By MICHAEL FREUND— Last February, barely three weeks after taking up his post as America’s secretary of state, John Kerry did something unprecedented: he invented a country. Speaking to students at the University of Virginia, Kerry was hailing the courage and dedication of American diplomats who serve abroad in the “most dangerous places on Earth.”…
“I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of the other…
By ALI SALIM, GATESTONE— The world watches while the Palestinian Authority is actively promoting a campaign for an academic boycott and economic sanctions to be imposed on Israel, evidently backed by veiled threats from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. First, every Muslim knows that the Jews in Israel are the descendants of the ancient…
An Israeli satire group has posted a video to YouTube skewering US Secretary of State John Kerry for proposing purportedly “new” ideas to solve the Middle East conflict, while in fact the diplomat’s plan is made up of rehashed and failed concepts. One telling point in the video has the actor playing Kerry looking out…
Torah: Exodus 27:20 – 30:10. “Tetzavan” ( You shall command …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 43:10 – 27 New Testament: Hebrews 13: 10 – 17 Gospel: John 17:6 – 12, “Giliti et shemka” (I have manifested your Name …)
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Finance Minister Yair Lapid delivered a scary speech on Wednesday. At the Institute of National Security Studies conference, Lapid warned that if we don’t accept US Secretary of State John Kerry’s framework for negotiations, the Europeans are going to take away our money. Lapid claimed that Israel’s economic future is dependent…
By ISABEL KERSHNER, NY TIMES— Two brothers, ages 10 and 8, were playing marbles outside their home in a town in Syria when a rocket decapitated the older one and critically wounded his sibling. Having rushed the surviving child to a local hospital, the mother recalled, medics told her: “If you want to save your…
By MAAYANA MISKIN, ARUTZ 7— The Israel Police, working with the Shin Bet security service, have nabbed over a dozen members of a Hamas-linked terrorist cell in Jerusalem. The senior members of the cell funded and directed terrorist activity in the capital city, including attacks on Jews on the Temple Mount. One of their primary…
By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST— The American public overwhelmingly supports Israel in most issues, but opposes US President Barack Obama’s positions on related matters, according to a poll commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America released Tuesday. “President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry should heed these results,” ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said. “They…
