Despite Calls to End Peace, Israel Increases Water Flow to Jordan
Yori YanoverThursday, May 9th, 2013
Israel’s ambassador to Jordan, about to be kicked out, says things should calm down once the peace process is restarted.
Israel’s ambassador to Jordan, about to be kicked out, says things should calm down once the peace process is restarted.
Human Rights Watch founder Robert Bernstein said that today’s human rights advocates ignore the repression of basic freedoms across the Middle East and mistakenly call “free speech” and “advocacy’ what is really state-sponsored hate speech.
World War III may have been close and may have been prevented on the Temple Mount, where the Jerusalem Mufti was arrested and then released for throwing chairs at Jews on Jerusalem Unification Day.
Young men singing – Hodu laShem ki Tov- and gunshots. That was the tragic mix of sounds heard that Friday night ten years ago when two Islamic Jihad terrorists climbed up to the yishuv, cut the gate surrounding the yeshiva and entered through the kitchen door of בית ועד הר חברון, Hebron Hills Torah Academy, better known as Yeshivat Otniel.
The Chinese proposal gives nothing to Israel except a vague “right to exist” — which of course is in not question regarding any other nation. Indeed, it could have been dictated by Mahmoud Abbas.
In the face of seemingly irrational threats from North Korea, at least one American conclusion should be obvious and prompt: Nuclear strategy is a “game” that sane world leaders must play, whether they like it, or not. President Obama can choose to play this complex game purposefully or inattentively. But, one way or another, he will have to play.
Jordan’s annexation of the East Jerusalem was never recognized by the international community.
On the face of it, the connections between the sedrah and haftarah of Bamidbar are slender. The first has to do with demography. Bamidbar begins with a census of the people. The haftarah begins with Hosea’s vision of a time when “the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or numbered.” There was a time when the Israelites could be counted; the day will come when they will be countless. That is one contrast between the future and the past.
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