By MATI TUCHFELD, ISRAEL HAYOM— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is signaling to right-wing voters that there is a real danger that he and his Likud Party could lose the leadership of Israel to Zionist Union leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni in the national election next week. In a conversation with Israel Hayom, Netanyahu said…
By MATI TUCHFELD, ISRAEL HAYOM— “There will be no concessions and no withdrawals. It is simply irrelevant,” the Likud party said in a statement on Sunday regarding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s outlook on the peace process with the Palestinians. The Likud statement came after Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely told a brochure distributed at religious Zionist…
By EARL COX, JPOST— Election fever is gripping the Israeli public these days with the big election for control of the national government coming up on March 17th. A vast number of American Christians support Israel but we know we are not Israeli citizens or voters so we do not exercise support for any individual…
By JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— CHARLIE ROSE wasn’t sure he’d heard right. National Security Advisor Susan Rice, his guest on PBS, was lamenting that the controversy over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s forthcoming speech to Congress had “injected a degree of partisanship” into the traditionally bipartisan US-Israel relationship. That’s not only “unfortunate,” said Rice. “It’s…
Think on this: “Who knows but that you have come to his position for such a time as this.” (Esther 3:14) Pray on this: Heavenly Father, grant Prime Minister Netanyahu favor and acceptance by Congress and the American people as he speaks to the joint session of Congress on March 3, 2015. In Jesus Name,…
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Election fever is gripping Israel these days with the big election for control of the national government coming up on March 17th. American Christians support Israel however we understand that we are not Israeli citizens therefore we cannot cast ballots in their elections. While we have our personal preferences and…
TRANSCRIPT from Netanyahu’s speech My Friends, Tonight I want to address some important questions that have undoubtedly been on your minds. First, why am I going to Washington? I’m going to Washington because as Prime Minister of Israel, it’s my obligation to do everything in my power to prevent the conclusion of a bad deal…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— US President Barack Obama is mainstreaming anti-Semitism in America. This week, apropos of seemingly nothing, in an interview with Mathew Yglesias from the Vox.com website, Obama was asked about terrorism. In his answer the president said the terrorism threat is overrated. And that was far from the most disturbing statement he…
By DAVID RUBIN— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to the joint houses of Congress has stirred up an unprecedented political storm in both Washington and Jerusalem, but there are several positive developments that are being overlooked by the media. I have always emphasized that in the muddy world of politics, in which evasion…
By TIMES OF ISRAEL AND JTA— The right-wing Zionist Organization of America suggested Monday that some American-Jewish groups’ behavior surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned address to Congress is similar to that of the “Jewish leaders of the 1930s,” in reference to the lack of unity and organization in the American-Jewish community in the years…