MOUNT
ZION COVETED BY ROME
by
Barry Chamish
18
Dec 2005
Just
a few weeks ago, the following was the issue of
the day in Israel:
http://www.isfsp.org/zion-docs.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=91526
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C13509-1823149%2C00html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/642171.html
Report:
Israel to hand control of Jerusalem holy site
to Vatican
Haaretz November 6, 2005
By Amiram Barkat
Israel is to give the Vatican control over one of
the
most sacred Christian sites in Jerusalem, several
European newspapers have reported recently.
According
to the reports, Israel will give the Holy See
possession of the Coenaculum, or the Room of the
Last
Supper (also known as the Upper Room or the
Cenacle),
on Mount Zion.
In
response to the news, I wrote an article which
proved the handover of the Old City of Jerusalem
was a done deal. In fact, it was one of the
secret clauses of the first Oslo
"peace" accord signed by the Israeli
government.
A week after, I received a phone call from a
rabbi of the Diaspora Yeshiva. He explained that
the Tourism Minister was visiting their school
the next day and he was trying to fill the study
hall to prove to the government that their
yeshiva was too valuable to be given away.
I replied that I would not partake in such a
spectacle. I might come if the students forcibly
barred the Minister or any government official
from entering the property. Hadn't he learned
anything from Gush Katif? The government of
Israel couldn't care less about him and could
care even less how many students he can pack
into a room. Mount Zion was a litmus test of how
much opposition the government and its corrupted
army could expect when all of the Old City was
turned over to the Vatican.
He said I must talk to the headmaster of the
Yeshiva, Rabbi Goldstein.
An hour later, I was honored by a call from
Rabbi Goldstein. Soon, however, I was in
despair. As far as he knew, the Vatican wanted
to turn his school into a money making tourist
site and the Ministry of Tourism was being
enticed by the prospects of millions of Catholic
tourists visiting Israel to see the Last Supper
room.
I did my best to wake the Rabbi. I told him that
tourism was the facade, not the issue. I tried
to explain the global forces using their muscle
to get the Jews out of Jerusalem's holy sites. I
noted that the government of Israel was the
worst enemy of Judaism and that he must block
the entrance of their representative with
whatever force he could muster.
However, as with the Rabbis of Gush Katif, my
words were wasted. Mount Zion will give up
without a real fight. You watch.
Nonetheless, the truth marches on. A brilliant
Jerusalem-based German-born historian, Dr. Asher
Edar, also honored me with a conversation. Vive
le difference:
BC
- Why is the Vatican suddenly so interested in
getting its hands on Mount Zion real estate?
AE
- There's nothing sudden about it at all. In
fact, the roots of the desire go back 1200 years
to the time of Charlemagne. He was the Vatican's
military tool for converting Europe to Roman
Catholicism.
He succeed magnificently and created what is
known as the Holy Roman Empire but what was then
called The Holy Roman Empire Of The German
Nation. Charlemagne's capital was at Aachen and
there he built his first cathedral.
BC
- Excuse me but, so?
AE
- Next to the yeshiva on Mount Zion is the
Dormition Abbey, built by the Germans starting
in 1906. It is an exact duplicate of
Charlemagne's Aachen Cathedral.
BC
- How did that happen?
AE
- Kaiser Wilhelm II came to Jerusalem in 1898 to
build two churches, a modest Lutheran Church of
minor religious significance and a magnificent
Catholic structure on Mount Zion. In 1898, the
ruler of a nation didn't make such a difficult
journey to a diplomatic backwater unless it was
extremely important. The Vatican was worried
that the British had an operating church in
Jerusalem and its presence could solidify and
spread. The Vatican provided much of the funds
for the trip and the bribe to the Turkish
Sultan, Khamid. Since Wilhelm had a Protestant
population to appease, he put up a smaller
Lutheran church as well, but the real prize was
Mount Zion.
BC
- Why all the money and trouble if the Vatican
gets the real estate? What was in it for
Germany?
AE
- Germany has never given up its dream of
reviving the Holy Roman Empire. At the height of
that empire, their greatest king, Frederick the
Great, marched into Jerusalem and became the
city's king. Jerusalem was once part of the Holy
Roman Empire and the dream is that it will be
again. In this empire, the delineation of powers
was strict. The pope was the spiritual leader,
but the political leader was whoever ruled
Germany. This dream led straight to World War I.
BC
- Where do the Jews fit in all this?
AE
- Nowhere. Herzl tried to get a role for the
Jews and met with Wilhelm in Jerusalem. Wilhelm
would have nothing to do with him. His goal was
to save Jerusalem for a Christendom led
politically by Germany and spiritually by Rome.
