By RON JAGER— When Gush Katif was destroyed nine years ago, four communities from the Northern Samaria were also systematically destroyed and cleansed of any Jewish presence. These four communities, along with the rest of the Gush Katif communities located in the Gaza Strip, were overnight, simply wiped off the map. For many of us…
DetailsBy SHOULA ROMANO HORING: YNET— Op-ed: It seems Jewish Democratic senators will choose President Obama’s agenda every time over Israel’s survival, and are even willing in the process to throw the Jewish state under the bus — It is a sad moment in history when the president of the dictatorial Iranian Islamic regime’s characterization of…
DetailsBY ARYEH SAVIR, YNET— Yad Vashem held an event last Thursday posthumously honoring Maria Zurawska as Righteous Among the Nations from Poland. The medal and certificate of honor were accepted by her daughter, Bronislawa Skoczylas, who arrived from Poland to attend the ceremony. The ceremony took place in the presence of Polish Ambassador to Israel…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— To hear it from the White House, and from Israel’s leftist media, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon is a major liability. As half the planet now knows, Ya’alon is harshly critical of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s persistent efforts to force Israel to surrender its land and ability to defend itself…
DetailsBy LAURA PAYTON, CBC NEWS— Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke fiercely in defence of Israel Monday, accusing critics of anti-Semitism, vowing to stand with the country, and drawing heckles from two legislators who eventually stormed out of his speech to the Knesset. “Through fire and water, Canada will stand with you,” Harper said in closing…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 21:1 – 24:18, “Mishpatim” (Judgments …) Haftorah: Jeremiah 32: 8 – 22; 33:25 – 26 New Testament: Romans 8:1 – 4 Gospel: Matthew 5:17 – 20: “Al tachshuv” (Do not think …)
Details“If you find that Jewish people are rather reluctant to acknowledge the claims of Jesus, or to give ear to the claims of the Christian gospel, you need to bear that fact in mind. They have a background of sixteen or more centuries of vicious, unjust persecution carried out in the name of Christ by…
Details“We hereby inform the people of Israel and the entire world that under heavenly command we have just returned home in the elevations of holiness and our holy city. We shall never move out of here.”—Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook at the Western Wall right after its liberation, 1967
By MICHAEL FREUND— With an impeccable sense of timing, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Israel earlier this week, attended the funeral of Ariel Sharon, and then proceeded to browbeat Israel in public. Speaking with reporters, Steinmeier accused the Jewish state of “damaging” the peace process by building homes for Jews in Judea and…
DetailsIn 1941, Haj Amin al-Husseini fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world. The Mufti sent Hitler 15 drafts of declarations he wanted Germany and Italy to make concerning the Middle…
DetailsBy ARYEH TEPPER, WEEKLY STANDARD— If Israel withdrew to the 1967 borders, what then? Even with al Qaeda making gains across the Middle East and Iran still enriching uranium in its march to a nuclear breakout, John Kerry’s attention is focused on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. He has visited Israel 10 times since becoming secretary…
DetailsBy JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— President Obama and his allies are working overtime this week to lobby the Senate against passage of a new round of tough sanctions on Iran. The conceit of his campaign to persuade Congress not to give him more leverage over Tehran is that even the threat of further economic pressure on…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad marked the anniversary of the December 2008-January 2009 “Gaza War” with Israel by telling Palestinians that they would fully liberate the entirety of “Palestine” within eight years. According to Hamad, Islamic prophecies foretell that Israel will be replaced with a Palestinian state. This goal, the destruction of…
DetailsBy ARI YASHAR, ARUTZ 7— Brigadier General (Res.) Amatzia (“Patzi”) Chen, who was a member of Ariel Sharon’s legendary 101st Unit, praised Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon’s criticism of US Secretary of State John Kerry, in which Yaalon slammed Kerry for operating “based upon an unfathomable obsession and a messianic feeling.” “Yaalon said clear things; there…
DetailsThink on this: “On that day YAHWEH made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land from the river of Egypt to the great river the Euphrates.’”…”I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to the them, and I will inspire them to fear…
DetailsBy REUTERS— Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during a visit to the region as head of a US delegation to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral on Monday, Biden’s office said. Biden’s meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be a chance for the vice president to try to further…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE— Those who have perpetrated a deplorable anti-Israel falsehood and outrage on the grounds of St. James Church in Piccadilly, London have done so fully knowing that their intention is to promote the ugliest PLO and Palestinian Authority propaganda. The church has installed a life size 8 meter tall/30 meter long replica of…
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