Preservation of Holy Sites 
Jodie Anderson 
For a small percentage of Christians they're  very aware of how this meeting in Annapolis carries serious consequences. For the  majority of Christianity and the church as a whole, has no clue.
Many have the mind set this war has raged for thousands of years and it will not impact us. Wrong, there are numerous ways it will impact us. So many that if we put them all on the table no one would agree, and once again we will have a theological battle.
However, there is one part of this situation that we all can agree upon if we all knew. So let us focus on this one area we can all agree on and get to the bare facts and what the results will be.
Basically, the bottom line is to return to the pre 1967 borders. So, what does this mean? All areas that was acquired after the war of 1967 must go back. This includes Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem.
Now let us look at what all is involved and what is at stake.
All of our holy sites in East Jerusalem will go under Palestinian Authority .They are saying ...   more »

Posted by MK Benny Elon
Ehud Olmert recently tried to explain to me that in his position as Prime Minister, there are pressures and demands put upon him that the public could not possibly understand.
In an attempt to justify his actions leading up to the Annapolis conference, he said that pressure from America forced him to make concessions. Despite this excuse, America cannot be blamed for Israel’s mistakes in pursuing a failed policy for peace.
Rabin, Beilin and Peres facilitated the Oslo nightmare. Similarly, America cannot be blamed for the disengagement. When Ariel Sharon proposed unilateral withdrawal from Gaza, President Bush was disappointed. He had made it clear that there would be no concessions on Israel’s part until there was a complete cessation of terrorism. Had the idea of disengagement come from the mouth of Mahmoud Abbas, President Bush and the world would never have considered it, but it came from the mouth of the Prime Minister of Israel. The Annapolis conference is merely Oslo and Camp David recycled. It is the same dangerous mistakes repackaged.
I explained to Olmert that this conference will cost Israel dearly but he did not heed my warnings. Israeli Military Intelligence later confirmed ...   more »

An alternative Israeli peace initiative that would see the Jewish state extend its sovereignty over all Judea and Samaria (the so-called "West Bank"), instead of allowing the creation of a Palestinian Arab state there, is gaining support, even among left-wing Israeli lawmakers.
Formulated by Knesset Member Rabbi Benny Elon (National Religious Party), the "Israeli Initiative" calls for Israel to immediately annex all of Judea and Samaria, while working together with Jordan to grant Jordanian citizenship to all of the Arabs living there. Large Arab population centers would conduct civil affairs with a degree of autonomy, while exercising their national expression through Jordan, which is already a Palestinian-majority country.
The Palestinian Authority would be dismantled, as would the so-called Palestinian "refugee camps."
Elon told Israel National News that his plan has been gaining support from within some unexpected quarters, including the left-wing Labor Party and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ruling Kadima Party, both of which are officially dedicated to a policy of dividing the biblical land of Israel in a vain attempt to secure peace.
Opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) has also expressed his support for the Israeli Initiative, as have a number of US congressmen.
Jordan is officially opposed to ...   more »

Etgar Lefkovits
As the government talks about dividing the capital, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski on Wednesday proposed a NIS 200 million "Marshall Plan" for east Jerusalem in an eleventh-hour attempt to improve infrastructure and living conditions in east Jerusalem in order to keep the city united.
The grandiose building and development proposal is reminiscent of the four-year, $13-billion Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe after World War II, the city said. The plan, which is still pending municipal and state approval, comes as the government is openly discussing the possibility of ceding Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as part of a future peace treaty with the Palestinians, and less than one year before mayoral elections.
"While many are busy talking about Jerusalem, we act," Lupolianski said at a City Hall press conference announcing the plan.
"Our goal is to set facts," he said in rare, albeit brief, remarks in English geared toward the international press.
Despite massive city development projects initiated in east Jerusalem during the tenure of former mayor Ehud Olmert, the long-neglected predominantly Arab half of the city still lags far behind the rest of Jerusalem in terms of infrastructure, roads, garbage collection, housing and green areas, following four ...   more »

Elyakim Ha’etzni                            
Here and there we read about what to expect from President Bush’s Middle East “vision”: increased terror with Katyusha rockets raining on Tel Aviv, a restricted military field of operation, becoming a political protectorate of the Quartet and a military protectorate of NATO, “Anschluss” of Jordan to ‘Greater Palestine’, cutting off the Negev from the rest of Israel by a Gaza-West Bank corridor, Israeli-Arab irredentism, losing the mountain aquifer, orchestrated pressure of ‘refugees’ on the Green Line, and a reduction of Israel’s international stature to ‘loser’ status whose future is already past.
No one, however, has investigated the internal implications of the two-state “vision” -- how will it affect us as a people and a society.  Below are some chapter headings for further research.
Let the economists calculate: if the expulsion of 10,000 people cost 10 million shekels, where will the 100 million shekels come from to expel another 100,000 victims?  Add to this sum reparations to the Arabs of East Jerusalem, and another 200 million shekels to liquidate the settlement blocks so as to keep us within the Green Line.  They must also ask how the traumatic collapse of the lives ...   more »

Etgar Lefkovits ,
Former minister and world-renowned Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky on Tuesday launched a new public campaign against the division of Jerusalem, citing an acute "identity crisis" among Israeli political leaders.
The multi-million dollar campaign, which is being launched by the privately funded 'One Jerusalem' organization that was set up in 2000 in order to maintain Jerusalem as a united city under Israeli sovereignty, comes just one week before the planned peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, and as the government is openly discussing the possibility of ceding Arab neighborhoods of the city to the Palestinians as part of a final peace agreement.
"Above all, Jerusalem is the base of our identity," Sharansky said at a Jerusalem press conference announcing the launching of the campaign. "The problem is that there are many people who want to get rid of their identity," added Sharansky, who has lately quit politics and has retired to a conservative Jerusalem research institute.
Sharansky, who resigned from the government of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak following Barak's willingness to divide Jerusalem at the failed Camp David talks in the summer of 2000, said that any future division of Jerusalem would weaken the Jewish people around the ...   more »

By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office informed the Palestinians that Israel would uproot Jews from a building in the oldest Jewish city as part of agreements to be announced at next week's U.S.-sponsored Mideast summit in Annapolis, senior Palestinian negotiators told WND.
The building in question, purchased by Jews with the approval of the Israel Defense Forces, is situated at a strategic, elevated area that afford Jews in Hebron a lookout post to protect their vulnerable community from Palestinian attacks.
Hebron is home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the second holiest site in Judaism. The tomb is believed to be the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah.
In March, Hebron's Jewish community purchased a 37,600-square-foot building it later titled Beit HaShalom, or House of Peace, from local Arabs for $700,000 in cash, according to documentation. Eight families moved in to the structure, which the Jews heavily renovated.
The building's purchase papers were immediately transferred to the Israeli police and IDF. The police confirmed during an initial investigation the purchase was legitimate. Israel heavily restricts the expansion of Hebron's Jewish community, located in the West Bank, for ...   more »