Judea & Samaria or the West Bank?

The Miracle That Is Israel

The Miracle That Is Israel

At 63, the Jewish State is a relative newcomer to the family of nations, yet in just over two generations it has been able to catch up and exceed the accomplishments of the majority of the older Western democracies in practically every category of human endeavor, not to mention the newer states in Asia and Africa and the Middle East. The eminent British historian Paul Johnson wrote of the Jewish State: “In the last half-century, over 100 completely new independent states have come into existence. Israel is the only one whose creation can fairly be called a miracle.”

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US Senators oppose Israel return to 1967 lines

US Senators oppose Israel return to 1967 lines

New resolution proposed by Senators Lieberman, Hatch calls for US opposition to any Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, deals blow to Obama peace talk efforts
AFP

US senators proposed a resolution on Thursday opposing any Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines, dealing a symbolic blow to President Barack Obama’s efforts to renew peace talks.

“It is contrary to United States policy and national security to have the borders of Israel return to the armistice lines that existed on June 4, 1967,” read the text introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent.

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Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 2

Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 2

Also see:

Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUEy2d7e3Y

Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 4 (conclusion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZjRnVG0baI

Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 1

Israel God’s Timepiece – Part 1

‘Absolutely sure’: 2nd Jewish Temple ‘waiting to be unearthed’

‘Absolutely sure’: 2nd Jewish Temple ‘waiting to be unearthed’ …
Archaeologist ‘absolutely sure’ structure beneath Jerusalem’s holy mount

WND

One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period – including the Second Temple itself – lie underneath the Temple Mount surface, just waiting to be excavated.

Dr. Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University accused the site’s Islamic custodians of destroying Jewish artifacts while attempting to turn the Temple Mount into a “giant mosque.”

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=307697

Is The Modern State Of Israel Prophetically Significant?

Is The Modern State Of Israel Prophetically Significant?
Dr. Randell Price

In a conversation on religious questions, Fredric II, King of Prussia (1740-1786) asked Joachim von Zieten, General of the Husars, whom he esteemed highly as a Christian for his plain and uncompromised views, “Give me proof for the truth of the Bible in two words!” To which Zeiten replied, “Your majesty, the Jews!” The General’s statement reflected his understanding of not only the miraculous preservation of the Jewish people, but his belief that their preservation was for the purpose of bringing God’s unfulfilled promises to pass. To Zeiten, the present existence of the Jewish people was proof that God’s Word was true because Scripture had promised that they would remain until all that had been prophesied concerning them was fulfilled. Remarkably, this expression of faith was made in a day when the Land of Israel was desolate of a Jewish population and the majority of Jews were scattered among the nations.

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http://www.pre-trib.org/articles/view/is-modern-state-of-israel-prophetically-significant

Priestly Blessings Were Recited on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – The First Time in History of Modern-Day Israel

Priestly Blessings Were Recited on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – The First Time in History of Modern-Day Israel

By Dr. Jimmy DeYoung
Prophecy Today

Rabbi Israel Ariel, the head of the Temple Institute and one of the paratroopers who helped liberate the Temple Mount back in 1967, joined with other members of the priestly family and offered the priestly blessing on the Temple Mount, a first in the history of the modern-day Jewish state of Israel. Security precautions were implemented for all those wishing to ascend to the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day, the 44th anniversary of the reunification of the city of Jerusalem.

Despite the close proximity of the Moslem police forces always present on the Temple Mount and their obvious anger, this event went off without a hitch, an event that could be very explosive.

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http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/06/priestly-blessings-were-recited-on.html

What really happened in 1948?

What really happened in 1948?

With country after country lining up to support the unilateral creation of a Palestinian Arab state in September, the Palestinian leadership is feeling increasingly confident in rewriting history.

In an op-ed piece published by the New York Times last week, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed that after the UN decided to partition “Palestine” into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, the “Zionists” launched an unprovoked military offensive forcing surrounding Arab states to intervene.

