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The Return of Crusader Theology

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Islam and Christianity

By Israel Today | Last month, the World Council of Churches (WCC) convened in Lebanon and issued the following statement: “Palestine continues to be the central issue in the region … The persistence, after sixty five years, of continuing dispossession of Palestinian people—Christian and Muslim alike—from their land by Israeli occupation, continuing settlement of land inside the 1967 borders … is central to the turmoil in the region …. Jerusalem today is an occupied city with a government which has adopted discriminatory policies against Christians and Muslims alike …” The WCC also took aim at Christians who dare to support Israel, the reviled “Christian Zionists”: “Christians who promote ‘Christian Zionism’ distort the interpretation of the Word of God and the historic connection of Palestinians—Christians and Muslims—to the Holy Land, enable the manipulation of public opinion by Zionist lobbies, and damage intra-Christian relations.” The WCC is not a marginal organization that can be dismissed off hand. It represents some 500 million Christians living in 110 countries and territories around the world. It include Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed and Independent churches, all of which have signed on to a political-religious document that contains blatant lies that bring to mind historical anti-Jewish Christian biases. For instance, the WCC asserts that Israel, continually, for 65 years, has been dispossessing... READ MORE

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Rumors of war in the north

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Latest News

By Israel Today | Earlier this week, the US government warned Americans to steer clear of Israel’s northern Golan Heights. Now the United Nations is cautioning that neighboring Syria’s ongoing civil war is likely to spill over the border. “US citizens are advised to defer non-essential travel to and within the Golan Heights and to exercise an extra measure of caution,” read an email sent by the US Embassy in Tel Aviv to American citizens living in Israel. The warning came after Syrian government and rebel forces engaged in a days-long battle for the border town of Quneitra, with Syrian forces entering the demilitarized buffer zone between Israel and Syria for the first time in decades. Around the same time, Austria, which is the largest contributor of troops to the UN peacekeeping force stationed on the Golan border, announced that it was pulling its soldiers out of the region. The peacekeepers making up the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) have been repeatedly targeted by Syrian rebels in recent months, and many have expressed their total lack of motivation to risk their lives to prevent war between Israel and its neighbors. The Austrian troops began withdrawing on Wednesday, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened rushed negotiations with Sweden to replace the absentee peacekeepers. In fact, Ban... READ MORE

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Summer camp in Gaza: Kids learn to abduct Israelis

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Radical Islam

By Israel Today | The annual Hamas-run summer camp in the Gaza Strip has started up, and features the same unbelievable line-up of activities, such as learning to fire live assault rifles, avoid capture by the authorities and abduct Israeli Jews. To increase the realism, tires are left burning all around the camp ground, and the sounds of explosions can be heard constantly. An estimated 10,000 Gaza kids between the ages of six and 16 attend the camp every summer. Let that sink in – first graders are being trained to kill people with guns and violently kidnap Jews. UK newspaper The Daily Mail, which has a reporter in Gaza, wrote that the camp “appears to have been designed to mold its visitors into the terrorists of tomorrow.” To make sure the children know just what it is their being trained to fight for, their masked Hamas supervisors also provide a number of lessons and workshops on Islam and becoming a martyr for Allah. To see original article,visit Israel Today PJTN stands with the Jewish State of Israel as a culture of life.Join PJTN in our stand with—and for—Israel… READ MORE

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Professors: Stop calling Israel an occupier

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: U.S. and Israel

By Israel Today | Professors participating in an international conference at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv this week explained that international law that does necessarily support the claim that Israel is imposing a belligerent occupation on Judea and Samaria. Under the title of “Israel and International Law,” the conference brought together professors of law from around the world to discuss the issue of Israel’s presence in and sovereignty over the so-called “West Bank.” Prof. Avi Bell of the University of San Diego explained to Arutz Sheva that it is “a mistake to think of this as a simple black and white matter of law. It’s not. It’s complicated.” Bell noted that “the way the law is generally discussed is as if it’s all absolutely clear that Israel’s case is insupportable,” while in reality Israel has a very good legal case for continued sovereignty over these territories. Prof. Jeremy A. Rabkin of George Mason University added that since the creation of the United Nations, “no other country in the world…has ever acknowledged that it is involved in an occupation.” As such, this is a very flexible category without modern legal precedent, so it is unfair to create an international law that applies only to Israel. Meanwhile, a poll conducted by Smith Research on behalf of the Knesset’s Land of... READ MORE

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Mideast turmoil presents opportunity for Israel

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Al-Qaida

By Israel Today | Danny Ayalon, Israel’s popular former deputy foreign minister, says the Middle East is set to fracture even further in the near future, resulting in a region with over 30 nations, where only 22 exist today. Speaking at the John Gandel Symposium at Tel Aviv University, Ayalon further stated that the process of globalization on the one hand, and the disintegration of independent political entities around the world on the other, present Israel with both opportunities and threats. In his estimation, the divisions and current inward focus in the Arab states means there is at present no strong unified stances against Israel. At the same time, export deals for a portion of Israel’s new natural gas resources could strengthen dialog with Europe. “The problem of the events in Syria is that in the absence of a strong government, security arrangements with Israel can be broken, so Israel has to take into account the presence of forces such as Hezbollah or al Qaeda,” explained Ayalon. “Strategically, our position may better, but tactically we have challenges.” Ayalon believes that Iran will not become a nuclear power, thanks to eventual international intervention, and that Hamas’ position in the region will weaken significantly as Iran and Syria all but cut ties after the looming fall of... READ MORE

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Islamic states reject as un-Islamic UN Human Rights Council resolution condemning violence against women

