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Our security system is flawed and doomed to fail as it did so recently on a flight arriving in Detroit. I once heard Binyamin Netanyahu explain to a radio host that El Al, the national Israeli airline, does not screen packages, bags or clothing–they screen people. And, as a result have had no catastrophic security failures in the airline’s history. Let’s take some lessons from the proven experts. Read more »

More than 5,000 Christian pilgrims from over 80 nations marched through the streets of Jerusalem on Tuesday to show their support for the nation of Israel. Joining tens of thousands of Israelis, the Christian pilgrims made their way from a park near parliament to the gates of the Old City chanting their support and praying for peace in the Holy Land. Read more »

A megachurch in Glendale, Ariz., unanimously voted Sunday to cut ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and will be joining the smaller Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. On its website, Community Church of Joy cited three documents to help make clear the reasons for the congregation’s actions. Read more »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message to the UN today in the wake of yesterday’s anti-Israel speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “To those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?…What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Read more »

Christians United for Israel held a conference in Washington D.C. this week which drew more than 4,000 people, most of them Evangelicals. The event was a show of support for Israel and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the crowd via live satellite. Read more »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that he believes there is an American commitment to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But while Netanyahu is an extremely capable PM, with President Obama’s recent “Apologies & Bows World Tour,” evidence is scant that the world’s lone superpower will do anything. Read more »

The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Abortionist George Tiller: A Tale of Two Georges; Global Warming as Repackaged Pagan Religion; Carrie Prejean in her own words; Where Does Single Payer Health Care Work?; Juvenile Sodom Reborn; 4-Star Calls Military Cuts ‘High Risk’; Death Knell for ‘Mainstream’ Media; $4 Trillion Health Care; Genetic Anti-Semitism; Hostile Takeover of Childhood Read more »

Syrian actress Amal ‘Arafa’s comments highlight the impasse in the Middle East peace process. How is Israel ever to have meaningful peace with people who are so full of hate and bent on Israel’s destruction that they believe their hatred is genetic? Read more »

President Obama’s national strategy seems to be to play the blame game of avoiding responsibility. Add a helping of hubris and appeasement of our enemies and the enemies of our allies, and you have a dangerous meal that could have been prepared anywhere America is hated. Read more »

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Barack Obama’s obvious comfort level with leaders of un-free countries shouldn’t surprise anyone. He is not only our first black president. He is also our first president who doesn’t like the free country he was elected to lead and feels his job is to change it.
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This testimony from Brigitte Gabriel given at the Heritage Foundation a couple of years ago should be required information for anyone confused or doubtful about the dangers of radical Islam, or the difference between Israel and the Islamic forces seeking the total annihilation of that country.
In the face of reality, there is no room whatsoever [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post 
By Ethan Cole
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Feb. 23 2009 11:18 AM EST
An Israeli TV show host has outraged Christians in the Holy Land and elsewhere with a satire mocking Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Late-night show host Lior Shlein aired two separate segments on Feb. 16 and 17 that depicts Mary [...] Read more »

As the Washington Times reports, Israel’s election is today and voters will elect a new prime minister. 
The contest for prime minister pits former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a conservative, against Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a moderate.
From the Washington Times:
Opinion polls for months have predicted a decisive victory by Netanyahu’s Likud Party, but new polls released [...] Read more »

From Fox News, some very interesting inaccuracies and double-standards from the textbooks our children are “learning” from in schools.
From World History: Continuity and Change: “Ten Commandments: Moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God Yahweh on Mount Sinai.” “Qur’an: Holy book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God.”
As Dennis Ybarra says
Moses claimed to [...] Read more »

Reprinted by permission of the Christian Post
By Aaron J. Leichman
Christian Post Reporter 
Thu, Feb. 05 2009 02:23 PM EST 
The Israeli Ministry of Tourism has launched a NIS 26 million (USD $6.4 million) advertising campaign that aims to present Israel as a safe destination for tourists following the nation’s deadly three-week offense against Hamas militants in Gaza.
According to [...] Read more »

A bill in the South Dakota legislature supporting Israel in their fight against terrorism has passed the state House today.
House Concurrent Resolution 1003 “Expressing solidarity with Israel in its defense against terrorism in the Gaza Strip” passed 66-4 with only Rep. Thompson, Rep. Vanderlinde, Rep. Iron Cloud III and Rep. Killer voting against.
A resolution does not carry the [...] Read more »

Israel National News reports a huge natural gas find in the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa.
Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) said that the find was of “historic proportions,” and that it could change the face of Israel’s economy.
Eighty-seven billion cubic meters, or nearly 3.1 trillion cubic feet, of high-quality gas are estimated to be in three [...] Read more »

Do we have a little Jew-hating going on over at Southdacola? 
By the post title “Jew the Plumber,” it appears l3wis doesn’t appreciate Joe the Plumber going to Israel to report on what’s going on over there. 
Joe Wurzelbach aka Joe the Plumber is apparently going to the Middle East to do what the “mainstream” media finds itself once [...] Read more »

By Eric Young
Christian Post Reporter
Mon, Jan. 05 2009 06:17 PM EST
A stream of European leaders converged in Israel Monday to push for a truce in the violence-plagued Gaza Strip while U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, from America, continued making phone calls to numerous foreign leaders in pursuit of a cease-fire agreement.
Despite their [...] Read more »