Obama enrages Israel on way out of the door

By Garth Kant, WND— Israeli officials are furious with President Obama for allowing the U.N. to pass a resolution Friday demanding the Jewish state “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem.” With the U.S. taking the extraordinary move of abstaining, the Security Council unanimously passed the resolution,…

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Trump was extremely effective at stopping Obama from getting one last shot at Israel

By Breitbart— On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” columnist Charles Krauthammer argued President-Elect Donald Trump’s opposition to the UN resolution on Israeli settlements was an “extremely effective” means of stopping President Obama from getting “one last shot” at Israel out of “personal revenge.” Krauthammer said the resolution would have done “permanent…

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Israel warned Obama over UN vote, calling on Trump for help

By Michael Wilner, JPost— The Israeli government asked President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team to intervene before a vote scheduled for Thursday at the UN Security Council condemning its settlement activity in the West Bank, just as Barack Obama planned to allow the resolution to pass. The Obama administration intended to let the resolution, spearheaded by…

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Israel Thanks Trump For Saving It From Spiteful Obama

By Israel Today— Israeli officials on Thursday thanked US President-elect Donald Trump for saving the Jewish state from one final jab from a spiteful President Barack Obama. Earlier in the day, Egypt tabled a resolution at the UN Security Council demanding Israel halt all Jewish settlement activity in the so-called West Bank, including the eastern…

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PM Netanyahu Delivers Christmas Greeting from ICEJ

PM Netanyahu Delivers Christmas Greeting from ICEJ from ICEJ on Vimeo. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit to the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday (December 21) to deliver his annual Christmas Greeting to the Christian world. In his traditional holiday greeting, Netanyahu stated: “To all of our Christian friends around the…

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16 Point Position Paper

In the spirit of these holidays, we are expressing our joy and elation over the 16 point position paper on Israel (please take time to read it below) written by Jason Dov Greenblatt and David Friedman (Friedman recently chosen by Trump as US Ambassador to Israel). We could not have expressed these 16 points any…

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Next Year in Jerusalem?

By James S. Robbins, U.S. News— In his March 2016 speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, then-candidate Donald Trump promised that his administration would “move the U.S. embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” Last week, ambassador to Israel designate David Friedman said he looks forward to working…

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Israel Shows What It Means to ‘Love Your Enemies’

By Israel Today— Israel won’t give an inch when it comes to defending against the state’s enemies. Every shot from Syria that crosses the border is met with a far stronger Israeli military response. But Israel also won’t sit idly by while its enemies suffer. Syria has openly declared itself an enemy of Israel. Dictator…

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Change is coming and change can be good

By Shoshana Bryan, Jewish Policy Center— President-elect Trump’s choice of David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel appears to be an excellent decision. It has already brought howls of protest from people invested heavily in the Oslo and subsequent accords, the “peace process” and the concept of the United States as an “evenhanded” broker between Israelis…

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Light in a dark world

By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— When the stars lined up to lighten the path of the Wise Men as they travelled from the East to worship the new-born King of the Jews, it was the dawning of an amazing new era. Now, 2,000 years later, the Jewish feast of Hanukkah coincides with Christmas. They are…

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Trump Advisor: West Bank Belongs to Israel

By Israel Today— A senior official in US President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team visited this week and stated that the so-called “West Bank” clearly belongs to Israel. Becky Norton Dunlop (pictured) was touring the areas known biblically as Judea and Samaria when she told reporters: “Anyone who comes and visits Judea and Samaria sees that…

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Dermer calls on Trump to move embassy to Jerusalem

By Michael Wilner, JPost— Israel’s ambassador to the US on Tuesday called on President- elect Donald Trump to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv, where it has been since the early days of the state, to Jerusalem. At his annual Hanukkah reception, Ambassador Ron Dermer said such a move “would be a great step…

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Video: Light of the Light

The Light of the Light short art film is dedicated to the Enlightened Memory of the Inna Rogatchi’s grandfathers, Abram Elovich and Eliahu Bujanover. Both of them were top engineers. Abram Elovich had been the son of devoted Zionists, and was instrumental during the WWII in the process of inventing and producing special anti-tank steel…

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Trump’s envoy to Israel is ready to slay some sacred cows

By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe— DAVID FRIEDMAN avidly supports expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank, unequivocally rejects a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and strongly believes the US embassy in Israel should be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Those positions put Friedman — Donald Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer and close friend —…

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Dermer calls on Trump to move embassy to Jerusalem

By Michael Wilner, JPOST— Israel’s Ambassador to the United States on Tuesday called on President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv, where it has been since the early days of the state, to Jerusalem. At his annual Hanukkah receptions Ambassador Ron Dermer said that such a move “would be a great…

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12 dead, 50 injured as truck plows into crowd at Berlin market

By Israel Hayom— A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing 12 people and injuring 50 others in what Germany’s interior minister said looked like a terrorist attack. Local media reported Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, but security sources said those claims were still being…

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