Casting the First Stone
by Mark Tooley, Frontpagemag.com The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) has yet really to condemn the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia 35 years ago. Or the Marxist orchestrated famine in Ethiopia that killed almost as many during the 1980s. It never directly condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Saddam Hussein’s hundreds of thousands of…
DetailsWorld Press Rushes To Condemn Israel — as Usual
by David Limbaugh, Townhall.com In reviewing the available facts about the Israeli storming of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla, two conclusions emerge: 1) The Israelis were justified in their actions, and 2) the Israelis will continue to be unjustly condemned by the world community. Consider: Israeli is surrounded by nations and entities either dedicated to its…
DetailsAhmadinejad's sugar daddy
By Gal Luft, Foreign Policy Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been spending a lot of time with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lately, to the consternation of the former’s supporters at home and friends elsewhere in the West. Brazil, currently a member of the U.N. Security Council, has been unapologetic about its…
DetailsPrayers for injured IDF navy commandos
by Rachel Sylvetsky, Israel National News Daniel Lazar ben Tina Taabel Lea One of the soldiers badly injured on the flotilla boat is from Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion.. He had his ear cut off by a knife, it was just holding by a scrap of skin, was shot in the leg and has a…
DetailsThose troublesome Jews
by Charles Krauthammer The world is outraged at Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama administration dithers. But as Leslie Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations, writes, the blockade is not just perfectly rational, it is…
DetailsIsrael's daunting task
By Caroline Glick The ferocity and speed of the current international assault on Israel has left the government in a daze. Statements from our leadership are marked by confusion. This reaction is understandable. Everywhere Israel turns it is met with hostility. Turkey — which just a decade ago was Israel’s most important regional ally —…
DetailsTruth behind the harm-ada
by Steven Emerson, New York Post The “Free Gaza” flotilla was far more than a collection of innocent “peace activists” try ing to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Most passengers may have been nonviolent — but a significant minority were anything but. The passengers reportedly included 100-plus members of various Muslim Brotherhood chapters, at least…
DetailsRabbis: Flotilla Clash Similar to Gog and Magog Prophecy
by Gil Ronen, Israel national news The Rabbinical Council of Judea and Samaria issued a statement Thursday in which it said that the results of the incident in which Israel intercepted a flotilla trying to break the naval blockade of Gaza seem like the Biblical description of “the beginning of the Gog and Magog process…
DetailsHow wars begin
by Frank Gaffney Jr., Center for Security Policy In hindsight, it will probably be obvious that the missteps of the Obama administration vis a vis Israel were critical catalysts to a war that today seems ever more likely to engulf the Middle East, and perhaps the world more generally. Assuming such an outcome is neither…
DetailsPalestinian refugees used as pawns
by Nicole Brackman and Asaf Romirowsky Since Yasir Arafat’s death in 2004, the cleavages within Palestinian society have become much more apparent. We are witnessing a telling and significant growth in violence between Palestinians — a phenomenon which is notable both for its frequency as well as its obscurity in the mainstream press. Just a…
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Faith Lessons: Capernaum
by Daniel McCabe Miracles at Peter’s House Matthew 8:15, “And He touched her hand, and the fever left her. Then she arose and served them.” The silhouette of a lone gull glided peacefully above the undisturbed waters of the Sea of Galilee as Sabbath services concluded and worshippers headed home to await sundown and an…
DetailsPrime Minister Netanyahu makes statement to the nation
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night, made his first public statement to the nation after the IDF raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which left nine activists dead and has wreaked havoc in the international media.
Faith Lessons: Pool of Bethesda
by Daniel McCabe Healing of the Lame Man John 5:6, “When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, ‘Do you want to be made well?’” The Lamb of God stepped through the Sheep Gate just north of the temple precincts. …
DetailsJoining the Jackals
by Elliott Abrams, The Weekly Standard At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. The Islamic countries are a reliable source of venom, led by the Arab bloc; what we used to call the “non-aligned” are all aligned against Israel and happy to join the fun; and the Europeans…
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