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Apocalypse 21:2
And I John saw the holy city,
new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride adorned
for her husband.

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Why the Holy War?

Holy War

Tomb of Patriarchs at Hebron

From the Holy Scriptures, The Old Testament

Genesis 17 (God speaks to Abraham, forefather of Israel):
7 I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 The whole land of Canaan, where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God."

First Book of the Chronicles, Chap. 12:
37 And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.
38 All these men of war, that could keep rank, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
39 And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

From the Holy Scriptures, New Testament

Gospel of Luke chap.21
20"When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near.
21Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.
22For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.
23How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people.

Muslim nations call to the Holy War

Jihad - Holy War - Islam

Koran 9: 123

"O you who believe! Fight the unbelievers who are around, so that they find harshness in you.
Know that Allah is with those who fear him."

Israel in state of war

Psalms 137
5) If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
6) If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth;
if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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Jihad

Observers from TIPH, the Temporary International Presence in Hebron, an unarmed six-nation force, is charged with observing and reporting clashes between Israelis and Palestinians.

Palestinian suicide bomber detonated nail-studded explosives on a bus in Haifa Sunday, killing himself and at least 14 people just hours after Islamic militants set off deadly explosions in downtown Jerusalem.

Two Palestinian suicide bombers detonated powerful explosives in a crowded pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem late Saturday, December 1, 2001 killing at least ten people and wounding more than 130...Shortly after an explosion went off in a car parked near the mall.

Gaza

Palestinian

"Hamas greets bin Laden"

JERUSALEM

Israeli border police officers stand guard at a road block leading to the Orient House, taken over by Israeli troops. The Orient House is a symbol of Palestinian claims to east Jerusalem as a future capital

The end of the ceasefire !!

Middle East

Killed 3 Jihad activists
Carbombs in Tel Aviv
Already the end of the ceasefire?!
July 2nd 2001

Could there be PEACE now?

Luke 19

⁴¹As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it ⁴²and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace--but now it is hidden from your eyes. ⁴³The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.
⁴⁴They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."

Car bombs !

Israel: military escalation

A volunteer Orthodox Jew searches for remnants of bombing victims as he walks past a pool of blood, after a Palestinian militant detonated a bomb at a busy intersection Sunday, March 4, 2001 during morning rush hour in the coastal Israeli city of Netanya.

February14-01 Israelis killed in hit-and-run attack

The Israelian army is shooting at Bethlehem and Ramallah

Terror car bombs

Israel 1st January 2001

JERUSALEM Middle-East 31st December 2000

GRIEF, MOURNING AND BLOOD

Gaza bombed

Rachel's Tomb a little outside of Bethlehem declared to be a military war-zone.
Rachel's Tomb is one of the places more worshipped from the orthodox Jews in Cis-Jordan.
At the same time it's also sacred to the Muslims.

Matthew 2

18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

On the agreement Peres-Arafat

A car bomb killed two Israelis in central Jerusalem, many wounded

Jihad

The Holy City armoured

Revelation 21

1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.