Thursday, 13 August 2009 (Al Arabiya.net)
The generation of "Palestine first“
Zuheir Kseibati
Fatah has revived its youth, and clung to armed resistance as a tool of struggle to establish the Palestinian State, akin to the tool of diplomacy and negotiations. But this is not enough, as Hamas has appointed itself as sole custodian over the issue of the conflict with Israel. Thus, it is waiting for a new test for the "patriotism" of Fatah after its sixth conference.
While Fatah has chosen "Palestine first" without investing the tragedies of the distressed in the stocks of "the superpowers" in the game of nations, will Hamas be harmed if it reconsiders the cause of the homeland as a top priority, before any regime or political program? It cannot indeed deny its endeavor to obtain a western recognition of it, and open a dialogue with it. But does the closed eye in the West Bank or Gaza view the fact that the west, be it Europe or the United States, does not give anything with its right hand without taking another thing in the left hand in The ancient Fatah members deserve to be excluded. They have monopolized Palestine for the sake of their power, interests, and desires, and contributed alongside the Gaza authority in fragmenting the dream of the state-nation. Will Hamas learn the lesson and close its eyes to anything farther than the border of Palestine, and turn a deaf ear to any advice other than that calling for urgent unity, in order to atone for what all other factions have caused for people who are fed up with despair and the bitterness of the daggers of brothers that have become more fatal than Israeli rockets. Not enthusiastic about Fatah or Hamas, right?
Two days later, Saturday, August 15, 2009 Sharia demand
“Silent Palestine, / Dominion of the blood and sepulcher” (Wallace Stevens)
The group seeks a Palestinian legal system based purely on the sharia - Islamic law - and accuses Hamas of being too liberal. The group is said to have threatened to burn down internet cafes and to demand greater . modesty on Gaza beaches. The leader of an Islamist group that declared an "Islamic emirate" in the occupied Palestinian territories was among at least 24 people killed in clashes with Hamas security forces.
Abdel-Latif Moussa, the leader of Jund Ansar Allah (Soldiers of the Companions of God), was killed during fighting at his house in the Gaza town of Rafah early on Saturday, the Hamas-run interior ministry said.
Implications both for Gaza and for the jihadist movement on the whole. While 'Abd Al-Latif Musa was not a major figure in the larger jihadist world, he was a popular preacher in Rafah, and his "martyrdom" at the hands of Hamas could become an iconic moment in the erosion of Hamas' popularity and the growth of the local salafi jihadi movement the salafi jihadis are closer to the Wahhabis in adhering to rigid positions in matters of creed
(Israelnationalnews.com, Shevat 7, 5770, 22 January 10 12:57) In December, 2008, according to the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat, the Hamas parliament in Gaza voted in favor of a law allowing courts to mete out sentences in accordance with Shari’a law. According to the bill, if approved, courts will be able to condemn offenders to a series of violent punitive measures that include whipping, severing hands, crucifixion and hanging. The bill reserves death sentences to people who negotiate with a foreign government "against Palestinian interests" and engage in any activity that can "hurt Palestinian morale." According to the Al Hayat report, any Palestinian caught drinking or selling wine would suffer forty lashes at the whipping post if the bill passes. Convicted thieves would lose their right hand
The imposition of strict Shari’ a law by Hamas comes as a direct result of significant challenges to its religious authority. At the Ibn-Tamiya mosque in the Gaza town of Rafah, Salafi preacher-physician Sheikh Abdel-Latif Moussa and his Jund Ansar Allah ("Warriors of the Companions of God") followers recently challenged Hamas's Islamic credentials claiming that it had not gone far enough in imposing Shari’ a law in Gaza and had joined a democratic political process thereby violating Islam
No Evolution in the Holy Quran -The Salafis Confess the Biblical Creationism
Your Guardian – Lord / Is Allah, Who created / The Heavens and the earth / ! (7:54)In six days
According to evolutionists, the theory provides a solid foundation for atheism and assures the ultimate victory of secularization; every intelligent person now believes it; dissenters are “stupid, wicked, or insane.” We even hear that evolution will soon explain religion away. Such affirmation assure blinkered secularists that someday religion will go extinct, eaten away by the acid of evolution. From the point of view of the Saudis the Palestine First policy is a cover- up for a new political crusade
It is worth reminding in this context that , the 9/11 attack was executed by the Saudi citizens
