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MK Ben-Ari: Only the Likud can talk Right and act Left

(IsraelNN.com) Opposition Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) spoke with IsraelNationalNews.com in the wake of reports that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has agreed to freeze all Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria in return for sanctions against Iran.

Instead of the apparent Netanyahu capitulation, Ben-Ari said that Israel “must say to the world: The Iranian problem is your problem; we will not commit suicide and make Judea and Samaria into part of an enemy state by freezing Jewish construction.” More

World Council of Churches chief blasts Israel

The departing chief of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) slammed Israel’s “sin against God” in his August 26 good-bye to the world’s largest ecumenical group. 

"Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God," declared Kenyan Methodist minister Samuel Kobia, during his farewell to the WCC’s governing central committee.  More

Wall Street Journal: Israel may attack Iran

WASHINGTON - The United States must curb the Iranian nuclear program or deal with the consequences of an Israeli military strike, the Wall Street Journal warned US President Barack on Monday.

According to the most important conservative newspaper in America, a military conflict with Iran would be inevitable, if the West failed to act quickly. More

Former PM Ehud Olmert indicted

Olmert to face multiple corruption charges including fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate records, receiving illicit benefits and tax evasion. Indictment of former premier a first of its kind; unifies Talansky, Rishontours, investment center cases. More

Touching Video: A Rabbi looking for Jewish children

Legend tells that after the Holocaust, R. Yosef Kahaneman zt'l , the Ponevezhe Rov began looking for Jewish children who had survived the war. It was known that some of the children had ended up in churches and were being raised as Christians. The Rov encountered one church that denied the existence and presence of Jewish children within their midst... He was granted permission to enter the children's quarters to inspect for himself -- when he entered he began calling out "Shema Yisroel" and instinctively many of the children raised their hands to cover their eyes and started calling out "mama! mama!" More

The Saudi Plan is really the US Plan

The Saudi Plan was introduced prior to the Gulf War. After the war began, the Roadmap was unveiled which included the Saudi Plan and now we are stuck with it.

In the article which follows written just after the Roadmap was introduced, I reasoned that the Saudi Plan was really the State Department Plan negotiated for the Saudi support for the US invasion. More

Glick: The rigged game

On Tuesday the Guardian reported that the Obama administration is now making Israel an offer it can't refuse: In exchange for a government order to freeze construction for Jews in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, the administration will adopt a "much tougher line with Iran over its alleged nuclear weapons program."

Israel should refuse this offer. More

Avigdor Lieberman is a nuisance - a nuisance to those who hide their heads in the sand

Only due to the uproar that Lieberman fomented did the public become aware of the anti-Israel zealotry of many of these nongovernmental organizations, which are financed, inter alia, by donations from Arab oil powers, huge western foundations like the Ford Foundation, countries such as Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and the European Union. More

Wilders: 80-year-old Muslim who married 10-year-old "is behaving like a pig...

...just like the barbarous Prophet Mohammed, who married the six year old girl Aisha"

Now this will be interesting. Right now Wilders is playing offense: "The PVV leader wants Verhagen to summon the Saudi Arabian ambassador to express his repugnance." But expect the cascade of protests and condemnations -- from both Muslims and dhimmis -- to begin soon. Still, however, this puts those who will condemn Wilders in a peculiar position. If they take issue with his characterization of Muhammad, they will either be excusing the Muslim prophet's marriage to a six-year-old and declining to condemn those Muslims who imitate their prophet by taking child brides, or, if they say that Muhammad didn't actually marry a child, they're in the position of denying evidence that is in the sources Muslims consider most reliable. More

Netanyahu: Remove the settlements, all the settlements, and the conflict does not go away

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's historian father, Benzion, should be proud. For with all the world focusing very much on the present - on settlements, Iran and where, when and how negotiations with the Palestinians would begin anew - the prime minister took great pains during his four-day trip to London and Berlin this week to emphasize the past.

Because of the 3,500-year-old Jewish connection to the city, Netanyahu explained, correcting himself for the sake of historical accuracy a few minutes later - even though the press conference had already moved on - by saying the connection was "only" 3,000 years old. More