by Mort Zuckerman Will the world applaud Israel’s just-announced decision to restrict its military forces by imposing even more stringent rules to avoid accidental civilian casualties? Don’t bet on it. The world remained silent as Israel endured hundreds of Palestinian suicide bombers, stabbings, drive-by shootings, and kidnappings. No censure or demands for a cease-fire…
Detailsby Steven Simpson, American Thinker It is a common belief that the “Arab-Israeli conflict” is a conflict of two peoples fighting over the same piece of land and is therefore one of nationalism. Rarely, if ever, do we hear or read of the religious component to this conflict. However, if anything, the conflict is more…
Detailsby Sven Behrisch, Jpost What should one think about a Muslim Imam who encourages Israeli settlers to go on building? A leader of Italian Muslims who doubts the Palestinians’ right to any part of Israel? A pupil of the Grand Mufti of Cairo who declares that the Qur’an itself grants the whole Land of Israel…
Detailsby Michael Freund, JPost.com King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella must be turning over in their graves. Five centuries after Spain’s Catholic monarchs sought to erase all vestiges of Jewish life in their realm through mass expulsion and forced conversion, a growing number of their victims’ descendants are seeking to return to their Jewish roots. It…
Detailsby Natan Sharansky, JCPA When I was a dissident in the former Soviet Union, one of my regular activities was monitoring anti-Semitism, and smuggling out evidence and records of such activity to the West. I believed then that the free world, particularly after the Holocaust, would always be a staunch ally in the struggle against…
Detailsby Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post You have to hand it to US President Barack Obama. He is relentless. Just when you thought he was shifting gears – easing up on Israel and turning his attention to Iran’s nuclear weapons program – he pulls out a zinger. His recent courtship of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu led…
Detailsby Bill Wilson, The Daily Jot Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.” The word deceive or deceived is used at least 27 times in the New Testament. Jesus warns over and over again about the deception that will fall upon the church in the latter days. He says, “For…
Detailsby Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Change has come to the Middle East. Over the past several weeks, multiple press reports indicate that Turkey is collaborating militarily with Syria in a joint campaign against the Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Turkey is a member of NATO. It fields the Western world’s top weapons systems. Syria…
Detailsby Michael Barone, Washington Examiner Many years ago I was privileged to attend a dinner with James Rowe, one of the “passion for anonymity” young aides to Franklin Roosevelt, original author of the winning strategy for Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign and close confidant of then-President Lyndon Johnson. Rowe described how Johnson tested insider opinion. He…
Detailsby Khaled Abu Toameh, Hudson Institute When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to condemn an Arab government for its mistreatment of Palestinians? How come groups and individuals on university campuses in the US and Canada that call themselves “pro-Palestinian” remain silent when Jordan revokes the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians?…
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Detailsby Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal It’s a question I often get from people who suppose I have a telepathic hotline to Benjamin Netanyahu’s brain. I don’t, but for a long time I was confident that an attack would happen in the first six months of this year. Since it didn’t, it’s worth thinking through…
Detailsby Israelnationalnews.com A missing IDF soldier from the IDF’s elite combat “Satyeret Matkal” unit was found alive and well around midnight Thursday. The 21 year-old fighter had returned to his Ashkelon coastal community home in Kochav Michael, said a spokesperson for the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. The circumstances of the soldier’s disappearance are as of…
Detailsby Victor Sharpe The Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” are Arabs who are indistinguishable from their fellow Arabs who live in the surrounding artificially created states such as Iraq and Jordan or the other entities throughout the Middle East created by the colonial powers, France and Britain. Both European powers were victorious after the Ottoman…
Detailsby Emet Report Aid convoys like the May 31 Gaza flotilla “are not helpful to resolving the basic economic problems in Gaza and needlessly carry the potential for escalation,” according to a briefing the UN under-secretary-general for political affairs presented to the Security Council on Wednesday. The briefing report also called for the “immediate release”…
Details*In Israel anything that can be swabbed in humus should be swabbed in humus. With that in mind for lamb chops I spread a layer of humus over a serving dish and lay the lamb and its juices on top. Think about it. If lamb and humus didn’t go so good together Israel’s shawarma stands would be out of business.…
Details*My favorite humus place in the old city of Jerusalem is called Lina’s, close to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Lina’s is famous for having a very smooth humus recipe they have served for 35 years. At Lina’s they always give you a plate of small kosher pickles and sliced raw onions. You are supposed to…
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