All living souls of the Heaven and the Earth
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Bau Mulut pertanda Infeksi Parasit Hati
Torah Adonai
TORAH ADONAI DAN
TORAH RABBINIKAL
Shalom,
TORAH RABBINIKAL sering disebut sebagai ORAL TORAH atau TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה].
Tradisional JUDAISME mempercayai bahwa ketika HaShem memberikan TORAH-Nya, yaitu
TORAH ADONAI [תּוֹרָה יהוה],
itu disertai juga dengan
TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה].
Di dalam TORAH ADONAI [תּוֹרָה יהוה] terdapat 613 MITZVOT
, sedangkan di dalam TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה] diberikan keterangan yang menjelaskan 613 MITZVOT tersebut.
Di zaman Bait Suci ke-2, TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה] sering disebut sebagai TRADISI TUA-TUA, atau TRADISI RABBINIKAL, atau TORAH RABBINIKAL atau ADAT ISTIADAT.
Salah satu contoh TORAH RABBINIKAL:
Matius 15:4
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Sebab Elohim berfirman: Hormatilah ayahmu dan ibumu; dan lagi: Siapa yang mengutuki ayahnya atau ibunya pasti dihukum mati.
*Ayat 4 di atas berbicara tentang TORAH ADONAI [תּוֹרָה יהוה], yang tercatat di Keluaran 21:17.
Matius 15:5
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Tetapi kamu berkata: Barangsiapa berkata kepada bapanya atau kepada ibunya: Apa yang ada padaku yang dapat digunakan untuk pemeliharaanmu,
sudah digunakan untuk persembahan kepada Elohim,
Matius 15:6
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
orang itu tidak wajib lagi menghormati bapanya atau ibunya. Dengan demikian firman Elohim kamu nyatakan tidak berlaku demi ADAT ISTIADAT-mu sendiri.
*Ayat 5-6 di atas berbicara tentang TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה],
yaitu TORAH RABBINIKAL, atau ORAL TORAH,
yang tercatat di dalam Mishnah Nedarim Bab 1 Pasal 4; Bab 1 Pasal 7; Bab 1 Pasal 16.
Pada zaman Bait Suci ke-2 TORAH RABBINIKAL ini belum dibukukan,
masih berupa TRADISI TURUN TEMURUN, dari rabbi ke rabbi. Kemudian pada tahun 200 M, Rabbi Yehudah Ha'Nasi meulai membukukan TRADISI ini menjadi kumpulan buku, yang sekarang ini dikenal sebagai TALMUD.
Jadi TALMUD adalah suatu buku berisikan kumpulan TRADISI RABBINIKAL yang turun temurun.
Apakah benar TORAH RABBINKAL ini diberikan langsung oleh TUHAN?
Atau hanya suatu pagar ciptaan para rabbi saja?
PERTAMA
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Jika TORAH RABBINIKAL ini adalah suatu pemberian SUPRANATURAL bersama-sama dengan TORAH ADONAI, seharusnya Rabbi Yehudah Ha'Nasi tidak akan perlu membukukannya pada tahun 200 M.
Karena jika memang benar TORAH RABBINIKAL diberikan bersama-sama dengan TORAH ADONAI,
seharusnya TORAH RABBINIKAL juga memiliki SEFER yang sama dengan TORAH ADONAI,
tidak dibukukan pada tahun 200 M.
KEDUA
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Pada zaman pemerintahan Raja Yosia,
SEFER TORAH ADONAI
pernah hilang dan ditemukan.
2 Raja 22:8
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Berkatalah imam besar Hilkia, kepada Safan,
panitera itu:
"Telah kutemukan kitab Taurat itu di rumah TUHAN!"
Lalu Hilkia memberikan kitab itu kepada Safan, dan
Safan terus membacanya.
Pada saat itu,
tidak ada seorangpun yang mengetahui bagaimana caranya merayakan HARI RAYA PESACH.
2 Raja 23:21
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Kemudian raja memberi perintah kepada seluruh bangsa itu:
"Rayakanlah Paskah bagi TUHAN, Elohim-mu, seperti yang tertulis dalam kitab perjanjian ini!"
