."

Obama Adds Saudi Arabia to Mid - East Agenda
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsBBC News
Categories: One World Church;Peace Process

US President Barack Obama's foreign tour next week will include a stop-off in Saudi Arabia, his spokesman said in a late addition to the schedule.

Robert Gibbs said Mr Obama would hold talks with King Abdullah in Riyadh on 3 June to discuss Israeli-Palestinian peace moves, Iran and terrorism.

Some analysts say the US administration is considering adopting a modified Arab peace plan proposed by the Saudis.

The inclusion of Saudi Arabia "was not born of anything specific", Gibbs said.

Apart from a brief stop-off in Iraq in April, the visit will be Mr Obama's first foray into the Middle East cauldron, though he has been busily engaged with regional diplomacy in the White House.

He has hosted Jordan's King Abdullah and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is due to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday.

Tuesday was meant to be President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt's day at the White House, but the meeting was cancelled following the tragic death of Mr Mubarak's 12-year-old grandson last week.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit and intelligence chief Omar Suleiman made the trip instead, meeting US national security adviser James Jones on Tuesday.

Mr Obama will also travel to Cairo next week to give a major policy speech addressed to the Muslim world, before visiting Germany and France for the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

New Portal to Translate EU Dailies Into 10 Languages
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsEuobserver - HONOR MAHONY
Categories: Today's Headlines;Revived Roman Empire

BRUSSELS – A new website launched Tuesday (26 May) aims to get EU citizens across the 27 member states talking and reading about the same issues, something that to date has been hindered by language barriers.

With €3 million of European Commission funds a year and a team of 10 journalists, www.presseurop.eu is part of the EU's drive to create a "European public sphere."

The portal aims to monitor around 250 titles both within and outside Europe, including all of the big national dailies, such as France's Le Figaro, Spain's El Pais and the UK's Financial Times, and put a selection of articles concerning Europe from these papers on the site.

The site will be available in 10 languages with all 23 of the EU's official languages expected to be onboard within five year's time.

The set-up is led by Courrier International, along with Internazionale in Italy, Forum Polityka in Poland and Courrier Internacional in Portugal.

Courrier International chief Philippe Thureau-Dangin said the aim of the site "is not to keep pace with the whole of current affairs in Europe but to bring Europe alive."

EU communications commissioner Margot Wallstrom, who promised the site will be editorially independent, said it will "broaden, enrich and expand coverage of European affairs."

Editors Note....That number 10 is familiar number for the EU.

Israelis Mull Alternatives to Failed Peace Plans
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

Ministers and other members of the current Israelis government held an unofficial meeting on Tuesday to discuss alternatives to the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Arab conflict.

The meeting was hosted by rookie Likud MK Tzipi Hotobeli, who noted that because the Israeli Right has failed to put forward a viable alternative plan until now, everyone currently views the two-state solution as inevitable, and merely argues over how to get there.

But in remarks to Israel National News, Hotobeli insisted that the two-state solution had failed, and that to implement it anyway could only lead to Israel’s demise. Instead, Hotobeli said that Israel’s right-wing-led government must come up with an alternative that does not end with the creation of yet another Arab Muslim state.

Since his election campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to commit to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state, much to the chagrin of world leaders. Netanyahu is said to prefer to grant the Palestinian Arabs greater autonomy, but not the powers and freedoms of an independent state.

Netanyahu, Hotobeli and others regularly point out that Israel’s surrender of the Gaza Strip in 2005 was a test case to determine how the Palestinians would react to achieving independence, and they reacted by handing over the reins of government to a terrorist organization.

Israel Rebuffs Obama Demand for Settlement Freeze
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsAssociated Press
Categories: Today's Headlines;The Nation Of Israel

MAALEH ADUMIM, West Bank -- Israel scrambled Tuesday to sidestep President Barack Obama's demand for a West Bank settlement freeze with a diluted counteroffer to Washington.

But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's compromise — to take down some squatter camps in exchange for permission to keep building in established settlements — was quickly rejected by hard-liners in his own coalition.

The dispute underscored Netanyahu's difficult juggling act. He's trying to avert a crisis with the U.S. over settlements, while keeping his pro-settlement governing coalition intact and forging ahead with construction, such as the rows of apartment blocks going up in this rapidly expanding Israeli city in the West Bank.

