BY GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET— Veteran CBS News anchor Bob Simon just reported on the Palestinian Christians, indicting Israel’s “occupation” as responsible for their dramatic disappearance. The 60 Minutes story caused Israel tremendous PR damage. Yet largely ignored by Western media, a systematic campaign of Muslim persecution against the Christians is taking place in Palestinian areas.…
Torah: Leviticus 19:1–20:27, “K’doshim” (Holy Ones…) Haftorah: Ezekiel 20:2–20, 22:1–19 New Testament: I Peter 1:13–16 Gospel: Matthew 24:36 — 44, “Aval et hayom” (But of that Day..)
BY AARON KLEIN, WND— President Obama’s National Security Adviser Samantha Power will head the new White House Atrocities Prevention Board, which is tasked with formulating a response to war crimes, crimes against humanity and mass atrocities. Power helped to found a global military doctrine called Responsibility to Protect that was also devised by several controversial…
BY RABBI ECKSTEIN, IFCJ— Last Sunday, 60 Minutes, the CBS weekly news program, aired a piece lamenting what it called an “exodus” of Christians from the Holy Land. At first glance, this sounds like a story that needs to be told. After all, Coptic Christians and churches in Egypt have been attacked by radical Islamist…
BY JPOST– An annual torch-lighting ceremony was being held at Israel’s capital on Wednesday, marking the end of Remembrance Day. The end of the ceremony will touch off Independence Day celebrations across the country. The official theme of this year’s Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl was “Water – The Source of Life.” Participants,…
BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7— On April 19, Marc J. Fink at Islamist Watch broke the story that the retail electronics superstore Best Buy was a “Platinum Sponsor” for a fundraising banquet for the Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR grew out of the Islamic Association of Palestine, an organization that…
BY JTA– More than 2.5 million people have viewed two installments of a video advocating Israel’s legal and moral authority to attack Iran. The videos, developed and narrated by Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel, American-born media personalities and co-founders of The Land of Israel.com pro-Israel activist group, warn that waiting for the international community to…
BY JPOST— Following two-minute siren honoring those who have fallen in defense of Israel, Netanyahu addresses bereaved families and dignitaries at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem where wreathes are laid for the fallen. Jews have overcome all their enemies throughout history, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said during the state ceremony for fallen soldiers at Mount Herzl…
