Stakelbeck on Terror: Defending Israel’s Biblical Heartland

Stakelbeck on Terror: Defending Israel’s Biblical Heartland

On this week’s edition of the Stakelbeck on Terror show, CBN News sits down with two leading advocates for Israel’s biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank.

David Ha’ivri, director of the Shomron Liaison Office, is an Orthodox Jew. Tommy Waller, founder and executive director of the humanitarian organization HaYovel, is an evangelical Christian.

Together they are drawing attention to the biblical significance of Judea and Samaria — where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob once walked — and why this area must always remain a vital part of the state of Israel.

Read and watch here:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2012/January/Stakelbeck-on-Terror-Defending-Israels-Biblical-Heartland/

The Anti-Israel President

Obama – The Anti-Israel President

Related:

Obama: The Anti-Israel President – on The Jamie Glazov Show
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/13/obama-the-anti-israel-president-–-on-the-jamie-glazov-show-1-1-1/

The 2011 Dishonest Reporting Award: The Guardian

The 2011 Dishonest Reporting Award: The Guardian

The biggest shock isn’t who won the award but the fact that The Guardian has never taken the accolade before. A steady stream of biased and sometimes downright viciously anti-Israel articles and opinion pieces culminated in Deborah Orr’s anti-Semitic take on the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap.

But Deborah Orr was not the only reason that The Guardian stood head and shoulders above other media outlets vying for this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award. From PaliLeaks, op-ed space for terrorists, its response to Judge Richard Goldstone’s mea culpa, and more – we had to write a separate Top 10 Reasons The Guardian Won.

Click on the article below to see why The Guardian won…

2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards
http://honestreporting.com/2011-dishonest-reporting-awards/

NETANYAHU TO START BIBLE STUDY IN HIS HOME

NETANYAHU TO START BIBLE STUDY IN HIS HOME: Pray that all Israelis follow his lead and begin reading the Word, like in the days of King Josiah

I read a fascinating story in the Jerusalem Post this morning and it gave me fresh hope for the nation of Israel. ”Taking a page out of David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin’s playbook, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will begin hosting a regular Bible study group in his official residence for researchers, public officials and invited guests, “reports the Post. “Netanyahu announced the establishment of the study circle on Friday at a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of his father-in-law, Shmuel Ben-Artzi. The study group will be named after Ben-Artzi, a noted poet and Bible teacher. Both Ben-Gurion and Begin, when they each served as prime minister, hosted regular Bible study groups. Netanyahu said he was establishing the class to perpetuate love of the Bible.” Interestingly, in recent years Netanyahu — who has never described himself as a religious person — appears to have been developing a deeper interest in Bible study.

More here:

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/netanyahu-to-start-bible-study-in-his-home-pray-that-all-israelis-follow-his-lead-and-begin-reading-the-word-like-in-the-days-of-king-josiah/

Judea & Samaria or the West Bank?

Israel – dividing the Church, or defining it?

Israel – dividing the Church, or defining it?
Posted on Wednesday 30 November 2011

Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:6-8)

The question could hardly have graver consequences and so is not easily asked. But it is hanging right out there and, with increasing stridency, demanding a response.

Is the issue of Israel (the people and the land) – whether we stand with or against it – ultimately creating irreversible division in the world wide Christian community?

More here:

http://www.stangoodenough.com/?p=562

Debating Israel and The Church

Debating Israel and The Church
Israel – Middle East
Friday, November 25, 2011
Alf Cengia

Last week I watched the Revelation debate between Dr. Calvin Smith and Stephen Sizer on the internet, which was originally presented on live television on the 9th November 2011. The subject was “Has the Church Replaced Israel?”

Now I have mixed feelings about these events. A skillful debater can be dead wrong and yet come across as very convincing. If his opponent cannot counter an argument – even when it is fallacious – then the skillful debater can sway a crowd’s support to his own cause.

Read more here:

http://www.omegaletter.com/articles/articles.asp?ArticleID=7169

Obama Administration’s Threefold Slap in Israel’s Face

Obama Administration’s Threefold Slap in Israel’s Face

Worried about losing some of the Jewish vote for 2012, President Obama has been sweet-talking American Jews lately and making some staunchly pro-Israel statements. In September he told the UN General Assembly:

Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, look[s] out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map. The Jewish people carry the burden of centuries of exile and persecution, and fresh memories of knowing that six million people were killed simply because of who they are. Those are facts. They cannot be denied.

