US, Germany differ on Israeli ability to hit Iran

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST— Competing analysis articles appeared Monday in The New York Times and last week in the German daily Die Welt outlining vastly different conclusions about Israel’s military capability to knock out Iran’s nuclear weapons program. While The New York Times report cast doubt on Israel’s success chances, Hans Rühle, who directed the…

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Discovering the Jerusalem from the time of Jesus

BY ARIEL BEN AMI, TRAVELUJAH— What did Jerusalem look like in Jesus’ days? For most of Christian history, this question remained shrouded in mystery. When the Temple and city were destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., the ruins remained buried for nearly two millennia – even after the Jewish People began to return to…

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Israel’s restoration

BY DEREK PRINCE (ARCHIVES FROM DEREKPRINCE.ORG)— It was in September 2000 that I decided to take up residence once again in Israel, and since that time I have faced some of the greatest physical challenges of my life. They are not unconnected, believe me. When you set out to do something in Israel for the…

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Israel's restoration

BY DEREK PRINCE (ARCHIVES FROM DEREKPRINCE.ORG)— It was in September 2000 that I decided to take up residence once again in Israel, and since that time I have faced some of the greatest physical challenges of my life. They are not unconnected, believe me. When you set out to do something in Israel for the…

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What is Purim?

Purim is the holiday when Jews (and many Christians) remember the story of Esther.  Esther was an ordinary Jewish girl who became Queen of the Persian Empire.  God placed Esther in the right place at the right time.  When the evil Haman issued a plan for all the Jews in the Empire to be killed,…

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Obama to try and talk Netanyahu out of Iran strike

BY DEBKAfile— After a high-ranking US delegation headed by White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon failed in three days of tough talks (Feb.18-20) to dissuade Israeli leaders to back off plans for a military strike against Iran’s nuclear sites, the White House invited Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for talks with President Barak Obama on…

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Anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on Jerusalem church

BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— The well-known “Baptist House” church in central Jerusalem was vandalized overnight in a scene that is becoming all too familiar to its congregants. The perpetrators scrawled anti-Christian slogans on the side of the Baptist House, including: “Death to Christianity”, “Jesus was a son of a whore”, and “We will crucify…

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Who Truly Deserves a State? The Kurds or the Palestinians?

BY VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— There are over twenty Arab states throughout the Middle East and North Africa, but the world demands, in a chorus of barely disguised animosity towards Israel, that yet another Arab state be created within the mere forty miles separating the Mediterranean Sea and the River Jordan. Israel, a territory no…

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Muslims stone Christians on Temple Mount

By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the stone-throwers. Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in…

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Israel Appreciates Her ‘New’ Christian Friends

BY EARL COX— It has been my special privilege to become acquainted with numerous Israeli government officials at all levels and, of course, they understand that I am an American evangelical Christian. So often I am told how much Israel appreciates her new Christian friends. I say “new” because for centuries the Jewish people have…

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Israel Appreciates Her ‘New’ Christian Friends

BY EARL COX— It has been my special privilege to become acquainted with numerous Israeli government officials at all levels and, of course, they understand that I am an American evangelical Christian. So often I am told how much Israel appreciates her new Christian friends. I say “new” because for centuries the Jewish people have…

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So Jesus Lived in Occupied Territory?

BY JAN MARKELL, OLIVE TREE VIEWS— A terrible tragedy will take place March 5-9 in the holy city of Bethlehem. Our Lord’s city of birth will host a conference called, “Christ at the Checkpoint.” Which Christ? Not the Christ of the Bible. The premise of the event is that the Palestinians live under brutal Israeli…

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The end of Palestine

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— I never thought I would say this, but those of us on the Israeli Right owe a debt of gratitude to Mahmoud Abbas. By forging a unity agreement with Hamas earlier this month in Doha, Qatar, the Palestinian Authority president has inadvertently corroborated one of the central tenets of our political…

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The rejection of Israel

By Jacques B. Doukhan, Th.D. Nowhere in the New Testament do we find the rejection of Israel. In fact, the only time where the biblical text speaks about the rejection of Israel, it is in emphatically negative terms to affirm that God has not rejected them. “Has God cast away His people?” (Romans 11:1), asks…

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