Feel Good Email From Israel

Hi guys, instead of the usual hate mail, I recently received this very touching letter along with pictures from a very loving family in Israel. This made my day.
May God bless this family and Israel!

(Of course I will not publish the pictures)

Shalom

I thank GOD for the love he put in your heart for Israel.

May he use us for his glory and will make us more and more like
Him and his SON JESUS

May he will reveille his love to us and bless us.

I hope that we can together make god smile and happy in JESUS name
I would like you to consider us as your friends and as your family
In Israel.

We would love to pray for your needs if you share them with us, and
If the LORD will open a door for you to come to Israel please
Contact us

It will be our pleasure to have you in our house and maybe you
Can come to worship with us in our congregation

Yours in MESSIAH JESUS



XXXXX

Muslims Cause Israel to Close Temple Mount Compound

For the second time in less than two weeks, the Palestinians have acted up over the Temple Mount Compound. Last time it was because some Jews went to pray there, this time over a simple rumor. Amazing how a rumor sets Muslims off.

Fresh clashes at Jerusalem shrine

Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in Jerusalem after police closed a compound with sites sacred to Jews and Muslims, citing security concerns.

The protesters threw stones and bottles at the police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades.

Several Palestinians are reported to have been detained, including a former minister, Hatem Abdulqader.

The Israeli police said they had closed the compound because Palestinians had planned a mass gathering there.

Palestinians say they are trying to protect the site, known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount, from Jewish hardliners, who they fear intend to desecrate it.

There were reports of three arrests, and several police and protesters were slightly injured.

Police closed off the sites after mosque loudspeakers in Jerusalem's Old City urged people to gather there, following rumours that Jewish settlers were to be allowed into the compound.

"We closed the access to the Temple Mount following incitations to violence," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP news agency.

The incident follows similar protests a week ago in which 30 people were injured.
Security has been boosted at the compound as Jews attend prayers for the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles at the Western Wall.

In the past the compound has been a flashpoint for Israel-Palestinian violence, notably after the visit of then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon in 2000.

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Israel Rejects US Call to Halt Jerusalem Project

Ever since President Obama and his sidekick Biden took office they have continually tried to bully Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had enough.

Israel rejects US call to halt Jerusalem project
By AMY TEIBEL

JERUSALEM – Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an unusually tense standoff with its strongest ally over settlement construction.

Israeli officials said the country's ambassador to Washington, Michael Oren, was summoned to the State Department over the weekend and told that a project being developed by an American millionaire in the disputed section of the holy city should not go ahead.

Settlements built on captured lands claimed by the Palestinians have emerged as a major sticking point in relations between Israel and the Obama administration because of their potential to disrupt Mideast peacemaking.

Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently yielded to heavy U.S. pressure to endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, he has resisted American demands for an immediate freeze on settlement expansion.

On Sunday, Netanyahu told his Cabinet there would be no limits on Jewish construction anywhere in "unified Jerusalem."

"We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem," Netanyahu declared, calling Israeli sovereignty over the entire city "indisputable."

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