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It’s because they’re Jews – stupid!

The Jews of Hebron hit it right on the head Wednesday evening, when they sent a letter to the foreign minister of the European Union, who had arrived in Israel earlier in the day to level a fusillade of complaints at Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Javier Solana had demanded to know why the Israeli government had [...]

Not evil incarnate

I’m afraid a lot of American Christians have their eyes so filled with what is happening in their own country - for them America is the whole world, or the only important part of it - that they have lost a global sense of perspective.
My observations have been that many of these Christians who cannot [...]

Opening the Eastern Gate

Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. And the LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore [...]

A legacy worth pursuing

“I believe there could be no greater legacy for America than to help bring into being a Palestinian state for people who have suffered too long, have been humiliated too long.”
– United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Washington, October 11, 2006.
“I believe there could be no greater legacy for America than to help secure, [...]

Your people will be our people

Monday, August 29, 2006 was an historic day for my wife, our five children and I as we simultaneously experienced two miracles that changed our lives.
First, at around 09:30, an employee at the Tel Aviv offices of the Israeli Interior Ministry smiled at us.
The second miracle – a somewhat bigger one: She handed us seven, [...]