BY ROBERT M. GOLDBERG, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR— Oscar Wilde noted “true friends stab you in the front.” Which explains why President Obama– the self-proclaimed “best friend Israel ever had” — has decided to cut funding for the Jewish state’s missile defense system at the same time he wants to restore funding to UNESCO. (Israel’s best…
DetailsBY DEBRA RUBIN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel events. Or, of an African American Catholic at a historically black college telling not just her fellow students, but also a Jewish youth group, why she supports Israel. Yet, Stanley…
Details“In the eternal counsel of God, he has determined to make Jerusalem the decisive issue by which He will deal with the nations. Those nations who align themselves with God’s purposes for Jerusalem will receive His blessing. But those who follow a policy in opposition to God’s purposes will be severely dealt with. Commit yourself…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Local Christian leaders and an Israeli government representative gathered at the “Baptist House” church in central Jerusalem on Tuesday, one day after the building was vandalized with anti-Christian graffiti. The meeting could be best described as a demonstration of solidarity by the State of Israel with the Christian community, but…
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Three years may have passed since the end of Operation Cast Lead, when Israeli forces entered Gaza to conduct a limited counterterror campaign, but that hasn’t stopped Palestinian terrorists from transforming southern Israel into a shooting gallery. Though you would never know it from much of the mainstream press, the thugs…
DetailsBY DORE GOLD, JPOST— Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called Israel Apartheid Week. With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are urged to rise up against Israel – painfully evoking the types of racist characterizations…
DetailsBY RON JAGER— If we accept the thesis that most American Jews are predominantly liberal and vote Democratic, and that most Liberals are concerned with human rights and social justice, a simple question is begged to be asked: Can American Jewish Liberals who detest war and violence, who believe that fighting is not ‘the Jewish…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, carolineglick.com— This morning I received an e-mail alert from CAMERA that my alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is hosting a two-day conference which essentially begins with the proposition that Israel has no right to exist. This isn’t surprising. After all, the Kennedy School is home to my old professor Steve Walt.…
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,…
DetailsBy LELA GILBERT, NATIONAL REVIEW.COM Today — Ash Wednesday — I spent a couple of hours at an Israeli hospital with a man who does not need to put ashes on his forehead to commemorate Lent: Half of his face was burned off by an attack with acid a couple of months ago. He is…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 25:1-27:19 “Terumah” (An offering …) Haftorah: I Kings 5:12-6:13 New Testament: II Corinthians 9:1-15 Gospel: Matthew 5:23-26 “Karbanka” (Your gift …)
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE— No, the title of this article does not refer to W.B. Yeat’s poem or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, nor to the foul and evil figure of the Antichrist found in the Book of Revelation. But it does refer to a wicked presence soon to be found in the ancient Jewish…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE— No, the title of this article does not refer to W.B. Yeat’s poem or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, nor to the foul and evil figure of the Antichrist found in the Book of Revelation. But it does refer to a wicked presence soon to be found in the ancient Jewish…
DetailsBY 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…
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