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Dear All Please Pray for Love and Harmony in Jerusalem,

 

Jewish men recite morning prayer in Israel.

 

 

Shalom,

 

 

Five Dead in Jerusalem Synagogue Massacre

 

"O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.  For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, and those who hate You have exalted themselves.  They make shrewd plans against Your people, and conspire together against Your treasured ones.  They have said, 'Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more.'”  (Psalm 83:1–4)

 

Four rabbis were brutally massacred yesterday when two Palestinian terrorists stormed the Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood during traditional morning prayers.

 

At about 7 a.m., the terrorists, who were armed with meat cleavers, an ax, and a gun, hacked worshipers, shooting and stabbing as they went.

 

 

The blood of victims mingled with a tallit (prayer shawl) and a siddur (Jewish
prayer book) on the floor of Kehillat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem.
(Photo: GPO)
 

"I tried to escape.  The man with the knife approached me.  There was a chair and table between us ... my prayer shawl got caught.  I left it there and escaped," Yossi told Channel 2.  He was praying at the synagogue at the time of the attack.  (YNet)

 

Yaakov Amos, 45, said of one of the assailants: “He began to carry out a massacre.  He was shouting ‘God is great,’ and shooting one after another, one, two, three.  Most were praying with their back to him.”  (NYT)

 

Of the 25 people attending prayer, seven others were also wounded, including two officers.  Eitan ben Sara, Shmuel Yerucham ben Bila, Haim Yechiel ben Malka, and Avraham Shmuel ben Shaina are now fighting for their lives. (JP)

 

 

Sergeant Zidan Sif, Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, Rabbi Kalman Levine,
Rabbi Moshe Twersky and Kupinsky Aryeh

 

Deceased above are Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 68, Rabbi Calman Levine, 55, Rabbi Mosheh Twersky, 59, and Rabbi Aryeh Kopinsky, 43, all residents of the Har Nof neighborhood and three of them are American citizens, and the reason that the FBI is investigating.  An Israeli policeman, Zidan Sayif, 27, who was the first policeman on the scene, later died of his wounds.

 

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Magen David Adom paramedics were also shot at by the terrorists.

 

"Inside there was someone singing.  I ran into the synagogue, there was a gunshot victim lying on the floor.  I tried to treat him, but the gunfire started in my direction and we fled.  I pulled the wounded man along," one paramedic said.  (YNet)

 

The attack was carried out by Uday and Ghassan Abu-Jamal, cousins from Jabel Mukaber, a Jerusalem neighborhood.  The two were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and were related to Jamal Abu Jamal, a prisoner who was released as a goodwill gesture during the 2013–14 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

 

Uday and Ghassan were shot by police in an ensuing gun battle.

 

 

 

Last night, at the funeral for three of the victims, the rabbi of Kehillat Bnei Torah, Rabbi Yitzchak Mordechai Rubin said, “When we count the widows and orphans that were added to the Israeli nation this morning, four widows and 24 orphans are on one street.” 

 

“We are here, standing in front of these three holy men, the best of our community, Torah scholars whose blood flowed like water,” he said.

 

Leaders and officials around the world condemned the bloody attack.

 

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called it a “barbaric act of terror.”

 

“Our thoughts & prayers are with the people of Israel,” he tweeted.

 

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro stated, “On behalf of the United States government and the American people, I condemn this terrorist attack in the strongest possible terms.  Murdering worshipers at prayer in a synagogue is an act of pure, unadulterated evil.” 

 

Bahrain’s Foreign Minister, Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa said in a statement, “The murder of Jews praying in a synagogue is a crime.  The injustice of the occupation does not give a right to cause harm to innocent worshipers.”

 

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds to the massacre, which
occurred less than a week after his visit to Jordan to discuss a solution for
the problem of Palestinian violence in Jerusalem.

 

Not everyone condemned the massacre, however.

 

Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the murderers in the streets, throwing candy and flaunting knives and axes.

 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decried the incitement by Hamas and Fatah that is responsible for stirring up the current wave of Palestinian violence in Jerusalem and throughout Israel.

