Ecumenical Blast Against Israel

Here we go again....

FrontPageMag:

The departing chief of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) slammed Israel’s “sin against God” in his August 26 good-bye to the world’s largest ecumenical group.

"Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God," declared Kenyan Methodist minister Samuel Kobia, during his farewell to the WCC’s governing central committee...read more

Daily Star via FrontPageMag:

There is great discomfort these days among those who backed Barack Obama’s “new” approach to the Middle East when he took office 10 months ago. That shouldn’t surprise us. Everything about the president’s shotgun approach to the region, his desire to overhaul all policies from the George W. Bush years simultaneously, without a cohesive strategy binding his actions together, was always going to let the believers down........

Barack Obama’s devotees may imagine that because he spent a few years abroad as a boy, he is well equipped to understand our complicated world. Perhaps he is, but his approach to the greater Middle East, shorn of the soaring rhetoric, has been artless and arrogant. The president is being tied up every which way by his foes, who can plainly see that the Obama vision is an unsystematic one. If ever the US has been close to achieving potentially terminal self-marginalization in the region, it is now...Obama's Mideast Confusion


Don't forget to catch up with Campsmore's daily Off The Wall News!

More on Obama's Cairo Speech

David Solway takes President Obama's infamous speech to task...and he doesn't mince words.

President Barack Obama’s famous (or infamous) Cairo address of June 4, 2009, has been subjected to the unrelenting scrutiny of many reputable observers and distinguished political scholars — and found egregiously wanting. It is replete with distortions, fabrications, lacunae, misconceptions, inaccuracies, lies, exaggerations, and outright historical fallacies. There is scarcely a passage without its resident howler. I do not have the space to run through this near-interminable list here — anyone with a decent knowledge of history or ready access to a search engine can trawl for himself — but I will provide two exemplary instances of historical error...Read more


From Melanie Phillips:

Among American Jews, a degree of ‘buyers’ remorse’ has been detected recently. Almost 80 per cent of American Jews voted for Barack Obama as President. Those of us who warned that this man would endanger Israel were scorned...Read More


Click HERE for the latest from Joel Rosenberg.


Lori's links and comments:

Soldiers arrest Honduran president, seize palace,

Chavez has threatened military action against Honduras,

Ingushetia president survives assassination attempt,

EU holds breath as German court rules on Lisbon Treaty , "Opponents say the Treaty is the latest in a series of power grabs by Brussels, which seeks to pull influence away from national capitals with the aim of creating a federalist superstate."

Pope signs new globalization encyclical,

Israel’s F-15 Jets Upgraded for Long Distance Attacks,

Israel ‘Fed Up' with US Declarations,

Israel approves 50 new settler homes in West Bank,

Golden Report: Can you hear the Shofar? I can,

Israeli FM, Liberman interview with Radio Reka,

Israel pressures on Russia to stop arms deal with Iran,

Russia starts "Caucasus 2009" games, covers Muslim states,

US, Iraqi experts developing Babylon, build tourism industry,

US grants Jordan extra $150B,Aloha, 'star wars' ,"...missiles now deployed to "protect" Hawaii are not equipped with adequate software and communications to intercept a missile traveling from North Korea to Hawaii"

NKorea: US plots pre-emptive war,

SKorea getting U.S. missiles to boost defenses,

Air Force test fires missile from Calif coast,

Jan Markell interviews Jim Fletcher

Jim Fletcher from Prophecy Matters and Jan Markell of Olive Tree Ministries discuss BHO's Cairo speech; his agenda, and the Leftist church's attitude to the Middle East...HERE

Jan also interviews Dr Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission...HERE.

I also recommend visiting Joel Rosenberg's weblog for frequent updates on the Iranian election aftermath.


Lori's links and comments:

Ancient Holy Land quarry uncovered, team says,

Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary,

IDF to Emboss Ten Commandments Emblem on Military Korans,

McCain on Iran: We have to be on the right side of history,

US exports to Iran up in Boo's first months,

Ahmadinejad tells US, UK to butt out,

Democrats urge - to keep 'fingerprints' off Iran crisis,

Bibi: Nuclear Iran could lead to ME tinderbox,

Iranian air force to hold exercise,

Italy calls on Iran to accept G8 invite,

Al Qaeda says would use Pakistani nuclear weapons,

Putin spies in America,

Russia has great credibility in the Middle East,

Russia buys 12 spy drones from Israel,

Israel and Russia to renew, upgrade tourism agreement,

Korean ship with suspicious cargo heads for Myanmar,

Irish PM hails 'successful' EU summit result ,

Sarkozy says burqas are 'not welcome' in France,

Sarkozy in historic address to French parliament ,

The world will know the Ark? ,

Thanks, Lori!