2 Raja 23:22
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Sebab tidak pernah lagi dirayakan Paskah seperti itu sejak zaman para hakim yang memerintah atas Israel dan sepanjang zaman raja-raja Israel dan raja-raja Yehuda.
2 Raja 23:23
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Tetapi barulah dalam tahun kedelapan belas zaman raja Yosia Paskah ini dirayakan bagi TUHAN di Yerusalem.
Baru pada tahun ke-18 pemerintahan Raja Yosia,
HARI RAYA PESACH dirayakan kembali.
Pada saat itu
SEFER TORAH ADONAI sempat hilang ketika BAIT SUCI rusak. Raja,
Imam Besar dan para imam Levi, tidak ada yang tahu bagaimana detail-nya untuk merayakan HARI RAYA PESACH.
Kalau saat itu ORAL TORAH sudah ada, tentunya mereka tidak akan kesulitan untuk merayakan HARI RAYA PESACH,
karena semua detail bagaimana merayakan
HARI RAYA PESACH ada diatur di dalam ORAL TORAH di dalam Bab yang berjudul PESACHIM.
Tetapi fakta membuktikan bahwa mereka saat itu tidak memiliki ORAL TORAH sama sekali.
Dan ketika SEFER TORAH ADONAI ditemukan,
mereka juga tidak mengetahui bagaimana detail caranya merayakan HARI RAYA PESACH seperti yang diatur di dalam ORAL TORAH.
KETIGA
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Keluaran 24:3
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Lalu datanglah Musa dan memberitahukan kepada bangsa itu segala firman TUHAN dan segala peraturan itu, maka seluruh bangsa itu menjawab serentak:
"Segala firman yang telah diucapkan TUHAN itu, akan kami lakukan."
Keluaran 24:4
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Lalu Musa menuliskan segala firman TUHAN itu.
Keesokan harinya pagi-pagi didirikannyalah mezbah di kaki gunung itu, dengan dua belas tugu sesuai dengan kedua belas suku Israel.
Dalam ayat di atas kita membaca bahwa TUHAN memberikan kepaa Musa, TORAH ADONAI, dan Musa menuliskan SEGALA-nya, tidak kurang dan tidak lebih.
Ini adalah TORAH ADONAI.
Dan tidak ada sama sekali penjelasan yang menyatakan diberikan juga ORAL TORAH/TORAH RABBINIKAL/TORAH SHEBA'AL PEH [תּוֹרָה שֶׁבְּעַל פֶּה].
Referensi ayat yang lain yang menjelaskan bahwa hanya TORAH ADONAI yang diberikan saat itu adalah:
Ulangan 30:10
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
apabila engkau mendengarkan suara TUHAN, Elohim-mu, dengan berpegang pada perintah dan ketetapan-Nya, yang tertulis dalam kitab Taurat ini dan apabila engkau berbalik kepada TUHAN, Elohim-mu, dengan segenap hatimu dan dengan segenap jiwamu.
*Perhatikan kalimat di atas "...yang tertulis dalam kitab Taurat ini..."
menjelaskan tentang TORAH ADONAI.
Ulangan 31:9
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Setelah hukum Taurat itu dituliskan Musa, maka diberikannyalah kepada imam-imam bani Lewi,
yang mengangkut tabut perjanjian Hashem, dan
kepada segala tua-tua Israel
Ulangan 31:24
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Ketika Musa selesai menuliskan perkataan hukum Taurat itu dalam sebuah kitab sampai perkataan yang penghabisan
Ulangan 31:26
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
"Ambillah kitab Taurat ini dan letakkanlah di samping tabut perjanjian Hashem,
Elohim-mu, supaya menjadi saksi di situ terhadap engkau.
לָקֹ֗חַ אֵ֣ת סֵ֤פֶר הַתֹּורָה֙ הַזֶּ֔ה וְשַׂמְתֶּ֣ם אֹתֹ֔ו מִצַּ֛ד אֲרֹ֥ון בְּרִית־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם וְהָֽיָה־שָׁ֥ם בְּךָ֖ לְעֵֽד
la.ko.ach et SE.FER HA.TO.RAH ha.ze ve.sam.tem o.to mi.tsad a.ron be.rit-ADONAI e.lo.hei.chem ve.ha.ya-sham be.cha le.ed
*Dalam Ulangan 31:26
hanya dikatakan SEFER HA'TORAH,
yang merupakan bentuk (SINGULAR), bukan merupakan bentuk (PLURAL).
