Islamists spring is upon us

BY YIGAL WALT, YNET— Arabs across the Middle East are increasingly endorsing Islam as the answer to all the region’s ills, expressing a longing for a glorious, bygone era. This is the case despite the fact that Islam’s heyday featured – at least to some extent – liberalism, openness and acceptance that are patently at…

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War Crimes Which Go Unanswered

BY VICTOR SHARPE, RENEW AMERICA— The increasing number of missiles deliberately fired from Gaza at southern Israel’s farms, villages and towns is a clear indictment of the Hamas terror machine that rules and occupies the Gaza Strip. It represents a catalog of Arab and Muslim war crimes. There has been a 30% increase from the…

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Onward Christian tourists (to Israel)

BY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER, HAARETZ— Elisa Moed, originally from Detroit, immigrated to Israel in 2005. A phone call from the Vatican isn’t a typical source of inspiration for an American Jewish immigrant to Israel. But for Elisa Moed, it was a call from the Israeli representative of the Holy See that sparked her to create…

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Onward Christian tourists to Israel

BY ALLISON KAPLAN SOMMER, HAARETZ— Elisa Moed, originally from Detroit, immigrated to Israel in 2005.  A phone call from the Vatican isn’t a typical source of inspiration for an American Jewish immigrant to Israel. But for Elisa Moed, it was a call from the Israeli representative of the Holy See that sparked her to create…

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IDF: Response to Gaza rocket fire too restraint

BY RON BEN-YISHAI, YNET— IDF officials expressed discontent over the last round of fighting in the Gaza Strip, saying that despite calls for a ceasefire by Hamas, the rocket barrages have yet to stop. On Friday, more rockets were fired into Israel, probably by other Gaza organizations. The IAF in turn struck a terrorist cell…

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The Muslim Brotherhood's useful idiots

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— You have to hand it to the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. They know how to play power politics. They know how to acquire power. And they know how to use power. Last Friday, the day before voters by most accounts elected the Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Morsy to serve as Egypt’s…

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Spot Report: God's future for Egypt

Think on this: “I will stir up Egyptian against Egyptian—brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists. I will hand…

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"Never again" or "again and again"

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY  SECURITY MATTERS— After the world’s descent into the 20th century abyss of staggering crimes against humanity consisting of two world wars, the Holocaust, scores of regional wars, massacres, pogroms, mass starvation, genocides in Ruanda, Nigeria, Cambodia and the Sudan, we now are into the beginning of the second decade of the 21st…

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Help seize the Gaza flotilla boats

Last July, as the threat of the Gaza Flotilla loomed, Shurat HaDin brought a civil action in federal court in Washington, DC seeking to seize all the boats that had been purchased by the extremist groups to breach the IDF’s naval blockade of  the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip.   The proceeding was brought on behalf of…

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Muslim Brotherhood plotting to take over Jordan?

BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Jordanian government officials say there are growing signs that the kingdom’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood organization has plans to overthrow the regime. The organization, according to the officials, has succeeded in hijacking the anti-corruption and pro-democracy protests that have swept Jordan over the past year. Today, most of the anti-regime demonstrations…

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Defining our obligation towards Israel

By ELWOOD MCQUAID, JOST MAG— The US’s reluctance to move its embassy to Jerusalem casts doubt on its support for Israel. It is worth noting that America’s president has, for the third time, delayed moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Mandated in the Jerusalem Embassy Act by an overwhelming declaration…

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A Growing Russian-Israeli Alliance?

BY JOSEPH PUDER, FRONTPAGEMAG— Later this month, Russian president Vladimir Putin is scheduled to make a state visit to Israel.  It will be Putin’s second visit since 2005 (Obama should take notice).  Putin, who began his third term as President of Russia last month, served as Prime Minister in the intervening years.  In Israel, Putin…

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