Dan Gordon, a volunteer with Sar-El and a reserve captain in the IDF, told CBN News that the West needs to understand that when Israel pulled Israelis out of thriving communities in the Gaza Strip nearly nine years ago, Hamas took over and turned the place into a terror camp.
This happened even though Israel offered to help the Palestinians there.
It's a headline that broke the collective heart of our newsroom:
"Ancient Christian community in Iraq is no more"
For about 2,000 years, Iraqi Christians - a small but significant minority - have called Iraq home. Today, that group is being systematically targeted for annihilation.
I know it may seem shocking to you but The Washington Post’s editorial board blasted Hamas for their “tunnel vision.”
Read below. It’s refreshing to see The Washington Post “intellectuals” understanding the real problem.
Washington Post Editorial
Sen. Marco Rubio didn’t hold back today at Catholic University when talking about traditional American values.
Instead of shying away from the now controversial topic of marriage (ridiculous), Rubio had the following stern rebuke for homosexuals who seem to think anyone who is against gay marriage is a bigot.
For years, Israel has treated Palestinians with difficult medical problems from the Gaza Strip and other areas, in Israeli hospitals.
Ironically, those hospitals sometimes come under fire.
But as Dr. Ron Lobel told CBN News, Palestinians are often forced to allow Hamas to use their homes and property to perpetrate attacks.
Lobel, deputy director of Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital near the Israeli-Gaza border, told us one Palestinian woman's story.
On this week's episode of The Watchman, we sit down with David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), to discuss why Christians need to stand with Israel now more than ever.
We also talk to Rabbi Ken Spiro about Jerusalem U, a unique online course designed to educate about Israel.
Plus, we feature some clips from my speech at this week's annual Christians United for Israel Summit in Washington, D.C.
Click play below to watch.
And so it begins. The Obama administration and its cohorts in the European Union have been unable to browbeat Israel into stopping its much-needed operation to root out terrorists in Gaza. So now they are getting personal with Israel--and shamefully so.
The Obama administration has announced a 24-hour ban on travel to Israel's Ben Gurion Airport for all U.S. airlines, and now European airlines seem poised to follow suit.
Would you like to influence your mate? Would you like to one better than that—determine the direction of the connection? If you are like most people, you answered an emphatic ‘yes.’ Of course you’d like to influence the direction of the connection. You’d like your mate to be caring, sensitive, kind and keenly interested in you. It would be frosting on the cake if they also considered you wise, witty and great looking.
After my recent visit to Egypt, some people asked about Egyptian Christians. "How are they faring under President Al-Sisi?"
"They are doing better under their new president," I replied. "But they still need our support and prayers because Islamists are continuing to attack them, and life remains extremely difficult for them and other Egyptians."
Days before the recent Israel/Hamas conflict erupted, the Presbyterian Church USA withdrew $21 million worth in investments from Israel because, as spokesman Heath Rada put it, the Israeli government’s actions “harm the Palestinian people.”