Congress members call for Israelis to have easier entry into US

Congress members push to allow Israel full participation in program allowing expedited entry for ‘pre-approved, low-risk travelers.’ Josefin Dolsten, JTA, 27/04/19  Two Congress members called on the Department of Homeland Security to admit Israel into a program that allows some of its visitors expedited entry into the United States. Reps. Grace Meng, D-N.Y., and Brian […]

Tracking the fallout, reactions and details of the NYT antisemitic cartoon scandal

April 27, 2019 By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On April 27 media around the world began to react to an antisemitic cartoon that appeared in the April 25 edition, page 16, of the International Edition of The New York Times. My coverage and reactions My coverage of the NYT antisemitic cartoon scandal 1. Initial article https://www.jpost.com/International/New-York-Times-internationally-prints-antisemitic-cartoon-of-Trump-Netanyahu-588014 […]

Becoming Antichrist: Vol. I

April 27, 2019 by Pete Garcia & Randy Nettles I do not think about the Antichrist often, nor do I want this to seem as if I am glorifying him in any way, shape, or form, but I have at times, wondered about a few things.  How does Satan go about selecting the Antichrist? Is […]

How does Israel’s decision to give Assad two prisoners square with the fierce Russian-Iranian struggle over Syria?

Russia’s envoy to Damascus, Alexander Lavrentiev, disclosed on Friday that Israel had decided to release some jailed Syrian citizens after the Israel MIA Zachary Baumel’s remains were recovered on April 4  “with the agreement of the Syrian government.” The diplomat did not say how many, although Israeli sources name two: Palestinian Fatah activist Hamis Ahmad […]

NY Times prints Netanyahu-Trump cartoon with ‘anti-Semitic tropes,’ retracts it

Image included in paper’s international edition shows Israeli PM as a dog guiding a skullcap-wearing US president; paper says it was ‘offensive, an error of judgment’ By TOI STAFFToday, 8:05 pm  1 888shares A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in the New York Times’ international edition on April 25, 2019, […]

The Timepiece – by Hal Lindsey

For many of you who read this letter each week, there’s not much I can tell you about Israel that you don’t already know. And that is good. Because, as you’ve heard me say so often, Israel is God’s time clock. End-times prophecy kicked into high gear when Israel became a modern nation back on May 14, 1948. It fulfilled Isaiah’s incredible prophecy, found in Isaiah 66, that Israel would be reborn in a day. Even Isaiah was incredulous: “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a …

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‘No future for Jews in Germany,’ says German Jewish teenager

German Jews explain why they are relocating to Israel. Benjamin Weinthal April 27, 2019 19:08 Supporters of the Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) hold German flags during a protest in Berlin, Germany May 27, 2018. (photo credit: REUTERS/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE) The large German broadsheet newspaper Die Welt titled its article on Saturday: “Why young Jews […]

Iran says it made surveillance flight over US aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf

Development comes after US government designates Revolutionary Guards a foreign terrorist group By AP and TOI STAFFToday, 7:09 pm  1 0shares Illustrative photo of the USS Enterprise, a US Navy aircraft carrier that was deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2012, before being decommissioned at the end of the year. (Official US Navy Imagery/flickr) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s powerful […]

Senior representative of Hezbollah discusses ‘Israeli aggression’ in Moscow

Senior representative of Hezbollah discusses ‘Israeli aggression’ in Moscow  Saturday, April 27, 2019 12:00:05 PM   Hezbollah’s Deputy in the Lebanese Parliament Ali Fayyad took part in the Moscow Conference on International Security. During his visit to the Russian capital, the high-ranking representative of the Party of Allah also met with Deputy Foreign Minister of […]

Richard Nephew: UNSC highly unlikely to comply with Trump’s IRGC designation

FNA – Richard Nephew, who served as the lead sanctions expert for the US team negotiating with Iran, says the impacts of the Trump administration’s move to blacklist Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps as a terrorist entity are constrained by the United States’ geographical boundaries as the world community seems to be adamant to the […]

Putin hopes Iran will continue oil exports despite U.S. warning

BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he hoped Iranian oil exports would continue despite Washington’s efforts to stop them. Washington has demanded that buyers of Iranian crude halt purchases by May 1 or face sanctions, a move to choke off Tehran’s oil revenues. The United States expects Saudi Arabia and its […]

Putin: No One Wants Trade Wars, Restrictions Except Initiators of Such Measures

BEIJING (Sputnik) – No one in the world wants restrictions and trade wars, except those who initiate them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday at a press conference following the Belt and Road summit in Beijing. “No one wants any restrictions, no one wants any trade wars, expect those who initiate these processes, I […]