BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Last week, the Mediterranean resort city of Palma de Mallorca, Spain, was the scene of a remarkable historical event. After centuries of denial, a Spanish regional government condemned the Inquisition, and its persecution of Jews who had been forcibly converted to Catholicism. At a special ceremony, Frances Antich Oliver, president of…
DetailsBY DR. RICHARD BOOKER This is the concluding article of our study of Jerusalem in prophecy. It covers the Mameluke period through the appearance of the New Jerusalem on the earth. Mameluke Period (1291-1517 AD) The Mamelukes were not a people or a nation. They were soldier slaves the Egyptians had imported from Asia. The…
DetailsBY DR. RICHARD BOOKER— This is the concluding article of our study of Jerusalem in prophecy. It covers the Mameluke period through the appearance of the New Jerusalem on the earth. Mameluke Period (1291-1517 AD) The Mamelukes were not a people or a nation. They were soldier slaves the Egyptians had imported from Asia. The…
DetailsThe Itamar Yeshiva is building and expanding in memory of the Fogel family murdered by terrorits. Arutz Sheva presents the emotionally stirring video. This battlefield is small in scope with little impact on the main thrust of the war. The Berbers are a small, scantily armed fighting force and government forces avoid taking them on,…
DetailsBT SARAH STERN, EMET— For the last eighteen years, the international community has turned a blind eye and ignored every failure of the Palestine Authority to live up to the signed agreements and commitments it has made. In return for these unfulfilled promises, the Israelis gave very real tangibles, leading to their decisions to: evacuate…
DetailsYom Hazikaron, Remembrance Day, began on Sunday evening, May 8, as a day of collective and personal anguish mingled with awe and honor for the fallen. The official events began at 8:00 PM with a moment of national silence heralded by a one minute siren. .
DetailsBY JTA— Half the Democratic caucus in the U.S. Senate urged President Obama to suspend assistance to the Palestinian Authority unless Hamas recognizes Israel and renounces terrorism. “It is imperative for you to make clear to President Abbas that Palestinian Authority participation in a unity government with an unreformed Hamas will jeopardize its relationship with…
DetailsBY KRISTEN CHICK, JWR— An attack by Muslims on two churches in Cairo led to sectarian clashes that claimed at least 12 lives, a reminder that Egypt’s religious rift has continued to widen since the successful uprising that pushed Hosni Mubarak from power. The violence in the Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba, declared in the 1990’s…
DetailsBY SHMUEL SACKETT— One thing made Osama bin Laden public enemy #1. One thing made him a target for America’s hit squad. One thing – and only one thing – made his assassination justified and praised by world leaders. He didn’t just kill Jews. Had he limited his terrorism to Jews only, he would not…
DetailsBY JPOST— Celebrating the 63rd anniversary of Israel, one cannot help but be struck by the incongruity of conflating an ancient people, perhaps the world’s oldest still extant, with a birthday age befitting a baby boomer. Indeed, many of the dilemmas that face the Jewish people today have been around for centuries. And yet, while…
DetailsBY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— Current PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a trusted member of Yassir Arafat’s inner circle responsible for developing Fatah’s networks and raising funds for PLO operations at the time, including the Munich Massacre in 1972. So Osama bin Laden has been killed by the American military. His friend and second…
Details“Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish Nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.” Theodore Herzl
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— By most accounts, the Fatah-Hamas unity deal signing ceremony Wednesday was a grand affair. Hamas terror-chief Khaled Mashaal jetted in from Damascus. PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas flew in from Ramallah. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the newly Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Egyptian intelligence services. UN representatives and Israeli Arab…
DetailsA translation of the Al HaNissim prayer said in Conservative synagogues on Yom Ha’atzmaout: “We thank You for the heroism, for the triumphs, and for the miraculous deliverance of our ancestors, in other days and in our time. In the days when Your children were returning to their borders, at the time of a people…
Details“Our God is able to deliver us from the firey furnace, but even if He does not….we will not serve your gods.”BY PAT MERCER HUTCHENS— When Lili Jacobs accidently discovered the Auschwitz Album at the close of WWII, the very first person she saw when she looked inside was Rabbi Naftali Zvi Weiss, the chief…
DetailsBY EDMUND SANDERS AND PAUL RICHTER, JWR— Rival Palestinian factions celebrated the signing of a reconciliation pact they hope will end their four-year split and accelerate efforts to form an independent state. But the agreement faces fierce opposition from Israel, complicates American-led efforts to forge a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, and still…
DetailsBY JOHN BOLTON, WASHINGTON TIMES— Although Osama bin Laden’s well-deserved death has demonstrated America’s re- solve to vindicate our national security, the world is still far from safe. In the Middle East, optimistic predictions that authoritarian regimes would fall like dominoes, ushering in new democracies and greater prospects for peace, are rapidly disappearing. Not only…
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