'Final pope' already running Vatican?

By JEROME R. CORSI, WND— Editor’s note: The following video shows Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, addressing Pope Benedict XVI on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013.   Did Pope Benedict XVI line up his successor and then resign to fulfill a 900-year-old prophecy that the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church would…

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State of the Union Address on Foreign Policy: Careful Phrasing Conceals Disasters

By BARRY RUBIN, PJ MEDIA— While the State of the Union message was overwhelmingly domestically oriented, the foreign policy sections were most interesting. I’ll review them here. The president began in the same neo-patriotic mode  used in the second inaugural address, with a special emphasis on thanking U.S. troops. He used the imagery of the…

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Obama's 'friends of Hamas'? Records of Hagel and Brennan both suggest ties to Islamists

By FRANK GAFFNEY, JWREVIEW— Last week, 25 Republican senators wrote a letter to a former member of their caucus and the man President Obama wants to lead the Defense Department, demanding full disclosure of his financial dealings. To date, Sen. Chuck Hagel has demonstrated afresh his contempt for the legislature by declining to do so.…

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Iran to Buy North Korea's Nuclear Plans on the Cheap?

By TAYLOR DINERMAN, GATESTONE— Before the North Koreans successfully launched a (non-functioning) satellite into orbit on December 12, 2012 there were reports, notably by space expert and NBC News consultant, James Oberg, that Iranian missile experts had been spotted in North Korea. If true, this would be perfectly consistent with the longstanding and close relationship…

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Nazareth Christians a dwindling minority

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli business newspaper Globes recently ran a feature story on the fast dwindling number of Christians living in Jesus’ hometown of Nazareth in northern Israel. The article notes that while the city once had a strong Christian majority, today a mere one-third of residents are Christians. In reality, Nazareth today…

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Obama to Tell Netanyahu: No Surprise Attack on Iran

By Rochel Sylvetsky & Gil Ronen, ARUTZ 7— One of the goals of U.S. President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel is to deliver a message to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not to carry out any “military surprises” against Iran while the U.S. in engaged in negotiations with it. Voice of Israel public radio, which…

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The high cost of defending Israel

By ALAN DERSHOWITZ, FRONTPAGEMAG— Whenever I speak in support of Israel or in criticism of its enemies, the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me.  The attacks, all from the hard left, seemed coordinated, focusing on common ad hominem themes.  They accuse me of being a plagiarist, a supporter of torture, a right wing Zio-fascist,…

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The whitewashing of hate

By ITAMAR MARCUS, JPOST— It is hard to imagine a more flawed analysis of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks than the recent report of the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land, led by Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University and Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University. The report’s inaccuracies start with its methodology of systematically citing…

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