Why the Palestinians Refuse to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State

By ALI SALIM, GATESTONE— The world watches while the Palestinian Authority is actively promoting a campaign for an academic boycott and economic sanctions to be imposed on Israel, evidently backed by veiled threats from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. First, every Muslim knows that the Jews in Israel are the descendants of the ancient…

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Video: John Kerry Solutions Inc. Israel Tour, February 2014

An Israeli satire group has posted a video to YouTube skewering US Secretary of State John Kerry for proposing purportedly “new” ideas to solve the Middle East conflict, while in fact the diplomat’s plan is made up of rehashed and failed concepts. One telling point in the video has the actor playing Kerry looking out…

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A crime against history and religion

By VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s Minister of Propaganda infamously said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” He told lies about the hapless Jews and millions of Germans and other Europeans believed them and willingly participated in the Holocaust.…

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Trying to scare us

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Finance Minister Yair Lapid delivered a scary speech on Wednesday. At the Institute of National Security Studies conference, Lapid warned that if we don’t accept US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for negotiations, the Europeans are going to take away our money. Lapid claimed that Israel’s economic future is dependent…

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Despite decades of enmity, Israel quietly aids Syrian civilians

By ISABEL KERSHNER, NY TIMES— Two brothers, ages 10 and 8, were playing marbles outside their home in a town in Syria when a rocket decapitated the older one and critically wounded his sibling. Having rushed the surviving child to a local hospital, the mother recalled, medics told her: “If you want to save your…

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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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The Bible as history

By VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— When I was still a teenager I had the great good fortune to find a book in my local library that had a profound effect on my understanding of the Book of Books, the Bible; both as a most marvelous history book as well as an indispensable affirmation of personal…

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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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