Israel to Reestablish Jewish Sovereignty on Temple Mount

Discussion in 'The Signs of the Times' started by Carol55, Jul 19, 2017.

  1. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    The Temple Mount crisis — far from over, it’s really just beginning
    Op-ed: While the removal of the metal detectors and cameras was supposed to mark the end of the trouble, Abbas and Netanyahu have each found ways to bring their peoples right back to the peak of conflict
    By Avi Issacharoff July 26, 2017, 5:38 pm 14

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    Although for a moment it seemed that the metal detector crisis had ended Monday night, with the removal of the electronic gates and cameras from the entrances to the Temple Mount, we are evidently still in the midst of an impasse that may last for quite some time.

    Both sides, and especially the two leaderships, each for their own political reasons, appear to be exacerbating the situation, looking for confrontation rather than calm.

    On the one side, there is Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who, along with his Fatah movement, explicitly called Tuesday for an escalation of the struggle and for large-scale demonstrations against Israel on Friday. This seems to be an attempt to extricate the PA leader from the depths of irrelevance.

    On the other is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who seemed to be profoundly impacted by the results of Tuesday’s Channel 2 survey, which indicated deep public dissatisfaction with his response to the Temple Mount crisis. Hours after the poll’s publication, he ordered the Defense Ministry not to evacuate some 120 settlers who illegally occupied a contested home in Hebron, in addition to instructing police to individually check every worshiper ascending to pray at the Temple Mount — a decision perceived by the Palestinian public as a declaration of war.

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    Israeli security forces take down metal detectors at the Lions Gate, near a main entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, on July 24, 2017. (AFP/ Ahmad Gharabli)

    Both sides continue their gallop toward a deeper, bloodier confrontation, and there is no responsible adult in the room to stop the deterioration.

    Anyone who may have expected Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to intervene in the police’s war against the security establishment, or perhaps speak out against Netanyahu’s decisions of late, has quickly learned that a country long acclimated to operating without a foreign minister has also functioned for the past two weeks without a defense chief. The man simply does not exist.

    The indications that the crisis is far from over are evident on several levels. First, Tuesday’s demonstrations by Muslim worshipers, which spiraled into violence outside the entrances to the Temple Mount, involved thousands of demonstrators refusing to enter the Al-Aqsa compound despite all of their demands being met. Asked what exactly they were protesting at that point, their responses were as absurd as something you might hear on a TV sitcom.

    The problem here is that the statements made by demonstrators, Muslim religious leaders and the Palestinian leadership are not funny. And the person most responsible for setting the tone at this stage is the mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, who of all the Jordanian Waqf members is the furthest from being a representative of Amman.

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    Muslim worshipers perform noon prayers at the Lions Gate, outside the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem’s Old City on July 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

    Hussein, who receives his salary from the Palestinian Authority, announced early Tuesday afternoon that Muslim prayer would continue to be held outside the Temple Mount. When asked why, he explained that only when the situation was restored to the way it was before July 14 would the worshipers return to the Haram al-Sharif.

    The fact that there are no longer any metal detectors or security cameras did not prevent him and his followers from conjuring a list of new demands: “removing invisible cameras,” removing cameras overlooking the Temple Mount, removing barricades still lying around the Old City, the planting of trees on the Al-Aqsa compound, etc. It is as if “someone” is trying to invent demands in order to exacerbate the situation, and is unfortunately succeeding in doing so.

    The second indication relates to Abbas.

    On Tuesday, the PA president gathered the leadership of the Jerusalem branch of Fatah’s militant Tanzim faction at his office in Ramallah. He understood that Israel had pulled the rug from underneath him when it removed the metal detectors and that he and his Fatah movement were accordingly in extreme political distress.

    If in the past Abbas was considered weak, now many in the Palestinian public consider him to be simply irrelevant. He was not part of the erupting crisis on the Temple Mount, nor was he involved in efforts to solve it. The Jordanians, according to a senior Palestinian source, did not even update the PA leadership regarding the arrangement it had reached with Israel to remove the metal detectors and cameras.

