Israel pre-war alert

By SHIRA SORKO-RAM, MAOZ— I’m sitting on my reclining chair looking out the window at the blue sultry August skies.  Nothing but peace and quiet in our little suburb north of Tel Aviv. Yes, it is true that the most ghastly crime thinkable is taking place not far away.  Syria’s president is gassing his own…

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Spot Report: Shanah Tova

Think on this: “I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye at…

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10 reasons to move the US embassy to Jerusalem

By TULY WEISZ— If you still have not signed the petition urging the United States Congress to pass HB 2846: ‘The Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act,’ here are 10 reasons why you should sign the petition to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 1) The…

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Netanyahu: If attacked, we will respond with great might

By ISRAEL HAYOM— The winds of war are blowing through the Middle East. The U.S., Britain and France are preparing to attack Syria while Israel is trying to stay out of the picture. However, on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Syria in response to threats that Syria would strike Israel in…

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Syrian chemicals and American credibility

By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— After nearly two-and-a-half years of dithering, President Barack Obama finally seems poised to take action against the thuggish regime of Bashar Assad. When the Syrian military attacked rebel-held suburbs of Damascus last week with chemical weapons, killing hundreds of innocent people in what US Secretary of State John Kerry labeled a…

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Collapse reported on Temple Mount

By ISRAEL TODAY— Eyewitnesses told Turkish media this week that a portion of the Temple Mount platform near the Al Aqsa Mosque has collapsed, creating a serious safety hazard and a possible threat to the stability of the Islamic structure. If the report is accurate, it would be the second serious collapse on the Temple…

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Prayer Points

SUGGESTED INTERCESSION: **Pray for the truth to be revealed about the gas attacks near Damascus, and about the true motivations of the western leaders for jumping into this sectarian battle. **Ask YHVH to direct the timing, the form, and the length of this war, if it is his timing to bring it now.  Pray that…

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Israel’s goal: Stay out of the fray

By YOAV LIMUR, ISRAEL HAYOM— The general assessment in Israel on Saturday was that the period of American restraint over events in Syria was over. An American attack against Syrian government targets is expected sooner or later, although the scope of such a strike is unclear and officials in both Washington and Jerusalem think there…

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The US State Department’s Islamist Plan

By DR. MORDECHAI KEDAR,  MAKOR RISHON — What do the following things have in common: the Muslim Brotherhood’s demonstration in Rabi’a al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, Hamas’ deep misgivings in Gaza, the declaration by the leaders of the Islamic Movement in Jordan, and the demonstration held by the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel?…

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The state of America

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Aside from the carnage in Benghazi, the most enduring image from Hillary Clinton’s tenure as US Secretary of State was the fake remote control she brought with her to Moscow in 2009 with the word “Reset” in misspelled Russian embossed on it. Clinton’s gimmick was meant to show that under President…

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Spot Report: Should Christians keep the Torah?

Think on this: “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel…declares Yahweh. ‘I will put my law in their minds, and I will write it on their hearts.”… “There are neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Messiah Jesus. If you belong…

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Oasis of Co-existence

By RON JAGER— As we gaze all around Israel, here in the Middle East, we see nothing but chaos and deadly conflict between sovereign Arab states on one side and Arab leaders butchering their own people on the other side. Suddenly, it seems as if all of this primal Islamic rage just popped out of…

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The UN, the Tanach and the G-d of Israel

By TUVIA BRODIE, ARUTZ 7— UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon has just admitted that the United Nations discriminates against Israel. He admits that the world headquarters of fairness and justice hypocritically treats one of its own Members with prejudice. The UN didn’t start out to be hateful. It began with the desire to create “respect for…

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The Triumph of Illusion in the Middle East

By SHOSHANA BRYEN, AMERICAN THINKER— The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964. Like most revolutionary movements, it wrote a Charter to define its aims and fundamental policies, including: Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the loss…

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Where Muslims Can Speak Freely in the Middle East

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Arab journalists and columnists in Israel have been expressing their views about the Egyptian crisis without fear, while their colleagues in Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are afraid to speak their mind. Israel, for example, is one of the few countries in the Middle East where Muslims are permitted…

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Bambi Meets Godzilla In The Middle East

By WALTER RUSSEL MEAD, THE AMERICAN INTEREST — President Obama has had a rude awakening in the Middle East. The region he thought existed was an illusion built on American progressive assumptions about the way the world works. In the dream Middle East, democracy at least of a sort was just around the corner. Moderate…

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