Christian Zionism and social justice

By MALCOLM HEDDING, JPOST-Christian Edition— Certain segments of Evangelical Christianity are being drawn away from the movement’s traditional support for Israel by those claiming the moral high ground in advocating for “social justice.” Many of these liberal, anti-Israel Evangelicals showed up at the recent “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference in Bethlehem. They invariably view Israel…

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Spot Report: The war on Christian Zionism

Think on this! “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from…

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“Jew Flu”: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies

BY RONN TOROSSIAN, Algemeiner — Lenin called those who work against their own people’s best interests in support of their enemies “helpful idiots,” and I am sure that many in the Arab world feel the same way about entities like J Street and Peter Beinart . Throughout history – both ancient and modern, there has…

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Obama Administration Leaks Another Israeli Defense Secret

BY BEN SHAPIRO, BREITBART— The leaks continue from the Obama administration with regard to Israeli defense secrets. On Sunday, the New Yorker printed a report stating that US had worked with the Iranian opposition group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK). The US was apparently receiving intelligence from the group, including intercepted cell phone calls and text messages. But…

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Who are the Palestinian-Arabs?

BY AMBASSADOR (RET.) YORAM ETTINGER— Most Palestinians are Muslim-Arabs who originated in the Arabian Peninsula.  However, the source of the name “Palestine” was Pleshet, the region of the Philistines (Pleshtim in Hebrew), who originated in Greece’s Aegean Islands.  They were expelled from Greece in 1300 BC and settled the coastal plain of the Land of…

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B'tayavon: Israel Independence Day Cake

Ingredients 2 rolls (16.5 oz each) refrigerated sugar cookie dough 2 packages (8 oz each) cream cheese, very softened 1 cup confectioners’ sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 carton (8 ounces) whipped topping 3 to 4 cups blueberries 1 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup orange juice 1/4 cup pineapple juice Directions 1) Preheat…

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Sacred Season: Passover and Eucharist

BY RABBI DR. GERALD MEISTER, TRAVELUJAH— In the liturgical narrative of the Seder of Passover night, we are solemnly instructed that “in every generation each must regard himself as though personally coming out of Egypt.” The exodus from Egypt, the Passover, is not a one- time event, but the beginning of a continuing process even…

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A tale of two civil wars

BY ALAN W. DOWD, FRONTPAGMAG— The Syrian civil war is now more than a year old. The Syrian army has killed some 10,000 people—and counting.  Although Damascus has made promises about ceasefires and diplomatic settlements, it’s not in Bashar Assad’s DNA to countenance any challenge to his rule. Recall that his father slaughtered 20,000 Syrians…

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Obama: 'Judge me by where my heart lies'

BY EARL COX, JPOST— US President Barack Obama’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) challenged people to judge him by his deeds, not his words. Once again, it is the rhetoric used in hope of masking the deeds that stands out in a speech that tried to convince supporters of Israel that…

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Sacred Season: Passover and Eucharist

BY RABBI DR. GERALD MEISTER, TRAVELUJAH— In the liturgical narrative of the Seder of Passover night, we are solemnly instructed that “in every generation each must regard himself as though personally coming out of Egypt.” The exodus from Egypt, the Passover, is not a one- time event, but the beginning of a continuing process even…

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Beating Obama

BY RON JAGER— The past two weeks will go down as the worst weeks of the Obama presidency. Obama managed to embarrass himself abroad, humiliate himself at home, reinforcing the underlying feeling that he shouldn’t have been elected in the first place, let alone be re-elected later this year. To begin with Obama responded to…

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Quartet to meet in DC, but peace process expectations low

BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Senior Quartet representatives will meet in Washington on Wednesday amid little expectation that they will have more luck this time kick-starting direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon and…

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NY Times weaves a Netanyahu-Romney conspiracy tale

BY LEO RENNERT, AMERICAN THINKER— There it is above the fold on the front page of the Sunday, April 8, New York Times, a tale of a long friendship between GOP presidential aspirant Mitt Romney and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with insinuations aplenty that it could become an unprecedented and worrisome Israeli influence conduit…

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The Romney Netanyahu friendship

BY MICHAEL BARBARO, NY TIMES— The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel. But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both had…

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