ISIS is to America as Hamas is to Israel

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…

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Confusing Complacency for Resiliency

By 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…

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Islamic State to join Palestine to ‘fight the barbaric Jews’

By 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…

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Anti-Semitism and its limitations

By 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…

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The lie of Satan

By 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…

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Sharansky predicts ‘beginning of the end of Jewish history in Europe’

By 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…

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Palestinian Pastor Visits Israelis Under Rocket Fire

By 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…

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Is Obama right that Netanyahu is too ‘strong’ to make peace?

By 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…

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Hamas Caught Fudging the Numbers in Gaza

By 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…

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