David Ben Gurion, the Prime Minister of Israel, in presenting the policies of his Government to the Parliament stated: “The Government … will strive for permanent peace with the neighboring countries, in cooperation with them in the development of the Middle East.”
Israel Offers Peace Israel’s representative told the U.N. General Assembly” “We frankly fear lest the main trend of Arab policy is directed toward the resumption at some suitable stage in the future of the war of aggression against Israel halted in 1948. We cannot avoid the apprehension lest arms now to be supplied to the […]
October 2, 1955 Islam Says No to Jewish Homeland and State of Israel Egypt Receives Russian and Czech Military Aid CAIRO: Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, attacking Western “deceit,” said today that Egypt was forced to go to the Communists for arms to protect itself from Israel. Col. Nasser charged that the British, French and American […]
October 12, 1955 Islam Says No to Jewish Homeland and State of Israel President Gamille Chamoun of Lebanon: “The Egyptian revolution was the beginning of the end of Israel. My belief is that Israel will not be eliminated except by military states that are prepared to destroy her. Egypt today is a military state of […]
October 29, 1956 Islam Says No to Jewish Homeland and State of Israel Egypt Israel struck out to destroy the Fedayeen bases. Documents and equipment found in Sinai corroborated Israel’s fears that a large-scale invasion of Israel was planned. The target date for the all-out attack was March 1957, captured documents revealed, while preparations for […]
October 12, 1039 Temple Mount On Hosha ‘na rabba, or the eight day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jews gathered on the Mount of Olives. Solomon ben Judah wrote “from the morrow after Hosha ‘na rabba or the light day of the Feast of Tabernacles” Source: A History of Palestine (p. 705). Moshe Gil. 1992.
October 12, 1039 On Hosha ‘na rabba, or the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles (i.e. Sukkot), Jews gathered on the Mount of Olives. Solomon ben Judah wrote “from the morrow after Hosha ‘na rabba or the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles” Source: A History of Palestine (p. 705). Moshe Gil. 1992.
The Jewish people’s continued attachment to the Temple Mount is exemplified by an event that occurred during the reign of the Byzantine Empress Eudocia. When she went on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 438, she was greeted warmly by Jews everywhere, probably as a result of her policy of supporting non-Christians. When the […]
Letters written by Simon Bar Kokhba, leader of the Jewish revolt against the Romans, were found in a cave near the Dead Sea in 1960. “Send wooden beams (lulavs) and citrons (Etrogs) for the celebration of Sukkot.” Request by Bar Kokhba for the “four kinds” required for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles: “Shimeon to Yehudah […]
Quaestiones Convivales, IV, 4:4 – 6:2, pp. 669 C – 672 B (6:2) At this, all did urge him (i.e. Moeragenes) and beg him to go on. “First”, he said, “the time and character of the greatest, most sacred holiday of the Jews clearly befit Dionysus. When they celebrate their so-called Fast (i.e. Yom Kippur), […]