BY NATASHA MOZGOVAYA, AP– The Palestinians are slated to receive some 200 million dollars in U.S. security assistance after a top House Republican ended her hold on the money. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, informed the Obama administration in recent weeks that she no longer would block 50 million…
DetailsBY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— A senior American military official on Friday told CNN that the Obama Administration is “absolutely concerned” that Israel may soon strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. The official insisted that the US itself has no intention of attacking Iran (though other reports suggest otherwise), and said there is no guarantee Israel will…
DetailsBY JONATHAN SCHANZER, WEEKLY STANDARD— Last week, Jordan’s new prime minister Awn Khasawneh boldly announced that Jordan’s 1999 decision to deport leaders of the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas was a political mistake and a violation of the constitution. With U.S. regional influence in decline and Jordanian stability on the line, the London-based Arabic daily al-Quds…
DetailsBY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— It wasn’t your everyday sight at the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism: dozens of motorcyclists in black leather vests, tattoos and army-green bandanas gathered at the plaza in a culmination of their journey across the country, broke bread together and honored the Israeli army with a prayer and a…
DetailsRyan Jones — ISRAEL TODAY A senior American military official on Friday told CNN that the Obama Administration is “absolutely concerned” that Israel may soon strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. The official insisted that the US itself has no intention of attacking Iran (though other reports suggest otherwise), and said there is no guarantee Israel will…
DetailsPosted Here: This Week’s Prayer Points! “I have posted Watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give your selves no rest and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of all the earth.” . The Watchmen…
DetailsThink on this! “The law will go forth from Zion , the Word of Yahweh from Jerusalem.” … “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest…
DetailsBy CAROLINE B. GLICK — JPost — The only way to defeat those who deny our rights to our land, our nationhood and our history is to expose their corruption, and their hateful intentions towards the Jewish people. You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They decided to abandon the…
Details“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.”— Golda Meir
Perhaps this is why Joe Lieberman said “The way this Occupy Wall Street is expressing itself is not reflective of the majority of people in our country”–is not embracing the protesters: This is a protest aimed at bankers with a certain element who perversely want to blame the Jews for all of this country’s problems.…
DetailsBY YARON BROOK AND ALEX EPSTEIN, THE OBJECTIVE STANDARD— This essay is partially based on a lecture, “The Morality of War,” delivered by Yaron Brook at numerous venues across the country. This article is very long and it was written six years ago but it is the best article I’ve ever read on Just War…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 21:1 – 17:23, “Lekh Lekha” (Go forth yourself …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:27 – 41:10 New Testament: Romans 4:1 – 25 Gospels: John 8:48 – 59, “Ani Hu” (I am …)
DetailsBY STAN GOODENOUGH— In what was described as a crucial “UN test vote,” UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientif and Cultural Organization) voted Monday to grant full membership to the ‘State of Palestine.” The 107 nations voting in favor included South Africa, China, Russia, Brazil, India and France. Among the 14 votes against were the…
DetailsBY HAARETZ Amidst a flurry of recent reports regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not already decided that Israel will conduct such a strike. “It does not take a genius to understand that in Israel in 2011 two people…
DetailsBY ELWOOD MCQUAID, JPOST— Israel has long been like the canary in the mineshaft. If the canary succumbs to the odorless, lethal gases of the depths below, the miners know it’s time to get out of the mine. Anti-Semitic militancy, like the canary in the mine, warns the rest of the world of what lies…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— No, the terror will continue so long as Israel and the IDF merely retaliates against each and every separate Muslim Arab crime against the Jewish state’s civilian population. As one person, commenting on a blog, stated: “Israel’s taking out a few rocket launchers is like giving aspirin for cancer.…
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