By Eli Mendelbaum, Yael Freidson & Kobi Nachshoni, YNet— Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall throughout the day Wednesday in what appeared to be defiant display of rejection against UNESCO’s Tuesday adoption of a resolution which Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem. The deluge…
By Breaking Israel News— Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Western Wall throughout the day Wednesday in what appeared to be defiant display of rejection against UNESCO’s Tuesday adoption of a resolution which Israel says denies the deep historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem. The deluge of attendants packed the holy…
By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— Was Israel’s failure to recruit the Christian world against the controversial UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem a crushing, unforgivable diplomatic defeat, or does the Western world care so little about its religious and cultural heritage that there’s nothing even the savviest officials could have done to prevent it? By referring…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone— Some 300 members of the Palestinian Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, have begun receiving “military training” in the Gaza Strip in preparation for war with Israel. The armed wing of Fatah, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – The Martyr Nidal Al-Amoudi Division, announced that its members have…
By Michael Snyder, Prophecy News Watch— Between right now and January 20th, 2017 is a real “pressure point” for U.S. relations with Israel. Barack Obama has always desired to “leave a legacy” in the Middle East, and at this point the only option for accomplishing anything tangible is through the United Nations. The Israeli government is…
Editor Gerald McDermott of Beeson Divinity School, and book contributors Robert Nicholson of the Philos Project and Mark Tooley of the Institute on Religion and Democracy explain the ideology behind McDermott’s new book, “The New Christian Zionism: Fresh Perspectives on Israel and the Land.”
By Zionist Organization of America— In the wake of the disgraceful, flat-earth resolution passed by the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and other major Jewish historical/religious sites as primarily or exclusively Muslim, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to an extraordinary little-known fact that…
Torah: Numbers 29:26 – 31, “Ha’yom ha’chamishi” (The 5th day … ) Haftorah: Ezekiel 38:18 – 39:16 New Testament: Revelation 7:1 – 10, 21:1 – 4 Gospel: John 7 – 8, “Ka’yan sheskot” ( The Feast of Tabernacles … )
By Jenna Lifhits, Weekly Standard— A Christian pro-Israel group flooded the United Nation’s cultural arm with thousands of condemnatory emails Monday, after the body passed a draft resolution last week denying Jewish and Christian ties to holy sites in Jerusalem. According to the group, members of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) sent the United Nations…