Bridge of Grace

The “Jordan-is-Palestine” option for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is an idea that was beaten into silence by Israel’s enemies. Critics denounced the concept as preposterous, yet the idea has been resurrected from within Jordan itself. Because Jordan embodies the concept of Arab self-determination as contemplated by the San Remo Conference & the Palestine Mandate, & because most Jordanians already identify as Palestinian, it is time to recognize it as the Palestinian homeland and scrap the current peace process. Unlike relief organizations that seek to ameliorate the condition of wartime refugees through resettlement, UNRWA’s sole purpose is to maintain the statelessness of Arabs who became refugees in 1948, regardless of whether they now live in Judea, Samaria, Gaza, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria. According to UNRWA, Palestinian “refugees” are those Arabs who established residency within the Mandate between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost their homes and means of liveli...

In a world of diverse people and diverse ideas many have continually sought to answer the elusive question?   How can we coexist?   A popular idea that has emerged in our society of Absolute Relativism.   This essentially teaches that “Truth differs from person to person and culture to culture.   Thus, there is no absolute Truth except nothing is absolutely true.”   In essence, absolute Truth simply cannot be found.   This attitude has completely changed the definition of “Tolerance.”   Tolerance once meant that we would treat others with respect, even if we did not agree with each other’s views.   Now Tolerance is being defined as embracing all views and equally valuable and true (even if these views often make opposite claims) and refusing to accept this is means you are a narrow-minded bigot.   This is creating a society in which debating the validity of somebody else’s claims are seen as a nasty, personal attack, and its why debates of a ...

One of the most fundamental disagreements between Christianity and Islam is whether or not Jesus of Nazareth was crucified and killed on a Roman Cross.  The New Testament is very clear that Jesus was killed and crucified on a Roman Cross, whereas the Qur'an denies it: Surah 4:157 -" And [for] their saying, 'Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.'  And they did not kill him, nor crucify him; but they thought they did.  And indeed, those who differ over it are in doubt about it.  They have no knowledge of it except they following assumption, and they did not kill him for certain." While the world stresses the necessity to coexist, the simple truth is that the only way the Bible and Qur'an can coexist on this issue is if both are wrong, and the only way both can be wrong is if Jesus never existed, in which case both faiths are incorrect.  So which one is right?  Well, historical investigation sides with the Bible...

Two States is a fraud! I am a Jewish Palestinian Aborigine Refugee! “ My grandfather Natanael lived in Baghdad and owned a line of gasoline shipping trucks that transported fuel from British Iraq to Jewish Palestine. In 1950, my grandfather together with my parents and 150 thousand other Jews who lived in Iraq received an order to pack one suitcase and leave their home, their land, and their businesses, all taken away.” Iraqi Jewish Refugees   “The newly established Israeli government ransomed the Iraqi Jews. They had to pay the Iraqi regime a hefty sum "Per Iraqi Jewish scalp" and renounce their citizenship. The majority of Iraq's Jewry boarded chartered airplanes arriving to muddy tent and shack "Maabarot" cities in Israel.   A rich and established landowner my grandfather became destitute and lost everything he worked for his entire life. His individual and community sin was "Being Jews" He lost his Iraqi identity in a second even thoug...

THE MIDDLE EAST'S REAL APARTHEID By Efraim Karsh "Israel Apartheid Week his cities and campuses throughout the world.  This charge, of course, is not only completely false, but the inverse of the truth.  If apartheid is indeed a crime against humanity, Israel is actually the only apartheid-free state in the Middle East.  By contrast, apartheid has been an integral part of the Middle East for over a millennium, and the Arab Muslim nations continue to legally, politically, and socially enforce this discriminatory practice against their hapless minorities. Religious Intolerance:  Muslims historically viewed themselves as distinct from, and superior to, all non-Muslims.  Non-Muslims, known in history as "Dhimmis," never enjoyed equal rights under Islam.  Even non-ruling Muslim factions have been historically oppressed by their dominant co-religionists Ethnic inequality:  This legacy of intolerance extends beyond the religious sphere...

THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM: A REAL SOLUTION by Martin Sherman From Israel's point of view, the "two-state/land for peace" solution to the Palestinian conflict has proven to be a long, drawn out failure that should have been abandoned long ago. Any dispassionate evaluation of the events of the past two decades invariably leads one to accept the following conclusion: that the Palestinians seem far more focused on the destruction of the Jewish state than to the construction of a Pa lestinian one. So how do we solve the problem? Step #1: eliminate the UNRWA. The UNHCR and UNRWA has a widely different definition for the term "refugee" and widely divergent mandates for dealing with them. According to the High Commission's definition, the number of refuges decreases over time, while according to the UNRWA definition, the number increases. If we applied the UNHCR rules, the refugee number would drop from 5 million to 200,000. As long as the Palestinian refug...

