UNITED NATIONS DENIES JEWISH HISTORY IN JERUSALEM

In 2015 Senator Ted Cruz called on the United States to pull out of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission. He was angry about them condemning Israel over the 2014 war with Gaza. The 2014 war involved Israel’s response to Hamas launching thousands of rockets from Gaza at it. Israel’s military operation killed more than 1,000 civilians, drawing widespread criticism from Palestinians and the international community. However Hamas purposefully put civilians in harm’s way and Israel needed to protect itself. Now UNESCO is providing reason for the U.S. and Israel to shut down all U.N. operations in the U.S. and Israel. The axis term on the matrix below is UNESCO. The first letter at skip -1 starts ENEMY. In the Torah the enemy of Israel who was asked by King Balak to curse Israel was BALAAM. He is in the open text on the line above UNESCO. UNESCO stated that there was no Jewish History on Temple Mount. At skip +1 on the matrix is THE TEMPLE and CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. Finally, JERUSALEM is encoded through To the Place.

Extract from the Jerusalem Post:

       UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Association, announced a number of resolutions just before the weekend started.
       One, submitted by the Russian Federation, called for defining UNESCO’s role in safeguarding and preserving Palmyra and other Syrian World Heritage sites. Another was about “Enhancing UNESCO’s contributions to promote a culture of mutual respect and tolerance.”

        A third was simply entitled “Occupied Palestine” and addressed the Jerusalem Old City hotspot that Jews refer to as the Temple Mount and Muslims call Haram Al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. Except that the Jewish link to the site, considered the holiest place for Jews, went unmentioned.

         In the context of Jerusalem’s Old City, the document refers to Israel solely as “the occupying power” and refers to the site itself, the world famous esplanade flanked by the Western Wall - considered by many experts to be the last existing retaining wall of the mount that once held the ancient Jewish temples - only by its Islamic moniker. The decision refers to the plaza fronting the Western Wall only in quotation marks, except when using one of its Arabic names, Al-Buraq, a reference to the Prophet Mohammed’s ascent to heaven. 

       The Israeli government responded with fury. 

       “This is yet another absurd UN decision,” an incandescent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement released late on Saturday. “UNESCO ignores the unique historic connection of Judaism to the Temple Mount, where the two temples stood for a thousand years and to which every Jew in the world has prayed for thousands of years. The UN is rewriting a basic part of human history and has again proven that there is no low to which it will not stoop.” 

       The resolution, considered a victory for anti-Israel hard-liners, also affirms that Hebron, a city that according to a most histories has a 3000-year history of Jewish life, and Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, are “are an integral part of Palestine.” 

RACHEL'S TOMB, JOSEPH'S TOMB AND BETHLEHEM. In 2010 UNESCO by a vote of 44 to 1 with 12 abstentions declared that Rachel's tomb (between Jerusalem and Bethlehem) is a mosque and that the site was "an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law". In response Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, "The attempt to detach the people of Israel from its heritage is absurd," the statement said. "If the places where the fathers and mothers of the Jewish nation are buried, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Leah and Rachel some 4,000 years ago are not part of the Jewish heritage then what is?" A Wikipedia discussion of the tomb reveals that not everybody agrees as to whether the current site is really where Rachel was buried, but the Moslems believe it is the right site as do the Jews. However, Moslems are not traced to Sarah, Rebecca, or to Rachel or any of Jacob's other wives. They are only traced to Hagar, Ishmael, and his descendants. So there is nothing religious at all about Moslems wanting to exclusively have rights to her tomb. The only real reason that they want it is as an expression of hatred toward the descendants of Isaac.

Clearly Joseph's Tomb and Rachel's Tomb (which are in Palestinian controlled areas) only have religious significance to Jews. They are both areas where Jews go to pray. The same is not true for Bethlehem. 

While Christians point to Micah 5:1 in the Tenach (Old Testament) for their belief that the center of their faith was the Messiah, and while Matthew 2:1 and Luke 2:4-7 both claim that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the simple truth is that when you compare the genealogies of Jesus back to Kind David as presented in Matthew and Luke, they are not even close - in fact they disagree by 15 generations as is shown on the table below. It should also be noted that even in the Talmud, the man was known as Yeshu (Jesus) the Nazarene. Nazareth is not close to Bethlehem.  For the conflicting genealogies to make sense or have any chance of agreement Luke 3:23 would have to read that Joseph was the son-in-law of Heli. Although this term is not use in the New Testament, Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testament indicates that it is used in 13 Old Testament verses. So it was known and not used. From the Jewish point of view, Jesus fulfilled none of the prophecies expected for the Messiah and given the conflicting backgrounds given in the New Testament, that also includes the uncertain prediction that he would be born in Bethlehem. There are no Jews living there now, nor have we lived there since at least 1865. So, while Orthodox Jews certainly pray that the Messiah will come soon, it doesn't look very likely that he will claim Bethlehem as his birth place. Do Jews still believe that the Messiah will be born in Bethlehem? Not really. We do believe that he will be descended from King David, who was born there.  See the article in JEWS FOR JUDAISM - WILL THE MESSIAH BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM? Of course, the New Testament is not in the Jewish Bible. But for my readers who are not Jewish I would argue that if the New Testament genealogies are not reliable, neither is the claim that the "Nazarene" was born in Bethlehem.

