By STANLEY REED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, NY TIMES— The Israeli navy had detected smoky signs that a rocket might have been fired by Hamas from the shores of Gaza. As a voice over the loudspeaker warned to take cover, the crew raced up the metal stairs to a small gym that doubles as an air…
“Russia invades. Nigeria enslaves. China oppresses. Pakistan rapes. Iraq slaughters. North Korea starves. Iran nuclearizes. Syria massacres. Venezuela plunders. Afghanistan tortures. Sudan annihilates. ISIS beheads and Israel is the pariah state, put under the microscope by the morally noxious.”—Rabbi Shalom Lewis, Congregation Etz Chayim
By UNITED WITH ISRAEL— The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week condemning Hamas’ criminal conduct, including the use of civilians as human shields. The resolution, co-sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), also expressed support for the sovereign right of Israel to defend its territory and its…
By JOHN LOMPERIS, JUICY ECUMENISM— Any government of sinful human beings in our fallen world is always in need of constructive criticism for its imperfections, some of which are much more dramatic than others. So of course, not all criticism of the Israeli government amounts to anti-Semitism. Nor does simply disagreeing with a particular U.S.…
BY WALID SHOEBAT— Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not only intend to revive the Ottoman Empire but thisMonday (Dec 8) he put to law to revive the dead Ottoman language and to make the Arabic-alphabet and the Ottoman language compulsory in Turkish education. The move has biblical significance. But before we explain the prophetic…
By ISRAEL TODAY— Israel’s increasingly vocal Christian antagonists have been trying to blunt support for the Jewish state by Christian Zionists by teaching that it must not be viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. This despite the wholly unprecedented survival of an exiled people for 2,000 years and the eventual rebirth of their nation,…
By BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— A sheikh called for the “slaughter of Jews” in a spontaneous sermon captured on video on the Temple Mount. In a video released by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Omar Abu Sara was filmed saying that Jews were “the most evil creatures to have walked this earth.” Addressing worshippers gathered…
By ISRAEL HAYOM— U.S. President Barack Obama sent a clear and sharp message to Israel on Tuesday: I will not give up on peace negotiations with the Palestinians, even during the final two years of my presidency. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro issued the message during a speech at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic…
By JTA— Israel implemented special procedures to speed up the immigration process for people with Jewish origins from Ukraine’s conflict zones. The new procedures were implemented earlier this month and formulated in a new executive directive issued by the headquarters of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to its branches, the authority’s spokesperson, Sabine Haddad, told…
