Netanyahu had a bad week

By Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakened Israel this week. And he did so for no good reason.Thursday’s headlines told the tale. The day after Netanyahu bowed to US pressure and announced a total freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria for ten months, Yediot Ahronot reported that the Obama administration…

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Finally, Israel Gets It!

By Joseph Farah,  WorldNetDaily.com For more than five years, I have been conspicuously alone in pointing out the racist, anti-Jewish nature of policies that require the evacuation of Israelis from Gaza, Judea and Samaria and, more lately, the halts on building and repairing homes and businesses owned by Jews in Jerusalem. Finally, someone in Israel…

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'Kick a Jew day' ends in suspensions for 10 Florida students

By Haaretz Service Ten middle school students in Naples, Florida have been suspended after taking part in what they termed “Kick a Jew Day” at their school, school district officials reported. The one day in-school suspensions were served earlier this week. The incident occurred a day before red-haired students were targeted at a California middle…

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May God yet bless America

by Stan Goodenough Christian Americans, my friends over there tell me, are on the move. Like soldiers emerging shell-shocked from a battle where they have been bombarded with round after round of high explosive, they are starting to shake off the stupor created in the ten months since the US became the Obamanation. Today is…

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About the writers

Jim Hutchens Dr. James M. Hutchens is a man on a mission for Israel–a mission to make God’s purposes for Israel and the Jewish people an unavoidable issue. As President of The Jerusalem Connection, International and Editor of The Jerusalem Connection Report, he is on the forward edge of the battle area of informing, educating…

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If I forget thee, Oh Jerusalem

By Victor Sharpe White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, was ordered by the Obama apparatchiks to express displeasure at the decision by Israel to build houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But Gibbs failed to disclose that lands on which Gilo was built, as with other suburbs in “disputed” parts of East Jerusalem, were…

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Natural Allies

By Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection Interfaith Zionism is emerging a power-force in American politics as Zionist Christians and Jews are crossing the proverbial aisle to collaborate in support of Israel.  To outsiders, Jews and Christians seem strange bedfellows—Jews, traditional loyalists of the left and evangelical Christians, the conservative base of the right. Jews, persecuted…

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Placing the Blame

By Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection Four years ago, on May 10th, the thirty-nine day terrorist-takeover of the Church of the Nativity ended.  The siege began when a gunbattle broke out in the Streets of Bethlehem between the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Palestinian terrorists.  Over two-hundred Palestinians stormed the Church compound.  Knowing many highly…

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Obadiah’s Vision

By Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection Then those of the Negev will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah the Philistine plain; also, possess the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead. And the exiles of this host of the sons of Israel, Who are among…

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Who's who in the history of Sephardim

Hisdai Ibn Shaprut (915-970 CE) was the first powerful Jewish politician to serve under the Umayyad caliphs in Spain. Hisdai’s career began as the physician for caliph Abd al-Rachman III. Known for his strong command of Latin and Arabic, Hisdai was commissioned to translate a famous medical text from Latin to Arabic that had been…

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Solution: Rehabilitation of the Refugees

by Rabbi Benny Elon, The Israel Initiative The refugee problem can and must be solved. All peace processes in the Middle East have included elaborate declarations for rehabilitation programs for the refugees but all have delayed the development and implementation of such programs until the end of the process. This process remains stuck today and…

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Give peace a chance: Stop the 'peace process'

By Yoav Sorek, The Israel Initiative Last weekend was marked by Abbas’s threat to leave the Palestinian Authority leadership, which may bring anarchy to the PA – and by the rumors about a deal between Obama’s administration and Abbas regarding the founding of a Palestinian state – a real nightmare to every one who seeks…

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Chapter 2: From a Humanitarian to a Political Problem

By Yoav Sorek,  The Israeli Initiative The War of Independence erupted in 1948, when the Arabs rejected the UN Partition Plan and attacked the young State of Israel. During the fighting, a large number of the area’s Arabs left their homes with the expectation of returning later, accompanied by the victorious Arab armies. Israel succeeded…

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Chapter 1: The Uniqueness of the Palestinian Problem

By Yoav Sorek, The Israeli Initiative The Palestinian Refugee issue is unique on two counts. First, in that it is still unsolved after six decades, with no serious attempts at being solved – unlike countless other refugee situations that have come and gone. Second, unlike most refugees, which are under the care of the United…

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