BY FRANK GAFFNEY— The Obama administration chose the eve of the holiday marking our Nation’s birth to acknowledge publicly behavior in which it has long been stealthily engaged to the United States’ extreme detriment: Its officials now admit that they are embracing the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic). That would be the same…
DetailsBY JONATHAN SCHANZER, WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE— The Palestinian government doesn’t intend to declare statehood until September, but the ramifications of the move are already clear. Jordan’s King Abdullah predicts a “third intifada,” Israel is bracing for renewed violence and France has convened a conference to try to reach a compromise. Luckily, there may still…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, ARUTZ SHEVA— Sometime towards the end of 2011 or early in 2012 a new British made film may be released called The Promised Land. It will not be like Exodus, Cast a Giant Shadow, Sword in the Desert or Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer. Those were movies sympathetic to the epic struggle by…
DetailsBY AVIEL MAGNEZI, YNET— For the second time in recent days, a Gaza-bound ship attempted to leave its Greek port without authorization en route to the Strip, prompting Greek forces to stop it at sea. This time it was the Canadian Tahrir vessel, which left Crete Monday afternoon and headed towards Gaza, before being taken…
DetailsBY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— The Palestinian Authority will abandon its plan to ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state along pre-1967 lines if Quartet members – the US, EU, UN and Russia – recognize the two-state principle as the basis for a settlement and call on Israel to withdraw from the…
DetailsBY EARL COX To those who embrace the truth and support Israel, the following is lengthy but it contains many facts which have yet to be disseminated by the media. To know the truth you MUST have the facts which I am providing to you below. From all reports, the anticipated flotilla provocation of Israel…
DetailsBY JEFF JACOBY, THE BOSTON GLOBE— THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE announced to the world the birth of a new nation and every birth “excites our interest,” President Calvin Coolidge said on the Declaration’s 150th anniversary. But that is not why July 4, 1776, “has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in…
DetailsThink on this! “I will bring my people Israel back from exile. They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I…
Details“Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.”—Thomas Jefferson
BY GLOBE— The shekel strengthened against the dollar and euro in morning inter-bank trading today after the Myra and Sarah licensees announced a 6.5 trillion cubic foot natural gas discovery – the third largest discovery in Israeli waters to date. The shekel-dollar exchange rate fell 0.51% to NIS 3.408/$ and the shekel-euro exchange rate fell…
DetailsFaith Lessons: Chorazin Jesus performed most of his miracles in and around the little known village of Chorazin. More miracles there than Nazareth and even Jerusalem. Yet, the Bible records not one of them – a quiet reminder to the closing words of John’s gospel: “And there are also many other things that Jesus did…”…
DetailsBY AVIEL MAGNEZI, YNET— American activists set sail from Greece on Friday aboard a boat set to take part in a pro-Palestinian flotilla to Gaza, defying calls from Israel to cancel it and a ban by Athens. The vessel was stopped by the Greek Coast Guard some 25 minutes after its unauthorized departure. It was…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called “international community” as the arbiter of all things. From Israel’s right to exist to climate change, from American world leadership to genetically modified crops, the Left has maintained that the “international community,” is the only body…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— The Obama Administration on Wednesday signaled that it will reestablish official ties with Egypt’s rising Islamist power, the Muslim Brotherhood. When former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was ousted earlier this year, the Obama Administration insisted that the Brotherhood was a fringe group, and that detractors were making too big a deal of…
DetailsBY JPOST— Opposition leader Tzipi Livni discussed the upcoming Gaza flotilla with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday in New York, according to a Kadima statement. Livni said that anyone who wants to aid Gazan civilians should do so via the proper channels, rather than “grave provocations” like the flotilla. She went on to say…
DetailsFor July 2 Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 “Chukat” (This ordinance…) Haftorah: Isaiah 66:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 14 Gospel: John 3:14 – 21 “Shehigbihah” (as Moses lifted up…)
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