Awesome. I'm super psyched that two of the Jesus Tourist Destinations are within 1.5 hours of my town!

Sorry, I can't help myself. RE: "Wish palestinians out of existence"

It seems to me there are a lot more Palestinians who say there's no Israel than Israelis/Jews who say there is no Palestine.

When the Prime Minister of Israel says repeatedly he's open to a Palestinian state (Ehud Olmert confirmed that Israel’s strategy remained the same. “It upholds the view of establishing a Palestinian state, which lives in peace and security with Israel,") and the Prime Minister of Palestine still won't recognize Israel's right to exist ("We will never recognize the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihadlike movement until the liberation of Jerusalem'', it ain't the Jews who have a mental block.

Read the article Zak, not just the title.

Zak, the Israeli Jews do have a mental block. They condemn others for doing the same thing they do to others.

Do read the article:

"The fact is, that you are free to say almost anywhere else that there are no Palestinians, that the whole idea is a fabrication, a myth, that they don't exist because the name is Roman is origin, that they don't exist because Palestine was never a country, that they don't exist because they share language, culture and diet with other Arabs, that they don't exist because it was they themselves who decided, on their own, that they do."

Palestine is the English way of saying Filastin, a former province of the Ottoman Empire. It is shown in old maps.

Unlike Biblical Israel.

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The Arab palestinians do not have to recognse Israel's legitimacy based on occupation of Arab lands that Israel promised to return.

Israel also lack loegitimacy because Israel went back on its word to accept the UN 1947 partition plan for 2 viable states, which includes the right to return of the Palestinian refugees to the lands designated for the Arab state, which is occupied and resettled by the Jews in Israel, which also violated the Geneva Convention, which Israel also signed in 1949.

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Btw, Jimmy Carter is very clear that it is Israel that rejected the Roadmap for Peace and the Oslo Accords of 2000 by

1] refusing to stop building Jewish settlements before, during and after negotiations with the Palestinians

Sharon rejects land for peace approach, says aide

Chris McGreal in Jerusalem Wednesday November 23, 2005 The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1648629,00.html

2] Wanting Arafat to give israel control over the West Bank, Gaza Strip and recognise Isreal's globally condemned annexation of East Jerusalem.

"According to President Clinton and most of the media, Prime Minister Ehud Barak conceded at Camp David virtually everything the Palestinians wanted, and Yasser Arafat threw away the opportunity for peace by rejecting Barak's offer. In fact Arafat could not accept it. Barak, backed by Clinton, wanted assurance of Israel's continued strategic control over the West Bank and Gaza, including air space and borders, and insisted that Israel retain permanent sovereignty over most of East Jerusalem, including Haram Al-Sharif. This was a deal no Arab would accept.

Rachelle Marshall, "The Peace Process Ends in Protests and Blood", Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, December 2000.

3] Refusing to deal with Arafat directly and insisting in a new Palestinian leader, which is intervening in palestinian internal affairs.

As for what Ohmat says, he will be more credible when he stops attacking and bombing Arab countries and occupying Arab countries.

Until then, it's just talk.

For example, Ohmart said Israel would withdraw from israel from this year.

He and Israel then went back on their word.

TYPO:

For example, Ohmart said Israel would withdraw from the West Bank from this year.

He and Israel then went back on their word.

Read for yourself and jusge whether the present Israeli's PM's words mean anything.

Israel Shelves Plan to Pull Out of Settlements in West Bank. By Doug Struck. The Washington Post Wednesday 23 August 2006

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082306D.shtml

Jerusalem - The Israeli government's plan to dismantle some Jewish settlements in the West Bank and redraw the country's borders is being shelved at least temporarily, a casualty of the war in Lebanon, government officials said.

The plan, which propelled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to victory in March elections and was warmly endorsed by President Bush as a way of solving Israel's conflict with the Palestinians, is no longer a top priority, Olmert told his ministers last weekend, according to one of his advisers...

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Over U.S. Objections, Israel Approves West Bank Homes By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: September 5, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/world/middleeast/05mideast.html?ref=middleeast

JERUSALEM, Sept. 4 — The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, authorized construction bids on Monday for another 690 homes in the occupied West Bank in the face of pro forma American criticism.

The houses will be built in Maale Adumim and Betar Illit, two settlements near Jerusalem that the Israeli government says it intends to keep in any agreement with the Palestinians....