By Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA— The editor of the Palestinian news agency Maan recently summarized remarks Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas made in a conversation with him, as well as in a speech he gave in Bethlehem last week. Some of what Abbas said, according to this report, such as his statement that the PA…
By REUTERS, YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST— The Islamic State released a taped message on Saturday with a purported speech by it’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he threatened the Jewish State. “We are getting closer to you day by day,” said the message. “Do not think that we have forgotten about you.” “God…
By Dexter Van Zile, Breaking Israel News— Evangelical Protestants are part of the backbone of American civil society. Numbering about 90 million people, these Bible-believing Christians have eclipsed mainline Protestants who comprised the Protestant establishment that ruled the roost in the United States in the decades before, during and after World War II. Many elites…
By JONATHAN S. TOBIN, Commentary Magazine— What if the supposed cause of terrorism against Israel were based on a lie? That’s the awful fact that was exposed yesterday by none other than Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. In an interview with Israel’s Channel 10, Abbas admitted that in 2008 he flatly rejected an offer of statehood…
By David Lazarus, Israel Today— Yesterday, again, two Palestinian boys, an 11 and a 13-year-old, stabbed and tried to kill a 37-year-old Israeli man at the train station. And I ask myself, “What kind of a society cheers when a 11-year-old stabs someone? How can I comprehend Palestinians who allow, or even send their children…
By: By: Chris Mitchell, Breaking Christian News— (Jerusalem, Israel)— The Security Cabinet met in an emergency session Tuesday evening to decide on additional counterterrorism measures in the wake of Palestinian violence. (Security footage of Palestinian attack at Israeli bus stop/Screengrab via CBN News) Terrorists killed three Israelis and wounded 20 during their “Day of Rage,” but…
By: Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— Based on his previous “successes,” John Kerry’s pending visit to Israel will either end up achieving nothing or actually increasing the violence. Since Kerry has discovered the reason why so many Palestinian hands are rocking so many knives, it is worth looking into it. In his Harvard lecture this week,…
By: Bret Stephens— Regarding the causes of this Palestinian blood fetish, Western news organizations have resorted to familiar tropes. Palestinians have despaired at the results of the peace process—never mind that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just declared the Oslo Accords null and void. Israeli politicians want to allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount—never…
By: Raphael Poch, Breaking Israel News— In an anti-Christian incident which has largely gone unnoticed, the St. Charbel (Maar Charbel) Monastery in Bethlehem was attacked and burned down on September 26th. The monastery is located in the Wadi Maali neighborhood of the city where King David was born and is the reputed birthplace of Jesus.…