BY JOEL GREENBERG, WASHINGTON POST— The rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas initialed an agreement Wednesday to end a four-year rift that had left the Palestinians divided between separate governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, officials on both sides said. The agreement negotiated secretly in Cairo provides for a transitional unity government, including…
“We share a commitment to encourage the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions… a commitment to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to honor those who stood against it… a commitment to throw light on the still obscured shadows of the Holocaust… a commitment to plant the seeds of a better future…
BY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry and Navy on Wednesday to continue efforts to stop a new flotilla from smuggling weapons to Hamas in Gaza. Netanyahu met with the security cabinet earlier Wednesday to discuss the upcoming flotilla from Turkey and the possibility of Nakba Day protests. Earlier this month, Jerusalem’s…
BY HOWARD LAFRANCHI— Massacring dozens of its own citizens one day — elected to the United Nations’ top human rights group the next? That’s the trajectory Syria is on, meaning that the once-dependably stable but now-bloodied domain of President Bashar al-Assad could join the United States and 45 other countries on the UN Human Rights…
BY RYAN MAURO, FRONTPAGEMAG— Reza Kahlili, a former member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps who spied for the CIA, obtained and released a secret documentary produced by the Iranian regime last month that claimed that President Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader Khamenei and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah are the incarnations of prophesied figures. Their religious command…
O GOD WHOSE WILL CONQUERS ALL, There is no comfort in anything apart form enjoying you and being engaged in your service: You are All in all, and all enjoyments are what you make them, and no more. I am well pleased with your will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects, And…
BY NIR HASSON, CHAIM LEVINSON, MAZAL MUALEM, HAARETZ— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned Sunday the “atrocious” killing of Ben-Joseph Livnat, a 25-year-old father of four and nephew of Culture and Science Minister Limor Livnat in the West Bank, urging the Palestinian Authority to bring those responsible to justice. Palestinian security forces opened fire early…
BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY, YNETNEWS— Amid the unrest now sweeping the Middle East, Israeli government and security officials are quietly discussing an unusual strategy that would pass the Palestinians’ political future off to Jordan. With the odds of a negotiated two-state solution at an all-time low, former Defense Minister Moshe Arens, Knesset Member Arieh Eldad, and…
BY VICTOR SHARPE How much longer must Israel be harmed and humiliated in this way by the murderous thugdom known as the Palestinian Authority? How much longer must Israel witness U.S. advisors under General Dayton continue training the so-called Palestinian police, which for all who have eyes to see and ears to hear know will…
For the Sabbath of April 30, 2011. Torah Portion: Leviticus 19:1—20:27, “Kedoshim” (“You shall be holy…”) Haftorah: Amos 9:7—15 Gospel: John 6:60—69, “Kadosh HaElohim” (“The Holy One of God … ”) New Testament: I 1:13Corinthians 6:9—20