By Rachel Tabachnick, The Jewish Standard With his upcoming “Restoring Courage” event in Jerusalem, Glenn Beck, the former Fox News personality, is morphing from culture warrior and conspiracy theorist into super Zionist. That may not be a good thing, however, because Beck’s expression of Christian Zionism overlaps with the steps recommended by some Christian leaders to ingratiate themselves to Jews and gain access for proselytizing. Recommended by Barry Rubin Michael S. Doran and Salman Shaikh, The American Insterest The Arab revolutionary wave of 2011 was slow to arrive in Syria. Public disobedience did not show its face until mid-March, a full month after the fall of Hosni Mubarak. When demonstrations did finally emerge, they focused on the grievances of Daraa, a middling-sized town near Syria’s Yarmuk River border with Jordan. The citizens of Daraa were outraged over state security service atrocities so heinous as to be out of character even for Syria. In early March, a group of 15 boys, aged ten to 15, imitated crowds in Tunisia and Egypt by spraying anti-regime graffiti on the walls of public buildings. Agents of the secret police working for General Atef Najeeb, a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad, detained the boys and tortured them by pulling out their fingernails. Angry citizens of Daraa took to the streets in protest. The regime reacted to the demonstration with lethal force. The Arab Spring had... “It´s not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.” Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (The eminent Rabbi, writing in the 19th Century, might well have had the modern State of Israel in mind. Slightly larger than New Jersey we are in the forefront of virtually every human endeavor. ) You don’t usually associate a downward spiral with GN but unemployment is one of the truly notable exceptions and it gives us great pleasure to report that the number of people out of work has been decreasing since the beginning of the year when it registered 6.1% of the work force, falling to an all time low of 5.7% in May this year compared to 6.7% in the same month last year. One of those clever chaps who sit all day juggling statistics at Excellence Nessuah Investment House had this to say, amongst a lot of other nice things we... Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #155 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” 1. Time is running in Israel’s favor, as evidenced by the “global economic walk” and irrespective of the “global political talk.” 3. Israel-Turkey trade volume surged 140% since the Islamic party, AKP, assumed power in 2002:... Barak: We must apologize for flotilla errors Yitzhak Benhorin, YNET WASHINGTON – Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Friday, following meetings with US administration officials, that Israel must reach a compromise with Turkey – even if this meant the Jewish state would have to apologize for the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last year. “I’m not talking about an apology for the blockade or an apology for the flotilla, but about saying that if any errors were made during the operation – we regret them,” he explained. “I don’t like it,” the defense minister admitted in a press briefing, “but it’s not a bad thing to have reasonable relations with Turkey in a region which has instability in Egypt, downsizing in Saudi Arabia and a hostile Iran.” According to Barak, senior legal experts in the Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry believe Israel must reach an understanding with Turkey if it wishes to defend its soldiers. ... Top Turkish generals resign, plunging NATO’s second largest army into disarray YNET The reason for the generals’ resignations was not immediately clear, but tensions between the secularist military and the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have run high in recent years. However, CNN Turk also quoted the prime minister’s office as saying the generals were not resigning but going into retirement. State-run Anatolian news agency reported Kosaner as resigning “as he saw it as necessary.” The Supreme Military Council is due to hold a major meeting next week to discuss key appointments and President Abdullah Gul and Erdogan met Kosaner on Friday to discuss the matter. Friction between the government and military has been fuelled by an ongoing trial targeting dozens of senior military officers accused of plotting to overthrow the... Syrians in their thousands take to streets nationwide to demand an end to President Bashar Assad’s rule; protesters killed in Latakia, Hama, Homs, Daraa, Kiswa, Deir al-Zor, in and around the capital Damascus Syrian authorities have expelled most independent journalists since the uprising began, making it difficult to verify reports of clashes, and do not usually comment on reports of killings. Arrests continued across the country in the last two days, rights campaigners said, including hundreds of people in Damascus, where they said... Laura: Norway’s ambassador to Israel distinguishes between the terrorist attack in his country and “palestinian” terrorism against Israel. He justifies terrorism against Israel as being due to “occupation”. Occupation of its own country? What a cretin. This double standard is morally reprehensible. But then again Norway and most of Europe lacks any moral compass. Nothing will alter Norway’s vehemently anti-Israel attitude. So let’s take a page out of the liberal playbook and discuss the “root causes” of this massacre and what Norway has done to anger Anders Breivik. Perhaps the Norweigan ambassador should consider that the islamic invasion of Norway and the leftists enabling of it is what drove this madman to mass murder. Perhaps some introspection on the part of Norway and its liberal multicultural policies is in order and for them to understand what the far left Norwegian government has done to breed the likes of Breivik.
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Christian Zionists, including several directors of John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, are at the heart of a network of support for Messianic Jewish missions that have perfected methods for outreach to Jewish communities and make Jews for Jesus look like amateurs. (Messianics in this context refers to Jews who have converted to evangelical Christianity but retain some aspects of Jewish identity and observance.)
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In 1948, Israel had no significant export. In 2010, Bank of Israel documented a $6.7BN current account (mostly trade balance) surplus, featuring the US, Europe, India and Turkey as the chief trading partners. The NY-based “Trading Economics” reported a $1BN Israeli current account surplus in the 1st quarter of 2011. Israel is a global leader in medical, telecommunications, software and defense industries.
2. Israel is NOT isolated or boycotted: 3.45MN tourists visited Israel during 2010 – proportionally equal to 138MN tourists visiting the USA (60MN tourists visited the USA in 2010, an all time record).
The Turkish lira weakened sharply on the news to 1.6964 against the dollar from an interbank close of 1.6805 on Friday.
“The security forces are continuing violent repression against peaceful demonstrations demanding freedom and the downfall of the regime, firing live ammunition at most protests all over Syria Friday,” Sawasiah said in a statement sent to Reuters.
Sawasiah said it had the names of 20 people killed in the cities of Latakia, Hama, Homs, Daraa, Kiswa, Deir al-Zor and in and around the capital Damascus.
David Wilder
The Jewish Community of Hebron
July 29, 2011
This has been festering in me for the past week or so. I couldn’t decide whether to write it or not; I know it will bother some people. But I have to get it out – and probably post. Whoever is upset, well, that’s their problem.
Last week I attended, for the second time, CUFI, that is, Christians United for Israel, in Washington, DC. My friend Mike, from Amarillo, Texas, invited me to join him, and I took him up on the offer. As it was two years ago, so too this year. An amazing experience.
Somewhere in the vicinity of 5,500 people, including a group of Jews, mostly orthodox, as well as a contingent from Israel, congregated at the Washington Convention Center for three days. People from all over the world. That’s a lot of people. And a lot of money. The personal investment, paying for registration, hotels, food, for three days. Many of those attending are couples.
They come from all denominations of Christianity....
Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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