A lot of visitors trace the same path on their visits, but 15 minutes from where you visit is a military occupation.
A lot of Palestinians are Christian.
Does the temple have to be rebuilt for Christ to return? no
The land is for all Abraham’s descendents and the land is the entire world.
Israel, Mired in Ideological Battles, Fights on Cultural Fronts
The latest was an attack on Wednesday by a far-right group on beloved leftist literary icons including Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua and David Grossman, writers who have been considered the voice — and conscience — of the state for years. The group, Im Tirtzu, began a poster campaigncalling the writers “moles in culture,” which prompted accusations of McCarthyism and worse, even from many on the right.
.. Mr. Bennett, for his part, overruled ministry experts to ban from high-school reading lists a novel about a romance between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man, apparently out of fear that it promotes assimilation.
Can a Book Threaten Israel’s Jewish Identity?
Also, marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew is not even legally possible.
.. If even a Jew in Israel cannot enjoy not having to worry too much about the Jewishness of his or her grandchildren, then one of the most compelling arguments for the country’s existence becomes hollow.
Why the U.S. Spies on Netanyahu
Obama was not eavesdropping on American legislators—he was working against a foreign country that was actively spying against the United States and using the information it obtained to interfere with U.S. policy formulation.
.. In 2009 Congresswoman Jane Harmanwas contacted by an Israeli intelligence “agent” and asked to attempt to influence a reduction of the espionage charges in the then ongoing trial of accused American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) spies Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. In return, Harman’s contact promised to support her bid to become chairman of the House Permanent Committee on Intelligence. The Israeli caller, who some suspect was leading Democratic Party donor Haim Saban himself, indicated that he would pressure House speaker Nancy Pelosi using threats to withhold political contributions if Harman were not given the position. Harman was later spoken of as a possible candidate to become Director of Central Intelligence and, without the FBI recordings of her phone conversations, which were made known to Pelosi, she might have obtained either position, or possibly both in succession. (Saban, who has claimed that “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel,” is currently poised to become the Hillary Clinton campaign’s principal financial contributor.)
.. And when the phones were tapped, something interesting developed. A number of congressmen were identified speaking to the Israeli officials, who were apparently trying to find out what inducement it would take to obtain a vote against the White House on Iran.