Video: The history of the Middle East conflict
The history of the Middle East in 11 minutes. Watch this educational video telling you the whole story in an historic perspective starting with the 1917 Balfour Declaration untill the present day.
Wish I’d said that
“What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake. Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world. Israel is not bound by this…
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Spot Report: The Geneva Accord: An act of diplomatic deception
Think on this: “Do not be deceived.”…”Sanctify them by your truth, your Word is truth.”… “I am the way the truth and the life.” (Matthew 24:4, 11, 24; John 17:17; 14:6) Pray on this: Knowing, our Father, that deception pollutes the entire culture of mankind and all of its institutions, grant us grace to see,…
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Israel in the Philippines
By JPOST— Facing devastation and destruction compounded by mind-numbing humidity and heat, a delegation of some 150 members of the IDF’s Home Front Command have “set up shop” in Bogo, a poor agricultural town on Cebu Island in the Philippines. In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, thought to be the most powerful storm ever to…
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This week’s prayer points
#1. IRAN The P5+1, made up of the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany met in Geneva to negotiate a settlement with Iran regarding that nation’s nuclear development. Blessedly, no agreement was signed during this round of talks. This international committee continued to march toward appeasing Iran, through lessening sanctions, which would return tens…
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Abbas: Regardless of what happens, peace talks to continue
By AFP— Peace talks with Israel will continue for the full nine months as agreed with Washington “regardless of what happens on the ground”, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told AFP on Sunday. In an exclusive interview at his Muqataa headquarters in Ramallah, the Palestinian leader also called for an international inquiry to determine who was…
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White House Could Help Birth Nuclear Iran
By ILAN BERMAN, USA TODAY— Commenting on the gullibility of the credulous American consumer nearly a century ago, the famous showman PT Barnum is said to have remarked that “there’s a sucker born every minute.” To see what this looks like in practice, you need only look at the deal that the Obama administration was…
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The counterfeit Arabs
By VICTOR SHARPE— They are the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. They are indistinguishable from those Arabs who live in the surrounding artificial states such as Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both powers were victorious after the Ottoman Turkish Empire…
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Scripture Reading for November 23, 2013
Torah: Genesis 37:1 – 40:23, “Vayashev” (And he settled …) Haftorah: Amos 2:6 – 3:8 New Testament: Romans 11:11 – 24 Gospel: Matthew 1:1 – 6, 16 – 25, “Huledet Yeshah” (The birth of Jesus …)
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Kerry and Biden Ask for Room to Reach a Nuclear Deal With Iran
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and MICHAEL GORDON, NY TIMES— Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pressed senators on Wednesday to give the Obama administration some breathing room to reach an accord with Iran to freeze its nuclear programs, warning that a new round of sanctions could mean war instead of…
DetailsSenators unmoved by Kerry’s plea to delay further Iran sanctions
By ISRAEL HAYOM— Top U.S. government officials on Wednesday continued to try to soften congressional opposition to the emerging interim deal between world powers and Iran, but ran into great skepticism on Capitol Hill. Both Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry met with Senate officials on Wednesday in an effort to…
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Iran Recognizes and is Exploiting America’s Weakness
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— As Israel lobbies Western powers against making a poor nuclear deal with Iran, Jerusalem is directly laying blame for the situation on America, revealed Israeli officials over the weekend. “This is no way to run a negotiation,” Israeli officials told Channel 2 News, charging that the Americans “are giving up…
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Bad Iran deal worse than no deal
By MICHAEL RUBIN, CNN GLOB AL PUBLIC SQUARE— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Geneva on Friday amidst speculation that marathon talks might yield a nuclear deal, or at least an agreed framework for future talks. Should the two sides come to an agreement, both the State Department and the White House will…
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“There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis, etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 per cent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one per cent of the landmass. But that’s too much for the…
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Spot Report: Forget Israel
Think on this: “If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget is skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.”… ” Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though…
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Amb. Alan Baker letter to Secretary John Kerry
To: The Hon. James Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State — From: Former Israeli Amb. to Canada, Alan Backer– November 8, 2013— After listening to you declare repeatedly over the past weeks that “Israel’s settlements are illegitimate”, I respectfully wish to state, unequivocally, that you are mistaken and ill advised, both in law and in fact.…
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