Strong stuff—the kind of stuff really pro-Israel people really say, and think.

But no one should be fooled. In recent days, statements by two very senior officials and one lesser official have shown that this administration remains relentlessly anti-Israel in some of its basic attitudes.

Read more here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/12/05/obama-administrations-three-pronged-attack-on-israel/

Obama – The Anti-Israel President

Obama – The Anti-Israel President

Targeting Evangelicals for ‘Palestine’

Targeting Evangelicals for ‘Palestine’

Certain that U.S. support for Israel depends on pro-Israel American evangelicals, the Religious and Evangelical Left are targeting evangelicals with their latest arguments for discrediting Israel.

This week, “Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding” (EMEU) convened at a San Francisco Presbyterian church to hash out their latest anti-Israel strategies. Ostensibly the problem as they identify it is that too many U.S. evangelicals are wedded to Old Testament promises of a perpetual Promised Land for the Jews. Anti-Israel activists like to showcase besieged Middle East Christians as arguments against a Jewish Israel, as though Judaism rather than radical Islam were their chief threat. They also like to portray Christian Zionists as motivated by apocalyptic end-times scenarios.

Read more HERE at Front Page Magazine.

First Strike

First Strike

By Jim Fletcher
Prophecy Matters

“Jerusalem will never return to the state it was in on the eve of the (1967) Six-Day War, that I promise you.”

Those words this week from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let the world know that the Jewish state will not be intimidated by Iran, or anyone else.

The Israelis even test-fired their own missile this week, one capable of reaching Iran. And now the Americans are engaged, checking on the possibility that Israel will consider a first-strike on the Iranians.

Whatever they do, it will be creative. And Iran will go the way of other threats from the past. This of course speaks to one of my favorite subjects, the absolute authority of Scripture.

More here:

http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/11/first-strike.html

The great Palestinian lie

The Peace Plan, Israel, Rick Warren and the Lie

There is a group linked to Rick Warren’s PEACE plan that has a leftist, false view of reality in Israel and insists that genocide is going on in “Palestine.” Jim Fletcher of Prophecy Matters says that this is diabolical and explains further, with the promise of much more to come, here:

The Peace Plan Is a Lie

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.”

More here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/10/the-miracle-that-is-israel/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9ecc849b5c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN

Those Surrounding Israel to Be Devoured!

Those Surrounding Israel to Be Devoured!

By Bill Salus
ProphecyDepot.com

The prophet Zechariah informs us in chapter 12 that those peoples surrounding Israel, will someday be devoured by Israel. The key to understanding portions of his prophecy rests in recognizing the direct correlation between Zechariah 12:2 and Zechariah 12:6.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. (Zec. 12:2, nkjv; emphasis added)

Someday Jerusalem becomes a cup of “raal” in the Hebrew, which is commonly translated as reeling, trembling, or drunkenness. This occurs when the surrounding peoples lay siege against both Judah and Jerusalem. This cup of “raal” should not be confused with the “heavy stone” classification of Jerusalem in the following passage.

More here:

http://www.bibleprophecyblog.com/2011/06/those-surrounding-israel-to-be-devoured.html

ISRAEL, PROPHECY AND THE “DAY OF THE LORD”: Understanding the Book of Joel

ISRAEL, PROPHECY AND THE “DAY OF THE LORD”: Understanding the Book of Joel — Part One

This week marks the 44th anniversary of the Six Day War, the historic reunification of Jerusalem under Jewish control, and the dramatic retaking of the Biblical heartland known as Judea and Samaria by the prophetically reborn Jewish State. It is a week of celebration for Israeli Jews, but a week of mourning and violent protests for Israel’s Arab neighbors. As I write this, Iranian leaders says the End of Days has come and the Twelfth Imam will emerge from occultation very soon. They are calling for the annihilation of Israel, sending an Iranian submarine to the Red Sea, and a new report says Iran could build nuclear weapons in just two months. Meanwhile, violence is spiking on the Syrian-Israeli border and the Egyptians have just legalized the Muslim Brotherhood as a political party.

