Israel is facing many challenges right now. Here are a few for us to consider in prayer. 1. THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN “PEACE” PROCESS: A most recent poll by Tel Aviv University showed that 79% of Israelis do not believe that these peace negotiations will lead to peace or bring a positive outcome to Israel. The next…
DetailsBy KOCHAVA ROZENBAUM, ARUTZ 7— In wake of Tuesday’s decision by police officials in charge of the Temple Mount to ban non-Muslims entrance to the holy site, some two hundred protesters stood Wednesday morning at the foot of the Mugrabi entrance seeking to reverse their exclusion. The mass protest was prearranged following an announcement by…
DetailsBy ASHER ZEIGER, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Most Israeli Jews would oppose a peace agreement with the Palestinians if it included a full West Bank pullout with land swaps to let Israel retain major settlement population centers, according to a new poll that appears to contradict the conclusions of other recent surveys. The poll, released Tuesday…
DetailsBy RAYMOND IBRAHIM, GATESTONE— Days ago, al-Qaeda’s Egyptian leader, Ayman Zawahiri, portrayed the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi and the Brotherhood as a “Crusader” campaign led by Coptic Pope Tawadros II who, according to Zawahiri and other terrorists, is trying to create a Coptic state in Egypt. Since then, not only are Egypt’s Christians and churches…
DetailsBy YORI YALON, ISRAEL HAYOM— A portion of a large hospital dating back to the Crusader period (1099-1291 C.E.) has been uncovered in Jerusalem’s Old City. The building, known from historical documents, collapsed during an earthquake in 1457 and was buried beneath rubble. The structure was discovered during excavation work conducted by the Israel Antiquities…
DetailsBy EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— President Obama stated, while speaking in Cairo on June 4, 2009, “The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.” Since then he has made this same statement on numerous occasions. This is totally inaccurate. In truth, America is being lulled into a deep sleep as…
DetailsBy SHOULA ROMANO HORING, YNET— It is disgraceful that the United States, Israel’s best ally and friend, has never recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital even though it recognizes the claimed capitals of numerous brutal dictatorships and enemy nations. It is also shameful that the Europeans still call the eastern part of Jerusalem a “settlement” and…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST—- Standing next to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni gushed that through his indefatigable efforts to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials to Washington, Kerry proved that “nothing can stop true believers.” As usual, the cognitively-challenged Livni told us something she hadn’t intended to say.…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— In his farewell speech to the nation on January 17, 1961 President Dwight Eisenhower warned of the power and influence of what he famously called the “military industrial complex”. An expression that was coined to depict the enormous power yielded by the leaders of the Defense industries and all those corporations involved…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 16:18 – 21:9, “Shofteem” (Judges …) Haftorah: Isaiah 51:12 – 52:12 New Testament: Acts 3:22 – 23 Gospel: John 1:19 – 27, “Adutoe” (Testimony …)
DetailsBy WARREN MANISON, UCI— The proposed Two State solution to the Israel/Palestinian impasse is an impossibility. Separate states for Jews and Palestinian Arabs, living side by side in peace in the Holy Land, have been proposed and rejected by Arabs in recent history. When one fails to learn from history, one is doomed to repeat…
DetailsBy BRUCE BAWER, FRONTPAGEMAG— “The study of antisemitism,” admits Bruno Chaouat, a professor of French in Minnesota, “can be tedious.” This admirably candid confession appears relatively early in the pages of Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives, a collection of nineteen new essays edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, the distinguished director of Indiana University’s Institute for the…
DetailsBY AMNON ABRAMOVICH, YNET— Nine months from now the Israeli government, guided by the US and with the help of God, is expected sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians. In the event that such a deal is reached, will it include the release from prison of Hakim and Amjad Awad? Some two years ago…
DetailsBY AMNON ABRAMOVICH, YNET— Nine months from now the Israeli government, guided by the US and with the help of God, is expected sign a peace agreement with the Palestinians. In the event that such a deal is reached, will it include the release from prison of Hakim and Amjad Awad? Some two years ago…
DetailsBy GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— The Knesset can be a tough crowd for any Prime Minister. The fierce debate often forces the Knesset speaker to intervene and even discipline MKs who are deemed too disruptive. So PM Netanyahu must have been quite pleased at requiring the speaker to call the legislature to order for a…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israelis are growing increasingly fed up with the lack of religious freedom for Jews on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, Judaism’s most holy site, because of ongoing fear over a Muslim backlash. For years already, unofficial restrictions bar Jews and Christians from praying atop the Temple Mount or carrying a Bible to…
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