BY JPOST— The Palestinian Authority is ready to govern a state of its own, according to a report published Tuesday by the office of UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Robert Serry, AFP reported. The report, which will be submitted to Palestinian donor nations at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, said that in…
DetailsBY TED BELMAN, ISRAPUNDIT— The diplomatic chapter of the coalition agreement asserts that “the government will work determinedly and regularly against terror groups threatening Israel and do everything needed in order to eradicate them. A strategic target for the State of Israel would be the toppling of Hamas’ rule in Gaza.” FM Leiberman intends to…
DetailsBY ISRAEL TODAY— Debunking accusations that it is keeping the Gaza Strip under seige, the Israeli army on Monday published figures regarding the enormous amount of material it permitted to enter Gaza during March, despite escalating terrorist missile fire. Hamas and its allied terror groups fired more than 90 missiles and mortar shells at communities…
DetailsBY HANAN GREENBERG, YNETNEWS— Senior Hamas member Taysir Saliman Abu-Saname, killed by the IDF in a southern Gaza Strip strike early Satruday, was involved among other things in Gilad Shalit’s abduction, IDF officials said. The sources said the Shalit family was informed of the news. Abu-Saname held several senior posts in Hamas’ military wing, Izz…
DetailsBY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— Two barrages of rockets were fired at the Eshkol Regional Council Saturday night, bringing the number of rockets launched into Israel from Gaza to over 50 since Saturday morning, police said. A rocket caused some damage to homes and struck a main water pipe in a kibbutz in the Shaa’r Hanegev…
DetailsBY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ7— Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF’s response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world…
DetailsBY SETH MANDEL, FRONTPAGEMAG.COM— The revolutions in the Arab world that began earlier this year were noticeably low on anti-Jewish propaganda, leading many scholars to express the hope that the West had less to lose from the overthrow of men like Hosni Mubarak than previously thought. But if German scholar Matthias Küntzel is correct, one…
Details“By any standard of morality and justice, the case for Palestinan independence and statehood is far weaker than the case for the independence and statehood of numerous other people seeking autonomy over their lives. The occupation of Tibet by China has been longer and more brutal and less justified by protective or military considerations, and…
DetailsBY HAARETZ— Israel believes Turkey is actively helping Iran to sidestep economic sanctions and has also turned a blind eye to Iranian weapons smuggling into Syria, according to leaked US diplomatic cables published on Friday. Citing documents obtained by Haaretz, senior Israeli officials had told the United States that Turkey was moving ever-closer to Iran…
DetailsPat Mercer Hutchens, teacher and accomplished practicing artist, continues her work on the Auschwitz Album Revisited. She has completed over thirty prints to date. Pat confesses that in her dreams she often sees these innocent children who are about to be murdered and she tries to save them. The dreams have motivated her to paint and preserve…
DetailsBY J.D. LONGSTREET, RIGHTSIDENEWS.COM If, while watching the disturbing events in the Middle East, you are not focusing your attention on Israel – then you are looking in the wrong place. Once, a very long time ago, I heard someone refer to Israel as the “world’s canary in the coal mine.” That is as apt…
DetailsAccording to tradition, the Last Supper took place in what is called today The Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Anyone that visits Israel can see this Upper Room and imagine what it might have been like the last night in the life…
DetailsBy CLIFFORE MAY, Moment Magazine — In one of his many magnificent books, Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis notes that in 641 C.E., the Caliph Umar “decreed that Jews and Christians should be removed from all but the southern and eastern fringes of Arabia, in fulfillment of an injunction of the Prophet uttered on his…
DetailsBY DAVID PARSONS, ICEJ— While most born-again Christians today are supportive of Israel, there is a growing movement among Evangelicals which is sympathetic to Palestinian suffering and claims to statehood. Yet to provide a biblical basis for their position, they are generally uncomfortable with being identified with classical Replacement heology, due to its malevolent fruit…
DetailsBY DAVID PARSONS, ICEJ— While most born-again Christians today are supportive of Israel, there is a growing movement among Evangelicals which is sympathetic to Palestinian suffering and claims to statehood. Yet to provide a biblical basis for their position, they are generally uncomfortable with being identified with classical Replacement heology, due to its malevolent fruit –…
DetailsBY BREAKER OF DAWN MINISTRIES— Biblical Reasons Why We Must Intercede for Israel and Jerusalem: Genesis 12:2-3 “I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thee a great nation and he who blesses you I will bless and he who curses you will be cursed and through you…
DetailsThink on this: “Elijah will come first and restore all things. … For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name will be great among the Gentiles; In every place incense will be offered with a pure offering in My name; for My name will be great among the…
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