The fanatical obsession of establishing Palestinian state was adequately explained by the Palestinian ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki on 14 May 2009: "With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices they made – just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to collapse. It will regress of its own accord. Then we will move forward." Together with the New Agers! Indeed, what becomes of the Bible if Jews embrace Copernicus's sun god and worship Aryan nature instead of the Personal God of the Torah? An independent Palestinian state undermines not only the Bible, but in the same measure the Qur'an because this Book says that Allah is the same god as YHWH and as such he says to Jews: Enter, my people, the holy land which God has assigned for you. Do not turn back, and thus lose all.’ – 5.19
On March 3, 1919, King of Hedjaz Faisal wrote a letter to Felix Frankfurter, later justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, a letter memorable for its humanity toward the Jews and the statesmanship it reflected. The letter, dated and addressed to Mr. Frankfurter as an American member of the Zionist delegation to the peace conference, said, in part:
We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement. Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals(i.e For a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan) submitted yesterday by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference. We will do our best... to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home. Dr. Weizmann has been a great helper in our cause, and I hope the Arabs may soon be in a position to make the Jews some return for their kindness...
The religious Arabs are well aware of the dangers inherent in establishing a Palestinian state. Their fears were expressed by Shaykh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, residing in Rome in the words: “Reading anti-Zionism as a direct consequence of Islam is a form of explicit anti-historical misunderstanding, that implies uprooting Islam from its original religious contents and changing it into a mundane (secular) ideology. This deviation was systematically perpetrated by the late British-appointed “mufti” of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseyni, the one who – being morally and materially responsible for most of Arab defeats – hardly persecuted all Arabs who understood cooperation with Jews as a precious opportunity for the development of Palestine, and was so rooted in his hate for Jews to put his religious position at the disposal of the anti-religious and anti-humanitarian ideology of National Socialism.” (http://amislam.com/racism.htm)
The same fear dictated to Faisal his letter to Morgenthau. Palestinian state means a secular revolution in the area considered as the cradle of the monotheistic religions which still influence the minds of overwhelming majority of humanity. Obviously, the Palestinians consider it a positive development. Abdel-Latif Moussa sacrificed his life to make the masses aware of this problem. (I published Emir faisal's letter as a comment on Al-Arabiya) (http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/06/15/76010.html)
Changing Islam into a Mundane (Buddhist) Ideology
Dr. Rantisi, Hamas's dead leader used to argue that Allah - many times wrongly translated as 'God' - is not the God of the Bible, nor the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Allah is another deity, one who drinks blood as water, who loves jihad and terror, and promises virgins in his so-called paradise to those who kill Jews - the more the better. Accordingly, we learn from a Palestinian post stamp that the true god of Palestine is Baal-Zephon who was a principal mighty one of Ugait or Ras Shamra, and of the Canaanite people who lived in that area of Syria. Israel was given a choice; they could follow Yahweh to their permanent freedom in the Promised land or they could return to enslavement in Egypt with its idol worship, wherein the idolatry of Baal-Zephon was popular.
Baal was originally, it appears, associated with specific places and sanctuaries; in Ugarit temple he is equated with Dagon. Ball was also known as the sun idol, Baal-Hannan. He had received the name Hannan, or the “grace”. That is exactly what the Pauline Christians teach, that the manner of spiritual life is all grace. “The law has been done away with the Christ’s death; now, do anything you please” is the teaching of Pauline churchianity. (From the historian Castor (in Armenian translation of Eusebius, pars. I, p. 81) we learn that it was under Bel, or Belus, that is Baal, that the Cyclops lived; and the Scholiast on Æschylus [chapter II, section II, sub-section I, note 22] states that these Cyclops were the brethren of Kronos, who was also Bel or Bal, as we have elsewhere seen [chapter II, section II, sub-section I]. The eye in their forehead shows that originally this name was a name of the great god, for that eye in India and Greece is found the characteristic of the supreme divinity. The Cyclops, then, had been representatives of that God—in other words, priests, and priests of Bel or Bal. Now, we find that the Cyclops were well-known as cannibals, Referre ritus Cyclopum, "to bring back the rites of the Cyclops," meaning to revive the practice of eating human flesh. (Ovid, Metam., XV, 93, Vol. II, p. 132.The term cnnibal is derived from Cahna-Baal, priest of Baal. Pagan Rome of old offered human sacrifices to Baal on the crosses)
In other words Palestinian God is not the God of the Holy Qur'an who is the same as the God of the Bible and creates the world exactly, like YHWH does, and gives the Jews their Promised land:
Enter, my people, theHoly Land
which God has assigned for you.
