BY DEBKAFILE— A large Iranian delegation led by Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi visited Riyadh Monday, Dec. 12 and put a proposition before Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz: Why not bury the Saudi royal house’s historic feud with the ayatollahs of Tehran and form an anti-US and anti-Zionist pact for leading the Middle East? The Iranians…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 37:1–40:23 “Vayeshev” (He dwelt …) Haftorah: Amos 2:6–3:8 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11–14 Gospel: Matthew 1:18–25 “Huledet” (The birth …)
DetailsBy YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— Contrary to political correctness, Palestinian Arabs have not been in the area west of the Jordan River from time immemorial; no Palestinian state ever existed, no Palestinian People was ever robbed of its land and there is no basis for the Palestinian “claim of return.” Most Palestinian Arabs are descendants…
DetailsBY TODAY’S ZAMAN— The Syrian regime, which has endured nine months of civil unrest spurred by the Arab Spring as it swept across the Middle East, has armed its medium-range missile arsenal with chemical warheads. According to a report published by the Sabah daily Sunday, Damascus armed 600 one-ton chemical warheads to use in the…
DetailsFaith Lessons: Bethlehem, Shepherd’s Field Not far from the walled city of Bethlehem a group of shepherds and a flock of sheep slept under a typical, Judean, night sky. One shepherd, keeping his usual two-hour watch, passed the time with musings and counted sheep to stay awake just as the young David would have done…
DetailsBy CAROLINE GLICK — JPOST Gingrich’s statement about the Palestinians was entirely accurate. That is, the Palestinian people were invented 91 years ago. Last Friday, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, did something revolutionary. He told the truth about the Palestinians. In an interview with The Jewish…
DetailsBY JPOST— Iran will reverse-engineer the US drone it captured on December 4, Iran’s Press TV quoted a senior Iranian official as saying Sunday. Parviz Sorouri, member of the Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, said that his country will “mass produce” the drones in the near future. He also said that the…
DetailsBY BENYAMIN KORN, ISRAPUNDIT— What do Golda Meir, lifelong socialist and prime minister of Israel, and Newt Gingrich, lifelong conservative and current presidential candidate, have in common? The courage to tell the truth about ”Palestine.” Gingrich stirred up a hornet’s nest last week when he remarked that “The Palestinians are an invented people.” Golda made…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Blessed is the one who reads and does what God says in the Holy Scriptures. Our own judgments and feelings often deceive us and we discern only part of the truth when we do hear it. What good does it do to…
DetailsBY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Taking a page out of David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin’s playbook, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will begin hosting a regular Bible study group in his official residence for researchers, public officials and invited guests. Netanyahu announced the establishment of the study circle on Friday at a ceremony marking 30 days since…
DetailsBy RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY — One of the candidates who currently has a very real chance at becoming the next president of the United States could fundamentally alter Middle East peace-making were he to stick to his campaign platform and rhetoric after taking office. In an interview with The Jewish Channel on Friday, former…
DetailsBY ELISA MOED, TRAVELUJAH-— He said to them, “Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for.’” Mark 1:38 With a heart full of emotion, Valeries Ramirez, 24, looked out over the Sea of Galilee and the Genasseret Valley on the…
Details“Through the unique benignity of their experience in the United States, the Jewish people bear witness to the infinitely precious virtues of the traditional American system. Surely, then we Jews have an obligation to join with the defenders of this system against those who are blind or indifferent or antagonistic to the philosophical principles, the…
DetailsBy CAL THOMAS, TOWNHALL.COM– In a season in which there is very little “peace on Earth” and even less “good will towards men,” it is a particularly tough time for Jews, who may be finding it more and more difficult to tell who their real friends are. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fired an unusually harsh…
DetailsThink on this: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan where you are now an alien, I will give as an everlasting…
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