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    Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

    Consequently, it seems that the Palestinian leadership’s decision to escalate the struggle is intended to convey a message not only to Israel but also to Jordan: Anyone who tries to ignore us or erase our role with regard to the Temple Mount will receive an intifada in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. What we are therefore now seeing is a struggle for survival by Abbas and his Fatah movement.

    Abbas has given a green light to the Tanzim faction to organize demonstrations and rallies this Friday, but no one knows how they will end. This quite easily could lead to shooting battles with IDF soldiers, casualties, deaths and even a scenario, mentioned more than once in recent years, which includes all the ingredients necessary for an intifada. It certainly won’t end well.

    Of course, Netanyahu is central to this story as well. It is hard to understand his decision Tuesday. Just the night before, the cabinet decided to remove the metal detectors in order to calm tensions. But less than a day later, Netanyahu announced that he had ordered manual inspections of all worshipers. If before there was no fuel or spark, Netanyahu has now provided it. The top headline Wednesday morning in Israel Hayom, Netanyahu’s home-court newspaper, makes it clear what his patron Sheldon Adelson thinks about him, and the prime minister is feeling politically threatened.

    The survey conducted by Channel 2 yesterday indicating that more than 70% of Israelis disapproved of the government’s handling of the current crisis and had supported the installation of the metal detectors in the first place made it clear to Netanyahu where the political winds were blowing. From this, the decision to order manual inspections was made accordingly.

    Was the prime minister’s decision made with the knowledge of the Shin Bet security service and the IDF? Doubtfully so. But they, as with the embassy crisis in Jordan, will be forced to put out the fires Netanyahu has created, nonetheless.

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    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on July 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)

    One last factor that needs to be raised as it is hardly addressed: the Palestinian public. Many on the Israeli side are now saying, rightfully, “It’s not about the metal detectors.” The detectors were the excuse. They were the magic word that called forth the religious and nationalistic demons that the defense establishment has feared for so long.

    And now go try and put the genie back in the bottle. Go try and calm the Palestinian public in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. These are people who have long been frustrated with the status quo and who have long looked toward their leadership without finding a sympathetic ear.

    The Palestinian Authority was the finger in the dike for all those years, holding back a general collapse at a much more violent level. It prevented widespread demonstrations during the recent prisoners’ strike and arrested hundreds of suspects planning on carrying out terror attacks in recent years. Now the Palestinian public is hearing its leadership speak in a different voice — one of escalation and confrontation. Hence the great danger. If something dramatically positive does not happen in the next few days, we may find ourselves marching into the abyss.
     
  2. Byron

    Byron Powers

    Luke 22:5-6 - "Not one stone shall be left upon another..."
     
  3. fallen saint

    fallen saint Baby steps :)

    That just means it will be destroyed. Other passages say it will be rebuilt
     
  4. Byron

    Byron Powers

    What other passages?
     
  5. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Fallen Saint,
    I am interested in your thoughts which you state here about the ark of the covenant, can you explain further? Thank you.:)

    I posted the following but you may have missed it:(:
    "I happened to see a story on the news (OAN) about the Ark of the Covenant and I thought of your post. Here is a related article:
    http://www.christianheadlines.com/b...-clues-in-search-for-ark-of-the-covenant.html

    I am not familiar with what you have stated in relation to the Ark of the Covenant in your post, maybe you can explain what you are referring to when you have time? Thank you."

     
  6. Dolours

    Dolours Guest

    I'm interested in the reply to that question.
     
  7. Mario

    Mario Powers

    And now go try and put the genie back in the bottle. Go try and calm the Palestinian public in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

    This is the key to the problem: the genie of hatred is out of the bottle. The coalescing impetus for all Muslims to unite against Israel has arrived, in my opinion. Abbas and Erdogan will not let this opportunity fade away. It will only be magnified. While ISIS could be looked upon as extreme, the Hiram-al-Sharif holds sway in the hearts of all Muslims. Similarly, the Temple Mount holds sway in the hearts of Jews.

    This reality does not bode well. As escalation accelerates who will be willing to back down first?

