by KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— The Fatah leaders are yearning for the days of Yasser Arafat, when they were able to steal international aid earmarked for helping Palestinians. The Palestinians’ problem with Fayyad is that he did not sit even one day on an Israeli prison. For them, graduating from an Israeli prisons even more…
By EDMUND SANDERS, LA TIMES— Wrapping up his first solo visit in a renewed Obama administration campaign to restart peace talks, Secretary of State John Kerry left Israel on Tuesday with few signs of progress and a vow to keep trying. After talks Monday and Tuesday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister…
Torah: Leviticus 21:1 — 13:59 ” Tazria” (A woman has conceived …) Haftorah: II Kings 7:3 –20 New Testament: Acts 4:27 — 31 Gospel: Matthew 8:1 — 17, “Hu ya’rad” (He came down …)
by SHAHAR CHAI, YNET— According to a new report on global anti-Semitism, 2012 registered a 30% increase in anti-Semitic acts compared to 2011. These acts include vandalism and direct threats on Jewish lives. Numbering 686 in 2012, they followed two years of general decline in such incidents. Among the countries listed, France has the dubious…
By SHEILA RAVIV — Yom HaShoah ve HaGvura 28th Nissan, 5773 – Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust and its Heroism. The Nazis yelled “Go back to Jerusalem” to us – now their heirs yell “Go back to Europe”. Never Again becomes little more than a knee-jerk reaction, because it is again, it is happening…
By SHIRA SORKO-RAM — MAOZ Persecution in Israel is on the rise, and it comes in different shapes and sizes. From the extreme of laying a bomb at the house of believers in Ariel, to burning a chess club owned by believers in Arad, to intimidating businesses of believers, congregations and individuals – the enemy’s tactics are…
By GIULIO MEOTTI — ARUTZ7 Jews who cooperate with the enemy, German or Communist Jews in the past and leftist Israeli journalists today, cannot wash the blood from their hands. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union creates the “anti-Zionist committee”. It has to fight against Israel’s claim of “national exclusivity of the chosen people”.…
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Dexter Van Zile, CAMERA analyst: “Sabeel has succeeded in turning anti-Zionism into a competing religious practice in American mainstream churches and a persistent element in Protestant thought”. “In 1994, Reverend Naim Ateek established the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. This Anglican priest who holds Israeli nationality, and his associates,…
Erick Stakelbeck educates Obama on history of Jews in Middle East
