By Michael Danby, JWire— The Reverend Tim Costello is the very image of the muscular, “socially concerned” Church Man. My view is that many Christian aid organisations like World Vision have long suffered from a lack of imagination as to good and evil in the Middle East. It should surprise no one that World Vision’s…
By The Jewish Press— On Wednesday, Christian Today reported that Mohammad El Halabi, an employee of World Vision (WV), the world’s largest evangelical Christian charity, had been detained on June 15 at the Erez crossing “on his way home from routine meetings” and was being held “without access to legal counsel or family visits,” which…
By Bassam Tawil, GateStone Institute— The signs near the Al-Aqsa mosque were clear: “The cameras will be broken and the hands that hung them will be cut off.” Installing video cameras near the Al Aqsa mosque would be a painful thorn in the side of all the terrorist organizations. The immensely successful collaborations in the…
By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— The next was between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will be the last for the Islamist regime, a senior source in the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, though he stressed that Israel will not be the side to initiate hostilities. Israel has no desire to control the Gaza Strip, the source…
BY DAVID PATRIKARAKOS, Foreign Policy— Gaza City, GAZA — The first thing you notice about Gaza: the donkeys. Attached to carts invariably driven by middle-aged men, they weave in and out of traffic, hauling fruits and vegetables through the city center. Gaza still bears the scars of the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel. The…
By Abi Lieberman, Front Page Mag— Much has been written about the nefarious motives behind the anti-Semitic Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as well as its primary campus sponsor, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). An exhaustive and authoritative account tracing the movement’s history, its radical roots and maximalist goals was authored by Dan…
By Danielle Ziri, JPost— The Anti-defamation League called on presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to correct “misstatements” he made regarding the 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas. In an interview with the New York Daily News published on Monday, Sanders said Israel’s actions during the 2014 war in Gaza were “disproportionate.” “My recollection is over 10,000 innocent…
By Ari Yashar, Arutz 7— Egypt recently contacted Israel requesting clarification over the rapprochement talks Jerusalem is holding with Turkey, it was revealed on Thursday. Senior clerks in Jerusalem told Haaretz on condition of anonymity that the Egyptian government expressed its displeasure with the notion of Turkey being given an official role in Gaza, and…
By Elad Benari, Arutz 7— Hamas’s former interior minister recently declared that Allah had created man “to wage jihad” and declared that “this intifada will never stop”. The address by Fathi Hammad aired on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV on October 19 and was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). According to Hammad, Allah…
