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'Peace With Many' - Will All 22 Arab States Make Peace With Israel? - JNS.ORG - https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=4261 Jared Kushner, senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, said in an interview published on Tuesday that he believes that it is possible all 22 Arab states will makepeace with Israel, and that a fourth Arab country could normalize relations with Israel within "months." On Aug. 13, the White House announced that Israel and the UAE had agreed to normalize relations, making the UAE the third Arab country after Egypt and Jordan to officiallyrecognize the Jewish state. Speaking to the United Arab Emirates' state-run news agency WAM, Kushner said, "Obviously anything could happen, but the reality is that a lot of people are envious of themove that the United Arab Emirates has made." "A lot of people want access to the technology, economy and the advancements that Israel has. Israel is like another Silicon Valley for the Middle East," he added. Kushner also said that many Muslims are excited to be able to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. "We don't solve problems by not talking to each other. So, normalizing relations and allowing people-to-people and business exchanges will only make the Middle East strongerand a more stable place," he said. Asked by WAM about the possibility of peace with 22 Arab states, Kushner said, "I believe that it is logical for them to do it and I believe it is the right thing to doover time." "I think thanks to the UAE leadership there will be a much bigger coalition. There will be what I call 'a vocal majority' that will be in favor of normalizing. I think thevocal minority who have been against it will be more and more isolated in the region," he said. Regarding Israel's plans to extend sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria, Kushner said this would take place "in the future," but not "in the near future." "Right now, the focus is on this relationship UAE and Israel and the Israeli relationship potentially with other countries, that is very important to Israel and the region,"he said, according to the report. Editors Note: Many Bible Prophecy experts have been watching for the emergence of an agreement/covenant to be confirmed between Israel and "many" for a period of seven years. This propheticevent is found in Daniel 9:27. The signing of such an agreement will introduce the final 7 year period laid out in Daniel's 70 Weeks prophecy which is often called the Tribulation period. It is during this period that the majority of the events of the book of Revelation are fulfilled. The comments by Jared Kushner that "it is possible all 22 Arab states willmake peace with Israel, and that a fourth Arab country could normalize relations with Israel within "months" is very significant. Will the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace agreement, or the Abraham Accord as it is being called begin the process that leads to the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27? Only timewill tell but we need to be watching such events closely. Prophecy News Watch will continue to bring you developments as they happen. Muslims Caught Hiding Secret Shaft on Temple Mount from Second TemplePeriod - Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz - https://www.israel365news.com/157589/muslims-caught-hiding-secret-shaft-on-temple-mount-from-2nd-temple-period/ In the days to come, The Mount of Hashem's House Shall stand firm above the mountains And tower above the hills; And all the nations Shall gaze on it with joy. Isaiah 2:2(The Israel BibleTM) Last week, a broken flagstone on the Temple Mount revealed a tunnel, approximately two feet square, descending several yards where it seems to join up with a larger tunnel.The entrance is located in the southern end of the Temple Mount, between the Aqsa Mosque and the Mughrabi Gate. Assaf Fried, the spokesman for the Temple Organizations, said that last Wednesday, the tunnel was revealed. "The Waqf is being very secretive about the existence of the tunnel but to allappearances, a vehicle or construction equipment broke through the paving stone," Fried told Breaking Israel News. He noted that the Muslim Authority frequently carries out illegal construction projects that are destructive to the artifacts at the site. Muchof this is with the intention of erasing archaeological proof of the historical Jewish connection to the Temple Mount. "Little by little, Jews going up to the site became aware of the tunnel," Friedsaid. Fried notified the police and for the time being, the Waqf is being prevented from fixing the site. It is feared that they will simply fill the hole with concrete, sealing off the tunnel forever. "The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has yet to investigatethe tunnel. "This could be nothing, a 200-year-old sewer or a water cistern, but it couldpossibly be part of a tunnel complex that was part of the Temple, perhaps even leading to tunnels from the First Temple," Fried noted. "We simply don't know but if it is left in the hands of the Waqf, we never will know." Fried noted that this section of the Temple Mount was added by King Herod and much of it is landfill honeycombed with underground features. The el-Marwani Mosque was establishedin Solomon's Stables, a huge underground space in the southern end of the Temple Mount that can accommodate over ten thousand worshippers. "It is absolutely essential that the public demand that the Waqf be preventedfrom destroying this irreplaceable artifact," Fried emphasized. "The law requires that this be dealt with under the supervision of the archeology authorities but unless the public demands it, this will disappear and the Waqf will claim that neither this tunnelnor the Temple ever existed." Dr. Zachi Dvira, an Israeli archaeologist from Bar-Ilan University, confirmed that the shaft was from the Second Temple Period. "This is from the part of the Temple Mount that Herod added later," Dr. Dvirasaid. "It was part of the Temple Complex, though not part of the Temple itself." Dr. Dvira co-directs the Temple Mount Sifting Project which began in 2004 to recover archaeological artifacts contained within debris removed from the Temple Mount withoutproper archaeological care during illegal construction carried out by the Waqf. In 1999, approximately 9,000 tons of archaeologically-rich soil were removed from the Temple Mount by the Waqf, using heavy earth moving equipment and without a preceding salvageexcavation or proper archaeological care, following works in and around the newly constructed underground el-Marwani Mosque. Despite his vast experience with Waqf destruction of Temple Mount artifacts, Dr. Dvira was confident that the newly discovered tunnel would not suffer the same fate. "This is a hugely important discovery," Dr. Dvira said. "I do not think thatthe Israeli government will allow it to be destroyed. Today, there is better supervision preventing destruction on the Temple Mount. This is an opportunity that Israel really needs to investigate. Jordan and the Waqf oppose archaeology being carried out onthe Temple Mount because it is an act of sovereignty at the site. So we may not carry out initiated research but it will probably not be destroyed." Rabbi Harry Moskoff, the award-winning producer of producer and writer of "The ARK Report", is intimately familiar with the Jewish traditions describing the undergroundstructures located on the Temple Mount. Last week, by chance, he was visiting the Mount of Olives overlooking the site and noted a large dump-truck parked precisely where the shaft is now open. The presence of the dump truck represented undeniable evidencethat the Waqf was conducting illegal construction at the site. He conjectured that the weight of the truck may have been the cause of the shaft being revealed. "The timing is totally divinely influenced," Moskoff said. "After thousandsof years, suddenly this hole opened up. The Waqf is clearly doing illegal digging and this may lead to them being stopped." In his book, Rabbi Moskoff describes the Jewish traditions of underground tunnels. One such tunnel is quite close to where the shaft just opened. Leading from the Templeto the southern gate, it was used by priests who became impure and needed to leave the Temple Mount quickly. "This shaft could be an entrance or it could be an air-shaft or light-shaft,"he said. Rabbi Moskoff noted that according to Jewish literature, King Solomon created a chamber directly under the Holy of Holies when making his temple intended to house the Arkof the Covenant. He also noted that in 2015, when changing the carpets in the Well of the Souls under the Dome of the rock, a mosaic was discovered covering a shaft similar in size and shape to the shaft that was uncovered last week. The work was carried outwithout any archaeological oversight and it is unknown whether anything was removed or damaged. In his book, Moskoff described how the former Chief Rabbi of the Western Wall, Rabbi Yehudah Getz, believed that the Ark of the Covenant was still hidden in its speciallyprepared chamber under the Holy of Holies, where the Dome of the Rock now stands. The leader of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, tried to dissuade Rabbi Getz from searching for the Ark but in 1981, he attempted to enter the underground tunnel complex.Teddy Kollek, the anti-religious mayor of Jerusalem at the time, tipped off the Waqf and Rabbi Getz was met with Arab mobs. "Even though they have an agenda that is not Biblically driven, the IAA shouldbe intensely interested in this new development," Rabbi Moskoff