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.…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBy 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,…
DetailsBy 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,…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsTorah: 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 … )
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Israel deployed ground forces in Gaza Thursday night both because Hamas’s terror tunnels into Israel have become an unacceptable threat, and because it had to break the deadlock that had developed between it and Hamas. Until the ground invasion, Israel and Hamas were in a holding pattern. Hamas would not accept…
DetailsIsrael has been under fire from Hamas for over a week now. Here are some prayer requests you can lift up on our behalf.
By YAAKOV LAPIN and HERB KEINON, JPOST— After days of waiting and deliberation, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday night directed the IDF to send ground troops into Gaza to strike the terror tunnels into Israel. The statement said the security cabinet approved the operation after Israel agreed to the Egyptian cease-fire proposal on Tuesday,…
DetailsBy JOHN W. SWAILS III, Ph.D, ORAL ROBERTS UNIVERSITY— Christian Zionists are very aware that their stand for the tiny state of Israel is not universally admired. Christian Zionism is, of course, a movement comprised of individuals, more often than not from a Protestant background, who support the modern state of Israel spiritually, politically, and…
DetailsBY Bret Stephens, WALL STREET JOURNAL— From time to time Israel and her supporters should give thanks for having as enemies the Palestinians and their supporters. As of midday Monday, Hamas had fired more than 1,000 missiles at Israel, aimed more or less indiscriminately, without inflicting a single Israeli fatality. It isn’t every enemy whose…
DetailsThink on this: “If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways, how quickly I would subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes! Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever. But you would be fed with the finest…
Details“As the historian of Anti-Semitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Anti-Semitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other hatreds may have surpassed it in intensity for a historical moment, but all in their turn have assumed—or presently commence to assume—their proper place in…
DetailsBY LEA SPEYER, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Update 3:20 p.m. Israel time: The cease-fire has been terminated after relentless rocket attacks on Israel by terrorists in Gaza. Red Alert sirens sounded across the state as more than 50 rockets have been shot into Israel since 9 a.m. this morning. The Israeli Air Force has resumed operations…
DetailsBY JEWISH POLICY CENTER— Israel commenced Operation Protective Edge following the kidnapping of three Israeli teens and an increase in rocket fire from Gaza. Israel launched strikes against 1,576 targets destroying Hamas’s command and control centers, missile launchers, tunnels and other assets. Some 1081 rockets have been launched at Israel, with approximately 191 intercepted by…
DetailsRomans 10:1-4 Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish…
DetailsBy JONATHAN SCHANZER, POLITICO— One week after the start of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge,” also known as Hamas’ “10th of Ramadan War,” Washington is looking on helplessly. President Barack Obama offered to mediate a ceasefire last week, but the move fell on deaf ears—on both sides. Secretary of State John Kerry then made a surprise…
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