Wish I’d said that

BY Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller Protestant pastor and righteous gentile living in Nazi Germany— When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did…

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A Power-packed seminar

Christians, Jews and Israel Standing Together in Troubled Times Presented by Dr. Richard Booker, Sounds of the Trumpet Saturday, February 22nd, 9am to 3pm East Hempstead, Texas Now more than ever, Christians and Jews must stand together in these troubled times. We can no longer maintain the status quo of being separated due to historical…

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Hamas cell nabbed on Temple Mount

By MAAYANA MISKIN, ARUTZ 7— The Israel Police, working with the Shin Bet security service, have nabbed over a dozen members of a Hamas-linked terrorist cell in Jerusalem. The senior members of the cell funded and directed terrorist activity in the capital city, including attacks on Jews on the Temple Mount. One of their primary…

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Poll: Most Americans think Obama not doing enough to stop Iran

By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST— The American public overwhelmingly supports Israel in most issues, but opposes US President Barack Obama’s positions on related matters, according to a poll commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America released Tuesday. “President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry should heed these results,” ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said. “They…

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Ethnic cleansing and apartheid Palestine

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Nearly 15 years ago, a tall, lanky legislator from Massachusetts arose in the US Senate and delivered a brief yet impassioned call to stop what was deemed to be ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. With a concurrent resolution on the table authorizing US president Bill Clinton to launch air operations and…

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Special exhibit of the The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited hosted in Ukraine

By INNA ROGATHCHI— A special exhibition of The Auschwitz Album Re-Visited will be opened at the Jewish People Memory and Holocaust Museum in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in commemoration of the International Holocaust and Remembrance Day at the end of January 2014. The exhibition–representing the unique art work by the well-known American artist Pat Mercer Hutchens–is curated…

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Anti-semitism and the boycott of Israel

By SUSAN HATTIS ROLEF, JPOST— In his exceptionally warm speech in the Knesset last Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper rightly pointed out that the attacks that Israel endures in the international community regarding its alleged or actual wrongdoings are totally out of proportion by any measure, and are frequently motivated by a new variety…

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A visit to Auschwitz

By BAN KI-MOON, YNET— This year’s observance of the International Remembrance Day on January 27 – the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp – falls at a time when there are reminders all around us of the dangers of forgetting. This year marks two decades since the genocide in Rwanda. Conflicts in…

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Jews cannot escape the Holocaust

By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— An unprecedented Israeli delegation will attend Monday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day events in Poland. In a week where SS commander Heinrich Himmler’s personal letters were unearthed, it is only symbolic that the sovereign Jewish state makes this symbolic gesture. The renewed interest in the Holocaust can be attributed to the…

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Wish I’d said that

“The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream- stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other peoples have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out, and they sit in the…

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Shin Bet foils major al-Qaida terror plot against Israel

By ISRAEL HAYOM— It could have been one of the worst terror attacks in Israeli history: Two suicide bombers detonating themselves at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, followed by a truck bomb exploding as rescue forces arrived. At the same time, suicide bombers would also attack the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. This al-Qaida…

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Israel keeps its options open on Iran

By ILAN BERMAN, FORBES— Is an Israeli military attack against Iran truly off the table? Conventional wisdom certainly seems to think that it is. In the aftermath of the signing of an interim nuclear deal in Geneva this past November, the foreign policy cognoscenti in Washington, and elsewhere, have been vocal about the fact that…

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Palestine is a geographical area, not a nationality

By ELI HERTZ, MYTHS AND FACTS— The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s called the Palestinians, specifically for political gain. They brand Israelis as invaders and claim the geographic area called Palestine belongs exclusively to the Arabs. The word Palestine is not even Arabic. It is a word coined by the Romans…

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