When I read this article I wondered if the Israeli leadership has rocks in its collective head:

A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday that his government would support a division of Jerusalem, which is reportedly a key component of an Israeli-Palestinian declaration to be made at a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference next month.

As part of recent negotiations between the sides, Deputy Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon has proposed turning over many of the Arab neighborhoods of east Jerusalem to the Palestinians. Ramon said the Palestinians could establish the capital of a future state in the sector of the city, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war.

In return, Israel would receive the recognition of the international community, including Arab states, of its sovereignty over Jewish neighborhoods and the existence of its capital there, Ramon said.

If they believe giving back land that is historically theirs and where the Temple of God stood, with remnants still remaining, is going to make the Palestinians peaceful and Arab nations recognize Israel’s right to exist, they are in a parallel universe.

This is land given to the Jews before they were called Jews. They were Hebrews at that time. The land was given to them by God Almighty Himself. Jerusalem was the favorite city of Jesus, the Son of God.

What right do they claim to give away one grain of sand of this land to anyone? They fought and bled for this land in the 1967 war and, for the first time in centuries, were able to worship at the walls of the destroyed Temple.

This is a holy place to many Israelis and to just give it to the Palestinians to run is a disgrace, in my view.

Israel says she will not give over control of the Temple Mount, but how much harder will it be to defend it when they have the Palestinians swarming around even more than now on that hallowed ground?

Each day I pray for wisdom for Israel’s leaders, and each day I pray for peace in Jerusalem, which will only come for real when Jesus plants His foot on that soil again.

I just don’t see peace between Jew and Arab in that part of the world no matter how much Israel gives. Soon the Arabs won’t have to push Israel into the sea because they will have done it for themselves.

Hopefully, the Israeli people will rise up against this atrocity, but if not, I will have to assume it is part of God’s great plan.

Check this link for the Jerusalem Post article on the same story.