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Against all odds

“O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!” (Isaiah 40:9 ASV)
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of [...]

As we enter 2008…

Our world is in transition right now - moving from 2007 into 2008. Of course, this is the Gregorian calendar year. For the Jewish people, we’re well into the year 5768, which began on September 12, 2007.
Still, when it comes to the world’s plans for Israel, the Gregorian year is the frame inside which things [...]

The media has done its work

Readers’ reactions to a report on the website of the leftist Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz Monday were instructive - and should sound a loud and arresting alarm to Jews and all those who care about the well-being of the Jewish state.
Headlined: ‘Surviving hiker recounts Friday’s shooting attack in Hebron Hills,’ the report communicated details of the [...]

‘America has abandoned us’

The newspapers here in Israel made for sobering reading this weekend.
In the words of a visiting compatriot in the cause of Christian Zionism, it is as if, after years of moving towards a cliff in Israel-US relations, we have suddenly arrived, and tipped over the edge.
The United States has betrayed the trust of its once [...]

Annapolis Dispatches: What Bush said (and didn’t say)

US President George W. Bush hosted the International Middle East Peace Conference at Annapolis on November 27. He was now pursuing, said CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “one of the most ambitious goals of his presidency:” striving to bring into reality his dream of a Palestinian state.
Listening to his opening speech, I was exasperated yet again at [...]

Annapolis Dispatches - Covering the Conference

November 27 dawned wet and grey, the skies drizzling over the stadium designated for press registration, not far from the Naval Academy where the day’s historic event was to be held.
This was very much a State Department show, and officials from that august branch of the administration were meant to have prepared the way for [...]