BY BRET STEPHENS, WSJ— Can Israel attack Iran? If it can, will it? If it will, when? If when, how? And what happens after that? On Sunday with Matt Lauer, President Obama said “I don’t think that Israel has made a decision on what they need to do.” That didn’t square with the view of…
DetailsBY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, STONEGATE— At a time when Arab heads of state are facing popular uprisings demanding reforms and democracy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has secured himself yet another job: Prime Minister. Earlier this week, Palestinians were surprised to hear that Abbas had reached a deal with Hamas to form a unity government…
DetailsBY DEBKAFILE— As the US and Israel carried on bickering over the right time to strike Iran’s nuclear sites, their war preparations continued apace. debkafile’s military sources report that flight after flight of US warplanes and transports were to be seen this week cutting eastward through the skies of Sinai on their way to Gulf…
DetailsBY DELL SANCHEZ, 4Sephardim— Not long ago, a high ranking official in the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem asked me a profound question about my people, the Sephardic Anusim. His question was, “Are there others like you?” After we explained to him that there is a multitude ‘of us’ in the USA and all across the…
DetailsBY Y.MANSHAROF & A. SAVYON, MEMRI— As the reciprocal war of words between the Western and Iranian media escalated, and in response to Israeli declarations regarding the necessity of stopping Iran’s nuclear program with a military strike, Alireza Forghani, a staunch supporter of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and, until recently, governor of Kish Province,…
DetailsBY SHELLEY NEESE— On the 26th of February, campuses across America will begin their eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). The stated aim of IAW is “to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.” They believe that by doing so they will exert “urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current…
DetailsBy RICHARD COHEN, WPost— There are three red lines when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program. The first is the moment when Iran tunnels so deeply underground that Israeli bombs will be incapable of doing real damage. The second is when the tunneling goes even deeper, and the United States’ “bunker buster” bombs will be…
DetailsBY EARL COX— The term, ‟Jihad” in Arabic means ‟holy war.” To me, it’s quite a stretch to think of war as ‟holy.” Wouldn’t you consider peace to be a lot more ‟holy?” Shouldn’t the Muslims be promoting ‟holy peace” instead of ‟holy war?” ‟Jihad,” to my understanding, is an important doctrinal concept to Muslims.…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— What is it about Evangelical Christians and their support for Israel that makes some Jews at times uneasy? I can even imagine what makes Jews – especially liberal Jews – nervous about this huge group of Israel lovers: their conservative values, an uncompromising stance on the Middle East peace process and support…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— What is it about Evangelical Christians and their support for Israel that makes some Jews at times uneasy? I can even imagine what makes Jews – especially liberal Jews – nervous about this huge group of Israel lovers: their conservative values, an uncompromising stance on the Middle East peace process and support…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— What is it about Evangelical Christians and their support for Israel that makes some Jews at times uneasy? I can even imagine what makes Jews – especially liberal Jews – nervous about this huge group of Israel lovers: their conservative values, an uncompromising stance on the Middle East peace process and support…
DetailsBY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 6 of MYTHOMANIACS— A mythical phrase that has become commonplace in the Arab-Israeli conflict is the phrase, “West Bank.” I call this a mythical phrase because it was invented by Jordan to describe the territory West of the Jordan River, a territory which Jordan illegally occupied. When the news media refers…
DetailsTorah: 18:1-20:23 “Yitro” (Jethro…) Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1-7:14; 9:6-7 New Testament: I Peter 2:23-24 Gospel: Matthew 8:5-20 “Neeknas” (He entered …)
DetailsBy ITAMAR EICHNER, YNet — Preparing for Iran strike? Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel. Senior officials in Jerusalem said that several diplomatic missions have shown great interest in preparing for various emergency situations,…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, TRAVELUJAH— There are so many fascinating experiences to be had in the Holy Land that it is difficult to call just one the “most unique,” but going on a historical scavenger hunt in Jerusalem’s Old City has got to rank pretty high on the uniqueness scale. Pilgrimage tours to Israel are nothing…
DetailsDouglas Kear Murray is a British writer and commentator. He was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion from 2007 until 2011, and is currently an associate director of the Henry Jackson Society. Murray appears regularly in the British broadcast media, commentating on issues from a conservative standpoint, and he is often critical of…
DetailsOn the 26th of February, campuses across America will begin their eighth annual Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). The stated aim of IAW is “to educate people about the nature of Israel as an apartheid system.” They believe that by doing so they will exert “urgent pressure on Israel to alter its current structure and practices…
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