Wish I'd said that
“We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.”— Golda Meir
Video: anti-Semitism on Wall Street
Perhaps this is why Joe Lieberman said “The way this Occupy Wall Street is expressing itself is not reflective of the majority of people in our country”–is not embracing the protesters: This is a protest aimed at bankers with a certain element who perversely want to blame the Jews for all of this country’s problems.…
Just War Theory vs American Self-Defense
BY YARON BROOK AND ALEX EPSTEIN, THE OBJECTIVE STANDARD— This essay is partially based on a lecture, “The Morality of War,” delivered by Yaron Brook at numerous venues across the country. This article is very long and it was written six years ago but it is the best article I’ve ever read on Just War…
Scripture Reading for week of November 5, 2011
Torah: Genesis 21:1 – 17:23, “Lekh Lekha” (Go forth yourself …) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:27 – 41:10 New Testament: Romans 4:1 – 25 Gospels: John 8:48 – 59, “Ani Hu” (I am …)
Barak: Israel has not already decided to strike Iran
BY HAARETZ Amidst a flurry of recent reports regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not already decided that Israel will conduct such a strike. “It does not take a genius to understand that in Israel in 2011 two people…
Where have all the Christians gone?
BY ELWOOD MCQUAID, JPOST— Israel has long been like the canary in the mineshaft. If the canary succumbs to the odorless, lethal gases of the depths below, the miners know it’s time to get out of the mine. Anti-Semitic militancy, like the canary in the mine, warns the rest of the world of what lies…
The UN's indifference
BY JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGEMAG— The “international community” is always quick to blame Israel for any reprisals it takes against Palestinian terrorists. Accusations of “collective punishment,” “disproportionate force,” and “extrajudicial targeted assassinations” are regularly hurled at Israel from the chambers of the dysfunctional Human Rights Council and other United Nations bodies, including the UN Security Council.…
IDF aircraft strike rocket launching cell in Gaza
BY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST The IDF said overnight Sunday that its aircraft struck a rocket launching cell in Gaza after it fired a projectile into Israel. “We identified an accurate strike,” an IDF spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. The IDF action came after three Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel landed in…
Father of 4 killed as Gaza missiles pound Israel
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— An Israeli man was killed and dozens more were wounded on Saturday night when Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip unleashed a torrent of mortar and rocket fire on southern Israel. More than 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza between Saturday evening and mid-morning Sunday. The…
Wish I'd said that
“If we read the Scripture’s aright the Jews have a great deal to do with this world’s history. They shall be gathered in; Messiah shall come, the Messiah they are looking for—the same Messiah who came once shall come again—shall come as they expected him to come the first time. They then thought he would…