EXCLUSIVE: ISRAELI VICE PRIME MINISTER TELLS EVANGELICALS U.S. POLICY OF “ENGAGEMENT” WITH IRAN PERCEIVED BY RADICALS AS “WEAKNESS”

(Jerusalem, Israel) — “We have no territorial disputes with Iran,” noted Israeli Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya’alon in an address to nearly 300 evangelical Christians here in the Holy Land as part of a Joshua Fund prayer & vision trip. “So why do Western leaders believe territorial compromise by Israel will appease them?”
General Ya’alon – who served [...]

U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL TO BRING GOLDSTONE REPORT TO SECURITY COUNCIL FOR ACTION WITHIN THREE MONTH: But view from some Israeli elites is Jewish State more secure than ever before

UPDATED: (Jerusalem, Israel) — For the last several weeks, I’ve been reporting extensively about the Iranian nuclear threat and the serious and growing strains in the U.S.-Israel alliance. Now U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is vowing to bring the Goldstone Report to the Security Council for review and action within three  months. That potentially means [...]

AN EVIL WIND IS BLOWING: U.N. APPROVES ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTION BACKING GOLDSTONE REPORT

>> Deputy FM: Israel threat to attack Iran is not bluff
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“The UN General Assembly approved on Thursday an Arab-backed resolution endorsing the Goldstone Report, paving the way for the matter to be sent to the Security Council,” reports the Jerusalem Post. “A total of 114 nations voted in favor of the resolution and 18 voted [...]

JOEL TO DEFEND ISRAEL AT “BREAK FORTH” CONFERENCE IN 2010

Just finalized travel plans to speak at “Break Forth 2010,” a powerful Christian conference in Edmonton, Canada Jan 29-31….15,000 evangelical expected….my focus: explaining why God loves Israel so much and seeking to help mobilize a global movement to stand with Israel while so much of the rest of the world is turning against her….music by [...]

REMEMBERING IRAN’S SEIZURE OF THE U.S. EMBASSY 30 YEARS LATER

>> Israel seizes ship with 500 tons of Iranian arms bound for Hezbollah
>> Netanyahu: Ship proves Iran’s support for terrorism
Dawn had not yet broken in Washington.
It was Sunday morning, November 4, when an urgent “Flash Traffic” message from Embassy Tehran arrived in the State Department’s top-secret communications center: “Demonstrators have entered embassy compound and have [...]

TRAIN WRECK: Netanyahu heading for U.S. as Israeli trust in President Obama plummets

UPDATE: Fortunately, Congress is taking a different path towards Israel than the Obama administration. While the President and his team are taking an increasingly hard line against the Jewish State, an overwhelmingly bipartisan consensus in Congress is standing strongly with Israel. On Tuesday for example, “the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution [...]

JEWISH EXTREMIST ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED SERIES OF HATE CRIMES, INCLUDING THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF AN ISRAELI PASTOR & FAMILY

“The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police have arrested an American-born Jewish settler who was behind an unprecedented series of deadly terror shootings and bombings spanning over a decade, in which two Palestinians were killed and Israel Prize Laureate Prof. Ze’ev Sternhell was injured,” reports the Jerusalem Post in a major breaking news [...]

UPDATE: 265,000+ PARTICIPATED IN 9/11 EVENT; Future conferences coming in Asia and U.S.

>> Sec. Clinton makes first trip to Israel since Netanyahu took office, will pressure Israel to stop building settlements
We are currently finalizing plans for the first “Epicenter Conference” in Asia for early 2010. We are finalizing plans for our first U.S. East Coast “Epicenter Conference,” to be held in Philadelphia in the summer of [...]

IRANIAN-TURKISH ALLIANCE EMERGING: Meanwhile, flu pandemic infecting millions, and Israeli professor calls for 3rd Temple

>> FLASH: Gunman shoots two at synagogue in L.A.
On October 19th, I wrote a weblog entry entitled, “Turkey Turns On Israel.” That dynamic is now accelerating. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (pronounced “Erdo’-wan”) is now in Tehran, embracing President Ahmadinejad, calling Iran’s tyrannical regime a friend, endorsing Iran’s nuclear program and international defiance, and [...]

JOSHUA FUND TO HELP PURCHASE 2 AMBULANCES FOR ISRAEL

We just completed several days of Joshua Fund board meetings. I’ll have much to report soon. But one thing I wanted to let you know is that with the threat of a war with Iran so high, the board has authorized funding for two ambulances for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s national emergency medical service. [...]