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Radical Islam

By Jihad Watch | “Men are the managers of the affairs of women for that God has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have expended of their property. Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God’s guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.” (Qur’an 4:34) “Islamic states frown on Islam-opposing paragraphs of UNHCR violence against women resolution,” from the Kuwait News Agency, June 14 (thanks to Andrew Bostom): GENEVA, June 14 (KUNA) — Islamic member states of the United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNHCR) rejected on Friday paragraphs violating the Islamic law in the council’s resolution on the elimination of all forms of violence against women, noting that the member states must make sure that their laws and national policies are consistent with the rejected demands. The rejections include the paragraph, which gives women “the right to control matters concerning their sexual lives as well as their reproductive health without coercion, discrimination or violence.”They also rejected the paragraph that allows performing judicial proceedings in cases of rape within marriage, the abolition of provisions that require the matching of certificates and allow the rapist to escape prosecution by marrying him to his victim as well as subduing victims... READ MORE

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Report: Iran sending 4,000 troops to aid Assad

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Iran

By Jerusalem Post | The Independent: Iran proposes Golan front against Israel; rebels call on new Iranian President to stop support of Assad. Iran will send 4,000 Revolutionary Guard troops to Syria to fight alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, The Independent reported on Sunday. The decision to send soldiers to Syria was taken last week prior to Friday’s Iranian presidential election which saw cleric Hassan Rohani defeat a number of more conservative candidates. The Independent quoted pro-Iranian sources as saying that Iran has proposed to open up a front against Israel on the Golan Heights as part of efforts to preserve Assad’s regime in Syria. The report comes after the US announced on Thursday that it will begin to arm the Syrian opposition in the face of evidence that Assad used chemical weapons against rebels on multiple occasions. Iran has been Assad’s most staunch supporter and hasadmitted in the past that Revolutionary Guard forces were active in Syria, helping the regime in its fight against rebels. Upon news of Rohani’s victory in the Iranian presidential election, the opposition Syrian National Coalition called on the new Iranian leader to drop the Islamic Republic’s support for Assad. “For more than two years of the Syrian revolution, the Iranian authorities have stood against the aspirations of the Syrian people by continuing to support the criminal Assad... READ MORE

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Abdullah: Jordan ready to fight threats from Syria

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Latest News

By Jerusalem Post | Jordanian King says Jordan can protect itself from Syrian war spillover “if the world does not help as it should.” AMMAN – Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Sunday the kingdom was ready to fight to protect itself against any threat to its security from the escalating civil war in neighboring Syria. He was speaking as Jordanian and US forces proceeded withjoint military exercises with the participation of 17 other countries. Diplomats say the exercises, which entered their second week, aim to send a strong message to Syrian President Bashar Assad. “If the world does not help as it should, and if the matter becomes a danger to our country, we are able at any moment to take the measures to protect the country and the interest of our people,” King Abdullah told military cadets at a graduation ceremony in southern Jordan. He also saluted members of his country’s armed forces who helped over the last year undertake a massive humanitarian relief operation to bring across the border hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing bombardment in their villages and towns and seeking a safe haven. A Pentagon spokesman said on Saturday Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has approved a Jordanian request for American F-16s and Patriot missiles to remain in the Western-backed kingdom after... READ MORE

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Hezbollah welcomes Iran’s ‘beacon of hope’ Rohani

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Iran

By Jerusalem Post | Lebanese group celebrates cleric, in spite of perceived moderate affiliations; Nasrallah labels election “political epic.” Lebanese militant Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah on Sunday welcomed the election of new Iranian President Hassan Rohani, calling him a “beacon of hope.” “The Arab and Muslim people… who have always seen the Islamic republic as a supporter of the oppressed… and every fighter who resists for God, consider you today a beacon of hope,” AFP quoted the militant group as saying. In a message, Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah congratulated Rohani for winning the trust of the Iranian nation in a “political epic,” Iran’s Press TV reported. Rohani won 50.7 percent of a total of 36,704,156 ballots counted, Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on Saturday. The approval may not come as a surprise, given the close allegiance between Shi’ite Iran and the Lebanese group in what is termed the Shi’ite axis. Tehran is Hezbollah’s strongest backer both financially and militarily, having recently thrown its weight behind Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. Iranian fighters have recently been reported to be fighting alongside the Syrian army and militias loyal to Assad in the town of Qusair, near the Lebanese border. Iran, a Shi’ite Muslim nation, is Assad’s closest ally and has provided money, weapons, intelligence and training for his forces against a mainly... READ MORE

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PM: Don’t be fooled by new Iranian president

Posted on 06/16/2013 | Category: Iran

By Jerusalem Post | Israel concerned president-elect Rohani’s transition period will buy regime more time for nuclear drive. Swimming against the tide of “cautious optimism” that characterized reactions in key capitals to Iran’s election of Hassan Rohani as president, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday Israel was not “deluding” itself and advised the world not to get carried away by “wishful thinking.” “The international community must not become caught up in wishful thinking and be tempted to relax the pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program,” Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting, in his first public response to Rohani’s victory. We are not deluding ourselves,” he said. “We need to remember that the Iranian ruler [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] at the outset disqualified candidates who were not in line with his extreme worldview, and from among those whom he did allow, the one seen as least identified with the regime was elected. But we are still speaking about someone who calls Israel the ‘great Zionist Satan.’” Netanyahu said in any event it was Khamenei who determines Iran’s nuclear policy, and not the country’s president. “The more the pressure on Iran increases, the greater the chances of stopping the Iranian nuclear program, which still remains the greatest threat to world peace,” he said. In a reference to... READ MORE

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