More here:

http://flashtrafficblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/what-is-the-day-of-the-lord-and-why-does-it-matter-understanding-the-book-of-joel-part-one/

UPDATE:

A WAKE UP CALL FOR ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH: Understanding the Book of Joel — Part Two

A TRUMPET CALL FOR ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH: Understanding the Book of Joel — Part Three

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.

More here:

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-4080333,00.html

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

Klavan’s One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews

Must watch:

Klavan’s One-State Solution: Give the Middle East to the Jews
http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=mpg&load=5527&mpid=80

Horowitz on Obama, the Middle East and the future of the Jewish State

Conversation with David Horowitz
Jun 7th, 2011

FrontPage Magazine’s editor-in-chief sits down with Larry Levin of St. Louis Jewish Light to discuss President Obama, the Middle East and the future of the Jewish State.

Watch here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/07/conversation-with-david-horowitz/

WHY SUPPORT ISRAEL?

“WHY SUPPORT ISRAEL?”
by David Hocking

Genesis 12:1-3; Psalm 72:18-19

1. Because God has promised to bless all those who do – Genesis 12:3; Psalm 122:6

2. Because God has chosen Israel to declare to the world His love and His faithfulness – Deuteronomy 7:6-9; Psalm 135:4; Jeremiah 31:1-3

(1.) It involves His COVENANT!
Genesis 17:7-8; Isaiah 41:8-9, 17

(2.) It involves His COMPASSION!
Lamentations 3:22-23; Micah 7:18-20

3. Because God has told us not to harm them –
Psalm 105:8-15

4. Because God will destroy all nations who come against them – Zechariah 12:2-3, 9

5. Because God has promised their return, restoration, and an everlasting relationship with them – Jeremiah 32:37-42

6. Because God has brought salvation to the whole world through Israel – Psalm 98:1-3; Isaiah 52:7-10; Romans 11:25-27

Through a promised Descendant –
Genesis 12:3; Isaiah 62:11-12; Zechariah 9:9; Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:30-35, 68-69; 2:11

SOURCE:

http://hftm.org/blog/?p=2038

‘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.”

More here:

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.

More here:

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

ISRAEL – Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of YAHUSHUAH

Watch this hauntingly beautiful slideshow with music:

ISRAEL – Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of YAHUSHUAH
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bg83_israel-blessed-is-he-that-cometh-in_music

Canada: Israel’s Greatest Friend in the World

Canada: Israel’s Greatest Friend in the World

The sharp-witted Jewish leader-turned-columnist Isi Leibler wrote a piece in November 2010 praising Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s emerging pro-Israel leadership. But Leibler’s article contained two statements that should have served as a wake-up call to President Obama. They didn’t, and tensions continue to rise between the American president and the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu.

The first statement was delivered early in the article: “Prime Minister Stephen Harper has unquestionably emerged as Israel’s greatest friend in the world, effectively assuming the role previously occupied by former Australian prime minister John Howard.”

More here:

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/03/canada-israel%E2%80%99s-greatest-friend-in-the-world/

Vatican calls for independent Palestinian state ‘soon’

Vatican calls for independent Palestinian state ‘soon’
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Pope Benedict XVI meets PA President Abbas at Vatican, says its urgent that Palestinian state, Israel “live in security, at peace with neighbors.”

The Vatican on Friday called urgently for a just and lasting peace between peace between Israel and the Palestinians, which it said can be brought about through and independent Palestinian state.

“Soon, the State of Israel and the Palestinian state must live in security, at peace with their neighbors and within internationally recognized borders,” the Vatican said in a statement issued following a meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.

More here:

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=223517

Yom Yerushalim / Jerusalem Day

Yom Yerushalim / Jerusalem Day
JUNE 2ND, 2011

May God Bless Jerusalem and all of her lost souls, Jew & Arab alike, and may many come to a saving faith in The Messiah Yeshua. May He open the eyes of the Jews, the Moslems, and of the nominal Christians in the apostate, liberal, and idolatrous churches within her walls. May He richly Bless the saved believers of Jerusalem – Jew, Arab, and otherwise.

More here:

http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/israel/yom-yerushalim-jerusalem-day

RELATED:

Netanyahu on Jerusalem Day: This city is ours!
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22811/language/en-US/Default.aspx

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.

More here:

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.

More here:

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.

