By David Wilder…It’s been a while since I photographed dead bodies. The last time I remember clearly was the murder of Yossi Shok from Beit Haggai who was shot and killed similarly on a Friday afternoon a few years ago. Read more »
By Tass Saada.. “I joined the Fatah movement, basically, because (Yassar) Arafat was my hero,” Saada took part in bloody battles against the Israeli army. His most prestigious job was as a personal driver for his hero: Arafat Read more »
By A. vd Laan-Leito…In which god do we believe? Biblical scripture speaks of many gods. Do we actually really know the one we believe in? Important questions, for as John 17:3 (New King James Version) states: And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Yeshua Messiah whom You have sent. Read more »
The Curse of Plenty By Rabbi Benjamin Blech…Jews used to joke in a semi-serious sigh, if only Moses would’ve had a better sense of direction and turned right instead of left, we could have been heirs to all those precious oilfields in the Middle East. Instead we got Israel, and the most even God could say about it is that it’s a land flowing with milk and honey. Read more »
My dreams for pilgrimage to Israel started in 1995 when I listened to a testimony from a Baptist pastor in Cameroon. He had visited Israel bringing along with him a piece of rock from Gethsemane and some water from the place where Jesus was baptised by John the Baptist in the Jordan River, as a symbol of faith. Read more »
By Jenny Hazan Danielle Schonbrunn, 68, wasn’t born yet when her parents Yosef and Sarah felt the pangs of Jewish persecution and fled their native Czechoslovakia for Belgium, with Danielle’s 10-year-old sister, Juliette. Read more »
Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier. But thanks to an Israeli roommate overseas, the 21-year-old Palestinian student learned about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews during World War II and discovered a new understanding of his Israeli neighbors. Read more »
By A. vd Laan-Leito.. Matthew 5:6: “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.” Yeshua Messiah said these words to the crowds while standing on a hill in Galilee. One may ask. Will the meek inherit the whole earth or just the land of Israel, Jerusalem? What is the point of this inheritance if we can all go to heaven? Or, heaven can wait!? And what is the inheritance of those who aren’t so meek? Read more »
By Jeroen Bol…I want to bring the attention of readers of this website to Kendall Soulen’s book ‘The God of Israel and Christian Theology”, first published in 1992. This 195 pages book is extremely relevant in our endeavour to deliver Christian theology from its supersessionist legacy. Read more »
The UK based organization Just Journalism reports on its website (www.justjournalism.com) that on 16 August 2010 BBC Panorama broadcast ‘Death in the Med’, a carefully detailed investigation into Israel’s raid of the Mavi Marmara, the only ship of the Free Gaza flotilla that became the site of a deadly confrontation between passengers and naval commandos. Read more »