Hanya ada 1 SEFER TORAH ADONAI yang diletakkan di samping TABUT PERJANJIAN.
Tidak ada ORAL TORAH.
KEEMPAT
========
Salah satu alasan penting mengapa TORAH ADONAI harus dituliskan di dalam SEFER (KITAB) adalah supaya bangsa Israel terhindar dari PENIPUAN,
terhindar dari TORAH yang palsu. Sedangkan ORAL TORAH/TORAH RABBINIKAL mempunyai banyak perubahan dan disesuaikan dengan zaman.
DARI MANA?
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Lalu,
dari mana asal mula
TORAH RABBINIKAL?
Salah seorang ahli TALMUD bernama Michael Rodkinson, menjelaskan dalam bukunya yang berjudul
"The History of the Talmud":
The name Written Law was given to the Pentateuch (Torah), Prophets and Hagiographa, and that of Oral Law to all the teachings of the sages consisting of comments on the text of the Bible.
Dengan kata lain,
ORAL TORAH/TORAH RABBINIKAL/TRADISI RABBINIKAL adalah merupakan AJARAN;
BUDAYA' TRADISI dari para pemimpin/rabbi Yahudi dari abad ke abad. Diciptakan oleh manusia.
Contoh:
Seorang Rabbi bernama Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 84 tahun, mengatakan bahwa iPhone dan smartphone yang lain adalah benda TAMEI, karena dapat meng-akses pornografi, sehingga seorang Yahudi Orthodox tidak boleh memilikinya.
Nah,
kalau ini terjadi pada tahun 300 M,
maka sudah pasti, pengajaran ini akan dimasukkan ke dalam TALMUD.
Yang penting untuk kita ketahui adalah:
Tidak semua TRADISI RABBINIKAL adalah bagus,
dan tidak semua TRADISI RABBINIKAL adalah jelek.
TRADISI RABBINIKAL/ TORAH RABBINIKAL hanyalah sebuah TRADISI ciptaan manusia belaka.
Tidak lebih dan tidak kurang.
PANDANGAN YESHUA
==================
Sebagai MESIANIK,
bagaimana pandangan YESHUA terhadap
TORAH RABBINIKAL ini?
YESHUA jelas sekali bahwa IA tidak mempercayai bahwa TORAH RABBINIKAL ini diberikan di gunung Sinai bersama dengan TORAH ADONAI.
YESHUA menyebut TORAH RABBINIKAL ini sebagai "TRADITION OF ELDERS".
Matthew 15:2
- King James Version (KJV)
Why do thy disciples transgress the TRADITION OF ELDERS? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
Matthew 15:2
- Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
“Why is it that your talmidim break the TRADITION OF THE ELDERS? They don’t do n’tilat-yadayim before they eat!”
Matius 15:2
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
"Mengapa murid-murid-Mu melanggar ADAT ISTIADAT NENEK MOYANG kita?
Mereka tidak membasuh tangan sebelum makan."
Bahkan orang-orang Farisi pada saat itu hanya menilai TORAH RABBINIKAL sebagai ADAT ISTIADAT/TRADISI saja.
Bagaimana pandangan YESHUA?
Sederhana,
YESHUA tidak menentang TRADISI/ADAT ISTIADAT,
tetapi YESHUA menentang TRADISI/ADAT ISTIADAT yang ditempatkan lebih tinggi,
lebih mulia dari pada TORAH ADONAI.
Ada banyak hal yang BAIK di dalam JUDAISME, TRADISI/ADAT ISTIADAT yang baik, TORAH RABBINIKAL yang baik. Tetapi satu hal yang penting diingat adalah,
itu HANYA merupakan TRADISI ciptaan manusia dan tidak berasal dari TORAH ADONAI.
