I will seek a demilitarized Palestinian state, says Netanyahu

By ISRAEL HAYOM— One day after Economy and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett declared that the notion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had reached a “dead end”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a response to the controversial statement on Monday, saying, “Foreign policy is shaped by the prime minister, and my view is…

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Islamic mandate: their way or no way

By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— There are many religious and political forums being held across America and around the world for the purpose of attempting to foster understanding, and create an environment of tolerance, between Christians, Jews and Muslims. I am definitely a proponent of the need to understand one another and I am particularly…

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IRS: We Investigate Pro-Israel Groups for Terrorism Ties

By JOEL B. POLLAK, BREITBART– Eliana Johnson of National Review Online reports that Cincinnati-based IRS agent Gary Muthert told the House Oversight Committee that the IRS does, in fact, subject pro-Israel tax-exempt groups to higher scrutiny–by sending their applications to a special IRS unit that investigates them for ties to terrorism. It is unclear whether…

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Quakers Planning Hate Israel Summer Camp

By NITSANA DRSHAN-LEITNER, SHURAT HADIN— The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the political arm of the Quaker movement,  is planning on holding a Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) summer camp in New York State on July 28th thru August 1st. The camp described as a “five  day intensive program for campus BDS organizers — those…

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Rowhani at the helm

By BRIAN MURPHY, TIMES OF ISRAEL— For a lesson in what Hasan Rowhani’s reformist-backed presidency could mean for Iran, a promise Sunday by the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard to cooperate with him is a good guide. Like the rest of Iran’s ruling Islamic establishment, the Guard, which has kept a tight lid on any hints of…

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Should Israel make her move now?

By RON JAGER— In recent weeks and months, public leaders and leading journalists affiliated with the settlement movement have called for annexing and incorporating all of Judea and Samaria into Israel. In response to the chaos and weakness of the Arab nations surrounding Israel and the preoccupation of the Western world with the ongoing genocide…

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Time for a new peace process

By DAVID RUBIN— With the recent visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Israel just two months ago and the follow up visits by Secretary of State John Kerry, in which he has revived the Arab Peace Initiative, the time has come for reexamine the very premises on which that peace process has been based.…

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Syrian Rebels Seize Border Crossing to the Golan Heights

By SKYLAR SCHMANSKI, inCONTEXT— Syrian rebels temporarily seized control of the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria on June 6, spurring Austria to withdraw all of its 380 peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights. Vienna attributed its decision to vacate the buffer zone, where international forces have been stationed since the 1974 armistice, to the…

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Spot Report: Iran, who's in charge?

Think on this: “The most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and places over them the basest (lowliest) of men.”…”Yahweh has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over all.”…”Jesus is the Ruler of the kings of the earth.” (Daniel 4:17; Psalm 103:19; Revelation…

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The Two-State-Solution: A fatal trap

By VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS– John Forbes Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States on February 1, 2013. Kerry now is set, since assuming office, to embark on his fifth visit to Israel and to the so-called Palestinian Authority to push for a Two-State-Solution. But this is…

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The Two-State Solution Was Tried 91 Years Ago

By VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ SHEVA— In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Mandate over the geographical territory known as Palestine with the express intention of reconstituting within its territory a Jewish National Home. The territory in question stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the eastern boundary…

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Watching America's back

By RON JAGER— Recent events in the Middle East suggest that 20 years of uncertainty about Israel’s strategic value to American interests may be ending. During the past two decades when the Cold War more or less ended and America was no longer competing with the Soviet Union for strategic control of the Middle East,…

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