[1] Ancient city of Tyre, Lebanon: https://www.britannica.com/place/Tyre
[2] Trees of Cedar and Fir sent from Lebanon
https://arboriculture.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/the-cedars-of-lebanon-and-the-temple-of-solomon/
[3] Two temples: https://www.kosher.com/temples-in-jerusalem
More here: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/852/the-temple-in-jerusalem/
And here from Benson's Commentary
and here: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/299/

ISRAEL IS BEING CRITICIZED OVER CIVILIAN CASUALTIES, BUT WOULD US FORCES PERFORM ANY BETTER?
8-21-22, The answer is no. The recent Gaza violence is an excellent reminder for US ground forces to look critically at our own capacities. The need to execute feasible yet acceptable courses of action to satisfy the 'fairness' goals of the world is not fair to those who are the victims of the original attacks. In Israel disproportionate collateral damage is happening because the Muslims terrorists place their rocket launchers in civilian locations and blame the Jews for being inhumane when they fight back ...

7-28-22, FrontPageMag -- On 7/20/22 the Islamic 'Palestinian' leader, Mahmoud Abbas visited France attempting to convince French President Emmanuel Macron that Israelis killed in cold blood and without reason Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. [..] Macron, at a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris alongside Abbas, stressed the need for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume; there have been none since 2014. He stressed the need for the “renewal of direct political dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians.” He warned that violence could break out at any time and that negotiations may be a “difficult path, but we have no other alternative.”

 Antisemitism is “stronger and more rampant” in France today because the chief carriers of the 'virus' ... the millions of Muslim migrants who bring Jew hatred with them, undeclared, as part of their mental baggage. 

Fortunately for the Jewish state of Israel, President Macron is too busy focusing on his domestic agenda; he is not wanting to engage in a fight over Israel and the Muslims with either the Far Left or the Far Right. So they will almost certainly ignore Abbas’ request to get involved. So Abbas may find, after all, that he has to return to the Americans as potential arbiters with Israel, for he has nowhere else to go. ​More here

 The Land of Israel is the only 'Jewish State' [here] 
​6-13-22, USA leader Joe Biden’s postponement of his forthcoming trip to Israel this month due to “scheduling factors” gives Biden, the United Nations (UN) and Israel the opportunity to celebrate at UN headquarters the 100th anniversaries of American and international support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. [..] ​The UN, to its eternal shame re-designated Israel's Judea and Samaria and East Jerusalem as “Occupied Palestinian Territory”, rather than “Jewish Mandated Territory” – passing scores of UN resolutions declaring as “illegal” the right of Jews to live there. It is the UN that is acting illegally in defiance of its own Charter.

The first Zionist Congress in Basle in 1897 had declared:

​ “Zionism aims at establishing for the Jewish people a publicly and legally assured home in Palestine.”

The League of Nations (now UN) – closely followed the US Congress on July 24, 1922 – proclaiming the Mandate for Palestine:

• Recognising “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country”
• protecting the civil and religious rights of the “existing non-Jewish communities”

Saudi Arabia tells Biden & UN: No State between Israel & Jordan
6-27-22, Saudi journalist Arabia Ali Shihabi supports and has the ear of Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman (MBS) – the controversial next successor to the Saudi throne. He sent Joe Biden and the United Nations (UN) a clear message to abandon the idea of creating a new Arab State between Israel and Jordan in an article published in Al-Arabiya News on 8 June headlined: The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. 

The holiday was added to the Jewish calendar in the 20th century; the first Prime Minister of the Jewish State of Israel, David Ben-Gurion declared: “The value of Jerusalem cannot be measured, weighed, or put into words. If a land has a soul, Jerusalem is the soul of the Land of Israel.” Thanks to US President Trump; on Dec 17, 2017, Jerusalem has been recognized as the capitol of Israel!

