Weekly Scripture Reading for March 3, 2012
Torah: Exodus 27:20-30:10 “Tetzaveh” (You shall command…) Haftorah: Ezekiel 43:10-27 New Testament: Hebrews 13:10-17 Gospel: Mark 10:32-34 “Badereck” (On the road…)
PM expected to 'break new ground' in AIPAC speech
BY HERB KEINON, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for Canada and the US late Thursday night for a visit that – unlike previous trips to Washington and meetings with US President Barack Obama that focused on the Palestinians – is expected this time to center on Iran. Government sources said Netanyahu…
Harvard's Latest Assault on Israel
BY RUTH WISSE, WALL STREET JOURNAL— In 1948, when the Arab League declared war on Israel, no one imagined that six decades later American universities would become its overseas agency. Yet campus incitement against Israel has been growing from California to the New York Island. A conference at Harvard next week called “Israel/Palestine and the…
Dempsey: I didn't counsel Israel against Iran strike
BY YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET— Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Martin Dempsey told a Senate panel on Tuesday he did not counsel Israel against attacking Iran over its nuclear program. “We’ve had a conversation with them about time, the issue of time,” he said. Dempsey was referring to his most recent…
Israel won't warn US before Iran strike
BY KIMBERLY DOZIER, AP— Israeli officials say they won’t warn the US if they decide to launch a preemptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one US intelligence official familiar with the discussions. The pronouncement, delivered in a series of private, top-level conversations, sets a tense tone ahead of meetings in the coming days…
Hamas and Fatah Want a New Intifada
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, STONEGATE— To avoid Palestinians erupting against both Fatah and Hamas, the two parties are working to direct the heat toward Israel. Hamas and Fatah have lately ratcheted up their rhetoric against Israel in a clear bid to distract attention from their failure to end their power struggle. By backing a “popular…
Obama to face tense meeting on Iran with Netanyahu
By JEREMY HERB & AMIE PARNES, The Hill– When President Obama sits down face-to-face with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week to discuss Iran, he will be staring down the greatest challenge on Israel he’s faced during his presidency. It is the first time Obama has met Netanyahu since last spring, when the Israeli…
Obama and Israel: The Silence of 'Friends'
BY ROBERT M. GOLDBERG, THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR— Oscar Wilde noted “true friends stab you in the front.” Which explains why President Obama– the self-proclaimed “best friend Israel ever had” — has decided to cut funding for the Jewish state’s missile defense system at the same time he wants to restore funding to UNESCO. (Israel’s best…
Onward Christian soldiers
BY DEBRA RUBIN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Think North American campus activism for Israel and chances are you won’t think of a Hispanic Catholic organizing pro-Israel events. Or, of an African American Catholic at a historically black college telling not just her fellow students, but also a Jewish youth group, why she supports Israel. Yet, Stanley…