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Jerusalem Wall Collapse Sparks Jewish-Muslim Row: MUSLIMS CONTINUE ATTEMPT TO ERASE JEWISH HISTORY
rEUTERS ^ | Jerusalem Wall Collapse Sparks Jewish-Muslim Row

Posted on 02/15/2004 12:17:52 PM PST by Cinnamon Girl

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The collapse of part of Jerusalem's Western Wall during a rare snowstorm sparked a row between Jewish and Muslim clerics Sunday as one rabbi called it a miracle no worshippers were hurt.

The collapse late Saturday of an 800-year-old embankment next to where Jewish women pray at the site commonly known as the "wailing wall" sent people fleeing from tumbling rocks.

The Muslim authority for the area, the Waqf, blamed Israeli building work nearby for the problem; but an Israeli architect said construction by Arabs was making the wall unstable.

"It's a miracle nobody was hurt," said rabbi Shmuel Rabinovich, blaming time and the weather for the collapse.

Engineers were also looking at whether a small earthquake last week might have played a part in the incident. Israeli police kept people away from the site Sunday.

The head of the Waqf, whose authority includes the Al-Aqsa mosque above the wall, said it had been complaining about Israeli renovations of the Western Wall plaza for some time.

"We've been saying it could cause problems," said Adnan al-Husseini.

Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar said it was the fifth time in two years that parts of the walls had begun to crumble, buckle or crack as a result of what she called unsupervised construction by the Waqf -- a charge the Muslim clerics deny.

"What concerns me most is the Temple Mount itself is in danger of collapsing...The earthquake has certainly done more damage but nobody goes to check," she told Reuters.

Jewish women worship separately from men and Rabinovich said partitions would be set up in the men's section to allow women to pray there until their area was made safe after the collapse.

New Yorker Frady Schwartz, praying at the wall Sunday, was unfazed; she said with a shrug: "It's in God's hands."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; Israel
KEYWORDS: jerusalem; templemount; zionist
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To: Just mythoughts
A twin who? I did not find that? who do you say it is? and where did you track down the info? I could not..?
101 posted on 02/15/2004 7:00:56 PM PST by missyme
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To: Cinnamon Girl
you can't build the new jewish temple until the Al-Aqsa mosque is .....gone. Gods gonna knock it down for the Jews!
102 posted on 02/15/2004 7:01:23 PM PST by gdc61
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To: Bobby777
Blessed are those who do not say "I wouldn't hinder"...

Blessed are those who join in, and contribute, and help build.
103 posted on 02/15/2004 7:02:27 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: gdc61
May it go from your mouth, to G-d's ears.
104 posted on 02/15/2004 7:02:58 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: gdc61
Read psalm 83. Read Isaiah 29.
105 posted on 02/15/2004 7:03:52 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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To: Chris Talk
"No, he is said to be a man, read Daniel 8. Read end verses of Daniel 11"

A man that has no desire for women.

106 posted on 02/15/2004 7:06:33 PM PST by freedom9
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To: Bobby777
I AGREE!

LORD, PLEASE INTENSIFY PEACE IN JERUSALEM as long as possible!
107 posted on 02/15/2004 7:06:54 PM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: johnb838
The Temple will be rebuilt. It is merely a matter of when, not if.
108 posted on 02/15/2004 7:07:42 PM PST by Imal (Nothing is more terrifying to a liberal than a strong America.)
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To: rmlew
YUP!
109 posted on 02/15/2004 7:07:50 PM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: missyme
Jacob had a brother, a twin, firstborn, typically one who would inherit.

ESAU - What was written about him? If what is going on about Jacob/Israel is contained in prophecy then so is what was written about ESAU.
110 posted on 02/15/2004 7:08:33 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Bobby777; SJackson; yonif; Simcha7; American in Israel; spectacularbid2003; Binyamin; ...
"something is going to happen so that the Third Temple can be built ... I don't have any idea what event or series of events it is, but it is going to happen ... guaranteed ..."

Yep. Guaranteed.

Hey, this is a pretty productive and educational thread.




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There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass. (Joshua 21:45)

Letter To The President In Support Of Israel ~
'Final Solution,' Phase 2 ~
Warnings ~

111 posted on 02/15/2004 7:08:35 PM PST by Salem (FREE REPUBLIC - Fighting to win within the Arena of the War of Ideas! So get in the fight!)
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To: Bobby777
I agree with that ... though it's possible he made it all up ... either way, 600 years after the Advent of Christ, the God of Israel wouldn't spawn a new "religion" ... that much is for certain ...

