Wish I’d said that
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”—President Ronald Reagan
Geneva: A Historic and Dangerous Agreement
By RAFAEL L. BARDAJI, GATESTONE— The agreement reached by the group of countries known as P-5+1½ (that is, the five permanent U.N. Security Council powers plus Germany and the European Union representative) with Iran regarding its nuclear program has been rated by its proponents—President Obama’s followers—as a “historic agreement,” while opponents—primarily Israel and the Gulf…
Former CIA, AMAN chiefs: Iran is a nuclear threshold state and can no longer be stopped
By DEBKAfile Special Report — The former heads of two of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world, speaking Sunday, Dec. 1, in different parts of the world, were of the same opinion: Iran has reached the point of a nuclear threshold state and can build several nuclear bombs in a matter of weeks. By…
Video: Singing Jews cause near-riot on Temple Mount
By ISRAEL TODAY— Israeli Jews on Sunday were again denied freedom of religion at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, of all places, when a near-riot by Muslim worshipers resulted in police closing the holy site to all but the followers of Allah. A Muslim mob became enraged when a small group of visiting Jews began singing songs…
Scripture Reading for December 7, 2013
Torah: Genesis 44:18 – 47:27, “Vayigash” (and he drew near …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 37:15 – 18 New Testament: Ephesians 2:1 – 10 Gospel: Luke 6:9 – 16, “Amar lehem Yeshuah” (Jesus said to them …)
Wish I’d said that
“Ten measures of beauty descended to the world, nine were taken by Jerusalem.”-–Talmud: Kiddushin 49b
Video: Thanksgivukkah
This is the story of something so tremendously tremendous that it won’t happen again for another 79,000 years.
The goal of Obama’s foreign policy
By CAROLINE GLICK— It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry made it clear that they were committed to signing a deal with Iran as quickly as possible. And it…
The fight is not over
By DAN MARGALIT, ISRAEL HAYOM— A colleague who specializes in modern history remarked to me on Sunday that the deal signed with Iran is not comparable to the disgrace signed in Munich in 1938. In this historian’s eyes, the appropriate comparison is the West’s silence in the face of Hitler’s invasion of the Rhineland in…