BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— The fact that Israelis have conflicted attitudes toward US President Barack Obama came out loud and clear in a poll released on Thursday. The survey – commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, the Bar-Ilan University Center for International Communication and the Anti-Defamation League – found that while 51 percent…
BY KALEN TAYLOR, inContext— The Syrian Army slammed Haffeh with mortars, tanks, and helicopter gunfire yesterday, burning and looting buildings and wounding over 50 rebels. Forced to flee from the heavy fire, anti-government forces withdrew from the town on Wednesday. The conflict also reached the Syrian capital of Damascus yesterday morning as rebels began to…
BY KYLE SHIDELER, AMERICAN THINKER— President Barack Obama’s campaign strategy, at least as it regards foreign affairs, consists almost entirely of boasting of the various covert operation successes that occurred on his watch, and leaking government secrets to buttress these boasts. This strategy began just days after the successful elimination of arch-terrorist Osama Bin laden…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is conducting a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent the Palestinian Authority from officially registering the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a World Heritage Site belonging to the country of “Palestine.” Later this month, the UN’s World Heritage Committee will meet in Russia to debate inclusion of several…
BY RYAN JONES, TRAVELUJAH— Jesus spent a good deal of his earthly ministry comforting and healing the disabled, both as a sign of his power and calling and out of a deep compassion for those whose handicaps had kept them from fully enjoying life. It is, therefore, proper that Christians who love and support Israel…
BY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, ICZC— This year 2012 may become one of the most pivotal years in Israel’s short history yet. I. There may be a short and decisive battle with Syria and the Hizbollah in the near future. As a result of the coming attack by Syria and the Hizbollah there will…
BY JONATHAN S. TOBIN, COMMENTARY— One would have thought the Palestinians might have learned their lesson when they devoted all of their efforts last year to an attempt to get the United Nations to issue a unilateral recognition of their independence. Many predicted the showdown over the initiative would produce a “diplomatic tsunami” that would…
Torah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:43, “Shelach Lekha” (Send for yourself …) Haftorah: Joshua 2:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 3:7 – 4:1 Gospel: John 6:25 – 40, “Matzu oto” (They found him …)