Having been to Israel 11 times, lived in Jerusalem and eight kibbutzim, and written innumerable letters to the editor of my local newspaper, The Blade, and various articles in support of a Jewish State, I never imagined that one day I would be deported from it!
As reported on the front page of The Jerusalem Post (Jan. 8, 1996), the GSS sought my deportation on the trumped up charges of my alleged involvement in a plot to blow up the Al-Aksa mosque. As a Christian member of the Temple Mount Faithful, I'd been quite active in their legal demonstrations during my 10 month stay in Jerusalem awaiting citizenship. I've called for the ISRAELI GOVERNMENT to exercise its Jewish responsibility to rebuild the Temple in my book, Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. I wrote that book in the United States before any of this trouble, which explicitly explains that I'm not calling for any individual to remove the mosques, but rather expecting the GOVERNMENT to fulfill its historic obligations.
As my attorney Naftali Warzberger has written, my future is linked with that of the Jews and Israel. Senator Mike DeWine (R. Ohio) inquired on my behalf to return to Zion and was informed that the Ministry of the Interior "has made the decision not to grant the visa and does not offer any information behind their decision." Is it a crime to have an abiding love for Israel? To believe what's written in the Law and the Prophets concerning the Temple and our responsibility to construct it? To mourn that it hasn't been done yet? As the Jerusalem Talmud states: "every generation in which the Temple has not been built is as if the Temple were destroyed in it...". Isn't Israel's state emblem a gold menorah in between two gold olive branches? Must I remain in exile, banished from the Land I love, because my hope, prayer and dream is for Israel to fulfill what that symbol represents: the Temple and Israel's destiny to become a Light to all nations!?
