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…
Detailsby 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…
DetailsThink 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…
Detailsby 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,…
Detailsby 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.…
Detailsby 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…
Detailsby 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…
Detailsby 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…
Detailsby 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…
Detailsby 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,…
Detailsby 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…
Detailsby DEBKAfile A study of the mood among Israeli leaders and military chiefs indicates that at any moment a strike on Iran’s nuclear sites must be taken into account. The Israeli media show nothing of this; they are totally absorbed in guessing whether Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will extend the 10-month settlement construction moratorium beyond its…
DetailsBy Gayle Putrich, FlightGlobal President Barack Obama’s push to bring space exploration into the diplomatic arena has been boosted by the signing of a formal co-operation pact between NASA and the Israel Space Agency (ISA). The memorandum of understanding, signed in Washington DC by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and his Israeli counterpart Zvi Kaplan, is…
Detailsby George Will, Washington Post Immersion in this region’s politics can convince those immersed that history is cyclical rather than linear — that it is not one thing after another but the same thing over and over. This passes for good news because things that do change, such as weapons, often make matters worse. A…
Detailsby Cal Thomas “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Never has George Santayana’s oft-quoted warning had greater significance than when it comes to Middle East “peace talks,” including the latest round scheduled to begin Sept. 2 in Washington, D.C. In constantly pressuring Israel to go far beyond the multiple and…
Detailsby Israel Today The Givat Olam umbrella organization confirmed for investors in Jerusalem on Monday the discovery of a large commercially-viable oil field in central Israel. Hundreds of investors from around the world, many of them Christian Zionists, have been pouring money into Givat Olam for years in the hopes of helping secure Israel’s energy…
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