Iran Readies Anti-U.S. Pressure Campaign in Iraq

Key Takeaway: Iran is preparing to increase political pressure against the U.S. presence in Iraq by generating significant anti-American protests on Friday, January 24 with support from nationalist Shi’a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iran seeks to integrate Sadr into a new “resistance front” that aligns Iranian proxy groups with Sadr’s popular influence to expel U.S. forces. […]

New Nature Reserves to Open in Judea and Samaria for First Time Since Oslo Accords

    View of Wadi Malha in the Jordan Valley on March 9, 2019. Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash90. JNS.org – Israel’s Defense Minister Naftali Bennett approved on Wednesday the creation of seven new nature reserves in Judea and Samaria. This is the first time that new nature reserves have been declared in the disputed territories since Israel […]

Muslims chant about killing Jews outside Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

Police disperse crowd at holy site following Friday morning prayers; Hamas had called for mobilization at Al-Aqsa Mosque against ‘Zionist occupation’ By JTA and TOI staff 17 January 2020, 7:07 pm   Hundreds of Muslims chanted about killing Jews outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday morning, prompting police to […]

Iranian protester speaks to Israeli station I24News, risks his life

The Iranian protester, under great risk, provided his opinion on the current political reality in Iran, Soleimani and Iran’s nuclear weapons program. JERUSALEM POST STAFF JANUARY 17, 2020 18:34 An unnamed Iranian protester spoke to i24news on Thursday, describing the political and security situation in Iran, as well as providing his perception on the current […]

Trump Warns Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei to Be ‘Careful With His Words’

Earlier in the day, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, while leading Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time since 2012, noted that the assassination of top IRGC General Qasem Soleimani revealed the “terrorist nature” of the US, and also observed that Trump is a “clown”. US President Donald Trump responded to Khamenei’s speech, tweeting […]

Religion and Salvation – by Jack Kinsella

At Babel, God deliberately confused the languages of men and dispersed them into different nations. The purpose, according to Genesis, was to prevent them from all coming under the authority of a single dictator, as happened under Nimrod. “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” (Genesis 11:6) Denominationalism is the spiritual equivalent, ensuring that one powerful leader couldn’t take over Christianity and lead the true Church into error, as the Bible says …

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Could Syria Cause Russia and Israel to Go to Nuclear War?

It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Michael Peck Key Point: Yet beneath the smiles is wariness, suspicion and a clash of fundamental interests. Could Israeli air strikes in Syria trigger war between Israel and Russia? Israel remains determined to continue pounding Iranian forces in Syria in a bid to keep Tehran’s forces away from […]

Peace for Israel Through Natural Gas?

by Elder of Ziyon     View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019. Photo: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL. Unlike Jordan, Egypt seems okay with purchasing natural gas from Israel: Israel and Egypt embarked on a new energy relationship Wednesday with the launch of […]

Hundreds protest in Jordan against gas deal with Israel

Demonstrators in Amman chant slogans against Jewish state, call for cancellation of multi-billion-dollar contract to buy gas from field off Israeli coast By OMAR AKOUR Today, 8:27 pm AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Hundreds of Jordanians demonstrated in downtown Amman on Friday, calling on the government to cancel an agreement in which Israel began pumping […]

Unmasking Iranian and Palestinian hybrid warfare against Israel

Iran’s hybrid warfare involving proxies in Gaza and Lebanon deflected attention from its activities building missiles and rockets in Syria. Israel News Talk Radio, 17/01/20  Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant and Jerry Gordon interview Dan Diker, Director of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ (JCPA) Program to Counter Political Warfare. Diker and Adam Shay of the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Iran tasked Nasrallah with uniting Iraqi proxies after Soleimani’s death

Hezbollah leader sponsors ‘truce’ talks, with Iraqi paramilitaries endorsing Hadi al-Amiri as PMF leader and Tehran courting Moqtada al-Sadr in bid to form ‘united resistance’ Suadad al-Salhy The leaders of Iranian-backed paramilitary groups  in Iraq have agreed to put their differences aside and back Hadi al-Amiri as the new chairman of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) […]

UK designates the entire Hezbollah organisation as a terrorist group

By REUTERS JANUARY 17, 2020 13:25 Britain’s Treasury said it has designated the entire Hezbollah organisation as a terrorist group under its Terrorism and Terrorist Financing rules, and as such its assets will be frozen. Previously it was only Hezbollah’s Military Wing which was subject to asset freezing under UK government rules.Hezbollah, a heavily armed […]

Iran can take fight beyond its borders, Khamenei says after U.S. strike, unrest

DUBAI (Reuters) – The Revolutionary Guards can take their fight beyond Iran’s borders, the supreme leader said on Friday, responding to the U.S. killing of a top general and to unrest at home over the accidental downing of an airliner. In his first Friday prayers sermon in eight years, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also told […]

World leaders converge on Jerusalem

Next week’s arrival of leaders from 46 countries aims to send a powerful message against antisemitism. But will it be clouded by current events and long-standing feuds? LAHAV HARKOV JANUARY 16, 2020 21:36 They’ll start arriving on Monday. One after the other, kings, presidents, prime ministers and other leaders of 46 different countries will land […]