Posted on 04/04/2002 8:52:42 AM PST by SJackson
Large quantities of explosives have been placed in the Joseph’s Tomb complex in Shechem, preventing our forces now operating in Shechem from entering the holy site and liberating it once again from the hands of PLO militia forces.
The IDF abandoned the holy site on 7 October 2000, in the beginning of the Oslo War, after soldier Madhat Yousef was permitted to bleed to death over a period of hours as the government negotiated with the PA to permit forces to extricate the army force and the gravely wounded soldier.
Since that time, PA residents who immediately disgraced the sanctity of the location, actively working to burn the Torah scrolls and holy books, seeking to eradicate any trace of its Jewish roots, overran the holy site. Israel has remained paralyzed and has not taken any steps to regain control of the site which is to remain under Israel sovereignty only as per the Oslo Agreements.
Given that Bobby Fischer is as much an anti-Semitic loony as anyone in the PLO, you may well be right.
I have no doubt that, somewhere in the bowels of Tora Bora or Ramallah plans for the final mosque conversion exist. Gild the dome, move some pillars, carpet the steps and there you have it.
The lack of coverage in the US media, even when it happened, is chilling.
If?
This happened a year and a half ago.
Have you heard the World complain? The USA?
If Israel now took it back, you would hear of Israel desecrating an Islamic site.
I'll go back to my original point. If you care about such things, include yourself among the poportionally infinitesimal Gentile righteous- although I don't know how you could be on FR for so long and not know.
As for how I missed this earlier, I don't know what to say. I never used to pay so much attention to the Israel threads. Human nature is selfish, I suppose, and I remained ignorant so long as I was unaffected.
The Islamization Of Biblical Sites In Israel
Israel should be pounding the table day and night about the 800,000 Jews who were evicted from the Arab nations after 1948.
Agreed. However, despite the difficulties, Israel must make the effort to show the emptiness or the hypocracy in the Arab position. The worst that could happen is that things would go on as at present. However, some progress would be made. The effort would cost nothing, and potentially win some supporters and neutralize some opponents.
By the way, I have seen Regev. He is a very skilled debater and good on TV, very much like Bibi. He would, IMHO, be an ideal person to bring up these points. Bibi should also do it, regardless of whether anyone in the Israeli government likes it.
You betcha! Plenty of fundamentalist Christians are as serious about this as any of the Jews you might know. This probably even applies to a lot of Christians who don't consider themselves to be fundamentalists,too.
As far as that goes,it even applies to non-believers such as me. These are historical and cultural sites,as well as religious sites. I don't want to see them harmed or destroyed.
Give Europe another 50 years, maybe less. Muslim immigration and birth rates will accomplish what jihad could not.
You see anyone listening?
Let us hope that statement will be true in 50 years from now.
Keep in mind that Jewish holy sites are also Christian holy sites. Our history is also Christian history, at least until the first century.
http://www.israelemb.org/bios/regev.htm
We're watching and listening. The time will come for proper retribution.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.