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Netanyahu Seeks Attorney General’s Authorization to Deport Terrorists’ Families From West Bank to Gaza

By The Jerusalem Connection March 2, 2016

By Barak Ravid, Haaretz— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the attorney general to approve deporting relatives of terrorists from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip. “I believe that this will dramatically reduce terrorist activities against Israel, its citizens and its residents,” Netanyahu wrote Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit on Wednesday. Netanyahu wrote that terrorists with…

Time to draw lines and defend them

By The Jerusalem Connection March 2, 2016

By Caroline Glick— The government has clearly awakened to the threat of the BDS movement; but our leaders still don’t seem to recognize that the answer to hatred isn’t inclusion. At a certain point, you just have to know when draw a line in the sand. Sloan and Guy Rachmuth, Jewish parents in Durham, North…

Truth Report: The Fullness of the Gentiles (Rom 11:25)

By The Jerusalem Connection March 1, 2016

I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. —Romans 11:25

Jews for Jesus missionaries support pro-terror Palestinian organization

By The Jerusalem Connection March 1, 2016

By Rachel Avraham, Jerusalem Online— Missionaries from Jews for Jesus in Israel are allying themselves with the anti-Zionist Palestinian Christian organization Musalaha in order to attack the Aramean Christian community. After a speaker at a Musalaha conference called Aramean Christians loyal to Israel “collaborators,” the Aramean community responded robustly. JerusalemOnline reported last year that Father…

Quote of the Week

By The Jerusalem Connection February 29, 2016

“Beloved is man for he was created in God’s image. Still greater was the love shown him in that it was made known to him that he was created in God’s image.”—-Rabbi Akiva

Spot Report: “The Enemies of Israel are the Enemies of God” (Psalm 83)

By The Jerusalem Connection February 29, 2016

Think on this: “May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that you, whose name is Yahweh — that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.” (Psalm 83:17-18) Pray like this: Grant, our Father, that the enemies of Israel who have proven to be the…

The Most Hated People in the United States May Not Be Who You Think

By The Jerusalem Connection February 27, 2016

By Uri Wilensky, Huffington Post— Which religious group is the victim of the most hate crimes in the United States? According to the hate crime statistics kept by the FBI, Jews are the primary victims of religious hate crimes. More than 50% of all hate crimes (57% in 2014) are committed against them. For a…

Trump’s America is bad, very bad, for the Jews

By The Jerusalem Connection February 27, 2016

By Andrew Silow-Carroll, Times of Israel— Two of my favorite television shows are about what I think it’s fair to call the “New America.” In Master of None, on Netflix, Indian-American comedian Aziz Ansari plays a struggling actor in a very real and diverse New York. His best friend is the son of Chinese immigrants.…

Scripture Reading for February 27, 2016

By The Jerusalem Connection February 27, 2016

Torah: Exodus 30:11 – 34:35, “ki tisa” (When you take …) Haftorah: I Kings 18:1 – 39 New Testament: II Corinthians 3:7 – 18 Gospel: Matthew 17:1 – 13, “Ve ‘hishtakna” (He was transfigured … )

The Raoul Wallenberg Research Initiative RWI-70

By The Jerusalem Connection February 26, 2016

A Note from Michael and Inna Rogatchi, The Rogatchi Foundation – www.rogatchi.org, www.rogatchifilms.org — We would like to address you now on a very important and timely (as ever) international initiative regarding Raoul Wallenberg. A prominent historian Susanne Berger has enough clarity and vision, and strength, too, to start this new chapter in the ongoing saga…

RED ALERT: BDS – The battle of deception vs. truth

By The Jerusalem Connection February 26, 2016

Abu Mazen rebuffs Kerry’s appeal to cool Palestinian terror against Israelis

By The Jerusalem Connection February 26, 2016

By DEBKAfile— US Secretary of State John Kerry came away empty-handed from his latest meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in Amman on Sunday, February 21,- which shouldn’t have surprised him as it was par for the course. DEBKAfile’s Middle Eastern sources report that Kerry was finally persuaded that Abbas would not…

Our World: The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism

By The Jerusalem Connection February 26, 2016

By Caroline Glick, Breaking Israel News— For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another end. Last Thursday, yet again we learned that pro-Palestinian activists couldn’t care less about Palestinians. For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another…

Columnist Krauthammer: Obama’s remarks on Israel are ‘shameful’

By The Jerusalem Connection February 26, 2016

By Erez Lin, Israel Hayom— U.S. President Obama is drawing moral equivalence between habitual Palestinian incitement to terrorism and “extremely infrequent” Israeli attacks, thus downplaying the severity of Palestinian actions, veteran Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said Friday. Krauthammer’s statement came in response to Obama’s remarks Friday that “it is important for both Prime Minister…

Marco Rubio Hits Trump, Takes Strong Stand for Israel

By The Jerusalem Connection February 25, 2016

By Tyler O’Niel, PJ Media-— Florida Senator Marco Rubio gave a powerful defense of Israel in Houston, Texas, on Thursday. He attacked President Obama and Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump for not supporting the Jewish state. If elected president, he promised “a foreign policy of moral clarity,” and that America would take sides (“we’re going…

IDF Racing to Restructure Itself for New Middle East Warfare

By The Jerusalem Connection February 24, 2016

By Yaakov Lappin, Investigative Project— The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is in a race against time, and it is a race that is relevant to how other Western powers will also deal with the rise of radical, armed, Islamic groups proliferating across the Middle East. As the IDF’s commanders look around the region, they see…

Truth Report: Grafted Into the Cultivated Olive Tree (Rom 11:17)

By The Jerusalem Connection February 23, 2016

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root. —Romans 11:17

Marco Rubio Stops to Pray for Elderly Man Who Collapses at Campaign Rally (Video)

By The Jerusalem Connection February 23, 2016

By Anugrah Kumar , Christian Post Contributor— During a campaign rally for Sen. Marco Rubio in South Carolina, an elderly man in the crowd collapsed just as the Republican presidential candidate was giving a speech. Rubio stopped, and prayed for the man. Rubio was speaking to a crowd of about 400 people at the Madren…