Thirsting for Armageddon?

by Malcolm Hedding Time and time again one hears the accusation that Christians view the restoration of Israel as a stepping stone to the final battle of Armageddon in which countless Jews will perish. Supposedly, this is what motivates Christian Zionists to side with Israel at present, while ultimately wanting to accelerate ‘the end’ and…

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Who is Rashad Hussain?

by Cal Thomas President Obama’s appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, charged with safeguarding and protecting “the interests of the Muslim world,” should be of serious concern to Congress and the American public.…

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Arabs became refugees following leaders' promise

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik An Arab refugee in Lebanon described in an interview on Palestinian Authority TV how he and other Arabs left for Lebanon from Israel during the 1948 war, after Arab leaders said their absence would be temporary: “They said: ‘A week, two weeks, approximately, and you’ll return to Palestine,’”…

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What can Obama do about Iran?

by Ilan Berman and Robert C. McFarlane Los Angeles Times What can the Obama administration do about Iran’s drive to develop nuclear weapons? The president’s informal year-end deadline for a diplomatic resolution to the nuclear impasse with Iran has come and gone. Iran recently announced that it plans to build 10 nuclear fuel plants and…

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Sarah Palin's Friendship

By Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party’s control over both houses of Congress, Iran’s announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce…

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Obama Administration Whispers its Total Turnaround on the Israel-Palestinian Issue

By Barry Rubin Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a nominally routine communiqué after her meeting with Tony Blair, former prime minister of Great Britain and now messenger of the Quartet on matters Israel-Palestinian. Does this two-paragraph document of February 11, 2010, indicate the new direction of U.S. policy on Israel-Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict issues? First…

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Kathy Ireland loves Israel

By Ilan Evyatar, Jerusalem Post She’s 178 cm. with red hair and blue eyes, a former supermodel with a figure to die for and the owner, founder and CEO of a $1.4 billion lifestyle business: Kathy Ireland might just be Israel’s perfect public diplomacy ambassador. “I love Israel, it’s very close to my heart,” says…

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Lincoln and the Jews

By Herb Geduld Throughout history, Jews have had great friends and mortal enemies as rulers in the countries in which they lived. Perhaps no American president has been a greater friend of the Jewish people than Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday we celebrate today. Lincoln was the first American president to become officially involved in questions…

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The changing borders of Israel

By Victor Sharpe From the earliest Biblical days the boundaries of the ancestral Jewish homeland expanded and shrank time and time again. But even during periods when the homeland was under alien occupation, the Jews managed to sustain, in whatever numbers they could, a physical presence. For Jews in the Diaspora the land remained forever…

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