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A consuming folly

We have ignition, we’re acquiring traction, and at this rate we’ll soon be off on the road towards an arrangement with Damascus that will see the government in Jerusalem relinquish the Golan Heights - the high ground that towers over all Israel’s northern population centers.
No sooner has Israel left those heights, wrote Israeli commentator Guy [...]

Dear Mr President

Please allow me, as a - like you - professing Christian, as an American descendant, and as a distant relative (I believe we are cousins some eight times removed), to thank you for coming to congratulate the miraculous little land of Israel and its extra-ordinarily plucky people on the 60th anniversary of their national resurrection.
While [...]

Parsing the President - What Bush told Israel

US President George W. Bush last Thursday brought a special message to the Israeli Knesset to mark the 60th Anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish state.
For those who missed the speech you can read the full transcript (minus the salutation), right here.
Our comments are inserted in italics.
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President Bush: We gather to mark a momentous [...]

Bush: Face-to-face with the Word of the Lord

Although he almost certainly does not fully realize the ramifications, US President George W. Bush, who is due to arrive in Jerusalem Wednesday morning on a three-day visit, is set to come face to face with the Word of the Lord concerning the restoration of Israel.
Bush has been scheduled a private viewing Thursday evening of [...]

The importance of the creation of the State of Israel

It is not really possible to exaggerate why David Ben Gurion’s declaration – 60 years ago this May, of the independence of the State of Israel for the people of Israel – is one of the most important historical happenings ever to impact the world. 
Why was the creation of Israel on May 14, 1948 so [...]