BY RON JAGER— As summer approaches here in Israel, the leaders of last years social protest movement have begun to get their supporters out en masse once again on Saturday nights and attempt to rejuvenate their supporter’s passion and demonstrate. The fact that Israel has weathered the economic crisis of the past 4 years better…
DetailsBY MELANIE PHILLIPS, DAILY MAIL— Some years ago, on a fact-finding trip to Munich, I visited the nearby site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. It was an unsettling and disturbing experience, beyond being brought up against the horrors that had taken place there. For I found myself surrounded by coach parties of…
DetailsBY EARL COX, JPOST— The war drums between Iran and Israel have been beating louder and louder, but both countries face tremendous hurdles that appear to be preventing the obvious. Iran, for example, may well have the warheads, but their missile technology is not yet advanced enough to deliver an accurate strike on Israel. Israel…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies: Infiltrate, divide and destroy. Since his disciple Barack Obama was elected US president in 2008, Alinsky’s impact on Obama has received a fair amount of attention. Less noticed has been the…
DetailsBY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7— If Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Mursi were to become president, Egypt’s capital would no longer be Cairo, but would be Jerusalem, a prominent Egyptian cleric said at a presidential campaign rally, which was aired by an Egyptian private television channel. “Our capital shall not be Cairo, Mecca or Medina.…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE Israel’s miraculous victory but how leaders have betrayed its patrimony and heartland. Forty-five years ago, on June 5, 1967, the world was writing Israel’s obituary. The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan along with military contingents from many other Arab and Muslim regimes were all poised at tiny…
DetailsBY DAVID M WEINBERG, ISRAEL HAYOM— There is a dangerous groundswell of “elite” (read: leftist) opinion building in favor of “unilateral” Israeli action in the West Bank. To “make peace without (Palestinian) partners;” to tear down settlements in the distant reaches of the West Bank in order to “signal” to the Palestinians that the Netanyahu…
DetailsBY REV. MALCOLM HEDDING, ICEJ— Tens of thousands of churches have a committed belief in the importance of standing with Israel and blessing the Jewish people. The verse most often referred to as their biblical mandate is Genesis 12:3 in which God tells Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse…
DetailsBY REV. MALCOLM HEDDING, ICEJ— Tens of thousands of churches have a committed belief in the importance of standing with Israel and blessing the Jewish people. The verse most often referred to as their biblical mandate is Genesis 12:3 in which God tells Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— US President Barack Obama has come to realize what many Middle East observers have long known: that perhaps the Palestinian Authority leadership does not want genuine peace and coexistence with Israel. Obama expressed that concern during a White House meeting with Orthodox Jewish leaders on Tuesday, according to the Jewish…
DetailsTorah: Numbers 8:1 – 12:16, “B’ha’alotcha”, (In your setting up …) Haftorah: Zechariah 2:14 – 4:7 New Testament: I Corinthians 10:6 – 13 Gospel: John 13:1 – 17 “Yeshua yad’ah”, (Jesus knew …)
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Israel’s leaders appear to have developed a previously unheard-of malady, one so acute it threatens to overwhelm both their mental faculties and common sense. It is what I refer to as “Peace-Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PETS), and its symptoms are fairly easy to discern. Like any anxiety condition, it can be traced…
DetailsBY TZI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ7— President Barack Obama for the seventh time has exercised the “security” waiver allowing him to ignore a Congressional law that the U.S. embassy be relocated to Jerusalem. The 1995 law requires the embassy to be located in the capital unless the president decides that doing so would endanger national security.…
Details“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” –John Adams, 1770
Think on this: Israel has courageously brought before the Knesset the Armenian Genocide for open discussion and the world to see. The Armenian Genocide refers to the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians (Christian) by the Turks from 1915 for the next several years. Not only have the Turks denied it, they have never been brought…
DetailsBY STAN GOODENOUGH— News item: In an effort to generate renewed international pressure on Israel to resume the land for peace process with the “Palestinians,” Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas urged the US and other members of the UN Security Council to convince Israel to halt construction in the settlements in order to pave the…
DetailsBY DAVID RUBIN— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been broadly respected in America as a champion of the biblical heartland, but sadly, it’s time to take a second look. A bill has just been defeated in the Knesset, which would have retroactively legalized several of the younger Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria…
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