BY MICHAEL SELUTIN, ISRAEL TODAY— Christians in Gaza protested against the forced conversion of some of their brothers in faith. They claim that two members of their congregation were kidnapped and had to convert to Islam against their own will. However, the police in Gaza announced that they are accommodated in the house of a…
DetailsBY ELLIOTT ABRAMS, CFR— Secretary of State Clinton is in Israel today, which is asurprising fact. According to several news sites, she has not visited there in two years. Secretary Condoleezza Rice visited there about 20 times, by my rough count. What accounts for this difference? Giventhe importance the United States usually places on the…
DetailsBY EARL COX— It is not likely that a person living in America could ever understand what it is to live in Israel. The stress engraved on the faces of most all Israel, young and old alike, is the result of living in an environment that can be likened to a yo-yo—peaceful one day and…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— It was just a matter of time before self-appointed prominent Jewish leaders in America got organized to send a letter to PM Netanyahu claiming that Israel’s int’l standing is in peril due to the recent judicial report by retired Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy who concluding that Israel is not occupying Judea…
DetailsBY ILAN BERMAN— When it comes to the financial markets, it is a rule of thumb that past success is a poor indicator of future performance. Sadly, it turns out, that’s also the case with political science. Take the latest offering from one of the field’s best and brightest. Kenneth N. Waltz, a decorated professor…
DetailsThink on this: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins… the fortified city will disappear and royal power from Damascus.”…”This is what Yahweh says: For three sins of Damascus even for four, I will not turn back my wrath…. I will break down the gate of Damascus, I…
DetailsBy DEBKA FILE — As the already unthinkable pace of slaughter in Syria accelerates further, Western military sources warned Saturday, July 14, that not only Israel, but additional strategic targets in Middle East lands deemed enemies by Bashar Assad should prepare for him to launch surface-to-surface missile attacks. The assaults would start out with conventional…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Two weeks ago, in an unofficial inauguration ceremony at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Mursi took off his mask of moderation. Before a crowd of scores of thousands, Mursi pledged to work for the release from US federal prison of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. According to The…
DetailsBY MORTON KLEIN, JEWISH DAILY FORWARD— I’ve heard and read many speeches on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Those made by well-known, hostile critics of Israel always caused me great pain by their use of hyperbole, absurd analogy and falsehoods. But I was not prepared for a speech by an American secretary of state with those very…
DetailsBY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, NATIONAL REVIEW— We are witnessing a seismic shift in global affairs. The shake-up is a perfect storm of political, demographic, and technological change that will soon make the world as we have known it for the last 30 years almost unrecognizable. Since the mid-1980s there have been a number of accepted…
DetailsSee Hasbara Fellowship’s viral new video that describes Israel’s many peace overtures in the language of a Facebook “friend request”. Share this video with your friends on Facebook!
DetailsBY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— What are the chances that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would ever sign a peace agreement with Israel? The answer: zero. Abbas, who is in his late 70s, has been in power since 2005 even though his term in office formally ended in January 2009. If Abbas did not sign…
DetailsBy MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST – CHRISTIAN EDITION— Film tries to undermine Evangelicals’ Zionism by linking group with dual covenant theology. There is a growing trend among Evangelical Christians of turning against Israel, as can be seen in the increasing number of screenings of the anti-Zionist film With God on Our Side in Evangelical churches and…
DetailsBY WILLIAM BIGELOW, BREITBART— How much does Barack Obama hate Israel and want to throw her under the bus? Here’s how much; the Obama administration not only excluded Israel from a new counterterrorism forum in Spain, it didn’t even mention Israel in its remarks. If there were ever a country that has dealt with murderous…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— In recent years, the industry of lies has demonized and delitigitimized the 650,000 “Invisible Jews” who live in over 120 communities beyond the green line. Despite the success of the enemies of Israel, Jews and non-Jews alike in creating a false and biased narrative convincingly portrayed as unquestionable truth, this past week…
DetailsBY DAVID HOROVITZ, TIMES OF ISRAEL— A position paper obtained by The Times of Israel, understood to have been used by Iran’s negotiators at last week’s technical-level talks with the P5+1 powers in Istanbul, makes plain the Tehran regime’s unyielding rejection of international efforts to negotiate safeguards and restrictions that would prevent Iran attaining a…
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