Bringing some hard facts to the Gaza conflict
I know we live in a supposedly “post-modern” world, where reality is relative and absolutes are rejected, denied or ridiculed, but the rhetoric surrounding Operation Protective Edge is fast reaching...
View ArticleHamas’ Terror Tunnels – A Concrete Danger to Israeli Civilians
This article was provided by the London Israeli Embassy today (24th July) Hamas has built an extensive network of tunnels that run from the Gaza Strip to Israeli territory. The tunnels are used by...
View ArticleInternational Law – what happens when schools etc are used for military...
A core principle of the law of armed conflict is the ‘principle of distinction’ – the obligation imposed on each party to a conflict to ensure at all times that a distinction is made between combatants...
View ArticleUpdate on Op. Protective Edge from Israeli Embassy London
Below is a graphical update from Israel’s London Embassy yesterday. It’s 24hrs out of date now but includes some relevant stats and information about Hamas’ attack tunnels. It’s important that the...
View ArticleIs America losing the plot over Hamas and Israel?
Hamas is in a mess! It is fast losing its secret weapon tunnels to the IDF, it is not getting what it wants in any ceasefire proposals and, most significantly of all, it has polarised the Middle East...
View ArticleUpdate on Op. Protective Edge Monday 4th August
The statistics and information below are from Israel’s London embassy update on Operation Protective Edge and we pass them on to help you have accurate information on the situation. PM Netanyahu...
View ArticleFreezing Hamas out of Gaza is the only hope for its future
Attempts to find a lasting negotiated solution to the conflict in Gaza have been teetering on the brink of collapse in Cairo. AP reported Monday that Hamas was rejecting an Egyptian proposal, which did...
View ArticleBritish MPs ‘recognise’ a non-existent state!
Monday’s vote in Britain’s parliament to recognise an as yet non-existent Palestinian state may not change government policy but it sends a negative message way beyond London. This despite the fact...
View ArticleThe British Vote for Palestinian Statehood – a death sentence on the...
Guest post by Howard Stern, Co- Founder of the Emmaus Group UK On Monday 13th October 2014 British Parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to support the recognition of a Palestinian State....
View ArticleBBC’s Knell turns planned mixed Jerusalem neighbourhood into ‘Jewish settlement’
BBC’s Knell turns planned mixed Jerusalem neighbourhood into ‘Jewish settlement’.
View ArticleThe Triumph of Zionism
This is a guest post, reproduced with permission from the website “On Jewish Matters“ Article “The Triumph of Zionism” by Tsvi Bisk and Moshe Dror It seems to me self-evident that a serious...
View ArticleFighting back against BDS
The supposedly pro-Palestinian BDS movement frequently makes the news with its aggressive and counter-productive antics in stores and on the streets, but supporters of Israel, both Jewish and...
View ArticleThe ignorant bigotry of Palestine “supporters” in Britain
Here in Britain, we have long believed that our cherished value of free speech means that intelligent and thinking people can hold reasoned debate about just about any topic and enable all views to be...
View ArticleA Christian at Auschwitz
A week after the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we publish this guest blog post by Howard Stern of Emmaus Group. My first view of snow-covered Poland was out of the plane window on...
View ArticleBe careful what you link to!
Rev Stephen Sizer speaking at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign meeting The pleasant and rather up-market town of Virginia Water in South-West London must have wondered what was going on this week as it...
View ArticleFollow up – Stephen Sizer “temporarily unavailable”!
So says the website of Rev Stephen Sizer, whose bishop states that his “strong but undisciplined commitment to an anti-zionist agenda has become a liability to his own ministry and that of the wider...
View ArticleThis is “lawfare”– coming your way soon!
This is a guest post from Sondra Oster Baras of Christian Friends of Israeli Communities (CFOIC). She recounts a recent battle her organisation has had with BDS activists and their eventual triumph...
View ArticleIslamic State reaches Jerusalem!
News stories were breaking this week that a group linked to Islamic State (IS) had begun distributing anti-Christian leaflets in the east of Jerusalem. I have been sent a copy of the original leaflet...
View ArticleIsrael’s response to UN Gaza report
Watch Prime Minister Netanyahu’s spirited answer to the UNHCR’s biased report on Israel’s conflict with Hamas last year…
View ArticleThe BBC does it again!
First it was Channel 4’s Jon Snow with his unbelievably one-sided programme on Gaza; misrepresenting totally what last Summer’s war between Hamas and Israel was all about. This week it was the turn of...
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