BY EDMUND SANDERS, LA TIMES— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that his Cabinet has decided to retroactively legalize three West Bank outposts that previous governments had conceded were built without permission, marking the first step toward what critics fear will become Israel’s first official new settlements since 1990. Government officials said it was…
BY MICHAEL RUBIN, COMMENTARY— It’s all well and good for the Obama administration to brag about how its diplomatic approach has brought European states onboard with sanctions on Iran, but as the White House grants waivers for countries to give them more time to disentangle themselves from their Iran investments, German companies are showing they…
By PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Learning to obey and be under the authority of others rather than always living to please self and get your own way – that is true greatness. It is far safer to live honorably as a follower rather than always striving to…
“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,” says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:12 “I will build you up again and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out to dance with the joyful.” Jeremiah 31:4
Israel is the 100th smallest country, and has about 1/1000th of the world’s population. One of the smallest countries on earth, with 1/1000th of the world’s population. Only 62 years old, 7 million people strong (less than Virginia), and smaller in size than New Jersey, surrounded by enemies, under constant threat and possessing almost no…
GREEN-LINED, JPost — Did Bob Simon do a hatchet job on Israel in his “60 Minutes” slot, entitled “Christians in the Holy Land”? Of course he did. Should he have been surprised – and even put out -that Israel’s US Ambassador Michael Oren presumed that he would do a ‘hatchet job’ on a story on…
By HAROUT HARRY SEMERDJIAN, JPost— While the modern-day Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, eight years after its Ottoman predecessors embarked on a massive and systematic undertaking to rid the empire of its Armenian population, the country today often finds itself in diplomatic spats with various Western nations over its history. Outside the periphery…
BY YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET— In his first appearance as president at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, a solemn President Barack Obama announced on Monday a new crackdown on Iran and Syria and said the world must never again allow hatred to take root into the “madness” of mass atrocities. The president announced new sanctions on…
BY REUTERS— Iran is investigating a suspected cyber attack on its main oil export terminal and on the Oil Ministry itself, Iranian industry sources said on Monday. A virus was detected inside the control systems of Kharg Island, the country’s largest crude oil export facility, but the terminal remained operational, a source at the National…
BY BEN SHAPIRO, FRONTPAGEMAG— One of the favorite myths of the left is that the right is the source of all anti-Semitism. To be sure, there are anti-Semites on the right – much of the constituency of Ron Paul is deeply anti-Semitic, as is the Pat Buchanan crew. But while many conservatives sympathize with Ron…