The Jewish-Christian divide

BY DAN CALIC, YNET– One of the challenges preventing improved relations between Christians and Jews is that both have misconceptions about the other. For example, one of the biggest misconceptions is that most Jews and Christians think Jesus abandoned Judaism, the religion of his birth, in order to start Christianity. They are both incorrect. Jews…

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Israel revives military option after Obama rejects its nuclear demands of Iran

DEBKAFILE— Israel has withdrawn its pledge to US President Barack Obama not to strike Iran’s nuclear sites before the November presidential election after he rejected its minimal demands for nuclear negotiations with Iran. This is reported exclusively by debkafile’s Washington sources. In public, Israeli ministers still talk as though they believe in results from the…

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Iran rope-a-dopes the West again

BY BRUCE THORNTON, FRONTPAGEMAG— Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced on Tuesday that Iran would agree “quite soon” to allow IAEA inspectors to search for any evidence that Iran’s nuclear enrichment program has been directed towards military applications. The IAEA has been particularly interested in the Parchin military complex, where…

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The peace process battered Israel's reputation

BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— “What happened,” asks Michael Oren, “to Israel’s reputation?” The Israeli ambassador to the United States, a noted historian, combat veteran, and bestselling author, raised that question in a Wall Street Journal essay last week. Writing on the 64th anniversary of Israeli independence, Oren began by quoting from Life magazine’s salute…

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Celebrate Israel Parade- an expression of Zionistic pride

BY RON JAGER— The preliminary goal of the de-legitimization and BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Boycott) movement is to isolate Israel turning her into a pariah state among the International community. These efforts by NGO’s in Israel, America, and Europe have fostered an international atmosphere that negates from Israel national and sovereign rights that all nations…

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Video: Just one minute

In a new campaign #justoneminute , Deputy Foreign Minister, Danny Ayalon calls on the International Olympic Committee to dedicate a minute of silence during the opening ceremony at this summer’s London Olympic Games in memory of the eleven Israeli athletes who were brutally murdered during the Munich Olympic Games in 1972. Sign the Petition! Go…

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The Scourge of Araby

BY VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— In the 1921 hit song, The Sheikh of Araby, there is one line that goes as follows, “…While you’re asleep, into your tent I’ll creep.” Of course the song was referring to the sheikh who romantically pursued the headstrong British heroine who then fell in love with him only to…

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Was Columbus secretly a Jew?

BY CHARLES GARCIA, CNN— Today marks the 508th anniversary of the death of Christopher Columbus. Everybody knows the story of Columbus, right? He was an Italian explorer from Genoa who set sail in 1492 to enrich the Spanish monarchs with gold and spices from the orient. Not quite. For too long, scholars have ignored Columbus’s…

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ABCs of Shavuot

BY RABBI SHRAGA SIMMONS, AISH It is ironic that Shavuot is such a little-known holiday. Because in fact, Shavuot commemorates the single most important event in Jewish history ― the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. Shavuot is the culmination of the seven-week-long “counting of the Omer” that occurs following Passover. The very name…

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“The Temple Mount is in our Hands”

By JERRY GORDON, ICONOCLAST— Yom Yerushalayim Day, the 45th Commemoration of the Reunification of Jerusalem This evening in Israel begins the commemoration of Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, the 28th of Iyar in the Hebrew Calendar. The occasion marks the 45th anniversary of the reunification of the ancient and eternal capital of the Jewish State of…

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Let’s embrace Israel's friends

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST — In recent years, poll after poll has shown that majority of Israelis do not believe that two-state paradigm will bring peace. Two weeks ago, US Congressman Joe Walsh published an op-ed in the The Washington Times in which he called for the US and Israel to abandon the two-state solution.…

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Hamas' Haniyeh: No future for Israel in Palestine'

JPOST.COM STAFF– Hamas prime minister tells int’l delegation in Gaza, “we will not recognize Israel,” according to Hamas-affiliate Al-Resalah. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told an international pro-Palestinian delegation on Friday that there is no future for Israel “on the land of Palestine,” Gaza news portal Al-Resalah reported. Haniyeh was speaking at a meeting in…

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Video: Indivisible Jerusalem

The division of Jerusalem into “East” and “West” imposed by the Jordanian occupation for a brief period of 19 years is no longer possible in a city which has dramatically grown and changed over the last 44 years. 270,000 Arabs and 200,000 Jews live in the mosaic of neighborhoods called “East Jerusalem.” Dividing Jerusalem is…

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