Do not turn back, and thus lose all.’ – 5.19
So in the eyes of the believing Muslims, the Palestinian are:
Pagans: Companions of Fire
It is not fitting,
For the Prophet and those
Who believe, that they should
Pray for forgiveness
For Pagans, even though
They be of kin, after it is
Clear to them that they
Are companions of Fire (aka Baal, who was the god of fire)
And they forsook all the commandments of the Lord, their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal; and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through fire, and used divination and enchantments, and gave themselves over to do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him 2 Kg 17:16
You will better understand the political meaning of John Paul II's rehabilitation of Galileo in the context of the following quote from A. Koestler's The Sleepwalkers:
The dials on the laboratory panels are turning into another version of the shadows in the cave. Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-quantitative moral values ... Kepler's sun-spokes, Galileo's confidence tricks, and Descartes' pituitary soul, may have some sobering effect on the worshipers of the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and offer unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye have not known? Jer 7:9
In his new book, Pagans In The Pews, Peter Jones does a truly jam-up job of demonstrating how a sweeping revival of idolatrous Paganism is on the march world-wide and even in Christian Churches. Anyone not aware of this phenomenon will get their eyes opened very wide by Jones’ well-documented, in-depth coverage of this cleverly disguised but very, very major development. Consider for example: The radical environmental "Mother Earth" syndrome which is wholly committed to and dependent upon an unqualified acceptance of macro-Evolutionism...whether neo-Darwinian or Wickramsingheian or some hybrid thereof. This dependence is the leit-motif in the abundant UN sponsored environmental literature. No one argues with it; it is the accepted basis of the biological "sciences" after all. So then, is the Mother Gaia fixation an Idol? Of course it is. Is it a religion? Of course it is. What kind of religion? Animistic Paganism. Can it ever be Biblical? No. Is it always destructive of Biblical credibility and hence, ultimately, of Christianity? Yes. Is it a major factor in the intrusion of Paganism into the churches? Yes, without the slightest doubt. Thus, what is happening is that this revived Paganism is filling a "religious" vacuum created by the well-advanced destruction of the Bible’s credibility. This Bible-destroying agenda is, at bottom, a tricky strategy which has employed Theoretical Science with ever-increasing success since the Copernican Revolution historically began in 1543. Thus, the steady success of that Revolution (without the first piece of indisputable evidence!) paved the way for the success of the Darwinian Revolution.
Bulwer-Lytton’ The Last Days f Pompeii (1834) contrasts the luxury and brutality of paganism with the simple virtues of primitive Christianity.
Pope Benedict XVI Rejects John Paul II's Scientific Legacy
Philosopher M. Polanyi observed, “Newtonian physics and Darwin’s notion of the survival of the fittest were key elements both in the Marxist concepts of class warfare and of racial philosophies which shaped Hitlerism and scientific world view.”
And we focus attention and concern on the Jewish Holocaust because
somehow we all have the feeling that it might just happen again.
NEWSBRIEF: Chicago Tribune, Friday, 10/25/96, "POPE BOLSTERS CHURCH SUPPORT FOR EVOLUTION", by Stevenson Swanson, Tribune Staff Writer, Dateline: New York.
