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The Islamic Hamas movement would be willing to accept a peace treaty with Israel negotiated by President Mahmoud Abbas, if the deal was approved by Palestinians in a referendum, former US president Jimmy Carter said Monday. 'They said they would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders if approved by the Palestinians and that they would accept the right to live as a neighbour next door in peace, provided the agreements negotiated by Prime Minister (Ehud) Olmert and President (Mahmoud) Abbas will be submitted to the Palestinians for their overall approval,' he told an audience in Jerusalem. The comments, and similar remarks by exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in a recent interview with a Palestinian daily, reflect a major change in the stance of Hamas, whose leaders have

The Israeli army has announced a three-day security lockdown on the occupied West Bank ahead of the Jewish state's 60th anniversary celebrations. On Wednesday Israel formally remembers soldiers killed in conflicts and a day later celebrates its 60th Independence Day. The Israeli army said in a statement that the closure would end midnight on Thursday in accordance with a security assessment. Israel regularly closes its crossings with Palestinian territories during national holidays, citing security concerns.   ~ source ~

This was one surreal afternoon I wasn’t excepting. Turns out the small Holocaust museum in Tainan County’s Bao An is doing a ceremony to celebrate 60 years for Israel’s independence and so they invited me to help them out. I didn’t really imagine I’d turn into a Hebrew teacher anywhere in Taiwan, teaching Taiwanese how [...]

Today, while attending a lecture about IP in Taiwan (”Taiwan under siege”) I came across one of the older Banyan Research magazines that NCKU publishes. Strangely enough, I saw a familiar Israeli face staring at me with a commentary about the education system. Here are some highlights from the “Education revolution needed - Education system [...]

Over a month ago, my father alerted me that Reshet Bet’s Israeli Connection midnight radio show that broadcasts interviews with Israelis all over the world had an interview with an Israeli Chinese language student - Shani Weinstein - who’s living in Taipei to learn more about her life in Taiwan. I visited their website [...]

Syrian reactor capacity was 1-2 weapons/year: CIA WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suspected Syrian reactor bombed by Israel had the capacity to produce enough nuclear material to fuel one to two weapons a year, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Monday. Hayden said the plutonium reactor was within weeks or months of completion when it was destroyed [...]

A court in Israel sentences an MP, Shlomo Benizri, to 18 months in jail on charges of bribery and corruption. A news by AsianLoveStories.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasianlovestories.com%2Fisraeli-mp-jailed-for-corruption'; addthis_title = 'Israeli+MP+jailed+for+corruption'; addthis_pub = 'asianlove';

The AP has reported three terrorist organizations...well, in the official PC lexicon of the Bush Administration, extremist groups...have claimed responsibility for the Friday shooting attack at a factory in Nitzanei Shalom, Israel that left two security guards dead. Among those claiming responsibility was the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). But wait...”Jihad” is now a forbidden word in the Federal counter-terrorism vocabulary because our fearless Federal Leaders have bought into the...(read more)

From The Palestinian Information Center : Palestinian leaders and Christian peace activists as well as representatives of human rights organizations operating in the occupied Palestinian territories on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to "all men and women of conscience all over the world" to help stop Israeli army plans to close down and take over several orphanages and boarding schools sheltering thousands of orphans and impoverished students. Many of the orphans' parents had been killed by the Israeli army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists, also known as "settlers." The appeal was made during a press conference at the main Girl Orphanage in downtown Hebron. The Israeli army has repeatedly raided the orphanages, boarding schools and affiliated institutions, vandalizing pr

In the Judaism, making tattoos is forbiden act, but as you can see in the following gallery there are lot of Israeli tattoos freaks and of course some of them are pretty sexy…. [Source] Continue reading the post for more pics….

