By Israel Today Staff.. Palestinian political and religious figures over the weekend warned US President Barack Obama that he should probably avoid ascending Jerusalem’s Temple Mount during his upcoming visit to Israel, but provided a list of instructions should he go ahead with a stop at the contentious holy site. (more…)
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire brokered by Egypt which will take effect at 19:00 GMT on Wednesday. It follows intensive bombardments by Israel of targets in the Gaza Strip and terrorist-led rocket attacks out of the enclave. (more…)
By World Jewish Congress.. US President Barack Obama, who was re-elected on Tuesday for a second four-year term, has won the support of 69 percent of Jewish voters, according to an exit poll, while 30 percent backed his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. The survey, posted on CNN’s website, was commensurate with projections by pre-election polls by Gallup and other pollsters that Obama would win two-thirds or more of the Jewish vote. (more…)
By Barry Rubin.. This is a long article but it deals with an amazing historical development:
1. The U.S. government is openly supporting an anti-American, radical, authoritarian, antisemitic, anti-Christian, and anti-women rights’ movements and regimes.
2. We are told that this policy is so superb that nobody can criticize it on its merits. Any criticism is in fact a partisan effort to defeat Obama at the polls. (more…)
By Melanie Philips….I don’t know what strategic purpose Obama had in mind for addressing the Middle East impasse when last Thursday he made the first of a series of speeches on the subject. Whatever this may have been, that speech produced one satisfactory result. The Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for once started to tell the west a few home truths about what it was doing. (more…)
By Anil Machado…Hatred can be explained in many ways, but I often come across some people who hate Jews. Whenever I go on explaining them about Judaism, Israel and Zion, it just ends in an unconvincing rational argument. (more…)
By Bill Salus…Presently, there is an unprecedented push for peace in the Mideast. President Obama, Quartet point man Tony Blair, Pope Benedict XVI, along with a significant host of other powerful Mideast and world leaders, clamor once and for all for a two-state solution. (more…)
By Barry Rubin…President Barack Obama has announced an additional $400 million in aid for housing, school construction and business development in Gaza and West Bank in his meeting with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. (more…)
By Barry Rubin
Of all the questions readers ask, there’s no question about which are the most frequent. First, is Israel about to attack Iran, or when will this happen? Second, do US President Barack Obama and his entourage hate Israel, and will there be a major confrontation or some kind of sellout? (more…)
