Scripture reading for January 21, 2012
Torah: Exodus 6:2–9:35 “Va’era” (And he appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 — 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 — 33 Gospel: John 8:48 — 59 “Ha Shivu” (They answered … )
DetailsJoint US-Israel drill called off by Netanyahu
BY DEBKAFILE— debkafile’s sources disclose exclusively that, contrary to recent reports published in Washington, Jerusalem – and this site too – it was Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise Austere Challenge 12 scheduled for April 2012. Washington was taken aback…
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Thoughts for Martin Luther King day
BY YONATAN SREDNI, ARUTZ 7— My sister is beside herself. She and her Israeli husband and kids had moved from Israel to northern California just over a year ago. Now her kids attend the same Jewish day school she and I had gone to when we grew up there nearly three decades ago. “It’s Martin…
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Netanyahu deputy disappointed with Obama on Iran
BY DAN WILLIAMS, REUTERs— A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying “election-year considerations” lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by U.S. legislators. While Washington has been talking tougher about Iran’s nuclear work and threat to block oil export routes out of the Gulf if hit with…
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Youtube freezes PMW account again
In response to yesterday’s Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) video-bulletin which showed the PA Mufti’s speech that Muslims’ destiny is to kill Jews, YouTube has frozen PMW’s account. All PMW videos are working except this one but the account is frozen and PMW cannot upload new videos for the next two weeks. We have uploaded the…
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Joseph is Alive: Israel helps Africa store food
BY RIVKA BOROCHOV, UNITED WITH ISRAEL— When the Biblical Joseph predicted that Egypt would suffer a major famine thousands of years ago, he told the Pharaoh to store grain for seven years. His foresight kept the people in the region from starvation. Prof. Shlomo Navarro, an Israeli environmental food specialist, is taking the same approach…
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Video: Israel in 2012
This year, 2012, will be the most important year in Israel’s history. The world will never be the same again. With revolutions erupting across the Middle East, elections in the United States of America and the European economy in turmoil, NOW IS THE TIME to stand with Israel. Make a resolution to support The Land…
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To fight delegitimization
BY SHIRI HADAR, YNET— The wave of anti-Israeli criticism sweeping across many countries, including in North America, has prompted the Jewish Agency to significantly increase the number of Shlichim (emissaries) abroad. These emissaries, who engage in advocacy for the State of Israel, have been a central part of the Jewish Agency’s vision during the past…
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2012- the year of living dangerously
BY BARRY RUBIN, GLORIA— Coverage of the region-wide upheaval known as the “Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims. After all, if the protest demonstration and balloting have proven able to resolve grievances then who needs to blow people up?…
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Iran closer to the bomb than world realizes?
BY WND— A report that Iran is about a year away from having the capability to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic, contended John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “I worry the publicly available information is giving only a very small picture and that Iran is actually even much further…
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The Myth of Palestine
BY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 2 of MYTHOMANIACS— In an article entitled, “The Lesson of Palestine,” printed in the Middle East Journal, October 1949, Arab activist, Musa Alami, wrote, “How can people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning of the word? … The people are in great need of…
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Video: Israel Dead Sea Scrolls project online
It took 2,000 years, but the Dead Sea Scrolls have finally entered the digital age. As of this fall, the scrolls are available online thanks to a partnership between Google and Israel’s national museum. Five of the most important scrolls can be seen in high-resolution on the internet. Users can zoom in and out, translate…
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Spot Report: Responding to the Muslim goal to kill Jews
Think on this! “O God do not keep silent. Be not quiet O God, be not still. See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people. They plot against those you cherish. Come they say let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name…
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Who's afraid of Tim Tebow?
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past Sunday I got a first-hand glimpse of one of the hottest phenomena in American pop culture and sports. The venue was Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, the occasion was the first round of the National Football League playoffs. Just prior to the start of the game between the New…
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Bethlehem to host church conference which demonizes Israel
BY GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— Next March, the Bible College in Bethlehem will host dozens of US theologians, activists and ministries for the “Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 Conference”. It is to be a major religious and political event meant to demonize Israel and to support the Palestinian Intifada against the “ethnocentric” Jewish State. The…
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Iran, Hezbollah stepping up efforts to save Assad regime in Syria
BY GIL COHEN, HAARETZ— Iran and Hezbollah are strengthening their efforts to ensure the survival of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria, Military Intelligence Chief Major General Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday. “They are providing with knowledge, weapons and other means and recently with active involvement,” Kochavi said. Kochavi also said that the face of…
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Iran: We'll bring the war to Israel and 'beyond'
BY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7— Iran is preparing its own answers to the string of assassinations of Iranian scientists, a web site identified with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said Thursday – and those responsible had better start staying awake nights, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying. Naming Israel specifically, the Rajah News website said…
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