Gud vandrade med sitt folk i öknen, också i dag är han med oss.
Efter de allvarstyngda bibliska högtidsdagarna Rosh Hashana (Nyåret) och Yom Kippur (Försoningsdagen) infaller glädjefesten Suckot / Lövhyddohögtiden nu på fredagkväll. Bibeln säger faktikst att man skall glädja sig denna högtid. 3 Mos 23:40" ...och ni skall glädja er i sju dagar inför Herrens er Guds ansikte." Under Lövhyddohögtiden "bor" man i "lövhyddor" och kommer ihåg ökenvandringen och hur Gud tog hand om sitt folk i ödemarken. Man kan fyllas av glädje när man inser att samme Gud som tog hand om sitt folk i öknen tar hand om oss idag, även fastän vi skulle tvingas gå genom öknen. Lövhyddohögtiden ser också framåt mot den Messianska tiden, profettexten är från Sakarja 14 som berättar om att Herren själv kommer att stiga ner på Oljeberget. Därefter kommer alla hednafolk att dra upp till Jerusalem för att tillbe konungen Herren Sebaot och fira Lövhyddohögtiden. En annan profettext är Hes.38:18-39:16 som handlar om den sista messianska striden mellan Gog, Magog och Israel och hur Gud visar sin storhet och helighet och strider för Israel. Lövhyddohögtiden ser alltså framåt mot en tid när alla folk tillber Israels Gud. Därför offrade man under templets tid 70 tjurar som symboliserade antalet för jordens alla folk.
Jesus (Yeshua) är centrum i alla de bibliska högtiderna så också i Lövhyddohögtiden
Under vattenösningsceremonin på Lövhyddohögtidens sista dag, när prästerna sjöng (Jes 12:3) : "Med fröjd skall ni ösa vatten ur frälsningens (på hebreiska: "Yeshuas källor" ) källor, berättas det följande om Jesus:(Joh. 7:37-39)”På den sista dagen, den största i högtiden, stod Jesus (Yeshua) och ropade: 'Om någon törstar, så kom till mig och drick! Den som tror på mig, ur hans innersta skall strömmar av levande vatten flyta fram, som Skriften säger.' Detta sade han om Anden, som de skulle få som trodde på honom. Ty Anden hade ännu inte blivit utgjuten, eftersom Jesus ännu inte hade blivit förhärligad.” Eftersom Lövhyddohögtiden är en av de tre vallfartshögtiderna sjöng man under högtiden vallfartspsalmerna. I psalm 118:26 står det: "Välsignad vare han som kommer i Herrens namn". Detta ord citeras av Jesus när han klagar över Jerusalem och säger: Härefter skall ni inte se mig förrän ni säger: Välsignad vare han som kommer i Herrens namn. Lövhyddohögtiden påminner oss om att Messias, Jesus, kommer tillbaka och då blir det bröllop. Egentligen hjälper oss alla tre vallfartshögtiderna att se vem Jesus är och vad han gjort för oss. Jesus säger i Joh. 14 Låt inte era hjärtan oroas. Tro på Gud och tro på mig. I min Faders hus finns många rum. Om det inte vore så, skulle jag då ha sagt er att jag går bort för att bereda plats åt er? Och om jag än går och bereder plats åt er, skall jag komma tillbaka och ta er till mig, för att ni skall vara där jag är.
Dehär orden kan syfta på de gamla bröllopstraditionerna i Israel.
Den unga mannen, brudgummen, besökte brudens hem. Han kom överens om priset för bruden, och 1) betalade, och
2) han gav en brudgåva till bruden. Efter att allt var klart återvände han till sin faders hus för att bygga ett rum åt sig och sin kommande brud. 3)När Fadern ansåg rummet var klart fick sonen återvända för att under jubel och glädje föra hem sin brud. Han kunde till och med komma under natten och röva bort henne. Bruden som inte visste när brudgummen skulle återvända för att hämta henne levde så att hon ständigt var redo för att bli hämtad.
Jesus, brudgummen, kom en första gång. Påsken berättar om hur han betalade ett oerhört högt pris för oss. Han vill verkligen ha oss. Pingsten talar om den brudgåva han gav oss. DHA som påminner oss om Jesu ord och hjälper oss att leva så att vi är redo när han kommer. Lövhyddohögtiden påminner oss om hans återkomst och den bröllopsfest vi har framför oss.
Så låt oss gå upp till Jerusalem och glädja oss! Välsignad vare han som kommer I Herrens namn!
