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Trusting in princes

For its survival Israel turns, not to God, but to Europe.
This was the thrust of the top story in The Jerusalem Post Sunday: that Israel’s Foreign Ministry has taken a strategic decision to establish strong relations with the European Union and thereby develop a “third pillar” to help ensure the  survival of the Jewish state.
Where [...]

Kosovo - Practising for Palestine

Those of us who care about the future of Israel, and indeed could sometimes perhaps be forgiven for wondering whether Israel even has a future [though I have no doubt she does – Ed] might do well to take note of what happened in Europe this week, when the southern province of Serbia declared independence, [...]

‘The Canaanites were then in the Land’

And the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him. (Genesis 12:6-7)
One of the arguments against the Jews’ right to sovereignty over their historical homeland, or conversely [...]

Playing with fire

If a series of reports in The Jerusalem Post this week is accurate, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is aware of and possibly even directing clandestine talks on the future of Jerusalem.
The back-channel talks, according to these same reports, are looking at ways to divide Jerusalem between Jews and Arabs in a way that the city [...]

‘I will remember the Land’

I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land. (Leviticus 26:42 – Emphasis added.)
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, and my Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on [...]