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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Experts say Iran has 'neutralized' Stuxnet virus

BY REUTERS– Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country’s nuclear machinery, European and US officials and private experts have told Reuters. The malicious code, whose precise origin and authorship remain unconfirmed, made its way as early as 2009 into equipment controlling centrifuges Iran is using…

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Seeking Israel's destruction

BY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— The annual Israeli Apartheid Week, dubbed “anti-Semitic hatefest” by Canadian author Howard Rotberg, is approaching again. As every year the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign will play a key part in this eighth edition.   A large conference of the BDS was just held in Bologna, Italy. The forum selected…

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B'tayavon: Almond Baklava

While not technically one of the seven species, almonds (shaked in Hebrew) have become a sort of unofficial eighth species due to their close association with Tu B’Shvat. Almond trees grow all over Israel today and they tend to bloom right around the time that Tu B’Shvat usually occurs. Look for cardamom in your spice…

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Almond Baklava

While not technically one of the seven species, almonds (shaked in Hebrew) have become a sort of unofficial eighth species due to their close association with Tu B’Shvat. Almond trees grow all over Israel today and they tend to bloom right around the time that Tu B’Shvat usually occurs. Look for cardamom in your spice…

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Sending a message to Iran

BY ILAN BERMAN, FORBES— Of late, as the political debate in the United States and Europe has shifted to talk of the need for military action to stop Iran’s march toward the bomb, a funny thing has happened: the economic pressure being levied by the West has begun to have serious effect. That is the…

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Israel: A Priceless Strategic Military Asset for the US

BY MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, in America, there were Hitler enablers like the American hero Charles Lindbergh who publicly championed– the Big Lie– that England was a strategic liability to the US, was the cause of world war, and, that England needed to be dumped. Today, there is a…

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