BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS, CFR— The “peaceful nature” of Iran’s nuclear program has taken acurious blow. The wife of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan Behdast, an Iranian nuclear scientist killed in Tehran in January, hastold the press that “Mostafa’s ultimategoal was the annihilation of Israel.” Roshan worked at the enrichment facility at Natanz, a key part of Iran’s…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Muslim mobs again hurled stones at Christian tourists and Jewish visitors atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Tuesday following a similar attack earlier in the week. One police officer who was among those escorting the Christian and Jewish groups was injured, and two Muslim assailants were arrested. Police were already on…
DetailsBY CHANA YA’AR, ARUTZ 7— Iran is pouring money into developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach the US, Israel warned Wednesday. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said in an interview on the U.S.-based CNBC news network the Islamic Republic is investing “billions of dollars” in its race to develop the missiles. Iran’s aim, he said…
DetailsBY MARK TOOLEY, FRONTPAGEMAG— The Evangelical Left is hosting a “Christ at the Checkpoint” jamboree at the birthplace of Jesus Christ to identify the Savior with Palestinian liberation. This anti-Israeli mobilization will include leading evangelicals from the U.S. “We are not accusing the Israeli military of putting Jesus at a checkpoint,” insists one disingenuous spokesman,…
DetailsWALL STREET JOURNAL — General Dempsey sends a message of U.S. weakness to Tehran. Is the Obama Administration more concerned that Iran may get a nuclear weapon, or that Israel may use military force to prevent Iran from doing so? The answer is the latter, judging from comments on Sunday by Chairman of the Joints…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsI had a dream that I had an interview with God. I looked at the great mountains and saw the genius of his handiwork. I looked at the incredible beauty of a sunset and with much trembling thought about what God must be like. I had one big question to ask… and you, do you…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsPurim 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,…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBy 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…
DetailsBY 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…
DetailsBY 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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