By ALAN DERSHOWITZ, GATESTONE— President Barack Obama has rightfully condemned the ISIS beheading of American James Foley in the strongest terms. This is what he said: “There has to be a common effort to extract this cancer so it does not spread. There has to be a clear rejection of the kind of a nihilistic…
DetailsBy David Rubin— The “Islamic State” terrorist group active in Iraq, in Syria, and even in Gaza, has sounded a wake-up call to the West to arise from its slumber. The message should be clear – The Islamic threat is based on a greater ideology, which happens to be dominant one in Islam as it…
DetailsRomans 11 11 I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to God against Israel:…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— Indifference is an attribute that cannot under any circumstances reflect acceptable behavior by political leaders. Even great leaders can fall prey to the seductive effect of indifference and perceive the physical existence and suffering of their own countrymen in acceptable terms. Not since the days of the second “intifada” when all of…
DetailsBy BREITBART— “As for the massacres taking place in Gaza against the Muslim men, women and children, then the Islamic State will do everything within its means to continue striking down every apostate who stands as an obstacle on its paths towards Palestine,” the group announced in a statement not attributed to any spokesman in…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Outside the US, throughout the Western world, anti-Semitism is becoming a powerful social and political force. And its power is beginning to have a significant impact on Israel’s relations with other democracies. Consider South Africa. Following a lopsided vote by the University of Cape Town’s Student Union to boycott Israel, Jewish…
DetailsBy JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN— ISLAM is the only world religion younger than all the others. It is not, I repeat not, the third monotheistic religion after Judaism and Christianity, because Allah is a supreme desert deity, a moon god, and definitely not the God of Israel or the Father of Jesus Christ. According…
DetailsBy SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky has joined a growing chorus of high-profile figures in casting doubt on the viability of European Jewry in an article in The Jewish Chronicle. Writing in the UK’s oldest Jewish newspaper, Sharansky said that he believed that “we are seeing the beginning of the end of Jewish…
Details“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”—Winston Churchill after Chamberlain signed the Munich pact
Think on this: “This is what Yahweh says: ‘See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.” (Isaiah 49:22) Pray on this: Father, move in our spirit by your Holy Spirit and give…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Pastor Steven Khoury of Holy Land Missions demonstrated a true Christian response to the Gaza war last week by seeking fellowship with and expressing love toward those who, as an Arab, should be his enemies. Khoury, who has done much work with the Christians of Gaza, and recently called for prayer for…
DetailsBy GILL HOFFMAN, JPOST— In his weekend interview with New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, President Barack Obama offered some political analysis on the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Asked whether he should be more vigorous in pressing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas to reach a land-for-peace deal, Obama…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— When violence flares between Israel and the Palestinians, it always becomes a game of numbers, the facts and root causes of the confrontation be damned. And so, Israel always ends up being the loser, given that it actually tries to protect the lives of civilians, and far more effectively uses…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 7:12 – 11:25, “Eikev” (on the heel of …) Haftorah: Isaiah: 49:14 – 51:3 New Testament: Hebrews 11: 1 – 13 Gospel: John 3: 14 – 21, “Kamo Shehigbeha” (As Moses lifted up…)
Details“To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.” — George Washington
Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, MK Moshe Feiglin responds to accusations made by Hamas Leader Osama on Wolf Blitzer’s program, ‘The Situation Room’ on CNN.
