Controversy of Zion

All the world’s heavy artillery seems to be trained on the tiny nation of Israel. Zechariah’s prognostication that Jerusalem would be a "cup of trembling" was never more appropriate than in our time. Israel represents less than one percent of the landmass of the entire Middle East, yet commands a lion’s share of the world’s attention.

A terrorist who turned to love
By Jamie Glazov

Jamie Glazov’s Frontpage Interview guest is this time Walid Shoebat, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea, Israel, and now is an American citizen. Walid demonstrates the transforming power of God’s Word. Once a Muslim Palestinian terrorist he now supports God’s plan and purposes for Israel, the Jewish people and the Church. He shows us that following the God of Scripture is the only real answer for personal peace, peace in Jerusalem and the Middle East.

A warning for all Gentile Believers
By Dan Gruber

Believers are not identically the same, but "Messiah is all, and in all." Messiah is the ONE new man, and we are all part of Him. Every individual has a unique genetic code. Every healthy cell in the body, regardless of its function, contains that same genetic imprint. Even so, every member of the body of the Lord is to bear His unique, unmistakable imprint – "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

Helping the Jews home
By Koen Carlier

At the end of November 2006, my wife Ira and I were taking a husband and wife, and 30-year-old Rimma Karmeluk in our minibus on the 5-hour journey to the airport in Kiev. With tears Rimma took leave of her father who for the time being stays behind in his poor home. She told us that since her teenage years she had been dreaming of going to Israel. As a Jewish girl she felt a stranger in Ukraine. It reminded me of Psalm 126:1, "When the Lord restored His exiles to Jerusalem, it was like a dream!"

Borders of the Promised Land
By Willem Glashouwer

What, according to the Bible, are the borders of the Promised Land? The answer is more global then specific. From the river of Egypt (Wadi el Arish, the eastern branch of the Nile) to the Great River, the Euphrates (Gen. 15:18). The area from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines (the Mediterranean Sea) and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, (Ex.23:31).

Churchill saw it coming
Astonishing and unbelievable! The short speech below was written and delivered by Winston Churchill in 1899, when he was a young soldier and a journalist. In his wonderful Churchillian turn of phrase and his use of the English language words, as so well expressed by this master, Churchill probably set out the current views of many of us. As you know, Britain was largely involved with the Muslim/Arab nations in the Middle East and the Gulf.

Holocaust documents opened to public
By Henk Kamsteeg

Last year, Iran hosted a two-day conference to explore the validity of the Nazi Holocaust. Iranian Foreign Ministry official Manouchehr Mohammadi told Iran’s state-run news agency, IRNA, that Iran’s leaders would accept that the Holocaust occurred if scholars attending the conference could prove that the Nazi regime exterminated six million Jews during
World War II.

Open letter from the Mayor of Jerusalem, Uri Lupolianski, to the European Parliament on International Holocaust Day
Your Excellencies members of the European Parliament,
From Jerusalem, the City of Peace, and capital of all believers, we send you greetings of "Peace" together with our appeal to unite together and to raise the banner of peace throughout the world. "Remember and Do Not Forget".

What is God Saying About Israel in 2007?
By Sandy Teplinsky

Guided by faith, they love Israel passionately and pray for her well-being, rejoicing in her successes and grieving over her setbacks. They are America’s Bible-believing Christians, and it is time for Israel to reach out to them in a far more sophisticated and comprehensive manner.

Forty years ago, under a bright sunny sky, bullets and blood spilled upon the City of the Great King in an epic battle that would alter nations’ destinies. On June 7, 1967, a brigade of Israeli paratroopers descended not far from the Mount of Olives. Dodging snipers, the soldiers forged their way through winding streets to the walls surrounding the Old City of Jerusalem, where they gained entrance through the Lion’s Gate.

In praise of Christian Zionists
By Michael Freund

A great deal has already been written about the close ties that have developed between Israel and the millions of America’s Bible-believing Christians, and Israeli officials have at last begun to appreciate the depth and feeling of American evangelical support for the Jewish state. Indeed, what was once unthinkable has now become routine, as leading Christian pastors and Israeli government representatives regularly confer with one another, exchanging ideas and views on the principal issues of the day.


Profile of Courage: Dr. Wafa Sultan
By John M. Broder

Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.

Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, 2006, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.


The Passionate Love of Zion
By Claude Duvernoy

Author Claude Duvernoy, along with many rabbis and Jewish leaders, looks for the day of the spiritual renewal that is coming to Israel, so remarkable in its effect that the prophet Zechariah says that God will "remove iniquity from the land in one day."

The theology of the Church is essentially a theology of Divine grace. Whenever the Church ceased to be anchored on the rock of this grace, its doctrine became a rigid dogmatic system.

Moses in Mecca
By Dr. Jack Wheeler

Why is Al Aqsa so vitally important to the Palestinians? The Palestinians are Moslems who proclaim Al Aqsa to be the third holiest site in all Islam after Mecca and Medina, Mecca being the birthplace of Mohammed and Medina being the nearby town to which he fled in 622 AD (an event known as the "Hegira" and provides Year One in the Islamic calendar).
How could Al Aqsa possibly be close in sacredness to these two holy Moslem cities?

The Peaceful Majority
By William Haynes

I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

"We are prepared to stand up for our values"
By Alexander Downer

Alexander Downer, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs since March 1996, speaks at the dedication of Ohel Devorah Melbourne. As a Christian, he puts in perspective the appalling history of the Jewish people, in the sense that they have been targeted, they have been discriminated against, they have been ridiculed, they’ve been murdered, and yet despite all the horrors that they have put up with, they have continued and they have shown courage and they have a record of simply extraordinary achievement.

Muslims in Britain most anti-western in Europe
By Julian Borger

Public opinion in Britain is mostly favourable towards Muslims, but the feeling is not requited by British Muslims, who are among the most embittered in the western world, according to a global poll published recently.

The poll, by the Washington-based Pew Global Attitudes Project, asked Muslims and non-Muslims about each other in 13 countries. In most, it found suspicion and contempt to be mostly mutual, but uncovered a significant mismatch in Britain.

Double standards in Poland
By Alan Dershowitz

Anyone familiar with the current situation in Poland would not be surprised to read that when Father Stanislaw Wieglus was forced to resign as archbishop of Warsaw because of disclosures that he had collaborated with Communist intelligence, "some of his supporters shouted that ‘Jews’ were trying to destroy the church" (New York Times 01/08/2007).

Ireland - haven of Muslim fundamentalism?

Afirst poll on the Muslim community in Ireland showed that many moderate Muslims living there "strongly disapproved of solely Islamic education for their children and that 77% of Muslims believed they were accepted in Irish society. Very disturbing was the finding that 36% (14,000+) of all Muslims want Sharia law introduced in Ireland. Moderate Sheikh, Dr Shaheed Satardien, had said Ireland could become "a haven of fundamentalism" for dissident Muslims. This certainly seems to be vindicated by the Poll finding that 20% of Muslims think "Ireland could harbour dissidents" and that 75% of young Muslims want to see Ireland become an Islamic state.

Shia leader Ali Al Saleh stated that "jihadi groups are actively recruiting" in Ireland, and that "terrorist atrocities are being openly celebrated by some Muslim radicals in Dublin." It was also disturbing that 19% of Muslims said they "respect" al-Qa’ida terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.

A Place Called Hope
By Daniel Gordis

The mood here, a mood that no one talks about, but that everyone feels. A mood, a kind of desperation which isn’t about the war that was, or the one that may be coming, but about something deeper.

A couple of months ago, I had an appointment with a new doctor, just hours before I had to fly to the States. We didn’t know each other, this new doctor and I, but he seemed like a nice guy. I was in a rush, and needed to get back home to pack. All I wanted was my prescription, so I could get meds before I got on a fifteen-hour flight to L.A.

Post-Zionism Greater Threat Than Nukes
Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann

Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Israel (Robert) J. Aumann addressed the Herzliya Conference recently. Speaking after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, he said that post-Zionism "will be the end of us."

Lost in Translation: Abbas threat to Israel
By Michael Widlanski

Dr. Abbas is committed to the "revolutionary path" of Yasser Arafat, who also saluted those using violence against Israel; and it shows that Abbas believes that the Palestinian revolution requires continued violence against Israel, and that this violence can actually be a unifying factor among Palestinians, though Abbas has said that the timing of the violence is critical.




February 07
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