    Could the coming months of violence provide the context for the appearance of him who St. Paul described as the Man of Lawlessness? Could this mean the Warning and miracle could come about within the next 10 months?

    Let us prepare our hearts and keep our eyes on the one and only true Messiah! Praised be Jesus Christ, King of Endless Glory!

    Lord have mercy!:notworthy::coffee: We need to be praying and fasting about this powder keg!

    Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
     
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  8. Katfalls

    Katfalls Powers

    Mario, I have had the same feeling . . .that this could really escalate. Our world seems bolder now on many fronts.
     
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  9. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    I agree that it could really escalate and it is definitely something to keep praying about.

    There are so many new articles about this situation it is difficult to know exactly what is going on at the moment. I have posted a few articles from today and yesterday. The first article I think may explain the situation the best and may give insight to the other articles which I posted after this first one. It appears that the PM of Israel has removed all new security measures, even the fencing and the cameras have been removed which although did not result in an immediate calming of the issue at Al-Aqsa mosque but a day later it seems have had this effect (FIRST ARTICLE and FOURTH ARTICLE).

    BUT because of the shooting of two Jordanians by an Israeli Embassy Guard in Amman on Sunday, hundreds of people in Jordan have called on their government to shut down the embassy and end the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. This is obviously very bad! (SECOND ARTICLE).

    The THIRD ARTICLE here represents another bad repercussion, IMO, from the original start of all of this on July 14th.

    FIRST ARTICLE:
    July 27, 2017 / 3:19 AM / 19 hours ago
    Thousands of worshippers surge into Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, 113 injured
    Luke Baker and Ali Sawafta
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-idUSKBN1AC0UF

    SECOND ARTICLE:
    Hundreds protest against Israel in Jordan, call to end peace treaty
    Amman says Israeli embassy staff cannot return until shooting of two Jordanians, including an assailant, by Israeli guard properly investigated
    By Agencies and Times of Israel staff July 28, 2017, 5:03 pm
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-protest-against-israel-in-jordan-call-to-end-peace-treaty/


    THIRD ARTICLE:
    Palestinian tries to stab soldiers in West Bank, is shot dead
    Assailant rushes troops at the Gush Etzion Junction; attack comes amid heightened tensions over Temple Mount, where Friday prayers end peacefully
    By Times of Israel staff July 28, 2017, 3:10 pm
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-shot-dead-trying-to-stab-soldiers-in-west-bank/


    FOURTH ARTICLE:
    Friday prayers at Temple Mount end peacefully, officials say
    Iranians hold anti-Israel protest in Tehran; Palestinian shot dead trying to stab Israeli soldiers in West Bank; Low-level clashes break out in East Jerusalem, West Bank as Muslims return to Al-Aqsa for Friday prayers
    By Tamar Pileggi July 28, 2017, 12:13 pm
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-july-28-2017/
     
  10. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Last edited: Jul 28, 2017
  11. It seems that all the historical challenges against Israel have caused the Jews grave troubles from the beginning. This is nothing new but for the quickening of events there and elsewhere. I think the time to worry for their actual survival will be when Iran develops their nuke....or develops their delivery system and gets a nuke from elsewhere like N. Korea. That will make them king of the close region. Right now Israel will continue to defend itself as it has in the past in other serious uprisings and terrorist attacks, but this current holy place/temple business within the current world situation will join forces of nations against Israel for the sake of focusing the universal interest in Jerusalem. It's like a certain subconscious desire/satanic urge within the NWO controllers.

    Herein lies the problem for Israel's future:

    'Axis of Evil' still alive as North Korea, Iran launch missiles, flout sanctions

    The two remaining members of the "Axis of Evil" launched rockets on back-to-back days, with Iran and North Korea blatantly flouting international resolve as each took significant steps toward developing their own nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles.

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...llistic-missile-friday-pentagon-confirms.html

    And it won't take more than "small nukes" as has been predicted to do the job...within that short time period for Israel's destruction!

     
  12. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Yep, I have read many articles which have linked Iran missile development to North Korea, therefore, IMO whatever new developments which North Korea has obtained Iran will not be far behind. This news article sites more proof of what most suspect, thank you for posting it.

