By Victor Sharpe— “— as envisaged, it was national suicide for Israel” For eight baleful years, President Barack Hussein Obama made Israel’s life utterly miserable as he pursued relentlessly his warped vision of a two state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. But that vision, as envisaged, was national suicide for Israel. This version of a…
DetailsBy Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— Calling Israel a “cancerous tumor,” Iran’s supreme leader on Tuesday expressed support for a “holy intifada” to eradicate the Jewish state, arguing that the international community is headed toward confrontation with the “Zionist regime.” In the opening address of the regime’s sixth international conference in support of the Palestinian…
DetailsBy Earl Cox, Israel Always— While the Obama administration harmed its ally by strengthening its enemies, if President Donald Trump holds to his promises perhaps things will change going forward. But there is already talk of backpedaling. Days after United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 condemned Israeli settlements in the “occupied Palestinian territory” of Judea,…
DetailsBy Times of Israel— President Donald Trump said Tuesday that anti-Semitic threats to the American Jewish community were “horrible” and “painful,” as well as a “sad reminder” of evil. The condemnation came a day after bomb threats were issued against Jewish community centers across the United States for the fourth time in just over a…
DetailsBy JPost— In her first press briefing, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley came out swinging. After sharing with reporters impressions from her first Security Council meeting on Middle East issues (“it was a bit strange”), Haley vowed that the US would no longer turn a blind eye to the UN’s outrageous bias…
DetailsEphesians 2:11-20 11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the…
DetailsBy Inna and Michael Rogatchi (C) ~ February 2017 Hard-Die Traditions of the Dreyfus Affair Just a few months ago, in October 2016, there was a crowded celebration in France. The close to Switzerland city of Mulhouse was celebrating the opening of the statute of Alfred Dreyfus in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of his…
DetailsBy Alan Dershowitz, JPOST— President Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he mentioned the possibility of a one-state solution. The context was ambiguous and no one can know for sure what message he was intending to convey. One possibility is that he was telling the Palestinian leadership that if they want a two-state solution, they have…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick, JPOST— When they met on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin were both walking wounded. Netanyahu arrived in Washington the center of a criminal investigation the chief characteristic of which is that selected details of the probe are regularly leaked to the media by anonymous sources who cannot be…
DetailsThink on this: “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against Yahweh and against his Messiah.” (Psalm 2:1-2) Pray like this: Father, you have graciously brought together two like-mined leaders in President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu. Be pleased…
DetailsBy Jonathan Marks, Commentary— In 2005, a coalition of organizations claiming to represent Palestinian civil society issued a call to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Since then, the BDS movement has acted, in church organizations, on college campuses, and elsewhere, to make Israel the equivalent of apartheid-era South Africa; a pariah state. BDS has…
DetailsBy IMRA Attorney Marc Zell, Co-Chair Republicans Overseas Israel, told IMRA today that he was advised by sources both in the White House and the Israeli Government that Prime Minister Netanyahu was responsible for the delay in the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem. Zell explained that when it became clear that Donald Trump,…
DetailsBy Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— The only alternative to the creation of a Palestinian state is a one-state solution in which all Palestinians will get the right to vote, Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said Wednesday, hours after a senior White House official appeared to withdraw the US’s traditional support for a two-state…
DetailsBy Valerie Locke, Breaking Israel News— President Donald Trump was prepared to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem the moment he took office, but reconsidered after taking into account how it would impact Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbors, a top Republican official revealed on Monday. Moving the embassy to Israel’s capital…
DetailsBy Tazpit Press Service, Breaking Israel News— President Donald Trump has announced that US Middle East policy is no longer wedded to the two-state solution. Speaking at a joint press conference at the White House, at the conclusion of his meeting with PM Netanyahu, the American President said he doesn’t care whether a peace agreement…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 18:1 – 20:23, “Yitro” (Jethro … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1 – 7:6, 9:5 – 6 New Testament: Romans 11:11 – 26 Gospel: Matthew 8:5 – 20, “Ani arapeh” (I will heal him … )
DetailsBy Israel Today— Did Israel Block Trump From Moving US Embassy to Jerusalem? US President Donald Trump has a lot of opposition to his promise to finally move the American embassy back to Jerusalem. No one expected Israel itself to be among that opposition. But that’s precisely what US Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the…
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