By Norman Landerman-Moore Outpost: June 2009, Issue #223 I saw the flash and began the count, one-one thousand, two-one thousand, then heard the sharp report of the adversaries’ rifle. About 750 yards, I calculated. We need to move closer! I signaled Arista to move out to our left. It was a slow crawl through the…
DetailsBy Yoav Sorek After Israel’s War of Independence ended, UN General Assembly resolution 302 (IV) founded the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on December 8, 1949. UNRWA began operations in May 1950, with 860,000 registered refugees. UNRWA’s mandate was to carry out relief and works programs…
DetailsBy CLIFFORD D. MAY, Scripps Howard News Service Because the Obama administration is keen to restart negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a 10-month freeze on West Bank settlements. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has responded by demanding more — as a pre-condition, before he will talk. Just…
DetailsBy Stan Goodenough This is an open letter to United Nations and European Union staff members posted in Jerusalem and Israel. Had I the funds I would print this and place it on every one of the myriad UN and EU vehicles driving around this city. Meanwhile hopefully someone will pick it up and pass…
Detailsby Daniel McCabe The Crucifixion, part 2 Mark 15:22, “And they brought Him to the place Golgotha, which is translated, Place of a Skull.” When referring to the place of Jesus’ execution, three of the Gospel writers use the term “Golgotha,” meaning “skull” or “head.” Many possible explanations have been suggested for the use of…
DetailsBy PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— There is in everyone a natural desire for knowledge, but what good is knowledge without the fear of God? A lowly peasant who serves God is better off than a brilliant, proud philosopher who studies the stars but doesn’t know the One…
Detailsby Stan Goodenough “Now also many nations have gathered against you, Who say, “Let her be defiled, And let our eye look upon Zion.” But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, Nor do they understand His counsel; For He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor. “Arise and thresh, O…
DetailsBy LELA GILBERT , THE JERUSALEM POST “All I can remember… is the element of fear,” Joseph Abdel Wahed writes, reflecting on the events of his 12th year. “People in the streets would mock us with the famous Arab insult, Ya yahudi ya ibn el kalb , or even more ominously Idbah el-Yahud . “This…
Detailsby Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch The Palestinian Authority libel that Israel deliberately harvests organs from dead Palestinians has caught on in the Arab world. Last month Egyptian authorities temporarily denied Israeli doctors entry into Egypt to participate in a medical conference. The head of the Egyptian Medical Syndicate explained that…
Detailsby Israel Today Staff According to a centuries-old rabbinical prophecy that appears to be coming true, on March 16, 2010, Israel will begin construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. During the 18th century, the Vilna Gaon, a respected rabbinical authority, prophesied that the Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem, which was built during his day, would…
DetailsBy HAROLD BRACKMAN , THE JERUSALEM POST After the Obama administration voiced “dismay” earlier this month at the decision by the Jerusalem municipality to approve 900 new housing units in the Jewish neighborhood of Gilo, straddling the Green Line, former housing minister Meir Sheetrit quipped that the White House seems to think that Jerusalem has…
Detailsby Asaf Romirowsky, inFocus When the modern State of Israel was founded 61 years ago, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, correctly noted that the country could not afford to lose a single war. Consequently, Israel has worked to maintain a high level of military deterrence against the many Arab countries and Islamist groups…
DetailsBy Israel Today Staff According to a centuries-old rabbinical prophecy that appears to be coming true, on March 16, 2010, Israel will begin construction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem. During the 18th century, the Vilna Gaon, a respected rabbinical authority, prophesied that the Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem, which was built during his day, would…
DetailsO GOD WHOSE WILL CONQUERS ALL, There is no comfort in anything apart form enjoying you and being engaged in your service: You are All in all, and all enjoyments are what you make them, and no more. I am well pleased with your will, whatever it is, or should be in all respects, And…
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