Nothing has changed except now the pope is a
determined German. The Vatican want the Jews out
of the Old City and apparently our government is
agreeing with them.
Now
a history lesson with little comment:
LINK
Encyclopedia-Frederick
II, Holy Roman emperor and German king
King of Jerusalem
Having married (1225) Yolande, daughter of
John of Brienne, he claimed the crown of
Jerusalem, but again postponed his departure on
crusade. He further offended the pope by
reasserting at the Diet of Cremona (1226) the
imperial claim to Lombardy. The Lombard League
was immediately revived, but open conflict did
not break out until 1236. On the insistent
demand of the new pope, Gregory IX, Frederick
embarked on a crusade (Sept., 1227), but fell
ill, turned back, and was excommunicated.
In 1228 he finally embarked. His -crusade,-
actually a state visit, was a diplomatic
victory. At Jaffa he made a treaty by which
Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem were
surrendered to the Christians, with the Mosque
of Omar being left to the Muslims. In 1229 he
crowned himself king at Jerusalem.
LINK
In 1226, by means of the Golden Bull of
Rimini he confirmed the legitimacy of rule by
the Teutonic Knights under their headmaster
Hermann von Salza over the Prussian lands east
of the Vistula, the Chelmno Land.
At the time he was crowned Emperor, Frederick
had promised to go on crusade. In preparation
for his crusade, Frederick had, in 1225, married
Yolande of Jerusalem, heiress to the Kingdom of
Jerusalem, and immediately taken steps to take
control of the Kingdom from his new
father-in-law, John of Brienne. However, he
continued to take his time in setting off, and
in 1227, Frederick was excommunicated by Pope
Gregory IX for failing to honor his crusading
pledge - perhaps unfairly, at this point, as his
plans had been delayed by an epidemic. He
eventually embarked on the crusade the following
year (1228), which was seen on by the pope as a
rude provocation, since the church could not
take any part in the honor for the crusade,
resulting in a second excommunication. Frederick
did not attempt to take Jerusalem by force of
arms. Instead, he negotiated restitution of
Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem to the
Kingdom with sultan Al-Kamil, the Ayyubid ruler
of the region.
LINK
THE TEUTONIC ORDER OF HOLY MARY IN JERUSALEM
Some
forty knights were received into the new Order
at its foundation by the King of Jerusalem and
Frederick of Swabia, who selected their first
Master in the name of the Pope and Emperor. The
knights of the new confraternity had to be of
German birth (although this rule was
occasionally relaxed), a unique requirement
among the Crusader Orders founded in the Holy
Land. They were drawn predominately from the
noble or knightly class, although this latter
obligation was not formally incorporated into
the rule until much later. Their blue mantle,
charged with a black cross, was worn over a
white tunic, a uniform recognized by the
Patriarch of Jerusalem and confirmed by the Pope
in 1211. The waves of German knights and
pilgrims who followed the Third Crusade brought
considerable wealth to the new German Hospital
as well as recruits. This enabled the knights to
acquire the Lordship of Joscelin and, soon
thereafter they built the castle of Montfort
(lost in 1271), the rival of the great
hospitaller fortress of Krak des Chevaliers.
Never as numerous in the Holy Land as either the
Hospitaller or Templar Orders, the Teutonic
knights were nonetheless a formidable power.
LINK
THE
EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF
JERUSALEM
© Guy Stair Sainty
The origins of the Order of the Holy
Sepulcher have been disputed for centuries. In
this examination of the history of what is today
a major Catholic Order of Knighthood, under the
direct protection of the Holy See, it has been
my intention to separate fact from fantasy and
outline the historical development of this great
institution. It now has a world-wide mission to
support the Holy Places, particularly in
Jerusalem, and has approximately eighteen
thousand members across the globe.
Two
Christian sources who are certain the goal of the
"peace" process is to establish a
German/Vatican capital in Jerusalem are David
Ben-Ariel, and the Philadelphia Trumpet:
LINK
Looking to Jerusalem
We
have also said that the next pope would have his
sights set on Jerusalem. Ratzinger was known for
statements he made concerning a reconciliation
of sorts with the Jews. That reconciliation
being, the moment in which Israel too will say
yes to Christ.After all, the star points to
Jerusalem, Ratzinger said once. Watch for this
new pope to have a more fervent interest in
Israeli politics and affairs surrounding
Jerusalem.
