BY ROBIN SAMPSON, HEART OF WISDOM— The blowing of trumpets is a sign of the return of Christ and memorial of God’s grace to Abraham when He substituted a ram to be sacrificed instead of Isaac (Gen. 22). Isaac is a type of foreshadowing of Christ. Just as Abraham offered his son on the altar,…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Abortion. When one thinks of the many dangers and threats facing Israel, abortion is not usually on the list. But it should be. Since Israel’s rebirth as a nation state 63 years ago, 40,000 Israeli babies have been lost to abortion on average every year. That’s well over two million…
BY JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— In a fiery, no holds barred speech on September 23, 2011 to the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presented Palestine’s formal application for full membership to the United Nations. Although he was speaking on the first day of fall, Abbas proclaimed that the “Palestinian Spring” had arrived, which…
BY ARNOLD AHLERT, CANADA FREE PRESS— Shortly before taking the podium to address the United Nations’ General Assembly last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said everything the world needs to know about where the so-called peace process is headed. Speaking to an assembly of 200 senior representatives of the Palestinian community in the United…
By TOVAH LAZAROFF IN NEW YORK AND JPOST.COM STAFF Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he is not sure Israel and the United States will be able to enlist enough votes against the Palestinian application for UN membership in order to prevent it from coming to a vote in the UN Security Council, Israel Radio reported…
JONATHAN TOBIN — COMMENTARY— The media is already treating the dueling speeches today at the United Nations General Assembly by Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as morally equivalent. But such a view of these addresses would be dead wrong. To put it bluntly, Abbas lied, and Netanyahu told the truth.…