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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Netanyahu'​s Phony Realism

BY DAVID ISAAC, SHMUELKATZ.COM— “People do not understand where they live. If you do not live in the real world, it is possible to disregard everything, and I suggest that they start being wary in order to protect the existing construction.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made these remarks last month in an effort to justify…

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Goldstone takes it back

BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— THE GOLDSTONE REPORT was a blood libel. Issued in September 2009 by a UN “fact-finding mission” headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the 450-page document was an indictment of Israel’s conduct during the brief war it launched in Gaza at the end of 2008 to end the intolerable…

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Israel and Hamas near a Spring war

BY DEBKAFILE— After nearly two months of rising tension, Israel and Hamas have taken a step towards a full-blown military confrontation: Before dawn Saturday, April 2, an Israeli air strike killed three senior Hamas Izz al-Din Qassam Brigades gunmen in the Gaza Strip in an operation described by an Israeli army spokesman as pre-empting a…

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