Ben-Ami Kadish, an 83 year old American citizen, was arrested on Tuesday for suspected espionage after he confessed to sharing sensitive classified information with Israeli agents in the 1980s."These kinds of activities whether they occurred long in the past or present time are not the kind of actions we would expect from a friend and ally and we would expect that Israel would not be engaged in such activities," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said hours after the story broke."We will be discussing, if we haven't already, this issue with the Israelis," said Casey, adding that the arrest does not have any new implications for US national security."There is pretty much a zero-tolerance policy for anyone that would engage in sharing that information in an unauthorized way, including coun

First phase: 14 May 1948–11 June 1948 ← Previous revision Revision as of 07:06, 24 April 2008 Line 222: Line 222: The British mandate over Palestine was due to expire on [[15 May]], but Jewish Leadership led by future [[Prime Minister]], [[David Ben-Gurion]], declared independence on [[14 May]]. The [[State of Israel]] [[Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel|declared itself as an independent nation]], and was quickly recognized by the Soviet Union, the United States, and many other countries. [[Image:1948 arab israeli war - May15-June10.jpg|right|300px|]] The British mandate over Palestine was due to expire on [[15 May]], but Jewish Leadership led by future [[Prime Minister]], [[David Ben-Gurion]], declared ind

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal rules out recognition of Israel, after meeting former US President Jimmy Carter. A news by AsianLoveStories.com. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fasianlovestories.com%2Fhamas-rejects-israeli-recognition'; addthis_title = 'Hamas+rejects+Israeli+recognition'; addthis_pub = 'asianlove';

An organization known as Breaking the Silence will publish tomorrow testimonies from 39 people who served in the Israeli army which paint a picture of a “reign of terror” brought upon the Palestinian civilians living in Hebron and other areas .The testimonials describe random beatings by Israeli soldiers as well as theft, murder and intimidation of the civilian population in an effort by the NGO "to force Israeli society to address the reality which it created".Among the disturbing testimony to be published are accounts of torturing children and their parents by placing loaded pistols in the mouths of children and threatening to kill them as their parents watch in horror. Source: www.independent.co.uk

In the past few months I’ve had the pleasure of following a relatively new blog detailing the adventures and thoughts of one Israeli guy in China. Rane’s blog is a must read for any Israeli who’s into Chinese people and culture. It’s a cynical look into the most amusing details of cross-cultural interactions, and every [...]

Meet Inga, a 17.5 years old from the north of the country. She is a high school student and she mostly like to hang out and dance at the clubs. Just in case you asked yourself, she doesn’t have a boyfriend. For more pictures read the rest of the post.

This is good news for anyone who invests in Israel real estate stocks. Apartment buyers, as well as those who have bought apartments in the past, will benefit from the sharp drop in interest rates through lower mortgage costs."The fall in the basic interest rates," Bruchim said, "will have an immediate effect on mortgages. Mortgages are sophisticated financial transactions. Clients can choose what kind of mortgages they want - whether in foreign currency, shekel mortgages linked to the cost of living, or unlinked shekel mortgages bearing floating interest rates based on the prime rate. Most take a mortgage mix of shekel-linked and prime rate-linked on a 60% to 40% ratio. Some also take a small part of their mortgage linked to the US dollar.

Paliwood is at it again… AFP Hamas is holding back the distribution of one million litres of fuel in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations official said Monday, joining Israeli claims that the Islamists were stage-managing a crisis. However, the official who requested anonymity added that the current quantities of fuel and industrial gasoline stored in Gaza are [...]

There's an interesting story on Global Voices about how Tendai Biti, secretary general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) , told journalists in Harare that an Israeli company, Cogniview was offering technical support to the Zimbabwean dictatorship and that:“Mugabe and his cronies intend to steal this election through the use of sophisticated software provided by the Israeli company with Mossad (Israeli intelligence agency) connections.”Cogniview make an Open Source PDF converter and 'somehow' this was linked to Zimbabwe's elections.Yoav Ezer, from Cogniview explains that:The voter-roles that were provided to the MDC by Zimbabwean officials were in PDF format and had a link to Cogniview’s website.My guess is that the people at the MDC wanted to get the voter data in a format

Natalie Portman was born on June 9th, 1981 in Jerusalem, Israel, as the only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie’s agent. She left Israel for Washington, DC, when she was still very young. After a few more moves, her family finally settled [...]

IBM said Thursday that it reached a deal to acquire FilesX, an Israeli developer of software that controls digital storage systems and protects corporate data.   Financial terms of the agreement... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Of course it was justified though because Israel keeps dropping bombs on babies in Gaza… And the media, of course, will not call them terrorists… Nine killed as Gaza militants storm Israeli border. GAZA CITY (AFP) - Two Israeli civilians and seven Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an explosion of violence around the Gaza Strip border after [...]