"In a major statement of the Roman Catholic Church's position on the theory of evolution, Pope John Paul II has proclaimed that the theory is 'more than just a hypothesis' and that evolution is compatible with Christian faith. In a written message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the pope said the theory of evolution has been buttressed by scientific studies and discoveries since Charles Darwin ... "It is indeed remarkable that this theory has progressively taken root in the minds of researchers following a series of discoveries made in different spheres of knowledge', the pope said in his message Wednesday. 'The convergence, neither sought nor provoked, of results of studies undertaken independently from each other constitutes, in itself, a significant argument in favor of this theory..."
More recently, in May 2007, a blog dedicated to promoting the candidacy of Senator Sam Brownback decried the “non-debate over an issue that rational Americans have foolishly conceded to the secular among us: the issue of heliocentrism, or the idea that the earth revolves around the sun.”
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Press Release
World-Renowned Scientists to Present Facts
Against Evolution at Conference in Rome
Participants Answer Pope Benedict’s Call for Truth and Tolerance in Evolution Debate
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OCTOBER 27, 2008
CONTACT: H. M. OWEN, howen@shentel.net
or PETER WILDERS, pwilders@libello.com
BRYCE, VA – Top scientists in the fields of biology, geophysics, geology, genetics, and other disciplines, will present scientific facts against the theory of evolution at Sapienza University’s Pathology Amphitheatre, Umberto Policlinico, in Rome, Italy, on Nov. 3, from 9:30AM to 5:00PM. Admission is free.
The scientists who will speak at the Sapienza University conference agree with Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Sir Ernst Chain, who said that evolution was an "hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts."
Those Atheistic Britons
But the New Encyclopedia Britannica (in its 15th edition)rejects such a view because, allegedy:“Darwin did two things; he showed that evolution was a fact contradicting scriptural legends of creation and that its cause, natural selection, was automatic with no room for divine guidance or designs.”
Darwin's philosophy is well entrenched in the atheistic tradition of England. In 1562, Walter Carleton, formerly a physician to the king, complained that England produced and fostered “more swarms of atheistic monsters” than any other age or country. And in 1665 Joseph Glanville noted that it “now accounted a piece of wit and gallantry to be an atheist.”
- Pierre-Paul Grasse, past President of the French Academie des Sciences, Editor of the 35-volume _Traite de Zoologie_: "Today (1977) our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists must be encouraged to think about the weaknesses and extrapolations that theoreticians put forward or lay down as established truths. The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs."
The conference, “A Scientific Critique of Evolution,” is being held in response to Cardinal Ratzinger’s (now Pope Benedict XVI) appeal in his book Truth and Tolerance that arguments for and against evolution should be heard with objectivity – “a willingness to listen by both sides.”
The conference coincides with one being held by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which refused to allow the scientists with evidence against the theory of evolution to participate in their event.
The scientists participating in the conference at Sapienza University are not creationists. They represent thousands of world-renowned scientists whose evidence against evolution is often downplayed or ignored by academics who support evolution. Abstracts of the speakers’ presentations are attached.
Rejecting Galileo's Confidence Tricks
An investigation into … [Galileo's] condemnation was opened in 1979 by Pope John Paul II. A papal commission, set up in 1982, produced several scholarly publications related to the trial. In October 1992 the commission acknowledged the error of the church’s officials. In a speech accepting the report John Paul, alluding to Galileo’s views on scripture and science, said that Galileo, “a sincere believer, showed himself to be more perceptive in this regard than the theologians who opposed him.”
The destruction of the Biblical Creation Model began over 450 years ago with the gradual acceptance of the Copernican Model of the "solar system" and the subsequent total rejection of the Biblically taught non-moving Earth with the sun going around daily. This Copernican Model accomplished three things necessary to the goal of destroying Bible Credibility as the source of God’s revealed Truth to mankind on all matters and making "Naturalistic Science" the new source of Truth to mankind.
The copy of Copernicus's book owned by Johannes Kepler has an inscription indicating that Andreas Osiander Andreas Osiander (Andreas Hosemann) (Ansbach, Bavaria, 19 December, 1498 – 17 October 1552 in Königsberg, Prussia) was a German Lutheran theologian, (Career: 1498-1552) was the anonymous author of the foreword. Its former owner had also marked two sections, which were later to become important in Kepler's thinking: a query on whether the center of the universe was the Sun or the center of the Earth's orbit. He could not fathom Copernicus's dialectics!
