The miracle of Israel's rebirth

BY EARL COX, JPOST— As it is now time to say Happy 64th Birthday to America’s most valued friend and ally in the Middle East, let us also recall the miracle of Israel that not only makes it among the youngest nations on earth, but also one of the oldest. Some four thousand years ago,…

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The miracle of Israel’s rebirth

BY EARL COX, JPOST— As it is now time to say Happy 64th Birthday to America’s most valued friend and ally in the Middle East, let us also recall the miracle of Israel that not only makes it among the youngest nations on earth, but also one of the oldest. Some four thousand years ago,…

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The real root of the Christian exodus

BY DAVID PARSONS, ICEJ-— With his recent segment for 60 Minutes, CBS News reporter Bob Simon has once again stoked the perennial debate over why so many native Palestinian Christians have been leaving the Holy Land in recent decades. Sadly, he addressed this important issue with a very superficial brand of journalism. The report relied…

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How journalists allowed the Palestinian Authority to fool them

BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE INSTITUTE— In most cases it is the Palestinian Authority’s security forces that are responsible for the chaos and corruption. A Western journalist who wanted to do an investigative report into the case was warned that she would be putting her life at risk. Gangsters and armed clans were among the…

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The Obama Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Issue

BY SARAH STERN, EMET— Last week, the Obama administration freed up $192 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority that had been put on hold by the United States Congress’ Committee of Foreign Operations Appropriations, saying that this money had to be given to the P.A. “because of national security interests.” The hold had…

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Quick thoughts on the unity government

BY CAROLINE GLICK— Here’s a quick first take on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s unity deal with Kadima leader Shaul Mofaz. I don’t think that this move was either motivated by or will impact Netanyahu’s decisions regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons program. If the elections had been carried out in September, as we thought, Netanyahu would certainly…

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Drama in Israel as elections cancelled, unity gov't formed

By RYAN JONES: ISRAEL TODAY— In a dramatic turn of events, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced early Tuesday morning that early general elections tentatively scheduled for September 4 were cancelled, and that he had forged a unity government with the opposition Kadima Party. The move took the entire country and all but the few…

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Israel, against all odds

BY TED BELMAN, ISRAPUNDIT— God must love us or how else do you explain how we Jews overcame seemingly insurmountable odds, time and time again for the last 100 plus years, in establishing and growing a Jewish state. Although the Jews repeated in their prayers for two thousand years after the Romans destroyed their Temple…

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Israeli candidate runs for Congress in Texas

BY GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST– Hundreds of Israelis are running for a seat in the Knesset. Only one is running for a seat in Congress. Itamar Gelbman was born in New York 30 years ago and as a child moved with his parents to Herzliya, where he was raised. He studied business management and computer science…

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Oren: 'American Jews boycotting Israeli settlements is terribly wrong'

BY ISRAEL HAYOM STAFF — “Sometimes it seems that we, Israelis and American Jews, not only inhabit different countries but different universes, different realities,” Israel Ambassador to U.S. Michael Oren says • “At stake is nothing less than the unity of a Jewish people.” The divide separating American and Israeli Jews is growing, Israeli Ambassador…

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Why Israel is heading for elections

BY RON JAGER— Nuclear threats are growing as the Obama administration tacitly approves unsupervised nuclear enrichment, while missiles are being launched daily from the Gaza Strip on cities in Southern Israel. From the east, Israel faces an existential threat from Iran. From the north, Israel faces a strategic threat from Syria and from Iran’s proxy,…

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Bibi v. Barry will be no contest this time around

BY JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— With the approval of the outgoing Knesset, Israel is moving toward early elections that will send its people to the polls on September 4. The decision will allow a new government to be in place in advance of the U.S. presidential contest that will take place two months later. If Israeli…

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Spot Report: Academic Anti-Semitism

Think on this: “The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what…

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Triple play! Obama blows off Congress, funds Palestinians, lies about PA stance on Israel

BY ANDREW C. MCCARTHY, NATIONAL REVIEW— Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare statehood unilaterally last September, in violation of the PA’s treaty commitments. Obama’s “waiver” of the restrictions on Congress’s Palestinian…

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