By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” 1. Purim is a Jewish national liberation holiday – just like Passover and Chanukah – which commemorates the transformation of the Jewish people from subjugation to liberty. It is celebrated seven days following the commemoration of the birth and death of Moses, who was a…
DetailsBy Jonathan Tobin, Israel Hayom— It took Israeli politics nearly a year to get back to square one. That’s the basic fact to understand about the third round of general voting held within a year. While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is right to claim the vote as a personal victory, it is only by comparison…
DetailsBy Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute—- Yesterday, March 2, Israeli voters headed to the ballot boxes for the tenth time since the signing of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians in 1993. The Palestinians, by contrast, have since had only four elections — two for the Palestinian Authority (PA) presidency and two for the Palestinian…
DetailsBy Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— As it stands now, the Likud party with Netanyahu as its leader went from 32 seats in the last election to at least 36 seats following yesterday’s vote. This is a remarkable achievement for Netanyahu, considering all the forces that were openly working against him. Talk of his alleged corruption,…
DetailsBy Mati Tuchfeld, Israel Hayom— Based on the early results, which point to Benjamin Netanyahu as the big winner in these elections, statements saying he cannot serve as prime minister are no longer legitimate. Despite a campaign that went on for over a year and three rounds of voting, during which the prime minister’s legal…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese— On Thursday night, February 27th, I drove three hours to Liberty University to attend the opening of an art exhibit that is very special to all of us here at Jerusalem Connection, especially Jim Hutchens. As many of you know, Jim’s wife, Pat Mercer Hutchens, went home to be with her Savior…
DetailsBy Ryan Klinker, Liberty University News Service— The Liberty University Art Gallery’s latest exhibit, “The Auschwitz Album Revisited,” displays 40 paintings by the late Christian artist Pat Mercer Hutchens that capture the poignant and unforeseen final moments of life for Jewish victims at one of the Holocaust’s most notorious concentration camps. The Liberty Art Gallery…
DetailsBy Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— The Palestinians are doing their absolute utmost to ensure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party do not win in Israel’s general election on Monday, March 2. The Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, seem to have endorsed the banner…
DetailsThe BDS movement seeks to delegitimize Israel and remove it from the map. Its especially active on college campuses. But the lack of consistency in the ideology of the movement is exposing of their underlying antisemitism. For example, where is the criticism of Egypt’s wall separating Gaza from Egypt? The only criticism applies towards Israel’s…
DetailsBy Ron Jager— The expected scenario of two Jewish nominees in the Democratic Presidential race is for most American Jews that I have met during my winter visit to New York, not a source of pride, but instead a reason for uneasiness, fear, and downright anxiety. To make it worse, the majority of American Jews…
DetailsBy Israel Today— Israeli officials typically try to stay out of American elections. But in a Democratic Party debate on Tuesday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders made such an outrageous remark that Israel Foreign Minister Israel Katz just couldn’t hold his tongue. Sanders has already stirred the pot with a string of comments that were seen…
DetailsBy Guy Milliere, Gatestone Institute— The ceremony held in Jerusalem on January 23 for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp created the opportunity to remind the world about the Holocaust. The commemoration of the only attempt totally to exterminate an entire people by industrial means, which was among the worst…
DetailsBy Caroline Glick—- With our attention focused on other things – Israel’s elections, the legal fraternity’s aggressive lawfare against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump’s peace plan, to name just a few – profound strategic shifts have upended the strategic balance in the Middle East. Israel’s two most formidable adversaries – Iran and Turkey…
DetailsBy Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” Islamic traditionalists vs. Islamic reformers In 2020, a dramatic battle is raging between the traditional, imperialistic school of Islam, which insists on strict adherence to the Quran and Sharia (“divine laws”), on the one hand, and the modernist/reformist school of Islam, which wishes to adjust…
DetailsBy Ruthie Bloom, Israel Hayom— The significance of two events that have been upstaged this week by the Hebrew media’s incessant coronavirus coverage cannot be overemphasized – particularly with the fast approach of the March 2 Knesset elections. One was the rejection of an appeal by an activist in Bahrain sentenced to three years in…
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