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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22802/Default.aspx

Going back to the Bible

Going back to the Bible
Op-ed: With many of our PR tactics failing, let’s use Bible to reinforce our right for this land
Avi Rath

While facing the nations of the world, the State of Israel’s public relations officials tried everything, ranging from the security argument, through the narrow borders and all the way to the strategic threat. Yet it’s not working and remains unconvincing. When we adopt this kind of PR, the world tries to come up with solutions to the security problem: Utilizing satellites, cameras, electronic fences, multinational forces, demilitarized zones and all sorts of other creative notions.

We tried PR strategies premised on various arguments. We made use of the Holocaust, the expulsion from Spain, the Crusades and anti-Semitism. We enlisted all the blood libels to the cause in an effort to prove our righteousness, yet it hasn’t worked either. In fact, we have seen the opposite effect. Suddenly we discover that not only Turkey boycotts us, but also Scotland, not to mention the British academic boycott and all sorts of other such moves.

After trying so many ineffective PR methods, perhaps we would do well to go back to the simple approach – the Bible.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4077344,00.html

Beneath Jerusalem, an Underground City Takes Shape

Beneath Jerusalem, an Underground City Takes Shape

JERUSALEM – Underneath the crowded alleys and holy sites of old Jerusalem, hundreds of people are snaking at any given moment through tunnels, vaulted medieval chambers and Roman sewers in a rapidly expanding subterranean city invisible from the streets above.

At street level, the walled Old City is an energetic and fractious enclave with a physical landscape that is predominantly Islamic and a population that is mainly Arab.

Underground Jerusalem is different: Here the noise recedes, the fierce Middle Eastern sun disappears, and light comes from fluorescent bulbs. There is a smell of earth and mildew, and the geography recalls a Jewish city that existed 2,000 years ago.

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/30/beneath-jerusalem-underground-city-takes-shape/

Unprecedented

Unprecedented

by David Brog

Last week, both President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu staked out their positions on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Their speeches have launched a thousand commentaries about Israel’s pre-1967 borders and the best way to achieve peace in the Middle East. But missed in this torrent of talk were three significant departures from prior positions.

In his May 19th speech, President Obama declared that “the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.” Not only did the President emphasize the ’67 lines, but he did so in the absence of any corresponding Palestinian concessions. Both in his original speech and in his clarification of that speech before AIPAC, President Obama failed to mention the key Palestinian concession – the rejection of the Palestinian “right of return” to Israel, i.e. the “right” of the millions of grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the original 1948 refugees to “return” to Israel and turn it into another Arab state.

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http://brogsblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/unprecedented/

CANADA TO WORLD: LAY OFF ISRAEL!

CANADA TO WORLD: LAY OFF ISRAEL!
by Ryan Jones (Israel Today News)

Canada further emerged as Israel’s new best friend on the international stage at last week’s G8 Summit in Deauville, France.

Playing off US President Barack Obama’s recent foreign policy speeches, the G8 leaders were keen to use their closing statment to demand that Israel retreat to its 1967 borders.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was having none of it.

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http://hftm.org/blog/?p=2012

Lieberman thanks Canada PM for objection to 1967 borders at G8

Lieberman thanks Canada PM for objection to 1967 borders at G8
The foreign minister tells Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper ‘Canada is a true friend of Israel,’ after Harper insisted that no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders’ final communiqué.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday to thank him for objecting to a specific mention of 1967 borders in a statement on the Middle East released by leaders of the Group of Eight.

Diplomats involved in Middle East discussions at the G8 summit on Friday said Canada had insisted that no mention of Israel’s pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders’ final communiqué, even though most of the other leaders wanted a mention.

“Canada is true friend of Israel,” Lieberman said, adding that they “understand that the 1967 lines are inconsistent with Israel’s security needs.”

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lieberman-thanks-canada-pm-for-objection-to-1967-borders-at-g8-1.364502

Why Israel mustn’t withdraw to its pre ’67 borders line

Outstanding Explanation: Why Israel mustn’t withdraw to its pre ’67 borders line – Please Share

Return to Pre-’67 Borders?

Return to Pre-’67 Borders?

By Joseph Farah

Barack Obama officially affirms the Arab demand that Israel return to pre-1967 borders – a measure almost anyone familiar with the geography of the Middle East understands would represent suicide for the Jewish state.