Military Situation In Syria On May 21, 2022 
5-21-22, Southfront --  On 5/20/22 Israel attacked Damascus with several missiles... more:

• Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 6 times: 3 – in Idlib province, 1 – in Latakia province
• Israel killed 3 SAA soldiers
• Artillery of Turkish - backed forces shelled SDF positions near Tal Tamar
• Reportedly several SDF members were killed and wounded by an IED attack north of Deir Ezzor. 

In an unprecedented act, Jordan rolls out the red carpet for Israel
​3-31-22, First time in nearly 28 years when Israel & Jordan signed a peace deal that both nations have engaged in a flurry of top-level diplomatic & security talks to reduce tensions that could spiral with repercussions in a  nation where many of its citizens are of Palestinian origin. 

​Iran Emp Threat to World - Smokescreen blinding eye of victims
5-17- 22, Opinion of serious threat of an 'electromagnetic pulse' EMP hitting the USA by Islamic terrorists.
9 min video here:
ncrenegade.com/iran-emp-threat/

Jordan receives an Israeli president with military honors
3-30-22, JewishNews --  Jordan saw the Israeli president Isaac Herzog received in Amman with a military honour guard and red carpet treatment.  Herzog's official visit to Amman comes in the midst of a week of terror attacks in Israeli cities, Also here: twitter.com›drybonescartoon/status/

This 'Experiment Must Stop!'
3-16-22, ShinyObject -- Richard “Rachel” Levine, USA Today’s “Woman of the Year” is a biological man, born Richard Levine. Since 2011 he divorced his wife of whom he has two children and now identifies as a woman. He's also a ‘four-star admiral’ in the US Public Health Service, which is an honorary title; not EARNED. This will probably spoil your LGBTQIA+2S celebration party and dampen your warm and fuzzy feeling because the current hooplaa about men becoming women and vice verse is FAKE. Levine was born a man and is still a biologican man. It’s that pesky XY chromosome thing again as science rules over feelings. Furthermore, the fake “Admiral” is a political appointee, not even a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

See USA Other Women of the Year here: www.usatoday.com/storytelling/grid/women-of-the-year-2022/

3-31-22, * --  A war is raging three thousand miles away from Jerusalem between Russia and Ukraine that share no borders with Israel and where it has no: troops, interests or involvement. Nevertheless, it somehow not only involves Israel, but the outcome depends on it. In the latest demand, the Ukrainian government wants security guarantees from Israel, despite the fact that Israel is a country of 8,600 square miles while Ukraine encompasses 233,000 square miles; that's like Canada demanding security guarantees from Cyprus! The media and world leaders have berated the Jewish state as follows:

• Foreign Policy Magazine op-ed blares "Israel Needs to Make Up Its Mind on Ukraine," [as if the Jewish State were somehow a major player in their war]
• Adam Kinzinger, US Democrat Congressman from Illinois warned on Titter "Israel’s reaction to #Ukraine will have bearing on future aid from the US to #Israel"
• The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a Soros-Koch project asks: "Why is Israel MIA on Ukraine-Russia crisis?" Despite Israel delivering 230 tons of humanitarian aid, including bulletproof ambulances, setting up a field hospital and taking in 15,000 refugees [1]
• Senator Lindsey Graham wants Israel to sell Ukraine Stinger missiles [2] 

On CNN William Cohen, Bill Clinton's Sec of Defense said he was "deeply disappointed" with Israel he said: "Are you with the Russians or are you with the United States and the West? They do have to make a decision here."

