Israeli Politics — Disavowing the Promises
Dec 13th, 2007 by jjp
Once again we see that the secular state of Israel completely disregards the words of the Torah and disavows the promises made by the LORD to Abraham….
Revealed: Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount
Documents detail ex-Israeli leader’s deal handing Judaism’s holiest site to Yasser Arafat
Aaron Klein, JERUSALEM – In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, the Israeli government in 2000 agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount – Judaism’s holiest site – to the Palestinians during U.S.-backed negotiations, according to declassified documents made public today.
According to declassified Israeli government documents published today by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, during U.S.-led negotiations in 2000 at Camp David, Ehud Barak, then prime minister, agreed sovereignty over the Temple Mount would be either “ambiguous” or control would be determined based on the bond of each party to the site. The Palestinians would therefore control the upper sections of the Mount, which houses the Al Aqsa Mosque and also is the site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
The 2000 negotiations fell through after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected an offer of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem.
Barak at times denied he offered the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, but he also indicated during interviews he was willing to compromise over the site.
Haaretz published excerpts from a 26-page document it obtained, signed by Barak’s negotiator Gilad Sher and said to be summaries of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The document was titled “The Status of the Diplomatic Process with the Palestinians Points to Update the Incoming Prime Minister.”
Sher also wrote in his book published after the 2000 negotiations, titled “Beyond Reach,” that President Bill Clinton floated a plan that called for the Temple Mount to become Palestinian sovereign territory, while the Western Wall below and its complex would fall under Israeli sovereignty.
Barak was said to have initially rejected that plan, but according to participants at the negotiations summit, he was ultimately willing to forfeit the Temple Mount.