By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, JPOST— There are few foreign-policy positions more silly than the assertion without context that “deterrence works.” It is like saying air power works. Well, it worked for Kosovo; it didn’t work over North Vietnam. It’s like saying city-bombing works. It worked in Japan 1945 (Tokyo through Nagasaki). It didn’t in the London…
DetailsBy SHIMON SHIFFER, YNET— The United States has sent a message to Iran, via two European nations, saying that it will not back an independent Israeli strike against the country’s nuclear facilities as long as Tehran refrains from attacking American interests in the Persian Gulf, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. According to the report, Washington has…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— This past week will be remembered as the turning point in which Obama’s re-election possibilities took a severe beating and can possibly signal the beginning of the end of the Obama Presidency. All it took was for Clint Eastwood, the 82 year old actor and director to speak at the Republican National…
DetailsBy DEBKAfile, Exclusive Analysis, — US Gen. Martin Dempsey’s assertion Thursday, Aug. 30 that the US would not be “complicit” in an Israel strike against Iran, together with the drastic reduction in the scale of next month’s joint US-Israeli war game disclosed by TIME, add up to a blunt message from US President Barack Obama…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7 — The writer is a staunchly pro-Israel non-Jew, who tells us. “One day I reached my office, the stairs had been vandalized with red paint and the words “Free Palestine”. I know fear” — When kippah-wearing Jews and non-Jews march in Sweden to show that they have no fear, I…
DetailsBy WARREN MANISON, UCI — It should be obvious that a Two State solution is an impossibility. In one way or another, separate states with Jews and Arabs living side by side in peace, has been proposed and rejected by the Arab people. From this we should learn that when one fails to learn from history,…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— By Tuesday, 50 Israeli families will have been tossed out of their homes in their village of Migron, which is set for destruction. They will not be dispossessed because they unlawfully squatted on someone else’s property. The residents of Migron will be tossed from their homes – on the order of…
Details“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”—C.S. Lewis
BY SHELLEY NEESE— I am a Christian. And I am a Zionist. But it took me years of being both to realize that I’m a Christian Zionist. Though I consider myself a strong Christian and a committed lover of Israel, out of college I was leery of calling myself a Christian Zionist. My definition of…
DetailsThink on this: “Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘this is what Adoni Yahweh says: It is not for your sake , O house of Israel, that I am going to do these things, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you have gone.” … …
Details*Warning: This pasta is not for the weak of taste buds. Its a lot of powerful flavors per bite! For my son I usually put some cooked pasta aside and mix his with less olives, feta, and tomatoes to make it a little more kid-friendly. Ingredients 4 cups spiral pasta, cooked according to package 1/2…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday stated that Zionism and the rebirth of the Jewish state would not have succeeded without the backing and support of Christian Zionism. Netanyahu was speaking at a rededication ceremony for the landmark windmill situated at the entrance to Mishkenot Sha’ananim, the first neighborhood…
DetailsBy KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— If the Egyptian army succeeds in demolishing the underground smuggling tunnels that keep Hamas running, it could mark the end of the Islamists’ rule over the Gaza Strip. But if Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tie the hands of the Egyptian army’s generals and keep them…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The century of Joseph Goebbels has taught all of us that a lie starts as a very small one, but if it is not corrected, it festers like a virus destroying truth. A few days ago, the United Church of Canada, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, and South Africa’s government…
DetailsBY SHELLEY NEESE— I am a Christian. And I am a Zionist. But it took me years of being both to realize that I’m a Christian Zionist. Though I consider myself a strong Christian and a committed lover of Israel, out of college I was leery of calling myself a Christian Zionist. My definition of…
DetailsIngredients 2 tablespoons olive oil ¼ teaspoon cumin pinch of cinnamon pinch of cayenne pepper 1 red onion, sliced thin ½ cup lemon juice, fresh ½ salt, divided 1 ½ lemons, seeded and the flesh chopped in chunks 6 dates, cut into thin slivers 4 large oranges, peeled and sliced thin Directions 1) For the…
DetailsBy YAIR ROSENBERG, TABLET— With all the speculation in recent weeks over whether Mitt Romney would tap a fellow Mormon to deliver a prayer at the Republican National Convention, one never would have guessed that the opening invocation would be delivered by a rabbi. But on Tuesday afternoon, when the convention makes its belated beginning…
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