"Sharon" is a beautiful Pakistani girl who is only 17 years old.   Like many young girls, she has hopes and dreams.  Her dream was to finish school and become a beautician.  In October of 2017, that dream was destroyed.  When walking to school a Muslim man began to stalk her and said he wanted to marry her.  If she refused, he would kidnap her.  One day he came to her home with a knife and attacked her father.  This vicious man told her father that he wanted "Sharon" and if he refused he would kill her.  "Sharon's" father went to police for help, but the police took no action.   This Muslim man's constant threats forced "Sharon" to leave home and school, For over two months she was in hiding, but the Muslim man continually threatened her family.  To keep her safe, "Sharon's" protectors could not tell her family where she is.  I cannot even begin to imagine their pain, having to be forci...

MIDDLE EAST PEACE HINGES ON REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN An enormous crowd of participants joined hundreds of prominent dignitaries from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. The entire convention voiced exuberant support for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its President Maryam Rajavi as the sole viable alternative for the Iranian regime.  Rajavi emphasized "The ultimate solutions to the crisis in the region is the overthrow of the Iranian regime by the Iranian people," she explained. "With [the recent presidential] election, the mullahs had intended to improve the regime's situation. But they divided and destabilized the regime.” She added emphasized on how her people continue to suffer from the mullahs' regime, highlighting their main demand for an end to the mullahs' rule. Iran continues its flagrant human rights violations at home, fuels sectarian wars and terrorism across the region, and pursues a highly dangerous nu...

WHEN AND WHY THE WEST BEGAN TO 'DEMONIZE' MUHAMMAD by Raymond Ibrahim, December 22, 2017   Many people believe that Christian demonization of Islam began with the Crusades.   In reality, Christian writers wrote about the aggressive and deplorable actions of Islamic armies as early as the mid-7 th century, not long after the death of Islamic founder Muhammad.   “ Around 650 A.D., John of Nikiu of Egypt recorded that Islamic armies were not just "enemies of God" but adherents of "the detestable doctrine of the beast."   The oldest parchment that alludes to a warlike prophet was written in 634—a mere two years after Muhammad's death. It has a man asking a learned Jewish scribe what he knows about "the prophet who has appeared among the Saracens." The elderly man, "with much groaning," responded: "He is deceiving. For do prophets come with swords and chariot?”   Muhammad is first mentioned by name in a Syriac fragme...

In the the town of Kasur, in the Punjab province of Pakistan just south of Lahore, hundreds of people, mostly Christians  but a few Muslims as well, are forced to work as slaves making bricks.  Slaves may work here for decades, possible even their entire lives.  For six days a week, everyone, even children, are forced to perform backbreaking labor 14-16 hours each day.  For a days labor, each family is paid only $10 a day.  It is impossible for these families to live on such a low wage, which forces them to borrow money from their landlord in order to survive.  This creates a system of debt slavery as the slaves have to keep borrowing money to survive, forcing them to remain trapped on this brick kiln for the rest of their lives. They only way they can be freed is if they pay off their debt, but even then they have a near impossible task of finding self-sustaining work in a society that hates them.  Slaves are forced to work if they are sick, inju...

THE ONE LESSON OF THE HOLOCAUST by Daniel Greenfield   Yom HaShoah comes and goes. A day for looking back at what has happened and a day for looking away from what will happen. Millions of dollars have been spent building memorials to the victims of the Holocaust, even as Iran is spending its millions on building another kind of memorial to the Holocaust, in the form of nuclear technology that will be used to finish that piece of history that the Islamic terror state claims never took place.   Millions more are spent, by some of the same groups that claim an interest in Holocaust education, on bringing Muslim migrants to America and Europe to carry out the promise of an Islamic apocalypse in which, as the Hadith of Sahih Bukhari states, "The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of A...

When the Camp David Accord ended in failure, Khaled Abu Toameh, an Israeli-Arab journalist for the Jerusalem Post asked Yasser Arafat why it failed. Arafat stated that it failed for two reasons: Reason #1-"First of all the Jews did not give me 100% of what I wanted." Reason #2-"The Jews wanted me to end the conflict after I get what I want. I can not do this because if I make peace, I will end up drinking tea up there with Anwar Sadat (The former Egyptian President who was a ssassinated for signing a peace treaty with Israel)." Khaled Abu Toameh states that any peace agreement that is signed will not be worth the paper it is written on because dictators don't believe in lasting peace. Yet people still wonder why the peace has not been reached. Link to Video Testimony

Why Would Fellow Muslims Kill Each Other  in the Name of Allah? Answer : Islam sets the Apostasy Bar Very Low There is also a consensus by all four schools of Sunni Islamic jurisprudence (i.e., Maliki, Hanbali, Hanafi, and Shafii), as well as classical Shiite jurists, that apostates from Islam must be put to death.  So leaving Islam for another faith, or no faith, is clearly a death sentence.   However, the Qur'an and Hadith literature illustrate that any Muslim who does not fully submit to all the commands and decrees of Muhammad can fall into the Apostate category.   Link to Article CNN: Nov. 25, 2017 Surah 4:65 - "But know by your Lord, they will not truly believe until make you (Muhammad) judge concerning over which they dispute among themselves and then find within themselves no discomfort from what you had judged and submit in full, willing submission.   Surah 9:73  - "O Prophet! strive hard against the unbeli...

