Netanyahu: “How can you make peace with someone who rejects your very existence?”

Israel's Prime Minister asks a logical question: "How can you make peace with someone who rejects your very existence?" In response to US Secretary of State John Kerry's Israel-Palestinian peace plan, Benjamin Netanyahu lays out point-by-point objections to it.  See the full 13-minute speech here: Pray for the Prime Minister and other Israeli leaders as …

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Netanyahu’s Response to the UN Resolution Opposing Jewish Settlements

As we discussed yesterday, the UN Security Council passed a resolution, in essence, making Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria (Israeli territory) illegal.  Throughout Israel's history, the US has supported Israel by vetoing anti-Israel resolutions.  A US veto would have shot this resolution down, though President Obama instructed the US ambassador to abstain.  The resolution …

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Celebrating Hanukkah and Christmas Eve

Hey gang!  It's not often that Hanukkah and Christmas coincide, but this year Hanukkah and Christmas Eve both occur tonight!  Hanukkah is an 8-day celebration, so it will outlive Christmas this year, but I love the fact that Christians and Jews will celebrate simultaneously today! I want to share a post that I wrote a …

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Will Trump Fulfill His Promise to Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem?

In his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to do something that American presidents have avoided for years: move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. So what's the big deal about the embassy? On May 14, 1948, the nation of Israel was re-born (as predicted in Ezekiel 36-37), and the US was the first …

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