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Subject:       GOLAN/NEWS:  HENRY KISSINGER SAYS THAT A DEAL BETWEEN ISRAEL
               AND SYRIA WILL NOT LEAD TO PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST

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"A Song of Ascents; of David.
'If it had not been the Lord who was for us'
Let Israel now say;
'If it had not been the Lord who was for us,
When men rose up against us,
Then they had swallowed us up alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
Then the waters had overwhelmed us,
The stream had gone over our soul;
Then the proud waters
Had gone over our soul'.
Blessed be the Lord,
Who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.
Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth"

[Psalm 124]


BET EL, LIBERATED SAMARIA,  Yom Revii (Fourth Day - "Wednesay"), 5 Shvat, 5760 (January 12, 2000), Root & Branch:


THE BIBLE SAYS (about the Golan):


Numbers 21:33-35 --

"And they turned and went up by the way of BASHAN; and Og the king of BASHAN went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. And the Lord said unto Moses:  'Fear him not; for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon'.  So they smote
him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining, and they possessed the land".

[Numbers 21:33-35]


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Numbers 32:33 --

"And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of BASHAN, the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about".

[Numbers 32:33]


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Deuteronomy 1:3-5 --

"And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them; after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of BASHAN, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei, beyong the Jordan, in the land of Moab, took Moses upon him to expound this Torah, saying..."

[Deuteronomy 1:3-5]


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Deuteronomy 3:1-11 --

"Then we turned, and went up the way to BASHAN; and Og the king of BASHAN came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei.  And the Lord said to me:  'Fear him not; for I have delivered his, and all his people, and his land, into your hand; and you shalt do unto him as you did unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon'.  So the Lord our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of BASHAN, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Arbog, the kingdom of Og in BASHAN.  All these were fortified citieis, with high walls, gates and bars; beside the unwalled towns a great many.  And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, the men, and the women, and the little ones.  But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.  And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of Arnon unto Mount HERMON, which HERMON the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir, all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all BASHAN, unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in BASHAN.  For only Og king of BASHAN remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon?  nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man." 

[Deuteronomy 3:1-11]


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Deuteronomy 4:47-49 --

"and they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of BASHAN, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto Mount Sion -- the same is HERMON -- and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah."

[Deuteronomy 4:47-49]


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Joshua 13:7-14 --

"'Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh'.  With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them; from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of Aroer, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba unto Dibon; and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount HERMON, and all BASHAN unto Salcah; all the kingdom of Og in BASHAN, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei -- the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim -- for these did Moses smite, and drove them out."

[Joshua 13:7-14]


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Joshua 21:27 --

"And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave GOLAN in BASHAN with the open land about it, the city of refuge for the manslayer; and Beeshterah with the open land about it; two cities".

[Joshua 21:27]


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Isaiah 33:7-12

"Behold, their valiant ones cry without.  The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.  The highways are laid waste.  The wayfaring man ceases.  He has broken the covenant.  He has despised the cities.  He regards not man.  The land mourns and languishes.  Lebanon is ashamed, it withers.  Sharon is like a wilderness, and BASHAN and Carmel are clean bare.  Now I will arise, says the Lord.  Now will I be exalted.  Now will I lift myself up.  You conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble.  Your breath is a fire that shall devour you.  And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."

[Isaiah 33:7-12]


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Jeremiah 22:20-23

"Go up to Lebanon, and cry.  And lift up your voice in BASHAN, and cry from Abarim, for all your lovers are destroyed.  I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not hear'. This has been your manner from your youth, that you hearken not to My voice.  The wind shall feed upon all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity, surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.  O inhabitant of Lebanon, you are nestled in the cedars, how gracious shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in travail!"

[Jeremiah 22:20-23]


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Jeremiah 50:17-20

"Israel is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him away.  First the king of Assyria has devoured him, and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.  Therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts, the G-d of Israel:  Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.  And I will bring Israel back to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and BASHAN, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.  In those days, and in that time, says the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. For I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant."

[Jeremiah 50:17-20]


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Ezekiel 39:17-29

"And you, son of man, thus says the Lord G-d:  Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every beast of the field:  Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to My feast that I do prepare for you, even a great feast, upon the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.  The flesh of the mighty shall you eat, and the blood of the princes of the earth shall you drink; rams, lambs, and goats, bullocks, fatlings of BASHAN are they all of them.  And you shall eat fat till you be full, and drink blood till you be drunk, of My feast which I have prepared for you.  And you shall be filled at My table with horses and horsemen, with mighty men, and with all men of war, says the Lord G-d.  And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid upon them.  So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their G-d, from that day and forward.  And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they broke faith with Me, and I hid My face from them, so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.  According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them, and I hid My face from them.