I have often wondered about this situation myself... If a lesbian couple decides to have a child, where one woman supplies the egg, the other woman bares the child and the sperm is from an anonymous doner, then do both women become the child's legal parents? In Israel this is exactly what the courts are deciding. Israeli courts have already ruled that same-sex couples can jointly adopt,

From: UN expert stands by Nazi comments Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. Professor Falk is scheduled to take up his post for the UN Human Rights Council later in the year. But Israel wants his mandate changed to probe Palestinian actions as well. Professor Falk said he drew the comparison between the treatment of Palestinians with the Nazi record of collective atrocity, because of what he described as the massive Israeli punishment directed at the entire population of Gaza. He said he understood that it was a provocative thing to say, but at the time, last summer, he had wanted to shake the American public from its torpor. "If this kind of situation had existed for

Syria is preparing for a comprehensive Israeli strike which will be combined with an attack on Hizbullah, sources in Damascus have told the London-based Arabic-language al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper. The sources, which refused to reveal their identity, reported that Syria was closely monitoring the movement of Israeli forces along the northern border.  The newspaper reported Wednesday [...]

"Forbes" says, "Although the worldwide real estate market is softening as credit reservoirs dry, some spots are poised for growth." The magazine rated Israel as the world's most "up-and-coming" real estate market."Forbes" notes, "Israel's real estate market struggled in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the country grappled with deflation. As late as 2006, market weakness had pushed prices down 4%, according to Knight Frank, a London-based real estate research company. But last year prices climbed 2%. That is expected to continue, given the country's robust 5.1% 2007 growth in gross domestic product and a 3.8% projection for this year, according to the International Monetary Fund."

ANSAmed - Protagonists in the story are a 19-year-old soldier, Yaniv Pozoarik, from the town of Holon, and a 25-year-old Arab with Israeli passport, Salim Louai, resident of the town of Ibillin, in Upper Galilee. On the night of March 25 corporal Yaniv was injured by mistake by a fellow soldier while he was in the military base. He was taken to the hospital in Haifa where doctors told his family he was brain-dead. ''It only took us a minute to decide to donate his organs because we were certain that he, who had always been so generous, would have been proud of our choice,'' the father, Yafim, said. The screening for patients awaiting transplantation started while the doctors were still in the operating room. This is how the death of corporal Yaniv became crossed, due to complicated genetic

The Jerusalem Post -- Iran has set up sophisticated listening stations in Syria in recent months to intercept Israeli military communications, Israeli security officials say.Top brass won't be allowed to bring their mobile phones into rooms where classified information is being discussed, the officials said. And generals will be assigned special areas on bases to conduct private conversations. That way, listening stations won't be able to hear sensitive conversations that might be going on in the background while generals talk on their cellular phones, they explained.

CHICAGO – Adi Refaeli, who’s currently touring the U.S. with her short film debut “Empathy,” has taken a circuitous route to the finished project. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, she spent three years in Toyko to start a family. All the while, she never let go of her interest to pursue filmmaking. When she returned to Tel Aviv, she completed “Empathy” as a student project. Its power and purpose, though, has caught the attention of film festivals all around the world and has won at the Jerusalem International Film Festival and the Syracuse International Film Festival. “Empathy” by writer and director Adi Refaeli.Photo credit: Other Israel Film Festival “Empathy” has often been described as an Israeli version of the 2006 best-picture Oscar winner “Crash”. Ref

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The slump in the dollar has not yet affected foreign investment in Israeli real estate. Diaspora Jews, especially from the US, UK, and France are continuing to buy apartments either as residences or for investment.The Bank of Israel reports that foreign residents bought $93 million worth of real estate in February 2008, compared with $167 million in January. The central bank notes the monthly drop in investment, but also notes the lower number of business days in February.

(Disclaimer: There are very few armies in the world where women are actively involved in comabt duty. The images below depict a woman's life in the army. No political or religious motives/agenda should be attributed to this article as our blog does not deal with such issues or motives. This article also should not be construed as an attempt to glorify war or promote animosity/hatred between countries and/or religions. All image copyrights belong to the concerned army.)

(Disclaimer: There are very few armies in the world where women are actively involved in comabt duty. The images below depict a woman's life in the army. No political or religious motives/agenda should be attributed to this article as our blog does not deal with such issues or motives. This article also should not be construed as an attempt to glorify war or promote animosity/hatred between countries and/or religions. All image copyrights belong to the concerned army.)

CHICAGO – When we speak of conflicts between people or ideologies, there’s a tendency for broad categorization. Who are the liberals or the conservatives? What type of people make up the Israelis or Palestinians? Who are the people of color and who are white? These lines are becoming blurred, and underneath it all, it boils down to familiar humanity. Who’s going to reach out to demonstrate that? Perhaps writer and director Eran Kolirin in his brilliant Israeli film debut “The Band’s Visit”. The story centers around a band of Egyptian police musicians in absurd matching blue uniforms anchored by longtime conductor Tawfiq (Sasson Gabai). When they are invited to the opening of an Arab center in Israel, an errant bus ride from the airport gets them lost in a small desert town. Cli

Bloomberg - March 17 (Bloomberg) — Young Israelis sit in a café drinking tea and talking about their time in the army. campaign to fight the rising number of draft dodgers in Israel. “ A True Israeli Doesn’t Evade ” is playing on television and Read more here . Bloomberg [...]

While the number of European scholars in America ranges from one to four percent of the scholars in their individual home countries, 73% of those who earn their PhDs in the States indicate a desire to stay there (European Commission, 2003). Sound far-fetched? A look at what has already happened to Israel should serve as a warning that this is not a number that Europe should take lightly. The

Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy 战争的伤疤,和平的伤口:以色列和阿拉伯悲剧# Author:Shlomo Ben-Ami # Format:PDF 2.3MB# Page Count: 432 pages# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 4, 2007)# Language: English# ISBN-10: 0195325427# ISBN-13: 978-0195325423Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami was a key figure in the Camp David negotiations and many other rounds of peace talks, public and secret, with Palestinian and Arab officials. Here he offers an unflinching account of the Arab-Israeli conflict, informed by his firsthand knowledge of the major characters and events. Clear-eyed and unsparing, Ben-Ami traces the twists and turns of the Middle East conflict and gives us behind-the-scenes accounts of the meetings in Oslo, Madrid, and Cam

The Israeli “Betipul”, translated as “In therapy” , is one of the best TV dramas I’ve seen. Over a year and a half ago I described how overwhelmed I was with this show. I thought it was so powerful it knocked me off balance and occupied my soul. Even though it’s been a while [...]

First the news from Reuters , BBC News and Haaretz that uses a word allegedly "No IDF officer can do such crimes !!" Second the news is Russia is going to extradite Yair Gal Klein to Colombia. The main charge of the former officer in which he was tried in his absence in Colombia in 2001 for was training the Guerrillas. He was convicted and sentenced to jail for 10 years for training the Guerrilla forces When I heard the news today in BBC Arabic , I did not get what brought an IDF officer with Colombian Guerrilla at first but then I remember something essential factor here : Drugs Klein was a mercenary for the Medellin drug cartel , he denies the charges , but it makes sense , drugs in Latin America is like Blood diamonds in Central Africa . These Guerrilla forces are co

Imagine if you had to live every day wondering if a random Qassam rocket would drop on your house. Thousands of these rockets have reigned down on Israel over the last year. Once again, Israel is seen as the agressor when they try to stop the indiscriminate rockets, while their citizens have to live every day hoping [...]

