Video: Blaming Israel, really?
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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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Scripture reading for January 21, 2012
Torah: Exodus 6:2–9:35 “Va’era” (And he appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 — 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 — 33 Gospel: John 8:48 — 59 “Ha Shivu” (They answered … )
DetailsJoint 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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Thoughts for Martin Luther King day
BY YONATAN SREDNI, ARUTZ 7— My sister is beside herself. She and her Israeli husband and kids had moved from Israel to northern California just over a year ago. Now her kids attend the same Jewish day school she and I had gone to when we grew up there nearly three decades ago. “It’s Martin…
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Netanyahu deputy disappointed with Obama on Iran
BY DAN WILLIAMS, REUTERs— A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying “election-year considerations” lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by U.S. legislators. While Washington has been talking tougher about Iran’s nuclear work and threat to block oil export routes out of the Gulf if hit with…
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Youtube freezes PMW account again
In response to yesterday’s Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) video-bulletin which showed the PA Mufti’s speech that Muslims’ destiny is to kill Jews, YouTube has frozen PMW’s account. All PMW videos are working except this one but the account is frozen and PMW cannot upload new videos for the next two weeks. We have uploaded the…
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Joseph is Alive: Israel helps Africa store food
BY RIVKA BOROCHOV, UNITED WITH ISRAEL— When the Biblical Joseph predicted that Egypt would suffer a major famine thousands of years ago, he told the Pharaoh to store grain for seven years. His foresight kept the people in the region from starvation. Prof. Shlomo Navarro, an Israeli environmental food specialist, is taking the same approach…
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