Putting aside common sense for a moment, let’s think about this from a historic sense.

Why is 1967 such an important year in history in the Middle East?

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http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/05/return-to-pre-67-borders.html

Netanyahu Shines in Speech to Congress

Netanyahu Shines in Speech to Congress

The most riveting moment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-applauded address to Congress on Tuesday was his declaration that “the hinge of history may soon turn, for the greatest danger of all could soon be upon us: a militant Islamic regime armed with nuclear weapons.” He was speaking of Iran, but then he broadened his scope, adding: “Militant Islam threatens the world. It threatens Islam.”

“It threatens Islam” — i.e., the real Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists. This unreality is disappointing to see, and will not bode well for Israel insofar as it continues to translate into policy. Nonetheless, even to acknowledge that the threat has any Islamic character at all is a huge advance over Obama, George W. Bush, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, et al.

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/25/netanyahu-shines-in-speech-to-congress/

NOTE: To see Text of PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress, go here:
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=222056

RELATED:

NETANYAHU BEFORE THE US CONGRESS!
http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1997

*Added Note: A big THUMBS DOWN goes to the worst criticism of Netanyahu’s memorable speech:
Netanyahu’s speech to Congress shows America will buy anything
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/netanyahu-s-speech-to-congress-shows-america-will-buy-anything-1.363897

Obama Is the Most Hostile Sitting U.S. President In the History of Israel

Obama Is the Most Hostile Sitting U.S. President In the History of Israel

By Anne Bayefsky

There is some logic in the fact that President Obama has fled the country while Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses Congress. With Obama’s comments this past week on Israel, the president now appears to many as the most hostile sitting president in the history of the Jewish state.

A key casualty of the assault Obama launched this past week on Israel and its Prime Minister, is the prospect of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When Palestinians move to declare statehood unilaterally in the fall with U.N. support, it will be President Obama himself who will have laid the groundwork.

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/05/24/obama-hostile-sitting-president-history-israel/

Obama ‘Clarifies’ 1967 Border Demands

Obama ‘Clarifies’ 1967 Border Demands

Posted by Rick Moran on May 23rd, 2011
frontpagemag.com

In a speech to the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC) on Sunday morning, President Obama tried to offer some clarification to his remarks on Thursday at the State Department where he stated that “The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.”

Stung by an outburst of condemnation and criticism for those remarks – and a stern lecture from Prime Minister Netanyahu after their White House meeting – the president attempted to quell the controversy by reiterating America’s strong support for the state of Israel, and placing his comments on creating a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders in the context of “mutually agreed swaps” of land that would alter those boundaries substantially.

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http://frontpagemag.com/2011/05/23/obama-clarifies-1967-border-demands/

OBAMA TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!

OBAMA TRIES TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT!
By David Horovitz

Analysis: But even the US President’s improved formulations will still leave many Israelis feeling uneasy. President Barack Obama sounded somewhat aggrieved.

He was, he told 10,000 attentive delegates at AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington on Sunday morning, a “real friend” of Israel, with the track record to prove it.

Precisely because he and his Administration “understand the challenges Israel faces,” he had made military cooperation a priority, ensured Israel received America’s most advanced technologies, and boosted financing for the Iron Dome missile defense system. Precisely because of his concern for Israel’s security, he had imposed the toughest ever sanctions to try to thwart Iran’s nuclear program, shown “unshakeable opposition” to attempts to chip away at Israel’s legitimacy, stood up for Israel against the Goldstone Report and made plain that the planned Palestinian unilateral UN route to statehood was unacceptable.

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http://new.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=221726

HT: http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1989

John Bolton on the Difference Between Israeli-Palestinian Border and the ’67 Border Lines

John Bolton on the Difference Between Israeli-Palestinian Border and the ’67 Border Lines

Also see:

Herman Cain: You Mess With Israel, You Mess With the U.S.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy7Zn-f2zg8

1967: A critical year for Obama’s presidency

1967: A critical year for Obama’s presidency
KONRAD YAKABUSKI AND PATRICK MARTIN
WASHINGTON AND JERUSALEM— From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
Published Friday, May. 20, 2011 9:59PM EDT

American presidents have, with rare exception, spoken of Israel with biblical reverence.

