By JONATHAN SCHANZER, NATIONAL POST— In a surgical air strike on Wednesday, Israel eliminated the terrorist leader who masterminded the capture of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit in 2006. Yesterday’s attack killed Ahmed Jabari, a top leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, more commonly known as the armed wing of Hamas. Israel released a video…
DetailsWith the close of Passover, I imagine by now you have restocked your pantry with flour, baking soda, and your other baking needs. I eat my fair share of chocolate covered matzah during Passover but I’m still ready for a nice baked desert once the season of unleavened bread is over. If you love bananas…
DetailsBy YAAKOV LAPPIN and TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST— The IDF on Wednesday opened a campaign to remove the rocket menace afflicting the South with the targeted killing of Hamas terror chief Ahmed Jabari. Named Operation Pillar of Defense (in Hebrew, Operation Pillar of Cloud), the intense aerial strikes also targeted Hamas rocket arsenals throughout the Gaza…
DetailsBy VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— In Shakespeare’s Richard III, the Duke of Gloucester wins a military campaign, later becoming Richard III and bringing tyranny and calamity to his opponents and to the realm. So, too, the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the USA will likely usher in an irrevocable death blow to…
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Egypt’s Muslim fundamentalists are now calling for the destruction of the Pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza under the pretext that Islam prohibits idols. If the extremists have no respect for human life, why should they care about a pyramid or a statue? Murjan Salem al-Johari, one of Egyptian…
Detailsby TIMES OF ISRAEL— Israel conducted an air defense drill on Monday, simulating a possible attack on the country by Syrian and Iranian long-range missiles. The exercise, overseen by Defense Minister Ehud Barak and performed in conjunction with the United States, saw the successful test launch of four Patriot missiles from central Israel into the…
DetailsBy MARK TOOLEY, FRONTPAGEMAG— The October 4 ecumenical letter to the U.S. Congress from 15 mostly old-line Protestant bureaucrats warning against U.S. military aid for Israel absent “immediate investigation” of Israeli human rights abuses continues to stir controversy. The letter from United Methodist, Presbyterian Church (USA), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and other clerics of…
DetailsBy BARRY RUBIN, GLORIA— “Don’t Panic” – Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What should Israel’s policy and priorities be during President Barack Obama’s second term? There will be two key themes: minimize antagonism and cope with the negative consequences of US regional policy. Protect bilateral relations Israel’s government must ensure continued US aid,…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE— Next to the American people themselves, Israel is no doubt the biggest immediate loser in the U.S. presidential election. President Obama’s foreign policy is predicated on the false notion that the U.S. and Israel themselves are the principal causes of the Islamic world’s antipathy toward them. Consequently, Obama has…
DetailsBY YOAV LIMOR, ISRAEL HAYOM— Events over the past two weeks, particularly on Saturday, have led Israel to a crossroads. Should Israel accept the dangerous deterioration of the security situation around the Gaza Strip or should it risk an escalation of violence by attempting to change the rules of the game? The security situation in…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 25:19–28:9 “Toldot” (Generations …) Haftorah: Malachi 1:1–2:7 New Testament: Roman 9:6–13 Gospel: Matthew 7:15–23 “Nevieh Hasheker” (False Prophets …)
DetailsBy EARL COX— Here we go again. The international community is clamoring for the people of Israel to give up more of their God given land in exchange for what? Peace? Does anyone really believe that giving up this land will bring peace? Does anyone remember their unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 for peace?…
DetailsBy RAPHAEL AHREN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Protestant clergymen painted a largely pessimistic view of the church’s relationship with Israel and the Jewish community during a visit to the Holy Land, suggesting that anti-Semitism is a deep-seated problem based in Christian theology that will be difficult to uproot. Jewish-Protestant relations are currently undergoing a severe crisis…
DetailsBy YNET— A tired but healthy-looking Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir appeared on television Thursday after a minor operation, calling Israel “enemy number one” in a return to his typical fiery rhetoric. Bashir, 68, spoke standing at a lectern for about 15 minutes in what government-owned Blue Nile TV said was a broadcast recorded earlier in…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— After spending election night banging the wall with my head in disbelief, I realized that what was valid in American politics in the past will no longer be. The sad fact is that Democracies are not perfect systems; despite the economy, despite the Middle East, despite the unemployment rate, the majority of…
DetailsBy DAVID WEINGBER, ISRAEL HAYOM— I’d like to believe that President Barack Obama’s re-election means nothing significant for U.S.-Israel relations, since “all Democratic and Republican presidents over the past four decades have been solidly pro-Israel” — as Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom argued on Israel Radio this morning. But Shalom is putting a pretty face…
Details“We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and…
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