Israel: Seventy Years of Survival

By Shoula Romano Horing— For me, as an Israeli, the country’s most impressive achievement as it approaches its 70th birthday is that modern Israel has not only survived attacks by its many Arab and Muslim enemies, but also prospered in roughly the same location as the ancient Jewish kingdoms of Israel and Judah.  In 70 A.D.,…

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Pro-Israel Christian Group Condemns Mainline Protestants’ Statement Defending Palestinians

By Michael Gryboski , Christian Post Reporter— A pro-Israel Christian organization has taken issue with a recently released joint statement by several mainline church groups denouncing violence against Palestinian protesters. Over the past few weeks, violent protests along the Gaza Strip border have resulted in around 30 Palestinian protesters being killed by Israeli soldiers. In…

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Selling Illusions

By Earl Cox, JPost— Tne front of Hamas’s “March of Return” is a war of words – to project a sympathetic brand of the Palestinians as victims in order to influence global public opinion. While the terrorist group’s young recruits dress in kaffiyehs and sling Kalashnikovs over their shoulders, its leaders in coat and tie…

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At 70, Israel’s population is 8.842 million, 43% of world Jewry

By Times of Israel— On the eve of Israel’s 70th Independence Day, its population stands at 8,842,000, of whom 74.5 percent are Jewish, according to figures released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The Jewish population stands at approximately 6.589 million, while Arabs number some 1.849 million, 20.9% of the population. There are…

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Israel Planning for Direct Retaliatory Attack from Iran

By Anna Ahronheim, JPost— Israel is preparing for a crossborder attack by the Revolutionary Guard Corps, in response to a strike allegedly carried out by the Jewish state against an Iranian-operated air base in Syria that killed seven of its soldiers. Israel believes the attack will come in the form of precision- guided missiles or…

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Is Jordan About to Fall Apart?

By Dr. Mordechai Kedar— Towards the end of 2010, when the “Arab Spring” erupted destabilizing governments and social order in most of the Middle Eastern countries, questions began to be raised about the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and whether the tidal waves sweeping across the Arab world would reach its borders. So far, King Abdullah…

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Senior Iranian Commander: Israel can no longer threaten Iran

By Anna Ahronheim, Jerusalem Post— Iranian Army Ground Forces commander Brig.-Gen. Kiumars Heidari has warned that Israel can no longer threaten the Islamic Republic. As tensions continue to rise along Israel’s northern border, Heidari said Iran’s armed forces “are much more powerful than before” and that “the date has been set” for Israel’s destruction, according…

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Quote of the Week

As the historian of antisemitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other hatreds may have surpassed it in intensity for a historical moment, but all in their turn have assumed—or presently commence to assume—their proper place in…

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On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu Says Israel ‘Steadfast’ in Countering Iranian Threats

By: JNS and United with Israel Staff On Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Jewish state remains “steadfast” in preventing Iranian aggression amid ongoing threats. “We are preventing Iranian activity in Syria. These are not just words,” Netanyahu said in his speech at the Yad…

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