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PlayWestern Wall Discovery
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The world would be outraged if:

🇸🇦 Israel launched a "Mecca Force" to conquer Arabia
🇮🇹 Turkey launched a "Vatican Force" to conquer Italy
🇮🇳 France launched a "Sapta Puri Force" to conquer India

But the world's ok with:

🇮🇱 Iran trying to conquer Israel with their "Jerusalem Force" ... See MoreSee Less

4 days ago

Please SHARE the TRUTH about Jerusalem and help protect Israels eternal unified capital!
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In a special prayer service held at the Western Wall, many prayed for the entire world, and China in particular, to overcome the spread of the Corona virus, and for a speedy recovery to all those who are ill.

The Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, said: The Western Wall is a prayer site for Jews and non-Jews. We pray that China will overcome the Corona virus and that it will not spread in China or elsewhere around the world. ... See MoreSee Less

1 week ago

Prayers today in Jerusalem for those suffering in China...
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That's total bullshit. Israel had begun archaeological excavation under the area below the Dome of the rock where the Holy of Holies section of the ancient temple was. Due to complaints from Muslims all excavation had ceased at least a decade ago. I saw this with my own eyes a few months ago. Anyone can tour along the excavated site of the western wall of the ancient Temple and see that no digging is happening through the gateway.

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2 weeks ago

PlayMUSLIMS CHANT DEATH TO JEWS ON AND AROUND TEMPLE MOUNT
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🛑 🛑 🛑 or face the wrath of JEHOVA !!!

BASURA

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4 weeks ago

PlayThe Palestinian reaction to the Peace Plan: violent riots
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They want Israel gone. Plain and simple.

Showing their true colors

They say it’s bad so you know it must be good.

I'd wish a translation of the the man on the megaphone to English.

Destructive barbarians are not peace partners.

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DEAL OF THE CENTURY: WHAT WILL IT BE ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT: STATUS QUO OR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?

In their joint press conference on Tuesday, in which the details of the Trump administration's 'Deal of the Century' were revealed for the first time, both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that the current status quo on the Temple Mount is to be preserved.

There is much to be recommended in the Deal of the Century and much to be dismissed, (the establishment of a Palestinian state in the heartland of Israel, to give one example), but the preservation of the status quo on the Temple Mount is an affront to all freedom loving people, and contradicts the spirit of the proposed agreement, which has otherwise made far-reaching strides toward addressing other issues vital to Israel's interests.

The Temple Mount status quo is a most egregious relic from Israel's post 1967 Six Day War arrangement with Jordan, which had illegally occupied the Temple Mount for nineteen years. The agreement was to allow the Muslim Waqf which administered the Muslim sites on the Temple Mount to remain in place. Jewish presence was to be minimized. This status quo evolved over the decades to today's farcical status quo, in which the Muslim Waqf claims, and works actively and illegally to control the entire Temple Mount under the absurd and patently false claim that the entire Temple Mount is a Muslim mosque and therefore exclusive only to Muslims. Non-Muslims, Jews and Christians alike, are left with the table scraps: exceedingly limited hours in which they are allowed access to the Mount, and a total ban on any religious worship on the Mount.

While gains have been made in recent years enabling very limited Jewish prayer on the Mount, the current situation remains an open and festering atrocity.

Any attempt toward attaining peace in the land of Israel that does not ensure unlimited access and freedom of worship to peoples of all faiths is doomed to fail. Any international agreement that does not honor the vision of Isaiah, who spoke in G-d's name, "For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations," (Isaiah 56:7) is not worth the paper it is written on.

It was very disheartening to hear both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu voice allegiance to the discriminatory and disgraceful status quo on the Temple Mount.

The written text of the Deal of the Century likewise calls for the preservation of the status quo, but immediately after, oddly enough, calls for the eradication of the status quo:

The relevant section (on page 16 of the “Peace to Prosperity” document released Tuesday), reads as follows:

“Unlike many previous powers that had ruled Jerusalem, and had destroyed the holy sites of other faiths, the State of Israel is to be commended for safeguarding the religious sites of all and maintaining a religious status quo. Given this commendable record for more than half a century, as well as the extreme sensitivity regarding some of Jerusalem’s holy sites, we believe that this practice should remain, and that all of Jerusalem’s holy sites should be subject to the same governance regimes that exist today. In particular the status quo at the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif should continue uninterrupted.

