by Jimmy DeYoung
Dr. Max Singer a senior research fellow at the Begin Sadat Center for Strategic Studies says the only chance for real peace in the Middle East is if the western nations convince the Arabs that Jewish ties to the Temple Mount will bring about peace in the region.
Singer believes that the continual denial by the PA leadership of the Jewish people’s ancient connection to the land of Israel and the sacred significance to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount where once stood two Jewish temples will hinder any peace efforts to the two peoples to coexist in the Middle East and thus only enhance the continuing conflict.
In spite of the fact that the PA Mufti Sheikh Sabri, the high ranking Islamic cleric, claims there has never been a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount, Jewish scholars cite many historic and Biblical sources to confirm that Jews have a 3000 year old connection to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.
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by Jimmy DeYoung
Iranian President Ahmadinejad, the Iranian military chief, and even the leadership of the Supreme Council of Iran, the Ayatollahs, the Islamic leaders, say that they are prepared for an attack from Israel, the United States, or any other nation that may decide to move against the Islamic Republic. The Iranian threat to the Middle East, Europe, and even to the United States, is the development of a nuclear weapon of mass destruction in Iran that could be used to destroy the Jewish state as has been called for by the Iranian president.
Israel recognizes Iran as their number one threat and have put in place a strategic plan to make certain that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon of mass destruction that could be fired on the Jewish state and that plan may well be a preemptive strike against Iran.
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by Chris Schang
This past weekend we witnessed the resumption of long stalled nuclear talks between Iran and the six major world powers known collectively as the P5+1. This groups includes the US, Britain, China, Russia, and France plus Germany. The talks were heralded as a positive step in the right direction by the EU representatives. However, Israeli PM Netanyahu called them a "freebie" for Iran as the talks basically went nowhere and although there is another meeting scheduled for late next month, nothing really became of the meeting. Today, the U.S. lawmakers called the talks "inadequate" and called for more sanctions. The Haaretz news website reported:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has harshly criticized the talks on Saturday between Iran and six world powers, saying "my initial impression is that Iran has been given a freebie" to carry on with its nuclear program. Netanyahu said the decision to continue the talks on May 23 gives Tehran five more weeks to enrich uranium as it likes. "I think Iran should take immediate steps to stop all enrichment, take out all enrichment material and dismantle the nuclear facility in Qom," Netanyahu said in a statement. "I believe that the world’s greatest practitioner of terrorism must not have the opportunity to develop atomic bombs."
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by Jim Fletcher
A few years ago, at the height of the controversy over the Israeli pullout from Gaza, I visited with Caroline Glick in the lobby of the Mount Zion Hotel.
Listening to Caroline—I believe her to be the finest pure journalist anywhere today—give a hard-eyed assessment of the fallout from the pullout, with a backdrop of the Old City walls in the picture window behind her, I couldn’t help but wonder why this type of sane reasoning can’t find its way into politics.
Caroline, the Jerusalem Post’s deputy managing editor (I highly recommend her book, Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad), is petite, but don’t let that fool you. A reserve officer in the IDF, she made aliyah in 1991, from her native Chicago. She doesn’t mince words, and her assessments of both the political and military situation in the Middle East is dead-on. I am reminded of the comment from CAMERA’s Andrea Levin a few years back, speaking of the insipid Anthony Lewis: “He’s always wrong.”
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by Jimmy DeYoung
At least 70,000 Jews from Israel and around the world gathered at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem recently to receive the traditional priestly blessing, a blessing that is given to Jews who make their way to the Temple Mount on one of the three pilgrim feast days as required for Jews in the Bible.
This pilgrimage to the Temple Mount is rooted in the Jewish tradition which saw Israelites ascend to the Temple in Jerusalem for ritual worship led by the high priest during biblical times.
Today, it is a symbolic gesture because there is no Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and many religious Jews pray daily for the Temple to be rebuilt, an event which could happen any time since all preparations have been made for the building of the next Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
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by Chris Perver
The Temple Institute and the Movement for the Renewal of the Holy Temple, organizations which are actively preparing for the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, have performed an ‘educational’ sacrifice of two live goats to commemorate the Feast of Passover (Pesach). The presentation was carried out in a synagogue just north of the Old City and Temple Mount, in the Shmuel HaNavi neighbourhood. The animals were slaughtered in an adjacent basketball court, where their blood was sprinkled over a hastily prepared altar. After the animals were ritually slaughtered, they were skinned, and the parts that were to be roasted in the fire were paraded around for all to see. The organizers stressed that this slaughter was for ‘educational’ purposes only and should not be considered an actual Passover sacrifice. But many observant Jews hope that this public demonstration could one day become reality when the Temple is rebuilt and the sacrificial system is reinstated.
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by Terry James
Thinking on things pertaining to the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ–the remembrance of which Christians celebrated Sunday just past–set the story circulating about the Obama administration’s apparent release of information involving Israel and Azerbaijan rumbling through my cogitations.
Betrayal of friends is the fodder of many a tragedy, both in fictional stories and in historical accounts. Judas Iscariot’s treachery against the Lord Jesus is perhaps the most infamous of all such telling and retelling. Never was there a more wonderful and true friend than Jesus. He not only raised the dead, healed the blind, opened the ears of the deaf, healed the sick and lame, and fed multitudes with a miraculous breaking of the loaves and fish, but, he gave God’s Word to the people–God’s love letter to all of mankind. He saved the souls of all the men who were His closest friends–His disciples. All but one, that is…
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