MIDEAST UPDATE: 1.20.17 - 70 Nations Gathered in Paris Unanimously Call for the Creation of a Palestinian State

70 Nations Gathered in Paris Unanimously Call for the Creation of a Palestinian State - http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/62420-70-nations-gathered-in-paris-unanimously-call-for-the-creation-of-a-palestinian-state

 

On Sunday, the 70 nations that gathered in Paris for a conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unanimously agreed to call for the creation of a Palestinian state.

 

The joint declaration issued at the conclusion of the conference also endorsed U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, which was adopted on December 23, and the six principles U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid out in his 71-minute speech on December 28. If you would like to read the final draft of the joint declaration, you can do so here.

 

The good news is that this conference did not immediately recognize a Palestinian state, nor does it appear that additional action will be taken at the U.N. Security Council before Donald Trump is inaugurated on Friday.

 

It had been feared that this conference might attempt to impose some sort of a solution on the Israelis and the Palestinians, but that didn't come to pass. Instead, the conference participants agreed to work toward "a negotiated solution with two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security".

 

So the global community has clearly reaffirmed its commitment to a Palestinian state, but the outcome of this conference was not nearly as bad for Israel as many had been anticipating.

 

On Tuesday, the U.N. Security Council will meet to further discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the Jerusalem Post is reporting that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has promised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that there will not be any more U.N. Security Council resolutions regarding Israel before Trump takes office...

 

Israeli sources said Kerry called Netanyahu from the conference to brief him on the efforts the US was taking there to soften the language of the final statement.

 

According to the sources, Netanyahu told Kerry that damage had already been done to Israel by the anti-settlement resolution that the U.S. allowed to pass in the Security Council last month, and that no more harm should be allowed to be caused from the Paris summit.

 

Kerry assured Netanyahu that there would be no follow-up to the Paris conference in the Security Council, according to the sources.

 

Even though that bullet has been dodged, we should still acknowledge that what just happened in Paris, France was extremely significant.

 

It seems a very odd coincidence that exactly 70 nations gathered in Paris. It could have easily been 69 nations or 71 nations, but instead it was precisely 70.

 

According to Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, the author of The Harbinger and The Book of Mysteries, the number 70 represents all the nations of the world in ancient Jewish tradition...

 

"It is interesting to note that the rabbis spoke of the world consisting of 70 nations," he observed. "This is linked to the 70 sacrifices offered in the Feast of Tabernacles. So now to have the nations of the world, specifically 70 nations, gather together over the issue of Jerusalem, is most striking. One could say that the 70 nations are a representation of all nations, and coming together clearly set against the word of God which clearly ordains that Jerusalem is given by God to only one nation-Israel.

 

"As to the Abrahamic Covenant, that what a nation does to Israel will be done to that nation, what America under Obama did to Israel at the United Nations-namely abandon it -was significant," he said.

 

Without a doubt, all of the largest and most powerful countries were represented at the conference. So what we just witnessed in Paris was essentially the whole world coming together to decide what should be done with the land of Israel.

 

And by unanimously agreeing that the land of Israel should be divided and that a Palestinian state should be created, these global leaders are in great danger of literally cursing the entire planet.

 

Just a few weeks ago, I wrote an entire article about how those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. I would venture to say that now the entire world is on the wrong side of that equation as a result of this conference in Paris.

 

The good news for the U.S. is that Barack Obama is on his way out the door, and Donald Trump is about to become president.

 

In a previous article, I detailed 10 specific steps Trump should immediately take to try to reverse the curse that Obama has put on America. One of the steps I recommended was moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and this is something that Trump's team is actively talking about.

 

However, other global leaders are warning Trump not to do this. For example, on Sunday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told the press that such a move would have "very serious consequences"...

 

A "stubborn" proposal by President-elect Donald Trump to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem would involve "very serious consequences" and damage efforts for peace in the Middle East, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sunday.