Galileo was a rather celebrated and frequent visitor to the Jesuit Roman College. His friendship with members of the Society of Jesus started in 1587, when, at the age of 23, he met Clavius, and continued for the rest of his life. The number and contents of Galileo's letters to Clavius show that he was a good friend of Clavius. The latter was able to needle Galileo about seeing Jupiter's four moons only because Galileo drew them on the lens of his telescope (One of his many confidence tricks).
The Chauvinism of the Palestinian Phalo-Solar Worshippers
A group of Muslims embraced three important components of Hindu religion: its mathematics, phallic architecture, and polygyny. The Moslem religion allows a man to have as many as four wives, and the Hindu religions sets no limit on the number of wives a man may have. The architecture of the Al Aqsa mosque mimics the phallic architecture of the Shiva Sanctuaries with their most sacred symbol i.e. The lingam (phallus) of the god Shiva.
In Vedic hyms, Rudra (an epithet for Shiva) is identified with Agni (the Aryan counterpart of the Semitic Baal), who in these sacred texts is deified as the carrier of the sacrificial offerings to the gods for whom they are intended. Hence, Agni is the mediator between men and gods, and acts as a metaphysical bridge between the two, just like the cosmic linga. A pertinent observation here is that every creative process is accompanied by the generation of heat. Indeed the sexual act is nothing but the offering of the seed of life into the sacred fire of love. Hence, Agni, the God of Fire, is eminently suited as a metaphoric emblem of the tejas (creative heat) of Shiva. The Phallic Architecture of Al-Aqsa Mosque Foreshadowed the Rise of Western Heliocentrism.
This Aryan solar philosophy informed the Pythagorean Notebooks (not later than 100 B.C.) in which we find the following train of thoughts: the hot predominates in the heavenly bodies, and this is cause of life; the kinship between gods and human beings is due to the fact that “a human being shares in the hot” (VIII.27) “All things live which share in the hot...but not all have the psyche. The psyche is a fragment (apospasma) of celestial aether...and it is immortal, because what it comes from is immortal.” The role of the heat as a mark of divinity recalls the dominant position of fire in Stoic thought. We find the same view in even older beliefs. For instance, in the famous Potidaea inscription of 432 B.C. “the aether received their psychai, the earth received their bodies.”
Ismail Haniyeh wrote Tuesday, July 11, 2006 i.e. on the eve of the war in Lebanon, in The Washington Post: “If Israel is prepared to negotiate seriously and fairly, and resolve the core 1948 issues, rather than the secondary ones from 1967, a fair and permanent peace is possible.” Palestinian educational television teaches that all of Israel belongs to the Palestinians. It teaches that if "Palestine," which includes all of Israel, is not whole, it endangers the entire Arab world, because "Palestine" is the heart of the Arab world (What about Mecca, where millions of pilgrims are arriving every year). The map of “Palestine"
encompasses all of Israel. In other words, Haniyeh wants Israel to surrender. Well, the Palestinian history textbooks present Semites as a racially inferior people using the words of Lord Cromer, or Renan.
An independent Palestinian state is a powerful ticking bomb in the heart of the Arab World.
Father George Coyne, head of the Vatican Observatory Research Group suggested that we might view stars as God's sperm, which is the basic teaching of the Aryan cosmogony. In the Hindu Myth when the desire arose in it (i.e. in the sun god in the shape of linga (phallus) and BANG! The “creation” or rather emanation or emission (ejaculation) of semen followed. The Christian heretic Justin who envisaged Jesus as ever-existent “seed-sowing Reason” believed that the good God was an erect phallus, like Shiva (Hippolytus, Refutation 5.7.21-22). Father Coyne was a true Palestinian. Father Coyne was leading a ecumenical movement in phallicism which inspired John Paul II's Theology of the Body in which sanctuaries turn into sexuaries.
Two weeks or so before Benedict's planned visit to La Sapienza on Jan 4, 2008 Peter Popham reported for The Independent that the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years was dismantled. The Pope needs more room to receive diplomats so the telescopes had to go.