“Jerusalem’s holy sites should remain open and available for peaceful worshippers and tourists of all faiths. People of every faith should be permitted to pray on the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, in a manner that is fully respectful to their religion, taking into account the times of each religion’s prayers and holidays, as well as other religious factors.”

What will it be: religious freedom or the preservation of the status quo on the Temple Mount? They cannot coexist. One cancels out the other.

Unfortunately, we have witnessed this double-speak before. The Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty of 1994 reads as follows:

ARTICLE 9

PLACES OF HISTORICAL AND RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE

1 Each party will provide freedom of access to places of religious and historical significance.

2 In this regard, in accordance with the Washington Declaration, Israel respects the present special role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in Muslim Holy shrines in Jerusalem. When negotiations on the permanent status will take place, Israel will give high priority to the Jordanian historic role in these shrines.

3 The Parties will act together to promote interfaith relations among the three monotheistic religions, with the aim of working towards religious understanding, moral commitment, freedom of religious worship, and tolerance and peace.

The Israeli government's insistence on maintaining the status quo as a sop to the Jordanian monarch is in direct violation of both the treaty's word and spirit, plain and simple.

Trashing the persistent and pernicious status quo, for one and for all, while it may ruffle King Abdullah's feathers, and guaranteeing, protecting and providing freedom of worship on the Temple Mount for all faiths, is the only way to attain peace and justice and make immeasurable strides towards the fulfilling of Isaiah's timeless vision of harmony and brotherhood for all mankind. ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

Important questions... Israel must never compromise on its eternal unified capital!
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On International Holocaust Day we remember Elie Wiesel, who survived the Holocaust and devoted his life to the memory of the Shoah and all those who perished. May his memory be a blessing. ... See MoreSee Less

4 weeks ago

Today is International Holocaust Rememberance Day. It is a day we remember the loss of over 6 million Jewish people. Jerusalem will never remain silent and the light of TRUTH will continue to shine forth from Israels capital city!
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And appeasing evil only encourages evil; it makes them think you're WEAK (anyone remember Barack Obama?).

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God Bless our Nations

The latest in the Palestinian Arab rewriting of history.
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1 month ago

uh huh!
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Sadly, barbarians believe manure & teach their children the same lies; perpetual stupidity.

Congratulations to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on just entering the 16th year of his 4-year term. ... See MoreSee Less

1 month ago

Yes, ladies and gentlemen - this is the leadership that wants to claim Jerusalem from Israel. They claim that giving away Jerusalem is a prerequisite to holding peace negotiations with them. They cant even hold simple elections after 16 years!
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2 months ago

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Is there proof of the Hanukkah story?
Did archeologists unearth a piece of the Hanukkah story?

An extremely special item was found just to the bottom of the Temple Mount next to the Western Wall!

We all know the story of the Maccabees rebellion against the Greeks and the rededication of the holy Temple. We all know that the Maccabees came into the Temple and all the oil had been made impure besides for one jug, which lasted 8 days instead of just one.

But how did the Maccabees know what oil was pure and which jug was impure? The Talmud tells us that It was very simple, the jugs had seals on them from the Kohen Gadol. These seals were impressed on the jugs with the words "Pure to Hashem" and if the seal was broken, the jug of oil couldn't be used for the Menorah in the Temple.

These exact seals were actually discovered right next to the Temple mount where the Temple stood! Archeologists found these seal imprints under a road built by Herod next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which say in Aramaic: "Daka L'ya" or "Pure to Hashem"!

Could one of these have been the unbroken High Priest's seal to the jug of oil that lasted 8 days instead of one? Maybe yes or maybe not. But what we do know is that these seals were used in the Temple to show the priests that the jugs of oil were still pure, just like the story of Hannukah tells us! This gives us more evidence of the amazing life of the times of the Temple and sheds some "light" on the historical story of Hannukkah!

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2 months ago

Wow, awesome!! Check it out!
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