Newspaper - Israel and Christians Today April 2008

April 2008 Edition
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“Who has sent you?” By Koen Carlier Recently I received some addresses from the Jewish Agency of families living in a very remote place in the Ukraine. Together with two Ebenezer-volunteers, Veronica from West Ukraine and Hélouise from Toulouse, France, we went on our way to visit them. After a long search and questioning several people we finally managed to find a few families.	Remembering "Shema Yisrael" by Ben-Zion Nemett The son of a Holocaust survivor, is also the father of a Sbarro survivor. His message spans the generations. Friday night, after Sabbath evening services, my daughter and I were discussing the weekly Torah portion. What does the commentator Rashi say at the beginning of the portion, I asked?
"No strength to flee" By Pircha Wiesel I’m not afraid. I have no fear left. When I was young I managed to flee from the Nazis but now I’m old and sick and don’t have the strength to flee. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’m going to die. I hope it won’t be from a missile. Up to now my main concern has been my son. He lives in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip, and his family was saved by a miracle when a rocket landed near their home.	The Right to Return: Jewish Refugees Ignored By Michael Gryboski Few modern repatriation disputes evoke as much emotion in global politics as the Palestinian Right to Return. It began in 1948 with approximately 750,000 refugees who fled the Levant during the first Arab-Israeli War and it continues to be a situation to the present day, with as many as four million refugees and their descendents scattered mostly in other Middle Eastern nations and North America.
Israel’s Appropriate Response By Gary Bauer In August 2005, Israel spent billions of dollars forcibly relocating thousands of its own citizens from 21 settlements in a land they had inhabited for nearly 40 years. Families were uprooted. Homes were bulldozed. Tears were shed, both by Israeli citizens and the security forces sent to remove them. Such was the Israeli sacrifice, all done in the name of peace.	Radical Change From Radical Islam By Debbie Berman (IsraelNN.com) Dr. Wafa Sultan is leading a struggle to create a new reality in the Islamic world, which she believes should be led by none other than the women it has oppressed for so long. Born in Syria and now a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, Dr. Sultan has taken upon herself the mission of trying to change the way the Islamic world operates.
Reviving the Caliphate By Prof. Moshe Sharon In an interview with Karby Legget, published in the December 23-26, 2005 Wall Street Journal, Hassam al-Masalmeh, the leader of the Hamas group in the municipal council of Bethlehem, described a tax that would be imposed selectively in the Islamic state which is to be established on the ruins of Israel. He said:	Loving the Land of Israel By Sara Yoheved Rigler The spiritual power of God's special place. I have a confession to make: I'm in love with the Land of Israel. After nearly 18 years living here, through two intifadas, two Gulf Wars, the ups and downs (mostly downs) of Israel's turbulent economy, and a two-and-a-half-year wave of terror which fills me with dread and heartbreak, my ardor for Israel has not abated.
The Nightmare of a Divided Jerusalem By Shoula Horing Despite Prime Minister Olmert’s denials, Palestinian Authority leaders in recent weeks have told the world that they are already finalizing with the Israeli government a deal dividing Jerusalem. We could well wake up one day to discover that a similar disaster to what we inflicted upon ourselves in Gaza is repeated in Jerusalem.	Commemorating Israel’s Creation By Benjamin Netanyahu The UN resolution of November 29, 1947, recognizing a Jewish state was an important moment in the history of our nation, and an important moment in the history of all nations. Since then, we have made peace with Egypt and Jordan, but the obstacle to widening the circle of peace remains what it has always been:
The Cry of the Children of Israel By Lynn Finson United in Tears - What matters is that we cry and never stop caring. It has been three days since the grisly murders at Merkaz Harav. I clicked on to the news sites and saw the faces of the beautiful young boys gunned down. Oh those faces, sweet young smiling faces. How they speak to me.	Stupidity and Evil - Heroism and Holiness By Naomi Ragen Responding to the massacre of young boys studying Torah, someone wrote me that considering what horrors Israel had committed in Gaza "it's a shame he didn't kill every student in the school."
JERUSALEM AND THE PROMISED LAND By Rev. Willem J.J. Glashouwer “…But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in safety.	The Arab 'Right of Return' to Israel By Rachel Neuwirth Discrediting the libel of an Israeli "original sin" against the Palestinian Arabs. A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refugees"
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PRAYER FOR JERUSALEM AND HER PEOPLE How to Pray for the Jewish People Interceding for Isaac’s Seed GOD’S ETERNAL COVENANT WITH ISRAEL “And God heard their groaning and God remembered His covenant with Abraham,	Israel’s Rebirth By Dave Hunt Nothing conceivable by human imagination could exceed the miracle of Israel’s astonishing rebirth after centuries of desolation, the worldwide scattering of the Jews, and Hitler’s Holocaust.