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Palestine

  • by Rex Sexton
When the Gaza flotilla tried to resist the Israeli navy, it led to a shootout with at least nine dead and dozens wounded. Was the flotilla a genuine effort to help the needy or a worldwide publicity stunt?
  • by Rodney Hall
The new Middle East peace process gets off to a rocky start as international pressure rises in an effort to bring peace to the region. Israeli and U.S. relationships are at their lowest level in years and the European Union is pushing to become more involved, a shift that could lead to fulfillment of critical end-time prophecies.
  • by Jerold Aust, John Ross Schroeder
The European Union resorted to ambiguous, vague threats against Israel's new prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, even before he took office, "to pressure him to support the 'two-state solution,' which calls for the creation of an Arab state of Palestine inside the current borders of the Jewish State" ("EU: Accept 'Two-States' or Else," Arutz Sheva Israel National News, March 30, 2009).
  • by Robin Webber
Down through the ages, there seemingly has been no way to get around the knotty issues that have confronted the Holy Land. Many have tried to work around the edges, but nobody has sliced through the big issues to create a road to lasting peace.
  • by Gary Petty
Jerusalem, although holy to three major religions, is a city of seemingly endless strife with no equitable solutions. What does the future hold for this long-troubled city?
  • by Darris McNeely
Until Jesus Christ returns and makes Jerusalem the capital of His world ruling kingdom, that city will not experience any lasting peace.
  • by Rex Sexton
In June 1967 the tiny nation of Israel crushed an attempted invasion by Egypt, Jordan and Syria in less than a week. Israel's complete military victory should have ended its security problems. But in the forty years since that conflict the Middle East has been anything but secure. Peace was not victorious.
  • by Good News
The introduction to The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization states that "Jews are no longer cut off, as they once were over a century ago, from their fellow—Jews in what were then distant lands.