​Ukraine’s government has colluded in the international hate campaign against Israel. The ex-comedian now President Zelensky and his government have berated Israel, exploited the Holocaust and demanded everything from Iron Dome (designed to stop crude rockets shot by terrorists, not a full assault by a world power) pushing for Israeli sanctions on Russia even while his government refuses to stop doing business with Iran. [..] He phoned Qatar's Doha Forum speaking with the Emir comparing his need to the Muslims called “Palestinians” in Israel and in his lecture to US Congress, Zelensky invoked:

• Americans Pearl Harbor and 9/11
• To Arabs he brought up Syria
• To Japan their “tsunami” [..] nuclear disaster

The Catch 22 hypocrisy is obvious; if Israel is involved in a war, it’s evil, but if it’s not involved in a war, it’s also evil. Whatever Israel does or doesn’t do is an outrage. This exciting new hatred of Israel is not about Ukraine, any more than the old variety was about the “Palestinians”. Hating Israel is in the end always about one thing and one thing alone. Hating Jews.

1-24-22, Front Page -- Ole Joe Biden promised to reopen the consulate for the Muslims in Israel [aka "Palestinians"] but clearly that's not going to happen. Under the Vienna Convention of 1963, to which both Israel and the US are signatories, he would need to obtain the approval of Israel the host state. The Israel Muslims are small potatoes right now as old Joe has a lot on his plate:

1. a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
2. a Chinese threat to Taiwan
3. the North Korean missiles
4. the endless wrangling with Iran in Vienna
5. Covid and so many Americans refusing the shots

The Abraham Accords show how little the Palestinians matter to the other Arabs.

​ Nides may think “we have to take care of the Palestinian people,” Since when did that become an American duty?
    Nides pointed to Biden’s renewal of hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to the Palestinians that was cut by President Trump, amid Ramallah’s refusal to engage with his administration and they kept launching rockets and fire bombs at the Jewish civilians.
While the Palestinian Authority has renewed its ties with the Biden administration, it has maintained an overall boycott of the US embassy, objecting to its relocation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 
Nides repeated the Biden administration’s assertion that the US plans to reopen the 'Palestinian' consulate that historically served as the de facto mission to the Palestinians. 

Does Biden, Blinken and Sullivan understand that the UN's Resolution 242 allows Israel to retain the territory it deems necessary in order to have “secure [i.e. defensible] and recognized boundaries?" 

“New US envoy says ‘absolutely won’t’ visit settlements, to avoid inflaming tensions,” by Jacob Magid, Times of Israel. [Jewish 'settlements' in Judea and Samaria aka West Bank] ... but ... They’d be a little less anxious in Israel, Mr. Ambassador, if you’d do the right and handsome thing, and announce that “upon reconsideration, I intend to visit the five settlement blocs that Israelis keep telling me, will remain part of Israel, whatever else may be subject to negotiation. Yes, I’d like to see some things in the West Bank for myself. And I will.” More here

Left-Wing Organization Threatens ‘Squad...Bowman '
11-30-21, DailyCaller - A working group within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is calling for the expulsion of Democrat NY Jamaal Bowman over a series of moves that it views as too supportive of Jewish state of Israel.

Surprisingly Jamaal Bowman voted in favor of a $1 billion aid package to fund Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, declared his opposition to the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement, and visited Israel on a tour led by the left-wing group J Street. [..]

<= and Massachusetts Ayanna Pressley, both of whom are members of the “Squad,” but not DSA.
​Shortly after winning the general election to his Bronx and Westchester-based seat, Bowman claimed that American capitalism is “slavery by another name" and he supports defunding the police.

Psalm 52:8; Romans 11:17, 11:24

FOLLOW-UP: 9-23-21, At the end of Amir's message he refers to Israel as the 'FIG TREE' ... strange scripture says it's figuratively 'THE OLIVE TREE' ... he also excludes the Gentiles from being a part of the blessings of Israel.

Romans 11:11–24 Paul compares Israel to the natural branches of a cultivated olive tree and the Gentile believers to the branches of a wild olive tree. The natural branches (Israel) were broken off, and the wild branches (Gentiles) were grafted in (verse 17).

Therefore, the Gentiles have been made partakers of the promises and inherit the blessings of God’s salvation. It is important to understand how God called Israel to be His people and how they failed to fulfill that calling.

