Scripture Reading for October 6, 2012
Torah: Exodus 33:12 – 34:26 “Lek aleh” (Depart & go …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 38:18 – 39:16 New Testament: I Thessalonians 5:1 – 11 Gospel: Matthew 24:1 – 24 “Mibate Ha’ Micdash” (Jesus went out of the Temple …)
Fordo sabotage enabled Netanyahu to move Iran red line to spring 2013
By DEBKAFILE— The sabotage of the Fordo uranium enrichment facility’s power lines on Aug. 17 gave Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu extra leeway to move his original red line for Iran from late September 2012 – now – to the spring or early summer of 2013. The disruption of the underground enrichment plant’s power supply…
Mitt Romney: A New Course for the Middle East
By MITT ROMNEY, WALL STREET JOURNAL– Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has come to power, and the country’s peace treaty with Israel hangs in the balance. In Libya, our ambassador was murdered in a terrorist…
Video: Absolutely uncertain
A new, 18-minute mini-documentary follows the journey of Irina, a 23-year-old liberal, Jewish New Yorker who voted for Obama in 2008. Yet as her connection to Israel has grown, and she has learned more about the President’s policies across the Middle East and towards Israel in particular, Irina has come to realize that “when the…
Iranian Official Mocks Netanyahu's UN Speech
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— A senior Iranian foreign ministry official mocked on Sunday Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s over his bomb diagram during his UN speech last week. Addressing a ceremony in Iran’s southern city of Kangan on Sunday, Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates’ Affairs Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the Fars…
Jerusalem's shelter of peace
By DANIEL GOLDMAN, JPOST— This week, hundreds of thousands of Jews will ascend to Jerusalem filling its roads, holy sites, and public parks over the festival of Succot. In addition, Jerusalem will be the focus of attention for millions of Jews across the world celebrating the holiday. But in a year when tension between Jews…
The Palestinians' dubious UN move
By DORE GOLD— PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has again declared his intention to carry out his plan to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state with the opening of the U.N. General Assembly this past week. However, it is not entirely clear how the Palestinians will execute their plan this year, after last year’s effort…
Let the Palestinian Authority collapse
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the Palestinian Authority teetering on the brink of financial ruin, an unlikely deliverer has stepped in seeking to save the day. The would-be rescuer is neither a wealthy Gulf Arab sheikh nor a playboy Saudi prince with money to burn, nor even a misguided European government looking to curry favor…
Obama, Democrats, and the Jews
By ISI LEIBLER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The disproportionately high profile of American Jews in the U.S. presidential election contest and the efforts invested by both candidates portraying themselves as supportive of the Jewish state has assumed surrealistic levels. Overall, Israel’s standing in the U.S. today is at an all-time high. Yet, the Democratic convention spotlighted the…
A Flimsy U.S. Sanctions Policy Toward Iran
By ILAN BERMAN, WASHINGTON POST— Recent revelations from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has both continued and expanded its uranium enrichment activities have focused attention anew on U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic — and what more can be done to stop Iran’s march toward the bomb. This is, necessarily, a conversation about…