Political correctness is a theology that's the opposite of Gods natural laws and Commandments.
It is a religion based on peace, but it deceives many.
The apostate church is preaching it.
The Jews accept it.
It has a leader. The Jews accept him.
The whole pagan world marvels after him. He deceives through his speeches - his lying tongue.
He is not elected to the position. He's a self appointed king. He leads from behind the scenes, a great deceiver.
He's in the EU, and is doing well.Everything fits. If he's not the anti-Christ, he's the prophet setting the stage.

112 posted on 02/15/2004 7:11:04 PM PST by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Just mythoughts
A Twin that would not inherit right>
114 posted on 02/15/2004 7:13:53 PM PST by missyme
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To: missyme
Idumaea (Idumea - Greek) = Edom

Is 34:5
Is 34:6
Eze 35:15
Eze 36:5

It is what Esau did and it is the "SYSTEM" set up being spoken of as well.
115 posted on 02/15/2004 7:14:41 PM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Chris Talk
ISAIAH 30:12-15:

Therefore, this is what the Holy One of Israel says:

"Because you hae rejected this message, relied on oppression and depend on deceit, this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant. 14 It will break in pieces like pottery, shattered so mercilessly that among its pieces not a fragment will be found for taking coals from a hearth or scooping water out of a sistern.

15 This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: 'In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it. NIV

16 You said, 'No, we will flee on horses.'
Therefore you will flee!
You said, 'We will ride off on swift horses.'
Therefore your pursuers will be swift!
17 A thousand will flee
at the threat of one;
at the threat of five
you will all flee away,
till you are left
like a flagstaff on a mountaintop,
like a banner on a hill."

18 Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you compassion.
For the LORD is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!

19 O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. 20 Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them. 21 Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." 22 Then you will defile your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, "Away with you!"

23 He will also send you rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. In that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows. 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel. 25 In the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall, streams of water will flow on every high mountain and every lofty hill. 26 The moon will shine like the sun, and the sunlight will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven full days, when the LORD binds up the bruises of his people and heals the wounds he inflicted.

27 See, the Name of the LORD comes from afar,
with burning anger and dense clouds of smoke;
his lips are full of wrath,
and his tongue is a consuming fire.
28 His breath is like a rushing torrent,
rising up to the neck.
He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction;
he places in the jaws of the peoples
a bit that leads them astray.
29 And you will sing
as on the night you celebrate a holy festival;
your hearts will rejoice
as when people go up with flutes
to the mountain of the LORD ,
to the Rock of Israel.
30 The LORD will cause men to hear his majestic voice
and will make them see his arm coming down
with raging anger and consuming fire,
with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
31 The voice of the LORD will shatter Assyria;
with his scepter he will strike them down.
32 Every stroke the LORD lays on them
with his punishing rod
will be to the music of tambourines and harps,
as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.
33 Topheth has long been prepared;
it has been made ready for the king.
Its fire pit has been made deep and wide,
with an abundance of fire and wood;
the breath of the LORD ,
like a stream of burning sulfur,
sets it ablaze.


© Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
116 posted on 02/15/2004 7:15:21 PM PST by Quix (Choose this day whom U will serve: Shrillery & demonic goons or The King of Kings and Lord of Lords)
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To: jonatron
The Anti-Christ is a person and also apostate christianity

117 posted on 02/15/2004 7:15:35 PM PST by missyme
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To: jonatron
Also the red heifer has been born already in Israel setting the stage for Animal Sacrafices in the temple..
118 posted on 02/15/2004 7:17:49 PM PST by missyme
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To: concerned about politics
yep, I'd say I agree with all you said ...

while there may be war, even severe war, this Antichrist comes in bringing "peace" ... as Dave Hunt says, a deception of the most creative kind ...

and Daniel 8:25 (IIRC) is what you are referring too ...

"by (false) peace shall he (the Antichrist) destroy many"

parenthetical notations mine ...
119 posted on 02/15/2004 7:18:51 PM PST by Bobby777
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To: Quix
Re ufology, the word translated Name in vs 27 means "MILITARY AIRCRAFT" i.e. Missile or Plane, a war vehicle in the air.
120 posted on 02/15/2004 7:19:16 PM PST by Chris Talk (What Earth now is, Mars once was. What Mars now is, Earth will become.)
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