Posted on 05/10/2005 9:45:33 AM PDT by Reborn
Knesset Speaker: Sharon Will Divide Jerusalem
16:03 May 10, '05 / 1 Iyar 5765
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin has leaked that once Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has completed the withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, Sharon intends to divide Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.
PM Sharon vehemently denied the claim, saying it was a “baseless lie.” Sharon added, “I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this on many occasions. I don’t plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.”
Army Radio reported that Rivlin was planning on accusing the Prime Minister publicly during the Knesset Speaker’s Memorial Day speech of handing the eastern half of Jerusalem over to Arab sovereignty. Up until the 1967 Six-Day War, the city of Jerusalem was a divided city, with the eastern half occupied by Jordan.
Rivlin has reportedly rewritten his speech 8 times, in an attempt to balance his criticism of government policy to expel Jews from Jewish Gaza with the atmosphere of national unity on Remembrance and Independence Days.
Rivlin dedicated last year’s Memorial Day torch, which he lit, to the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. This year, Rivlin is accusing Sharon of delegitimizing those same citizens and leading the country to disaster.
"During the Lebanon war,” Rivlin, a long-time Likud member and close personal friend of Sharon, told Haaretz, “there were members of the Herut Party who objected to Arik's [Sharon's] handling of the war, and considered the war to be a mistake. But the minute that people on the left delegitimized him, we stood behind him, and said, `This is where it stops.' We will not permit the delegitimization of a hero of Israel. And now, the same Sharon, with a stroke of his pen, delegitimizes the settlers.”
Rivlin added that if he knew this withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria was the only planned withdrawal he would be able to reluctantly accept it. "I fear that if we give in now, it will only be the first stage in a series of concessions regarding the existence of the state.”
The Knesset Speaker says that Sharon’s current coalition partners aim to see a full withdrawal from all parts of Israel liberated in the 1967 Six-Day War. He says that after this summer’s withdrawal, Sharon will immediately embark on further withdrawals using the excuse that his coalition partners demand it. He says that Sharon will turn to the parties representing those he has just expelled from their homes and say, "Now that the disengagement is fact, let's establish a new government with Shinui, because otherwise we will be forced to surrender to pressure from the Labor Party and the left-wing to implement further withdrawals, which I oppose."
Rivlin’s spokesman told Arutz-7 that he could not confirm or deny the content of the Knesset Speaker’s intended Memorial Day address, but invited the public to attend the ceremony he will be addressing, which will take place at the Mount of Olives at 11 AM Wednesday
You might wanna ping a few folks...
seems as shoron is going to get canned one way or another
WARNING: This is a high volume ping list
Sharon will divide Jerusalem?!?!? I sure hope not!
Ping!
I doubt PM Sharon will divide Jerusalem, and I wish the best for Israel. :)
If may be best if Israel does this on their terms.
Re: "PM Sharon vehemently denied the claim, saying it was a “baseless lie.” Sharon added, “I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this on many occasions. I don’t plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.”"
Could be. Could be, but we thought Sharon was the last person who would pull Jewish settlers out of Gaza. Please forgive us if we are a tad nervous.
Revelation 16: 17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18 And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. 19 Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.
Ezekiel 38:18 "And it will come to pass at the same time, when Gog comes against the land of Israel," says the Lord GOD, "that My fury will show in My face. 19 For in My jealousy and in the fire of My wrath I have spoken: "Surely in that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel, 20 so that the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the beasts of the field, all creeping things that creep on the earth, and all men who are on the face of the earth shall shake at My presence. The mountains shall be thrown down, the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.'
Well said. In addition, Sharon's removing political barriers to the (admittedly long-shot) possibility of Israeli membership in the EU, and to Euro support for the PLO agenda (which is identical with and rooted in Nazism). Furthermore, there's nothing about these unilateral moves which are binding. These are unilateral moves, and they undermine centrist support (in Europe, US, and elsewhere, including Israel itself) for the PLO mass-murderers.
Really! If someone had told me three years ago, five years ago, etc., that Sharon would pull settlers out of anywhere in Eretz Israel, I'd have told them they needed to stop smoking the cheap stuff! But now.......tad nervous indeed!
Maybe a gossip magazine spreaded some hoax. It's unthinkable while at least Prime Minister Sharon is in office. Otherwise, it may be some kind of strategy to counter the pressure from other countries showing some illusions to them.
Things are real wobbly right now, but I think at that point the wheels are going to come off.
" 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. 9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good." [Ps 122:6-9]
Things are real wobbly right now, but I think at that point the wheels are going to come off.
" 6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee. 7 Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces. 8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee. 9 Because of the house of the LORD our God I will seek thy good." [Ps 122:6-9]
I haven't noticed that Israel's willingness to deal with the Palestinians has helped with public opinion in Europe, or anywhere else. I grant you that it should, but it has not. Quite the opposite. Anti-semitism and hatred of Israel have grown year by year all through the Oslo "peace process." The more Jews the Palestinians murder, the more support they gain. The more land the Israelis give away, the more they are hated. It's sick, but true.
In the long run, there's only the short run. :') We're witness to a period of false truce. The difference is, the Israelis are also in a false truce, rather than bearing the hardships in hopes that the murderous Moslem Arabs will see the futility of their crimes and take a seat at the bargaining table.
The Jordanian expulsion of the Jews of the "West Bank" and "East Jerusalem" was a crime against humanity -- and in fact, the very kind the Israelis are accused of by Stormfront, the PLO, and various other Nazi organizations -- but over time there will be an Israel, while the PLO will be starved of money.
Assuming of course that 1) the ANWR is drilled, 2) the US stops exporting oil to the world market (a stupid practice), 3) regime change continues in the OPEC countries of the Middle East (iow, that we never have the Dims in charge ever again, particularly not in the near future), 4) that Gaza (and Israel/Jordan) gets a plentiful water supply, and 5) that when the Arab states again attack Israel, the US again gives unqualified support to Israel.
I find it utterly inconceivable that Sharon would ever consent to dividing Jerusalem. This smells of a political game of chicken to me.
The only madness is whatever Speaker Rivlin is suffering from. I don't believe for a minute the Prime Minister would ever agree to dividing Jerusalem. Ehud Barak proved what most of us already knew: any Prime Minister that accepts the division of Jerusalem will very quickly be unempoyed.
P.S.: No, I don't post on Shabbat. I'm in California on business.
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