However, Obama and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton have spoken in recent days about halting all settlement activity without exception, suggesting Netanyahu may have little room to bargain.

Also, the 2003 "roadmap" for peace negotiations, which Israel accepted, bans all construction in settlements and orders the removal of the outposts.

Cutting a deal with Israel on settlements could also hurt Obama's credibility and key policy goals, including improving U.S. relations with the Arab world and moving toward the creation of a Palestinian state in a Mideast peace deal. There was no immediate reaction from Washington.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is putting settlements at the center of his talks with Obama at the White House on Thursday, and has said he won't resume peace talks without a freeze.

Without a moratorium on settlements, Obama could also have a tough time persuading Arab countries to take his suggestion and begin moving toward normalizing relations with Israel.

Continued construction could also close the door to a two-state solution, defined by Obama as a key U.S. interest. Nearly half a million Israelis have moved into homes built during the last four decades on land the Palestinians want for their state.

However, some supporters of a two-state solution argue that Obama is wasting political capital on the interim step of a freeze, and should focus on getting quickly to a peace deal that would determine the fate of the settlements by drawing Israel's permanent borders.

The U.S. has long criticized settlements as obstacles to peace but never succeeded in getting Israel to halt construction, which continued even during periods of peace negotiations. More than 3,200 apartments were being built in the West Bank in 2008, and the Israeli settlement monitor Peace Now says 6,000 more units are in various stages of planning.

Currently, nearly 300,000 Israelis live in the West Bank, in addition to some 180,000 in east Jerusalem, the Palestinians' would-be capital.

Maaleh Adumim, near Jerusalem, has grown from a hilltop outpost in 1975 into a city of 35,000, complete with shopping mall and industrial zone.

At a sprawling construction site on the settlement's eastern edge, laborers erected scaffolding on a recent morning, with the pounding of hammers echoing across the Judean Desert.

Apartment sales are brisk, said an employee in an on-site sales office, adding that five contractors have projects in Maaleh Adumim with hundreds of units going up.

One contractor, Electra Construction, is building 52 apartments. Israela Peer, a customer service representative, said nearly all have been sold, at 1.1 million shekels _ about $275,000 _ for a five-room apartment. That is $50,000 less than a comparable property in central Israel.

Successive Israeli governments have said they need to keep building to accommodate "natural growth" for families to have children or for the adult offspring of settlers to buy homes near their parents.

"If in a certain community there are another 14 kids next year of kindergarten age and we have to open them a new kindergarten _ what's the big deal?" Defense Minister Ehud Barak said this week.

Such arguments may not go over well with the Americans. In a TV interview, Clinton specifically said the U.S. opposes construction for "natural growth."

Netanyahu and Barak came up with their counter proposal in recent days, according to Israeli officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.

Their plan is to promise to dismantle 22 wildcat settler outposts over the next few weeks, in exchange for the U.S. dropping its demand for a freeze, the officials said. Barak is to present the idea in Washington next week.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman dismissed Netanyahu's proposal Tuesday, saying Israel should not take any action until it has devised a comprehensive plan for tackling its problems with its neighbors.

"I promise you, no outposts will be dismantled tomorrow, and not two weeks from now," he told Army Radio.

Settler leader Dani Dayan said he believes Netanyahu can be deterred from dismantling most outposts and warned that a freeze would bring down the government.

Heal or Heel? [excerpts]
May 27th, 2009
CommentaryWorld magazine
Categories: Commentary;Warning

Christopher Fogle, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, loved to fish. It was a break from his fast-paced, 25-year career with the Perkins Restaurant chain.

But when Fogle got severe cancer, his relaxing fishing trips, which he sometimes took with his children, ended. It was a devastating blow for the active 45-year-old. But for Todd Bentley, television preacher and self-proclaimed healer, the cancer represented an opportunity to "proclaim the glory of God.

"Indeed, last year Bentley began his "Lakeland Outpouring," a months-long series of "healing services" that Bentley and his Fresh Fire ministry started April 2 and ended under a cloud of controversy Aug. 11.... In between, the meetings attracted hundreds of thousands of people to a huge tent in Lakeland, Fla.At the height of what many called a revival, Bentley [was asked to tell] about the healings, like Fogle's, and asked for a list of people who had been healed at the services. [Six] weeks and more than a dozen requests later, the ministry eventually sent a list of 13 names. Fogle was No. 12 on the list, along with this note: "Healed through the Outpouring and is back to fishing."