Iranian elections update from Joel Rosenberg

AHMADINEJAD COULD LOSE ON FRIDAY: WHAT TO WATCH FOR DURING THE IRANIAN “ELECTIONS”


From IFCJ:

Israel Tests Her Defenses in "Turning Point 3"


Moriel Ministries:

President Obama’s Cairo speech was nothing short of an earthquake — a distortion of history, an insult to the Jewish people, and an abandonment of very real human-rights victims in the Arab and Muslim worlds...President yet again makes his intentions clear

A Christian analysis of BHO's speech in Cairo


For Zion's Sake Ministries:

More than 100,000 Arabs living illegally on Jewish-owned land.In an unusual move, Arabs who built illegally on Jewish-owned property in key sections of Jerusalem have been hand delivered eviction notices, WND has learned...Jews working to halt division of Jerusalem


Lori's links and comments:

Joel's post Ahmadinejad could lose his re-election bid in Iran on Friday,

Bye-bye Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, roar Iran crowds,

Ahmadinejad lashes out at rival just before vote ,

Hong Kong: The race for cheerleader-in-chief ,

China calls for 'balanced' UN resolution on N.Korea ,

North, South Korea hold rare talks amid nuclear tension,

Egypt's Mubarak says BO has new approach to Islam&sp=true,

Dark Horse seeks Afghan presidency,

Jimmy Carter hopeful for Mideast peace by 2012 ,

Carter: Mideast peace not possible without Hamas,

Israel Ninth Most Innovative Country,

Likud MKs to Netanyahu: No PA State! ,

Netanyahu's speech: Yes to road map, no to settlement freeze,

Peres calls for Palestinian state with provisional borders,

Turkey Prepared to Mediate between Israel and Syria,

Israel limits military ties with Georgia due to 'Russian pressure,

Solana to EJP: In the Middle East, the EU has to build on the momentum generated by US President ,

Livni to Solana: We expect world to back Israel's stance in peace talks,

EU should play key role in US negotiations with Iran, experts say ,

US Administration Pushes Corporatist Globalization,

Libyan wins post of UN General Assembly president,

Putin could imagine a Russia with no nuclear weapons,

Russia tells US to drop missile shield to help ties,

IS A supervolcano brewing beneath Mount St Helens? ,

PENTAGON LOOKING AT TRANSFORMERS-TYPE TECHNOLOGY,

NOT my pocketknife!!! ,

Blair Urges Council on Foreign Relations to Pressure Israel

by Baruch Gordon

IsraelNN.com) Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for United States President-elect Barack Obama to press hard for Israel to make further territorial concessions to the Palestinian Authority. Blair, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Wednesday, also praised Obama’s selections to lead his national security team, most notably former NATO commander General James L. Jones as National Security Advisor for the incoming administration. Jones was until recently the US special envoy for Middle East security and in that role has advocated sending a NATO force to impose a solution in Judea and Samaria. Read it HERE.

Also from Bible Prophecy Today:

"Tony Blair, the former British PM and now the special Peace Envoy to the Middle East for the Quartet, offered praise for President-elect Obama's selections to lead his National Security team and told him that the time is right for a fresh push for progress in the Middle East peace process..."

"If Tony Blair and the Obama team are successful, we will see the prophetic scenario that is called for in Bible prophecy come into better focus. The ancient, Jewish prophet Daniel wrote 2,500 years ago that a world leader from Europe, the area of the revived Roman Empire, indeed would bring peace to the Middle East, Daniel 9:27. Please do not misunderstand. I am not saying Tony Blair is that world leader spoken of in Bible prophecy as the Antichrist; however, I would say Tony Blair is doing everything Bible prophecy calls for.Tony Blair is a perfect prototype of that world leader and is setting the stage for Bible prophecy to be fulfilled."

Note: Personally, I don't see Tony Blair as that world leader. What is evident to me, though, is that the world is ready to accept a world leader, whoever he may turn out to be.

Election 2008 - A New Day

An important contribution from Crossroad covering the future President of the most powerful nation in the world - Barack Hussein Obama.

Read it HERE