Weekly Update

Weekly Update: Jordan and “Palestine”

Alliances are changing rapidly in the Middle East. A key country is Jordan: Israel’s eastern neighbor, with which it entered a Peace Treaty in 1994, but has always had a troubled relationship. The foundations of the modern Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan were laid in 1921, …

Weekly Update: The fig tree

Israel has both a new government and a new President. This week, Isaac “Bougie” Herzog became Israel’s 11th President. He …

Weekly Update: “Peace for our time”

When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London in September 1938 from talks with Hitler, holding in his hand …

Weekly Update: The existential war to eliminate the Jewish people

The cease-fire that brought the recent fighting with Hamas to an end has not ended the conflict. On the contrary, …

Weekly Update: God sees history from end to beginning

Following the election two weeks ago of a new President (Isaac Herzog), last Sunday 13th June, Israel swore in its …

Weekly Update: “Cries of fear are heard – terror, not peace”.

The Lord reminds us in Jeremiah 30 that the regathering of the twelve tribes of Israel into the land is …

Weekly Update: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”

A storm is brewing. Over recent months, there have been increasing claims that Israel is an “apartheid” state, and calls …

Weekly Update: The conflict continues to rage

Hamas continues to fire rockets at Israeli civilians. Israel continues to dismantle the illegal Hamas military installations in Gaza, with …

Weekly Update: The current violence in Israel – what is happening, and why?

Violence has erupted in Israel. Riots on the Temple Mount, hundreds of rockets from Gaza, Jews and Palestinians killed and …

Weekly Update: Perpetrators and victims

On 27th April Human Rights Watch (HRW) released its report entitled “A Threshold Crossed – Israeli Authorities and the Crimes …

Weekly Update: The old lie

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Moynihan in the 1970’s called the UN a “dangerous place” for liberal …

Weekly Update: Can a nation be born in one day?

This has been a very emotional week in Israel. Yom HaZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) was Israel’s official annual memorial day …

Weekly Update: Remembering the Holocaust is not enough

Today is Yom HaShoah – the day appointed by Israel to commemorate the “Shoah”, the Holocaust that took place only …

Weekly Update: Passover, Easter and the blindness of the West

This week, nestled between Jewish Passover and Christian Easter, we take a step back to consider the West’s struggle to …

Weekly Update: Coming home to God

Tomorrow, 27th March 2021, is the beginning of Pesach: the season in which the Jewish people remember that the Lord …

Weekly Update: Confusion

A lot can be said about the Corona “pandemic. But one thing is clear: it is creating a lot of …

Weekly Update: One people

The Old Testament contains many promises by God to bring home the twelve tribes of Jacob, and to make them …

Weekly Update: What happens when the nations reject God’s appointed conscience of humanity?

God called Abraham and established the nation of Israel to be a “light to the nations”. Israel’s calling is to …

Why the World Council of Churches is very, very wrong – and the world needs to know

Rev. Frank Chikane – the moderator of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs …

Weekly Update: Our obsession with “saving Israel in spite of herself”

In a recent column in Jerusalem Post David M. Weinberg argues that the foreign policy elite installed by the new …