Wounded…and dangerous
By CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST — “Israel cannot be lured into complacency by Kerry’s buffoonery or Obama’s apparent political weakness.” US Secretary of State John Kerry looks like a bit of an idiot these days. On Monday he announced that he will be returning to Israel and the Palestinian Authority and Jordan for the fifth…
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Abbas: No peace without J'lem as Palestinian capital
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Wednesday that there would be no peace or a Palestinian state without Jerusalem as the capital of that state. “We won’t accept any city other than Jerusalem as our capital,” Abbas said during a speech at a conference on Jerusalem in Ramallah. “The responsibility…
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Congressmen urge US to move embassy to Jerusalem
By THE EMET REPORT — The heads of the bipartisan Congressional Israel Allies Caucus on Tuesday urged the Obama administration to move the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. “We strongly believe that Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of Israel with no waivers and no caveats,” said Congressman Doug Lamborn, in an event…
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Large US Marine force lands in Aqaba to deploy on Jordanian-Syrian border
By DEBKAfile, Exclusive Report — A large American military force disembarked Tuesday, June 4, at the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba – ready for deployment on the kingdom’s Syrian border, debkafile’s exclusive military sources report. The force made its way north along the Aqaba-Jerash-Ajilon mountain road bisecting Jordan from south to north, under heavy Jordanian…
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Samantha Power, Obama's pick as America's Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in
By ED LASKY, AMERICAN THINKER— Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama’s criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open arms at the United Nations. We at American Thinker have been warning about her influence with…
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When all else fails, lean on Israel
By RON JAGER— When all else fails, lean on Israel which in today’s political environment means unilateralism. Now that Secretary of State Kerry has come and gone back home with little to show for his efforts as far as resuscitating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, we have been inundated with expectations to initiate…
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Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie and his Jew-Hating Friends
By PAM GELLER, ARUTZ 7— After the Jerusalem Post ran a vicious defamatory article by the uber-left Rabbi Yoffie, President of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ), I submitted a response to his unchallenged and unsubstantiated libel to Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde. Linde bounced me to Sara Miller, Managing Editor of JPost.com, who procrastinated and…
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A Palestinian Arab State / A Palestinian Arab People? They Never Existed!
By EARL COX, JPOST — Prime Minister Netanyahu is being pressured from all sides, and especially the Obama Administration, to restart peace talks and give up Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian state. The pleas come shrouded in willful ignorance that there is no true Arab Palestinian people, and the Arabs making the demands are…
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Scripture Reading for June 8, 2013
Torah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32, “Korach” (Korah …) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 22: 15 – 22, “Hacul Haperusim” (Then the Pharisees … )
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Spot Report: Is the Gog and Magog war coming soon?
Think on this: “Surely the Sovereign Yahweh does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7) Pray on this: Father you have said “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you and watch over you.” It’s with confidence in your promises that…
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“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child…
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Jewish converts offer a window on conservative Christianity
By AP — “My dad had his conversion before I was even born,” Sam Phillips said Thursday. “Growing up, my dad went to Jewish camp in the summer,” Mr. Phillips, 26, said of his father, Howard J. Phillips, founder of the Conservative Caucus, who died last month. “We just found this old 8-millimeter video of…
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Is Christian Evangelical Support for Israel Kosher?
By MATTHEW M. HAUSMAN, ARUTZ 7 — Some Christians embrace Jews and Israel for the right reasons while others do not. Support for Israel among evangelical Christians is a growing phenomenon that has many American Jews scratching their heads and asking questions. Is Christian support sincere or is it merely subterfuge to facilitate the missionary…
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What did Paul Believe about Judaism?
By Dr. Brad Young It is common in Christian academic circles to debate whether or not Paul was the “second founder of Christianity” who converted from Judaism to start a new religion. I disagree with this view because I cannot accept the simplistic explanation that Jesus was a loyal Jew, faithful to his people, while…
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‘The US or Israel — who should strike Iran?’
By GAVRIEL FISKE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Position paper weighing US and Israeli military options against Iran, written by retired US Marine Corps general James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin, former IAF head and military intelligence chief, posits that a US-led strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities would be preferable from a military standpoint, while an Israeli…
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