That was on Aug. 8, 2008. There was just one problem. Two weeks earlier, on July 22, Christopher A. Fogle-according to his obituary in the Keokuk (Iowa) Daily Gate City, "left this life . . . after a courageous battle with cancer."

A review of the list nearly one year later reveals that Fogle is not the only person "healed" who is now dead. When I called Phyllis Mills, of Trinity, N.C., on April 22, to hear the testimony of her healing, a polite family member said, "Phyllis passed away a few days ago. In fact, we're on our way to her funeral now."

Mills, 66 at the time of her death, had lung cancer and was undergoing aggressive treatments when she was, according to the list, "healed at the revival." Mills "was taking radiation, but was sent home," according to notes on Bentley's list, with "no trace of cancer in her body."

Canadian Households $1.3 Trillion in Debt and Still Digging Deeper Hole: Cgas
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsThe Canadian Press - Brenda Bouw,
Categories: Today's Headlines;Warning

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Canadians are getting deeper into debt and increasingly using credit to cover day-to-day living expenses, "a highly disturbing matter" that has pushed national household debt to $1.3 trillion, a new report shows.

The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada (CGA) said debt levels - mainly mortgage and consumer borrowing in a period of low interest rates - increased 6.8 per cent at the end of 2008, and have climbed another six per cent so far this year.

"It just keeps swelling," said Rock Lefebvre, vice-president of research at the CGA.

"One would have thought that the debt would not have continued to swell given that we were heading into a tough economy, and of late a recession."

While some Canadians are saving more, Lefebvre said his numbers show more people with growing debt.

Arabs Pour Cold Water on Obama's Peace Drive
May 27th, 2009
Daily NewsIsrael Today
Categories: Today's Headlines;Peace Process;Anti-Israel

The Arab League on Saturday threw cold water on US President Barack Obama’s yet-to-be-announced regional peace initiative when its chairman noted Israel was never promised full peace in return for the surrender of Judea, Samaria, the Golan Heights and the eastern half of Jerusalem.

Speaking to reporters in Damascus, Arab League head Amr Mussa said that the “57-state solution” that is being so touted by the media ahead of Obama’s visit to the region “is not on the table” as far as the nations he represents are concerned.

Obama has been trying to make a pan-Arab peace proposal first put forward by Saudi Arabia in 2002 more palatable to Israelis by offering the Jewish state firm promises of peace, security and normalized relations.

But such statements by Mussa and other Arab leaders have left many Israelis with the feeling that it is all a ruse, and that even if they comply with all Arab demands, the conflict will rage on.

An Islamic leader claims that Israeli PM Netanyahu is preparing to rebuild the Jewish Temple
May 27th, 2009
News UpdateJimmy DeYoung
Categories: Jimmy DeYoung News

At a conference held in Doha Qatar, an Islamic cleric told the attendees that the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu may try to build the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and he said that when the Jews build the Temple, they will do so upon the destruction of the al Aqsa Mosque, a site sacred to Moslems.

Sheikh Salah said the solution to the Jewish threat against Jerusalem is a complete mobilization of the Arab world including the religious leaders who need to act and recruit the Moslem masses to confront their duty towards the problem in Jerusalem and al Aqsa Mosque.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

The claim by a Moslem cleric that Israeli PM Netanyahu will try to rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem has an interesting connection to what Bible prophecy says about that coming Temple.

My experience with the Israeli government is that they steer clear from any action or statements that refer to the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Israeli political leaders recognize this issue as very controversial and that it could lead to a major conflict. Israeli religious leaders, however, recognize that the Bible does speak of the previous Jewish Temples and a coming Temple to be built in Jerusalem.

Three thousand years ago, King Solomon built the first Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, II Chronicles 3. That Temple, destroyed by the Babylonians, was rebuilt by Jews returning from the Babylonian cativity under the leadership of Zerubbabel, Ezra 1-6. The Temple in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus, Herod's Temple, was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. Bible prophecy reveals there will be another Temple in Jerusalem, in fact, two more temples. Jesus, when He returns, will build His Temple, Zechariah 6:12. But, before that time, during the Tribulation Period, there will be a Temple built in Jerusalem, Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, II Thessalonians 2:4 and Revelation 11:1.

Preparations for this next Temple are ready.