As the seed of Abraham, the children of Israel were chosen by God to be a separate people, holy to the Lord. God’s design was for them to be a light to the Gentiles so that they, too, might know God (Genesis 18:17–19; Isaiah 42, 49). Instead, the Israelites chased foreign gods and betrayed their calling (Ezekiel 23; Hosea 11).

But God, who knew they would do this, had already promised to restore His kingdom to Israel after they rebelled and then eventually repented (Deuteronomy 30:1–10).

So God sent His Son Jesus Christ to invite Israel to “repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2; 4:17). ​However, when Jesus revealed Himself as the promised Davidic King Who would restore Israel (Matthew 11—12; Acts 3:19–22), He was rejected by the Jews, exactly as Isaiah had prophesied (Isaiah 52—53).

Therefore, the Lord Jesus called His disciples to fulfill Abraham’s commission to bless the nations (Genesis 12:2–3) by preaching the gospel of the Kingdom to all nations until the end of this age (Matthew 28:18–20). Paul thus preached the gospel of the Kingdom to the Jews and was repeatedly rejected (Acts 13—28); so the Lord sent Paul to deliver His good news to the Gentiles, who in turn became Abraham’s seed by faith and heirs of the promises to Abraham and his seed (Galatians 3—4) by 'being grafted in.' Romans 11:11-24

This is what Paul meant in Romans 11 by the Gentiles being “grafted” into the “olive tree.” The tree thus signifies the collective people of God; the “wild branches” grafted in are Gentile believers; the “natural branches” that are cut off are the Jews in unbelief. Jewish believers remain in the tree, but are joined with Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11–22).

The Gentile Church hasn't replaced Israel - She has been made equal with Israel; so what Amir said is not correct.

​Africa Pays for the Israel 'Apartheid' Lie 
9-12-21, TimesofIsrael -- Racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia are very real issues to be addressed by the United Nations. On September 22, 2021 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Durban I; a gathering in 2001 in Durban, South Africa that promised to address the scourge of racism and has singled out Israel and Israel only for its supposed racist treatment of the Muslims in the Jewish State the "Palestinian" people falsely calling the Jewish state a “racist, apartheid state” that committed acts of genocide and practiced ethnic cleansing!

The direct effect of these absurd lies has been an increase in Jew hatred worldwide. 
​​

​Earlier this year, Israel was rightfully awarded observer status at the African Union. Israel worked with African nations helping them to develop their infrastructure – building roads, hospitals, schools and so much more – when these nations gained their independence from colonial powers.

The "lie" states that Israel must be isolated from the global community due to its fictitious crimes against humanity. African nations are expected to and have indeed made peace; Africans are told to shun Israel for no valid reason. The UN’s obsessive focus with Israel has resulted in Africa not receiving the attention or help in addressing the palpable dangers the continent faces.
In Africa Islamic terrorist groups are growing in both reach and effectiveness. 

According to the most recent Terrorism Index, seven of the ten highest at risk of Islamic terror countries are on the African continent [the center of gravity for Islamic State has now moved from the Middle East to Africa]:

• Boko Haram has kidnapped our girls
• Al Shabab has killed our youth.
• The Fulani Herdsman are slaughtering our Nigerian Christian brothers and sisters
• ISIS is leading a terrorist insurgence in So Africa. 
  

This should give us all great pause for concern. [..] Instead of Durban IV; world leaders who desire to see human rights enjoyed & protected by all people should follow the words of the prophet Isaiah “learn to do good, seek justice, [and] rebuke the oppressor.” Israel rebukes the oppressors and IS NOT the oppressor! Isaiah 1:17

Ezekiel 38:1-6, 39:1

​In 2013 Pastor Steve Cioccolanti explained all the reasons why Russia is not the nation to the north as described in Ezekiel 38:1-6 ... it is the Islamic nation of Turkey. Pastor Steve's Biblical teaching describes the main players of WWIII and he has been on record for over a decade and is now being vindicated. The nations involved in the Gog Magog war are NOT what many Gentile prophecy teachers assume! We have to look at:

• The Boston Bombing
• North Korean nuclear testing have a surprising connection to Gog of the land of Magog [here]

I connect the pieces together for you so you can watch ancient prophecies literally unfold right before your eyes... and know for sure the God of the Bible is real, God cares for you, He knows everything, and yes, He is sending His Son ~ our Savior ~ the Jewish Messiah - back sooner than you think!

