74 Democrats Join Soro's J Street in Urging Concessions

BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7 — Seventy-four Democrats in the House of Representatives have joined the leftist J Street organization in supporting the Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel into making painful and possibly dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Authority. “In our view, support for a two-state resolution is inseparable from such support for Israel,…

Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report— The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran…

Hollywood against Israel

BY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— It doesn’t matter that Iran’s ayatollahs just hosted an international conference, attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, against “Hollywood and Satanism” and “Hollywoodism and Zionism.” It doesn’t matter that many blockbusters have been banned in Arab countries, including Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” all of Jane Fonda’s films, Paul Newman’s “Exodus” and the…

Christian Zionism and social justice

By MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST-Christian Edition— Certain segments of Evangelical Christianity are being drawn away from the movement’s traditional support for Israel by those claiming the moral high ground in advocating for “social justice.” Many of these liberal, anti-Israel Evangelicals showed up at the recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem. They invariably view Israel…

Christian Zionism and social justice

By MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST-Christian Edition— Certain segments of Evangelical Christianity are being drawn away from the movement’s traditional support for Israel by those claiming the moral high ground in advocating for “social justice.” Many of these liberal, anti-Israel Evangelicals showed up at the recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem. They invariably view Israel…