As for the claims that the angel Gabriel announced the coming virgin birth to Joseph and Mary (Luke 1:26), it should be noted that Muslims believe that Gabriel revealed the Koran to Mohammed (though there are problems with this claim). The Koran backs the idea that Mary was a virgin, but it also calls the Trinity blasphemy.

WHY THE U.N. SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN OR LIMITED TO ITS GENEVA, SWITZERLAND LOCATION. In a sense it can be argued that Israel was a creation of the United Nations. But the reality is that the way that Israel was resurrected in 1948 was foretold by the prophet Isaiah.  

7"Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy. 8"Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day?  Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons. 9"Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?" says your God. 10"Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her;

Isaiah 66:7-10

Before Israel fought its War of Independence, the U.N. declared it a nation. Can a nation be brought forth at once? In a single vote at the U.N. the answer was yes. But then came the birth pain. About 1% of the population was killed. For the Israeli military it was about 4.55%.

Israeli War of Independence (1948-1949)

State	Entry	Exit	Total Forces	Losses
Egypt	1948	1949	300,000	2,000
Israel	1948	1949	140,000	6,373
Jordan	1948	1949	60,000	1,000
Syria	1948	1949	300,000	1,000

       While the U.N. voted to re-establish Israel it also voted to establish an Arab state on part of Biblical Israel. The Arabs declined the two state offer, Arabs withdrew from the area and waited for the Arab armies to come in and finish what Hitler started - the total annihilation of the Jews. When the Arabs lost happened the problem of refugees began. The U.N. then began a campaign to always side with Arabs against Israel. For example, as of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by United Nations Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006—the Council had resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The 45 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance).^[1] From 1967 to 1989 the UN Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict.

       In general, only the United States vetoes Security Council resolutions against Israel, but with an openly hostile President Barack Hussein Obama in office, the U.S, has become an undependable partner. In the latest example of Administration hostility toward Israel, when terrorists blew up a bus in Jerusalem on April 18, 2016, Vice President Biden blamed Israel. Biden said, "I firmly believe that the actions that Israel's government has taken over the past several years -- the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the legalization of outposts, land seizures -- they're moving us, and, more importantly, they're moving Israel in the wrong direction." Of course, Biden is absolutely correct. Israel should give up the land it conquered - immediately after the United States hands back every single square inch of land conquered from Native Americans and Mexicans in our quest to fulfill the American Manifest Destiny - the plan to conquer everything from the Atlantic to the Pacific. There's only one small problem with our Manifest Destiny - there is no mention of it or the United States in the Bible. HOWEVER, Israel's manifest destiny is given many places in the Torah and the rest of the Tenach. The definitions of the limits of Israel vary between passages in the Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47. Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as "from Dan to Beersheba, and three times it is referred as "from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt” (1 Kings 8:65, 1 Chronicles 13:5 and 2 Chronicles 7:8)." Jerusalem comes up with a 6-letter spelling 664 times in the Tenach (Old Testament) and five times more with a 7-letter spelling.

       The Tenach is basically a book about the history of Israel, and its capital - Jerusalem. The last word of Torah is Israel. By contrast, Washington D.C. is not mentioned at all at skip +1 with any spelling in the Hebrew Bible or in the English text of the King James Version. Nor is Washington encoded at any skip in the King James Version of the Old and New Testament. The standard Hebrew spelling is not found at any skip in Torah or Tenach, though a short version with spelling of vav shin yud nun gimel tav vav nun can be found at an ELS in Torah. So when Washington, D.C. or the U.N. presumes to lecture Israel about its right to exist the lecture is nothing short of lunacy.  A search on line indicates that in 2013 there were over six billion Bibles printed - and every one of them has God giving the Jews the land of Israel. Every Christian who has a Bible in his or her home has a copy of the Jewish deed for Israel there too. Also of note - Jerusalem is not in the Koran. And what does the Koran have to say about Israel? Here it is:

"To Moses We [Allah] gave nine clear signs. Ask the Israelites how he [Moses] first appeared amongst them. Pharaoh said to him: 'Moses, I can see that you are bewitched.' 'You know full well,' he [Moses] replied, 'that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has revealed these visible signs. Pharaoh, you are doomed.'"

"Pharoah sought to scare them [the Israelites] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him [Pharaoh] together with all who were with him. Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel]."

"We [Allah] have revealed the Qur'an with the truth, and with the truth it has come down. We have sent you [Muhammed] forth only to proclaim good news and to give warning."

[Qur'an, "Night Journey," chapter 17:100-104]

By now it should be obvious that no matter how great the speech given by Netanyahu at the U.N., it will make no difference. When he gives a speech there we see a huge number of empty seats. Much of the world simply has no desire to hear Israel's side of any issue.

U.N. ACTIONS IN LEBANON AND GAZA. In 2006, a year before I retired from the U.S. Coast Guard, I signed a contract to build a single family home in Safed, Israel. I planned on retiring there with the hope of using it as a base to conduct my research into the Torah Code and into what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. While the home was under construction it was hit by a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon. Like all modern Israeli homes it was (by law) designed with a bomb shelter. In the end I didn't move there, but not because of the rocket strike. The builder, without my permission, attached the home to another similar home, and we could not find a good school for our son David, who went on to graduate from high school at the age of 16, and at the age of 18 from college with a B.S. in space physics. Now, as for what happened with respect to rockets during and after the 2006 Lebanon War, during the war Hezbollah fired some 3,970 rockets into Israel from southern Lebanon, killing 44 Israeli civilians. When the war ended via U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 the U.N. did not fulfill its obligations, nor did Hezbollah disarm. In 2015 The Washington Institute wrote that:

For its part, Hezbollah has massively expanded the size and range of its rocket and missile inventory. In 2006, it went to war with some 13,000 short- and medium-range rockets, allowing it to strike targets throughout northern Israel. Today it could have over 100,000 rockets and missiles, including a number of long-range systems as well as systems with improved accuracy, allowing it to strike throughout Israel and with increased precision.

Bottom line: The U.N. was worthless in Lebanon. In 2014 in Gaza when rockets were being fired from there into Israel it was found that Hamas was hiding the rockets in U.N.-run schools.  Further, UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] for Palestine found 20 rockets and made sure that they were given back to Hamas. So, the U.N. over and over again shows itself to be the enemy of Israel.

It is obvious that the U.N. has never done anything serious to bring an end to the conflict between Israelis and so-called Palestinians. Even if the Palestinian Authority could be trusted in negotiations, they don't control Gaza or Hamas, and they may well fall to Hamas. The new reality is that there will never be a Two-State solution, or at least none with "Palestinians" on Biblical Israeli land. As Hillary Clinton pointed out in the New York debate with Bernie Sanders, Palestinians could have had a state 15 years earlier when her husband secured a great offer from then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, but Arafat turned it down. Now only one man might be able to work out a deal - Donald Trump. That's because he primarily sees the problem as a real estate problem. I don't know whether he has any specific ideas, but after reading his book, The Art of the Deal, if he does it would probably go something like this initially. Egypt gives Gazans a piece of southern Sinai. For it all Gazans are evacuated to it and Egypt resumes ownership of Gaza. There they build a bunch of resorts on the beach, complete with casinos. Egyptians are allowed to move there and Israelis are allowed to work there. As for Gazans moved to Sinai, if they want to continue blowing up airliners they will find that the tourist trade that might may them a lot will not go so well. They would, however, be able to make livings through fishing.  If the trade goes well, other real estate deals might work for those living in the West Bank. But Israel should not allow the U.N. into any territory that they control. I think Israel should withdraw from the U.N. and America should throw the U.N. out of our country. It only serves our enemies, and it's a conduit for letting spies into our country.

U.S. PUBLIC OPINION OF THE U.N.

Wikpedia states that, "According to the polling organization Rasmussen Reports, in the year 2004 a minority of 44% of United States Citizens had a favorable view of the United Nations." Two years later in 2006 (the year of the Lebabon War) that number had fallen to 31%. As of 2006, 26% of Americans say "the U.S. should not be involved" with the United Nations, with a moderate majority of 57% supporting remaining a member. A 2008 poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows that 39% find it "very important" and 21% "not important" to strengthen the U.N. In 2013, a Media and Public Opinion Research Group poll found that 38% of Americans would like less involvement with the UN. Some controversy occurred in 1992 when US Army medic Michael New protested the United Nations by refusing to wear the UN insignia on his uniform during a peacekeeping mission to Macedonia. Michael New faced a court martial and was subsequently discharged for his disobedience to his commanding officer; to this day he still has the belief that he was correct to refuse service under the United Nations.