Posted on 06/07/2022 5:58:46 AM PDT by SJackson
The US State Department once again is resuscitating the idea of reopening a Jerusalem consulate. But according to Al-Arabiya, the US is committed to the reopening of the US consulate in Jerusalem. Ned Price, the State Department spokesman told reporters last Tuesday that, “We continue to believe it can be an important way for our country to engage with and provide support for the Palestinian people.” If that is to happen, the Biden administration will be responsible for rewarding the Palestinians for their intransigence and terror, as well as undermining Israel’s sovereignty over a united Jerusalem.
The Bennett government is very much against such a move by the US. Israel contends that it would clearly erode Israel’s position in Jerusalem. Joe Biden, as a contender for the US presidency in 2020, made a campaign promise to reverse his predecessor’s decision in 2019, to close the Jerusalem consulate in eastern Jerusalem, and move its operations to the newly established US embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. President Trump, in an unprecedented action, moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Israel’s historical capital, and the seat of the Israeli government. Winning the 2020 elections, President Biden rushed to undo most of President Trump’s moves in the region, but he nonetheless resolved to keep the US embassy in Jerusalem.
Several US presidents, both Democrat and Republican, promised in their election campaigns to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. None kept their promise. It was Donald Trump, however, who really kept his promise. Considering what Jerusalem meant for Israelis and Jews everywhere, it was simply an inconceivable bias by the past US administrations to single out Israel as virtually the only democratic state whose real capital (Jerusalem) was not recognized officially by its supposed allies and friends. All of them kept their embassies in Tel Aviv.
Cognizant of an Israeli pushback against the Biden administration’s decision to reopen the Jerusalem consulate, which was hitherto delayed, prompted Ned Price to say, ”There are a number of steps that go into the reopening of any diplomatic facility.” A report in the Times of Israel, suggested that the Biden administration has settled on a number of steps aimed at boosting ties with the Palestinians in lieu of reopening the US consulate in Jerusalem.
The steps referred to by the Biden administration officials and explained to the Times of Israel include; elevating Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr, to the role of Special Envoy to the Palestinians. Amr will be based in Washington but will make regular trips to the region, and work closely with the Palestinian Affairs Unit (PAU), which is currently a section within the US Jerusalem embassy to Israel, but it will be housed in the old consulate building in eastern Jerusalem.
Late last year, 200 Republican members of Congress led by US Representative Lee Zeldin (R-NY), signed a letter addressed to the Biden administration which rejected the Biden administrations decision to reopen the Jerusalem consulate. It stated that the consulate (closed by President Trump in 2019) is not compatible with US law, pointing out that Jerusalem is Israel’s only and undivided capital. The letter charged that the Biden administration would create a misguided situation in which the US would essentially have two separate diplomatic missions in Israel’s capital.
The Republican House members argued furthermore that the US consulate General in Jerusalem that was established in 1844 was not intended to serve as an outreach to the Palestinians in Israel’s capital. Their letter urged the Biden administration to respect America’s close ally Israel, and its opposition to the reopening of the consulate.
Back in November 2021, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, in a closed door meeting in Washington with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, has reportedly warned Blinken that reopening the consulate in Jerusalem “would risk toppling the coalition government.” This came in response to Blinken stating in a joint press conference with Lapid earlier in Washington, that the Biden administration intends to proceed with the consulate plan. Blinken stated, “As I said in May, we’ll be moving with the process of opening a consulate as part of deepening ties with the Palestinians.”
The Palestinian leadership in Ramallah has angrily rejected the Trump peace deal, titled Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People, unveiled on January 28, 2020. Mahmud Abbas, chairman of the PA, and his leadership, said no to the plan even before it was presented, and they did so without offering modifications to the plan or an alternative plan. Abbas was encouraged by some of the leading Democratic Party 2020 presidential candidates who denounced the Trump peace plan as a “smokescreen for annexation.” And yet, while some of the Democratic contenders dismissed the Trump peace plan, the ambassadors of Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates, who were present at the launch of the Trump peace plan, welcomed it. Other Arab states, including Egypt, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia, expressed their support for the Trump peace efforts, and praised many of the elements in the plan.
In fact, the Trump peace plan preserved the boundaries of the two-state solution, while providing the Palestinians land from inside Israel’s June 4, 1967 territory to compensate for Israel’s absorbing the Israeli/Jewish settlement blocs in historical Judea and Samaria. Much like all previous no’s by the Palestinians, this was another no to peace from the Palestinians, who have refused to end the conflict. Moreover, the PA, and Abbas himself, are inciting violence against Israel at every given opportunity, and continue a policy of “pay to slay,” in which international humanitarian monetary aid to the Palestinians is being used as payments to the families of convicted Palestinian terrorists who have murdered Israelis.
While the Biden administration has refrained from specification of Jerusalem’s final status, the message is nevertheless a clear backtracking from Trump’s plan that stipulated that “Jerusalem will remain the sovereign capital of the State of Israel, and that it should remain an undivided city.” To erase Trump’s positive achievements in the region, the Biden team is seeking to reward the Palestinians at Israel’s expense, by undermining Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem. It is mystifying why the Biden administration would once again seek dividing Jerusalem into two separate diplomatic entities: A US embassy to Israel in Jerusalem, and a US consulate for Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem. If indeed the Palestinians merit a special consulate, why not set it up in Ramallah?
why not set it up in Ramallah?
What diplomat wants to life in Ramallah?
They mean the Biden regime not the State Department.