Membahas mengenai
TORAH RABBINIKAL inilah yang sering disebut oleh Rabbi Shaul sebagai
"WORKS OF THE LAW" [εργων νομου].
Ketika Rabbi Shaul sedang membicarakan tentang TORAH RABBINIKAL, maka ia selalu memberikan penilaian yang NEGATIVE,
karena LEGALISME dari TORAH RABBINIKAL tidak akan dapat membuat merit seseorang kepada TUHAN.
Contoh:
Galatia 3:10
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Karena semua orang, yang hidup dari PEKERJAAN HUKUM TAURAT [εργων νομου] berada di bawah kutuk.
Sebab ada tertulis:
"Terkutuklah orang yang tidak setia melakukan segala sesuatu yang tertulis dalam kitab hukum Taurat.
PEKERJAAN HUKUM TAURAT = TORAH RABBINIKAL = KUTUK
Tetapi ketika Rabbi Shaul sedang membicarakan TORAH ADONAI,
maka ia selalu memberikan penilaian yang POSITIVE.
Contoh:
Roma 7:12
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Jadi HUKUM TAURAT adalah kudus, dan perintah itu juga adalah kudus,
benar dan baik.
HUKUM TAURAT = TORAH ADONAI = KUDUS, BENAR dan BAIK.
Karena itu tidak mungkin Galatia 3:10 dan Roma 7:12 membicarakan TORAH yang sama.
Pasti rabbi Shaul sedang membicarakan TORAH yang disebut sebagai KUTUK, dan juga TORAH yang disebut sebagai KUDUS.
Contoh lain:
1Timotius 1:8
- Terjemahan Baru (TB-LAI)
Kita tahu bahwa HUKUM TAURAT itu baik kalau tepat digunakan,
Kita dapat melihat, bagaimana Rabbi Shaul memberikan peilaian yang POSITIVE terhadap TORAH ADONAI.
Tetapi ketika Rabbi Shaul membicarakan TORAH RABBINIKAL,
Yaitu ASPEK LEGALISME dari pelaksanaan TORAH ADONAI yang berupa TRADISI,
maka Rabbi SHaul selalu memberikan penilaian yang NEGATIVE, karena faktor LEGALISME tersebut.
Jadi setiap kita membaca tulisan Rabbi Shaul, kita harus selalu check dan cross check, apakah ia sedang berbicara TORAH ADONAI atau ia sedang berbicara TORAH RABBINIKAL/TRADISI RABBINIKAL.
Baruch Hashem
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
RAMBO
Inspiring
March 12th, 2018
Dibalik Kesuksesannya Menjadi Rambo, Ada Kisah Sedih Stallone Yang Tidak Banyak Diketahui
Sumber: https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/upl
Inta Destria
Official Writer
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Tahu film legendaris yang berjudul Rambo? Toko Rambo diperankan oleh Sylvester Stallone, merupakan salah satu aktor laga yang terkenal di tahun 1980an. Untuk lebih tepatnya, nama Stallone tidak hanya dikenal sebagai aktor, namun ia juga merupakan penulis skenario sekaligus sutradara terkenal.
Dibalik nama besarnya, Stallone tidaklah terlahir dengan sempurna sebagaimana manusia pada umumnya. Saat lahir, ia menderita paralysis atau lumpuh pada sebagian wajahnya, termasuk bibir bawahnya. Karena keterbatasannya ini, sejak kecil hingga menginjak usia remaja ia mendapatkan pendidikan disekolah berkebutuhan khusus.
Keterbatasan seorang Stallone tidak lantas membuatnya berhenti bermimpi. Sejak kecil, ia memang selalu menginginkan untuk menjadi aktor. Dalam perjalanan memperoleh mimpinya tersebut, Stallone sangat akrab dengan kegagalan saat mengikuti casting.
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“Tidak ada penonton yang mau melihat seorang bintang film berwajah layaknya seorang mabuk dan tidak mampu bertutur kata dengan jelas,” adalah salah satu alasan mengapa Stallone kerap gagal dalam casting. Jika dihitung, jumlah tolakannya tidak tanggung-tanggung, lebih dari 1500 kali!
