When Jews fight back

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Earlier this week, the IDF went viral, but for all the wrong reasons. After Lt.- Col. Shalom Eisner struck a pro-Palestinian Danish protester in the face with his rifle on Saturday, an edited video of the incident was quickly uploaded to the Internet, garnering worldwide attention and condemnation. Not surprisingly, Israel’s…

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Obama ready to yield on Iran's nuclear transparency

BY DEBKAFILE— In the direct, secret exchanges between the US and Iran which led up to the Istanbul talks with the six powers, on Saturday, April 14, President Barack Obama quietly backed off from his demand that Iran “come clean” on its nuclear activities and open up to international inspection, Debkafile reports. This concession paved…

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Video message from PM Netanyahu

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu called upon Jewish youths visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau Thursday to be “proud that the Jewish people rose from the dead.” He termed the voices calling Israel a threat to world peace – “chutzpah.” As the video was played before the participants, 17 Allied Forces veterans sat on the stage overlooking the train tracks…

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Michael Oren: Don’t let Iran perpetrate another Holocaust

By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND JTA, JPost— “We have to prevent a second Holocaust from happening,” Ambassador Michael Oren told The Jerusalem Post following a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. “When Iran says it wants to destroy the State of Israel, which just happens to have six million Jews, we have to…

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Anti-Israel Views Lead to Anti-Semitic Actions

By DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7 — Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, called on European leaders to act to prevent what he called a “tsunami of anti-Semitism” from engulfing Europe in the event of increased tensions in the Middle East. Kantor made the statement at a press conference Wednesday at the Kantor…

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Pita chips

After posting so many recipes on this site for dips and hummus, I realized that I should include a quick recipe for making homemade pita chips.  Ingredients 6 pitas ¼ cup olive oil ½ teaspoon salt Directions 1) Preheat oven to 400 degrees. 2) Cut each pita into 8 triangles and line them up on…

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Tourism to Israel hits all time high

BY ELISA L. MOED, TRAVELUJAH— Tourism to Israel has never been more popular.  Despite the Arab Spring, the uprising in Syria and  all the media speculation regarding a potential attack on Iran, people are continuing to travel to Israel on Holy Land Tours. During the first three months of the year, 752,000 tourists came to…

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Video: Fighting the spread of Islam

Fantastic speech by Melanie Phillips. Phillips is a journalist for the Daily Mail and author of several books, most recently World Turned Upside Down.  She defines herself as a liberal who has “been mugged by reality.”  In this short video, Phillips addresses the fact that “terrorism is not the biggest threat that we face.”  Philips…

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Scratch "Palestine" anywhere and you'll find Israel

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— In Rolf Hochuth’s play, The Representative, there is a line in Act 1, Scene 1, which goes as follows: “Cursed are the peacemakers.” Peace is a reality between states that are friendly towards each other. They, after all, do not need to make peace; it already exists through the…

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74 Democrats Join Soro's J Street in Urging Concessions

BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7 — Seventy-four Democrats in the House of Representatives have joined the leftist J Street organization in supporting the Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel into making painful and possibly dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Authority. “In our view, support for a two-state resolution is inseparable from such support for Israel,…

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Israel: Obama’s secret dealings with Iran conflict with US-Israeli understandings

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report— The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran…

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Synopsis of Change

BY RON JAGER— In an almost desperate bid to counter the emerging historical trend, pro-Palestinian elements recently attempted to change direction and bring the Palestinian Arab issue back to the forefront of the world’s agenda. For the Palestinian leadership, the Arab world has once again abandoned and left the Palestinian Arabs high and dry. The…

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