The Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty

Introduction: For a number of years Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was my colleague at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Tom, after whom the F-14 Tomcat fighter is named, expressed to me his concern that US politics and foreign policy was in the clutches of Israel and that America was being led into war with the Arab Middle East. Admiral Moorer and the State Department and Pentagon at that time did not think that war with the Arab countries served the interests of the United States. However, Admiral Moorer thought that the war could not be avoided because of the hold Israel has over the US government.

ISIS Battles Israel From Gaza Strip

ISIS says it was behind the October 5 rocket strike against Israeli civilians launched from the Gaza Strip. While it’s been reported for some time that the Islamic State has sympathizers and even cells operating from Gaza, now the movement is making official its presence in the Palestinian coastal enclave. The organization’s Gaza branch is known as the Grandsons (or Descendants) of Friends of the Prophet. Their tagline is Aknaf Bait al-Maqdis – The Environs of Jerusalem – Gaza Branch.

On the organization’s website it claimed responsibility for the rocket, which landed on a street in Sderot, the closest Israeli town to the Gaza Strip. “It was part of our ongoing jihad against the enemies of Allah – the Jews.” The website includes photos of religious Jews, including children, promising “they won’t know safety in Muslim lands as long as our veins beat.”

The group has not made public operational details nor numbers of its fighters. ISIS also has a foot in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula just across the border from Gaza. There the organization has carried out numerous attacks, predominantly against security personnel, killing scores. Copyright © 2013 Clarion Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Plan to Turn Schindler Factory Into Museum Reportedly Hits Snags Over Finances, Local Opposition

A plan to turn the deserted factory of famed German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who protected Jews from extermination during the Holocaust, into a museum is in jeopardy, due to financial difficulties and opposition in the Czech village where it is located, the UK’s Guardian reported on Tuesday.

What's So Important About Jerusalem?

In 586 BCE, on 9 Av, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the First Temple. Two thousand five hundred fifty-three years later, on June 7, 1967 (28 Iyar 5727), during the Six-Day War, Israel regained control of biblical east Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount. Israel, for the first time in more than 2,500 years, was in complete control of the entire city. Within a few days, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan gave control of the Temple Mount back to the Moslems, while maintaining Israeli sovereignty over it. Thirteen years later, Israel adopted its "Basic Law: Jerusalem", declaring, "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel".

New Report Reveals That 77% Of The Judges Who Tried The Nazis Were In Fact Nazis Themselves Who Worked To Cover Up Nazi Crimes

A recently published report reveals that 77% of the judges who tried the Nazis in Germany were themselves Nazis who were working to defend their fellow National Socialists and their crimes. I did a whole video on this news.

UNESCO’s Jerusalem Disgrace

Like the Roman Colosseum, the UN has become an outlet for outlandish escapism and diversion from real problems facing the world. The UN should take note, however, because the Colosseum’s excesses helped lead to the implosion of the Roman Empire.

At Sukkot, Israeli Farmers Enjoy the Fruits of Their Faith

Avichai Koch says farming is in his blood. He is the son of Holocaust survivors from Europe who immigrated to Israel,where they worked the land, grew olives, herded cattle and sold chickens until their recent retirement. Today, the family tradition lives on at Koch Farm, located on Moshav Tekuma, four miles from the Gaza Strip. There, Koch erected a series of handmade greenhouses, where he grows everything from cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, radishes and scallions to herbs and mangoes. At this time of year, around Sukkott-the Festival of Ingathering -he is reminded just how tied his profession is to Jewish law and tradition.

UK Jews seek restoration of German citizenship post-Brexit

LONDON (AP) — Thomas Harding is doing what other descendants of Holocaust victims would find unimaginable: applying for a German passport. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in June, the 48-year-old author had to make a decision that was never necessary in a borderless Europe — should he request the restoration of German citizenship stripped from his family by the Third Reich? He needed only a few hours to make up his mind.

Archaeologists find battle site where Romans breached Jerusalem walls

Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said Thursday.

This is an Exciting Greeting from the House of King David

Recently, an unprecedented archeological find was made among the rubble removed from the Temple Mount. This rare discovery, made by archeologists Dr. Gabriel Barkay and Tzachi Sweig while sifting this rubble is a broken seal, impression, or "bulla" written in Hebrew from the time of the First Temple. It was discovered among the soil that the Arabs removed from the Temple Mount during illegal diggings in the area of Solomon’s Stables. The discovery of the seal created great excitement in Israel. The seal is less than one centimeter and was made of baked mud. It was drawn on a string that tied documents and letters. One of the names on the seal is Yehukal ben Shelamyahu written in ancient Hebrew letters ("yehu" is one of the names of God). Dr Barkay stated that this is a direct greeting from the house of King David. He dated the seal to the 6th century B.C.E. He also said that we could learn new things from the three lines on the seal. The importance of this discovery is that this is the first time that we have a written artifact with Hebrew text from the First Temple age discovered at the Temple Mount.

The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments

Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks'

Overcoming The Odds

Ever since Theodore Herzl had the vision to re-establish a Jewish State, Israel has been a prominent player on the world stage. To put it in perspective, this country is one-tenth the size of the state of Texas and has one-third the population. Yet, it plays a far more central role in world affairs than its tiny size might normally dictates. A book recently published explores Israel’s history, and how it succeeded in the face of insurmountable odds.

The Siloam Pool: Where Jesus Healed the Blind Man

The Siloam Pool has long been considered a sacred Christian site, even if the correct identification of the site itself was uncertain. According to the Gospel of John, it was at the Siloam Pool where Jesus healed the blind man (John 9:1–11).

The UN and Temple Denial

On November 8, in a direct attack at the heart of Judaism and the Jewish People, the United Nations General Assembly passed two resolutions that mentioned the "Haram al Sharif" but not its Jewish synonym "the Temple Mount" as one of the "holy places of Jerusalem." This followed an October 26 resolution by the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which called Israel an "occupying power" of the Temple Mount and the Western Wall Plaza, and demanded that Israel stop building and excavating in the Old City of Jerusalem. These statements deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, and implicitly deny that the Jewish Temples ever stood on the Temple Mount, a canard known as "Temple Denial."

Jezebel, How Bad Was She?

For more than two thousand years, Jezebel has been saddled with a reputation as the bad girl of the Bible, the wickedest of women. This ancient queen has been denounced as a murderer, prostitute and enemy of God, and her name has been adopted for lingerie lines and World War II missiles alike. But just how depraved was Jezebel?