The Israeli and international medias are abuzz with reports out of Hebron regarding yesterday’s forced removal of two Jewish families from an old wholesale market building they took over outside of the tiny defined Jewish area of the biblical town.

Nearly every report I have read makes it sound as though these families invaded an active market and evicted the poor Arabs who were trying to do business there. The truth, however, is that this particular market has been abandoned for over 13 years. The Jewish families in question moved into an empty building adjacent to the present-day Avraham Aveinu neighborhood. Continue reading »

As a believer in the Bible, it is difficult to watch Israel’s leaders declare that their nation’s security and future depend solely on its own military strength and the aid of foreign powers. Continue reading »

This week’s forced removal of Jewish residents from homes their families once owned in Hebron’s market district reminds me of a recent suggestion that the Jews of Judea and Samaria consider seceding from Israel rather than allow the area to become a Palestinian state. Continue reading »

Think the Palestinian Authority and neighboring Arab dictatorships are the only places a group like Hamas can gain official representation and influence over the government? Think again, because apparently Hamas has already got its claws in the US administration and America’s top law enforcement agency. Continue reading »

In a very disturbing report published this week we learn that a female Palestinian Christian professor from the Gaza Strip has been forced to convert to Islam by her Muslim university colleagues. Continue reading »

Naturally, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s Hamas rulers want to discredit the notion that Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network has set up shop in the territories under their control, but their claims simply are not compatible with the available evidence. Continue reading »

Are displaced Palestinian Arabs poor, oppressed refugees, or pawns of cruel, self-serving Arab leaders? Apparently, that depends on who is involved in the conflict that displaced them. Continue reading »

Israel could have made up for its failure to execute an effective battle plan during last summer’s Second Lebanon War with a bit of persistence, rather than jumping at the first opportunity for a ceasefire, a Hizballah field commander has admitted. Continue reading »