 

"There is daily, even hourly, incitement on the streets of the Palestinian Authority.  There, not only do the most reprehensible murderers become the heroes of Palestinian culture, but there is unending, constant incitement against the very existence of the State of Israel, against the security of Israel's citizens, in schools, the media, mosques, everywhere, and this is the root of the conflict: The refusal to recognize—and educate for—the existence of the state of the Jews," he said.

 

Because three of the five people who were killed were dual American-Israeli citizens, the FBI will investigate Jerusalem synagogue attack, according to US law enforcement officials.  (YNet)

 

 

US Secretary John Kerry speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and King Abdullah II of Jordan on November 13, 2014, in
Amman, Jordan, before the three began a trilateral meeting about ways
to restore calm and de-escalate tensions in Jerusalem.  (Photo: US
State Department)

 

 

Please stand united with Israel in the face of this evil, comforting those who mourn the loss of loved ones, and praying for a speedy recovery for the injured, as well as for the peace of Jerusalem.

 

 

US, Israel, Jordan Agree on Solution to Jerusalem Tension

 

"How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?  Or cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you do not save?  Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?  Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds."  (Habakkuk 1:2–3)

 

Jerusalem—and other parts of Israel—have been wracked with riots and terror attacks that have killed at least 11 Israelis in the past month, primarily through stabbings and vehicle attacks against Israeli civilians.

 

The Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site and Islam’s third, is the source of tension, which has resulted in violent clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and security forces, and an assassination attempt on Yehuda Glick, a Temple Mount activist advocating for the right of Jews and Christians to pray on the Mount.

 

 

Yehuda Glick was shot four times two weeks ago
at the entrance of the Menachem Begin Heritage
Center by a 32-year-old terrorist.  According to
Glick, who is still in the hospital recovering, the
shooter faced him and said, before shooting him,
"I'm really sorry; you are an enemy of al-Aqsa."
(Ynet)

 

To de-escalate the situation, on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Jordan's King Abdullah and United States representative John Kerry in Amman to discuss the recent surge of violence in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount.

 

The meeting allegedly ended on a positive note, with Netanyahu apparently directing Jordan to exercise its authority at the Temple Mount, noting that the Islamic Waqf was aware of the riots taking place there.  (Times of Israel)

 

Netanyahu emphasized that ending the violence requires ending incitement to violence, adding that incitement from the Palestinian Authority's (PA) official media, and from the social media pages of Abbas' Fatah party and the PA security service have triggered much of the recent bloodshed.  (Haaretz)

 

Kerry gave general assurances that a plan had been reached to quell Jerusalem tensions.

 

"We are working to smother the sparks of immediate tension so that they don’t become a fire that is absolutely out of control," said Kerry after Thursday's three-way discussion, which followed a private meeting between Kerry and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas earlier in the day.

 

Netanyahu has repeatedly and strongly committed to uphold the status quo on the Temple Mount in statements to the public, as well as to Kerry on Thursday; however, both Abbas and Abdullah have accused Israel of trying to do otherwise.

 

“President Abbas himself called on Palestinians to prevent Jews from entering the Temple Mount.  He used the words: ‘... by any means possible,’” said Prime Minister Netanyahu.

 

“See, this—the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism, where Jews have visited peacefully for years —President Abbas says we should not set foot there.  That’s changing the status quo,” he emphasized.  (JPost)

 

 

Israeli security officers protect four Jewish men visiting the Temple Mount
because violence against Jews easily erupts in crowds of Muslim worshipers
on the Mount.

 

Abbas has claimed that Jews "contaminate" the Mount and that Israel plans to allow Christian and Jewish prayer there (thus overturning the "status quo").  On Tuesday, Abbas said that Jewish prayer on the site would risk a global religious war.(Times of Israel)

 

“Keep the settlers and the extremists away from Al-Aqsa and our holy places,”Abbas commanded.  “We will not allow our holy places to be contaminated.  Keep them away from us and we will stay away from them, but if they enter al-Aqsa, [we] will protect al-Aqsa and the church and the entire country,” he said.  It is uncertain which church he was referring to.

 

According to Kerry, Abbas on Thursday voiced "commitment to non-violence and to restoring calm" in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.  But Abbas' alleged commitment conflicts with his previous calls to Arabs to prevent Jewish "desecration" of the Mount.