It was when the bottom fell out of the US real estate market in the early 1990s, that Joseph Bernstein first got the idea to open a luxury golf course in Israel.It wasn't an overnight revelation, more of a gradual process of discovery. Bernstein, an Israeli who had immigrated to America as a child, had been involved in a number of large real estate developments in New York through his company, Americas Partners, including the $500 million development Americas Tower, the US headquarters of Bank Hapoalim and world headquarters of PriceWaterhouseCoopers.When the market tanked in 1991, he decided to forget about work for a while and take up golf. He spent the next year devoting himself to the sport. He traveled widely in pursuit of his new interest and one day found himself teeing off on Israe

Yediot Ahronot correspondent Itamar Eichner reports in today's edition that an officer in Israeli Military Intelligence revealed in a briefing by FM Livni to foreign ambassadors that "before the IDF attacks Qassam workshops or warehouses it distributes flyers asking the residents to evacuate the area. But Hamas exploits the flyers and places small children on the rooftops in order to foil the attacks. And thus because of this trick the IDF is forced to halt many such bombings at the last moment.""We are working with our hands tied because of all these laws and because we are part of the free world and because this is part of our values," FM Livni said.Via Jihad Watch

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart so individual freedom will naturally grow from self-determined activity." (Idiot The Wise) It appears that the paintings of world's hottest British art star Banksy on the Palestinian side of the separation wall in the West Bank in summer 2005 were just the tip of the iceberg.

Israeli ground troops pulled out of northern Gaza before daybreak Monday, leaving behind a scene of widespread destruction in an offensive against Palestinian rocket squads that has killed nearly 120 people.

Fresh raids on Gaza by Israeli forces have so far killed 26 according to medical sources in the strip who say that 4 children form the ages of 9 to 16 were among the dead.Five Israeli troops were slightly injured in fighting when they entered the northern area of Gaza with tanks. BBC reporters in the region report numerous civilian casualties among the Palestinian population.The latest attacks bring the death toll to 50 Palestinians and one Israeli killed since Wednesday Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Israeli mall giants, owners of retail-linked realty assets across the world, are buying into India’s money minting retail sector. Tel Aviv-based mall giant Gazit Globe has tied up with one of the HDFC funds to pump in $150 million into developing assets, including supermarket anchored retail play. Big Shopping Group, of of Isreal’s biggies has [...]

Senator Hillary Clinton won the Israel vote in the Democrats Abroad Global Primary, but was defeated in the international race by Senator Barack Obama, who captured the majority of the votes cast by American expatriates who voted in the Democratic Global Primary held earlier this month. Israel, which is home to an estimated 200,000 U.S. Citizens, [...]

El diputado del partido religioso sefardí Shas Sholmo Benizri culpó a los homosexuales de los terremotos que ocurrieron en Israel en los últimos meses."La actividad homosexual practicada en el país es la causa de los recientes seísmos que se han sentido en Israel recientemente”, comentó el diputado durante una sesión especial en el Parlamento (Kneset), en la que se debatía el grado de preparación para los temblores.Las insólitas declaraciones tienen su sustento -según Benizri- que la Guemará, una parte del Talmud que contiene comentarios de la Mishná, la tradición oral judía, "se refiere a los terremotos como desastres, pero sólo está buscando soluciones prácticas de cómo prevenir y reparar".Y agregó: "Pero conozco otra forma de prevenir los terremotos; la Guemará me

Celebrating Israel’s 60 years of independence Taipei Fine Arts museum is showing the works of Israeli Paul Goldman, a somewhat unknown name who’s behind some great - even historical - Israeli photography (link). Exhibition will run from 11th of March to 22th of June. Here’s a bit about that (thanks V for the translation): [...]

The huge 1,300 dunam beachfront project, the largest in Israel, will be located in Eilat, near the border of Jordan. The project was planned and designed by the teams that helped create Walt Disney's Epcot park in Orlando and is based on attractions at Disney World, MGM, and Universal Studios. Amusement rides will be mixed into areas that mimic the look of other cities including Hollywood, New Orleans, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, St. Tropez, and Venice.Sonnenblick-Goldman, a New York real-estate investment banking firm, is in charge of raising financing from US and European investors for the park.

Although Israel lost the World Cup qualifying match versus Sweden in 1993 with 5-0, an Israeli player managed to score during the game. His name: Felix Halfon. “ We were already trailing Sweden 2-0 during halftime and Felix didn’t feel like listening to the coach’s pep talk. So he remained in the player tunnel and gave special attention to a Swedish woman “, says Shaul Eisenberg, former spokesperson of the Israeli Soccer Federation. Eisenberg recently finished his memoirs in a book and the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet featured the Halfon story. The player himself reacts rather indifferent: “ It wasn’t that special. By the way, I always carried a condom with me during matches. I put them in one of my socks.” What a visionary man Halfon i

Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian Territories Sheikh Mohammad Hussein renewed on Sunday his warnings against the plots of the Israeli occupation authorities in the Holy City. "The Israeli occupation authorities conduct suspicious acts targeting the Palestinian holy places under ungrounded pretexts," Sheikh Hussein said in a press release.

