By Amotz Asa-El, Middle Israel Today— FRANKLIN Roosevelt’s presidency was hardly one hour old when he told an embattled American nation: “I am prepared, under my constitutional duty, to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.” And so, with the family Bible (in Dutch) on which…
By Shelley Neese— After four elections in two years, it appears that Israel has a new government in place. I know for many Americans with a two-party political system, the Israeli parliamentary form of government is confusing and seems unstable. You are right. It is confusing and the last two years have shown how unstable…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPost— Scenes of dozens of Egyptian bulldozers, cranes and trucks entering the Gaza Strip last Friday have left some Palestinians wondering whether Egypt is planning to return to the coastal enclave it ruled between 1948 and 1967. The Egyptian decision to send building equipment and engineers to the Gaza Strip came…
By Rossella Tercatin, JPost— Some 2,000 years ago, Jews used formal beautifully written biblical manuscripts for public reading, but also informal and sloppily written biblical texts for personal use, new research on the Dead Sea Scrolls has shown. In addition, some of the scrolls might be more ancient than previously thought, suggesting that the current…
By Michael Bachner, Times of Israel— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks set to end his 12 consecutive years in power in five days, as Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin announced Tuesday that a vote would be held on swearing in the new “change government” during a special parliamentary session on Sunday, a day before the deadline…
By Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom—- The Jewish march of the living in Jerusalem needs to be written in deeds. There will be ample room for flags, important in and of themselves, afterward. Many years ago, Theodore Herzl noted that “If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads.” The…
Amy Zewe interviews special Guest Chris Gacek, co-author of the recently published FRC (Family Research Council) paper titled “The Resurgence of History’s Oldest Hatred.” Download the PDF of this timely report!
By Lela Gilbert, FRC Blog—- On May 20, a news alert on my computer tersely announced that Israel was launching retaliatory strikes into the Gaza Strip. And, as always, this was in response to volleys of rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza into southern Israel. In fact, since some 50 rockets had struck Israel just since April,…
By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBNIsrael— When United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Israel, and the United States signed the Abraham Accords on the White House lawn on August 13, 2020, it signaled a historic, miraculous opening of cooperation and benefits to each nation. Morocco and Sudan then joined the Accords, and the cooperative efforts have proven…
By Bassam Tawil, Gatestone Institute— US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s May 25 announcement that the Biden administration will ask Congress to allocate $75 million in aid to the Palestinians and that Washington will reopen the US Consulate in Jerusalem — which previously had served as a de facto embassy handling US relations with the…