Posted on 08/29/2011 11:44:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Jordan closed Bethlehem to Christians from 1949 until 1967 when Israel opened the gates. Now the Palestinian Authority, headed by Mahmoud Abbas, prohibited a Jewish guide from attending a Congressmans tour.
Florida Republican and Tea Party member Allen West wrote his constituents after touring Israel earlier this month, When we went to Bethlehem to visit the birthplace of Jesus- a Jew- our group was not allowed to have our regular Jewish guides or bus drivers because Israeli citizens are not allowed in Bethlehem or the ancient city of Jericho where the Bible teaches us that Joshua blew down the wall with trumpets.
Jordan closed off Jewish and Christian sites to Jews and Christians after it took over Judea and Samaria, part of it mandated to a supposed new country of Trans-Jordan by the United Nations in the United Nations Partition Plan.
After the War for Independence formally ended in 1949, Jordan occupied all of the Old City and other large areas of Jerusalem, as well as all of Judea and Samaria.
The Western Wall (Kotel) and Hevron were barred to Jews and Christians were barred from churches and other holy sites in Judea and Samaria and areas of Jerusalem occupied by Jordan.
Israel opened up all of the sites to all religions after the Six-Day War in 1967. Israeli governments, during the past decade, have gradually surrendered control of the Bethlehem area to the Palestinian Authority. Abbas has declared that a future Palestinian Authority state would be open to all religions, but Wests experience shows the opposite.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
What is this I keep hearing about antisemitism in Pennsylvania?
Amish, you know.
peace = shalom. piece = khatikha. In Hebrew they are not homonymous, and in neither Hebrew nor English are they synonymous. But they read the same off a teleprompter in English.
That story isn't in my Bible.
What did you *DO*?
And which one would that be?
Any one you choose. The priests blew trumpets, but the wind from the trumpets didn’t knock the wall down, as this says.
Jordan closed Bethlehem to Christians from 1949 until 1967 when Israel opened the gates. Now the [Arab Moslem Terror Network], headed by Mahmoud Abbas, prohibited a Jewish guide from attending a Congressmanâs tour. Florida Republican and Tea Party member Allen West wrote his constituents after touring Israel earlier this month...
So, if the Jewish tour guide wanted to tag along as a paying customer, there is no reason for the PA to deny him.
If youd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I like this quote from Col West from the end of the article:
For those who tout, Free Palestine, I agree, return it back to the inhabitants [Jews] who had the land taken from them back in the early 1st Century AD by the Romans.
I don’t think they are allowed in at all.
Book of Joshua, Chapter 6.
“the Bible teaches us that Joshua blew down the wall with trumpets”
“That story isn’t in my Bible.”
And what bible would that be?
The Battle of Jericho is described in the Book of Joshua,(Joshua 6:1-27).
As kids, we learned the old song “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” in Sunday School.
Thanks, I passed over that. Might try to squeeze it into a tagline. Does that work?
How about, Free Palestine - Return it to the Jews it was stolen from by Rome.
It’s not grammatically correct, but WTH :-)
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