Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert became the first Israeli Prime Minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of violence 7 years ago, meeting for three hours with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said that the Palestinians hoped the two leaders would set up the outlines for a final peace deal to be presented to the United States sponsored Middle East Peace Conference upcoming later this year.
The four core issues between the Israelis and the Palestinians for a future peace deal are the final borders of a Palestinian state, the division of Jerusalem, the removal of all Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News
The leaders of Israel and the Palestinians meeting in Jericho to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state is a pre-cursor to the end times scenario for these two peoples that can be found in Bible prophecy.
Prime Minister Ehoud Olmert meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state and holding that meeting in Jericho is a major development in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The fact that this meeting took place in Jericho the first city that God gave to the Jews as they entered the Promised Land 3,500 years ago is ironic in that it is the sight where the Jews are now talking about giving up that God given land.
Bible prophecy speaks of the Palestinians, the Edomites, descendants of Esau of Biblical times, and reveals that in the last days they would come to take the land of the Jewish people, God given land, Ezekiel 35:10-14.
Malachi 1 reveals that when the Edomites, the Palestinians of today, when they set their borders, God will call their borders the borders of wickedness and He will tell them He has indignation against them forever.
The meeting in Jericho between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is indeed setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled.
