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http://www.endtime.com

Also:

http://www.prophecyupdate.com/prophecy_news.htm

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TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Jerusalem touted as world's capital
Israel's Peres wants shrines under stewardship of U.N., Annan as mayor

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Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres, a former Israeli prime
minister, is proposing Jerusalem be declared the capital of the world
as a way of getting around competing Israeli and Arab claims to the
city.

According to his spokesman, Yoram Dori, the dovish leader of Israel's
opposition Labor Party suggested putting the important religious
shrines in Jerusalem under United Nations stewardship. He said the
holy sites in Jerusalem's walled Old City could be declared a "world
capital."

The Maariv daily said Peres raised the idea Monday with visiting
Russian officials.

The "world capital" idea appeared to be largely symbolic. According to
Maariv, Peres proposed that the U.N. secretary-general be declared
mayor, in which capacity he would appoint Jewish and Arab deputy
mayors to administer the two sides' intertwined neighborhoods. Kofi
Annan is the current secretary-general of the U.N.

The United Nations has in the past taken a position on Jerusalem, one
of the most intractable issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
Under a 1947 General Assembly resolution partitioning British
mandatory Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, the city was to be
internationalized, belonging to neither side.

During the 1948-49 war that followed Israel's creation, Israel seized
the western part of the city and Jordan the eastern side, including
the walled Old City with its Christian, Jewish and Muslim holy sites.
In the 1967 Mideast war, Israel recaptured east Jerusalem ? along with
the West Bank and Gaza.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's predecessor, Ehud Barak, offered the
Palestinians limited sovereignty in Arab parts of Jerusalem and in
most of the Old City ? but the plan was rejected by Yasser Arafat, who
launched an uprising that has claimed the lives of hundreds of Arabs
and Jews. Barak lost a bid for re-election to Sharon.

Among the ideas reportedly considered during those talks were divine
sovereignty or no sovereignty over the chief point of contention in
the city ? a holy site known by Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims
as Haram as-Sharif, where the Al Aqsa Mosque was built on the site of
the biblical Jewish Temples.

Peres' 1996 election loss to Benjamin Netanyahu is partly attributed
to Netanyahu's politically effective charge that Peres would divide
Jerusalem. Peres was chosen to reassume the leadership of the
opposition Labor Party after it again lost elections earlier this
year.

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I expect good old Dreamwalker to be an expert on all of this ;)
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