“While American progressives remain in high dudgeon over a woman’s ‘right’ to ‘free’ government-provided contraception, a genuine woman’s rights issue has been unfolding in Morocco. In Larache, 16-year-old Amina Filali committed suicide after she was forced by a judge to marry. Whom did the judge force her to marry? Her rapist .” “ Article 475 of the Moroccan penal code states that a rapist may be exonerated of his crime if he marries his victim. The law is designed to protect the honor of the family, which is considered stained when a woman loses her virginity prior to getting married. Marrying one’s rapist ‘restores’ that honor and exonerates the rapist of his crime.” “Amina Filali couldn’t cope with such ‘reasonableness.’   She swallowed rat poison to escape her court-mandated fate.   She joins countless other Muslim women who have died or been killed for honor’s sake. Such “honor” is utterly incompatible with Western values. The multiculturalists, whose entir...

The story began 15 years ago, when S., a Jewish girl from Jerusalem, met an Arab who exploited her naiveté and personal distress. Shortly afterwards, the two married and moved to an Arab village. Only after suffering severe domestic abuse that almost led to her death did S. turn to the anti-assimilation group  Yad L'Achim  and ask for help from the organization. A social worker of the  Yad L'Achim  rescue department was assigned care of S. and her son, and maintained telephone contact with her, with the conversations being conducted cautiously while the Arab husband went to work. In a complex operation, the organization rescued S. and her son from the heart of a hostile Arab village in Samaria and transferred them to a well-guarded and well-appointed hiding place. Under the guidance of  Yad L'Achim 's legal advisors, S. filed a complaint with the police about her Arab husband's violence, and when her husband was brought to trial and imprisoned for a pr...

Mainstream media outlets like to complain about "fake news" emanating from sources other than themselves, but the mainstream media itself has taken fake news to new heights in its recent coverage of Jerusalem. Leading media outlets have asserted, inter alia, that Jews never cared about Jerusalem until a few decades ago, that Jews didn't live in East Jerusalem before 1967, and that Jordan protected freedom of worship in the city. East Jerusalem was "exclusively Arab" in 1967 only because Jordan had ethnically cleansed every last Jew from the area 19 years earlier. Prior to this ethnic cleansing, Jews lived there almost continuously for 3,000 years and constituted an absolute majority of the city's residents for the past century. During the 19 years when King Hussein ruled East Jerusalem, not one Jew was even allowed to visit the city or the Holy Sites.  The Jordanians razed synagogues in East Jerusalem, vandalized Jewish cemeteries, and used the gra...

"Mark" is a middle-aged family man who grew up as a Shia Muslim.  When he was a child, his family taught him not to shake hands with Christians or eat with them, if so, you become dirty and unholy and that he must read Qur’an and become clean.  His family continually taught him to to hate Christians, but he started to ask himself why he must hate Christians.  In his heart, he knew we were all human.  "Mark's family forced him to go to Mosque & learn the Qur’an, if he refused to go, he was beaten.  Though he was able to recite the Qur'an in Arabic, he did not understand the language, so he didn't even know what he was reading & reciting.   Over time, "Mark" started friendship with Christians.  He wanted to understand differences between the faiths.   However, they were afraid to discuss it as they  feared he would accuse them of blasphemy and get thrown in jail, or worse.  Nevertheless, "Mark" wanted to know the tr...

In the year 2005, a Christian man named "Roger" married his Muslim coworker "Samantha."  Prior to their marriage, the two were friends and "Samantha" became interested in Jesus.  After studying the Bible, she began to understand God.  She found the Lord's Prayer to be beautiful.  Fearful of her changing views, her Muslim family ordered her to quit her job and to stay away from "Roger" and his family.  She tried to change their hearts, but could not, so she ran away from home, married "Roger," and accepted Christianity.  Samantha's family tried to get her back by claiming that "Roger" kidnapped her, but courts ruled in the couple's favor.  Infuriated by their daughter's actions, her family vowed revenge.  Fearing they would commit an honor killing, "Roger and "Samantha" fled their native city.  "Roger's" family also had to flee as they too began receiving threats on their life.   ...

CHILDREN DYING TO KILL by Eli E. Hertz "... We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children.... We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us." — Golda Meir, former Israeli Prime Minister, 1972. What kind of a society consciously and purposely sacrifices its own youth for political gain and tactical advantage? Suicide bombers are an escalation of a small-arms war introduced during the first  Intifada  and championed by Palestinian leaders, even prior to Arafat's arrival from Tunis in July 1994. Today the overwhelming majority of Palestinian Arabs nurture a blind hatred of Israel. They created a cultural milieu of vengeance, violence and death - preparing their children to be sacrifices in a death cult. Proud parents dress up their toddlers not in clown costumes, but with suicide belts, and countless others celebrate their children's deaths with tradi...