 

And of course, the Palestinians are threatening widespread violence if the U.S. embassy is moved to Jerusalem; but meanwhile, the Palestinians have no problem opening up new embassies of their own. In fact, on Saturday, the Palestinians opened up a brand-new embassy at the Vatican.

 

Donald Trump may never have anticipated this, but the truth is that the relationship between the United States and Israel is likely to be one of the defining issues of his presidency.

 

Allowing U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 to pass without a veto was the worst decision Barack Obama made during his entire time in the White House, and it represented the greatest betrayal of Israel in the history of the United States.

 

In just a few days, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to begin repairing the immense damage that was done by that resolution, and it sounds like he wants to have a very positive relationship with Israel.

 

But it can't be just words. Politicians have a habit of telling us what we want to hear, and now Donald Trump will get his chance to show the world that he is not just another typical politician.

 

My hope is that Donald Trump will truly be a friend to Israel in both word and deed, because that is what is desperately needed at this moment in history.

 

Five Anti-Israel Offenses In Paris 'Peace' Summit Final Declaration -  Aaron Klein - http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/01/15/five-anti-israel-offenses-paris-peace-summit-final-declaration/

 

Instead of convening a summit on the ongoing civil war in Syria, or the migrant crisis threatening Europe, or the rampant anti-Semitism plaguing its own country, France on Sunday held a convention attended by over 70 nations to affirm the international community's commitment to creating a Palestinian state.

 

At the end of the farcical display, and with neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority in attendance, the Paris summit representatives released a brief concluding declaration unanimously agreed to after negotiations between the countries.

 

Reports here credited Israeli diplomats with helping to water down the anti-Israel language of the final declaration, calling the text a "significant weakening" and "less harsh than was initially expected."

 

Still, the text was anything but fair. Here are five anti-Israel offenses in the 658-word final declaration:

 

1 - The text draws a moral equivalency between "violence," which would include Palestinian terrorism targeting civilians, and "settlement activity," meaning Israelis building homes in the West Bank or eastern sections of Jerusalem.

 

The text states:

 

They emphasized the importance for the parties to restate their commitment to this solution, to take urgent steps in order to reverse the current negative trends on the ground, including continued acts of violence and ongoing settlement activity, and to start meaningful direct negotiations.

 

2 - The declaration calls for Israel to "fully end the occupation that began in 1967," language that seems to mean that Israel would need to withdraw from the entire West Bank and eastern Jerusalem and thus shrink the country to indefensible borders.

 

Those are the territories that Israel captured in the defensive war of 1967.  Withdrawing "fully" would seem to imply that Israel should evacuate those territories in their entirety. Some of the holiest sites in Judaism are located in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank, including the Western Wall and Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City; the Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron, which was home to the oldest continuous Jewish community in the world until the Jews of Hebron were massacred and expelled; the Tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem; and Joseph's Tomb in Nablus - biblical Shechem.

 

The diplomats who convened in Paris, however, seem unaware of the text of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, which today's declaration affirms as the basis of a future Israeli-Palestinian deal.

 

After stating that Israel should "fully end the occupation that began in 1967," the Paris declaration then references Resolution 242.

 

The declaration states:

 

They reiterated that a negotiated two-state solution should meet the legitimate aspirations of both sides, including the Palestinians' right to statehood and sovereignty, fully end the occupation that began in 1967, satisfy Israel's security needs and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), and also recalled relevant Security Council resolutions.

 

Resolution 242 calls on Israel to withdraw under a future final-status solution "from territories occupied" as a result of the 1967 Six Day War. The resolution does not call for a withdrawal from "all territories," a designation deliberately left out to ensure Israel's ability to retain some territory for security purposes under a future deal.

