Is Obama right that Netanyahu is too ‘strong’ to make peace?

By GILL HOFFMAN, JPOST— In his weekend interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, President Barack Obama offered some political analysis on the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Asked whether he should be more vigorous in pressing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas to reach a land-for-peace deal, Obama…

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Israel Has a Duty to Defend Its Citizens

By MORTIMER ZUCKERMAN, US NEWS— “The fog of war” is a metaphor of choice for war’s blinding physical and moral confusions, its half-truths, lies, ambiguities, distortions and deceptions. They all characterize the perceptions of the war between Israel and Hamas. Israel is a democratic country that wishes to live in peace with its neighbors, but…

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World ignores Christian exodus from Islamic world

By RAYMOND IBRAHIM, GATESTONE— While the world fixates on the conflict between Israel and Hamas—and while most mainstream media demonize Israel for trying to survive amid a sea of Arab-Islamic hostility—similar or worse tragedies continue to go virtually ignored. One of the most ancient Christian communities in the world, that of Iraq—which already had been…

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Israel, Palestinians accept Egypt’s 72-hour truce bid

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ori Lewis, Reuters— Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement agreed on Monday to an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire to end four weeks of fighting in the Gaza Strip, while Jerusalem was rocked by two attacks that appeared to be a backlash to the violence. Egypt’s plan called for a 72-hour-long truce to begin…

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No home for Israel inside the Democratic Party

By GIDON BEN-ZVI, JPOST— It’s official: the Democratic Party has abandoned Israel to its fate. This development has nothing to do with that most ancient of hatreds, anti-Semitism. Rather, in an age when a compelling narrative increasingly trumps a cold, hard history lesson, Israel’s version of the events leading up to Operation Protective Edge, while…

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Terrorist disguised as Israeli soldier lured troops into kidnap trap

BY AARON KLEIN, WND— At least one of the terrorists involved in the reported kidnapping of an Israeli soldier Friday was disguised as an Israeli Defense Forces soldier, according to informed Middle Eastern security officials speaking to WND. The officials said early information indicates a terrorist wearing an IDF uniform approached soldiers working to decommission…

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