Israeli lawmakers killed any notion of peace last night with the Palestinians by passing a bill in the Knesset that will make it nearly impossible to divide the city of Jerusalem in future peace negotiations.
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TIMES OF ISRAEL – Lawmakers approved a bill in the early hours Tuesday that requires a special two-thirds majority vote in the Knesset to relinquish any part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians under a future peace accord.
The bill passed its second and third readings by a majority of 64 in favor, 51 against, and one abstention.
The law, which was proposed by Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli and had the coalition’s backing, is designed to make it much harder to divide the city, which Israel claims as its undivided capital. The Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.
The legislation, an amendment to the Basic Law on Jerusalem, requires 80 of the 120 MKs to support relinquishing any part of the city.
Before, the Jerusalem Law, passed in 1980 and amended in 2000, stated: “No authority that is stipulated in the law of the State of Israel or of the Jerusalem Municipality may be transferred either permanently or for an allotted period of time to a foreign body, whether political, governmental or to any other similar type of foreign body.”
With no provision in the Basic Law specifying how it can be amended, it was possible to overturn it with a simple majority.
The bill was originally proposed in the summer but did not make it through the procedural before the fall recess.
“The goal of the bill is to prevent concessions as part of diplomatic deals,” said Moalem-Refaeli at the time. “Jerusalem will never be on the negotiating table.
“The State of Israel will not allow for the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem. Get it into your heads that Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish people and will remain the capital of the Jewish people for all eternity,” she said.
This is huge news and it comes on the heels of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which has already spawned violent protests temper tantrums around the Middle East.
The Middle East has really been primed for a long time on the issue of Jerusalem, but recent events have certainly accelerated that process as we now we see Erdogan using the ‘Jerusalem’ crisis to galvanize the hearts and minds of people in order to become Caliph over the neo-Ottoman Empire he’s reviving.
Given this vote and the fact that the rightwing pro-Jerusalem lawmakers don’t seem to be going anywhere in the Knesset, it’s easy to see how this could lead to the invasion of Jerusalem written about in Ezekiel 38 and 39. If the Palestinians can’t have East Jerusalem in peace negotiations, then the only way to get East Jerusalem is with a really big Muslim army.
So, buckle your seatbelts because it appears that the Day of the Lord draws near.