Anglicans for Israel

From Melanie Phillips’s Diary:
The Archbishop of Canterbury and all those other Christians who blame Israel for the plight of Bethlehem’s Christians should be sent a copy of this article by the incomparable Khaled abu Toameh (a Palestinian Muslim) in the Jerusalem Post:
According to the families, many Christians have long been afraid to complain in […]

This video clip is taken from Glenn Beck’s program Exposed: The Extremist Agenda. It features a section on the threat from Iran and an interview with Benjamin Netanyahu (former Israeli prime minister and chairman of the Likud party). For those who are interested, the full program is available here.

Just months later, university ejects evangelical Christians from campus
by Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily.com
The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University has been renamed after Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal donated $20 million to its projects. And while that may be just the tail, the dog appears to be moving away from its historic Catholic and […]

From The Times (London):
Carey backs Pope and issues warning on ‘violent’ Islam
by Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent, and Richard Owen, in Rome
THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech.
Lord Carey said that […]

As is now well known, Pope Benedict last week gave an academic lecture which has apparently caused offense to Muslims. You can read the lecture to see just how innocuous the remarks were here. His remarks seem to have been quite deliberately ripped out of context.
But the madness continues with violence, church burnings […]

by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard
“How odd / Of God / To choose / The Jews.” Thus the British journalist (and communist) William Norman Ewer, in the early part of the last century. The reply came from Cecil Browne: “But not so odd / As those who choose / A Jewish God / But spurn […]