Peres Wants to Yield
Christian Sites to
By JPOST.COM STAFF
May 4, 2009
This is a great prophetic event. An event
of churches and lands being returned under control of the Pope and the Roman
Catholic Church. The significance
is that that
President Shimon Peres wants to give up Israeli sovereignty
over key Christian holy sites to the
According to the report,
the issue ruffled feathers among senior Israeli officials.
Beit Hanassi could not be reached for
comment, as it does not issue statements to the press while the president is
abroad.
Army Radio said that the
president was exerting pressure on the government to give up sovereignty over six sites including the Church of
the Annunciation in Nazareth, the Coenaculum on Mount
Zion, the
Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, (We posted an article concerning Roman Catholic prophesy by
St, Malachi that declared that this Pope was the next to last Pope and that he
was called “The Olive” even though it made no sense in the natural at the time
that this German Pope was elected we see now why hundreds of years ago when
this was prophesied he would be called “The Olive” because he would be
successful in getting the churches in Israel and in Particular the church on
the mount of olives given back to the church) and the
Church of the Multiplication on the Kinneret.
On Sunday, according to
the report, Beit Hanassi
requested that the Interior Ministry sign documents conceding sovereignty
on the sites, however the interior minister refused.
Yishai was quoted as saying that he opposes all yielding of sovereignty.
"Every concession
like this limits the Israeli government's ability to function as a sovereign
government in the area," he said.
Referring to Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to the
region scheduled for May 11-15, he said, "I am certain that the aim of the
pope's visit is not to cause damage and not to gain sovereignty."
Relinquishing sovereignty
over the sites would mean that they would legally belong to
"If we were sure
that this present to the Christian world would bring millions of Christian
pilgrims here, then we would have a good reason to
think about it," Tourism Minister Stas Meseznikov was quoted as saying.
"But since we're not
sure that it will happen, why should we give out gifts?"
Former Meretz chair Yossi Beilin, however, was quoted in the report as saying that
The Army Radio report
also quoted Beit Hanassi as
saying that the negotiations had been going on for long enough, and that the
time had come to compromise with the