 

His alleged stance also conflicts with a provocative claim on November 4 by Abbas' spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh, equating Israel's security closures of the Temple Mount last month to a sweeping "declaration of war on the Palestinian people, Palestinian religious sites and a declaration of war on both the Arab and Islamic states."  (CNN)

 

The Jerusalem police closed the Temple Mount for a day following the attempted assassination of Rabbi Yehuda Glick last month.

 

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry says goodbye to Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, Jordan, on November 13, 2014,
following meetings with him and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh,
and before another with King Abdullah II of Jordan.
(Photo: US State Department)

 

Kerry did not outline specifics for Jerusalem's de-escalation plan, which came only hours after a new Arab riot erupted in the Issawiya neighborhood of northeastern Jerusalem.  (Israel National News)

 

Meanwhile, at a press conference, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said that Netanyahu promised to maintain Jordan's custodial status over the Temple Mount, conferred in a 1994 peace treaty between the two young countries.  (Haaretz)

 

The promise comes after Abdullah ordered his officials not to attend a 20th anniversary ceremony for the Jordan-Israel peace treaty, calling Temple Mount clashes a "stab wound" on peace between Jordan and Israel.  (Times of Israel)

 

Abdullah also stated, however, that the Jordan-Israel peace treaty would not be canceled, after thousands of Jordanians demanded the government scrap the peace accord, in November 7 protests in Amman.

 

"Death to Israel," cried the crowd, while Amman's Muslim Brotherhood party head, Sheikh Hammam, said, "Why are you keeping the embassy of the Jews?  It should be demolished with everyone in it."  (YNet)

 

"But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.  We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield."  (Psalm 33:18–20)

 

 

For several months in 2011, many Israelis protested the continual rise in
housing costs, the cost of living and the erosion of the middle class and
lower class and other various hardships.  As part of the protest, people
established tent compounds in the middle of central streets in major cities.

 

 

Israeli Students Salvage Shipping Containers for Affordable Housing

 

"Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may have her young—a place near your altar, Lord Almighty, my King and my God."  (Psalm 84:3)

 

Faint memories linger of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem residents launching "tent cities" in recent years to protest unaffordable housing prices.  But now, university students in some smaller cities of Israel are set to adopt shipping containers as the next innovative, but affordable housing trend.

 

Israel's largest youth organization, Ayalim, has worked on a dozen student villages, including within central Israel's town of Lod and rocket-scarred Sderot.(Ayalim)

 

"Our response to aggression form Gaza is to build, strengthen and revive," an Ayalim YouTube video states.  "We will scrape, paint, cut, saw, repair and renovate until Sderot becomes a healthy and growing city."

 

 

This Sderot home was shattered this summer by Hamas rockets.  The family narrowly
escaped to the bomb shelter.

 

Last June, Ayalim focused on Sderot, adopting a plan to erect 150 cheap apartments (geared toward two residents each) built from up-cycled shipping containers for students studying at nearby Sapir Academic College.

 

Stacked three-high and girded by a metal framework with stairs, the student-housing village in Sderot, a city devastated by Hamas bombs, also offers protection from Gaza fire with one bomb shelter to every two containers.  (Green Prophet)

 

Described by the Washington Post as "chic but cheap," the two-bedroom containers are being transformed into student nooks with large windows, a living room, a kitchenette and a bathroom.

 

With the new housing project, Israel is following in the footsteps of others in the United States, Europe and Australia who have valued the containers' potential for upscale living, and of Middle Eastern nations who have used the containers as temporary housing for guest workers.  (Washington Post)

 

 

Shipping containers, which are only used for two to three years before
being retired, are an innovative, low cost, environmentally friendly way
to create housing solutions.

 

"There are millions of these containers that can be used.  They are usually discarded after only two or three years and the companies don’t know what to do with them," said Ayalim's director of partnership, Effie Rubin.  “If we want to change the reality towards better education and job opportunities, we need to bring young people to the periphery towns.  There’s no reason why the majority of Israelis should squeeze into Tel Aviv.  People can live in nice houses like these for NIS 600 [157 USD] a month."

