What Memorial Day Means
Each year I try to think of how to depict Memorial Day in Israel in a way that’s meaningful and juxtapose it in relation to how it’s observed in the US. Many thoughts race through my head. And each year I see Memorial Day through a different prism.
The Jerusalem Embassy and the Triumph of Truth
Monday’s ceremony marking the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, had a clear message: It is time to embrace truth.
Netanyahu Will Hand Scepter to Messiah Son of David
A Bible expert suggests Prime Minister Netanyahu may be the incarnation of Biblical Jonathan come to act as the Messiah’s right-hand man.
Hamas’ Theater of the Absurd: ‘Cannibals in Gaza’
A few weeks ago, I turned on my computer and saw the most outrageous video of the year. The ‘brave’ teenage and twenty-something Palestinian ‘revolutionaries’ in Gaza, ‘resisting the occupation’ by the border fence, throwing rocks at the IDF, then retreating behind what looks to be a boy of 4-5 years old.
Demographic Bogeyman
There’s a bogeyman out there: the impending inundation of Arabs into Israel. “Dateline Jerusalem: A demographic study released Tuesday predicts that in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Arabs will outnumber Jews by the year 2020.”
Israel’s Sucker’s Game on the Gaza Border
There was a depressing familiarity both to Hamas’s suicide protest operation along Gaza’s border with Israel this week and to Israel’s response to it.
Snap Back Now
It’s done. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed.
White House Faith Leadership Council Celebrates Embassy Move
‘I have to give thanks to our tenacious president, Donald J. Trump. As I always say about him, ‘promise made, promise kept,’’ said Paula White, a pastor and televangelist.
Mexican Cartels Attempt to Crash US Border
Yesterday, Mexican drug cartels sent 2.25 million Mexicans: men, women, and children, to face off across from US National Guard troops along their common border.
Keep Your Eyes on Iran. Syria. Iran in Syria
It’s an irony that as Russia celebrated Victory Day, 73 years since the Allied victory of the tyranny of the Nazis, President Putin hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu as an honored guest.