Video: Understanding UN bias against Israel

The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has made the democratic State of Israel the target of incessant condemnation while neglecting its mandate in challenging the oppressive regimes around the world. The following film clip uncovers the factors behind the United Nations bias against Israel. We encourage you to view the clip, forward to friends, and…

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Court Victory for Sderot Victims over The Bank of China

BY NITSANA DARSHAN-LEITNER, Esq– Israel Law Center —  The New York Supreme Court has just handed down a monumental ruling, holding that a lawsuit brought by Israeli victims of Hamas rocket attacks and suicide bombings can proceed against the Bank of China (“BOC”) in the United States.   The civil action brought on behalf of…

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'Rapture' real aftermath: Beheadings, shootings, mass graves

BY BOB UNRUH, WND— The executive director of a ministry that works with the persecuted church in the northern reaches of Vietnam says he’s outraged that a “prophecy” by an American preacher apparently cost the lives of many tribal Hmong people who believed it. The prediction by Harold Camping, 89, of Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio,…

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Delegation highlights support for Israel

BY JEWISHJOURNAL.COM— A group of dignitaries including a former prime minister and a Nobel Peace Prize winner came to Israel to pledge to fight the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition at the United Nations. The group came as part of the Friends of Israel Initiative, which seeks to rally international support for Israel. Among them…

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Words have consequences

BY VICTOR SHARPE—   Its long past time for the pro-Israel media to cease using self-wounding words and terms such as, “pro-Palestinian activists” or “peace activists” when describing those who are hostile to the Jewish state. Better to simply call those miscreants on board the attempted flotillas, or those attempting to fly to Israel to…

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Cross-Dressing Anti-Israel Baptists Convene

MARK  TOOLEY — Institute of Religion & Democracy — Baptists demanding pacifism, trashing Israel and hosting a “drag” prom? These Baptists definitely are not from your grandmother’s church! They are instead The Baptist Peace Fellowship, which is hosting its annual “Peace Camp” July 4-9 of several hundred activists at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.…

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The return of Mallorca's Chuetas

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— On a small island off the coast of Spain, a tragedy that began more than six centuries ago may finally be coming to an end. For the first time since their Jewish ancestors were compelled to convert to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries, the Chuetas of Palma de Mallorca…

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Ships and planes of fools pick wrong target

BY ALAN DERSHOWITZ, JPOST— The recent attempts by anti-Israel extremists to break Israel’s naval blockage of Gaza and to flood Israel’s airports with troublemakers have failed. The ships of fools, knaves hypocrites, bigots, and supporters of terrorism that tried to sail from Greece have now apparently been run aground. Most of the hard-left extremists have…

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IDF Has Only Female Hummer Operators in the World

BY EMET REPORT— The female soldiers who serve in the Hummer Operators’ Unit – there are no male Hummer operators – spend their days in the field, training other soldiers how to use military Hummer vehicles in real-life combat scenarios. The training they provide includes how to drive a Hummer on various surfaces and landscapes,…

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Lessons on appeasement

BY CAROLINE GLICK— Five years ago this week, Iran’s Lebanese proxy opened war with Israel. The war lasted 34 days, during which Hezbollah launched more than 4,000 missiles against Israel. Now five years later, under US President Barack Obama, America is pushing a policy that drastically escalates the chance that a new war between Israel…

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Why do Jews vote Obama?

BY DAVID RUBIN— In a recent interview, former deputy Secretary of State Elliot Abrams said that President Barack Obama “sees Israel as a problem,” reminding us of the question that won’t go away. It’s a question that is being asked by many a political pundit, and not just on the island of Manhattan or in…

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Israel-Lebanon war will be over natural gas

BY ISRAEL TODAY— Israel and Lebanon have become embroiled in a legal and diplomatic battle over rights to undersea natural gas fields that could potentially turn violent. Dispute over natural resources has long been a catalyst for war, and few would be surprised if Lebanon’s dominant Hizballah terrorist militia used this latest quarrel as justification…

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Iran's atomic daydreams

BY GAVRIEL QUEENANN, ARUTZ 7—  Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khameni has ordered the revolutionary guards to “immediately” proceed with the completion of an atomic bomb with hopes of a test in 2012, Iran Press News reports. The order includes testing and arming of missiles capable of delivering a nuclear payload, according to sources inside the…

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Abbas' breaking point

BY ILAN BERMAN, THE NATIONAL INTEREST—July 11, 2011 What could Mahmoud Abbas be thinking? The soft-spoken Palestinian Authority president, now in his seventh year in office, has never been known for the kind of political brinksmanship that characterized the rule of his predecessor, PLO leader Yassir Arafat. And yet, recent months have seen Abbas’s government…

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