 

Rubin told Green Prophet's Miriam Kresh, “Our hope is that the students have an amazing experience and decide to stay.  We did a survey and discovered that students’ greatest obstacle to studying in the Negev and other periphery areas is lack of affordable housing.  There are no decent cheap apartments in the Negev or the Galilee.  The second discovery was that they tend to stay if they’re given a continuous sense of community; a feeling of being part of a group."

 

"It's going to be a trend in Israel to build this way," Rubin said.  "It is cheaper, faster, and greener."

 

"I don't know of any other building technique that involves more recycling," he added.  (JPost)

 

 

An architectural drawing of Ayalim student housing made from shipping
containers in Israel.  (YouTube capture)

 

As Ayalim is a non-profit organization, the modification of 36 Sderot containers have been completed so far by about a thousand students and pre-army volunteers who have learned construction skills on site.

 

In Sderot, 150 apartments for 300 students is planned.  In the Lod Student Village, 130 are expected to move in for the 2014/15 academic year.  It is hoped that within three years, that number will grow to around 700.

 

Students who wish to live in the containers at a subsidized rate will each give 500 hours (totaling 150,000 hours) per year of volunteer work with the children, youth and seniors.  (Ayalim)

 

 

A model of Herod's Palace in Jerusalem.

 

 

King Herod's Jerusalem Palace Unearthed and Open to Visitors

 

Excavations in the Turkish barracks (Kishle) building south of King David's Citadel have unearthed six layers of archaeological history—from an Ottoman police station later used by the British to walls from the reigns of Hezekiah, the Hasmoneans and Herod.  (IAA)

 

"Jewish members of the pre-state underground militias were incarcerated here by the British and one can still see a map of the Greater Land of Israel scratched by the prisoners onto one of the walls," states the Tower of David website.

 

Among the evidence uncovered at King Herod's Jerusalem palace, perhaps the very palace in which the three Magi (Wise Men or Kings) inquired about the new born king of the Jews, is the oldest of the location's findings, including the palace's retaining walls and drainage system.

 

 

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Herod was a prolific builder.  During his reign, he expanded the Temple Mount plateau, and rebuilt the second Temple in less than two years, with new courts and out-buildings being added over another 80 years. The final remnant of the structure still standing, the Wailing (Wailing) Wall, is a segment of one of the retaining walls begun by Herod for the Temple Mount plateau.

 

Herod also fortified Masada in the first six years of his reign, building residences for himself on the mountain.

 

In addition to his lavish palaces, throughout Israel, Herod (37–4 BC) launched several colossal building projects, including the still-standing Enclosure of the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, which is now a flashpoint city for Arab-Jewish relations.

 

 

A Jewish child at Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah are buried. Herod the Great
built the magnificent structure over the cave to commemorate the site
for his Jewish subjects.

 

A contemporary of Yeshua, Herod's impact on archeology gives a sense of what life was like in the days of Messiah on Earth.

 

Herod is responsible for many monumental marvels that are impressive in scale and grandeur even today.

 

With the newly renovated remnants of Herod’s palace now open to the public, people can come to Jerusalem to experience what existed in antiquity, as well as see the soldiers' barracks built by the Ottoman Turks in the mid-1800s and used by the British to imprison Jews before the 1948 Independence of Israel.

 

Also visible is the Hasmonean wall from the 2nd century BCE, from the Maccabi dynasty, as well as the 8th century BCE wall from the time of King Hezekiah, one of the kings of Judah—both available to visit at the expanded Tower of David museum.

 

 

Hanukkah, which celebrates the restoration of Jewish worship under the
valiant leadership of Judah Maccabi and the miracle of the Temple
menorah remaining lit for eight days with a one-day supply of oil, is still
celebrated today.

 

Along with these findings, a mikvah (ritual bath) from the Second Temple era—used before visiting the holy site—was unearthed in the dry moat surrounding David's Citadel.  (MFA)

 

Israel's rich archaeological archives attest to the long Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, clearly contrasting claims from Israeli Arab MK Jamal Zahalka (Balad) on Friday that the Jewish Temple is "a myth."  (Israel HaYom)

 

Further adding fuel to Temple Mount incitement, Zahalka said at a protest of 150 people in the Arab-Israeli town of Kafr Qara, "The [Jewish] temple is a myth and nothing more, while Al-Aqsa mosque exists in the here and now."

