Kerry: Persona non grata

By GUY BECHOR, YNET — After betraying Israel, can Kerry be trusted as ‘loyal’ mediator in peace talks with Palestinians? The United States’ status in the Middle East hasn’t reached such a low in many years, so low that Secretary of State John Kerry has actually become a persona non grata in most of the…

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‘Israelis don’t believe in two-state solution’

By MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar, of Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), dismissed calls for the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state in Judea and Samaria, saying that the number of Israelis who still believe in the “Two-State Solution” can “fit in two telephone booths”. “And…

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A vastly changed Middle East

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— A week and a half ago, Syria’s Kurds announced they are setting up an autonomous region in northeastern Syria. The announcement came after the Kurds wrested control over a chain of towns from al Qaida in the ever metastasizing Syrian civil war. The Kurds’ announcement enraged their nominal Sunni allies —…

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Open season on the Jews

By RON JAGER— I think it’s time that we all gave “Uncle Tom Friedman” a round of thanks for his latest “wake-up call” article. In his latest column in the New York Times, “Let’s make a Deal”, Friedman writes and by doing so has officially declared open season on the Jews, this should be a…

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Obama’s Iran moves could start World War III

By NOAH BECK, ISRAEL TODAY— According to a recent news report, President Barack Obama has for over a year secretly conducted negotiations with Iran (through his adviser Valerie Jarrett) and the Geneva talks on Iranian nukes now appear to be just a facade providing international legitimacy for Obama’s secret deal with Iran. Secretary of State…

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Wish I’d said that

“What was achieved last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it is a historic mistake. Today the world has become a much more dangerous place because the most dangerous regime in the world has taken a significant step toward attaining the most dangerous weapon in the world. Israel is not bound by this…

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Israel in the Philippines

By JPOST— Facing devastation and destruction compounded by mind-numbing humidity and heat, a delegation of some 150 members of the IDF’s Home Front Command have “set up shop” in Bogo, a poor agricultural town on Cebu Island in the Philippines. In the wake of Typhoon Haiyan, thought to be the most powerful storm ever to…

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This week’s prayer points

#1.  IRAN The P5+1, made up of the US, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany met in Geneva to negotiate a settlement with Iran regarding that nation’s nuclear development.  Blessedly, no agreement was signed during this round of talks.  This international committee continued to march toward appeasing Iran, through lessening sanctions, which would return tens…

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Abbas: Regardless of what happens, peace talks to continue

By AFP— Peace talks with Israel will continue for the full nine months as agreed with Washington “regardless of what happens on the ground”, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told AFP on Sunday. In an exclusive interview at his Muqataa headquarters in Ramallah, the Palestinian leader also called for an international inquiry to determine who was…

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White House Could Help Birth Nuclear Iran

By ILAN BERMAN, USA TODAY— Commenting on the gullibility of the credulous American consumer nearly a century ago, the famous showman PT Barnum is said to have remarked that “there’s a sucker born every minute.” To see what this looks like in practice, you need only look at the deal that the Obama administration was…

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The counterfeit Arabs

By VICTOR SHARPE— They are the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians. They are indistinguishable from those Arabs who live in the surrounding artificial states such as Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both powers were victorious after the Ottoman Turkish Empire…

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Kerry and Biden Ask for Room to Reach a Nuclear Deal With Iran

By JONATHAN WEISMAN and MICHAEL GORDON, NY TIMES— Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. pressed senators on Wednesday to give the Obama administration some breathing room to reach an accord with Iran to freeze its nuclear programs, warning that a new round of sanctions could mean war instead of…

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