by Gadi Taub, Ynetnews.com Just before going through passport control at Ben-Gurion airport, one sees a stand with small brochures packed with some basic, catchy information about Israel. These booklets are meant to equip Israelis traveling abroad with some flattering anecdotes and fundamental facts to help them improve Israel’s image overseas. I reviewed such brochure…
DetailsBY MELANIE LIDMAN, JPOST—- Saturday’s optimism on the streets of Cairo for imminent political change gave way to anger on Sunday, as thousands of demonstrators became increasingly frustrated with the lack of response from major world leaders, especially the US. During the main protest on Sunday in downtown Cairo, one man painted a 20- meter-long…
DetailsBy JPOST.COM STAFF & ASSOCIATED PRESS — Opposition figure tells crowds in Cairo: “What we’ve begun cannot be reversed”; Muslim Brotherhood throws support behind ElBaradei, gives him mandate to negotiate unity gov’t. Speaking to protesters gathered in Cairo’s central Tahrir Sqaure Sunday evening, opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei spoke to the crowds, and demanded regime change. ElBaradei…
DetailsI realize that there are a handful of people out there who are sticking to their New Year’s resolutions. If you promised yourself to start eating healthier in 2011 or at least get more vegetables, this is the recipe for you. On weight watchers this is one of those soups that’s almost “zero points.” There is just a touch of…
Detailsby HANAN GREENBERG, Ynet — Extremist takeover in Egypt would put Israel in ‘wholly different position,’ security official warns. A fundamental change of government in Egypt may lead to a “revolution in Israel’s security doctrine,” a defense official told Ynet Friday night, as protests against President Hosni Mubarak’s rule continued to intensify. The security official…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE— As if Israel does not suffer the slings and arrows from the Left and from many in the Democrat party, now Senator Rand Paul, who is a leader in the Tea Party movement which many of us support, has just announced that he is calling on the Obama Administration to end the…
Detailsby Caroline Glick Today the Egyptian regime faces its gravest threat since Anwar Sadat’s assassination thirty years ago. As protesters take to the street for the third day in a row demanding the overthrow of 82-year old President Hosni Mubarak, it is worth considering the possible alternatives to his regime. Thursday afternoon, Egyptian presidential hopeful…
DetailsI realize that there are a handful of people out there who are sticking to their New Year’s resolutions. If you promised yourself to start eating healthier in 2011 or at least get more vegetables, this is the recipe for you. On weight watchers this is one of those soups that’s almost “zero points.” There…
DetailsPat Hutchens sits down with Julia Gabriel from Christian Broadcasting Network to discuss her 28 paintings from the Auschwitz Album Revisited. Today, while we recognize International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pat is showing the paintings in their first exhibit at Regent University, VA Beach. Pat has used oil paintings to give life to those lost in…
Detailsby Julia Gabriel, CBN News Thursday, the world remembers the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. It was this day in 1945 that the last of Adolf Hitler’s Auschwitz death camps were liberated. The United Nations started International Holocaust Remembrance Day six years ago in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejecting his denial…
Detailsby Barry Rubin The “Palestine Papers” hoax is (or, more accurately, should be) turning into the most teachable moment about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in modern history. At least, everyone has reversed what happened: The compromise position was offered by Israel; the Palestinians rejected peace. Are we going to see this story corrected? The “Palestine Papers”…
DetailsPM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU — Have the lessons of the Holocaust been learned? For us, The Jewish people, the answer is yes. For the rest of the world, the answer is no, or at least not yet. Today, 66 years after the horror, we are here, in Jerusalem, the eternal capital of our nation. We, the…
DetailsEach week we give a suggested series of scripture readings for the the coming week. It begins on the Sabbath (Saturday) with the weekly Torah portion and the accompanying Haftorah reading. It concludes with a compatible portion from the Gospels and the New Testament. For the Sabbath of January 29, 2011. Torah Portion:…
Detailsby MELANIE PHILLIPS, SPECTATOR — The fall-out from the Guardian’s Palestine Papers rolls on and on – and still all remains as clear as mud. There are so many potential agendas behind this ‘leak’, and as the days pass the unanswered questions pile up. I hear from those combing through these materials from a position…
Detailsby Isabel Kershner, The New York Times For Israel, the prospect of a government in Lebanon backed by Hezbollah, one of Israel’s worst enemies, seemed to be the realization of a nightmare. Yet some analysts here said it was not necessarily an immediate cause for alarm. The previous Beirut government, led by Saad Hariri, “never…
Detailsby NATHAN GUTTMAN, FORWARD — The Israeli-Palestinian peace process may be near collapse, but the Washington turf wars surrounding it are still going strong, according to sources involved in the negotiations. The administration’s top Middle East hands — special envoy George Mitchell and White House adviser Dennis Ross — are increasingly at loggerheads, these sources…
Detailsby ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, WALL STREET JOURNAL — Only a U.S. veto can prevent the adoption of a resolution that will make peace harder to achieve. Although I have opposed Israel’s civilian settlements in the West Bank since 1973, I strongly believe that the United States should veto a resolution currently before the U.N. Security Council…
Detailsby Emet Report Peru said on Monday it had recognized a Palestinian state, joining a growing number of Latin American countries in making an endorsement the United States has called premature. Israel has warned that declarations by Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Guyana could undermine the Middle East peace process. Peruvian Foreign Minister…
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