Newspaper - Israel and Christians Today August

August 2008 Edition
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A Father's Reality of War by H. BenAvram I grew up a bit behind Israel; she was born in 1948 and I came along four years later. I was raised in a common American Jewish family in a Jewishy suburb. We weren't religious; we didn't attend synagogue regularly and we observed only the highest holidays. Israel was a place...	A message of hope for Israel and the Church "For Zion's sake I will never be silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a blazing torch." (Isaiah 62:1) "For I would not, brethren, that you would be ignorant of this mystery...
A New Paradigm for Israel Advocacy Israel's image around the world will not improve until we change the way we present Israel to the world. By Larry Weinberg After decades of using the same strategies and tactics, the same words and ploys and the same litany of "look-what-they did to us/look-what-they're-doing-to-us-now"...	BLESSING FOR THE NATIONS By Rev. Willem J.J. Glashouwer The presence of the Jews among the nations of the world over the last 2000 years has been a blessing for these nations. Before Gentiles came to Christ, they were even without God, Paul says in Ephesians 2:11-12: “…Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised"...
Europe or Eurabia? By Daniel Pipes THE future of Europe is in play. Will it turn into "Eurabia", a part of the Muslim world? Will it remain the distinct cultural unit it has been for the past millennium? Or might there be some creative synthesis of the two?	Hamas' Christian convert: I've left a society that sanctifies terror By Avi Issacharoff A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met.
Heroes on the Border By Rabbi Shraga Simmons How do we respond when a Hezbollah killer goes free? Emotions peaked recently as Hezbollah handed over the bodies of the two Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping touched off the 2006 Lebanon War, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser, in exchange for Israel's release of Samir Kuntar, the unrepentant terrorist and child murderer.	“I will never understand” By Noah Klieger For many years now, every time I arrive at Auschwitz, I get the same feeling. It appears to me that it wasn’t me who was here during this incredibly dark period, but rather, someone else whose story I heard at some point in life. Even when I write a personal story from my past I have a feeling that I’m not talking about myself.
‘Isa, the Muslim Jesus By Dr Mark Durie "The word Christian is not a valid word, for there is no religion of Christianity according to Islam". www.answering-christianity.com Today we increasingly hear and read that Christianity and Islam ‘share’ Jesus, that he belongs to both religions.	It's embarrassing to be an Israeli By Arieh Eldad Once, many years ago, we were proud to say we were Israelis. Israel's accomplishments in agriculture, settlement and science were internationally acclaimed, and the Israeli army was our pride. We all recall the world's applause after the Entebbe operation...
Liberation of the Wall By Aish.com Staff When the Western Wall was liberated in 1967, Jews from all over the World felt an electrifying excitement, as once again the Wall was in our hands. The following two stories of Israeli soldiers, who participated in the liberation, exemplify how the Wall has touched the hearts of Jews throughout the ages.	Unstuck: The Aliyah Chronicles by Tara Eliwatt Move to Israel? Are you nuts? I didn't always have it in my life plan to move to Israel. Neither did my husband. In fact, growing up as secular Jews, neither of us grew up with Israel in the forefront of our minds (or even in the back, for that matter).
New Zealand may elect Jewish PM By Jackie Len It has fewer than 10,000 Jews, less than 0.2 percent of its four million inhabitants. But New Zealand is set to elect its third Jewish prime minister. Opposition National Party leader John Key, whose mother is an Austrian Jew, is far ahead of the Labor incumbent, Helen Clark, in the polls.	Out of the Mouth of Roni By Sara Yoheved Rigler How an 8-year-old is holding down the borders of Israel. Two boys race into the elevator of Jerusalem's Renaissance Hotel an hour before Shabbat. Thin and dark-complexioned, speaking Hebrew, wearing shorts and T-shirts, and holding plastic bowls filled with unshelled sunflower seeds...
Palestinian Hate-Education Continues By Peggy Shapiro American Thinker. Palestinian education and propaganda are more dangerous to Israel than Palestinian weapons - Ariel Sharon, November 18, 2004. Acknowledging that without a population educated to accept peace, no other negotiations or concessions were meaningful, the U.S. President set forth,	Prisoner Exchange in Jewish Law by Rabbi Eliezer Melamed The State of Israel is faced with a difficult dilemma: To release terrorist prisoners in exchange for captive soldiers, or not. What does Jewish Law have to say? The Sages of the Mishna teach: "Captives should not be ransomed for more than their value, for the sake of the general welfare."
Sharansky: ‘Big Concern’ About Obama; Warns Iran of ‘Inevitable’ Attack By Christopher Ruddy Newsmax Editor Christopher Ruddy has been visiting Israel this week and met with Natan Sharansky. The former Soviet dissident spent more than a decade in the communist Gulag.	Telling the Truce? Is the media really covering the "ceasefire"? Since a "ceasefire" has come into effect between Israel and Hamas, media coverage of the conflict has also declined. In the past, the media has failed to properly report on Palestinian terror and provocations against Israel...
Turning Plowshares into Swords By Naomi Ragen To live in Jerusalem is to face the fact that here, in the holiest city in the world, there are vast numbers of inhabitants who are the kind of human beings willing, able, and committed to performing acts of sickening bloodshed, breaking every rule that human beings have created for themselves or learned or been taught.	What's More Important: Blue Jeans or Being Blown Up?  By Barry Rubin It's hard to satirize a lot of media coverage about Israel and the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. The truly dreadful stuff is in the details, the small stories and big assumptions on which they are based, rather than in any "scoops" or blockbuster articles.
Will Israel Attack Iran? By Dennis Prager It is difficult to imagine Israel attacking Iran. It is, however, more difficult to imagine Israel not attacking Iran. Consider three questions: First, does Iran mean what it says about destroying Israel?	GEORGIAN JEWS MAKING ALIYAH. A short while ago the world was shocked by the news of an open war between Georgia and Russia, resulting in thousands of victims and tens of thousands of people fleeing the country. It was nothing less than a human catastrophe for the former Soviet republic where the majority of citizens already live in poverty. By Koen Carlier.