THE ARABS IN PROPHECY, PART 3 OF 5 BY DR RICHARD BOOKER— In Part Two of this series we learned how the separation of Noah’s sons from Abraham became the mother of all family feuds. The purpose of learning the genealogical trivia is to understand the difference between Abraham’s descendants through Isaac and his descendants…
THE ARABS IN PROPHECY, PART 3 OF 5 BY DR RICHARD BOOKER— In Part Two of this series we learned how the separation of Noah’s sons from Abraham became the mother of all family feuds. The purpose of learning the genealogical trivia is to understand the difference between Abraham’s descendants through Isaac and his descendants…
BY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, ICZC— For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. (Psalm 132:13-14) With all the emphasis among some quarters both Jewish as well as Christian that the Messiah can…
BY JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, ICZC— For the Lord has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His dwelling place: “This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. (Psalm 132:13-14) With all the emphasis among some quarters both Jewish as well as Christian that the Messiah can…
BY ISRAEL INSIDER— Daniel Halper, writing in the Weekly Standard, reports that “at 3:22 p.m., I posted this photo of Vice President Joe Biden and Shimon Peres, with an accompanying caption that indicated it had been taken last year in Jerusalem, Israel: The point of posting the photo was to show that, although the State…
BY SAMARA GREENBERG, JEWISH POLICY CENTER— Members of the Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas met in Cairo over the weekend to discuss the implementation of their Egyptian-brokered reconciliation pact signed in May that has largely stalled. To “revive the reconciliation,” as Fatah representative Azzam Al-Ahmad put it, the two sides have agreed to a mutual…
BY FRANK MEIR LOEWENBERG, WINNIPEG JEWISH REVIEW— A demand to implement the UN Partition Plan of 1947 is one of the options the Palestinians are studying in the wake of Washington’s decision to veto their request for statehood in September, according to Nabil Shaath, ex-Palestinian Foreign Minister and now Fatah commissioner for international relations. He…
Charles H. Spurgeon and the restoration of IsraelCharles Spurgeon is one of history’s most influential orators and theologians. Though he died 56 years before the birth of the modern state of Israel, the return of the Jews to the land of their covenant was something he foretold many times in his sermons Stuffed TomatoesThe word…
BY ARIEH O’SULLIVAN, THE MEDIA LINE— Diplomatic momentum is building on the Bashar Assad regime as it ratchets up its four-month military crackdown, but the Syrian president shows no signs of being in the mood to listen, analysts say. “Whether he is in a mood to listen or not doesn’t matter. Everyone else is in…
BY NAVIT ZOMER, YNET— Israeli exports to China totaled more than $1 billion in the first half of 2011 – a 33% increase compared to the same period last year. China is ranked fourth on the list of Israel’s export destinations – up six spots compared to 2009. The number of exporters to China has…