Peres on Sept 5th goes to Vatican to see if Catholic Church will oversee the Temple Mount

Shimon Peres is going to see the Pope on September 5th to see if the Catholic Church will oversee the temple mount. The reason is the his plan to negotiate for sharing it with the Muslim as outlined in a final status deal with the Palestinians before an international conference in November.

Peres quietly drafted a plan for the Jewish state to evacuate and transfer to the Palestinians nearly the entire West Bank and several Arab Israeli cities located within territory that undisputedly is Israel's according to the international community.

The diplomatic sources also said earlier this U.S.-brokered month biweekly meetings between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are being utilized to draft the outline of a permanent status deal ultimately yielding a Palestinian state scheduled to be aired in public at the November summit, which is being organized by the U.S.

Instead of a slow progression toward peace which will never work as the terrorists don't want peace, the goal is and end-round run around the process and move straight to the end, peace will be declared and the terrorists will be left scratching thier heads. Only, there's a big miscalculation, it won't bring peace, but an utter revoltion in the Muslim world. There are many who think we are quickly appraoching the prophecy of 2 billion people being wipded out, in fact, they think we are less than 12 months from a major catstrophic world wide conflict, are they right? I'm not sure. However, with the US helping to lead the push and now Tony Blair in his new role, and a potential win by Hellary appointing Bill Clinton as our Mideast ambassador, I think there is much reason for concern.

We are heading, IMHO, into the end which is going to come like a thief in the night.

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Peres to meet with pope, Italian PM next month

George Conger, Jerusalem Post correspondent , THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 25, 2007

Peace in the Middle East and the resolution of property and tax disputes with the Roman Catholic Church will top the agenda of President Shimon Peres’s September 6 meeting with Pope Benedict XVI.

On Friday, Vatican Radio announced the two will meet next month at Castel Gandalfo, the Pope’s summer palace outside Rome.

Peres will travel to Italy on September 5 and will also meet with his counterpart, President Giorgio Napolitano and Prime Minister Romano Prodi.

While the trip will be Peres’ first since assuming the Presidency, as foreign minister and prime minister the veteran politician has been a frequent guest of the Vatican. In April 2006, while out of public office, he had a private meeting with Pope Benedict to discuss the political situation in the region.

Benedict wrote Peres in July, congratulating him on his election and stating that he hoped his presidency would serve as a vehicle for peace.

In Nov 2005 Benedict met with then President Moshe Katsav in Rome and the Israeli leader extended a formal invitation to visit Israel.

Benedict responded positively, but no date has yet been set. A papal visit to Israel is understood to be contingent on the successful resolution of the long running legal dispute over the tax and property status of Catholic institutions in Israel.

The papal audience comes at the end of a summer of uneven Jewish-Catholic relations, and will take place three days after a meeting in Jerusalem of the joint Israeli-Vatican Bilateral Permanent Working Commission to resolve the property disputes.

Last month the Chief Rabbinate of Israel wrote Benedict asking for clarification on his July decision to permit wider use of the 1962 Latin ‘Tridentine’ rite, which includes Good Friday prayers for the “conversion of the Jews.” Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone later told reporters the conversion prayer question was under study.

Jewish groups have also expressed concern over the Pope’s August 5 meeting with Polish priest, Fr. Tadeusz Rydzyk, the director of Radio Maryja. The Council of Europe’s Commission on Racism and Intolerance criticized the station in 2005, saying it had been “openly inciting to anti-Semitism for several years.”

Polish newspapers reported Fr. Rydzyk had been permitted to kiss the Pope’s ring during an August audience. In response to questions raised by Jewish groups, the Vatican issued a statement on August 9 saying the “kiss” did not “imply any change in the Holy See’s well-known position on relations between Catholics and Jews.”

However, Vatican and Israeli officials say relations have never been better. On August 16, Oded Ben-Hur, the Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, told the Catholic News Service “officially and institutionally, relations are constantly improving.”

I’d be very surprised: 1) if the Vatican accepted overseeing the Temple Mount, and 2) If the Vatican accepted such overseeing, that the muslim organization (Wafq?) that currently holds the keys, so to speak (Dayan let them have it back after the ‘67 war) would even permit any Christian church/organization to have any control.

I don’t know of any instance where islam every agreed to any non-muslim entity controlling any place where a muslim’s foot stood for 30 seconds without a war happening first. If Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t tell Peres “thanks, but no thanks”, the Wafq will kybash it. The muslims think the Temple Mount is theirs, and their “excavations” where they dump Jewish artifacts in the garbage to try and eliminate any traces of pre-muslim occupation of the Mount show that they would not plan on giving control of that area to anyone without a major rhubarb.

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