Europe, the United States, and the United Nations did not create Israel in 1948. It was G-d, through the Hebrew Prophets, who promised throughout all the Old (and New) Testaments that G-d would re-establish Israel as a sign to the world that He will soon bring Judgment in Righteousness. He said he would also fulfill his promise to the Jews and establish an everlasting kingdom.
Who do you chose? Your life in eternity depends on it?
Joel 3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot , and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink . 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians , that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head: 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it. 9 Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near ; let them come up : 10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say , I am strong. 11 Assemble yourselves, and come , all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down , O LORD. 12 Let the heathen be wakened , and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. 13 Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe : come , get you down ; for the press is full , the fats overflow ; for their wickedness is great. 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Yes.
If God gave Jews the Temple Mount, why do they allow Muslim savages to run the place?
Amen.
To the degree that its viewed as the third place in sanctity after Mecca and Medina, the question is more obvious when everybody knows that Jerusalem is not mentioned in the qu’ran even once by either of its names, meaning Al-Quds (القدس) and Bayt Al-Maqdis (بيت المقدس), or Elia which is short for Aelia Capitolina (Eliyya Qappitolina)and Uru-Shalem keshenem, (Spelling?).
How Jerusalem became so holy for Muslims? Since the qur’an does not mention Jerusalem, we have to go to the hadith, the secondary oral tradition. There we find many things about Jerusalem. First of all, Muhammed, the prophet of Islam, used Jerusalem as a direction for his prayer for a year and a half when he was in Medina after 632, after he emigrated to Medina. He tried to drag three groups of Jews who were living near Medina by directing his prayers towards Jerusalem, just like them. They didn’t buy this. He got angry with them. He slaughtered them and took the women, wives and girls, even one of his wives was Jewish from that tribe. After there were no more Jews, so there was no point to pray to Jerusalem, he turned the prayer to the south, to Mecca – thus turning his back to Jerusalem – claiming that the kaabah, the idol of the Arabs for a century before Islam, is actually a stone, a gift which allah gave to Abraham as a reward for his willing to sacrifice his son, Ishmael. Everybody understands where this story came from. This Jerusalem finished it’s role in Islam.
Doing things in the way of Mohammed, there were near, not far from Mecca, a village named Al Gwei'iyyah Near this village there were two mosques – one was closer and was named masjid al madna, the other one was a bit far from the village and was called al masjid Al-Aqsa (means the further mosque). Everybody knew that. Prophet Mohammed even prayed in these mosques, masjid al madna & al-masjid Al-Aqsa.
In the qur’an it mentions that allah took his servant at night from the holy mosque, which is in Mecca, to the further mosque in this further village, Al Gwei'iyyah and there allah showed him his wonders. This is chapter 17, verse 1.
After Mohammed passed away, the caliphs gradually moved the Islamic capital to Damascus, thus leaving Mecca as a remote place, only a place for pilgrimage. In the year of 682, fifty years after the prophet passed away, there was a rebellion in Mecca, because of various reasons. Mainly because of the moral level of the behavior of the people in Damascus who were behaving freely with the wives of the mujahideen, those who were fighting in Persia and those towards Spain in the west. Since they went to Mecca every year, in order to cleanse their sins, somebody from Mecca, named Abdella abuZubair declared a rebellion against the caliph and against those who lived in Damascus and prevented them from coming to Mecca to clean their sins in Mecca.
So the caliph, since he could not do anything about this because he had no soldiers, at that time, in the year of 682, because the soldiers were fighting in Persia and Morocco, he, for eight years, looked for another place, an alternative place for pilgrimage. So, if Jerusalem was holy for Jews and Christians- let is also be holy for Muslims. Then they took this story about allah which took his servant from the holy mosque to Al-Aqsa mosque, and they imported the Al-Aqsa mosque to Jerusalem and said that Jerusalem is their Al-Aqsa mosque, the real one, and concocted a whole series of stories how Jerusalem is holier than Mecca only in order to establish the idea that the pilgrimage should be to Jerusalem and not to Mecca.
Of course this was a lie, this was a whole bunch of concoctions. These stories which the ulama, the wise people of the caliph made up those days. are Islamic scholars like Ibn Taymyyah who knew about this and tried to put Jerusalem in its original status, which is like every other city. However, since it was a political issue – it is a political issue until today. By the way, Saladin in the twelfth century also used these stories to enflame his soldiers against the Christian Crusaders towards the end of the twelfth century.
Today, also, Jerusalem is nothing but a political issue which is colored by religion no more, after all religion and politics in Islam are the two sides of the same coin.
For what it may be worth (I have been arguing this for years and years to no avail so far)
Their Koran tells them that their god has given the promised land to the Jews....
and that their god commands the Jews to live, “dwell securely” in the land,
and
that their god will gather up the (rest of the) Jews into the land again, prior to the Last Judgement/End of Days, etc.
See, for instance,
Sura 17:101-104 (also Suraa 5:20-21 and additional).
There are other Koran passages about murdering Jews and Christians and these they cite all the time....but they ignore the explicit Koran passages where their god Allah gives the Promised Land of Israel to the Jews and wants them to dwell securely therein
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