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Anti-Israel boycotts flourish where ignorance prevails
By Victor Sharpe

I just returned from the UK where anti-Israel boycotts prevail.

Boycotts are highly effective and Israel is in peril of losing traditional markets for its many fine products if the anti-Israel boycotters prevail in their relentless campaigns. While visiting England I helped organize counter boycotts and participated in a pro-Israel scheme called Buycott, which urged all Christians, Jews and others who support embattled Israel to individually purchase all Israeli goods they find on retailers’ shelves. This is a highly effective tool to blunt the power of the boycotters and bigots. Read on...

Bible predicted drought after Roman dispersion
By Worldnetdaily.com

When scientists revealed in 2008 that an analysis of rings on stalagmite from a cave near Jerusalem showed the climate of the region got drier shortly after the Roman dispersion of the Jews in A.D. 70, it was no surprise to Rabbi Menachem Kohen of Brooklyn.

In his book, "Prophecies for the Era of Muslim Terror: A Torah Perspective on World Events," he had explained the dramatic climate change that took place when the Jews were forced from their homeland. Read on...

A full life with Allah and 72 Wives
By Palestinian Media Watch

When dying as a Martyr for Allah, the Shahid is immediately forgiven his sins, he is crowned with honor and he marries 72 dark-eyed wives. These are among the rewards promised the Muslim believer who dies in battle for Allah.

Six privileges, or kindnesses, to be granted the holy Martyr are mentioned in a hadith (tradition attributed to the Prophet Muhammad in Islam) and were explained in a recent Friday sermon broadcast on Hamas TV. Watch Video...

Why no one robs a 7-11 in Israel ...

Palestinian Prime Minister to Israeli Audience: You Make Concessions, We Don't
By Barry Rubin - Gloria Center

Imagine this. You're prime minister of a regime that isn't yet a state. You are praised in the Western media as a great moderate man of peace. You represent a people who the U.S. president says is in an intolerable situation. You supposedly want a country of your own. Indeed you've announced you will get a state in two years, something conceivable only if your negotiating partner agrees. You're dependent on contributions from Western democratic countries that want you to make a deal. Your rivals have seized almost half the land you want to rule and work tirelessly to overthrow your regime and very possibly to kill you personally. Read on ...

I wish I'd said that; "I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress." - Ronald Reagan

Target and the Israel-free globe
By Andrea Peyser, New York Post

It looks as if Iran has found allies in its quest to wipe Israel off the map -- the dopes at your friendly neighborhood Target store.

On sale exclusively at Target is this innocent-looking toy globe. Thousands of these trinkets have already moved out of malls, from Queens to Honolulu, and landed in living rooms and kids' rooms across America.

But folks who forked over a buck for the miniature worlds got less than they bargained for. Read on...

Netanyahu and the Daniel 9:27 covenant

By Bill Koenig

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may be the leader who agrees to the final biblical peace deal spoken of in Daniel 9:27. No Israeli politician is better known. No Israeli leader is a stronger defender of his nation’s threats.

In his policy speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University on June 14, 2009, Netanyahu was superb, clever, reasonable and strategic. He attempted a very delicate political balancing act — which, for the most part, seemed to succeed. Read on...

Pray this Prayer before you Pray For The Peace Of Jerusalem

By Jim Hutchens

We are encouraged to "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem" in Psalm 122:6. But realistically we know there will be no peace in Jerusalem until the Messiah comes. That is the time when he "rules over the nations with an iron scepter and dashes all ungodly opposition to pieces like pottery. (Psalm 2:9-12). Therefore before we "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem," we should pray the following prayer. Read on ...

This Week's Scripture

Each Sabbath (Saturday) we will provide Scripture readings for the week. Here are the readings for the week of February 6, 2010 with a commentary on the Torah reading.

Torah: Yitro ("Jethro")

Exodus 18:1 - 20:26
Read the commentary from www.TenCommandmentsDay.com

Haftorah: Isaiah 6:1 - 7:6, 9:5-6

Gospels: Matthew 5:17 - 32

New Testament: Hebrews 12:18-24