Personally, one of the positive results of coronavirus-based social distancing and limited indoor meetings since last April has been the opportunity to spend time outside. Seated in a friend’s shady and leafy garden in Jerusalem several times a week for prayer services, I have enjoyed the scents of fruit trees and the melodic chirps and

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, penned these familiar words in the guest book of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin on October 6. The visit to the German memorial had been proposed by the senior UAE diplomat himself. Accompanied by Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi for meetings, they

Iraqi political commentator Hassan Al-’Alawi: “ wants peace with Israel. Today’s Iraq is a country that leans towards peace….Even normalization.” September 26, 2020, Asia TV (Iraq) Claudine Aoun-Roukoz, daughter and special advisor of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, wife of former Lebanese army Brigadier-General Chamel Roukoz MP: “Who among us does not support the principle of

A major stir among evangelicals occurred when American Pastor Andy Stanley of Northpoint Church in Atlanta suggested during a broadcast sermon that Christians need to “unhitch” (disconnect) from the Jewish Scriptures as Paul, Peter and James had done. He expanded that they unhitched the church from the worldview, value system and regulations of the Jewish

Steps towards peace with Israel have been taken by numerous Muslim nations. Their number and impact is growing rapidly. Euphoria is perceptible. Islam scholar Dr. Daniel Pipes goes so far as to declare the “Palestinian-Israeli conflict is over” (Middle East Forum, September 7, 2020). We are realists and will concede to the skeptics that this