UN assessment: PA is ready to govern a state of its own

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…

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The case for retaking Gaza

BY 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…

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Israel continues supplying Gaza, despite missiles

BY 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…

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IDF says they killed Shalit's abductor

BY 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…

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Rockets fired from Gaza bombard Ashkelon and Negev

BY 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…

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Where is the West's reaction to Syria's crimes?

BY 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…

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The Nazi inspired Jew hate of the Muslim brotherhood

BY 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…

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Wish I'd said that

“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…

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Turkey helping Iran

BY 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…

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Little Pink Rose of Hungary

Pat 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…

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Israel's Samson option

BY 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…

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Last Supper Room

According 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…

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The Muslims' "Christian Problem"

By 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…

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Israel and Fulfillment theology

BY 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…

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Israel and Fulfillment theology

BY 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 –…

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