Netanyahu pays tribute to fallen soldiers

By JPOST— Israel began paying tribute to its 23,169 casualties of war and terrorism on Sunday as events marking Remembrance Day for the Fallen of Israel’s Wars and Victims of Terrorism commenced at the Yad Labanim memorial site in Jerusalem. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, Supreme Court…

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Israel bows its head in remembrance

By ISRAEL HAYOM— Israel will mark Memorial Day for the Fallen Soldiers of Israel and Victims of Terrorism over the next 24 hours, with a series of services that are scheduled to begin on Sunday afternoon. The first state ceremony honoring Israel’s 23,169 fallen soldiers is scheduled to be held at 4 p.m. at Jerusalem’s…

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Fatah official said liberated land would be soaked in blood

By ITAMAR MARCUS AND NAN JACQUES ZILBERDIK, PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH— Even at the height of the peace negotiations with Israel, in December 2013, Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi said that Palestinians were not committed to non-violence. Rather, he said that negotiations are just one option, and do not preclude use of the “rifle,” which the Palestinians…

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Spot Report: Stop financing terrorists

Think on this: “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For…

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Wish I’d said that

“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men possessed of these other excellent qualities are chosen to fill the seats of government, we…

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Israel greets 16,884 new immigrants in 2013

By SAM SOKOL, JPOST— Immigration to Israel increased by 2 percent in 2013, with over 16,000 olim arriving, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. Of the 16,884 immigrants who arrived last year, 43% came from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia and Ukraine, 17% came from France, 13% from the United States and…

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The Truth Report, Romans 9:2

Dr. Jim Hutchens, President of The Jerusalem Connection, speaks out against the rise of Palestinian Replacement Theology among modern evangelicals. Hutchens calls out the false teaching as a blasphemous message from Satan, and minces no words in his rebuke of some of Replacement Theology’s most ardent Christian spokespeople. Romans 9:2  “I have great sorrow and…

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John Kerry’s Jewish best friends

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand. John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid”…

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Boycott the Bigots – Not Israel

By EARL COX, JPOST — It was a sting, a slap in the face!  A leading Israeli scholar labeled it grave and akin to family betrayal. It is saddening that such a thing would occur in the United States.  The Palestinian BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions), after a 10-year history with some European success,…

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Palestinian Girl Confronts Anti-Israel Lies

By ISRAEL TODAY— Christy Anastas, a young Palestinian Christian woman from Bethlehem, has bravely released a compilation video in which she, in several different venues, confronts the joint lies that Israel is responsible for the suffering of the Palestinians and for the flight of fellow Christians from the city of Jesus’ birth. The Anastas family…

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Video: Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day

In 1945 renown movie director, Alfred Hitchcock was asked to produce a film that would document the horrors of the Holocaust. That movie proved so potent, so damning that the allies suppressed the film’s release. According to the Independent, Hitchcock’s documentary on the Holocaust was mothballed to the Imperial War Museum, much like the fictional…

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Amid Holocaust remembrance, antisemitism adapts and thrives

By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— IT WASN’T a failure of Holocaust remembrance that explains why Frazier Glenn Miller opened fire outside two Jewish community facilities in Overland Park, Kan., murdering three people on the day before Passover. Miller, a 73-year-old former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon, knows all about the Holocaust — enough, at any…

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The lessons of survival

By ROCHEL SYLVETSKY, ARUTZ 7— “I survived and that was a miracle”, says the late Simon Weisenthal, summing up his Holocaust experiences in a recently released documentary “The Lessons of Survival”, filmed by Dr. Inna Rogatchi. The riveting film is based on her never-before publicized conversations with the larger-than-life Nazi hunter as well as her…

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Time for consequences

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— It’s hard not to admire Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s brazenness. Two weeks ago, Abbas signed on to 15 international agreements that among other things require the PA to respect human rights and punish war criminals. And this week, he signed a unity deal with two genocidal terror groups all of…

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