Anglicans for Israel

by Daniel Pipes
Historically, the religious standing of Jerusalem for Muslims waxed and waned with political circumstances. In a consistent and predictable cycle repeated six times through 14 centuries, Muslims focused on the city when it served their needs and ignored it when it did not.
This contrast was especially obvious during the past century. British rule […]

by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine
Might Muslim Zionism be stronger than Jewish Zionism?
Although the question may sound preposterous, it is not.
Jewish Zionism evolved out of a steadfast three-millennium-old love of Jerusalem that flourished despite a dispersion that settled Jews remote from their holy city. This love of Zion inspired the most extraordinary nationalist movement of the twentieth […]

Yesterday was Jerusalem Day, a Yom tov, when we celebrated the liberation of the Holy City in 1967and remembered those who gave their lives in Zion’s defence in
1967. Let us never forget that freedom has a painful price. Forty years ago Jerusalem was a divided city, a border city, with sniper […]

Israeli, Palestinian and Italian Athletes today participated in the Third Annual John Paul II Peace Run. Israeli and Palestinian runners were accompanied by more than sixty Italian participants, Olympians Andrea Zorzi and Roberto Masciarelli among them, on today’s annual Peace Marathon between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The event is named after former Pope John Paul II. […]

From David Frankfurter:
Thanks to all of you who responded to this morning’s letter, forwarding it to friends, and even translating parts to other languages. By coincidence, sometime after sending it, I received the following Press Release from the Jerusalem City Council. It makes an interesting contrast to see how the “ultra-orthodox” Jewish mayor […]

by Gerald A. Honigman
On the campaign trail, Arafat’s former chief marionette, Holocaust-denying Mahmud Abbas, offered Arab terrorists, who specialize in deliberately disemboweling Jewish babes and other innocents, protection and integration into his own forces; demanded that Israel consent to its own destruction by agreeing to be inundated by millions of allegedly “returning” real and fudged […]