said. He noted that the next logical step would be to send down a camera on a remote-controlled device. "But eventually, they will need to send down a person and that person will needto be a Kohen (descendant of Aaron the Priest and a member of the priestly caste), Moskoff noted. "I would like to officially submit my candidacy as a volunteer." Is the UAE-Israel deal a manifestation of Abraham's legacy? - Warren Goldstein - https://www.jpost.com/opinion/is-the-uae-israel-deal-a-manifestation-of-abrahams-legacy-640409 Remarkably, Abraham's legacy is so powerful and relevant that a peace accord is named after him almost 4,000 years since his birth. The elation felt in both Israel and the United Arab Emirates over the recent peace deal emerged so powerfully at a public discussion I hosted this week with AmbassadorsMichael Oren and Dore Gold Jewish Council of the Emirates president Ross Kriel. The South African-born Ross said the feelings of the Jewish community and its interaction with the broader society at this time reminded him of the excitement in South Africawhen Nelson Mandela was released and the journey to peace and reconciliation began. Now, he said, there is a palpable joy across a very broad range of people in Dubai for what this peace deal means and how it can benefit the two countries. This reminds me of the midrash that describes how, at the moment of Abraham's passing, his warring sons Isaac and Ishmael reconcile at his funeral, holding hands. And now,all these generations later, the children of Abraham, the descendants of Isaac and Ishmael, have begun a historic reconciliation, through the UAE/Israel deal so aptly named the "Abraham Accord," and are setting out a path to peace in this conflict of brothers. Remarkably, Abraham's legacy is so powerful and relevant that a peace accord is named after him almost 4,000 years since his birth. We are witness to the fulfillment ofthe Divine promise to Abraham that "you will be a father of a multitude of nations." This is not about biology, but rather about values. God chose Abraham to champion the moral and spiritual values vital for humankind to survive and thrive. First, Abraham taught us that our world was created by the one and only God, the source of all things. By the time Abraham appears in history, humankind had forgotten theclarity of belief in one God that Adam and Eve and their family had at the dawn of civilization. Abraham came into a world of paganism, in which people believed in multiple gods, and he brought the radical and profound concept of monotheism: There is one God Who holdseverything together and is the creator of all people and things. In response, God gave Abraham the merit of founding the Jewish nation, the people of Israel, who would later at Sinai be charged with carrying His ideas into the world. The other animating idea of Abraham's life is the power of kindness - unconditional kindness to every human being, no matter who they are or what they believe. These two ideas are intertwined, as emerges from the emblematic picture of Abraham's kindness to the three wayfarers whom he thought were idolaters, but who actually turnedout to be angels sent by God. The Torah can span decades and even centuries in a single sentence, but in describing Abraham's archetypal act of kindness, it devotes seven lengthy verses. Water is fetched, and the travelers are invited to wash their feet and find a shady spot to rest. Bread is brought as a starter course. Cakes are baked, veal is prepared,beverages are served. Abraham himself is at the center of all of these activities, and there's a sense of urgency as he seeks to ensure his guests are made to feel welcome and looked after in every respect. There is one detail that is especially striking. Before he sees the wayfarers, God appears to Abraham and comforts him while he recovers from his brit milah (circumcision).When the wayfarers appear on the scene, Abraham says, "My Master, if I find favor in your eyes, please do not move on from your servant" (Genesis 18:3). The most obvious reading here is that he is addressing one of the travelers. But according to one extraordinary explanation in Rashi, these words were actually addressedto God Himself. In effect, Abraham was asking God to wait for him while he attended to the needs of the travelers. Based on this, the Talmud (Shabbat 127a) makes a dramatic statement: "Greater is welcoming guests than receiving the Divine Presence." The Maharal guides us to understand this statement with reference to the mishna in Pirkei Avot: "Beloved is the human being created in God's image" (Avot 3:18). Every humanbeing has within them a Divine soul, a reflection of God Himself, and that this makes human beings the greatest tangible manifestation of God's presence on Earth. And so, even though the Divine Presence came to be with him in the wake of his circumcision, Abraham knew he would in fact have a more intense interaction with God throughengaging with the Divine image in another human being. The two big ideas of Abraham's life - belief in one God and the imperative of treating all people with compassion and kindness - can bring peace to the world, which makesnaming this historic peace accord between Israel and the UAE after Abraham so significant. One creator of all human beings means we all share a common humanity. There is a fundamental and unconditional equality and dignity in all people that emanates naturallyfrom the Divine soul within each of us. To create and nurture peace that is meaningful, pervasive and enduring, we must see each other as our forefather Abraham saw everyone - as godly beings created in the image of the Divine. At a time in which hope has been in short supply, let all people of goodwill around the world rally together in unity, embrace our common humanity, recognize the Divinewithin us all, and celebrate the Abraham Accord. And let us pray it is only the first step in what will become a flourishing of peace and reconciliation among the children of Abraham, and a wide and warm embrace of the spirit of Abraham's vision and valuesby all humankind. The Israel-Sunni Arab bloc: The new sheriff - Caroline Glick - https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-israel-sunni-arab-bloc-the-new-sheriff/ Immediately after taking office, Trump embraced the Israeli-Sunni bloc and worked to expand and formalize it under American leadership. Between his meetings in Jerusalem last Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recorded a short address for the Republican National Convention in which he discussedmany of the Trump administration's foreign policy accomplishments. By the time his remarks were broadcast in the United States on Tuesday night, Pompeo had already landed in Khartoum, Sudan, the second stop on his week-long shuttle diplomacy mission aimedat expanding the circle of normalization between Israel and the Arab states of the region. Aside from the fact that it was nice to hear Pompeo's warm remarks about Jerusalem, his address was significant for the way he chose to end it. Pompeo closed his remarksby recalling Andrew Brunson, the American evangelical pastor who was held hostage in Turkey from 2016 to 2018. Brunson, whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time, was arrested during the course of the mass arrests that followed the failed coup d'etat againstthe regime of Turkey's Islamist dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in July 2016. In 2017, Erdoğan demanded that Israel repatriate a Turkish terrorist it had arrested in exchange for Brunson. After President Donald Trump asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tohelp out, Israel released the terrorist and sent her back to her state sponsor of terrorism, Turkey. But instead of keeping his end of the bargain and releasing Brunson, Erdoğan upped the ante. Erdoğan demanded that Trump extradite Turkish expatriate cleric Fethullah G�len from his home in Pennsylvania. Erdoğan alleges that G�len and his followers were responsiblefor the failed coup. The Trump administration was not impressed by Erdoğan's offer. Rather than extradite G�len, President Trump slapped tariffs on Turkish aluminum and steel exports to theUnited States and demanded Brunson's release. A few months later, Erdoğan released Brunson and the tariffs were later withdrawn. G�len remains in Pennsylvania. The fact that Pompeo chose to recall Brunson's suffering in Turkey, rather than, say, the suffering of American hostages whose release Trump secured from Iran or North Korea,points to a willingness on the part of the administration to finger Turkey-a NATO ally-as a hostile state. In recent days, the administration has turned up the pace of its condemnations of Turkey almost as fast as Turkey has accelerated its hostile acts against the United Statesand its allies. For example, also on Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus harshly criticized Turkey for hosting a delegation of senior Hamas terrorists, including Hamas deputy political leader Saleh Arouri, who is wanted by the United States. Turkey, which recalled its ambassador from Washington to protest the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, led the protests against the United Arab Emirates for agreeingto normalize its relations with Israel two weeks ago. The UAE, for its part, sent six F-16s to Greece this week to participate in military exercises. After Turkey unlawfully began gas and oil exploration in Greece's territorial waters in the eastern Mediterranean earlier this month, both Greece and Turkey conducted navalexercises last week. The administration's willingness to acknowledge-indeed highlight-Turkey's hostility despite its formal