{"id":1483,"date":"2019-12-28T21:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2019-12-30T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T20:51:00","slug":"israel-bought-this-land-for-3-5-million-in-oranges-russia-wants-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1483","title":{"rendered":"ISRAEL BOUGHT THIS LAND FOR $3.5 MILLION IN ORANGES, RUSSIA WANTS IT BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1483\" class=\"elementor elementor-1483\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6ab94af5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6ab94af5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2610acc7\" data-id=\"2610acc7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b6ff196 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"7b6ff196\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<div><strong>Moving Towards Ezekiel 38-39<\/div>\n<div><blockquote><H3>\"After many days thou shalt be visited: in the\n\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> latter  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STONG\u2019S NUMBER 319: <\/font>akh-ar-eeth\u00b4; from 310; the last or end, hence, the future; also posterity:\u2014(last, latter) end (time), hinder (utter) -most, length, posterity, remnant, residue, reward.<\/span><\/div> years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.\" \nThou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.\nThus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an\n\n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> evil  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STONG\u2019S NUMBER 7451: <\/font>ra\u02bf, rah; from 7489; bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)<\/span><\/div> \n<div class=\"tooltip\"href=\"#\"style=\"color:blue;\"> thought  <span class=\"tooltiptext\"<span style=\"text-decoration:\"><font color=\"#F1563A\">STONG\u2019S NUMBER 4284: <\/font>machashabah, makh-ash-aw-baw\u00b4; from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice):\u2014cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.<\/span><\/div>:\nAnd thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,\"\n\n<span> \u2014 Ezekiel 38:8-11<\/h3><\/strong><\/blockquote><\/div>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5dc5c4f6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5dc5c4f6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2708bda9\" data-id=\"2708bda9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1410f6e9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1410f6e9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-58fe2167\" data-id=\"58fe2167\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-647b0b1b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"647b0b1b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p><strong>Article Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Israel-bought-this-land-for-35-million-in-oranges-Russia-wants-it-back-612392\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\">Jerusalem Post<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Moscow has increased pressure on Israel to give it more of the Russian Compound in Jerusalem ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s visit to Israel next month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed willingness to sell the Elizabeth Courtyard, where an Israel Police detention center now stands, former Russian prime minister Sergei Stepashin said last week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended by Stepashin\u00a0is the current chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS), which built the Russian Compound, where the courtyard stands, in Jerusalem in the 19th century. Putin \u201cis very interested in this issue. Even more so, he is a believer, an [Russian] Orthodox and visits the Holy Land with pleasure,\u201d Stepashin said, adding that Russia is working on getting the lands back. The remarks by the Russian official thought to be close with Putin, come at a tense time in Israel-Russia relations: The deconfliction system in Syria is going less smoothly than it has in previous years; Israeli-American\u00a0Naama Yissachar\u00a0was sentenced in a Moscow court to 7.5 years in prison for allegedly having less than 10 grams of cannabis in her luggage and Netanyahu asking Putin to pardon her, and several incidents of dozens of Israelis were detained in Russian airports. Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze\u2019ev Elkin, who sometimes serves as Netanyahu\u2019s translator in meetings with Putin, would not comment on Stepashin\u2019s specific comments but said that there have been inquiries by the Russian government in the past, and there have not been any breakthroughs. In 2008, then-prime minister\u00a0Ehud Olmert\u00a0agreed to give Russia Sergei\u2019s Courtyard, another part of the Russian Compound that abuts the Elizabeth Courtyard, but Moscow seeks more of the surrounding area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entire Russian Compound was constructed by the IOPS between 1860 and 1864 for Russian pilgrims to Jerusalem, but the Ottoman Empire confiscated it during World War I. It subsequently became part of the British Mandate, and then belonged to Israel after independence in 1948. Israel bought the lot for $3.5 million worth of Jaffa oranges in 1964, but the IOPS continued operations on the lot, serving as a front for KGB agents. It was fully taken over by Israel after 1967 when the Soviet Union cut diplomatic ties with Israel. Stepashin said in an interview with Russian news site Izvestia that he \u201cwitnessed a conversation,\u201d prior to 2013 in which Netanyahu said: \u201cI am not opposed to withdrawing from the prison, but due to the fact that this is Israel\u2019s property\u2026 you will compensate us financially, and then we will take the prison out of there and give the building to you\u2026 You have many rich Jews\u201d in Russia. Stepashin echoed longstanding Russian arguments that USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev\u2019s sale of the land to Israel was not legitimate, saying that, \u201cthanks to Khrushchev, a week before his resignation, he transferred all of this almost for free to the Israeli state.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire Russian Compound of the Elizabeth Courtyard was constructed by the IOPS between 1860 and 1864 for Russian pilgrims to Jerusalem, but the Ottoman Empire confiscated it during World War I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-toward-ezekiel-38-39","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}