Här kan man läsa en artikel om hur Gaza under Hamas styre islamiseras: Analysis: The Islamic republic of Gaza "A slow introduction of Islamic norms and practices into society began immediately following the Hamas victory in PLC elections in January 2006. This process was accelerated following Hamas's seizure of exclusive control of Gaza in 2007. However, there are clear internal differences in the movement regarding the pace of change. Hamas's current leadership has tended to favor a slow encouragement of Islamic practices and rules, without straying too far from the desires of the broader public. More hardline and Salafi elements within the movement want a stricter and more formal introduction of Islamic norms. Events over the last 18 months indicate that the latter camp is now making the running, with Hamas's leadership under pressure from extreme forces both within the movement and beyond it. "
På Fred i Mellansösterns hemsida kan man läsa en bokrecension av Magnus Norells bok "Islamismens seger - från Libanon till Iran", recensionen skriven av Franz Cohn. Bokrecension: ”Islamismens seger – från Libanon till Iran” "Norell förklarar i boken också skillnaden i tänkesättet. Det som många israeliska politiker och vi i Väst ser som en fredspolitik uppfattar vissa ledare som svaghet. Det ensidiga bortdragande av sina trupper från säkerhetszonen i Libanon och avvecklingen av bosättningarna i Gaza, samt ensidig vapenvila utan någon riktig seger både i Libanon 2006 och Gaza 2009 har inte gett Israel någon goodwill. Motparterna har tagit dessa koncessioner som intäkt för nya krav och hotelser."
Se en reklamfilm om Israel från Air France! Filmen är från 1951, endast tre år efter Israels självständighet. Folket sprudlar av energi för att bygga upp landet. Story of Israel in 1951 "Exceptional document!!!This is a 30 minutes clip made by Air France (but in English) to promote Israel in 1951."
I fredags slog israeliska flygvapnet till mot en terrorcell i Gaza som förberedde en raketattack. Det var fösta gången sedan kriget i januari som Israel slog till för att förhindra en raketattack. Efter attacken avfyrades flera raketer mot Israel. Palestinians fire mortar shell, Kassams
Oroligheter på Tempelberget Ett tiotal polismän och lika många demonstranter skadades när muslimer på Tempelberget angrep en judisk grupp som besökte området. Policemen wounded in Temple Mt. riots
Såhär kan en jude uppleva dagens situation när en jude inte får be på Temepelberget: "But now that I was standing in that holiest of places, which generations of Jews for 2,000 years could only dream of visiting, I was forbidden to pray. Simply moving my lips in whispered prayer could be grounds for removal. Why? Because I am a Jew. And only a Muslim can pray on the holiest site in Judaism. A Jew may not. " Intolerance on the Temple Mount
Söndag kväll inleds Yom Kippur, Försoningsdagen. De följande 24 timmarna fastar en troende jude från både mat och vatten. Detta är den allvarligaste dagen på året för judarna och trafiken och livet lugnar ner sig i Israel. 4 Mos.23:26-32
Yom Kippur är allmän helgdag i Israel. Radio och TV tystnar, flygplatser stängs, kollektivtrafiken står stilla, och all handel stannar. År 2008 uppgav 63% av befolkningen att de tänkte fasta under helgen. Det anses oartigt att äta offentligt under Yom Kippur, eller att framföra ett motorfordon. Och även om det inte finns några legala hinder för att köra eller äta på allmänna platser, möts det med ogillande. Under de senaste decennierna har det blivit en ny “tradition” bland sekulära ungdomar att cykla och åka inlines på de tomma gatorna. År 1973 drabbades Israel av en arabisk överraskningsattack mitt under Yom Kippur. Flygsirenerna tjöt och radiosändningarna återupptogs för att varsko och mobilisera befolkningen. Kriget har kommit att kallas Yom Kippur-kriget, eller Oktoberkriget. Från engelska Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
Jom Kipur – Försoningsdagen http://jfst.se/judendom/jom_kipur.php De tio botdagarna kulminerar i Jom Kipur, vilken är den största av de judiska helgdaganar – och en fastedag. Denna helgdag börjar kvällen innan i synagogan med Kol Nidre, en urgammal juridisk formel. Vi ber om att få bli lösta från alla de löften som vi kommer att ge under det kommande året, men som vi inte kan hålla. Detta gäller endast löften till Gud, löften, som vi menade allvar med, när vi gav dem, och som vi känner skuld över att inte kunna hålla. Löften människor emellan kan inte hävas genom bön, och försoning med Gud är inte möjlig utan att man bett de personer om förlåtelse, som man handlat orätt emot. Det tillhör Jom Kipurs regler att ovänner skall sluta fred, att ljus skall tändas för våra avlidna, att man har en vit kitel (en sorts skrud) och vit kipa, som symboliserar "renhet". Jom Kipur avslutas med Neila – portens stängning – en avslutningsgudstjänst som vädjar om bot, bättring och bönhörelse.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland. I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people. The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events. Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie. Last month, I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. There, on January 20, 1942, after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people. The detailed minutes of that meeting have been preserved by successive German governments. Here is a copy of those minutes, in which the Nazis issued precise instructions on how to carry out the extermination of the Jews. Is this a lie? A day before I was in Wannsee, I was given in Berlin the original construction plans for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Those plans are signed by Hitler’s deputy, Heinrich Himmler himself. Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie This June, President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Did President Obama pay tribute to a lie? And what of the Auschwitz survivors whose arms still bear the tattooed numbers branded on them by the Nazis? Are those tattoos a lie? One-third of all Jews perished in the conflagration. Nearly every Jewish family was affected, including my own. My wife's grandparents, her father’s two sisters and three brothers, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were all murdered by the Nazis. Is that also a lie? Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come here and to those who left this room in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries. But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency? A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state. What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. You're wrong. History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others This Iranian regime is fueled by an extreme fundamentalism that burst onto the world scene three decades ago after lying dormant for centuries. In the past thirty years, this fanaticism has swept the globe with a murderous violence and cold-blooded impartiality in its choice of victims. It has callously slaughtered Moslems and Christians, Jews and Hindus, and many others. Though it is comprised of different offshoots, the adherents of this unforgiving creed seek to return humanity to medieval times. Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society where women, minorities, gays or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is brutally subjugated. The struggle against this fanaticism does not pit faith against faith nor civilization against civilization. It pits civilization against barbarism, the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death. The primitivism of the 9th century ought to be no match for the progress of the 21st century. The allure of freedom, the power of technology, the reach of communications should surely win the day. Ultimately, the past cannot triumph over the future. And the future offers all nations magnificent bounties of hope. The pace of progress is growing exponentially. It took us centuries to get from the printing press to the telephone, decades to get from the telephone to the personal computer, and only a few years to get from the personal computer to the internet. What seemed impossible a few years ago is already outdated, and we can scarcely fathom the changes that are yet to come. We will crack the genetic code. We will cure the incurable. We will lengthen our lives. We will find a cheap alternative to fossil fuels and clean up the planet. I am proud that my country Israel is at the forefront of these advances – by leading innovations in science and technology, medicine and biology, agriculture and water, energy and the environment. These innovations the world over offer humanity a sunlit future of unimagined promise. But if the most primitive fanaticism can acquire the most deadly weapons, the march of history could be reversed for a time. And like the belated victory over the Nazis, the forces of progress and freedom will prevail only after an horrific toll of blood and fortune has been exacted from mankind. That is why the greatest threat facing the world today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction. The most urgent challenge facing this body is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Are the member states of the United Nations up to that challenge? Will the international community confront a despotism that terrorizes its own people as they bravely stand up for freedom? Will it take action against the dictators who stole an election in broad daylight and gunned down Iranian protesters who died in the streets choking in their own blood? Will the international community thwart the world's most pernicious sponsors and practitioners of terrorism? Above all, will the international community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons, thereby endangering the peace of the entire world? The people of Iran are courageously standing up to this regime. People of goodwill around the world stand with them, as do the thousands who have been protesting outside this hall. Will the United Nations stand by their side? Ladies and Gentlemen, The jury is still out on the United Nations, and recent signs are not encouraging. Rather than condemning the terrorists and their Iranian patrons, some here have condemned their victims. That is exactly what a recent UN report on Gaza did, falsely equating the terrorists with those they targeted. For eight long years, Hamas fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks. We heard nothing – absolutely nothing – from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnamed institution if there ever was one. In 2005, hoping to advance peace, Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of Gaza. It dismantled 21 settlements and uprooted over 8,000 Israelis. We didn't get peace. Instead we got an Iranian backed terror base fifty miles from Tel Aviv. Life in Israeli towns and cities next to Gaza became a nightmare. You see, the Hamas rocket attacks not only continued, they increased tenfold. Again, the UN was silent. Finally, after eight years of this unremitting assault, Israel was finally forced to respond. But how should we have responded? Well, there is only one example in history of thousands of rockets being fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II. During that war, the allies leveled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties. Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding behind civilians – Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against the rocket launchers. That was no easy task because the terrorists were firing missiles from homes and schools, using mosques as weapons depots and ferreting explosives in ambulances. Israel, by contrast, tried to minimize casualties by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas. We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave. Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way. Yet faced with such a clear case of aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel. A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot. By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice. Delegates of the United Nations, Will you accept this farce? Because if you do, the United Nations would revert to its darkest days, when the worst violators of human rights sat in judgment against the law-abiding democracies, when Zionism was equated with racism and when an automatic majority could declare that the earth is flat. If this body does not reject this report, it would send a message to terrorists everywhere: Terror pays; if you launch your attacks from densely populated areas, you will win immunity. And in condemning Israel, this body would also deal a mortal blow to peace. Here's why. When Israel left Gaza, many hoped that the missile attacks would stop. Others believed that at the very least, Israel would have international legitimacy to exercise its right of self-defense. What legitimacy? What self-defense? The same UN that cheered Israel as it left Gaza and promised to back our right of self-defense now accuses us –my people, my country - of war crimes? And for what? For acting responsibly in self-defense. What a travesty! Israel justly defended itself against terror. This biased and unjust report is a clear-cut test for all governments. Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists? We must know the answer to that question now. Now and not later. Because if Israel is again asked to take more risks for peace, we must know today that you will stand with us tomorrow. Only if we have the confidence that we can defend ourselves can we take further risks for peace. Ladies and Gentlemen, All of Israel wants peace. Any time an Arab leader genuinely wanted peace with us, we made peace. We made peace with Egypt led by Anwar Sadat. We made peace with Jordan led by King Hussein. And if the Palestinians truly want peace, I and my government, and the people of Israel, will make peace. But we want a genuine peace, a defensible peace, a permanent peace. In 1947, this body voted to establish two states for two peoples – a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted that resolution. The Arabs rejected it. We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state. Just as we are asked to recognize a nation-state for the Palestinian people, the Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation state of the Jewish people. The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel. This is the land of our forefathers. Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. They shall learn war no more." These words were spoken by the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, in the hills of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem. We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland. As deeply connected as we are to this land, we recognize that the Palestinians also live there and want a home of their own. We want to live side by side with them, two free peoples living in peace, prosperity and dignity. But we must have security. The Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves except those handful of powers that could endanger Israel. That is why a Palestinian state must be effectively demilitarized. We don't want another Gaza, another Iranian backed terror base abutting Jerusalem and perched on the hills a few kilometers from Tel Aviv. We want peace. I believe such a peace can be achieved. But only if we roll back the forces of terror, led by Iran, that seek to destroy peace, eliminate Israel and overthrow the world order. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces or accommodate them. Over seventy years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the "confirmed unteachability of mankind," the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep until danger nearly overtakes them. Churchill bemoaned what he called the "want of foresight, the unwillingness to act when action will be simple and effective, the lack of clear thinking, the confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong.” I speak here today in the hope that Churchill's assessment of the "unteachibility of mankind" is for once proven wrong. I speak here today in the hope that we can learn from history -- that we can prevent danger in time. In the spirit of the timeless words spoken to Joshua over 3,000 years ago, let us be strong and of good courage. Let us confront this peril, secure our future and, God willing, forge an enduring peace for generations to come.
"International law is often cited as a pretext for the policies of Western governments and human rights agencies toward Judea, Samaria, and Gaza in general and Jerusalem in particular. A certain assumption or presumption about the international law status of these areas is the premise for claims that they are "occupied territory," that Israeli construction in formerly Jordanian-ruled parts of Jerusalem is "illegal," etc. Given the centrality of allegations about international law in the diplomatic and political assaults on Israel made by such bodies as the European Union, the UN General Assembly, and others, there is a need to know, to understand and to expound the true international law concerning the Land of Israel as a matter of sheer political self-defense. What indeed has been the status of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza under the law of nations? International law has recognized Jewish rights to sovereignty over the Land of Israel and to settlement throughout the land. In April 1920, at the San Remo Conference (part of the post-World War I peace negotiations), the Principal Allied Powers, acting on behalf of the international community, recognized all the land between the Jordan River and the sea, including Jerusalem, as part of the Jewish National Home, based on the Jewish people's historic rights. On the same grounds, the Golan[1] and Transjordan too were within the National Home (albeit the eastern border of the National Home, though clearly east of the Jordan, was not yet fixed)..."
Efter att USA:s president kom med kravet att Israel måste upphöra med allt byggande i bosättningarna har palestinierna vägrat gå med på nya fredsförhandlingar innan Israel går med på kravet. I sitt tal till FN upprepar Obama sitt misstag. Obamas tal inför FN kan tolkas som om han skulle kräva att Israel drar sig tillbaka till vapenstilleståndslinjen som gällde fram till 1967. Abbas var inte sen att haka på och nu vägrar han att börja förhandla om det inte på förhand är fastslaget att målet är ett israeliskt tillbakadragande till 1967 års "gränser".
Innan Obama kom med sina krav förhandlade palestinierna med Israels förra regering och byggandet i bosättningarna var inget hinder för förhandlingar.
Abbas: Partial halt on settlement activity is not a freeze "Abbas and members of the Palestinian delegation to the UN were pleased with Obama's statement that Washington is pursuing a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, as Abbas has that diplomatic talks with Israel with Israel cannot begin unless it is clear that the 1967 lines are the goal. " "Abbas said two issues must be agreed on before talks begin: freezing West Bank settlement construction, and stipulating an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines as the basis for the talks."
Gud vandrade med sitt folk i öknen, också i dag är han med oss.