alliance in NATO is a function of the changed nature of America'salliance system in the region. The shift predates the Trump administration. A decade ago, the Sunni Arab regimes in Egypt and the Persian Gulf had a brush with annihilation that transformed their perceptionof the region and the world. With the rise of Islamist forces in the Arab Spring threatening to overthrow them on the one hand, and the Obama administration shifting U.S. support away from them and towards the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran on the other, theEgyptian military, the Saudi regime and the UAE leadership collectively arrived at the earth-shattering conclusion that Israel is not their enemy. Like them, the Jewish state was spurned by Obama. And like them, Israel recognizes Iran and the Muslim Brotherhoodas its mortal foes. As Obama's betrayals multiplied, and his support for Iran and its nuclear program expanded, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia began to view Israel as their most stable and powerful ally and only competent defender against Iran and the MuslimBrotherhood. Facing the Arab Sunni regimes and Israel, and strongly supported by the Obama administration were Turkey, Qatar and Iran, which together formed a Sunni-Shi'ite Islamistbloc. With their proxies and vassals in control of Lebanon, Gaza, Syria and Iraq, members of this bloc were open to alliances with the Democrats, the Russians, the Chinese, the European Union and Marxist regimes in Latin America. The first time the two blocs were seen in the light of day was in 2014, during Hamas's war with Israel known as "Operation Protective Edge." At the time, Turkey, Qatar andthe Obama administration supported Hamas's ceasefire terms. The Republicans, the UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia supported Israel. Their unprecedented willingness to publicly stand with Israel stunned the Obama administration and enabled Israel to withstand administrationpressure to succumb to Hamas's demands. Immediately after taking office, Trump embraced the Israeli-Sunni bloc and worked to expand and formalize it under American leadership. Now, following the announcement thatwith U.S. mediation Israel and the UAE have agreed to normalize and formalize their relations, the dimensions of the undertaking, and its impact on the strategic realities of the region and of the international system as a whole, are coming into view. To understand the depth of the achievement it is important to recall what this realignment is replacing. For 40 years, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union divided the world into two blocs. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, that divisionbegan to erode as states formerly in the Soviet orbit beat a path to Washington's door. It seemed then that the United States was destined to stand tall and alone as the leader not just of the free world, but of the whole world. While at the outset of the 1990s the United States indeed enjoyed the position of sole superpower, by the end of the decade, states and sub-state actors that had long beenanti-American began to reemerge after years of shock and disarray. Anti-American leftist movements reinvented themselves as anti-globalists. The demonstrations and riots they organized throughout the Western world renewed and strengthened the traditional anti-Americanismof Western Europe and contributed to the radicalization of the Left in Europe and the United States. Then there were the Islamists. In 1996, al-Qaeda declared war against the United States and Iran bombed Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. In 1998 al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassiesin Kenya and Tanzania. With its new membership in the World Trade Organization, China began its steady rise as the global power of the future. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia rose from its embers. Under the leadership of a KGB officer named Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin rebuilt its position as a world powerdefined by its opposition to America. The rapidity of America's decline in global stature in the 1990s was best perceived in the very different responses presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush receivedin their efforts to build international coalitions against Saddam Hussein. In 1991, H.W. Bush easily formed an international coalition against Iraq under the aegis of the United Nations. Twelve years, later, his son hit a brick wall both at the United Nationsand in Europe. After overthrowing Saddam and his Ba'athist regime, the younger Bush stunned America's Sunni Arab allies when he made transforming them into liberal democracies the centralgoal of his foreign policy. Bush's democratization efforts empowered the Muslim Brotherhood. His overthrow of Saddam empowered Iran. Whereas Bush acted out of utopian ignorance, Obama's Middle Eastern policies were borne out of his anti-Western world view. Obama's policies exacerbated the damage Bushhad wrought to America's position in the Middle East and to regional stability. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to reach out to the Egyptian military, to the Saudis and to the Emiratis in the midst of the Arab Spring and the Obama administration'sbetrayal was the first sustained, rational, strategic initiative anyone had tried in nearly a decade of turmoil. The operational alliance they formed blunted the momentum of the Muslim Brotherhood and the rise of Iran. In the American context, Netanyahu's move offered Republicans a framework for developing a rational and constructive alternative strategic framework not only to Obama'sradical realignment, but to the wider conceptual vacuum in U.S. post-Cold War strategic planning. In Pompeo's shuttle diplomacy we see the enormity of the administration's achievement. After the Cold War, Israeli leftists and anti-Israel foreign policy analysts in America claimed that with the superpower contest settled, Israel was no longer a strategicasset to America. The Israeli left argued that to retain its relevance to America, Israel had to sue for peace with Yasser Arafat on his terms. Arguably the saddest man in Jerusalem this week was British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab. Blind to the seismic shifts that have occurred, Raab arrived uninvited in Israel'scapital (which Britain still refuses to recognize) to mediate peace between Israel and the Palestinians. After Britain exited the European Union following the Brexit vote, the Trump administration expected Britain would renew its special alliance with the United States andditch Brussels' anti-American and anti-Israel unified foreign policy. But Prime Minister Boris Johnson didn't get the memo. Much to Washington's disappointment, the Johnson government has continued to act as a loyal member (or vassal) of the European Union. The Johnson government opposes theadministration's maximum pressure strategy for dealing with Iran, and even abstained from supporting the United States at the Security Council earlier this month. The British Foreign Office, like the European Union and the United Nations, reacted coldly to the news that Israel and the UAE are normalizing relations, insisting thatthe Palestinians must not be ignored, that the chimerical "two-state solution" must be upheld at all costs. Raab met with Pompeo in Jerusalem. While the details of their meeting were not reported, Netanyahu made clear Israel's displeasure at Britain's pro-Iran policies and expressedno interest in Britain's offer to pressure Israel to make unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinians. The Israeli-Sunni Arab bloc is a stabilizing force in the region because it is an organic alliance. It was not the product of superpower rivalry. It was born of common intereststhat are likely to remain in place for the foreseeable future. The existence of this bloc has enabled Washington to rebuild its credibility as a superpower and an ally in the Middle East and advance its Iran policies with or without U.N. Security Council support. If Trump is re-elected in November, this stabilizing bloc whose members stand against both Sunni and Shi'ite jihadists will expand and the circle of formal ties betweenIsrael and the Gulf states will grow. If Trump loses, just as the bloc protected its members against the hostile Obama administration, so it is likely to survive and shield its members from the vagaries of a Biden administration. Trump's Abraham Accords Brings True Sons of Ishmael to Temple Mount as Prophesied in Zohar - Adam Berkowitz - https://www.israel365news.com/157777/how-uae-peace-deal-brings-temple-mount-prophecy-life/ "As for the son of the slave-woman, I will make a nation of him, too, for heis your seed." Genesis 21:13 (The Israel BibleTM) The agreement to normalize relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has raised the unprecedented possibility that in the near future, large numbers of Muslimpilgrims will be coming to pray on the Temple Mount. Ironically, the Israeli government is welcoming them with open arms but the Palestinian religious leadership has already issued a Fatwa (religious ruling) banning Muslims from countries that have signedagreements with Israel from entering the silver-domed al-Aqsa Mosque. Though essentially an agreement concerning political and economic considerations, the agreement relates directly to the Temple Mount. "As set forth in the Vision for Peace, all Muslims who come in peace may visitand pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque, and Jerusalem's other holy sites should remain open for peaceful worshippers of all faiths," the agreement states. This is