By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel on Wednesday to limit settlement building, an issue that is weighing on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Friction over the talks has risen this past week on the back of Israeli plans, announced in tandem with its release of 26 Palestinian prisoners, for some…
DetailsBy GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— A Knesset debate on the implementation of equal Jewish prayer rights at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount degenerated into a shouting match Monday, as Arab Knesset Members used threatening words and aggressive body language to disrupt the meeting. Chairwoman of the Committee of Interior, MK Miri Regev (Likud), appeared largely helpless in…
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— “We want the Americans to be involved in the peace process. But the U.S. should focus its pressure on the Israelis and not on us. We want the Americans to force Israel to accept the two-state solution and dismantle all the illegal settlements.” — Senior aide to Palestinian Authority’s Mahmoud…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— “Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, is obsolete. “It has existed in the past, it is here in the present, and will, alas, be there in the future. “The all-powerful state is not a new world that…
Details“I refused to accept the moral equivalence between Palstinian suicide attacks on innocent civilians an Israeli military actions intented to protect their people. My views came into sharper focus after 9/11. If the United States had the right to defend itself and prevent future attacks, other democracies had those rights, too.”— George W. Bush in…
DetailsBy ELIOR LEVY, YNET— US Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in Israel on Tuesday as tensions surrounding peace talks reach boiling point. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently told Fatah officials that there has been no progress in the negotiations and warned talks could break down. He pointed a finger at Israel for linking…
DetailsThink on this: “Yahweh will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees their strength is gone and no one is left, slave or free.”… “Rejoice oh Gentiles with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for…
DetailsJoshua Aaron sings the praise and worship song “How Great is our God” in Hebrew. Set in Jerusalem, this music video will stir the hearts of every believer.
By GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has rejected the Palestinian Authority (PA) contention, that recent decisions on construction in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria contravene agreements reached at the outset of negotiations between Israel and the PA, three months ago. He said that the Palestinians knew full well when the talks began that…
DetailsBy DEBKAFILE— Tehran did its utmost to conceal the mystery blast which last week struck the heavy water reactor under construction at Arak in western Iran. It is revealed here for the first time by debkafile’s intelligence and Iranian sources. The explosion, whether accidental or not, will delay for a second time the reactor’s first…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Most of the world continues to level accusations against Israel as forever being the antagonist in the Middle East. The rewriting of history to eradicate any of Israel’s right to exist has long been a goal of the Palestinian Authority. A cursory look at history reveals that the term Palestine…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described arch-foe Israel as an “illegitimate and bastard” regime on Sunday, as he hit out at its alliance with the United States. “The Zionist regime is an illegitimate and bastard regime,” Khamenei said in remarks carried by his website. “The Americans have the highest indulgence towards…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Earlier this month a group of prominent Israeli rabbis issued a call for earnest prayers against the division of the Land of Israel, as currently being negotiated by Israeli, American and Palestinian officials. “For the past several months there have been ongoing diplomatic negotiations centering on the demand to give…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 28:10 – 32:3, “Vayetzel” (and he went out …) Haftorah: Hosea 12:13 – 14:10 New Testament: Romans 9:6 – 15 Gospel: John 1:19 – 51, “Adut shel Yochanan” (The testimony of John…)
DetailsBy ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST— Israel conducted air raids against a Syrian missile base near the port city of Latakia early on Thursday, according to an anonymous US administration official. The official, speaking to CNN, said Israel targeted missiles and related equipment out of concern that they would be transferred to Hezbollah. It is unclear…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. In global strategic diplomacy, rule number one has always been; don’t blink. In recent months President Obama has been doing a lot of blinking, forfeiting hard gained leverage…
DetailsBy LEE SMITH, TABLET— This past weekend the White House clarified yet again what’s been apparent to everyone in the Middle East for quite a while now: The United States wants out, for real. “There’s a whole world out there,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told the New York Times, “and we’ve got interests and…
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