by Victor Sharpe To quote the old proverb: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.” So it is with Islam. There is no radical Islam, no hijacked Islam, no corrupted Islam, no extreme Islam and no moderate Islam: There is simply Islam. Listening…
by Victor Sharpe The Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” are Arabs who are indistinguishable from their fellow Arabs who live in the surrounding artificially created states such as Iraq and Jordan or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both European powers were victorious after the Ottoman…
By Shelley Neese The modern state of Israel was born out of a war, grew territorially through war, and established its capital in Jerusalem via war. These combat victories prevented her annihilation time and again. Yet, some argue, if God is a God of peace, then all violence is un-Godly. Ergo, if war is wrong,…
by Victor Sharpe, Family Security Matters “Our faith was born there, as was our language, our nationhood, our pride. It is incumbent upon us to defend —– even if we all die.” Those words were uttered by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Draskovitch, some twelve years ago while referring to Kosovo. Though his statement may be…
by James M. Hutchens Romans chapters 9-11 of Paul’s letter to the Gentile followers of Jesus Christ in Rome, is God’s definitive word about Jews and Israel in the New Testament. At the same time it voices some admonitions to Gentiles about potentially negative attitudes on their part – some significant “Don’ts” that we do…
by Victor Sharpe I was asked by a friend recently to assist a Christian Zionist lady who had received some anti-Israel propaganda at her church and was perplexed and swayed by the opposing points of view she was reading. I have taken the liberty of using as my title the same one used in…
by Victor Sharpe, Familysecuritymatters.org In 1974, a flotilla set sail from Turkey. No, it wasn’t destined for the Gaza coast carrying thugs and jihadists masquerading as human rights activists – as ill armed Israeli commandos discovered to their cost. No, this was a flotilla of naval ships sailing towards Cyprus as a fully-fledged invasion force,…
by Shelley Neese Visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and you are bound to notice a short ladder resting on a second story window ledge. You can also see it in century old photographs and art in the exact same position it is today. On the surface the ladder bears testimony to…
by Victor Sharpe Sometime ago, before Turkey chose to lurch further into the deadly embrace of Islamism, I received a plea from a Kurdish friend who remains supportive of Israel’s epic struggle to survive among its hostile Arab neighbors. He is also devoted to the Jewish people for he knows of the shared ethnicities believed…
by Daniel McCabe Miracles at Peter’s House Matthew 8:15, “And He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she arose and served them.” The silhouette of a lone gull glided peacefully above the undisturbed waters of the Sea of Galilee as Sabbath services concluded and worshippers headed home to await sundown and an…