If anything, the language has only gotten more pro-Israel with each successive White House administration since Harry Truman made the United States the first country to recognize Israel’s independence in 1948.

Barack Obama has torn up the old script. If the policies of his administration toward Israel represent incremental change more than a break with the past, he talks about them in ways no previous president dared.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/konrad-yakabuski/1967-a-critical-year-for-obamas-presidency/article2030830/

President Obama’s Speech and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Fact-Based Analysis

President Obama’s Speech and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Fact-Based Analysis

In a major speech delivered at the State Department on May 19 President Obama outlined his administration’s policy in the Middle East and North Africa, making some clean breaks with what had been key elements of US policy in the region for decades.

Regarding the Arab Israeli conflict, it is important to note that the President did maintain some aspects of his predecessors’ policies, saying, for example:

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http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=300&x_article=2048

OBAMA SAID “1967 LINES” NOT “BORDERS”

OBAMA SAID “1967 LINES” NOT “BORDERS”!
by Gavriel Queenann (IsraelNationalNews)
(Clarified by CAMERA Media)

Media outlets who misquoted US President Barack Obama on Thursday as saying he expected a “full phased withwrawal” by Israel to “1967 borders” are making a subtle but serious mistake, CAMERA said.

Citing an AP story filed shortly after President Obama’s Middle East speech CAMERA said the article — only three paragraphs — packed the serious factual error a whopping four times (“Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders.”)

Three times the article incorrectly refers to the 1967 lines as borders, while President Obama himself did not use that inaccurate language.

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http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1972

Netahyahu: 1967 Lines Are Indefensible, Can’t Negotiate With a Government Backed by Hamas

Netahyahu: 1967 Lines Are Indefensible, Can’t Negotiate With a Government Backed by Hamas

Americans to Israel: Don’t listen to Obama

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Americans to Israel: Don’t listen to Obama
Millions behind ad guaranteeing Jewish nation, ‘We stand with you’

Leaders across America whose organizations represent literally millions of people have told the nation of Israel, much like the wizard told Dorothy in Oz, “don’t listen to that man behind the curtain,” or in the current case, don’t listen to the man in the White House.

The message came just hours after Barack Obama announced to the world Israel needs to return to its pre-1967 borders to appease Palestinians dedicated to the annihilation of the Jewish nation.

Obama made the statement in an address in advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned visit to the White House today. Netanyahu preceded the visit with a statement rejecting Obama’s call for a Palestinian state based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders, calling the lines “indefensible.”

More here:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=301285

Also see:

Israel You’re Not Alone Project
http://www.israelyourenotalone.com/index.cfm

Netanyahu Rejects Obama Statehood Demand After Oval Office Meeting

Netanyahu Rejects Obama Statehood Demand After Oval Office Meeting

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of President Obama and the media, explicitly rejected the president’s call for a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 borders.

Sitting beside Obama following a private Oval Office meeting, the visiting prime minister said Friday that he values the president’s efforts to advance the peace process and intends to work with him. But he said the president’s call for Israel to pull back to the borders that existed before the Six-Day War is not tenable.

“We can’t go back to those indefensible lines. … I discussed this with the president,” Netanyahu said.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/20/netanyahu-white-house-obamas-mideast-speech/

Obama Throws Israel Under the Bus

“Already – and rightly so – Israel’s response to President Obama’s position has been anything but positive and rightly so. As Netanyahu has stated, Israel agreeing to any such plan would leave it virtually indefensible in a region where it is bordered by numerous less-than-friendly neighbors. Not only is the plan supported by Israel-hating nations everywhere (and now the U.S. to our shame) perilous to Israel, those supportive of it have very short memories.

Clearly forgotten by leaders around the world and the Obama administration is what happened after Israel surrendered a mere portion of the lands gained in the Six Day War of 1967 when the Jewish state gave the ‘peace-seeking’ Palestinians the Gaza Strip in 2005.”

-Obama Throws Israel Under the Bus
By Michael G. Mickey
http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/05/obama-throws-israel-under-bus.html

OBAMA SIDES WITH ARAB WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL!

