3 posts tagged “land for peace”
Ted Bellman believes a peace deal has been made between Israel and Syria.
Apparently Israel has working behind closed doors under Turkish mediation to cut yet another land for peace scheme with Syria. Bellman suspects there is a relationship with Egypt mediated truce between Israel and Hamas.
It all boils down to the apparent success of convincing Arabs and Sunni minded Turks that Shi’ite Iran has become so much of a threat to the ruling Sunni Elites of the Middle East, that they are willing to make serious deals to legitimize Israel in order to focus on Iran.
It would be a huge coup to get Syria on board with the other Arab nations and Turkey and out of the Iranian orbit.
The thing is I do not trust it. Assad of Syria has signed military pacts with Iran. Syria and Iran has been a conduit to provide sophisticated weaponry to Shi’ite Hezbollah of Lebanon to the detriment of Sunni Muslims and Christian Arabs of the same nation. Since Hezbollah is a puppet of Iran with a goal to eradicate Israel, there is an essence of treachery in the air.
Another thing to consider is that the population of Syria is a majority Sunni Muslim nation; however the ruling elites are Alawites more akin to Shia than Sunni. The only thing that Shia and Sunni really have in common is the radical Islamic element hating Israel and America.
I personally have the opinion the Alawite elites of Syria are practicing Taqiyya with the Sunni Arabs and Israel in a Machiavellian move to strategically upgrade military positioning on Israel and the weak official Lebanonese government. This will enable a Hezbollah coup in which the Shi’ites become the dictatorial rulers of Lebanon while Syria will be in a position to enhance Hezbollah and confront Israel if the Israeli government discovers there deluded mistake of land for peace.
The Egyptian brokered peace between Israel and Hamas is also a probable Taqiyya situation in which the irony of Sunni Hamas receiving military weaponry and training from Shi’ite Iran.
So here is the land for peace picture I see developing under the noses of Israel, America and Sunni Arabs concerned about Iran: A Hezbollah dominated rule over Lebanon north of Israel; a constantly hostile Syria (supported by Iran) northeast of Israel in which if the Golan Heights are returned, a strategic highway for an invading Syria; and an Iranian armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad (not to mention an al-Qaeda and Iranian Revolutionary Guard presence) south of Israel. Add to this: I have suspicions about Egypt’s loyalty to America and Israel. There is such a virulent radical Islamic hatred by the Egyptian populace of Israel I suspect Mubarak might weigh his options to enter an Israeli invasion. Mubarak would re-establish a connection with the huge radical element of his citizens, Egypt (if successful) would be an Arab Sunni hegemon of the Levant to the exclusion of the designs of Shi’ite Iran and a victory would make Mubarak the 21st century Saladin expelling the kafir from Dar al-Islam as the Egyptian (Kurdish Muslim actually) Saladin expelled the Crusaders from much of the Levant.
Yes, I smell geopolitical Taqiyya among Mohammedans in the Middle East that is not good for the global economy and not good for Israeli Jews.
If the American Leftists have delusions of transforming America into a Secular Humanist Theocrat Utopia in Liberty and Freedom is defined by Secular Humanism and Politically Correct non-offensive group diversity, the Leftists in Israel are delusional self-destructive land-for-peace morons that handing Jews over to the next genocide.
JRH 5/27/08 (Hat tip to ICJS Research)
Islam cries for respect in their simultaneous superiority complex over everything combined with a victimhood attitude. And yet I read of Mohammedan atrocities at Christian and Jewish Holy sites constantly. The location I hear the most is the Temple Mount, a place of constant conquest and desecration ever since the Presence of God entered Solomon’s Temple.
The Jewish desecration came in forsaking the proper respect of God’s Presence in the Temple and thus they lost it to Babylon.
The Persians allowed the return of Jews to their God ordained land in which Zerubbabel’s Temple was built and later embellished upon by Herod.
I believe a combination of worldliness by the Temple Priest elites and the rejection of Christ as the Messiah led to the second destruction and desecration of the Temple about 70 AD.
When Christianity became the State Religion of the Roman Empire, the Temple area became the site of Christian Churches. Certainly the Jews felt this was another desecration.
Byzantine (East Roman) Emperor Justinian built the Church of St. Mary (dedicated to the Virgin Mary) on the Temple Mount about 560 AD.
Non-Mohammedan Persians (Iranians) and the Byzantine Empire apparently switched control of Jerusalem back and forth for awhile however the entire time this was happening Jerusalem was a Christian city with Jewish population.
Mohammedan-Arab Caliph Omar conquered Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire in 638 AD, six years after pseudo-Prophet Mohammed died. Caliph Abd El Malik built the Dome of the Rock around 691 to 692 AD. Malik’s son Abd El-Wahd transformed the Church of St. Mary built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian into Al-Aksa Mosque around 705 to 715 adding Mohammedan features to the Byzantine Church.
The Crusaders re-took Jerusalem from the Mohammedans in 1099. The Crusaders turned the Dome of the Rock into a Church and called it the “Temple of our Lord” or “Templum Domini.” The Church built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian that was converted into Al-Aksa Mosque became the headquarters of the Knights Templars.
The Mohammedan Saladin then vanquished the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 and again Mohammedanized the Temple Mount re-establishing the two Mosques.
The Mohammedan Saladin then vanquished the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187 and again Mohammedanized the Temple Mount re-establishing the two Mosques.
From 1187 until 1967 the Temple Mount was managed by Mohammedan control. When a massive invasion of Israel occurred in 1967 by Egypt, Syria and Jordan (primarily), the Arabs decisively lost and Israel regained much of the land of their heritage from the invading nations. Most importantly Israel united the City of David – Jerusalem – under Israeli sovereignty which includes the Temple Mount.
One of the greatest mistakes of the Israeli government was to allow the duality of Mohammedan management and Israeli sovereignty of the Temple Mount.
Here is the reason for the huge error of allowing Mohammedans to manage the control of the Temple Mount: Mohammedan outrageous intolerant superiority complex is driving the Waqf to destroy archeological evidence of the dominant years of Jewish control of Mt Moriah** on which the Temple of God was built. In terms of years Mohammedan control has been less. Their conquering Caliphs built Mosques in the area merely to have something physical to match their erroneous Scriptures in the Quran and the Haditha about Mohammed taking a trip to Heaven on a winged horse.
And to confirm the misplaced gesture of peace by Moshe Dayan, Ehud Olmert is preparing to give up all of the 1967 victories in order that a sovereign Palestinian State will exist peacefully next to Israel. I am guessing Olmert is not a great student of history.
**Editor Note: This link is an evolving link. You can reference the link by reading the Temple Institute information I posted at the the end of this article at SlantRight.com. OR for reference purposes you may wish to check the archives of TempleInstitute.org.
