The Fellowship‘s Jerusalem office on Jerusalem bombing
This morning we spoke to Zion Gabai, head of The Fellowship’s Israel office, which is located in Jerusalem. Zion believes the bomb that went off in our near the central bus station in Jerusalem is an escalation of recent missle attacks launched at Be’er Sheva and Ashkelon. Be’er Sheva was hit by missiles twice Wednesday prior to the bus station bombing, prompting the mayor to close all schools there as a precaution.
While Hamas and Islamic Jihad took responsibility for previous missile attacks, no one has yet stepped forward to claim responsibility for the Jerusalem bombing. Zion also believes that in the coming days the IDF will in all likelihood be forced to respond to Gaza terrorists.
Comments (5) »Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 9:24 AM | David Kuner
ALERT: Bus explosion in Jerusalem
Comments (11) »An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon.
Police first received reports of an explosion outside the Binyanei Ha’uma building in central Jerusalem and Magen David Adom units reported casualties.
A large number of police and ambulances were on the scene.
Initial reports said that around 18 people were injured in the attack although the exact number was not known.
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 at 7:41 AM | David Kuner
New bill proposes moving U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
Comments (25) »Top Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are circulating a bill that would strip the president of his power to waive a law requiring him to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
The bill, launched March 10 and sponsored by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), the chairman of the House’s Europe Subcommittee, is also backed by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), the chairman of the House Middle East Subcommittee — all but guaranteeing its passage in the Foreign Affairs Committee and referral to the full House.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 at 1:01 PM | David Kuner
Ad campaign calling for Third Temple pulled
New housing units in Jerusalem aren’t the only buildings being proposed in Israel. Just before Passover, a major ad campaign launched promoting the construction of a Third Temple.
Bus placards with ads streaming down the side included a picture depicting a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, with the rebuilt Temple taking the place of the two mosques that are now located on the site. A caption below the photo read, “May the Temple be built swiftly in our days,” taken from the daily Jewish prayer book.
The ad campaign, organized by and paid for by the conservative group Eretz Yisrael Shelanu (Our Land of Israel/The Land of Israel is Ours, also known as SOS-Israel), was a magnet for controversy. Finally, the advertising franchiser pulled the ads, responding to complaints and threats of vandalism.
Not surprisingly, SOS-Israel leaders were highly critical of the decision. Rabbi Shay Geffen, a representative of the group, said, ““We might as well shelve all the Jewish holy books that call for the rebuilding of the temple too … These are words that every Jew utters three times a day in their prayers. I’m surprised that an established company like Egged would react in this way.”
Comments (1) »Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 at 1:37 PM | Russ Jones
Bibi: Jews ‘were building Jerusalem 3,000 year ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “confidently rebuffed” pressure to stop a planned building project in northern Jerusalem in a speech to AIPAC on Monday, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscriber only), and then set out on a series of meetings in Washington, hoping to ease the worst spate of tensions between the U.S. and Israel in decades.
Even Netanyahu’s critics in Israel concede that there are few politicians as gifted as gifted as he at defending the Jewish state in English — and his skills were on display this week in his remarks, in which he said:
- Iran’s bid to develop nuclear weapons is first and foremost a threat to Israel, but it is also a grave threat to the region and to the world. Israel expects the international community to act swiftly and decisively to thwart this danger. “But,” he said, “we will always reserve the right to self-defense.”
- “The Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3,000 year ago and the Jewish people are building Jerusalem today. Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is our capital….Today, nearly a quarter of a million Jews, almost half the city’s Jewish population, live in neighborhoods that are just beyond the 1949 armistice lines….They are an integral and inextricable part of modern Jerusalem. Everyone knows that these neighborhoods will be part of Israel in any peace settlement. Therefore, building in them in no way precludes the possibility of a two-state solution.”
- “While we cherish our homeland, we also recognize that Palestinians live there as well. We don’t want to govern them. We don’t want to rule them. We want them as neighbors, living in security, dignity and peace. Yet Israel is unjustly accused of not wanting peace with the Palestinians. Nothing could be further from the truth….From day one, we called on the Palestinian Authority to begin peace negotiations without delay. I make that same call today. President Abbas, come and negotiate peace.”
- “Leaders who truly want peace should sit down face-to-face. Of course, the United States can help the parties solve their problems but it cannot solve the problems for the parties. Peace cannot…
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