Boycott in a Christian Cassock

BY GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s biennial General Assembly at the end of June is expected to vote on a number of resolutions that would divest the Christian denomination from companies that conduct business with Israel, such as Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. A number of Churches have already pushed for divestiture of…

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Most Israelis think Romney would be 'friendlier'

BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday. The survey – commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication and the Anti-Defamation League – found that while 51 percent…

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Syria inching toward civil war

BY KALEN TAYLOR, inContext— The Syrian Army slammed Haffeh with mortars, tanks, and helicopter gunfire yesterday, burning and looting buildings and wounding over 50 rebels. Forced to flee from the heavy fire, anti-government forces withdrew from the town on Wednesday. The conflict also reached the Syrian capital of Damascus yesterday morning as rebels began to…

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You cannot leak your way to national security credibility

BY KYLE  SHIDELER, AMERICAN THINKER— President Barack Obama’s campaign strategy, at least as it regards foreign affairs, consists almost entirely of boasting of the various covert operation successes that occurred on his watch, and leaking government secrets to buttress these boasts. This strategy began just days after the successful elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin laden…

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Israel: Jesus was not born in Palestine!

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…

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Israel: Jesus was not born in Palestine!

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…

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Israel: Jesus was not born in Palestine!

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…

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Palestinians go back to UN dead-end

BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— One would have thought the Palestinians might have learned their lesson when they devoted all of their efforts last year to an attempt to get the United Nations to issue a unilateral recognition of their independence. Many predicted the showdown over the initiative would produce a “diplomatic tsunami” that would…

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