(Jerusalem’s final status,)
Here is Jerusalem’s Final Status:
Zechariah 12:3
King James Version
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%2012%3A3&version=KJV
Zechariah 14:1-5
King James Version
14 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
3 Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
5 And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Zechariah%2014%3A1-5&version=KJV
Jerusalem is not just any other city and Israel is not just another country.. This Washington today are so removed from its history and from the Bible, they have no business deciding anything.
... the State Department spokesman told reporters last Tuesday that, “We continue to believe it can be an important way for our country to engage with and provide support for the Palestinian people.” Adding, “Our hatred of the Jews is almost as great as our hatred of Israel. As they say in those parts, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
The Snske Department has never been deNazified. Yet
AD 688 -- the abomination that caused desolation may have been when the Dome of the Rock was put on the Temple Mount.
AD 1948 -- maybe the 1,260 days in Rev 11:3 is the "time, times and half a time" in Daniel 12:7 (some folks interpret that as 3.5 years, with a "year" being 360 days, and the "days" being years, so it's 1,260 years like Rev 11:3). And Rev 11:6's "power to shut up the heavens so it doesn't rain on the earth" sounds a lot like the "desolation" in Daniel. Plus in history we see that when the Ottoman Empire (a very large empire in history deserving at least some consideration in eschatology, especially if we believe much eschatology centers around the Middle East in general and Jerusalem specifically) took over much of the middle east and Jerusalem (and parts of Europe and North Africa), much of the land was a desert land that had been fairly lush prior to the Muslim invasion. Yet in AD 1948, 1,260 years after AD 688, Israel becomes a nation again and starts changing their ecology to be less desolate. The northern half of Israel may not be as lush as an Alabama forest, but it's lush relative to much of the surrounding middle east. Side note: it's possible that the "two prophets" in Revelation 11 at that point are individual people, but Judaism and Christianity, or perhaps the Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire were brutal to non-Christians around them (after the Roman Empire became Christian). And after AD 300 that area had a lot of desolation climate-wise (shutting off the rains in Rev 11:6). And after the Muslims took over Jerusalem, planting the flag so to speak with the Dome of the Rock in AD 688, the Muslims gloated for a while over the fall of the Christian empires. But in World War I the Christian nations defeated the Ottoman Empire that stupidly joined the war on the Axis side, took over Jerusalem, and gave it back to the Jews in 1948. 1,260 years after the "official" year of the Dome of the Rock.
AD 1978 -- Daniel 12:11 says 1,290 days (or years) for the desolation after the abomination. Perhaps, perhaps, this is the year Israel and Egypt signed a peace deal. Something that was undreamt of in the 1948 war and 1967 war. As much as we complain about Israel not having peace since 1978, an argument could be made that their problems since then are child's play compared to the problems from 1948 to 1978. And before 1948 if you include the centuries of the Jewish dispora.
AD 2023 (since the Jewish New Year starts in September, count it as beginning in fall 2022) -- Daniel 12:12 says blessed are those who reach the end of 1,335 days (perhaps years). If that's 1,335 years after AD 688, then it's AD 2023. Even if I'm right on the years with my theory, don't ask me what the "blessed" is about. I doubt it's Christ's return. The text seems to be centered around Israel or Jerusalem. Maybe it's when Israel fully includes the entire city of Jerusalem. Maybe it's when sacrifices resume. Maybe it's when the Jews go back to praying at the Wailing Wall without care if Muslims are offended (right now Israel forbids Jews from praying there so Muslims aren't offended, except for rare times). Maybe Israel signs a much more affirmative Abraham peace accord with more Muslim nations and enters a true era of peace. Maybe Israel and most of the Muslim nations team up against Iran. Maybe Europe signs energy contracts with Israel and Israel makes bank with their Leviathan supply because Europe finally quit caring if being nice to Israel offends Muslim nations.
I dunno. I'm just watching. LOL
(Israel signs a much more affirmative Abraham peace accord)
And Satan’s anti-messiah will be loosed upon the world 🌎🌍 when he (somehow) “confirms’ the 7 year covenant of ‘Peace and Security’.
The overwhelming majority of the world shall be fooled.
Three and one-half years later (actually 1,260 days), this man of lawlessness shall declare himself to be “God” and the false prophet will enforce the Mark of the Beast.
I AM wondering if September this year will see another correction in the U. S. stock market but that’s just a mild curiosity, not suggesting Biblical. Except Bidenflation is already scary 😨😱😳 enough this year.
Even JK was in front of a ‘Peace and Security’ sign.
Which (the term) is predicted right in the Bible. Now how it ACTUALLY happens is yet to be seen.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
Revised Standard Version
3 When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians%205%3A3&version=RSV
God bless you.
Keep watching and praying!!!
🛐🙏✝️
We have an embassy for “Palestinians”; it’s in Jordan, which represents about 60% of the “Palestinians”.
(the “two prophets” in Revelation 11)
They will be 2 men.
They will be killed after that first 1,260 days.
Their bodies will lie in some street in Jerusalem for three and a half days.
An overjoyed godless world 🌎🌍 will send gifts to one another. Amazon Prime will do a booming business for three and a half days.
Then, the 2 men come back to life...
Uh oh......
And the whole godless world 🌎🌍 will be watching on CNN and MSNBC. And internet cameras.
Then shall be great tribulation and saints who refuse the Mark of the Beast shall be martyred.
Revelation 14:9-12
King James Version
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2014%3A9-12&version=KJV
Idiocy at its most obvious
Joke Biden
The Biden clique, aka Obama MARXIST cabal, has always been Anti-Israel if not anti-Semitic. That is why so many leftists from the Obama regime are now running our foreign policies.
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