BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Earlier this week, the IDF went viral, but for all the wrong reasons. After Lt.- Col. Shalom Eisner struck a pro-Palestinian Danish protester in the face with his rifle on Saturday, an edited video of the incident was quickly uploaded to the Internet, garnering worldwide attention and condemnation. Not surprisingly, Israel’s…
BY DEBKAFILE— In the direct, secret exchanges between the US and Iran which led up to the Istanbul talks with the six powers, on Saturday, April 14, President Barack Obama quietly backed off from his demand that Iran “come clean” on its nuclear activities and open up to international inspection, Debkafile reports. This concession paved…
By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND JTA, JPost— “We have to prevent a second Holocaust from happening,” Ambassador Michael Oren told The Jerusalem Post following a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. “When Iran says it wants to destroy the State of Israel, which just happens to have six million Jews, we have to…
By DAVID LEV, ARUTZ 7 — Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress, called on European leaders to act to prevent what he called a “tsunami of anti-Semitism” from engulfing Europe in the event of increased tensions in the Middle East. Kantor made the statement at a press conference Wednesday at the Kantor…
BY ELISA L. MOED, TRAVELUJAH— Tourism to Israel has never been more popular. Despite the Arab Spring, the uprising in Syria and all the media speculation regarding a potential attack on Iran, people are continuing to travel to Israel on Holy Land Tours. During the first three months of the year, 752,000 tourists came to…
Torah: Leviticus 12:1-13:59, “Tazriah” (She bears seed…) Haftorah: II Kings 4:42-5:19 New Testament: Romans 6:9-23 Gospel: Matthew 8:1-4 “Hu Yarad” (He came down…)
Fantastic speech by Melanie Phillips. Phillips is a journalist for the Daily Mail and author of several books, most recently World Turned Upside Down. She defines herself as a liberal who has “been mugged by reality.” In this short video, Phillips addresses the fact that “terrorism is not the biggest threat that we face.” Philips…
BY RACHEL HIRSHFELD, ARUTZ 7 — Seventy-four Democrats in the House of Representatives have joined the leftist J Street organization in supporting the Obama administration’s attempt to force Israel into making painful and possibly dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Authority. “In our view, support for a two-state resolution is inseparable from such support for Israel,…
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report— The fundamental rift on Iran between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu burst into the open Monday, April 16 when high-ranking Israeli officials close to Netanyahu directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks between the six powers and Iran…
Another reason why the Jewish State is the moral center for the Middle East.