Newspaper - Israel and Christians Today OCTOBER

October 2008 Edition
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Why Stand With Israel Today? By Jack W. Hayford Israel is a land about which God says—uniquely, prophetically, redemptively, and repeatedly in the Bible—“This is Mine.” God refers to Israel as He does to no other land on Earth. Israel was raised up to be a light to the Gentiles.	The day after a deal - Terror Guy Bechor Let’s assume, just for the sake of making a point, that Syria will get the Golan Heights, which is sovereign Israeli territory in every way (Israeli law applies there just as much as it does in Herzliya; it is impossible to evacuate...
What matters is what God says… By Henk Kamsteeg With the official resignation of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on September 21, the leading Kadima party is now headed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who has been appointed by President Shimon Peres to try to put together a coalition to run the government.	RUSSGOD IS MOVING IN THE MIDDLE EAST To Two Nations Under God By Joel C. Rosenberg Is anyone out there still hesitant to describe Vladmir Putin as a dangerous, destabilizing Czar who is an enemy, not a friend, of the West? When my book Epicenter was first published in September 2006...
“Thou Shalt Not Steal” By Michael L. Brown Most religious Jews thought, and still think, that Jew and Gentile will not be united in one spiritual family in this age. Paul received a revelation: Since the Messianic age began when Jesus died, rose and ascended to heaven, the universal spiritual family also began...	War on Christians in the Middle East must be stopped By Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein An Islamic court in Shiraz, Iran has just convicted two men of being infidels. Their crime? Converting to Christianity. The possible sentence? Death. Not too far away in Saudi Arabia, an outraged father recently hacked his own daughter...
This is Apartheid? By Rabbi Warren Goldstein When the Arab world is ready to make peace, Israel will be there. Not so long ago the editor of the largest newspaper in South Africa, The Sunday Times, wrote an article saying that Israel applies apartheid to Palestinian Arabs.	The roots of Jerusalem By Rev. Willem J.J. Glashouwer The roots of Jerusalem! How are we to understand this? What are these roots, especially the spiritual roots of this place? It all happens at Salem, at Jerusalem. There Abraham meets the god-fearing Melchizedek. There Abraham gives him the tithe.
The Profound Historical Roots of Protestant Anti-Semitism An Interview with Prof. Hans Jansen The verbal attacks and boycott calls by a variety of Western Protestant, mainly liberal, denominations, as well as the World Council of Churches, have raised new interest in the origins of Christian anti-Semitism and in particular its Protestant version.	The Divine Name – Allah By Mark Durie Although many Arabic Christians today refer to YHWH as Allah, there is no evidence that the Arabic name Allah (or any dialect variant of it) was used by Arab Christians or Jews in Arabia as the personal name of God before the time of Muhammad.
The Mystery of Isaiah 53 By Dr. Michael Rydelnik An Old Testament passage thousands of years old still sparks debate between Jews and Christians today. To whom does this mysterious passage refer?	Is Israel a Jewish State? By Jacob Jacoby Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced about a year ago some that he expects the Palestinian Authority to finally acknowledge Israel's existence as a Jewish state.
Are Israeli Settlements Legal? By Israel Foreign Ministry Israel’s use of land for settlements conforms to all rules and norms of international law. Israeli settlements in the West Bank are legal both under international law and the agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.	'EU should absorb Palestinian refugees' By Etgar Lefkovits Meretz MK Yossi Beilin recently called on European countries to declare how many Palestinian refugees and their descendants they would be willing to absorb as part of any future peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Anti-Semitism without anti-Semites By Henryk Broder The Domestic Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag recently held public hearings on anti-Semitism in Germany. Many of the speakers chose to focus on the “classical” anti-Semitism to be found in what in Germany are euphemistically called “right-wing extremist” milieus, i.e.,	Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped' By Sarah Palin Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled recently to speak at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance at the U.N. in New York of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers...
Georgian Jews making Aliyah By Koen Carlier A short while ago the world was shocked by the news of an open war between Georgia and Russia. It was nothing less than a human catastrophe for the former Soviet republic where the majority of citizens already live in poverty.