Dr Robert Sungenis and Dr. Bennett wrote Galileo Was Wrong; you can go to www.galileowaswrong.com and order a CDrom of the 1150-page book. It also has animations and pictures. A print version will be available in about 6 weeks, but it will cost about $75.00. If Galileo was wrong John Paul II lied when he said that Galileo, “a sincere believer, showed himself to be more perceptive in this regard than the theologians who opposed him.” We may wonder, Did John Paul II receive his 30 silver pieces?
A Quote from Blog4Brownback:
1.Holy Ghost vs. Heliocentric Gang. Click on the link to see that the Holy Ghost cannot land on the spinning earth, to impregnate Mary!
At: http://www.intothelight.org/answers/jesus-as-the-sin-bearer.asp or Google Jesus as the Sin Bearer
Peled: No settlement freeze deal
Sep. 1, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled on Tuesday denied that there had been a deal on freezing settlement construction.
"There is no agreement whatsoever on the issue of a construction freeze in settlements," he said. "I have heard about developments with my own ears, and believe me, I am the primary source of information."
During a Tel Aviv conference for the 'Preservation of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights,' Peled said that "Jerusalem is our symbol, we'll live anywhere we want there."
He went on to say that during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's recent trip to Germany, the premier had been assured that "Jews will continue to build and live in Jerusalem."
ISRAEL IS MUCH MORE POPULAR WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAN WITH OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT. OBAMA'S POLL NUMBERS HAVE BEEN DROPPING LIKE A ROCK ALL SUMMER AS HE UNDERMINED THE SECURITY OF THE US AND OUR ALLY ISRAEL TO MAKE POINTS WITH OUR ENEMIES. AMERICANS ARE NOT AMUSED.(Al Arabiya, Prospect of Middle East peace dims, Sept 3, 2009)
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Multi-billion dollar deal may persuade Moscow not to sell to Iran
Saudis eye Russian air defense system: Analysts
The S-400 missile defense system could be a part of a much larger deal with Russia that would signify an important diversification of Saudi arms purchasing from its main suppliers: the United States, Britain and France.
On August 29, Russia's Interfax news agency said a $2 billion arms package for the Saudis could include up to 150 helicopters -- 30 Mi-35 attack helicopters and up to 120 Mi-17 transport helicopters -- more than 150 T-90S tanks, 250 BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles and "several dozen" air defense systems
Lieberman wants 'new Israeli foreign policy'
Oct. 7, 2009; Haviv Rettig Gur , THE JERUSALEM POST
The policy staff in Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's office has drawn up a secret memo calling for a radical refocus of Israeli foreign policy toward the developing world, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
According to sources, the foreign minister plans to bring the five-page preliminary policy paper to the ministry's senior professional staff in the coming days, to begin discussion on implementing what is being described as "guidelines for a whole new foreign policy."
According to a copy of the memo obtained by the Post, the new policy involves moving away from a "lone dependence" on the United States as a strategic ally, to developing broader and closer ties with other world powers and with the developing world.
The document, which was developed in recent weeks at Lieberman's request, focuses on three major shifts in policy: expanding ties with parts of the world "neglected" by previous governments, lowering international expectations of a breakthrough in negotiations with the Palestinians and creating a "zero-tolerance" policy for anti-Semitic expressions worldwide.
The memo chastises the Foreign Ministry for "becoming the 'Ministry for Palestinian Affairs,' with Israeli foreign policy almost entirely consumed by this single issue."
The monastery of St. Catherine is the Catholic convent where Constantin Tischendorf, the German textual critic and 'first Bible critic in Europe', discovered the Alexandrian manuscript, Sinaiticus Aleph, which was used along with the Vaticanus as the basis for the Westcott-Hort New Greek Text. which underlies modern translations of the Bible. The impression given by modern textual critics and the Vatican press is that Mt. Sinai is in Egypt; however, Scripture, referring to the giving of the Mosaic Law, states that Mt. Sinai is in Arabia: "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia..." (Gal. 4:25):
For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children (for the word Hagar in Arabia signifies Mount Sinai).
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