Governor Mike Huckabee signs the Jerusalem Covenant

By Abra Forman, BCN— Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas and a strongly pro-Israel Evangelical Christian, has partnered with MK Rabbi Yehudah Glick in an effort to encourage millions of Israel lovers around the world to sign the historic Jerusalem Covenant. The Jerusalem Covenant is a renewal of the Biblical pact between God and the…

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Paying terrorist and teaching children to hate is not a path to peace

By Earl Cox, Israel Always— When President Donald Trump met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House, Trump requested that Abbas halt the PA’s overt incitement to violence and terrorism against Israel, and its $137.8 million in annual payouts to jailed terrorists and suicide bombers’ families. Abbas insisted, “We are raising our youth,…

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Mike Huckabee to Trump: Ignore Detractors and Move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

By Aaron Klein, Breitbart Speaking to Breitbart News during a trip to Israel, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee hailed President Donald Trump’s historic trip to Israel and urged the president to fulfil his campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem despite pressure against such a move. “I think this is…

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Trump Israel Trip: Two-State Solution Conspicuously Absent

By Adam Abrams, Christian Post— During his meeting with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas Tuesday and in speeches throughout the day, President Donald Trump notably omitted any mention of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump rebuked Palestinian leaders in a joint press conference with Abbas in Bethlehem, saying, “Peace can never take…

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Gazans tie up Trump effigy in armed demonstration

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPost— Thousands of supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Gaza protested US President Donald Trump’s visit to Bethlehem on Tuesday, and his statements describing Hamas as a terrorist organization. During the protest, masked men pointed machine guns at an effigy of President Trump, while…

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Trump’s Visit to Western Wall Affirms That Land of Israel Is God-Given

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— In an unprecedented and historic gesture on Monday, US President Donald Trump became the first sitting American president ever to visit the Western Wall, the last remaining remnant of the Jewish Holy Temple destroyed 2,000 years ago and one of the holiest sites in Israel. The visit deeply…

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Trump: ‘I stand in awe of the Jewish people’

By Arutz 7— President Donald Trump spoke at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon, shortly after having spoken at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. In his address at the Israel Museum, President Trump described his visit to the Israeli capital as “a privilege”, referencing…

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Palestinians Disappointed, Upset by Trump’s Silence on Two States in Abbas Meeting

By Valerie Locke, Breaking Israel News— Perhaps the most significant words in President Donald Trump’s joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday were the ones he didn’t say: two-state solution. Trump met with Abbas for the second time this month in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, outside Jerusalem, while on a diplomatic…

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Is Trump a false Cyrus?

By Benjamin Glatt, JPost— Less than a year after Harry S. Truman left the presidency, he was invited to the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York to meet with dignitaries there. Eddie Jacobson, a long-time friend of his and the one who advised him to recognize the nascent State of Israel in 1948, boastingly introduced…

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Trump makes history as first U.S. President to visit Western Wall

By Marissa Newman, Times of Israel— Fifty years after Israel captured the Western Wall, US President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting American leader to visit the holy site, in a historic visit that saw him accompanied by his Jewish relatives in Jerusalem’s ancient Old City. Entering the Old City’s warren of alleyways…

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Trump Lands in Israel and Makes History

By Israel Today— President Trump landed in Israel today, and immediately made history. Remember when one of Barack Obama’s first trips was to the Middle East, to give that ridiculous speech about Islam in Cairo? Do you also remember how he very conspicuously REFUSED to visit Israel during that same trip? Well, Trump did the…

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Trump’s historic first day in Israel

By JPost— US President Donald Trump arrived in Israel shortly after noon on Monday for a historic visit in the second leg of his whirlwind maiden foreign tour as president. Trump spent the afternoon in Jerusalem, meeting with Israel’s President and Prime Minister and seeing some of the sights of the Old City. Below you…

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Quote of the week

“No people has ever insisted more firmly than the Jews that history has a purpose and humanity a destiny. At a very early stage of their collective existence they believed they had detected a divine scheme for the human race, of which their own society was to be a pilot.” Paul Johnson, History of the…

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Spot Report: Trump in Israel

Think on this: “Yahweh has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over all.” (Psalm 103:19) Pray like this: Father, help us to remember that you are in sovereign control of all that takes place on planet earth, especially what transpires as a result of President Trump’s visit Israel. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!

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What has changed that Israel went from ecstasy over Trump to near mourning?

By Yaakov Katz, JPost— On November 9, the day after the presidential election in the United States, Education Minister Naftali Bennett released a statement congratulating Donald Trump on his victory. “The era of a Palestinian state is over,” Bennett glowed at the time. “Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion…

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Israel pulls out all the stops for Trump visit

By GREER FAY CASHMAN, JPost— At an unimaginable cost in time, effort and human resources, both the Americans and the Israelis are leaving no stone unturned for the visit on Monday of US President Donald Trump, who will be the first sitting President to visit the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem. Other…

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