By: Herb Keinon, JPOST— An EU proposal to expand the Quartet as a way of jump-starting the stymied Israel-Palestinian diplomatic track elicited shrugs in Jerusalem on Sunday, with officials saying that what is needed is a Palestinian desire to hold talks, not “bureaucratic creativity.” “From our perspective, the problem is that the Palestinians have no…
By: Ruthie Blum, Israel Hayom— On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama fulfilled a lifelong dream he has spent nearly seven years in office trying to realize. It is a very different dream from that of Martin Luther King Jr., whom Obama invokes whenever it feeds his own visions of a particular form of grandeur. This…
By: David Daoud, The Algemeiner— Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stressed Tehran’s readiness to cooperate with other regional actors to establish a “united front” against Israel, the regime-aligned Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday. “We are ready to cooperate with all friends that believe in the necessity of forming a united front against the…
By: United Collation for Israel— It now seems inevitable that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will win enough support in Congress to become U.S. law. While the Iran deal’s proponents and detractors can debate the merits of the deal, the sharp partisan lines on assessment of the deal affirm what a partisan football U.S.…
By: Paul Stanley, Breaking Israel News— Seventeen Republican presidential candidates are vying for the support of evangelical Christian voters from the swing states of Ohio and Florida, to the cornfields of Iowa, to the small towns of the Deep South. Within the varied spectrum of 2016 election issues such as the economy, immigration, and health…
By: Giulio Meotti, Israel National News— Israel is the living embodiment of what humanity should care and fight for. But in fact, the Jewish State is the most important non cause celebre Every day we receive news about how the State of Israel and its people are less and less welcomed by the international community.…
Torah: Dueteronomy 26:1 – 29:8, “Ki tavo” (When you go in …) Haftorah: Isaiah 60:1-22 New Testament: I Corinthians 3:12 – 18 Gospel: John 17:1 – 19, “Pa ‘er na et Bencha” (Glorify your Son …)
By: Johnathan Tobin, Commentary Magazine: This morning, President Obama got what he’s been working toward all year. With Senator Barbara Mikulski’s announcement that she will vote to support the Iran nuclear deal, the administration got its 34th vote in the Senate, thus assuring that the president will have enough support to sustain a veto of…
By: Post Editorial Board, New York Post— Whether to approve the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran is the most important question to face Congress in years — yet the president wants to stop the Senate from even debating it. He’s pushing Democrats to use the filibuster rule to stop the question from making it to…
By: Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Most people are aware of the Christian and Jewish concepts of messiah, but very few outside of Islam know of their concept of messiah and how it irreconcilably pits them against the Judeo-Christian world. Today, the Islamic concept of the messiah is being expressed in current political events,…