Scripture Reading for June 22, 2013
Torah: Numbers 22:2 — 25:9 “Balak” (Devastator …) Haftorah: Micah 5:6 — 6:8 New Testament: Romans 11:25 — 32 Gospel: John 4:7 — 26 “Isha mishomron” (A woman from Samaria …)
Time for a new peace process
By DAVID RUBIN— With the recent visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Israel just two months ago and the follow up visits by Secretary of State John Kerry, in which he has revived the Arab Peace Initiative, the time has come for reexamine the very premises on which that peace process has been based.…
Syrian Rebels Seize Border Crossing to the Golan Heights
By SKYLAR SCHMANSKI, inCONTEXT— Syrian rebels temporarily seized control of the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria on June 6, spurring Austria to withdraw all of its 380 peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights. Vienna attributed its decision to vacate the buffer zone, where international forces have been stationed since the 1974 armistice, to the…
Christian Zionism 101: Giving definition to the movement
By REV. MALCOLM HEDDING, ICEJ— Tens of thousands of churches have a committed belief in the importance of standing with Israel and blessing the Jewish people. The verse most often referred to as their biblical mandate is Genesis 12:3 in which God tells Abraham “I will bless those who bless you and I will curse…
Wish I'd said that…
“The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel.” –Ralph Galloway, former Director of UNRWA, August 1958
Sunni-Shiite divide in Syria may spark wider Middle East war
By RICK MORAN, AMERICAN THINKER— Lebanon’s mulch-religious society has become a tinderbox since Hezbollah, who dominates the government, announced their military assistance to President Assad in Syria. But the Sunni-Shiite divide in Lebanon is only a microcosm of what is occurring elsewhere in the Middle East. The two major sects of Islam, never at peace…
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood hold ‘March to J'lem’
By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST— The march began after Friday prayers at the Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque led by Salah Sultan, secretary-general of Al-Azhar’s Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. Culture Minister Alaa Abdel-Aziz took part in the rally and Prime Minister Hesham Kandil was to attend, according to Sultan. Marches were planned for the Palestinian territories,…
Israel's existence disproves christian replacement theology
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— In an article published in a local Israeli newspaper around the time of Israel’s 65th Independence Day, Rabbi Moshe Chaim Har-Noy puzzled over the fact that there are still so many Bible-believing Jews who refuse to celebrate the Jewish state’s modern rebirth. “Perhaps these dear Jews missed the words of…
Scripture Reading for June 15, 2013
Torah: Numbers 19:1 – 22:1 “Chukat” (Decree of …) Haftorah: Judges11:1 – 33 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 – 28 Gospel: John 3:10 – 21, “Ana Yeshua” (Jesus answered …)
"Settlements" are on solid ground
By DANI DAYAN, THE GUARDIAN— Catherine Ashton, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, is a vocal critic of the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Referring to them as “settlements”, she claimed last week that they “threaten to make a two-state solution impossible” and called on Israel “to immediately end all settlement activities beyond…