also true of Trump's "deal of the century" peace plan concerning relations between the Palestinians and Israel. "People of every faith should be permitted to pray on the Temple Mount/Haramal-Sharif, in a manner that is fully respectful to their religion, taking into account the times of each religion's prayers and holidays, as well as other religious factors," the Peace to Prosperity plan states. Despite these proclamations, the Palestinian insistence on maintaining a hostile exclusivity at the site is the main obstacle to bringing about the Temple Mount's prophesiedrole as a house of prayer for all nations. In a direct and immediate response to the UAE agreement, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, issued a Fatwa declaring that Muslim citizens of the UAE will not be permitted to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque. Dubbed the Abraham Accords, the UAE agreement has Biblical roots as well as end-of-days implications. Rabbi Nachman Kahana noted that this agreement would bring the Bnei Yishmael (the sons of Ishmael) to Israel, perhaps for the first time. "The Palestinians are not the real Bnei Yishmael, Rabbi Kahana said. "The Palestiniansare the result of all the nations that passed through the Fertile Crescent. With the Bedouins of this region and the true Arabs of the Persian Gulf, there is no mixing of blood. They were separate from the Persian and the Greeks." Rabbi Kahana noted that the arrival of the true Bnei Yishmael to the Temple Mount may be a part of the tshuva (repentance process) of Yishmael, citing a verse in Genesis. His sons Yitzchak and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre Genesis 25:9 "In this verse, Ishmael should have come first since he is older," Rabbi Kahananoted, citing the medieval commentator Rashi who interpreted the incongruity in the verse to mean that Ishmael repented in his later years. "Ishmael realized the spiritual superiority of Isaac and displayed this by allowinghim to go first when burying their father," Rabbi Kahana explained. He noted that this is being played out by the true Bnei Yishmael showing respect for the offspring of Jacob." But the arrival of the true Bnei Yishmael to the Temple Mount has end-of-days implications. The Zohar Hadash (Balak 68b) describes a process that will begin in the 274thyear of the sixth millennium. This works out to be the year 5774 in the Hebrew calendar which began in September 2013. The Zohar predicts that the "Sons of Ishmael" will make war against the Messiah, and will "come and bow down before God at the holy mountainin Jerusalem". The text specifically uses the name of the God of the Jews, and not a generic term or the expression used for non-Jewish worship. This prediction of the Zohar predicts that the Arabs will worship the Jewish God on the Temple Mount and, in fact,that does seem to be what is happening. The Zohar goes on to say that Edom will rule Israel for 12 months. At the end of 12 months, the world will shake, and during that time, the Shechina (heavenly presence)will return to dwell in the cave of Moses. The Messiah will hide for 9 months - similar to the period of pregnancy - and then the people in Israel will hear a sound like the blowing of a shofar. In fact, the Temple Mount was largely ignored by the Arabs until Israel conquered it in 1967. During the First Crusade, Islam was uninterested in the Dome of the Rock andit was turned into a church while al-Aqsa, with its lead dome, was a modest mosque. In the early 20th century, the attention of the Muslim world was much more focused on the silver dome of al Aqsa than on the Dome of the Rock, which was not covered with golduntil 1993, after the Jews began ascending to the Temple Mount. It appears that the Arabs become intensely interested in the site only when the Jews, and their God, are present. This same prophecy is repeated in other sources, adding that the "Sons of Ishmael" will make war against the Messiah, and will "come and bow down before God at the holymountain in Jerusalem". "But this repentance of Ishmael didn't last," Rabbi Kahana warned. "After Isaacdied, Ishmael married off his daughter Mahalath to the son of Esav, the enemy of Yisrael. Ishmael's hatred was rekindled." The rabbi noted that Ishmael's repentance is being played out today and may have the same tragic ending. "The UAE recognizes the spiritual benefits of relations with Israel," RabbiKahana said. "This is the form of repentance that Ishmael did but it didn't have lasting results. In the end, the elements of Ishmael that hate the Children of Israel will unite with Esau. The Arab nations will unite with the evil elements of Esau that aredispersed across Europe and the US in order to attack Israel." VISIT: PROPHECY WATCHER WEEKLY NEWS: HTTP://PROPHECY-WATCHER-WEEKLY-NEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM