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le’yisrael yesh tikvah – For Israel there is hope

I love living in Israel and am grateful to God and to the Israeli people for opening the door for me to reside and raise my family here. There is nowhere in the world I would rather call home. That’s a statement that would raise some cynical eyebrows, but it’s true, and I know there [...]

A response to Sunday’s cabinet decision

Dear Prime Minister Olmert
Today you and your government agreed to help establish the newly appointed Palestinian Authority in power in Judea and Samaria – the cradle of your nation and the area where tens of thousands of your people have built their homes in obedience to the biblical injunction to settle the land.
You have recognized [...]

Reality Check

From their White House meeting Tuesday we learned that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President George W. Bush see eye-to-eye in their delusion about how Hamas’ takeover of Gaza has made it possible to proceed with the “two-state-solution” by giving Abbas and his Fatah a state in Samaria and Judea (from where I am posting [...]

In Gaza – God is fighting for Israel

Best wishes to President Peres

ICZC/JNW US Tour Report

On June 7 this year, International Christian Zionist Center Director Jan Willem van der Hoeven and I returned to Jerusalem from three weeks in the United States, where we traveled together, sharing with Americans many of the things that God has burned on our hearts concerning Israel and the US.
Although we had prayerfully planned our [...]

May he never be prime minister again

Ehud Barak narrowly won the Labor leadership race Tuesday and is now once again the chairman of his party.
That party’s fortunes have sunk to abysmal levels since Barak was forced to relinquish its helm after being soundly thrashed by Ariel Sharon six years ago.
And that thrashing came after he failed abjectly in his efforts at [...]