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Former Biden diplomat says there’s ‘no question’ that ‘free Palestine’ slogan has become a call for violence

never was owned by the Ottoman Empire.

If it was ever, even for a second, owned by Islam's "god", he didn't have the power of keep it.

So long as we are discussing the issue framed in accordance with Islamic Sharia law then we can't have a conversation about Israel as a SECULAR state.

And no, I will not frame any of my arguments to acknowledge a lie...
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The Eastern Contribution to the Universal Church

If Pope Leo put together a deal to annul the last 14 ecumenical councils, would you expect the Catholic laity to accept it?
Since the Eastern Orthodox church is largely synodal the change would be saying the councils apply to the Western Patriarchate and not to the church Universal. So yes, I believe the laity would accept it on those grounds.
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What is Christ's rest?

Brother, unless you understand the following message, the message will not be able to accomplish in you what God intended His word to accomplish in you, resulting in your “destruction.”

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.” So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. GOD ANNOUNCED THIS THROUGH DAVID MUCH LATER in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” Now IF JOSHUA HAD SUCCEEDED IN GIVING THEM THIS REST, GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT ANOTHER DAY of rest still to come. So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. (Hebrews 4:1-11 NLT)​

Twisting the above message out of context will result in your "destruction."

And remember, our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved. This is what our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom God gave him— speaking of these things in all of his letters. Some of his comments are hard to understand, and those who are ignorant and unstable have twisted his letters to mean something quite different, just as they do with other parts of Scripture. And this will result in their destruction. You already know these things, dear friends. So be on guard; then you will not be carried away by the errors of these lawless (athesmos) people and lose your own secure footing. Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen. (2 Peter 3:15-18 NLT fixed)​

The heavy disciplinary hand of God is in the importance God gives to understanding the following message.

God’s promise of entering his rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God. For only we who believe can enter his rest. As for the others, God said, “In my anger I took an oath: ‘They will never enter my place of rest,’” even though this rest has been ready since he made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.” But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.” So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering his rest, and that time is today. GOD ANNOUNCED THIS THROUGH DAVID MUCH LATER in the words already quoted: “Today when you hear his voice, don’t harden your hearts.” Now IF JOSHUA HAD SUCCEEDED IN GIVING THEM THIS REST, GOD WOULD NOT HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT ANOTHER DAY of rest still to come. So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. (Hebrews 4:1-11 NLT)​

United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
Hello, brother! The time stamp on your message for me says 3:00 in the morning. What time was it when you were typing this? :D

Anyways, it looks like we're using the word Discipline differently.

I see it as similar to this
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

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For day and night your hand was heavy on me.
My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

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I acknowledged my sin to you.
I didn’t hide my iniquity.
I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Tying it in with the OP, we can't experience the rest that Jesus gives, the rest for our souls, while we hide sin in our hearts
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The Eastern Contribution to the Universal Church

In Orthodox theology, the Church is protected against falling in to error, not any one, or even group of bishops. The Church is the body of Christ and it is an impossibility for Christ to be in error. It is incumbent on all its members to hold fast to the traditions handed down, not just its bishops or even one particular bishop. We have suffered many heretical bishops in the past and will suffer more in the future, but the Church will prevail.
I am well aware of what the EO church claims, but thank you for taking the time to write it out.
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Former Biden diplomat says there’s ‘no question’ that ‘free Palestine’ slogan has become a call for violence

It was land owned by the Ottoman Empire.
It was land owned by an endowment fund, not the Ottoman Empire.
It is now not land owned by the Ottoman Empire.
It never was owned by the Ottoman Empire. The Empire owned much of the land in Palestine, but not all of it. Some of it was owned by a non-governmental endowment fund.
The Ottomans administrated according to Islamic law. When they ceded control of the territory they also ceded the Islamic law administration for the land, because the land stopped being in the control of Islamic law.
Do you have a source for this inciteful legal opinion?
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Former Biden diplomat says there’s ‘no question’ that ‘free Palestine’ slogan has become a call for violence

Why would that give them title to land not owned by the Ottoman government?

It was land owned by the Ottoman Empire.

It is now not land owned by the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottomans administrated according to Islamic law. When they ceded control of the territory they also ceded the Islamic law administration for the land, because the land stopped being in the control of Islamic law.

Trying to force secular people to submit to Islamic law and Islamic administration is more than a little ridiculous.
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There will be yet another big bang

Now they are theorizing a Big Bounce in the idea that the Universe's rapid expansion was a reaction to a period of rapid contraction. In that they are now theorizing a Big Bounce shows activity before the Big Bang. My theory is that the mass was never inactive. But transitioning between mass and plasma all along.
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Former Biden diplomat says there’s ‘no question’ that ‘free Palestine’ slogan has become a call for violence

Yes, according to GOD Palestine is not an Islamic Waqf.
There is certainly no evidence that either side has a divine right to anything. But what happened to the actual waqf?
They won zero of the wars they decided to wage. That's God not man.
Winning a war proves that you have God on your side? Where is that in the Gospels?
"The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord" Proverbs 16:33
Good.
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Former Biden diplomat says there’s ‘no question’ that ‘free Palestine’ slogan has become a call for violence

To highlight - The Ottoman Empire ceded control via the Treaty of Lausanne (1923), legally establishing the British Mandate (1922). Israel’s land policies were secular and lawful, not theft.
Why would that give them title to land not owned by the Ottoman government?
Comparing Israel as a result to “stolen church funds” (#118) misframes the ENTIRE issue - unless you're claiming that Palestine is an Islamic Waqf by the will of God - not just a matter that was explicit to a fallen empire who ceded all control via a legal secular treaty.

IF Palestine were divinely ordained as an Islamic Waqf (overriding Ottoman rule and existening a separate entity beyond that specific empire) then the Arab wars against Israel would have succeeded...

Yet they didn't succeed so there's no Islamic Waqf and Israel no duty to acknowledge one.
I'm not talking about the Palestinian's imaginary "Waqf." I am talking about an actual non-governmental endowment fund which existed before the British conquest. What became of it?
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