IS THE POPE CATHOLIC?
Pope Francis continues in the grand Vatican tradition of denying Jews their right to their sacred heritage and embracing murderous enemies of the Jews. The pope turned his back to the Nazi mass persecution and murder of Jews, and the Vatican later helped thousands of Nazi criminals escape with false papers and evade justice. After the war popes have been active supporters of Arab terrorists, while refusing to acknowledge for many decades Jewish right to Israel.
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Irene, who has written for EoZ before, and who is Irish Catholic, writes:
The Pope’s Schedule from the official website of the Pilgrimage of His Holiness Francis in the Holy Land on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras (May 24 – 26, 2014)
Monday, May 26, 2014
8:15 VISIT TO THE GRAND MUFTI OF JERUSALEM in the building of the Great Council on the Esplanade of the Mosques. Discourse of the Holy Father.
Esplanade of the Mosques?
Esplanade of the Mosques?
The "Esplanade of the Mosques" is the TEMPLE MOUNT - where the Jewish Temple used to be. Solomon's Temple. The temple the invading Romans destroyed, and where the invading Arabs from Arabia built their mosque, usurping this sacred Jewish site for themselves and renaming it Al Quds. (Blogger).
Shortly before the Romans came to haul him away, Jesus Christ predicted that Peter would deny him three times before the cock crowed twice. After the Roman’s seized Jesus, Peter followed him at a distant to the high priest’s courtyard.
One of the high priest’s maids came along. Seeing Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, “You too were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” But he denied it, saying,” I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” So he went out into the outer court. Then the cock crowed. [for the first time] (Mark 14:66-68)
So Pope Francis comes to Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ, his Lord and Savior last preached. He goes to the Mount where both of the Jewish Temples once stood. The Temples that are mentioned many, many times in both the Old and New Testaments, places of enormous significance in Christian theology. It was a pilgrimage to the Temple that brought Jesus Christ to Jerusalem that fateful Passover.
“Temple Mount?” says the Pope. “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about. I am up here on the Esplanade of the Mosques, schmoozing with the Grand Mufti.”
Political correctness is one thing; denying that you are a follower of Jesus Christ is another. For the Pope, the world’s most conspicuous Christian, to deny the Temple is beneath contempt. What is next? Calling his pilgrimage to Jerusalem a visit to Al Quds?
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DOES ISLAM HAVE A TRUE CONNECTION TO JERUSALEM?
MOHAMMED NEVER SET FOOT IN THAT CITY
ISLAM IS THE REAL OCCUPIER
Islam's tenuous connection to Jerusalem
by Eli E. Hertz
Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Quran and Mohammed never set foot on Its soil.
Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in the Palestine Liberation Organization’s covenant until Israel regained control of East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967. Overall, the role of Jerusalem in Islam is best understood as the outcome of political exigencies impacting religious belief.
Mohammed, who founded Islam in 622 CE, was born and raised in present-day Saudi Arabia and never set foot in Jerusalem. His connection to the city came years after his death when the Dome of the Rock shrine and the al-Aqsa mosque were built in 688 and 691, respectively, their construction spurred by political and religious rivalries.
In 638 CE, the Caliph (or successor to Mohammed) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.
In 638 CE, the Caliph (or successor to Mohammed) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.
In 638 CE, the Caliph (or successor to Mohammed) Omar and his invading armies captured Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire.
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| Kotel at sunrise |
One reason they wanted to erect a holy structure in Jerusalem was to proclaim Islam’s supremacy over Christianity and its most important shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
More important was the power struggle within Islam itself. The Damascus-based Umayyad Caliphs who controlled Jerusalem wanted to establish an alternative holy site if their rivals blocked access to Mecca.
That was important because the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, was (and remains today) one of the Five Pillars of Islam. As a result, they built what became known as the Dome of the Rock shrine and the adjacent mosque.
To enhance the prestige of the ‘substitute Mecca,’ the Jerusalem mosque was named al-Aqsa. It means ‘the furthest mosque’ in Arabic, but has far broader implications, since it is the same phrase used in a key passage of the Quran called “The Night Journey.”
In that passage, Mohammed arrives at ‘al-Aqsa’ on a winged steed accompanied by the Archangel Gabriel; from there they ascend into heaven for a divine meeting with Allah, after which Mohammed returns to Mecca.
Naming the Jerusalem mosque al-Aqsa was an attempt to say the Dome of the Rock was the very spot from which Mohammed ascended to heaven, thus tying Jerusalem to divine revelation in Islamic belief.
The problem however, is that Mohammed died in the year 632, nearly 50 years before the first construction of the al-Aqsa Mosque was completed.
Jerusalem never replaced the importance of Mecca in the Islamic world. When the Umayyad dynasty fell in 750, Jerusalem also fell into near obscurity for 350 years, until the Crusades. During those centuries, many Islamic sites in Jerusalem fell into disrepair and in 1016 the Dome of the Rock collapsed.
Still, for 1,300 years, various Islamic dynasties (Syrian, Egyptian and Turkish) continued to govern Jerusalem as part of their overall control of the Land of Israel, disrupted only by the Crusaders.
What is amazing is that over that period, not one Islamic dynasty ever made Jerusalem its capital.
By the 19th century Jerusalem had been so neglected by Islamic rulers that several prominent Western writers who visited Jerusalem were moved to write about it.
French writer Gustav Flaubert, for example, found “ruins everywhere” during his visit in 1850 when it was part of the Turkish Empire (1516-1917).
Seventeen years later Mark Twain wrote that Jerusalem had “become a pauper village.”
Indeed, Jerusalem’s importance in the Islamic world only appears evident when non-Muslims (including the Crusaders, the British and the Jews) control or capture the city. Only at those points in history did Islamic leaders claim Jerusalem as their third most holy city after Mecca and Medina.
That was again the case in 1967, when Israel captured Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem (and the Old City) during the 1967 Six-Day War.
Oddly, the PLO’s National Covenant, written in 1964, never mentioned Jerusalem.
Only after Israel regained control of the entire city did the PLO ‘update’ its Covenant to include Jerusalem.
Author Eli E. Hertz is the president of Myths and Facts, an organization devoted to research and publication of information regarding US interests in the world and particularly in the Middle East. Mr. Hertz served as Chairman of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting.
His website - http://www.mythsandfacts.org/
Tags: Jerusalem Basic Law
Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14878#.U1dsfJuPKM8
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141657#.U1d5D5uPKM8
Israel National News archive of Temple Mount reports
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Source - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/14878#.U1dsfJuPKM8
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Recommended: Short and factual video about the fundamental significance of Jerusalem and Temple Mount for Jews and its very weak link to Islam - in history and doctrine
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBv1ARu_8gA
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141657#.U1d5D5uPKM8
Israel National News archive of Temple Mount reports
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Tag.aspx/493
The Battle over Jerusalem and Temple Mount - Historical background
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=4&x_article=1404
VIRTUAL TOUR of the ancient Jewish Temple of Jerusalem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymffT1M5bg
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