 

Such erroneous statements blatantly defy the historical record, as well as abundant archaeological evidence of the connection of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel.

 

"They finished building the temple according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.  The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.  Then the people of Israel—the priests, the Levites and the rest of the exiles—celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy."  (Ezra 6:14–16)

 

 

A depiction of offerings made at the Jewish Temple.

 

 

Jerusalem Light Rail: Secured with Cement, Fraught with Fears

 

"Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts, 'Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.'"  (Isaiah 35:3–4)

 

Despite the concrete barriers that now encircle stations along the Jerusalem Light Rail, this last month's spate of terrorist attacks including vehicles ramming into tram passengers on two separate occasions has shaken Jerusalem residents.

 

Since this unrest began several weeks ago, about 70% of regular light rail passengers have opted out of taking the tram.

 

 

Jerusalem light rail: rapid transit and new roads are needed in Israel to
keep pace with growth. In the process of meeting current and future needs,
many important archaeological finds have been discovered, deepening the
connection to Israel's past.

 

Yet, showing admirable grit, a group of Jerusalem girls from the religious Zionist youth group Bnei Akiva has refused to succumb to fear, committing to ride the whole tram route every night, from the beginning of the route in the southern stop of Mount Herzl to the end of the route in northern east Jerusalem’s French Hill district.

 

As the tram passes the Jerusalem Old City every night, the girls have told other passengers that they are riding the "Zionist train," and ask others on board to pose for a photograph with a sign that reads: "Together we are guarding Jerusalem."  (United With Israel)

 

Carrying blue-and-white flags and posting train photos on Facebook, the girls' campaign comes in the aftermath of two terror attacks that killed three people waiting for the tram by vehicular assault.

 

 

The light rail commuter train runs through both Arab and
Jewish sections of Jerusalem.

 

Snaking through the western and northeastern parts of Jerusalem, the 2011-launched tram allows Israelis to access Jewish and Arab-majority communities throughout the capital, a convenience for residents and a way that brings all of Jerusalem's residents and visitors into close quarters for the length of the train ride.

 

"The light rail is a microcosm of Jerusalem.  It runs in the central spaces of Jerusalem.  So what happens in Jerusalem happens in the light rail, for better or worse," said Ozel Vatik, spokesman for the CityPass company, which runs the rail.  (Forward)

 

About half of the 13.9 km (8.8 mile) light rail route serves East Jerusalem from the Damascus Gate at the old city up Municipal Road 1 through the primarily Arab neighborhood of Shu’afat, and into the Jerusalem settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev before ending at French Hill.  (CityPass)

 

In addition to the car-based terror attacks against Israelis, Judeophobic Arabs have come to target the light rail on a daily basis—throwing stones at the train's windows causing $133,000 in damage, cutting at the rail lines with saws, and losing CityPass tens of millions in repair costs and losses of revenue from reduced ridership, writes award winning, veteran journalist Elli Wohlgelernter.

 

 

Three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun was killed when a Hamas terrorist
drove through a crowded light rail station during rush hour.  (YouTube capture)

 

Three-month-old Chaya Zissel-Braun, a U.S. citizen, and 22-year-old Karen Mosquera from Ecuador were both victims of vehicular terrorism, succumbing to their wounds.

 

The impact of the car driven by Abdel Rahman al-Shaludi, a resident of Silwan, flung Zissel-Braun 10–30 meters from her stroller before she landed on her head; the blunt force trauma led to intracranial bleeding before death.  (The Jewish Chronicle)

 

"Most incidents go unreported.  A police blotter diary reveals that even before the light-rail attack at 5:53 p.m., rocks were thrown in four incidents, a firebomb in another, a stolen vehicle crashed into the checkpoint leading to Gush Etzion and an Arab male armed with a knife confessed he was planning to stab a security officer and was taken into custody," Wohlgelernter states.

