Scripture Reading for August 1, 2014
Torah: Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22 “Devarim” (Words …) Haftorah: Isaiah 1:1 – 27 New Testament: Acts 9:1 – 21 Gospel: Matthew 16:13 – 20 “Talmidauv” (Deciples …)
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Video: Feel the joy
Despite turbulent times, people are dancing in the streets. Why? Because they’re happy to be in Jerusalem.
Spot Report: Christians and Jews joined at the hip
Think on this: “If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” (Galatians 3:29) Pray on this: Gracious Father, grant that by your Holy Spirit, we might know our true identity. Help us to understand that we have been grafted into the Israel of God (and not the…
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Hamas’ top ten hiding places
By SHARONA SCHWARTZ, THE BLAZE— In their effort to avoid detection by the Israeli military, Hamas militants in Gaza have employed tactics including traveling in ambulances, hiding in hospitals, dressing up in Israeli army uniforms, concealing rockets in United Nations schools, concealing tunnel entrances near mosques and using animals for suicide missions. Here’s a survey…
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Obama to the rescue, of Hamas
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Operation Protective Edge is now two weeks old. Since the ground offensive began Thursday night, we have begun to get a better picture of just how dangerous Hamas has become in the nine years since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. And what we have learned is that the time has…
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Terrorists and the media make for perfect bedfellows
By VICTOR SHARPE— Terrorism needs its poison spewed to as wide a viewing audience as possible. This still begs the question: how can people of principle and truth respond so lamentably towards those who wave their automatic weapons and fire deadly missiles through the orb of the blue sky, bringing down passenger planes or indiscriminately…
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The Hate-Wave All Over the Islamised West
By DR INNA ROGATCHI, ROGATCHI FOUNDATION— The wave of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred has sprung all over Europe readily seizing the pretext of the completely justified Israeli military operation in Gaza. Mass demonstrations in London and the other cities of the United Kingdom, violent riots in Paris, ‘Kristallnaght’-style attacks on synagogues in France, Ireland and…
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Truth Report: “So you want to go to heaven?”
“If you confess Jesus as LORD (Yahweh) and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” (Romans 10:9) AND THAT’S THE TRUTH!!!
A tale of two Gazas
By JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGE MAG— There are two Gazas. One is at street level, where Palestinian civilians serve as Hamas’s human shields in the face of Israel’s narrowly targeted response to the more than 1500 rockets that have rained down on its citizens in recent days. The other is the subterranean Gaza, consisting of a…
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No more aid to the Palestinian Authority
By CAL THOMAS, JPOST— The anti-Semitic “tradition” of blaming Jews for the world’s problems mostly took a temporary back seat in light of the indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas. Major newspaper editorials condemned Hamas, but their condemnation was hedged by calls for “restraint” on “both sides” and “proportionality” in Israel’s…
DetailsIsraelis are givers; Palestinians are takers
By EARL COX, JPOST— Whoever wins the war of public opinion will smell victorious. Hamas knows this and they expertly play to the media who buy into all their twisted fairytales. Hamas plays the victim role beautifully and flawlessly, calling the media to come see what Israel did. Hamas lacks conscience, lacks compassion and Hamas…
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When the “Start-Up Nation” became the “Shoot-Down” Nation
BY RON JAGER— Over the past few days as one goes about doing routine chores, it’s almost impossible not to notice something different in our national pace. Even though sirens shriek every once in a while there is a kind of quietness, a kind of tranquility that always seems to be present during war time.…
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On Israel, Democrats are losing moral clarity
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— THE PEW Research Center last week released a new survey of American attitudes in the Middle East. The results weren’t surprising. In the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, 51 percent of Americans say they sympathize more with Israel. Only 14 percent feel greater affinity for the Palestinians. Pew’s findings…
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Hamas uses “Suicide donkeys”
By LEA SPEYER, BIN— As the IDF continues its operations against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, the terror organization is turning to some unusual, and what some deem desperate, tactics against Israeli forces. On Friday, the army confirmed that terrorists attempted to attack soldiers using a donkey laden with explosives. Soldiers in the Rafah…
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Another blood libel against Israel
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ— Some well-meaning Israeli intellectuals are encouraging a blood libel against all Israelis for the gruesome murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir, which was apparently committed by a handful of extremists, some of whom may have had serious mental problems. A front-page article in The New York Times (July 11, 2014) quotes Anshel Pfeffer,…
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The Gaza question
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With Israel poised to launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, the country finds itself at an important crossroads, one that could determine the strategic environment for many years to come. The daily barrage of rocket fire, coupled with the ability of Hamas missiles to reach as far as Haifa,…
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It’s Another “Death to the Jews” Weekend
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTANKNISH— From Berkeley to Boston and from Paris to Sydney, the season is upon us again. Hipsters twirl Keffiyahs from some Shanghai factory around their necks, don army surplus jackets and Decembrist t-shirts and head to the nearest Israeli embassy to scream about a new Holocaust. Shiites and Sunnis temporarily put aside their…
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Scripture Reading for July 26, 2014
Torah: Numbers 33:1 – 36:13, “Masei” (Journeys of … ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 2:4 – 28; 3:4 New Testament: James 4:1 – 12 Gospel: Matthew 7:7 – 12, “Badshu” (Ask … )
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