IN PICTURES: Thousands of Iranian soldiers stage mock siege of Temple Mount

By Daniel J Roth, JPOST— Thousands of Iranian paramilitary forces participated in mock drills and exercises simulating the capture of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported Friday. Constructing a plastic replica of the al-Aksa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, “tens of thousands of soldiers” conducted staged exercises dubbed “Towards…

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Why the Palestinians Keep Killing

By JONATHAN S. TOBIN, Commentary Magazine— What if the supposed cause of terrorism against Israel were based on a lie? That’s the awful fact that was exposed yesterday by none other than Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Abbas admitted that in 2008 he flatly rejected an offer of statehood…

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Column One: Who is being delusional?

By Caroline Glick, JPOST— On Tuesday night, Channel 10 broadcast an interview with PLO chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas admitted publicly for the first time that he rejected the peace plan then prime minister Ehud Olmert offered him in 2008. Olmert’s plan called for Israel to withdraw from the entire…

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Christian Apathy Contributes to Terrorism and Anti-Semitism.

By Earl Cox, JPOST— Where are all of the Christians who should be standing for right and against wrong? Where are all of the Christians who should be standing for Israel? G-d Himself in Genesis 12:3 said, “I will bless those who bless you (Israel) and the one who curses you (does not stand) I…

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PICTURES FROM PARIS, AUTUMN 2015

By Inna Rogatchi (C) Photo-essay with highlights. On a night following the carnage in Paris on November 13th, 2015, I saw the Mayor of the city Anne Hidalgo on the French TV screen. She was interviewed in the early hours after the attacks. The Mayor looked pale and shocked. She could only mumble:” The toll…

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Jordan’s King Abdullah: We are facing a Third World War

By: Reuters, JPOST: The world is facing another global conflict and a fast response is needed to deal with the threat, Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Tuesday. “We are facing a Third World War against humanity and this is what brings us all altogether,” he told a news conference in Kosovo’s capital Pristina. “This is…

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The Islamist Tantrum

By Brett Stephens, Wall Street Journal— People are dead in Paris because Europe decided to make a fetish of its tolerance for intolerance. We live in the age of the sanctified tantrum—the political and religious furies we dare not name or shame, much less confront. Students bully college administrators with contrived political demands. The administrators…

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Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values

By: Leigh Ann Caldwell, NBC News—   As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world. The new agency, which he hasn’t yet named, would promote a Jewish- and Christian-based belief system to four regions of…

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Schumer: ‘Condoning’ Terror Against Israel Led to Paris Attacks

By Jacob Kornbluh, Jewish Insider— The world is now paying the price of not standing up to terrorism when it was directed only at Israel, as it had witnessed the murder of 132 people in the streets of Paris Friday night, Senator Chuck Schumer said on Sunday. Speaking at the National Committee for Furtherance of…

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Radical Islam- The invisible enemy

By Caroline Glick, Jpost— As the cleaning crews were mopping up the dried blood from the stage and the seats of the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a depressing act appeared on stage in distant Iowa. Saturday night the three contenders for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination took to the stage in Iowa for a…

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Spot Report: “How God’s shepherds must respond to Paris.”

Think on this: “Be always on the watch, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.” (Luke 21:36) Pray like this: Father, give your shepherds the discipline to develop a coherent view of the…

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Toronto Sun: Suing Facebook another step in fighting terrorism

By Don Peat— JERUSALEM – Facebook probably isn’t going to like Nitsana Darshan-Leitner anytime soon. The lawyer and director of Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center has made headlines by taking terrorists to court along with any financial organizations that provide them assistance. But now the lawyer has the social network in her sights. Darshan-Leitner recently sued…

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Iran master negotiators practiced in the art of deception.

By Earl Cox, JPOST— On the day thousands of Iranians celebrated the 36th anniversary of the destruction of the US embassy by burning the American flag, chanting ‘Death to America’ and ‘Down with Israel,’ I decided to review the Iran deal as it’s been reported thus far. Most people around the world believe the Iranian…

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