By ALGEMENIER— Attempts by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to secure a more stringent nuclear deal with Iran are “not gonna happen,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview published Tuesday. “The whole mythology I’ve heard, from Netanyahu to Republican members of the House and Senate — ‘Oh, just squeeze them to death,…
By JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, Director ICZC— The bride is part of Israel and Israel is part of the bride! This is so clearly seen in the majestic vision by the angel in Revelation when he says: “Come I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.” One of the seven angels who had…
By PAUL EIDELBERG— Is there any intelligent patriot in the United States unaware that the most important cause of America’s decline in foreign affairs is the same cause of the mayhem erupting in its domestic affairs? Is there any intelligent person in America unaware that Barack Obama, who genuflected to Saudi King Abdulla, and who…
Torah: Leviticus 16:1 – 18:13, “Acharei mot” (After the death … ) Haftorah: Amos 9:7-15 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11-28 Gospel: Matthew 5:17-20, “Al takshuv” (Do not think … )
By LEO HOHMANN, WND— The “mock Michele Bachmann for her religious beliefs” train ride seems to be gaining passengers among those on the left. And now even the president of the United States has jumped aboard, making Bachmann the butt of his jokes during Saturday’s White House Correspondents Dinner. Bachmann, the former four-term Republican congresswoman…
By CAROLINE GLICK— In the testimony last week before the House committee in charge of State Department funding, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power acknowledged that the Obama administration intends to abandon the US’s 50 year policy of supporting Israel at the United Nations. After going through the tired motions of pledging support for…
By CBN— As the world continues to isolate Israel, American evangelicals are strong supporters of the Jewish state. Now, some fear that support could be quietly eroding. “Evangelical Christians have been a reliable source of support for Israel. But in recent years, institutions such as evangelical schools and mission groups are increasingly supporting Palestinian activism,”…
By ALGEMEINER— French philosopher and public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy told a New York audience on Sunday that an emerging new language for antisemitism is once again making the world’s “oldest hatred” acceptable. “Antisemitism in Europe is taking on a new form, is adopting a new wording which makes it again acceptable … by a growing…
By MARK TOOLEY, SPECTATOR— The reelection of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will certainly inflame the small but outspoken segment of American Protestantism that is anti-Israel. Mainline Protestant elites, undeterred by their empty pews, have been ideologically hostile to Israel for decades. More politically significant is the growing segment of Evangelical elites, many of them shifting…
By MARK DAPIN, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD— Six weeks after the killings, armed police stand guard over the shuttered shopfront of the Hyper Cacher kosher superette in Porte de Vincennes, Paris, as if there were something left to defend. On January 9 this year, Amedy Coulibaly, a French-born gangster-cum-jihadist of Malian heritage, attacked the store with…