Paypal announced it has agreed to acquire Fraud Sciences, an Israeli security company, for $169 million. The deal marks the first time eBay and PayPal have acquired a security technology company.eBay's PayPal has been battling online fraud, which has cost it millions of dollars. Paypal is by far the most widely used online payment service, and as such it is one of the biggest targets for phishing and other Internet scams. Fraud Sciences has developed technology that it claims helps in differentiating between legitimate transactions and those perpetrated by fraud.Fraud Sciences' risk tools will be integrated with PayPal's fraud management system, PayPal President Scott Thompson said. The move "should allow us to be even more effective in protecting eBay and PayPal's hundreds of millions o

Palestinian'settlement'protests Israeli expansion(AFP) AFP - Activists built a mock Palestinian"settlement"in the West Bank on Saturday to protest a potential Israeli expansion there as Israel's housing minister vowed to proceed with a similar project in occupied east Jerusalem. Fuel crunch adds to misery in Gaza Strip(AP) AP - Service stations across the Gaza Strip shut off their fuel nozzles. Tens of thousands of people have no fresh water because pumps can't run. Hospitals parked ambulances, and bicycles are the new favored form of transportation. Olmert and Abbas plan for first post-Annapolis talks(Reuters) Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmertmet top advisers on Thursday to prepare for his first meetingwith Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since the two leaderslaunched formal peace talks last week. Israel's settlement expansion plan'not helpful': UN chief(AFP) AFP - UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said Israel's decisi

child_suicide_bomber Originally uploaded by BHowdy There are approximately 90 to 125 times as many Muslims as there are Jews [1.61 Billion Muslims to approximately 12.8 to 18.2 million Jews depending on one's definition of a Jew] so if every time Muslims picked a fight with Jews only 10 Muslims got killed for every 1 Jew that would be very unfair and intolerable to say the least. No, if Jews want to survive there has to be at least a 100 dead Muslims for every 1 Jew in order for the fight to be fair. I mention this because one of my readers left this comment: "Since Sept 29, 2000 the number of Israeli children killed by Palestinians is 199. The number of Palestinian children killed by Israelis is 971." What I don't understand is how numbers alone have any meaning. If Palestinians killed 199 Jewish children then, to be fair, Israel should have killed at least 18,000 Palestinian children, to do less is a losing battle given the huge numbers of Muslims in the world and their r

An awesome display of electronic warfare capabilities by Israel in September sparked a sharp reaction in Russia today. It all may bode ill for Iran tomorrow.Electronic warfare capabilities reached new heights during the September 9 Israeli attack on Syria. That was the revelation from the November 25 issue of Aviation Week & Space. The revelations apparently touched a nerve somewhere in Russia. Today Pravda carried a story imparting their own spin to the events described in AW&S, along with an interview with Richard J. Aldrich and an editorial wrap-up that featured a scary prediction.The article packed an informational punch. The authors of the AW&S piece, David A. Fulghum, Robert Wall and Amy Butler, covered a lot of ground. Among the highlights were: the elements of the electronic attacks carried out by the Israelis; methods the Israelis used to penetrate Syrian air defenses undetected; an Israeli claim that rejected any link between the Syrian and Iranian nuclear programs; and a re

"The laws of the State of Israel do not apply at the Temple Mount," Culture Minister Raleb Majadele said in response to a question on the issue submitted by MK Arieh Eldad.Majadele said, "I am a Muslim first, and a government minister second."

I know many brothers and sisters whose hearts are now heavy for Israel ahead of the “peace” summit in the coming week. We gnash our teeth and cry out for Israel to be strong and not let be taken in by promises of false peace. Yet I tell you, that by the Word of God all these things shall have to come to be. So let not your hearts and spirits be troubled, but be encouraged that God is surely bringing to fruition His promises and He shall be for His people Israel. (more…)