U.S. demand for East Jerusalem building freeze ‘surprised’ Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he had been "surprised" by a recent U.S. demand that Israel halt a construction project in a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem.

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Soldier held in Afghanistan is 23-year-old Idahoan

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon has identified the American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured.

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PA fears U.S. will continue to allow settlement building

WASHINGTON – Palestinian officials said yesterday they were worried the U.S. administration was close to an interim agreement with Israel on settlement construction. According to information that has reached the Palestinian Authority, Israel will not completely halt construction in the settlements but will limit it drastically to the point of almost stopping it. In exchange, […]

Israel informed UN of Hezbollah cache months ago

UNIFIL learned a few months ago about the cache of Katyusha rockets that exploded in the southern Lebanese village of Hirbet Salim last Tuesday, a government source in Jerusalem said. The source said UNIFIL had precise information about the cache and a number of other installations where Hezbollah is storing rockets, but that UNIFIL had […]

100,000 Protest Detention Chinese Christian Lawyer

BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Worthy News)– A petition calling for the release of a prominent Christian human rights lawyer, which was signed by some 100,000 people around the world, has been delivered to the Chinese embassy  in Washington and the U.S. State Department, organizers said Friday, July 17.

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Israel: Barack Obama is no friend of ours…

Throughout the political campaign Barack Obama argued that he was a staunch friend of Israel. In Cairo, in his ground-breaking speech to the Islamic world, he asserted America was committed to the security of Israel. Wherever he goes he says he is committed to upholding America’s long history of supporting the Jewish state.

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No Idea of Evolution?

Comment: This guy has no idea.  He says the court is trying to ban the word God from the Pledge of Allegiance.  I think that’s a great idea.  Lets bring back the original pledge of allegiance.  You know, the one that never mentioned god, the way it was written. "Under god" was only added in […]

Apollo Landing Sites Photographed

July 17, 2009: NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has returned its first imagery of the Apollo moon landing sites. The pictures show the Apollo missions’ lunar module descent stages sitting on the moon’s surface, as long shadows from a low sun angle make the modules’ locations evident.

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Socialist America Sinking

After half a century of fighting encroachments upon freedom in America, journalist Garet Garrett published "The People’s Pottage." A year later, in 1954, he died. "The People’s Pottage" opens thus:

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Europeans funding ‘Breaking the Silence’

A day after releasing a damning report on Operation Cast Lead, and amid accusations that it is operating without transparency, the group Breaking the Silence on Thursday presented The Jerusalem Post with its donor list for the year 2008, which included several European governments.

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