Sepertinya, kata menyerah tidak ada dalam kamus Stallone. Setiap ia mendengar ada casting, maka ia akan langsung mendatanginya. Pada akhirnya, sambil ia mengikuti casting sana sini, Stallone menulis sebuah skenario dan menjualnya pada sebuah produser film. Beberapa ada yang berhasil terjual.
Sebagai seorang penulis skenario yang pendapatannya tidak pasti, membuat ia ia diceraikan oleh istrinya. Ada saat dimana seorang Stallone harus menjadi seorang geladangan yang tidur di sebuah halte bus selama tiga hari.
Bahkan, ia harus menjual anjing yang ia sayangi hanya karena ia tidak mampu lagi untuk memberi makan anjing tersebut. Ia menjualnya hanya seharga $25. Dengan berat hati sambil menitikkan air mata, ia meninggalkan anjingnya pada pemilik yang baru.
Dunianya berubah sejak ia menulis sebuah skenario film berjudul Rocky. Sebuah skenario film yang hanya ditulisnya selama 20 jam saja. Ia mendapatkan sebuah penawaran yang fantastis untuk skenario ini, uang senilai $125.000 pun di tawarkan. Ia menolak. Bukan karena jumlahnya, tetapi ia ingin kalau pemain utamanya diperankan oleh Stallone sendiri.
Produser tersebut meningkatkan harga scknarionya menjadi $350.000, ia tetap menolaknya. Mereka ingin skenarionya, tetapi bukan Stallone. Sampai akhirnya produser tersebut sepakat untuk menerima Stallone sebagai pemeran utama hanya dengan bayaran senilai $35.000.
Dengan uang yang ia kantungi saat itu, ia kembali membeli anjing kesayangannya. Ia menjelaskan alasan mengapa ia memutuskan untuk menjualnya. Sayangnya, sang pemilik baru bersikeras dan mengatakan kalau ia tidak akan menjual anjingnya tersebut kecuali Stallone membayarnya $15.000. Dan ya, Stallone memberikan uang tersebut hanya untuk anjing kesayangannya yang semula ia jual $25.
Tetapi, keputusan seorang Stallone dan kegigihannya ini berbuah manis. Rocky menggaet tiga piala Oscar untuk film terbaik, sutradara terbaik dan scenario terbaik. Nama Stallone terus dikenal dan berhasil menjadi legenda dalam filmnya yang berjudul Rambo.
Dalam kehidupan, selain beriman, kita juga harus bekerja keras dan pantang menyerah. Stallone telah membuktikan kalau pengharapan dan kerja keras tidak akan mengecewakan kita. Sebagai orang percaya, kita harus memiliki nilai lebih dari orang-orang yang tidak mengenal Tuhan.
Sebab firmanNya mengatakan dalam Amsal 23:18, “Karena masa depan sungguh ada, dan harapanmu tidak akan hilang.” Mulai sekarang, jangan pernah menyerah dengan keadaan, karena Tuhan sendiri telah berpesan kalau masa depan yang terbaik untuk kita telah Tuhan sediakan.
Sumber : jawaban.com
Thursday, March 8, 2018
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New US Embassy in Jerusalem
MIDDLE EAST
New U.S. Embassy May Be in Jerusalem, but Not in Israel
The former Diplomat Hotel, now part of the United States consular compound in Jerusalem, was built on disputed territory.THOMAS COEX/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
By ISABEL KERSHNER
March 7, 2018
JERUSALEM — In two months, the United States plans to open a new embassy to fulfill President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
There’s just one problem: The embassy may be in Jerusalem, but it may not be fully in Israel.
The diplomatic compound that will serve as the American Embassy until a permanent site is found lies partly in a contested zone known as No Man’s Land.
No Man’s Land encompasses the area between the armistice lines drawn at the end of the 1948-49 war and was claimed by Jordan and Israel. Israel won full control of it in the 1967 war, so the United Nations and much of the world consider it occupied territory.
The State Department has avoided taking a clear position on the matter but relies on the fact that Israel and Jordan had informally divided the contested enclave.
