GOD is stirring the hearts of His people to pray for Jerusalem as never before. Christians from China to Germany and from Kenya to Brazil are raising raise their voices in fervent intercession with His Son, on behalf of Jerusalem and all her inhabitants, both Jew and Arab alike in response to what is happening…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The writing was on the wall. When Egypt’s pro-democracy revolution was hijacked by Islamists from the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups, many warned that Egypt’s ancient Christian community was in danger. Despite escalating anti-Christian violence during and following the toppling of the former regime, the rising Islamists insisted that Christians…
DetailsBy WESLEY PRUDEN— The Democrats have a Jewish problem, and his name is Barack Obama. Reluctantly, many Jews, loyal Democrats by birth and tradition, have concluded that he’s not The One they thought he was. With even greater reluctance, the White House has concluded that their Jewish problem is real, growing, and they better do…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST — Why are Obama and his surrogates now making opposition to Israel a partisan issue and attacking Republicans for being pro-Israel? — Less than 100 days before the US presidential elections, the Obama administration is openly denying Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem. Can this be a vote-getter? Last week, the Emergency Committee…
DetailsThink on this: “In those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered…
DetailsBy GIULIO MEOTTI, FRONTPAGE MAG — Thousands of evangelical Christians descended on Washington for the annual Christians United for Israel conference. They showed enthusiastic support for the Jewish State, grounded in a deep attachment to the Bible. The horrific attacks of September 11 have reinforced their fatalistic sense of identification with the Israeli citizens. They are natural…
DetailsBy DAVID ISAAC, SHMUEL KATZ BLOG — Nonie Darwish, an Egyptian who grew up in Gaza and later moved to the U.S. where she converted to Christianity, insists that the problem of Jew-hatred in Islam is fundamental to its belief system. “If Jew-hatred is removed, Islam itself would self-destruct,” she writes in a recent article.…
DetailsBy ILAN BEN ZION, THE TIMES OF ISRAEL — MK Zevulun Orlev of the Jewish Home party has called for massive reforms, including new Basic Laws, in order to establish a Third Temple in Jerusalem. In an article (PDF) published in advance of the fast of Tisha B’Av in the weekly Hebrew journal Olam Katan, entitled “Internal and Legislative Reform,” Orlev wrote…
DetailsBY ROBERT SPENCER, FRONTPAGEMAG— Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is under attack for speaking an important truth about the Arab-Israeli conflict. At a fundraiser in Jerusalem on Monday, Romney made the obvious, even banal, point about the economic disparity between nations. Speaking of Israel and the Palestinian-run West Bank, Romney said, “Culture makes all the…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7— The White House criticized Mitt Romney on Monday for adopting a policy on Jerusalem that is different from previous administrations. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee declared in Jerusalem that the city is the capital of Israel, while the Obama administration and predecessors have refused to do so because it…
DetailsBY BEN SHAPIRO, BREITBART— Today, Mitt Romney drew a clear contrast between himself and the Obama administration on the State of Israel. Standing before a backdrop of Jerusalem’s Old City on Judaism’s Ninth of Av – the day designated for mourning the destruction of the First and Second Temples – Romney didn’t flinch from embracing…
DetailsTorah: Deuteronomy 3:23 — 7:11, “V’et’chanan”, (And I pleaded …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 — 26 New Testament: I Corinthians 8:4 — 6 Gospel: Mark 12:28 — 34, “Schma Yisrael” (Hear O Israel …”
DetailsBY RON JAGER— As Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney begins his visit here in Israel, the Obama campaign managers have nothing new to share with the American public or with the Israeli public. In repeating the same discredited allegations and accusations against Mitt Romney for the past months, the Obama campaign hopes to distract…
DetailsSomeone should ask Romney when he’s in Jerusalem. Perhaps he has a better idea than the sitting president who seems to have forgotten the answer.
DetailsThink on this: “I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.” Isaiah 62: 7-8 Pray on this: Heavenly Father,…
Details“The evangelical-Israeli alliance is not a pact between Christian and Israeli religious nuts. It is a well-established relationship between the leaders of evangelical American Christianity and mainstream Israel. Every prime minister since Begin has relied on the support of the Christian right.”—Zev Chafets, A Match Made in Heaven