 

The Jewish Virtual Library explains:

 

The Security Council did not say Israel must withdraw from "all the" territories occupied after the Six-Day War. This was quite deliberate. The Soviet delegate wanted the inclusion of those words and said that their exclusion meant "that part of these territories can remain in Israeli hands." The Arab states pushed for the word "all" to be included, but this was rejected. They nevertheless asserted that they would read the resolution as if it included the word "all." The British ambassador who drafted the approved resolution, Lord Caradon, declared after the vote: "It is only the resolution that will bind us, and we regard its wording as clear."

 

3 -  The declaration patronizes Israel by calling on both parties to "restate" their commitments to the two-state solution.

 

Only one side has not been committed to peace. Israel has offered the Palestinians a state in much of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with a shared capital in Jerusalem numerous times. These offers were made at Camp David in 2000, Taba in 2001, the Annapolis Conference in 2007, and more offers were made in 2008. In each of these cases, the PA refused generous Israeli offers of statehood and bolted negotiations without counteroffers.

 

The PA has failed to respond to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's unprecedented attempts to jump-start negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state, including freezing Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem and releasing Palestinian prisoners.

 

4 - The declaration gives credibility to the so-called Arab Peace Initiative, which threatens Israel's security.

 

The declaration states: "They underscored the importance of the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 as a comprehensive framework for the resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict, thus contributing to regional peace and security," states today's declaration.

 

This reporter previously exposed the Saudi "peace" initiative:

 

The Saudi Initiative, originally proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002, states that Israel would receive "normal relations" with the Arab world in exchange for a full withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem, which includes the Temple Mount. ...

 

The Saudi plan also demands the imposition of a non-binding U.N. resolution that calls for so-called Palestinian refugees who wish to move inside Israel to be permitted to do so at the "earliest practicable date."

 

Palestinians have long demanded the "right of return" for millions of "refugees," a formula Israeli officials across the political spectrum warn is code for Israel's destruction by flooding the Jewish state with millions of Arabs, thereby changing its demographics.

 

When Arab countries attacked the Jewish state after its creation in 1948, some 725,000 Arabs living within Israel's borders fled or were expelled from the area that became Israel. Also at that time, about 820,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries or fled following rampant persecution.

 

While most Jewish refugees were absorbed by Israel and other countries, the majority of Palestinian Arabs have been maintained in 59 U.N.-run camps that do not seek to settle its inhabitants elsewhere.

 

There are currently about four million Arabs who claim Palestinian refugee status with the U.N., including children and grandchildren of the original fleeing Arabs; Arabs living full-time in Jordan; and Arabs who long ago emigrated throughout the Middle East and to the West.

 

According to Arab sources close to the Saudi Initiative, Arab countries are willing to come to an agreement whereby Israel absorbs about 500,000 "refugees" and reaches a compensation deal with the PA for the remaining millions of Palestinians.

 

5 - The Paris declaration "welcomed" UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which passed last month when the U.S. abstained and refers to the entire West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as so-called occupied Palestinian territories while demanding a complete halt to all Israeli construction in those areas.

 

 

Palestinian Official: Paris Summit Participants Tempered Attitude Fearing Trump - Ali Waked - http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/01/16/exclusive-palestinian-official-paris-summit-participants-tempered-attitude-fearing-trump/

 

President-elect Donald Trump's pro-Israel views likely influenced the outcome of Sunday's Paris Mideast summit, a Fatah official told Breitbart Jerusalem, leading to what the official termed a modestly worded resolution at the confab's conclusion.

 

"Indeed, the outcome of the summit was overall positive but we expected it to lay out concrete parameters that would translate our resolutions into operative steps, but because the participating governments didn't want to confront Trump they didn't go that far," said Tayseer Nasrallah, a member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council.

 

"Declaring a Palestinian State in the 1967 borders, a resolution against the settlements, their commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state ... all this is fine and well, but sadly we don't see a mechanism that would usher in the implementation," he said. "It's hard to predict what Trump will do. But based on his election pledges, he is unlikely to be committed to (Secretary of State John) Kerry's parameters and the Paris resolutions. It's hard to predict his Middle East policy altogether, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, but if that happens it will definitely give an indication of his ideas regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."