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The provisional embassy site, in the Arnona neighborhood, “has been in continuous Israeli use since 1949,” the department said in a statement last week. “It is today a mixed residential-commercial neighborhood.”
The Palestinians are less equivocal.
“No Man’s Land is occupied territory,” said Ashraf Khatib of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations Affairs Department. “Any permanent status for that territory should be part of a final status negotiation.”
The dispute could turn the American ambassador, David M. Friedman, an avid supporter of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, into a new kind of diplomatic settler himself.
The plan is for the embassy to be housed in what is now the consular services section of the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem while the search is on for a permanent site. The fortresslike compound sits partly in predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem and partly in a section of No Man’s Land between West Jerusalem and predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.
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The American Embassy move veers from almost seven decades of American policy, and that of much of the rest of the world, which considers the status of Jerusalem subject to negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians, who each claim it as their capital. Critics say the embassy move prejudges the outcome of any future negotiations over the city.
But if the American recognition was already vague, leaving the eventual boundaries of sovereignty in Jerusalem up to the Israelis and the Palestinians, this odd quirk of political geography raises even sharper questions about which parts of the city the United States considers as Israel’s capital.
That requires some historical unpacking.
After the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, Israel signed an armistice agreement with Jordan, which controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The sides demarcated the armistice line on a map in grease pencil. Where they did not agree they drew their own lines staking out their maximalist positions — the Israelis in green, as far as possible to the east, the Jordanians in red, to the west.
The United States Ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, right, may be considered a sort of settler when the new embassy opens.POOL PHOTO BY HEIDI LEVINE
The disputed enclaves, called the “areas between the lines,” were under neither party’s control and came to be known as No Man’s Land.
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A senior United Nations official, who was granted anonymity to discuss a particularly sensitive diplomatic issue, said it was impossible to tell from the 1949 map exactly which parts of the Arnona consular compound sit where. The lines were drawn with the thickness of a crayon, and none of the current development in the area existed then.
But any part between the lines would be considered occupied territory, he said.
After 1949, both Israel and Jordan claimed the territory, holding that its status would be determined in an eventual agreement. When the 1967 war broke out, the Jordanian and Israeli armies fought over it.
Raphael Israeli, a professor emeritus at Hebrew University and a former Israeli delegate to the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, says that neither Israel nor Jordan had formal jurisdiction of it. “They simply invaded it,” he said.
Today, he said, after 50 years of Israeli possession and no country having had sovereignty over it beforehand, questions about its status are moot.
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“You can start making hairsplitting arguments,” he said, “but it seems so obsolete now. Things got blended together, and I don’t know any more which is what and what belongs to whom.”
After 1949, the Israelis set about fencing and farming land on their side of the territory. A Jordanian road to Bethlehem meandered through.
Both sides stationed troops in the zone. There were also instances of cooperation, such as when Jordan agreed to work with Israeli experts to eradicate a moth-borne blight infesting pine trees in the area.
But when an Israeli entrepreneur began constructing a hotel on a slope in the zone in 1963, the Jordanians lodged a complaint and the work was stopped.
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The hotel, named the Diplomat, was opened after the Israeli victory in 1967. Located on the grounds of the consular compound, it is now owned by the United States and leased out as housing for elderly Russian-speaking immigrants.
Before moving to Arnona in 2010, the American consular section that served Arabs and Jews was in East Jerusalem. The United States Consulate General that deals with the Palestinian Authority is in West Jerusalem.
Eugene Kontorovich, the director of international law at the conservative Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, contends that by moving the embassy to the Arnona site the United States is recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over areas it captured in the 1967 war.
“Much more important than what the State Department says, it is what their actions say,” Mr. Kontorovich said. “You don’t build an embassy in territory that is not sovereign to Israel.”
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In Jerusalem, but in Israel for US Embassy
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New U.S. Embassy May Be in Jerusalem, but Not in Israel
The former Diplomat Hotel, now part of the United States consular compound in Jerusalem, was built on disputed territory.THOMAS COEX/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
By ISABEL KERSHNER
March 7, 2018
JERUSALEM — In two months, the United States plans to open a new embassy to fulfill President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
There’s just one problem: The embassy may be in Jerusalem, but it may not be fully in Israel.
