Posted on 01/28/2009 8:39:17 AM PST by SJackson
(IsraelNN.com) Likud party chairman and Knesset Opposition leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu warned at the Jerusalem Conference Wednesday that the Obama administration and leftist Israeli politicians will try to internationalize holy sites in Jerusalem -- and he vowed to fight the move.
Netanyahu speech starts at 1:00 minute mark in video below.
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Netanyahu told the audience, “Some politicians are trying to blur the importance of the Temple Mount to the Jewish People by referring to it as the ‘Holy Basin.’ We, as Jews, know who built the Temple Mount.”
The term “Holy Basin” refers to the area of the Temple Mount, the Mount of Olives, Mount Zion and a variety of Christian holy sites which the administration of former U.S. President Bill Clinton recommended be administered under a “special regime.”
This raises the issue of who would administer the Temple Mount, since at present the Wakf Islamic Authority controls the site, albeit under Israeli sovereignty. Moreover, the Arab neighborhoods surrounding the Temple Mount, home to tens of thousands of Israeli Arab residents, are also a part of greater Jerusalem, and thereby fall into the same discussion.
Former prime minister Netanyahu, who will likely return to his old leadership role after the February 10 Israel elections, repeatedly emphasized the Likud’s loyalty to the concept of a united Jerusalem.
“We have demonstrated in the past, and will continue to demonstrate our commitment to a complete, undivided Jerusalem,” Netanyahu assured a packed hall at the Jerusalem Regency Hotel, where he opened the final day of the Jerusalem Conference.
“What would have happened had we not built all those neighborhoods” around the central part of the capital after the Six-Day War, Netanyahu asked. “Jerusalem would have been choked.” Moreover, he said, transferring sovereignty over those areas to the Palestinian Authority is not an option.
“Everyone knows what will happen if we were to leave those areas and divide Jerusalem. Someone will enter – and that someone will be Hamas.”
Dividing the capital, or resurrecting the specter of internationalizing the “Holy Basin”, this time at the recommendation of the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, would cause more problems even for the international community that it would solve, he added.
The three major religions of the world exist in peace, have access to all their sites, only because Jerusalem is united and under Israeli rule, Netanyahu contended, adding in deliberately Hebrew-accented English, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
After Netanyahu's Jerusalem Conference speech, he convened with his fellow party member Dr. Yuval Steinitz and Ichud Leumi (National Union) party Chairman Yaakov Katz. Katz asked the Likud chairman what his plans are for a coalition after the Israel elections. Netanyahu responded, "We will establish a broad coalition based on all the Zionist parties - blue and orange." [Orange is the color associated with the Ichud Leumi (National Union) party and its supporters].
The meeting between Netanyahu and Katz was held in a positive atmosphere with reciprocal intentions for developing a close working relationship. Katz later told reporters, "Only a strong Ichud Leumi (National Union) in the Knesset will insure that all the good intentions of the government will be implemented."
There is something very “biblical” about this. Somewhere in a prophecy—either a Joel Rosenberg book, or something like it.
Not a good message either. As we used to say, “bad bongos.”
And anytime you have radical jihadists that want to run a people into the sea, there has to be a babysitter. Opening the door to an “international zone” will not give the radical Muslims what they want and their goal>> All of Israel. Some type of a green zone imaginary boundary line will not stop them from attempting to get what they want.
Try Joel Chapter 3.
“Netanyahu: Obama Will Try to Internationalize Jerusalem Sites”
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Ummm..., the U.N. has been saying Jerusalem is an “International City” forever... And what on earth is an International City anyway? I don’t know of one that exists anywhere...
“Would it be Washington, D.C. instead of Jerusalem, I dare say you wouldn’t embrace this idea so easily.”
Yes ! DC belongs to Maryland only ! Let’s kick the virginians out of our capital. :-)
Jerusalem is the City of David. It belongs to the Jews who are wonderful stewards and caretakers of their guests’ religious shrines unlike the palestinian muslims who defiled and desecrated The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the oldest Church in the Holy Land. Bibi, drive the muslim terrorists from all of the Holy Land given Abram by God for as far as the eye could see. God’s plan was through Abraham’s seed Isaac, not Ishmael. Zero, stay out of this.
“We wouldn’t want something like New York City to be “internationalized?””
At leas the few acres the UN building resides are “international”. Did we ever since heard of turmoil between the people from “Roosevelt Island” and “Murray Hill” ?
Translation: collectivise as a baby step to UN global governance.
“God’s plan was through Abraham’s seed Isaac, not Ishmael.”
Did god tell you this today ? Maybe he meanwhile decided to go with plan b. But only god knows.
Hillary Clinton is pushing this.
It is little wonder this is doomed to failure.
Bill Clinton is right to have moved on to date others.
Oh, and btw, the Moslem claim about Mohammed ascending to Heaven from the "Westernmost Mosque" cannot refer to anything in Jerusalem: the Moslems didn't reach Jerusalem until 20 years after the death of that murderous child molester.
This is nothing more than yet another attempt by the Moslems to grab something that isn't theirs.
Filo, as a US citizen familiar with its history, I'd suggest that the US has absolutely no right to ask Israel to give territory to others in the interest of satisfying the demands of those others until such time as we give most of the Southwest back to Mexico. Until then, we should probably STFU.
What exactly are the Muslim roots there?
If the US were to unilaterally move our Embassy to Jerusalem and recoginze Israeli sovereignity over an undivided city, it would essentially end our role in any future peace negotiations and inflame the Arab world even further against us. Currently, virtually every country with diplomatic relations with Israel has its Embassy in Tel Aviv or its environs. I predict that Obama will delay any move to Jerusalem of the US Embassy just like Clinton and Bush did.
“MUSLIMS URINATED NEXT TO TORAH SCROLLS AT CAVE OF PATRIARCHS” (They also left behind flags of Hamas)
Sept. 08
See my post #55. The UK position is relevant because it is our de facto position despite Congressional laws and resolutions. And most of the world subscribes to the UK position. That is reality. Sorry about that.
The best solution, if anyone would consider it, would be to make the whole of the old city an international zone governed equally by the three religions who have claims there. Kind-of like a Troika Vatican.
It was purchased for and is dedicated to YHvH. Islam following their god "Allah" is Satan Jerusalem was bought and paid for by King David 3000 years ago.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
and there will always be conflict over Jerusalem.
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