    The following article, although over 2 years old, sheds more light on the relationship between North Korea and Iran, These two countries have been sharing technologies for over 20 years. https://www.forbes.com/sites/donald...issiles-may-scuttle-a-real-deal/#5e72c6eab61b

    Many concerns over this situation, like the following one, were discussed in this article dated 2/20/15:

    Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz has cited the Iran-North Korean connection as a critical stumbling block to a real deal on Iran’s nuclear program.

    “If this loophole is not closed, and if Iran under an agreement can have some kind of research and development, knowledge exchange and participation in other countries like North Korea,” he was quoted in the Jerusalem Post as telling a briefing, “then this is also the way to bypass an agreement by simply not doing it alone in Iran, but by cooperating with North Korea or other rogue countries.”
    Yet here we are.
     
  13. Julia

    Julia Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

    Here is an Awesome Testimony done this year which I believe is what we need to focus on as regards the signs of the times. Praised be Jesus and Mary. Keep Watch and Pray.

     
  14. Mario

    Mario Powers

    Julia,

    Thank you for this video. My favorite clip occurs in the 14th minute when Fr. Anthony says the following concerning Our Lady and the adoration to God offered in this beautiful church:

    The cacophony of the world, the rude noise of the world, will not shout into silence the voice of the Living God. And so we create this sacred space, this sacred silence, which is not empty because it is imbued with the very life of God, her life...

    If ever I go to Chicago, I will visit this sanctuary. Meanwhile, let us make our own hearts this sanctuary, this sacred space, this sacred silence, which is not empty!:notworthy::)

    Safe in the Hearts of Jesus and Mary!
     
  15. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

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  16. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Thankfully, things seemed to have quieted down but please continue to pray. TY.

    Jordan's King Abdullah Discusses Holy Site Tensions in Ramallah
    August 7, 2017

    https://in.reuters.com/article/jordan-palestinians-israel-idINKBN1AN11X

    Jordanian king makes rare West Bank trip seen as message to Israel
    August 7, 2017

    http://www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-king-begins-rare-west-bank-trip-seen-as-message-to-israel/

    Jordanian King Met with Abbas on Jerusalem, Peace Efforts
    August 7, 2017

    http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...-with-Abbas-on-Jerusalem-peace-efforts-501802


    Israel's Netanyahu looks to exude calm in face of charges

    August 6, 2017
    http://journaltimes.com/news/world/...cle_550fa694-6c0f-5842-9679-6ca3ba2061d9.html

    Netanyahu backs major expansion of Jerusalem to include nearby settlements
    130,000 more Israelis would be categorized as Jerusalemites; 100,000 Jerusalem Palestinians living beyond security barrier would come under a new municipality
    July 27, 2017
    http://www.timesofisrael.com/netany...n-of-jerusalem-to-include-nearby-settlements/
     
    Last edited: Aug 7, 2017
  17. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Although the following articles are not directly related to the Temple Mount, I thought that it might be better to post them on this thread (note that UN investigators said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April, this confirms what the US government stated back in April.) :

    Israel hits Syrian site said to be linked to chemical weapons
    September 7, 2017 / 2:22 AM / Updated 5 hours ago
    http://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...o-be-linked-to-chemical-weapons-idUSKCN1BI0MH
    Sarah Dadouch, Jeffrey Heller
    6 Min Read
    BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel attacked a military site in Syria’s Hama province early on Thursday, the Syrian army said, and a war monitoring group said the target could be linked to chemical weapons production.

    The air strike killed two soldiers and caused damage near the town of Masyaf, an army statement said. It warned of the “dangerous repercussions of this aggressive action to the security and stability of the region”.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war, said the attack was on a facility of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre, an agency which the United States describes as Syria’s chemical weapons manufacturer.

    It came the morning after U.N. investigators said the Syrian government was responsible for a sarin poison gas attack in April.

    Syria’s government denies using chemical arms. In 2013 it promised to surrender its chemical weapons, which it says it has done.

    The Observatory said strikes also hit a military camp next to the center that was used to store ground-to-ground rockets and where personnel of Iran and its ally, the Lebanese Hezbollah group, had been seen more than once.