More here:

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

Prophecy: Palestinians to be Forced to Israel’s Borders!

Prophecy: Palestinians to be Forced to Israel’s Borders!

By Bill Salus
ProphecyDepot.com

All the men in your confederacy Shall force you to the border; The men at peace with you Shall deceive you and prevail against you. Those who eat your bread shall lay a trap for you. No one is aware of it. (Obadiah 1:7, NKJV; emphasis added)

The prophet Obadiah had a prophetic vision regarding the Edomites. Today, the Edomites have ethnical representation inside the Palestinians. Obadiah 1:7 declares that the Edomites enlist in a future confederacy that ultimately forces them to a border. Obadiah 1:10, 18 makes it clear that the confederacy forms to fight Israel. Thus, we can deduce that the border in question must be Israel’s.

More here:

http://prophecynewsstand.blogspot.com/2011/05/prophecy-palestinians-to-be-forced-to.html

Op-Ed: Heed the lonely voice of reason of Canada’s prime minister

Op-Ed: Heed the lonely voice of reason of Canada’s prime minister

June 1, 2011

(JTA) — Pundits already are busy deciphering the performance of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his new foreign policy team at the just completed Group of Eight Summit in France. The G-8 meeting was convened amid pivotal crises ranging from global debt to human rights to nuclear energy safety, and how to nurture the complex Arab Spring impacting on 400 million people in the Middle East.

Canada is no injury-time substitute in this game. It has paid in blood and treasure in Afghanistan, is involved in the NATO campaign in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi and is a respected international aid donor.

More here:

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/06/01/3087967/op-ed-heed-the-lonely-voice-of-reason-of-canadas-prime-minister

Netanyahu Urges U.S. Return to 1845 Borders

Enjoy…

Netanyahu Urges U.S. Return to 1845 Borders

Israeli PM calls for “just solution” to end the conflict.

Aboard Air Force Aleph (Reuters) – Speaking to reporters accompanying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his long flight to the United States tonight, Netanyahu spoke of the injustice and hardship Mexicans have endured since American forces annexed Texas in 1845. “Tens of thousands of ordinary Mexicans were driven out of their homes – the only homes they had known for centuries – and forced to live in poverty and squalor south of the border imposed by American aggression,” Netanyahu said. “The Israeli and Mexican people agree on this: This festering wound will never heal until America takes bold steps to return to the internationally accepted lines of 1845. Clearly the settlement activity that’s taken place occupied Mexico since then is illegal. When I meet the President tomorrow I will tell him to halt all building activity in Texas immediately. Two lands for two peoples, yes, but not on land taken by force from Mexico,” the Prime Minister said.

Asked if his hard-line stance could hurt the U.S.-Israel relationship, Netanyahu reiterated Israel’s commitment to America’s security and the unshakeable friendship shared by the two countries, then added, “But who was it who said, part of friendship is being able to tell your friend the truth. The ball is now in Obama’s court.”

This e-mail satire is circulating the internet, and can be found at the following links:

http://www.aish.com/j/j/122650734.html
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2011/05/netanyahu-urges-us-return-to-1845.html
http://cifwatch.com/2011/05/21/netanyahu-urges-u-s-return-to-1845-borders/

Israel’s largest underground water source discovered near Jerusalem convention center

Israel’s largest underground water source discovered near Jerusalem convention center
Excavation work by Israel Railways while working on high speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line reveals cave with largest underground water sources ever discovered in Israel.
By Zafrir Rinat

A cave discovered during excavation work by Israel Railways in Jerusalem contains the largest and most impressive underground water sources ever discovered in Israel, scholars say.

The cave was discovered near the International Convention Center in the capital during construction work on a station for the future high speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line. Builders came across it while digging a service shaft at a depth of 75 meters – five meters from the planned bottom of the shaft.

Over the past few days, scholars from the Cave Research Unit of the Hebrew University’s Department of Geography, who were called to the scene by engineering companies working with Israel Railways, have been crawling through the underground nooks and crannies. “It’s hard work, crawling through mud into a cave the end of which we haven’t reached yet,” Prof. Amos Frumkin, head of the unit, said. Frumkin said the cave is between a half a meter to a few meters wide, and is a few dozen meters high.

More here:

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-largest-underground-water-source-discovered-near-jerusalem-convention-center-1.365216