In a Sunday phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, American President Barack Obama issued a "clear strategic imperative" to Israel: an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. In 19 days of Operation Protective Edge, Gaza has fired more than 2500 rockets into Israel, and Israel has discovered dozens of terror tunnels dug from Gaza into …
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Welcome back, friends! Yesterday I introduced a view of the Gaza conflict through the lens of Scripture, and promised to attempt to do the same through the lens of the Qur'an. I want to be careful how I approach this, as I am not a scholar of Islam. Nor is my intent to incite anger …
The news continues to flow out of Israel and the Gaza Strip, and there is only so much one can say about indiscriminate rocket fire on innocent Israeli citizens, and responses of Israeli airstrikes on terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip. So, today I want to focus a little differently. When it comes to the …
I got word from friends in Israel this morning that they were forced to run for cover in a bomb shelter as red alert sirens went off in Jerusalem. The cities and villages in southern Israel have been fired at over 200 times since July 1, but now rockets are being launched toward Jerusalem and …
