Turkey: Israel harming itself if it recognizes ‘Armenian Holocaust’

By YNETNEWS-— Israel will be harming itself if it chooses to recognize the Armenian Genocide, Turkey warned on Friday in the latest verbal sparring match that has bedevilled the two countries’ relations in recent weeks. The warning comes two days after Knesset Speaker Yoel (Yuli) Edelstein said Wednesday that “Israel must recognize the Armenian Genocide,”…

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Zionism and the Wedge Between US and Israeli Jews

By Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— In Mandatory Palestine, Jews began to accumulate power – economic, political, and military – which caused other Jews to immediately question the enterprise itself. Old anti-Semitic tropes came to the fore, like the notion that a Jewish state would be based on “exploitation” or even Zionist “world…

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Messianic Lite: Nasso, “Take a census”

This week’s Torah portion covers Numbers 4:21 to 7:89. The text is made up of seemingly unrelated passages that are out of any chronological order. The reading begins with a continuation of the census in the camp. Over 8,000 Levites are counted responsible for transporting the Tabernacle. Details are given for exactly which pieces go to which…

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The Real Palestinian Catastrophe

By Elliott Abrams, Weekly Standard— As Israel celebrated the 70th anniversary of its independ­ence and the move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, Palestinians last week commemorated their 70th “Nakba Day.” The Nakba, or catastrophe, in question is meant to be the founding of the state of Israel, but this year Palestinians had a real…

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Jerusalem speaks up and tells the world the truth

By Michael Sax, Israel Unwired— When a person says something so true and so embarrassing to the media that they pretend it didn’t happen, you know it’s priceless. This message from Stanley Goldfoot is a prime example of exactly that. Stanley Goldfoot was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. When he was 18 years old, he…

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Out of the North Evil Will Break Forth

By Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— One must wonder why Turkish President Erdogan’s anti-Semitic rhetoric is brushed aside so lightly. Or, why Europe, enamored by the Palestinians whose dream is Israel’s annihilation, support the Iran nuclear deal. Instead of reminding itself of the Iranian fascination with the Nazi concept of the Aryan race (under Nazi influence Persia…

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Knesset Approves Motion on Recognizing Armenian Genocide

By Lahav Harkov, Jpost— The Knesset will hold a vote on whether to recognize the Armenian Genocide, after approving Meretz chairwoman Tamar Zandberg’s motion for the agenda on the subject Wednesday. “This is our moral and historic obligation,” Zandberg said. “Some things are above politics.” The motion, approved 16-0, was to hold the first-ever debate…

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Palestinians: Americans Now Legitimate Targets

By Bassamm Tawil, Gatestone Institute— There is a new development in Palestinian hatred of the Trump administration: the Palestinian leaders’ verbal attacks on the US are now being translated into acts of violence against US delegations visiting Palestinian communities in the West Bank. The Palestinian campaign against the US began in December 2017, when President…

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Ambassador Friedman: Evangelicals ‘Support Israel With Greater Devotion’ Than Many Jews

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz— The historic opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem was a religious as well as a political event with several prominent Christian leaders present. This support was not lost on US Ambassador David Friedman. In an interview with the New York Times on Saturday, Friedman said that Evangelical Christians “support Israel…

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Israel and Turkey in All-Out Diplomatic War, and It Could Get Worse

By Yochanan Visser, Israel Today— Turkish-Israeli relations hit a new low this week after Turkey’s hot-headed dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israel “a terror and an apartheid state” that was committing “genocide” in Gaza. Erdogan also accused Israel Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of having “the blood of Palestinians on his hands” after 60 Palestinian Arabs…

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Why Evangelical Christians Support Israel

By Israel Today— As whipped-up Palestinian rioters cry out for Jewish blood in their days of rage against ‘occupation’ of their land, we should be praying that these dear people, for whom Christ died, would instead call on the blood of Jesus for their redemption. This is their only hope – and ours too for…

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Shavuot- The Feast of Weeks

By CBNISRAEL— What the New Testament translates as “Pentecost” comes from the Greek translation of the Jewish festival of “The Feast of Weeks.” In the Christian world, it is remembered as the time when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the Disciples who gathered in Jerusalem. In the time of Moses, the Feast of…

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