Israel’s Foreign Ministry launched a social media campaign this month to convince the Palestinian leadership to stop honoring deceased terrorists, a practice that makes genuine peace nearly impossible to achieve. The focal point of the campaign was the Palestinian Authority’s decision to erect a monument to Abu Sukar (Ahmed Jabara) who in 1975 detonated a refrigerator bomb in Jerusalem’s Zion Square killing 15 Israelis and wounding another 77. American-born Foreign Ministry Director Dore Gold actually witnessed that attack as a young student in Jerusalem. “Suddenly I heard a huge explosion. I turned around and saw bodies everywhere,” Gold recalls in…
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After Democratic Party activists filmed themselves burning an Israeli flag outside of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, party officials were quick to reassert their pro-Israel standing. Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “strongly condemns this kind of hatred,” Clinton’s Jewish outreach director, Sarah Bard, told The Jerusalem Post. “Burning the Israeli flag is a reckless act that undermines peace and our values.” Speaking to members of the American Jewish Committee at the convention, Clinton adviser Wendy Sherman said the candidate had issued “very direct instructions” that the official Democratic Party platform remain pro-Israel. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, was spotted at…
Israeli Jews living in the so-called “West Bank” are painted as intractably hostile toward the local Palestinian Arab population, and vice versa. But the reality is very often far different. Take for instance the terrorist shooting attack on the roads of Judea earlier this month, when Rabbi Michael Mark was killed and his family wounded by Palestinian gunmen. The first person on the scene was a Palestinian passerby who quickly extracted the Mark children from their crashed vehicle. The next to stop was Dr. Ali Abu Sharach, a Palestinian doctor, who, along with his nurse wife, did not hesitate to…
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s selection of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate has Israelis intrigued. As if the prospect of a Trump presidency wasn’t enough to gain everyone’s attention. Trump has already made unwavering support for Israel a centerpiece of his campaign. Bringing Pence on board only amplifies that message. An unabashedly conservative Christian, Pence previously spent 12 years in Congress, where he led several pro-Israel efforts, including placing stricter conditions on funding for the Palestinian Authority. In 2007, Pence co-led the bipartisan Congressional Anti-Semitism Task Force. In 2009, Pence addressed the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee…
Despite it’s relatively small size, Israel is one of the first responders to crisis that occur around the globe. This video showcases Israel’s commitment to providing aid and saving lives.
According to the UN Population Division, there are today 244 million immigrants or people living in a country other than their own, 60 million of whom are refugees. The UN defines a refugee as “someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence.” Though living in a state of bloody conflict for decades, Israel, including the West Bank, is not considered a country at war, which is why those leaving Israel today are not considered refugees. Arab countries around Israel that are ravaged by war produce a staggering amount of refugees and…
Many people want to boycott Israel in service to the Palestinian cause, but don’t quite know where to begin. Our friend Hananya Naftali, a Messianic Jewish soldier in the Israeli army, has provided this helpful video guide to aid you in rooting out anything even remotely Israeli in your life. For the sake of objectivity, Naftali also wanted to list Palestinian products and inventions, but couldn’t find any. Originally posted by Israel Today Magazine.
The Knesset passed a bill designed to protect Arab Christians who enlist in the Israeli army. The law, which includes an extended prison sentence for anyone who tries to dissuade a Christian Arab from serving in the IDF, became necessary in the face of stiff opposition and violent attacks against the Christian soldiers. Much of the hostility towards the Christian soldiers comes from Arab members of Israeli Knesset. Knesset member Aida Touma-Suliman of the Joint Arab List attacked the bill during the debate. “They want to drag the Christian Arab population into volunteering for the army that is occupying their…
Israeli security officials on Sunday thwarted a major terrorist attack when they identified and detained a Palestinian man attempting to board the city’s light rail with a bag full of pipe bombs. The incident occurred along the busy pedestrian mall on Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem. A security guard for the light rail noticed the suspect standing behind one of the pick-up points with a large bag. Feeling uneasy about his demeanor, the guard asked to examine the man’s bag and quickly noticed what appeared to be a bomb. Police responded to the scene immediately and arrested the would-be terrorist…
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday declared on Twitter that the party’s platform is now more pro-Israel than it has ever been. Indeed, the Republican Party’s Platform Committee did make surprising policy changes that no previous candidate would or could have represented. The new platform erases all reference to a “two-state solution” and utterly rejects “the false notion that Israel is an occupier.” It further states that Jerusalem is the “indivisible” capital of the Jewish state. “Our party is proud to stand with Israel now and always,” that portion of the Republican platform concludes. The changes must still…