    An Israeli army spokeswoman declined to discuss reports of a strike in Syria.

    Syria’s foreign ministry has sent letters to the U.N. Security Council protesting against Israel’s “aggression” and saying anyone who attacked Syrian military sites was supporting terrorism, Syrian state TV reported.

    In an interview in Israel’s Haaretz daily last month on his retirement, former Israeli air force chief Amir Eshel said Israel had hit arms convoys of the Syrian military and its Hezbollah allies nearly 100 times in the past five years.

    Israel sees red lines in the shipment to Hezbollah of anti-aircraft missiles, precision ground-to-ground missiles and chemical weapons.

    ISRAELI SIGNAL?
    The reported attack took place on the 10th anniversary of Israel’s destruction of a nuclear reactor in Syria.

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 19, and is widely expected to voice Israel’s concern over what it sees as attempts by Iran to broaden its military foothold in Syria and threats posed by Hezbollah

    Israeli officials have said that Russia, another ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Israel maintain regular contacts to coordinate military action in Syria.

    Some Israeli commentators saw the latest strike - a departure from the previous pattern of attacks on weapons convoys - as a show of Israeli dissatisfaction with the United States and Russia.

    Last month, Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin, but came away without any public statement from Moscow that it would curb Iranian influence.

    Hezbollah and Israel fought a brief war in 2006 in which more than 1,300 people died. Both have suggested that any new conflict between them could be on a larger scale than that one.

    Hezbollah has been one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s most important allies in the war and last month its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said he had recently traveled to Damascus to meet the Syrian president.

    Israel is conducting military exercises in the north of the country near the border with Lebanon.

    Yaakov Amidror, a retired Israeli general and former national security adviser, told reporters he assumed Thursday’s strike was linked to Nasrallah’s visit to Damascus.

    “Weapons systems have been transferred from this organization (the Scientific Studies and Research Centre) into the hands of Hezbollah during the years,” he said.

    HEZBOLLAH
    In May, an official in the military alliance backing Assad said that Hezbollah drew a distinction between Israel striking its positions in Syria and at home in Lebanon. “If Israel strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon, definitely it will respond,” the official said.

    The Syrian army statement said the Israeli strike came at 2:42 a.m. (2342 GMT) from inside Lebanese airspace. It said it had been launched in support of Islamic State.

    Jets flying over Lebanon overnight broke the sound barrier and Lebanese media reported that Israeli warplanes had breached Lebanese airspace.

    The Observatory reported that seven people were killed or wounded in the strike.

    “The factory that was targeted in Masyaf produces the chemical weapons and barrel bombs that have killed thousands of Syrian civilians,” Amos Yadlin, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, said in a tweet.

    The strike sent a message that Israel would not let Syria produce strategic weapons, would enforce its own red lines, and would not be hampered by Russian air defense systems in Syria, he added.

    The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Wednesday a government jet dropped sarin on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province in April, killing more than 80 civilians, and that government forces were behind at least 27 chemical attacks.

    U.S. President Donald Trump said he had not heard a report that Syria had used chemical weapons again.

    “But nothing would change. We would be extremely upset if he was using chemical weapons,” he said in response to a question at a news conference in Washington. “As far as Syria is concerned, we have very little to do with Syria other than killing ISIS. What we do is we kill ISIS.”

    Reporting by Angus McDowall and Sarah Dadouch in Beirut and Jeffrey Heller, Ori Lewis, Dan Williams and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem; writing by Angus McDowall; editing by Angus MacSwan, Andrew Roche and Jonathan Oatis

    Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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    Israel: We'll Bomb Assad's Palace if Iran Expands in Syria
    08-28-2017
    http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/...l-bomb-assads-palace-if-iran-expands-in-syria
     
  18. Don_D

    Don_D ¡Viva Cristo Rey!

    Well I sure feel better now knowing that the UN is backing the CIA. Whew, what a relief!
     
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  19. Byron

    Byron Powers

    Lol!
     
  20. Carol55

    Carol55 Ave Maria

    Yeah, I don't think it really adds up.
     

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