Israel and Palestinians clash over agenda for Sharm peace talks

by Avi Issacharoff, Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya – Haaretz Israel and the Palestinians are at odds over which subjects will open their next round of peace talks, set to start Tuesday in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to begin with security arrangements, recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and…

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Israel, America, and Islam: The Bitter Truth

by Victor Sharpe   Islam will never accept Israel or any non-Muslim land including the United States of America. It cannot do so and still be called Islam. That said, there is no future – in particular – for the Jewish state if it believes that the Muslim world will ever accept it in true…

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Your bid, Mr. Abbas

by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we’re leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo Accords of 1993. The logic then was that complicated issues…

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Spot Report: Your move, Mr. Abbas

  Think on this: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will not say, ‘Peace be within you.’ Because of the house of Yahweh our God I will seek your good.” (Psalm…

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Bible prophecy on target

by Earl Cox, Jpost How close are we to the end of time as we know it? According to Bible prophecy, we could be very close. Actually, the Bible does not say that the world itself will end, but that this “time” or “age” will end and a new time or age will begin. So…

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Bible prophecy on target

by Earl Cox, Jpost How close are we to the end of time as we know it? According to Bible prophecy, we could be very close. Actually, the Bible does not say that the world itself will end, but that this “time” or “age” will end and a new time or age will begin. So…

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Ahmadinejad to tour Lebanon-Israel border next month

by Roee Nahmias, Ynetnews.com Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to tour south Lebanon, just a few kilometers from the border with Israel, Iranian sources told the al-Khaleej newspaper on Sunday. According to the newspaper, which is based in the United Arab Emirates, on October 13 Ahmadinejad is expected to visit the town of Bint…

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A Muslim Against the Ground Zero Mosque

by Hasan Mahmud, Frontpagemag.com It is indisputable that as Muslim immigrants we, as a whole, have failed to put ourselves in the shoes of the host people. For the last few decades almost all that Americans have seen from those of us who take our religion literally is violence, conspiracy, intimidation, gender-discrimination and terrorism. Meanwhile,…

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5770: The look and learn year

by Liat Collins, JPost If life is a learning experience, the year just ending provided its fair share of interesting lessons. One lesson being that life, indeed, is not fair. Like most years, 5770 was not so much a learning curve as a jagged graph. When we were up, we balanced precariously, and when we…

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'13,000 West Bank housing units ready for construction'

by Or Schwartz, JPost More than 13,000 settlement housing units in the West Bank are ready for construction once the building moratorium ends on September 26th and at least 2,000 are ready for immediate construction, according to a report by Peace Now released on Sunday. According to the report, 2,066 units in the West Bank…

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Remembering — and Doing — What's Important

by Carol Platt Liebau, Townhall.com As we remember the radical Islamist attacks of September 11, 2001, say a prayer for those who were lost, those who survived them, and all those who have given their lives in the cause of freedom. And even as we recall, the best way we can honor those who died…

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Dueling mosque protests begin following 9/11 ceremony

by Associated Press NEW YORK  — A crowd in New York City protested an Islamic center proposed near Ground Zero with chants of “USA, USA” on Saturday following a ceremony in remembrance of the 9/11 terror attacks. Some protesters were wearing hats and T-shirts festooned with the Stars and Stripes. Some were carrying signs including…

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'Rhymes With Fagin'

by Bret Stephens, WSJ If you’re a reader of a certain age, you might understand the headline. In May 1977, when Menachem Begin was elected Israel’s prime minister, Time magazine set out to describe the man, beginning with the correct pronunciation of his last name: “Rhymes with Fagin,” the editors explained, invoking the character from…

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The story behind the initiative

by Debkafile Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks Sunday, Sept. 5, that an Israeli-Palestinian peace would not come this year or even in the next generation, infuriated some political circles in Jerusalem. The opposition accused him of breaking ranks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ahead of the second round of his direct talks with Palestinian Authority…

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