Netanyahu: EU sanctions step in the right direction

BY OPHIR BAR-ZOHAR AND DANNA HARMAN, AP Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the European Union’s decision on Monday to impose sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, calling the decision “a step in the right direction.” According to Netanyahu, who spoke at an afternoon Likud faction meeting, it is still too early to predict the outcome of…

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Christians in Iran, Syria face rising persecution

BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST— There has been a wave of violence targeting Iranian and Syrian Christians over the past month, say Christian news reports. In addition, Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been on death row since 2010 for seeking to register his home-based church, refused to renounce his Christian beliefs in exchange for his…

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Spot Report: Mainstreaming anti-Semitism

Think on this! “The anti-Semitic says: ‘There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the kings best interest to tolerate them.…

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The myth of Al Quds

BY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 3 of MYTHOMANIACS In the Bible, the prophet Zechariah writes of the time when God will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem, “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in…

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Wish I'd said that

“As the historian of antisemitism looks back over the millennia of horrors he has recorded, an inescapable conclusion emerges: Antisemitism is the longest and deepest hatred of human history. Other hatreds may have surpassed it in intensity for a historical moment, but all in their turn have assumed—or presently commence to assume—their proper place in…

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B'tayavon: Koshari

*Koshari is the traditional Egyptian meal. It’s served in every restaurant, at every dinner table, and sold by any Cairo street vendor. Koshari is a very strange combination of noodles, rice, lentils, fried onions and chili sauce. Don’t be thrown by the ingredient list. For whatever reason this all-in-one meal is addicting. I love traveling…

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Mainstreaming anti-Semitism

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable. Proof of this dismal state of affairs came this week with the publication of a supportive profile of University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer in The Atlantic monthly written by the…

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Praying and fasting for Jerusalem

BY DEREK PRINCE (Taken from a prayer brochure in 1997), DEREK PRINCE MINISTRIES— When I had a powerful personal encounter with Jesus Christ in 1941 in an army barrack room in England in the middle of the night, that encounter radically and permanently changed my life. God immediately began to teach me some amazing things,…

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Praying and fasting for Jerusalem

BY DEREK PRINCE (Taken from a prayer brochure in 1997), DEREK PRINCE MINISTRIES— When I had a powerful personal encounter with Jesus Christ in 1941 in an army barrack room in England in the middle of the night, that encounter radically and permanently changed my life. God immediately began to teach me some amazing things,…

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The Palestinian campaign to delegitimize Israel

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER AND DAVID BARNETT, NATIONAL INTEREST— Israeli envoy Isaac Molho met Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat recently for the third time in the new year. The talks, widely praised across the international community, have been billed as a much-needed jumpstart for negotiations between the two sides. But they are actually a distraction from the…

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A two-state solution, for England and Scotland

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Earlier this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron took a highly unusual step. Meeting with visiting PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Her Majesty’s Government departed from the usual diplomatic blather and went out of his way to underline his insistence on a two- state solution for the Israel- Palestinian…

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'Root of conflict is refusal to accept Jewish state'

BY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday that the root cause of the Israeli Palestinian conflict is “the persistent (Palestinian) refusal to accept a Jewish state within any boundaries.” Speaking at a synagogue in the Netherlands during a visit to the country, the prime minister recalled that Israel places no preconditions on the…

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The society for the protection of Iranian nuclear scientists

BY DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTAN KNISH— After having exhausted the indignant possibilities of protesting the extinction of whales, pelicans and polar bears, the left has found a new endangered species to be outraged about. Iranian nuclear scientists. It’s one thing to hug a polar bear or a tree, but it’s another to embrace an Iranian nuclear…

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Joint US-Israel drill called off by Netanyahu

BY DEBKAFILE— debkafile’s sources disclose exclusively that, contrary to recent reports published in Washington, Jerusalem – and this site too – it was Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise Austere Challenge 12 scheduled for April 2012. Washington was taken aback…

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