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…
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…
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…
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…
“In the eternal counsel of God, he has determined to make Jerusalem the decisive issue by which He will deal with the nations. Those nations who align themselves with God’s purposes for Jerusalem will receive His blessing. But those who follow a policy in opposition to God’s purposes will be severely dealt with. Commit yourself…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— Local Christian leaders and an Israeli government representative gathered at the “Baptist House” church in central Jerusalem on Tuesday, one day after the building was vandalized with anti-Christian graffiti. The meeting could be best described as a demonstration of solidarity by the State of Israel with the Christian community, but…
BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Three years may have passed since the end of Operation Cast Lead, when Israeli forces entered Gaza to conduct a limited counterterror campaign, but that hasn’t stopped Palestinian terrorists from transforming southern Israel into a shooting gallery. Though you would never know it from much of the mainstream press, the thugs…
BY DORE GOLD, JPOST— Anti-Israel hatred on campus crests each year during an event called Israel Apartheid Week. With this ominous name and programs that thrive on ignorance and blind disregard for the facts, tens of thousands of college students are urged to rise up against Israel – painfully evoking the types of racist characterizations…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, carolineglick.com— This morning I received an e-mail alert from CAMERA that my alma mater, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is hosting a two-day conference which essentially begins with the proposition that Israel has no right to exist. This isn’t surprising. After all, the Kennedy School is home to my old professor Steve Walt.…
