U.S. General David Petraeus said on Wednesday that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fomenting anti-American sentiment due to the perception of U.S. favoritism towards Israel.
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Mar 17 2010
Petraeus: Israeli Ties Hurting U.S. Soldiers
Mar 17 2010
Foundation Stone and Jewish Education
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Mar 15 2010
There is more to the Story about Israel and Biden
Concluding,
There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA, the American Medical Association, the lawyers — and the Israeli lobby. But no lobby is as important, or as powerful, as the U.S. military. While commentators and pundits might reflect that Joe Biden’s trip to Israel has forever shifted America’s relationship with its erstwhile ally in the region, the real break came in January, when David Petraeus sent a briefing team to the Pentagon with a stark warning: America’s relationship with Israel is important, but not as important as the lives of America’s soldiers. Maybe Israel gets the message now.
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Mar 09 2010
Undepraved – Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work
There is really a lot of good news in the world today, my friends, and we really should try to highlight that instead of focusing in on the bad as if to try to prove some silly theological point made previously by people who are long dead and frankly, by now, know better. ‘Undepraved’ ain’t the right word, granted, but you know what I mean -
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Mar 03 2010
Irenaeus on the Pedagogue of the Law
But as many as feared God, and were anxious about His law, these ran to Christ, and were all saved. For He said to His disciples: “Go ye to the sheep of the house of Israel, which have perished.” And many more Samaritans, it is said, when the Lord had tarried among them, two days, “believed because of His words, and said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we ourselves have heard [Him], and know that this man is truly the Saviour of the world.” And Paul likewise declares, “And so all Israel shall be saved;” but he has also said, that the law was our pedagogue [to bring us] to Christ Jesus. Let them not therefore ascribe to the law the unbelief of certain [among them]. For the law never hindered them from believing in the Son of God; nay, but it even exhorted them so to do, saying that men can be saved in no other way from the old wound of the serpent than by believing in Him who, in the likeness of sinful flesh, is lifted up from the earth upon the tree of martyrdom, and draws all things to Himself, and brings to life the dead. – Against Heresies 4.8
Dec 29 2009
Zionism is the problem
It’s hard to imagine now, but in 1944, six years after Kristallnacht, Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, felt comfortable equating the Zionist ideal of Jewish statehood with “the concept of a racial state — the Hitlerian concept.” For most of the last century, a principled opposition to Zionism was a mainstream stance within American Judaism.
It just goes on from there.
Dec 16 2009
Israel rejects UK war crimes warrant for Livni
This is an interesting political development:
Israel on Tuesday warned of a chill in its ties with the United Kingdom – a relationship with significant historic and strategic weight – after a British court issued an arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni for her role in alleged war crimes during Israel’s offensive in Gaza that began almost a year ago.
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Dec 13 2009
Palestinian Pastors: Occupation Tragedy Has Reached Dead End
A group of Palestinian Christian leaders issued a document Friday in Bethlehem that pleaded the case of Palestinians and called for the end of Israeli occupation of the territory.
Authors of “The Kairos Palestine Document” said they are calling for the end to the occupation “because today we have reached a dead end in the tragedy of the Palestinian people.”
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Dec 12 2009
Will Israel Return to the Law of Moses?
Things seem to be rolling for something big, politically speaking, next year in Israel.
Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman took to the Knesset podium Tuesday to try to calm the political storm he caused this week when he said that “step by step, Torah law will become the binding law in the State of Israel.” Neeman made his controversial remarks Monday evening at a convention on Jewish law in Jerusalem.
Dec 05 2009
Book aims to end clash over Temple Mount
TRANSCENDING the bitterness of the confrontation between their nations and faiths, Israeli and Palestinian scholars have come together for an unprecedented joint history of the most contested religious site on earth.A new book, Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem’s Sacred Esplanade is an antidote to extremism about the holy city’s Temple Mount, revered by Jews as site of the biblical temples and sacred to Muslims as the site of the al-Aksa mosque.
via Book aims to end clash over Temple Mount – Scotsman.com News.
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