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August 7, 2009
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| One of the Best
Each week we provide you with one of the week's most thought provoking articles. | | Israel vs the world: Drawing battle lines over Jerusalem
by Herb Keinon
The phone call Ambassador to the US Michael Oren received from the State Department on Monday protesting the eviction of two Palestinian families from a Jewish-owned building in Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood - as well as the condemnations of the move by Britain, Egypt, the UN and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - are the birth pangs of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's new policy on Jerusalem. For the past 40 years, scores of Israeli politicians have been talking about Israel's 3,000-year-old link to Jerusalem and how the city must remain Israel's undivided capital forever. Former prime minister Ehud Olmert spoke that way for years, especially when he was mayor of the city. But then he became prime minister, changed his tone and - by his own in admission - was willing to compromise on Jerusalem. Continue Reading>>
 | | One that calls for a Response
Each week we take a meaningful quote, tie it to scripture, and leave you with a take-home. | |  Senior US Congressman Eric Cantor, Republican Whip in the House of Representatives, said: "I don't quite know what is driving the focus on the issue of settlements. ... "We believe the focus should be on the existential threat to Israel from a nuclear-armed Iran. ... "We share the view with Prime Minister Netanyahu that we do not want to see undue pressure placed on Israel. ... "If we are interested in a two-state solution we have to accept, and the Palestinians have to accept, that Israel is a Jewish state." (Cantor is the Republican party's only Jewish representative in Congress).
God says: "You descendants of Abraham my friend ... You are my servant'; I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. ... For I am the LORD , your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Do not be afraid, O worm Jacob, O little Israel, for I myself will help you," declares the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." (Isaiah 41:8,9-10,13-14).
The Jerusalem Connection says: The Israeli professor on the video below has it exactly right. Israel needs to remind those who oppose them, including the United States, that their land has a 3000 year old history that is grounded in the Bible. No other people or nation can make that claim. It is really Israel's trump card and it is time that Israel's leaders demanded recognition of their Biblical and International legality. If and when they do, they would have the support of millions of Christian Zionists as well as most of the US Congress.
| |  Dr. Mordechai Kedar on Al-Jazeera, Eloquent and Unafraid
"We were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying their daughters alive and worshipping idols" this was just one of Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar's ripostes to questions by an Al Jazeera interviewer two weeks ago, in an interview that has received rave reviews from Israel-lovers the world over for its forcefulness.
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