By Raymond Ibrahim Days before the recent Israel/Hamas conflict erupted, the Presbyterian Church in America [Presbyterian Church USA] withdrew $21 million worth in investments from Israel because, as spokesman Heath Rada put it, the Israeli government’s actions “harm the Palestinian people.” Soon after, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and…
Why the Israel-Palestine conflict is spiraling into the worst violence in years By Zack Beauchamp On Monday night, between 5 and 12 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, from which Hamas has been firing rockets into Israel. Israeli’s cabinet authorized the military to call up 40,000 reservists, and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon…
By JNS.org Speaking to a Jerusalem gathering of nearly 300 international Jewish journalists on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) for its vote to divest from Israel. “When the Middle East is fragmented in this horrible war, this savage, savage war between militant Shiites and militant Sunnis… the only place…
“Give peace a chance,” the adage goes, but in reality, some have become so enamored with the fighting that efforts to produce peace are thwarted. Speaking to some 14,000 people at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Polity Conference held recently at the Convention Center in Washington, D.C., the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin…