Video: Evacuees plant trees near Gust Katif ruins
Displaced Gush Katif residents plant trees near their former homes. Watch and listen as they express their thoughts five years after the disengagement. Evacuees Plant Trees Near Gush Katif Ruins
Copts, Christians, Jews and Other Minorities in the Middle East
by Franck Salameh, Hudson NY Happy New Year, even though this promises to be a year that is neither Happy nor Blessed for the world’s Coptic community. The Copts, the ancient Christians of modern Egypt, who can trace their proud roots back to Pharaonic times, have been undergoing a fierce and systematic eradication of their…
The New Testament basis for the restoration of Israel
by Jan Willem van der Hoeven, ICZC Jesus was asked by His disciples whether He would restore the kingdom to Israel at that time, to which He replied: Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It…
The New Testament basis for the restoration of Israel
by Jan Willem van der Hoeven, ICZC Jesus was asked by His disciples whether He would restore the kingdom to Israel at that time, to which He replied: Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It…
PA FM condemns Israel's 'Judaization' of Jerusalem
by JPost Staff Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad Malki condemned the “land rush” and “Judaization” of Jerusalem, in an interview with Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Thursday. After Wednesday’s Arab League economic summit, Malki commented to Asharq that Israel has turned the Shepherd Hotel into an outpost. “The occupation’s land rush in Sheikh Jarrah in…
Dear Time Magazine,
Dear Mr. Stengel, I wanted to bring to your attention a recent article in Time entitled “Israel’s Rightward Lurch Scares Some Conservatives.” I hope that you will agree that the article’s obvious bias and numerous distortions are not worthy of the standards of your prestigious magazine. Israel is depicted in the article as essentially sliding…
German think tank told US to sabotage Iran
by Emet Report A German think tank recommended to the US that a “policy of covert sabotage” should be adopted against Iran’s nuclear program, a WikiLeaks document released on Tuesday revealed. In a meeting with US officials in Berlin in January 2010, Volker Perthes, director of Germany’s government-funded Institute for Security and International Affairs, said…
Don't abandon the Golan
by David Isaac, Shmuelkatz.com “…they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.” – Joshua 20:8 In “Golan: More Than Geography” (The Jerusalem Post, March 5, 1993), Shmuel Katz…
Is peace possible in the Middle East?
by David Solway, Pajamas Media The Middle East “peace process,” as in Macbeth’s great soliloquy, “creeps on this petty pace from day to day,” depleting its innumerable tomorrows and leading to nothing but misery and despair. It has only “lighted fools/The way to dusty death” and to failure after failure, being quite definitely “a tale/Told…
Koshari
*Koshari is the traditional Egyptian meal. It’s served in every restaurant, at every dinner table, and sold by any Cairo street vendor. Koshari is a very strange combination of noodles, rice, lentils, fried onions and chili sauce. Don’t be thrown by the ingredient list. For whatever reason this all-in-one meal is addicting. I love traveling in Egypt and…