France threatened Israel with recognizing the Palestinian Authority as a nation-state only a day after Iranian business agreements were made with French companies – a deal worth several billion euros. Coincidence? As the saying goes, money talks. During Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s recent diplomatic tour of Europe, meetings took place with the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Pope Francis, over twenty French business leaders, and French President Francois Holland. The business deals arranged included over 118 Airbus commercial planes and renovations for Iran’s Peugeot car plant, amongst others agreements. After the dangerous JPOA nuclear deal, Iran has emerged from its…
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“Preserving the memory of the Holocaust is more important today than ever for in this period of resurgent and sometimes violent anti-Semitism, it is commemorations like this that remind us all where the oldest and most enduring hatred can lead. Unfortunately, in Europe and elsewhere, Jews are once again being targeted just for being Jews. Around the world, Jewish communities are increasingly living in fear. We see anti-Semitism directed against individual Jews, and we also see this hatred directed against the collective Jew, against the Jewish state. Israel is targeted with the same slurs and the same libels that were…
When US President Barack Obama was elected, he promised to create the most transparent presidential administration in history. Apparently he has forgotten his love of transparency, or simply neglected to let his State Department in on the goal. Regardless, it is highly ironic that the US State Department now finds itself in the ridiculous position of criticizing Israel’s government for being too transparent. The source of this latest “friendly disagreement” is the draft of an Israeli law currently working its way through the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. The law mandates that all Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in Israel which receive more…
It isn’t hard to understand the cause of the “Middle East Problem” – even though the nations of the world have been trying to solve it for nearly 68 years. Watch this video from Prager University for the simplest explanation you’ll ever find of why there is no peace in the Middle East. Of course, when the world talks about “peace in the Middle East” the only problem they are referring to is Israel, because no one cares about the fighting between Muslim Arab groups. Only about the fight between Muslims and Jews.
Enjoy this special Christmas greeting from Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Yesterday’s lead headline in the daily Israel Hayom announced a dramatic change by the Israel Medical Association’s Ethics Board regarding “triage” – the sorting and treating battle casualties according to urgency. The 2013 Israel Medical Association (IMA) ethical code regarding multi-casualty terror attack says that in such events the notion of “charity begins at home” is to be applied. This principle demands treatment of wounded victims first, and wounded terrorists later. This Jewish ethical principle contradicts the international concept of sorting patients according to urgency alone. Triage, blind to the identity of the wounded, leads to the possibility of treating…
This speech, given by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on December 6, was not directly addressed to Obama. However, it’s clear that he understands what the American president does not: radical Islamic terrorism must be defeated. This is the speech Obama should have given after San Bernardino. In this address, Netanyahu dispels myths about the cause of terrorism, outlines the historic context of the Middle East turmoil, and lays out a strong plan to protect the West and Israel from this threat. He also exposes the true obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Here’s a hint: it’s not…
Fifteen years ago, Ouda Tarabin was falsely accused by the Egyptian government of spying for Israel. He was imprisoned for espionage, and this week was finally released after years of negotiations and sent home to Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu vouched for Tarabin’s innocence, and worked hard to secure his release. Perhaps the most surprising thing about this story is that Tarabin is not Jewish – he’s Arab, one of the nomadic Bedouin tribes who live in Israel and have a positive relationship with the Israeli government. The Egyptian government has a long, and often outlandish, history of accusing Israel of…
The speech of Pastor Victor Styrsky, given on Holocaust Remembrance Day last month, is now surfacing on Israeli social media and is touching the hearts of many. Styrsky spoke on behalf of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), founded by John Hagee in 2006. CUFI claims 2.5 million members across the United States is probably the most active and vocal pro-Israel Christian organization in the world today. CUFI’s unambiguous commitment to Israel stands in sharp contrast to the growing number of Christians whose attitude towards Israel is increasingly crossing the line between criticism and anti-Semitism. CUFI affirms, what up until a…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first Hanukkah candle Sunday evening with Border Police personnel at the Western Wall in Jerusalem and gave an uplifting message on the significance of Israel as a light to the world: “2,200 years ago, a handful of Jewish fighters arose and defeated what was then a global empire. This was before the rise of Rome. The Seleucid Greek empire was then very strong and – during the reign of Antiochus IV – very cruel. Indeed, the threat was to our unity and our greatness. The Maccabees fought, first of all to restore this [spiritual]…