BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday. The survey – commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication and the Anti-Defamation League – found that while 51 percent…
DetailsBY KALEN TAYLOR, inContext— The Syrian Army slammed Haffeh with mortars, tanks, and helicopter gunfire yesterday, burning and looting buildings and wounding over 50 rebels. Forced to flee from the heavy fire, anti-government forces withdrew from the town on Wednesday. The conflict also reached the Syrian capital of Damascus yesterday morning as rebels began to…
DetailsBY KYLE SHIDELER, AMERICAN THINKER— President Barack Obama’s campaign strategy, at least as it regards foreign affairs, consists almost entirely of boasting of the various covert operation successes that occurred on his watch, and leaking government secrets to buttress these boasts. This strategy began just days after the successful elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin laden…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, TRAVELUJAH— Jesus spent a good deal of his earthly ministry comforting and healing the disabled, both as a sign of his power and calling and out of a deep compassion for those whose handicaps had kept them from fully enjoying life. It is, therefore, proper that Christians who love and support Israel…
DetailsBY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, ICZC— This year 2012 may become one of the most pivotal years in Israel’s short history yet. I. There may be a short and decisive battle with Syria and the Hizbollah in the near future. As a result of the coming attack by Syria and the Hizbollah there will…
DetailsBY JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— One would have thought the Palestinians might have learned their lesson when they devoted all of their efforts last year to an attempt to get the United Nations to issue a unilateral recognition of their independence. Many predicted the showdown over the initiative would produce a “diplomatic tsunami” that would…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:43, “Shelach Lekha” (Send for yourself …) Haftorah: Joshua 2:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 3:7 – 4:1 Gospel: John 6:25 – 40, “Matzu oto” (They found him …)
DetailsBY RON JAGER— As summer approaches here in Israel, the leaders of last years social protest movement have begun to get their supporters out en masse once again on Saturday nights and attempt to rejuvenate their supporter’s passion and demonstrate. The fact that Israel has weathered the economic crisis of the past 4 years better…
DetailsBY MELANIE PHILLIPS, DAILY MAIL— Some years ago, on a fact-finding trip to Munich, I visited the nearby site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. It was an unsettling and disturbing experience, beyond being brought up against the horrors that had taken place there. For I found myself surrounded by coach parties of…
DetailsBY EARL COX, JPOST— The war drums between Iran and Israel have been beating louder and louder, but both countries face tremendous hurdles that appear to be preventing the obvious. Iran, for example, may well have the warheads, but their missile technology is not yet advanced enough to deliver an accurate strike on Israel. Israel…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies: Infiltrate, divide and destroy. Since his disciple Barack Obama was elected US president in 2008, Alinsky’s impact on Obama has received a fair amount of attention. Less noticed has been the…
DetailsBY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7— If Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi were to become president, Egypt’s capital would no longer be Cairo, but would be Jerusalem, a prominent Egyptian cleric said at a presidential campaign rally, which was aired by an Egyptian private television channel. “Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina.…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE Israel’s miraculous victory but how leaders have betrayed its patrimony and heartland. Forty-five years ago, on June 5, 1967, the world was writing Israel’s obituary. The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan along with military contingents from many other Arab and Muslim regimes were all poised at tiny…
DetailsBY DAVID M WEINBERG, ISRAEL HAYOM— There is a dangerous groundswell of “elite” (read: leftist) opinion building in favor of “unilateral” Israeli action in the West Bank. To “make peace without (Palestinian) partners;” to tear down settlements in the distant reaches of the West Bank in order to “signal” to the Palestinians that the Netanyahu…
DetailsBY REV. MALCOLM HEDDING, ICEJ— Tens of thousands of churches have a committed belief in the importance of standing with Israel and blessing the Jewish people. The verse most often referred to as their biblical mandate is Genesis 12:3 in which God tells Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse…
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