Jerusalem Watchman

It is not really possible to exaggerate why David Ben Gurion’s declaration – 60 years ago this May, of the independence of the State of Israel for the people of Israel – is one of the most important historical happenings ever to impact the world. 
Why was the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948 so […]

How can I keep this alive in me,
This death, this horror:
By saturating my soul with
Their pain?
Immersing myself in the black hole of
Their agony?
So that my pen, my tongue
Is driven by the stark and tearing images of
Their suffering,
So that my dreams overflow with
Their torture
And my waking hours deeply breathe the aroma of
Their sacrifice,
That truly I may […]

Who were you, dark and
Beautiful girl,
Your limpid pools unplumbable?
What did you see; what images rushed upon your fear-filled gaze
To stay, indelible in your mind
Until erased by death?
Who were you? What joy was robbed
And wrenched from those who loved you,
Those whose hands had once stroked your soft,
Sweet hair. And who you once
Made smile?

[Thoughts provoked on a […]

The following account of blatant antisemitism in the USA makes for very disturbing reading. That the Reverend Eric P. Lee said what he did is in and of itself not surprising. He is anything but a Christian, according to the fruits of his life, which includes crusading for the homosexual movement and embracing Louis Farrakhan’s […]

Less than 48 hours after Israel permitted more than a hundred trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza and bring relief to the Arabs living there, those Arabs sent out a squad of killers Wednesday to take Israeli lives.
Two Israeli civilians were killed and two were wounded when the terrorists entered a fuel depot on […]

As a Christian minister, living in America, I recognize the great civil, moral, spiritual, and material debt I owe to the Jewish people and Israel. There is no way I can ever repay this debt. I can only show my gratitude by loving and serving the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, speaking out against […]

Dear Secretary Rice
As I write this, you are making your way back home after spending two days throwing your weight around in Israel, my adopted homeland.
Yes, I know it’s your job as Secretary of State; you have a president to please. You speak for the world’s number one superpower. And of course you have your […]

A Dutch parliamentarian who believes Islam’s massive global growth is feeding on the worldwide fear of denouncing the violence-based religion, this week did what few men have had the courage to do, and confronted it.
After Holland’s national television stations refused to air his film, “Fitna” (Arabic for “strife” or “ordeal”) out of fear of a […]

United States Vice President Richard Cheney was supposed to be a neo-con, cut from the same right-thinking and anything-but-politically-correct cloth as former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.
As such there was optimism expressed in certain circles that the second-in-command to George W. Bush would bring […]

For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish, And those nations shall be utterly ruined. (Isaiah 60:12)
Chief Rabbi of London Jonathan Sacks told a special Internet rally held in solidarity with the citizens of rocket-ravaged Sderot Thursday that Purim has a message for Israel’s enemies:
They will suffer “the fate of Haman.”
This, […]