Posted on 06/29/2015 5:13:05 PM PDT by BlackVeil
Young American came to Israel alone to serve in the IDF, but ended up enthralled in a conspiracy to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
He made aliyah from United States as a lone soldier, served as a fighter in the Givati Reconnaissance Battalion, was wounded in Operation Protective Edge, and was a short time away from being released and returning to his family in Los Angeles. But that was when he began his troubled path. ...
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While David had to serve time in military prison, Livix managed to escape prosecution due to health reasons.
Israel has tried (as best the circumstances permit) to protect not only Jewish and Christian places of worship (and there have been some failures, to be sure) but also Moslem mosques like the Dome of the Rock.
I personally feel it was a super-sized mistake for Moshe Dayan to hand the keys to the Dome back to the Islamicist iman there, in 1967. But, that was the decision at the time, to show respect for the enemy’s religion ... and with hopes (naive, as we have unfortunately seen since) that maybe the enemy would show some respect for Jewish/Christian faith in return. Sorry, Dayan, for all the good things you did... that decision was a failure.
Nobody can get it all Right, of course.
Even Ronald Reagan raised the national debt, after all.
Life goes on. Maybe an earthquake might someday provide some urban renewal there, too? It IS, after all, quake country...
Yes, in the 1920s there were earthquakes which killed thousands of people around Jerusalem.
And archaologists tell us that the walls of Jericho did come tumbling down - many times - because of the fault lines.
Dayan didn’t hand over the Temple Mount to the Waqf in order to show respect to Islam, he handed it over to keep it out of Jewish hands.
You nailed it! Yes, it is totally like that series.
It is spooky that real life characters may be acting out such a plot.
Hasn’t been a really big quake in Eretz Yisrael for a thousand years. A big one is long overdue, although it wouldn’t take a big one to do real damage.
http://eretzyisroel.blogspot.com/2007/12/big-one-is-due-earthquakes-in-israel.html
I’ve never understood the Temple Mount situation.
One of the best background pieces on the the current Temple Mount problems is at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs site:
http://www.jcpa.org/jpsr/s99-yc.htm
i’ve always called it the F U Mosque, because that’s exactly the symbolic value it holds for muzzies.
are there any synagogues in Saudia Arabia? if the answer is “no”, then there should not be any mosques in Israel.
i say... blow. it. up.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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“the walls of Jericho did come tumbling down - many times - because of the fault lines.”
Maybe. There were also very clear sapping tunnels dug under the walls of Jericho.
Hence the marching and blowing horns — it covered the sound of the sappers.
Still a miracle, but G-d tends to work with the Laws of Physics. After all, they are His laws.
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