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Michael KnightonThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When the American ambassador stood in Jerusalem this week and said that the decision about the city had been made by God some thirty-eight centuries...
The word doing the heaviest lifting in the present diplomacy is the word “peace,” and the prophets of Israel had a precise name for peace that is...
A friend who can starve you of bullets in your hour of need is not only a friend. He is also, whether he wills it or not, a master. Israel has spent...
There is a strange silence at the center of biblical prophecy, and once you notice it you cannot un-notice it. The most powerful nation in human...
“He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.” (Psalm 121:4) Standing beside the Emir of Qatar at the G7 summit in Evian this week,...
A few days ago, in a village in southern Lebanon emptied by months of war, Israeli soldiers came upon a note left behind by a family that had fled...
I have lived in Israel for twenty years. Long enough to know the particular silence that falls over this country when the sirens stop — not relief,...