Whenever I hear of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas I’m always skeptical. Here’s the main reason:
A long-sought truce between Israel and Gaza militants went into effect early Thursday, with the aim of halting militant attacks and a bruising Israeli blockade that have made life unbearable for people living on both sides of the border.
A [...]

While speaking to the Israeli Knesset yesterday President Bush made this remark:
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along.
“We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American [...]

It is no secret that there have been countless documents, tapes etc. recovered since Saddam Hussein was deposed, some of which are now being released for public consumption.
Judge for yourself after reading this article if the world is not a better place without this tyrant in a position of power:
The Americans captured more than 600,000 [...]

The above photos show what is believed to be a Syrian nuclear weapons facility before Israel took it out (left side) and now (right side)
New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to [...]

I don’t speak diplomatese, but the following is a statement from the Syrian representative to the UN’s annual conference on disarmament.
He appears to have verified Israel did hit a nuclear facility in Syria, although my muddled brain doesn’t see that. He does appear to the Sept. 6 attack on Syria, but called it July [...]

Some of the GOP presidential candidates visited with the Republican Jewish Coalition. The following are just a few of the quotes pulled from that forum:
First, former Mayor Giuliani:
“We would like to have peace,” Giuliani said. “We don’t want to have a peace in which Americans and Israelis are getting killed. And we certainly don’t [...]

When you are a tiny country surrounded by enemies that would destroy you, what do you do when you find out one of your closest neighbors is building a nuclear weapon?
Do you wait for them to use it on you or do you go after it before it’s completed in order to save [...]

Yesterday I spoke of disturbing news to me that Israel was considering giving up half of Jerusalem to the Palestinians to use as their capitol.
It seems the Israeli people are not that happy with this bone-headed idea either.
Israeli opposition leaders are stepping up their criticism in the face of the first real negotiations with the [...]

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.Isaiah 17:1 KJV
We’re beginning to hear a little more about what happened in Syria on Sept. 6, 2007.
We are reading today that Israeli forces, probably dressed in Syrian uniforms, infiltrated what is a nuclear facility in [...]

I was distressed to read that Israeli Vice Premier Haim Ramon wants to cede part of control of Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority.
“The government does not have a majority (to support) Haim Ramon’s opinions on anything to do with Jerusalem,” Pensioners Party Chairman Rafi Eitan said Tuesday following the exposure of the vice premier’s letter [...]

The citizens of Israel are among some of the bravest in the world. They live daily with the threat of suicide bombers, rocket attacks and are surrounded by countries hostile to their very existence.
They field an exceptional army and have intelligence services which some consider in the top tier, but even they [...]

I’m not going to pretend that I know anything about this so I’m going to let the story speak for itself.
Mariya Aman is looking forward to her sixth birthday party next week. Her face lights up when her father, Hamdi, promises her a clown and lots of balloons at the party, and she whizzes up [...]

This story definitely speaks for itself.
– Israel closed the door Sunday on a surge of asylum-seekers from Sudan’s Darfur region and from other African countries, the largest influx of non-Jewish refugees in the modern history of the Jewish state.
Authorities announced that they had expelled 48 of more than 2,000 African refugees who have [...]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has won his race to be the Likud party’s leader, thereby giving him another chance to run for Prime Minister of Israel.
While Netanyahu’s victory had been all but assured, a strong showing by challenger Moshe Feiglin could have shored up Israel’s extreme right and hurt Netanyahu’s efforts to rehabilitate [...]

I know this story sounds hopeful for peace in the Mid-East, but I just don’t buy it.
Until the Saudis and all Muslim countries recognize Israel’s right to exist there will be no peace in the Mid-East.
SHARM EL SHEIK, Egypt — Saudi Arabia expressed interest yesterday in attending a Middle East peace conference proposed by President [...]

This Omega Letter report I got yesterday seems to tie in well with the headline I read this morning:
Hezbollah: We Are Ready to Strike Israel Again
First, the first four paragraphs from the AP story today:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah’s leader said Saturday that the militant Islamic group’s war last summer with Israel has left the [...]

Very good move Mr. President.
President George W Bush has called for an international meeting to discuss efforts to restart peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The proposed meeting would take place later this year and involve the US, Israel and some of its Arab neighbours.
Speaking at the White House, Mr Bush also announced [...]

Most Native Americans know what it’s like to be prisoners in there own land. Those days are pretty much over for us. The Israelis have been going through it nonstop to this day.
Before you comment on how I’m comparing the holocaust to the demise of Native Americans. STOP. I’m not.
I sincerely hope that this [...]

Here is something that I just don’t understand. When I was young the Jewish people were considered by the Christians as Killers of Christ. What happened? I like most non-Christian people just can’t seem to figure this one out.
This post isn’t meant to be anti Christian or Jewish its just something that has [...]

Fleeing Gazans, trying to get to the Israeli side of the border, have been holed up in a tunnel of two walls ten feet apart.
On one end are the Hamas and on the other are the Israeli soldiers. They are in what is really known as a no-man’s land.
Living conditions are horrible, [...]

I read here about the return of al-Sadr to Iraq and his call for Americans to leave the country.
BAGHDAD — A day after radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resurfaced to end nearly four months in hiding and demand U.S. troops leave Iraq, American forces raided his Sadr City stronghold and killed five suspected [...]

From The Jerusalem Post:
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled a trip to Israel planned for next week due to the unstable political situation in Israel, the Foreign Ministry confirmed late Monday night.
Rice was scheduled to meet with Israeli and Palestinian leaders following a stop-off in Moscow.
US State Department spokesman Sean [...]

A crowd estimated to be between 100,000 and 200,000 marchers gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to demand the resignations of Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz, after the Winograd report on the Second Lebanon War was critical of their handling of last summer’s war with Hezbullah.
Olmert never would have been elected [...]

The media is called on its bias by a source one might never suspect:
While the war between Israel and Hezbollah raged in Lebanon and Israel last summer, it became clear that media coverage had itself started to play an important role in determining the ultimate outcome of that war. It seemed clear that news [...]

From today’s Omega Letter, a Christian subscription newsletter:

A Cup of Drunkenness
An Israeli-Arab member of the Israeli Knesset resigned his seat recently under suspicion that he aided Hezbollah during the 2nd Lebanon War last summer.
Azmi Bishara is suspected of transferring information to Hezbollah during time of war, maintaining contacts with a foreign agent and [...]