OBAMA SIDES WITH ARAB WORLD AGAINST ISRAEL!
by One Jerusalem News

In his State Department speech to the Arab world, President Obama threw Israel overboard as he demanded that Israel must make major concessions to achieve peace in the region. When you cut through his rhetoric, Obama believes that Israel must make major concessions that include Jerusalem and the right of return so there can be a peace.

Obama rejected the notion that the coming together of Fatah and Hamas is a deal breaker. He called it a legitimate question (How can Israel come to agreement with Hamas that does not recognize the State of Israel?) but he believes there is an answer to this question that will allow Israel to negotiate with Hamas. He gave lip service to the idea of a Jewish State and to Israel’s security but he emphatically stated that the the indefensible borders of the 1967 (with undefined adjustments) will be the borders of the State of Israel and the new Palestinian State….

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http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1966

FULL TEXT: Official Response From Netanyahu to Obama’s Israel, Palestine 1967 Border Remarks

FULL TEXT: Official Response From Netanyahu to Obama’s Israel, Palestine 1967 Border Remarks

Read the official response from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following remarks made by President Obama on Thursday calling for a return to 1967 border lines for conflicting Israel and Palestine.

” Israel appreciates President Obama’s commitment to peace. Israel believes that for peace to endure between Israelis and Palestinians, the viability of a Palestinian state cannot come at the expense of the viability of the one and only Jewish state. That is why Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a re-affirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress…”.

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http://foxnewsinsider.com/2011/05/19/full-text-official-response-from-netanyahu-to-obamas-israel-palestine-1967-border-remarks/

Israel PM slams Obama call for ‘Palestine’ based on ’67 lines

PM slams Obama call for ‘Palestine’ based on ’67 lines

By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND HERB KEINON

“Those borders are not defensible,” PM rages as he flies off to Washington; Palestinian state must not come “at Israel’s expense”; US President urges resumed talks, focused on territory, security.

A day before their scheduled meeting in Washington, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama staked out dramatically conflicting positions Thursday as to the path for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Netanyahu issued a quick, bitter response on Thursday night to Obama’s landmark Middle East speech, saying that the establishment of a Palestinian state could not come “at Israel’s expense.”

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http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=221397

Palestinian leader rewrites history of Israel

Palestinian leader rewrites history of Israel

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is determined to do more than simply not recognize Israel as the Jewish state, he is determined to rewrite recent history in the region.

In an op-ed piece published by the New York Times on Tuesday, Abbas claimed that after the UN decided to partition “Palestine” into Jewish and Arab states in 1947, the “Zionists” launched an unprovoked military offensive forcing surrounding Arab states to intervene.

Abbas was arguing that in September, the UN must right that alleged historic wrong by recognizing an independent Palestinian state.

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http://israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/22793/Default.aspx

Jerusalem: The Media Myth of Two Cities

Jerusalem: The Media Myth of Two Cities

HT: Honest Reporting

NETANYAHU – ISRAEL’S MEMORIAL DAY

NETANYAHU – ISRAEL’S MEMORIAL DAY

NETANYAHU: “REFRAIN…FROM WEEPING…THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED”
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNationalNews)

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Terrorism Victims, quotes the Bible to the effect that working to build Israel is the country’s solace for those killed.

He spoke at Jerusalem’s Ammunition Hill, where a battle raged on the second day of the Six Day War in 1967, which concluded with all of Jerusalem and the rest of Israel being united for the first time in 2,000 years.

More here:

http://hftm.org/blog/?p=1919

Israel celebrates 63rd Independence Day

Israel celebrates 63rd Independence Day

Nation’s anniversary festivities kick off with traditional lighting of 12 beacons on Jerusalem’s Mt. Herzl. ‘Israel is an island of progress and democracy. On this day we must unite and take pride in our achievements,’ PM Netanyahu says

Remembrance Day sorrow replaced with Independence Day joy: The State of Israel is kicking off its 63rd anniversary celebrations on Monday evening with the traditional torch lighting ceremony on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl.

The theme of this year’s ceremony is “strengthening the bond between the people of Israel”.

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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4066635,00.html