First
let's understand Aachen Cathedral's history:
LINK
Aachen Aachen in
north-western Germany (in French, called
Aix-la-Chapelle), was the capital of
Charlemagne's empire in the 9th century. It
became the site of one of the great medieval
pilgrimages because of the textile relics
obtained by Charlemagne and Ortho III. The four
Great Relics include the cloak of the Blessed
Virgin, the swaddling clothes of the infant
Jesus, the cloth on which St. John the Baptist's
head lay after his beheading, and the loin cloth
which Jesus wore on the Cross. These four relics
were shown only once every seven years.
LINK
CATHOLIC
COMMUNITIES HAVE UNIQUE LINK WITH ROME AND
JERUSALEM
John Paul II's Letter for 1,200 Years of
Aachen Cathedral
VATICAN CITY, JAN 31 (ZENIT).- John Paul II
referred to the ties that unite the Catholic
community spread over the world with the Church
of Rome and the Holy City of Jerusalem, in a
letter to commemorate 1,200 years since the
construction of Aachen Cathedral, an event which
was celebrated last Saturday and Sunday in this
historic German locality.
The Pope's special envoy to the celebration was
Cardinal Dar?o Castrill?n Hoyos, prefect of the
Congregation for the Clergy. The Holy Father
addressed the letter to Bishop Heinrich
Mussinghoff of Aachen. John Paul II pointed out
that the Cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin, was
built at the request of Charlemagne. That same
year, 800, the emporer was crowned in Rome by
Pope Leo III in the Vatican Basilica. This
historical event reflects the closeness that
existed between that local Church and the
diocese of Rome.
But Aachen Cathedral has yet "another
link" that carries it "with heart and
mind" to the Holy City. These are 4
precious relics that Jerusalem gave to
Charlemagne and that recall "with profound
reverence events in the history of
salvation." The 4 relics are fragments of
the newborn Jesus' diapers, the cloth Jesus wore
around his waist on the cross, the dress Mary
wore on Christmas Eve, and the cloth of John the
Baptist's beheading.
Now,
we have a look at Aachen Cathedral:
LINK
Next,
we look at the Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion:
LINK
Surprise!
It's an exact copy of the first church built by
Charlemagne, founder of the Holy Roman Empire.
Conflicting
Agendas!
Mount
Zion and Dormition Abbey, JerusalemMount Zion
lies to the south of today's city walls. Coming
out of Zion Gate you are faced with the
Benedictine Basilica of the Dormition. The
Dormition Abbey is a massive structure that
rises on Mount Zion, just outside the Zion Gate,
and resembles a mighty fortress; it is topped by
a high, domed belltower, a conical dome and
corner towers. This Benedictine Basilica, built
over the site where Virgin Mary is said to have
fallen asleep for the last time (Dormitio - from
here one of the apocryphal writings describing
this event). It was completed by Kaiser Wilhelm
II at the beginning of 20th century based on
plans by Heinrich Renard who used as a model the
Carolingian cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/jvc/TVCcenac.html
The Room of the Last Supper lies just outside
the Dormition Abbey behind the Franciscan house
on Sion. The whole area has been transformed by
religious Jews into various Yeshivas (Schools of
the Torah) especially due to the devotion for
the Tomb of King David which is believed to be
located beneath the Upper Room. Germany Rejects
The Jews Not For The Last Time
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/100/act/14zion.html
When Herzl met the Duke of Baden, the
Kaiser's uncle, he tried to persuade him of the
importance of a meeting with Kaiser Wilhelm for
the Zionist cause. After more than one and a
half years of fruitless contacts with
influential German figures, Herzl was called to
the German consul during a stay in Amsterdam and
informed that the German Kaiser was prepared to
meet him on his journey to Jerusalem.
Kaiser Wilhelm II's first stop on his journey to
the land of Israel was at Kushta. In October
1898, Herzl traveled to Kushta, where he met
with the Kaiser for the first time and received
a promise of a subsequent meeting in Jerusalem.
Herzl and his companions went up to Jerusalem in
an optimistic frame of mind to wait the second
meeting, which took place on November 2. His
frosty reception by the Kaiser and the lack of
protocol led Herzl to realize that the German
monarch had withdrawn his initial offer of
support for Jewish settlement in the land of
Israel.
For
the rejection of Herzl and the race against
Britain for Jerusalem real estate, Turkey and
Germany paid a heavy price. In 1910, the
Dormition Abbey was completed. Within a decade,
Germany and Turkey were defeated in all out war,
and Britain was in Jerusalem alongside Herzl's
Jews.
Then
came the Holocaust.
end
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