27 minute video here: 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7psKrEYmE

7-27-21, BreakingDefense.com -- TEL AVIV: Defense sources say the Israeli military is planning to change its tactics in Syria to revolve around long-range standoff munitions as opposed to air strikes, following a new Russian policy to use its higher-end air defense systems capable of shooting down Israeli jets over Syrian airspace.

The change follows an announcement late last week by Rear Adm. Vadim Kulit, the head of the Russian military reconciliation center in Syria, who said in a TV interview that the Russian forces assisted the Syrians in intercepting four missiles launched by Israeli F-16s — the first time Russian assistance was given to counter Israeli military operations. [..]

Israeli sources confirmed that the BUK 2ME was used for the first time against Israeli missiles, raising fears that Israeli pilots could be targeted as well. As a result, military leadership here is planning to shift operations almost entirely to long-range strike weapons.

​6-21-21, FrontPage, Raymond Ibrahim* -- Why do Islamic Palestinians in the Jewish State of Israel present themselves as victims and Israel as land-grabbing oppressors? They are not innocent & helpless victims [1] it is Jewish land. When all is said and done, Islamic notions of “justice” is  based on their beliefs and acts of aggression conquering, slaughtering, subjugating and stealing land as justified whenever they conclude they’re living under “infidel” authority; hence the virulent hatred for and often attacks on the Jewish nation of Israeli civilians.
 
www.aljazeera.com/news/ On April 16, 2021, AlJazeera published an article by the head of the Political Science Dept at the University of the Ummah in Gaza, Adnan Abu Amar on the topic of jihad [war] during the month of Islam’s Ramadan.  He explained how Palestinians find “inspiration” in various jihads throughout Islamic history, ​“prominent among them the raid of Badr, the opening of Mecca, the opening of al-Andalus and the battle of the pavement of martyrs [the Battle of Tours, 732 AD].”
 
In all the battles, Muslims were the aggressors invading non-Muslim territory, butchering and enslaving inhabitants and stealing their land. Reason? they were “infidels”[ non-Muslims]. Current day Muslims [aka Palestinians] elements in Israel are constantly praising the unjustified conquests of others as they  again steal land.  [Patriarch of Muslims: Abraham's Egyptian son Ishmael by Hagar wife Sarah's maid. Genesis 16:12]

On May 29, Hizb al-Tahrir—the “Liberation Party”—often holds large, outdoor events near al-Aqsa mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem ‘Dome of the Rock’ commemorating the anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople (May 29, 1453). During one Islamic events in Jerusalem with chants of “Allahu Akbar” Muslim cleric Nidhal Siam spoke:
 
“Oh Muslims, the anniversary of the opening [that is, conquest] of Constantinople brings tidings of things to come. It brings tidings that Rome will be conquered in the near future, Allah willing… Islam will throw its neighbors to the ground, and its reach will span across the east and the west of this Earth. This is Allah’s promise; and Allah does not renege on his promises.”
 
All Siam’s proclamations before thunderous applause; in other words no non-Muslim [infidel] is safe from  Islamic jihad — including those who live countless leagues away from and have nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict. Question: Why are the Muslims  seeking sympathy from the international community presenting themselves as an oppressed people whose land is unjustly occupied when they proudly proclaim their inspiration as they seek to repeat the atrocities of the past stealing the lands of others including Israel?
*Excerpted and adapted full original report here
[1] More here: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-facts-the-palestinian-uprisings