BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY AND ALEXANDER JOFFE, HA’ARETZ— A couple of weeks ago the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously passed the Kirk Amendment as part of the State Department and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for 2013. The bill requires the State Department to specify to Congress, for the first time, what proportion of the five million…
DetailsBY SHIRA SORKO-RAM, MAOZ— Canada has long been considered a classical liberal democracy. In fact, according to Wikipedia, Canada is presently one of the more liberal countries in the Americas a nation with government-regulated free market, with an emphasis on social justice and social progressivism such as abortion issues and same-sex marriage. However, a quiet…
DetailsBY JAY BERGMAN, JPOST— As a professional historian, I normally do not place much stock in historical analogies. They usually obscure and confuse more than they clarify. But in the case of the recent P5 + 1 talks in Baghdad that will resume in Moscow later this month — when the five permanent members of…
DetailsBY KEN BLACKWELL, TOWNHALL— The Obama administration refuses, time and again, to say that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Victoria Nuland, speaking from the State Department, recently repeated over and over that the status of Jerusalem is subject to final status negotiations. Israel thus becomes the only country recognized by the U.S. that is…
DetailsBY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— IAF aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing site and a terror tunnel in northern Gaza on Sunday night, according to an IDF statement. The statement noted that direct hits at the targets were identified. All Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The attack came after terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza fired a…
DetailsBY BEN SHAPIRO, FRONTPAGEMAG— Last Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) targeted an amendment by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) that would force the State Department to determine how many actual Palestinian refugees – not their children, relatives, friends, or distant relations – are being served by US tax dollars. Leahy was upset because he knew, as…
DetailsBYGIULIO MEOTTI, INN — Future generations will wonder how an organization such as the PLO, one of the worst ideological criminals of the twentieth century along with Al Qaeda, Pol Pot, the SS and the Iranian ayatollahs, has been able, in spite of its proudly proclaimed anti-Semithic barbarism, to achiev world-wide acclaim and support. Take…
DetailsIngredients 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 ½ cups fresh or canned corn kernels 1 cup chicken broth 4 large eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons fresh parsley 4 tablespoons toasted bread crumbs (for Passover use matzah crumbs) salt and pepper to taste Directions 1) Preheat oven to 325. 2) In a medium skillet,…
DetailsThink on this! “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! … Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division…. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” … “Then I saw … the kings of…
DetailsIngredients 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 ½ cups fresh or canned corn kernels 1 cup chicken broth 4 large eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons fresh parsley 4 tablespoons toasted bread crumbs (for Passover use matzah crumbs) salt and pepper to taste Directions 1) Preheat oven to 325. 2) In a medium skillet,…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. Speaking Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies, Barak warned that if Israel can’t cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a…
DetailsBY KYLE SCHIDELER, EMET— The outcome of last week’s Egyptian presidential elections was about as preordained as it gets when it comes to predicting foreign events, yet somehow most of the major media outlets seemed to miss it. The Telegraph, on May 25th after the first round of Presidential voting, described the Muslim Brotherhood candidate…
DetailsBY MELANIE PHILIPS— In the wake of the festival of Shavuot, when Jews have been celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai from where he presented them to the Jewish people camped at its foot, I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— Since 1991 when South Africa hosted the infamous “Zionism is Racism” United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001 followed later on by the flawed and erroneous Goldstone Report, headed by the South African jurist, Richard Goldstone after the 2006 Gaza War between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group. South…
DetailsBY MICHAEL CURTIS, GATESTONE— Jews in democratic countries are disproportionately disposed more than other groups to prefer the left spectrum of political and cultural affairs — a spectrum that is in general unfriendly to the evangelical Christian movement. It is therefore not surprising that only 20% of Jewish Americans hold a favorable opinion of the…
DetailsBY MICHAEL CURTIS, GATESTONE— Jews in democratic countries are disproportionately disposed more than other groups to prefer the left spectrum of political and cultural affairs — a spectrum that is in general unfriendly to the evangelical Christian movement. It is therefore not surprising that only 20% of Jewish Americans hold a favorable opinion of the…
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Last Thursday evening, hundreds of guests milled about, chatting amiably as they awaited the start of the joyous ceremony. Bedecked in white, the striking bride made her way down the aisle, each step drawing her closer to the wedding canopy where her groom stood smiling broadly. As a light breeze stirred…
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