Therefore, thus says the Lord G-d:  Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have compassion on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.  And they shall bear their shame, and all their breach of faith which they have committed against Me, when they shall dwell safely in their land, and none shall make them afraid; when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.  And they shall know that I am the Lord their G-d, in that I caused them to go into captivity among the nations, and have gathered them unto their own land; and I will leave none of them anymore there; neither will I hide My face any more from them; for I have poured out My spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord G-d".

[Ezekiel 39:17-29]


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Amos 4:1-2

"Hear this word, you kine of BASHAN, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords: 'Bring, that we may feast'.  The Lord G-d has sworn by His holiness:  Lo, surely the days shall come upon you, that you shall be taken away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks, and you shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her, and you shall be cast into Harmon, says the Lord".

[Amos 4:1-2]


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Micah 7:14-20

"Tend Your people with Your staff, the flock of Your heritage, that dwell solitarily, as a forest in the midst of the fruitful field.  Let them feed in BASHAN and Gilead, as in the days of old.  As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show to him marvelous things.  The nations shall see and be put to shame for all their might.  They shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.  They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear to the Lord
our G-d, and shall be afraid because of You.  Who is a G-d like You, that pardons the iniquity, and passes by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?  He retains not His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion upon us.  He will subdue our iniquities, and You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.  Thou will show  faithfulness to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as You have sworn to our fathers from the days of old".

[Micah 7:14-20]


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Nahum 1:1-10

"The burden of Nineveh.  The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. The Lord is a jealous and avenging G-d, the Lord avenges and is full of wrath, the Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, and He reserves wrath for His enemies.  The Lord is long-suffering and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty.  The Lord in the whirlwind and in the storm is His way, and the clouds are the dust of His feet.  He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers.  BASHAN languishes and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languishes.  The mountains quake at Him, and the hills melt, and the earth is upheaved at His presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein.  Who can stand before His indignation? And who can abide in the fierceness of His anger?  His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder before Him.  The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows them that take refuge in Him.  But with an overrunning flood He will make a full end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue His enemies.  What do you devise against the Lord?  He will make a full end.  Trouble shall not rise up the second time.  For thought hey be like tangled thorns, and be drunken according to their drink, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry."

[Nahum 1:1-10]


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Psalm 22:10-14 --

"For Thou art He that took me out of the womb; Thou made me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.  Upon You I have been cast from my birth. You are my G-d from my mother's womb.  Be not far from me, for trouble is near.  For there is none to help.  Many bulls have encompassed me, strong bulls of BASHAN have beset me round.  They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion".

[Psalm 22:10-14]


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Psalm 42:7

"O my G-d, my soul is cast down within me; therefore do I remember You from the land of Jordan, and the HERMONS, from the hill of Mizar".

[Psalm 42:7]


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Psalm 68:16-24 --

"A mountain of G-d is the mountain of BASHAN.  A mountain of peaks is the mountain of BASHAN.  Why look you askance, you mountains of peaks, at the mountain which G-d has desired for His abode?  Yes, the Lord will dwell therein forever.  The chariots of G-d are myriads, even thousands upon thousands.  The Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in holiness.  You have ascended on high.  You have led captivity captive.  You have received gifts among men.  Yes, among the rebellious also, that the Lord G-d might dwell there.  Blessed be the Lord, day by day He bears our burden.  Even the G-d who is our salvation.  Selah.  G-d is unto us a G-d of deliverances, and unto G-d the Lord belong the issues of death.  Surely G-d will smite through the head of His enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goes about in is guiltiness.  The Lord said:  'I will bring back from BASHAN, I will brim them back from the depths of the sea; that your foot may wade through blood, that the tongue of your dogs may have its portion from your enemies'".

[Psalm 68:16-24]


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Psalm 89:12-19

"Yours are the heavens, Yours also is the earth; the world and the fullness thereof, You have founded them.  The north and the south, You have created them; Tabor and HERMON rejoice in Your name.  Yours is an arm with might; strong is Your hand, and exalted is Your right hand.  Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne, mercy and truth go before You.
Happy is the people that knows the joyful shout; they walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.  In Your name do they rejoice all the day; and through Your righteousness are they exalted.  For You are the glory of their strength, and in Your favour our horn is exalted.  For of the Lord is our shield, and of the Holy One of Israel is our king"

[Psalm 89:12-19]


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Psalm 133

"A Song of Ascents, of David.  Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!  It is like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard; even Aaron's beard, that comes down upon the collar of his garments, like the dew of HERMON, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion; for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forever".

[Psalm 133]


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Song of Songs 4:8

"Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon.  Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and HERMON, from the lion's dens, from the mountains of the leopards".

[Song of Songs 4:8]


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