 

Since the attacks, police have launched observation balloons with cameras to track incidents that occur and to prompt emergency responders.  Police have also added more than a thousand reinforcements to keep Jerusalem's security in check.

 

 

Jerusalem Light Rail

 

 

EU to Turn Up the Pressure on Israeli Politicians

 

"In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel."  (Isaiah 10:20)

 

While the European Union has denied the allegations, Haaretz on Monday published an EU document showing that Europe might target Israeli politicians who hold views they don't like, while "supporting" others in Israel aligned with their agenda.

 

The internal EU document supposedly shows endorsement from all 28 member states for a spectrum of measures to exert pressure on Israel as well as "punish" the country for electing "undesirable" representatives or views.  (Salon)

 

“There is big frustration in Europe and zero tolerance for settlement activity.  This paper is part of the internal brainstorming being done in Brussels these days, about what can be done to keep the two-state solution alive,” states a European diplomat familiar with the document.  (IBT)

 

 

Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs
and Security Policy, gives a press conference with Avigdor Liberman,
Israel's Minister for Foreign Affairs, in Jerusalem on November 7, 2014.

 

The EU's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini announced at a news conference shortly after a meeting of the 28 member states and the Haaretz publication, that the document is only a "technical working hypothesis."  It was drafted on September 11 in response to the requests of the member states after the recent war with Gaza.

 

She said the meeting earlier on Monday focused on "how to start a positive process with the Israelis and Palestinians to relaunch a peace process.... It was not at all a question of isolating or sanctioning anybody."  (Reuters)

 

Yet, the council did adopt six conclusions that imply the working document could become a formal document if Israel doesn’t behave.  The conclusions state:

 

"Recalling that settlements are illegal under international law, the EU and its Member States remain committed to ensure continued, full and effective implementation of existing EU legislation and bilateral arrangements applicable to settlement products.

 

“The EU closely monitors the situation and its broader implications and remains ready to take further action in order to protect the viability of the two-state solution."

 

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on November 7 with Federica
Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs
and Security Policy during which he told her that Jerusalem was not a
settlement. She apparently was not swayed in her opinion, however.
(Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO)

 

In this regard, Israeli MKs such as Naftali Bennett, Uri Ariel and even Israel's President Reuven Rivlin could bear some kind of punishment by the EU for their position against the creation of a Palestinian state.

 

Protecting “the viability of the two-state solution” for the EU includes ensuring that Jerusalem becomes a divided capital between Israel and a Palestinian state.

 

“Recent settlement activity in East Jerusalem seriously jeopardizes the possibility of Jerusalem serving as the future capital of both states,” adds the statement.

 

The EU is very serious about keeping Jerusalem divided.  Earlier this year, the EU denied access to its €77 billion Horizon 2020 research and innovation program to any Israeli research or educational facility operating within the West Bank or Golan Heights territories.  So sanctions are underway.

 

The technical working document says funds that might support Israel's presence in the disputed territories must come to an end, while recommending "support (of) or non-opposition" to unilateral actions from Palestinian groups—such as joining international groups in an attempt to acquire greater legitimacy in demands for a Palestinian state. (RT)  

 

 

A Jewish youth recites morning prayer at the Western (Wailing) Wall wearing
tefillin (phylacteries) and a tallit (prayer shawl).  (Photo credit: Go Israel,
Noam Chen)

 

Therefore, European companies such as the Dutch Royal HaskoningDHV that operate in the areas of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem on behalf of Israel, have been encouraged by their governments to do business elsewhere. Royal HaskoningDHV has complied and terminated its operations.  (electronicintifada)

 

“The fact is that there is an agreement among all 28 member countries of the European Union to discuss measures against Israel, and that is what should worry the government in Jerusalem and the Israeli public.  This [technical working] paper will be handed over to the political echelon in Europe, which will decide which actions, if at all, to take,” a European diplomat told Haaretz.

 

The policies of the EU toward the disputed areas seem to be drawn from the same quiver as previous demands for "Judenfrei" areas in Nazi Europe.  In pressuring Israel to clear Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem of Jews—or in rejecting Jewish growth in these areas—Europe's leaders have become de facto endorsers of apartheid against the Jewish People.

 

 

 

 

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