Trump-Putin safe zones deal ousts Iran from Syria

By Debka— Syria stands on the threshold of dramatic changes that will directly impact on the strategic and military situation along the Syrian borders with Israel and Jordan, DEBKAfile reports exclusively. They derive from a deal struck this week by US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to establish US, Russian and Turkish…

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The crusader revival: Banning Jews from the heart of Jerusalem

By Shlomo Slonim, JPost— UN Security Council resolution 2334 of December 23, 2016 is designed to redivide Jerusalem and to stamp Israeli authority, currently exercised throughout the city, as illegal. In effect, it would put the Jewish Quarter, as well as the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, under Muslim authority, and make all Jewish…

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A Palestinian Jordan: Opportunities versus threats

BY MUDAR ZAHRAN, JPost— The concept of a Palestinian state in Jordan is not new. In fact, Jordan was created based on the Faisal-Weizmann agreement by which Jews agreed to give away 78 percent of the British Mandate for Palestine to the Hashemites to establish a homeland for the Palestinian Arabs. The Hashemites have never kept…

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No one is vetting Syrian refugees for signs of antiSemitism

By Charles Jacobs, Jpost— Major Jewish establishment organizations are strenuously lobbying for the resettlement of Syrian refugees on American soil. It’s explained as a natural extension of Jewish values and history – “we, too, were refugees once. We, too, were the ‘other.’” The comparison is, to say the least, abstract. It ignores vast differences between…

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Over 70 Evangelical Leaders Meet With, Applaud Trump’s Israel Envoy Friedman

By JNS— Following a high-profile meeting with David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a group of more than 70 evangelical Christian leaders has issued a joint letter to the president expressing their enthusiastic support for Friedman’s candidacy. In the letter, the group expressed confidence that Trump “wisely selected a fellow…

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Pro-Israel Christians Rally Support for a US Embassy in Jerusalem

By Sean Savage, JNS— Aside from its centrality to Jewish peoplehood as the home of the ancient Jewish Temples and now the modern state of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem is also synonymous with Judaism for many Bible-reading Christians. As such, prominent pro-Israel Christian organizations are lining up to express their support for President Donald Trump’s promise…

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Promoting hostility as ‘peacemaking’

By Dexter Van Zile, Israel Hayom— Yusef Daher is the executive secretary of the Jerusalem Interchurch Center (JICC), an ecumenical peacemaking institution supported by the World Council of Churches. Daher is no peacemaker, however. He is instead an ideological and theological combatant in the ongoing effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. He uses his status…

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The Magnificent Ten

By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— A political document blamed by many for today’s Middle East crisis was motivated by the evangelical Christian faith of a uniquely international, cross-party, British war cabinet. This was the claim of Jerusalem-based Canadian Rev Dr David Schmidt in a London lecture marking the centenary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This…

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Should the American Embassy in Israel Move to Jerusalem? Christian and Messianic Jewish Scholars Respond

By Brandon Showwalter, Christian Post— Christians and Messianic Jews are weighing in on the possible relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as the Trump administration appears to have pushed pause on its campaign promises to do so. Messianic Jewish scholar and host of the Line of Fire radio program Michael Brown,…

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Trump says ‘chance’ he’ll move embassy, but admits there are ‘two sides’

By Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel— US President Donald Trump continued to back off his campaign pledge to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem in an interview aired Monday, saying the move was “not easy” and giving it no more than “a chance” of occurring. Trump’s repeatedly promised to move the embassy from Tel Aviv…

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Wisdom of heart and courage of compassion: A look back on the heroes of the Holocaust

By Dr Inna Rogatchi (C) Based on the speech at the Inaugual Opening of the Shining Souls. Champions of Humanity exhibition at The European Parliament – January 24, 2017, Brussels Between Wansee and Auschwitz At the time of the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017 at the European Parliament, on the initiative and…

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