The diplomatic compound that will serve as the American Embassy until a permanent site is found lies partly in a contested zone known as No Man’s Land.
No Man’s Land encompasses the area between the armistice lines drawn at the end of the 1948-49 war and was claimed by Jordan and Israel. Israel won full control of it in the 1967 war, so the United Nations and much of the world consider it occupied territory.
The State Department has avoided taking a clear position on the matter but relies on the fact that Israel and Jordan had informally divided the contested enclave.
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The provisional embassy site, in the Arnona neighborhood, “has been in continuous Israeli use since 1949,” the department said in a statement last week. “It is today a mixed residential-commercial neighborhood.”
The Palestinians are less equivocal.
“No Man’s Land is occupied territory,” said Ashraf Khatib of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Negotiations Affairs Department. “Any permanent status for that territory should be part of a final status negotiation.”
The dispute could turn the American ambassador, David M. Friedman, an avid supporter of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, into a new kind of diplomatic settler himself.
The plan is for the embassy to be housed in what is now the consular services section of the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem while the search is on for a permanent site. The fortresslike compound sits partly in predominantly Jewish West Jerusalem and partly in a section of No Man’s Land between West Jerusalem and predominantly Arab East Jerusalem.
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The American Embassy move veers from almost seven decades of American policy, and that of much of the rest of the world, which considers the status of Jerusalem subject to negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians, who each claim it as their capital. Critics say the embassy move prejudges the outcome of any future negotiations over the city.
But if the American recognition was already vague, leaving the eventual boundaries of sovereignty in Jerusalem up to the Israelis and the Palestinians, this odd quirk of political geography raises even sharper questions about which parts of the city the United States considers as Israel’s capital.
That requires some historical unpacking.
After the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, Israel signed an armistice agreement with Jordan, which controlled the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The sides demarcated the armistice line on a map in grease pencil. Where they did not agree they drew their own lines staking out their maximalist positions — the Israelis in green, as far as possible to the east, the Jordanians in red, to the west.
The United States Ambassador to Israel, David M. Friedman, right, may be considered a sort of settler when the new embassy opens.POOL PHOTO BY HEIDI LEVINE
The disputed enclaves, called the “areas between the lines,” were under neither party’s control and came to be known as No Man’s Land.
ADVERTISEMENT
A senior United Nations official, who was granted anonymity to discuss a particularly sensitive diplomatic issue, said it was impossible to tell from the 1949 map exactly which parts of the Arnona consular compound sit where. The lines were drawn with the thickness of a crayon, and none of the current development in the area existed then.
But any part between the lines would be considered occupied territory, he said.
After 1949, both Israel and Jordan claimed the territory, holding that its status would be determined in an eventual agreement. When the 1967 war broke out, the Jordanian and Israeli armies fought over it.
Raphael Israeli, a professor emeritus at Hebrew University and a former Israeli delegate to the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, says that neither Israel nor Jordan had formal jurisdiction of it. “They simply invaded it,” he said.
Today, he said, after 50 years of Israeli possession and no country having had sovereignty over it beforehand, questions about its status are moot.
ADVERTISEMENT
“You can start making hairsplitting arguments,” he said, “but it seems so obsolete now. Things got blended together, and I don’t know any more which is what and what belongs to whom.”
After 1949, the Israelis set about fencing and farming land on their side of the territory. A Jordanian road to Bethlehem meandered through.
Both sides stationed troops in the zone. There were also instances of cooperation, such as when Jordan agreed to work with Israeli experts to eradicate a moth-borne blight infesting pine trees in the area.
But when an Israeli entrepreneur began constructing a hotel on a slope in the zone in 1963, the Jordanians lodged a complaint and the work was stopped.
ADVERTISEMENT
The hotel, named the Diplomat, was opened after the Israeli victory in 1967. Located on the grounds of the consular compound, it is now owned by the United States and leased out as housing for elderly Russian-speaking immigrants.
Before moving to Arnona in 2010, the American consular section that served Arabs and Jews was in East Jerusalem. The United States Consulate General that deals with the Palestinian Authority is in West Jerusalem.
