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Ms Rice: God is watching YOU

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 [...]

Dutch MP unmasks Islam for all (who want to) to see

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 [...]

Et tu, Cheney?

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 [...]

Guaranteed: Their end

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, [...]

Your time is running out

So, United States’ Middle East “peace progress monitor” General William Fraser is set to conduct a meeting Friday at which an assessment will be made of how Israel and the so-called Palestinians are implementing the first stage in the Quartet’s “Road Map.”
In this first stage, Israel is meant to halt all building or expanding of [...]

Israel’s friendly foes

Some of Israel’s enemies are easy to spot. They sport the 3-K’s (Kaffiyeh, Koran and Kalashnikov); cry ‘Allahu Akhbar!’ as they kill Jews and other infidels; think Hitler was a great guy but call Israelis “Nazis” all the while denying the Holocaust ever happened (go figure); vow to make all Israel’s Jews drink from the [...]

Wake up and smell the Muslims

For the family and friends of the eight boys murdered in cold blood in the Jerusalem seminary last Thursday night - the eyes that have been running with tears are still far from drying. The mourners continue to sit shiva, and I imagine for most their thoughts are far from what is going on in [...]

Suffering without end

Yet again, on Thursday night, a knife was thrust deep into the heart of the Jewish people, robbing eight young men of their lives, and hundreds of their loved ones of their joy.
I was putting my children safely to bed when Jerusalem began to sound with siren screams as tens of ambulances converged from around [...]

Israel, I am SO proud of you (when you act like this)

It will draw criticism from anti-Israel and pro-Israel readers, but I need to say this: Israel, I am SO proud of you. Please don’t take offense, but as a follower of the One who teaches love of enemies and the extension of mercy to those who hate and spitefully misuse us, I am left dumbstruck [...]

‘Mommy, I love my shirts’

Earlier this week, a handful of journalists and I huddled together with Chava Gad and her little boy in the hall of their Sderot home. For five long minutes,  as Kassam rockets from Gaza exploded nearby, and between the staccato sounds of the “Red Color!” alert, I listened to Yanai’s small, frightened cries. When the [...]