 

Nasrallah said that in preparing for the Paris summit "there was excellent coordination between the Palestinian Authority and the Obama administration. There was excellent coordination with France. But again, the question that arises is whether the Trump Administration will allow the community of nations to implement the resolution or not."

 

More than 70 nations attended the Paris summit, where they affirmed the international community's commitment to creating a Palestinian state. Reports in the Israeli news media credited the Jewish state's diplomats with helping to temper the language of the summit's final declaration, calling the text a "significant weakening" and "less harsh than was initially expected."

 

The Fatah official is not the only one to comment on the incoming Trump administration's influence over the Paris summit outcome.

 

The Guardian newspaper on Sunday ran with a story titled, "UK signals closeness to Trump with snub to French Middle East summit."

 

The newspaper reported:

 

The British government has signaled its determination to stay close to Donald Trump's administration by refusing to send a high-level delegation to the Middle East peace conference organized by the French government.

 

Neither a Foreign Office minister, nor the UK ambassador to France, will be attending the meeting on Sunday. Most large EU countries have sent their foreign minister, and the British approach may hint at future UK policy choices. The French regard the conference as a vital chance to reaffirm the case for a negotiated two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians.

 

Trump's transition team reportedly told French diplomats they disapproved of the conference going ahead, seeing it as an attempt to put unfair pressure on Israel and give an unjustified reward to the Palestinians. The British government likely fears that the conference risks becoming a means to circumscribe future US policy on Israel before the Trump team has decided on it.

 

 

 Type and shadow, but not prophecy-UN Paris meeting - Bill Wilson - www.dailyjot.com

 

Some are pointing to the 70 nations that attended the UN Paris peace initiative conference and are saying that it was prophetic because the "table of Nations" in Genesis 10 included 70 nations. They are sounding alarm bells because the UN represents all the nations of the world and that they were gathered in Paris against Jerusalem, pointing to the Zechariah 12:3 prophecy saying, "And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it." This is not fulfillment of prophecy. It does not meet the Biblical context or the geographical location described by the prophets.

 

The 70 nations in Genesis 10 are actually the proper descendants of Noah after the flood that had their own tongue, families and nations. Verse 1 says, "Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood." Some of these names establish the lineage of Abraham through Shem. Others indicate a "family" split as some of the brothers and their descendants actually become the very nations mentioned in the prophecies that will come against Israel in the Day of the Lord, to which Zechariah 12 and Ezekiel 38 is referring. Gomer, Magog, Tubal, Meshech, Togarmah, Cush (Ethiopia), Put (Libya) and others are mentioned. These prophecies speak to a colossal end time battle when the Lord smites Gog.

 

While some of the 70 nations at the UN summit are of the nations mentioned as gathering against Israel in "that day," they are not in the Biblical context of those mentioned in Genesis 10. This is the second gathering of UN nations in Paris to pressure Israel out of its God-given land, the first summit having taken place on June 3, 2016. The statement from the January 15 conference reiterated "that a negotiated two-state solution should meet the legitimate aspirations of both sides, including the Palestinians' right to statehood and sovereignty, fully end the occupation that began in 1967, satisfy Israel's security needs and resolve all permanent status issues on the basis of United Nations Security Council resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), and also recalled relevant Security Council resolutions."

 

This gathering of nations in Paris advocates dividing Jerusalem, but it is not a military force coming against Israel. In reality, the nations that gather against Jerusalem "in that day" will actually be the traditional enemies of God's chosen people and they will be literally coming from the North to sack Jerusalem and take a spoil (Ezekiel 38:13). The Lord God says of Gog in Ezekiel 38:17: "Aren't you he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring you against them." This is not the UN, although the UN may be involved in hastening the prophecy. It appears to be a type and shadow, a warning for the future for discerning people to keep in perspective rather than run to and fro because of the tickling of the ears.

 

Read the text of the UN Paris statement here: