Netanyahu's Tightrope In Washington

by David Essing With U.S. President Barack Obama presiding, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are set to launch New peace talks in Washington on Sept.2nd. However, a major clash is threatening to torpedo this latest peace effort. Netanyahu has said he is committed to start rebuilding in Israeli settlements in…

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Hebron Eyewitness: "Pure, Unadulterated Barbarity"

by David Wilder It’s been a while since I photographed dead bodies. The last time I remember clearly was the murder of Yossi Shok from Beit Haggai who was shot and killed similarly on a Friday afternoon a few years ago. That attack entailed a few miracles. I recall that there were others in the…

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What hath the Ground Zero imam wrought?

by Nat Hentoff The source of the firestorm over the mosque at Ground Zero, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, could have located his mosque in New York anywhere he liked if he had not fixated on the spot two blocks north of Ground Zero. During a bitterly divided demonstration at the planned site on Aug. 22,…

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Mideast Peace Talks' Hidden Threat

by Jonathan Schanzer, Politico Some 46 percent of Israelis believe that President Barack Obama is “pro-Palestinian,” according to a Smith Research poll this summer. Since then, that figure most likely has ticked higher. After all, in July, the president upgraded the Palestinian delegation’s diplomatic status in Washington, and the peace talks that start Thursday are…

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Direct talks to nowhere

by Khaled Abu Toameh For decades, Arab and Islamic leaders and governments have been inciting their people against Israel. That is the main reason why these governments and leaders would never be able to persuade their people to make peace with Israel. In this regard, the Palestinian Authority has not been different from the Arab…

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4 Israelis shot dead by terrorists in West Bank

by Yaakov Katz and Yaakov Lappin, JPost.com      In response to Tuesday night’s shooting attack which killed four Israelis near Kiryat Arba, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said, “This is very grave incident. The IDF and Israeli security forces will do everything they can to capture the murderers. Israel will not allow terrorists to lift their…

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Obama's appalling mistreatment of Israel

by David Limbaugh, Townhall As Israeli and Palestinian peace talks are scheduled to resume in Washington in a few days, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish homeland is an essential condition for peace. Completely reasonable, yet don’t keep your fingers crossed, especially with the Obama administration’s attitude…

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Spot Report: Praying on moral courage

Think on this! “He has showed you. O man, what is good; and what does Yahweh require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.” . Pray on this! Father, grant those who lead this Peace Summit the moral courage and the spiritual discernment to work toward…

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Here We Go ’Round the Cactus Bush

by Sarah Stern, EMET “When the pursuit of peace becomes the entire objective of foreign policy, it becomes a weapon in the hands of the most ruthless. It produces moral disarmament.” —Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement that peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which are set to resume on Thursday,…

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An open appeal to Israel’s Interior Minister

by Jan Willem van der Hoeven, ICZC Yes, let’s clean up this land, Mr. Yishai!   But let’s have the courage to do so in accordance with G-d’s Word. Throughout Israel’s history there have been those from among the nations who have joined with the people of G-d. The Tanach addresses and emphasizes this phenomenon.…

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Obama, Israelis aren't suckers

by Avi Trengo, Ynetnews.com This past week, the cat was out of the bag and the American president’s infinite arrogance came bursting forth. Unlike his European colleagues, whose statements made sure to minimize their involvement to “ending the occupation of 1967,” President Obama (via a State Department spokesman) revealed his intention to bring an “end…

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Sesame Street Recognizes 'Palestine'

by Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva Grover, the charismatically blue character from the classic televised children’s show Sesame Street, seems to be playing both sides of the Israeli-Arab conflict of late. The furry ‘muppet’ is hosting a new version of Jewish-themed Shalom Sesame to be aired on Hanukkah – but has also been heard declaring “We’re…

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Tenants don't see imam as ‘healer’

by Peter J. Sampson and Jean Rimbach, Jewish World Review The Muslim cleric at the center of the proposed mosque and community center near ground zero is also a New Jersey landlord who got more than $2 million in public financing to renovate low-income apartments and has been beset for years by tenant complaints and…

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The origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls

by Shelley Neese The discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 marked the beginning of a new era in Biblical scholarship. The scrolls predated the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible by a thousand years. They outlined the messianic hopes, prophetic interpretations, apocalyptic beliefs, and strict communal practices of a Jewish community…

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Ahmadinejad’s miscalculation

by Jerusalem Post  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad purports to know: Israel, he reiterated for the umpteenth time last week, is “too weak” to strike militarily at Iran, and “lacks the courage” to intervene decisively to thwart Teheran’s steady progress toward the nuclear bomb. The Iranian president is mistaken. Neither weak nor lacking in courage, Israel is, rather,…

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Obama's Peace Plan

by Jim Hutchens After surveying the threats Israel faces, internally and externally, Aaron Klein concludes in his best selling book, The Late Great State of Israel, “I trust and believe that Israel will ultimately survive against all odds and in spite of the threats from within and without only by the grace of God. But…

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