Eugene Kontorovich, the director of international law at the conservative Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, contends that by moving the embassy to the Arnona site the United States is recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over areas it captured in the 1967 war.
“Much more important than what the State Department says, it is what their actions say,” Mr. Kontorovich said. “You don’t build an embassy in territory that is not sovereign to Israel.”
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Jesus did not die on the Cross recognized by Roman POPE
Finally! The Pope Agrees With Muslims “Jesus Did Not Die At The Cross”
May 31, 2017
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See, when it comes to the bible, it is so consistent with the truth that there really is no room for confusion. Actually God is a God of order and one would expect to find nothing but consistency and order in His words.
The Pope in an address in New York said that “humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.“.
“I would like to express two sentiments for my Muslim brothers and sisters: Firstly, my greetings as they celebrate the feast of sacrifice. I would have wished my greeting to be warmer. My sentiments of closeness, my sentiments of closeness in the face of tragedy. The tragedy that they suffered in Mecca.”
“The cross shows us a different way of measuring success. Ours is to plant the seeds. God sees to the fruits of our labors. And if at times our efforts and works seem to fail and not produce fruit, we need to remember that we are followers of Jesus Christ and his life, humanly speaking, ended in failure, the failure of the cross.”
Let that sink in.
So first the Pope identifies himself with “my Muslim Brothers and Sisters”. Now, don’t get me wrong, but I love muslims. I have Muslim brothers and sisters and friends. But in faith are Muslims our brothers and sisters?
“The righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray” (12:26). We should stay away from foolish people (13:20, 14:7), from people who lose their temper easily (22:24), and from the rebellious (24:21).
Although these close relationships are not recommended, it does not mean we turn our noses up and ignore unbelievers, either. Second Timothy 2:24-26 tells us that as servants of the Lord, we are to be kind to and not quarrel with anyone. We should gently teach those who oppose the truth, and be patient with difficult people.Matthew 5:16 tells us, “Let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly father.” We should serve unbelievers so that they may see God through us and turn to Him in praise. James 5:16 says that there is great power in the prayer of a righteous person, so bring your concerns for unbelievers before God, and He will listen.
What does the Koran say about Non-Muslims?
(9:5) And when the forbidden months have passed, kill the idolaters wherever you find them and take them prisoners, and beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent and observe Prayer and pay the Zakat, then leave their way free. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful.
On unbelievers is the curse of Allah. – Sura 2:161
It is not for any Prophet to have captives until he has made slaughter in the land. – 8:67
Fight those who believe neither in God nor the Last Day, nor what has been forbidden by God and his messenger(Mohammed), nor acknowledge the religion of Truth(Islam), even if they are People of the Book (Christians), until they pay the tribute and have been humbled. – 9:29 (another source: ) The unbelievers are impure and their abode is hell. (another source: ) Humiliate the non-Muslims to such an extent that they surrender and pay tribute.
Are Christians infidels? YES TO MUSLIMS. Anyone that does not profess the Shahada is an idolater (worships another God that is nor Allah).
So from the scratch of it, Christianity and Islam are the stack opposites and both hold relationships with non-believers at ‘arms length’. For Christians, it is either to preach to the unbeliever or stay clear lest their influence compromises your faith. For the Muslims, well it says kill! (And the results, every 5 Minutes A Christian is Killed )
But how does the Pope then a man that professes Christianity call a Muslim his brother?
Well maybe because deep down, Islam and Catholicism are one? How?
Well for one, Muslims believe God cannot die.
“And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain”. S. 4:157
The closest Muslims come to the cross is admitting someone else was crucified or ‘it appeared to the people present’ that they crucified someone.
Now the Pope in His statement has said that ‘humanly speaking” Jesus died.
The common denominator in Islam and Catholicism is that “someone HUMAN” called Jesus died, but God did not die. (According to Islam God cannot die and now according to the pope just the ‘human’ Jesus died, not the “Jesus-Jesus”).
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. 1John 2:22
So the Pope can justifiably call Muslims his Brothers and Sisters in faith. And which faith is that? Well the faith of the Devil.
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