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Netanyahu quotes Bible to establish Israeli claim to Jerusalem
Israel's leader is quoting the Bible to stake claims on Jerusalem as being the nation's capital. Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a parliamentary session commemorating Israel's capture of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war that "Jerusalem" and its alternative Hebrew name "Zion" appear 850 times in the Old Testament--Judaism's core canon. Citing such ancestry, Israel calls all of Jerusalem its "eternal and indivisible" capital -- a designation not recognized abroad, where many powers support Arab claims to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Since the Western world no longer has even a basic education, it should surprise no one that this is actually news. What? Jews in Jerusalem?
Sanhedrin meets with Islamic leader Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
The newly-reformed Jewish Sanhedrin has just met with the Turkish Islamic leader Adnan Oktar, better known as Harun Yahya. A statement of the Sanhedrin was released and can be read in English here.
So we now see influential Jews and Muslims discussing peace and the possible rebuilding of a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount... witness the Sanhedrin's words:
Out of a sense of collective responsibility for world peace and for all humanity we have found it timely to call to the World and exclaim that there is a way out for all peoples. It is etched in a call to all humanity: We are all the sons of one father, the descendants of Adam, and all humanity is but a single family. Peace among Nations will be achieved through building the House of G-d, where all peoples will serve Him, pray to Him, and offer sacrifices according to the visions of the prophets, as foreseen by King Solomon in his prayers at the dedication of the First Holy Temple. Come let us love and respect one another, and love and honor and hold our heavenly Father in awe. Let us establish a house of prayer in His name in order to worship and serve Him together, for the sake of His great compassion. He surely does not want the blood of His creations spilled, but prefers love and peace among all mankind. We pray to the Almighty Creator, that you hearken to our Call. Together - each according to his or her ability - we shall work towards the building of the House of Prayer for All Nations on the Temple Mount in peace and mutual understanding.
Tip: Joel's Trumpet.
