by WorldNetDaily The United States apparently supports the idea of placing troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization along the border between Israel and the West Bank as part of any new Palestinian state settlement, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. The proposal reportedly was presented to Israeli officials at the request…
Detailsby JINSA Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, was dispatched last Friday to the Brookings Institution to advance the charm offensive that seeks to convince Israelis and American supporters of Israel that the Obama Administration is Israel’s best friend. He worked hard, but his bottom line was that Israel – not the…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese The modern state of Israel was born out of a war, grew territorially through war, and established its capital in Jerusalem via war. These combat victories prevented her annihilation time and again. Yet, some argue, if God is a God of peace, then all violence is un-Godly. Ergo, if war is wrong,…
Detailsby Debkafile Shahram Amiri’s voluntary repatriation to Iran and a second close look at the nuclear data he passed to the CIA are raising grave doubts about its value, debkafile’s intelligence sources report. There is mounting suspicion in Washington and Jerusalem that Tehran employed the scientist to strew red herrings in their path, namely, out-of-date…
Detailsby MyJewishLearning.com Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av (which month coincides with July and/or August), is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews on this day, the major commemoration is of the destruction of the…
Detailsby Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post Israeli officials continued to express optimism on Sunday that direct talks with the Palestinians were imminent, even as Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that more needed to be done to bridge the gaps between the two sides. Aboul Gheit’s comments followed a meeting in Cairo between Prime Minister…
DetailsBy Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report 1. Faith, Morality, Commemoration and Optimism Underlining National Jewish Fasts: * Jewish fasts commemorate critical historical and value-driven junctions, highlighting moral clarity, which constitutes a prerequisite to operational and existential clarity. Memory is Deliverance; forgetfulness is oblivion. * Fasts highlight the difference between Oblivion (exile) and Deliverance (ingathering of…
DetailsTHINK ON THIS: “Yahweh does nothing without revealing His plans to His servants the prophets.” PRAY ON THIS: Grant us grace to understand and discern the signs of the times — In Jesus Name, AMEN!
DetailsDoes the Bible Support Replacement Theology? One text often used by supersessionists to support the idea of the permanent rejection of national Israel is Matt 21:43. In this verse, which Frederick Dale Bruner calls “one of the most important verses in Matthew,” Jesus addressed the unbelief of the leaders of the nation Israel and announced…
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Details*This is the recipe that prompted me to start a B’tayavon section for Jerusalem Connection. The recipe card I had for Israeli couscous was so stained with spices and smeared with olive oil that I could barely read it anymore. So when I started typing a back up copy I decided to type up a few more…
DetailsBy Michael Freund Each week for the past nine months, a small band of noisy left-wing protesters has been gathering in the heart of Jerusalem. Though claiming to be motivated by the highest of ideals, these would-be campaigners for human rights appear to have trouble respecting even the most basic of society’s ground rules. The demonstrators…
Detailsby ICEJ News For the second time this week, a senior Hizbullah leader has warned that the Lebanese terror militia has a detailed list of Israeli targets it would attack in the event of renewed conflict between the neighboring countries. Hizbullah has a “large and precise bank of Israeli targets” to strike if a third…
DetailsThe film, produced by the Eiland Team of Experts, breaks down the events of the flotilla using a timeline that alternates between 3D models and footage captured throughout the incident. The events leading up to and throughout the flotilla incident are recounted in the video, as presented by the team of experts led by Maj.…
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