Tamar Ansh
With 8 whole days of Chanukah looming ahead, here are some holiday ideas for you to try out. They are great for Chanukah parties or get-togethers with family and friends, or even just a quiet night with your own, after the candles have been lit…
GREEK DAIRY SQUASH SOUFFLÉ PIE
Serves 4
4 eggs or 5 egg whites
3 T. olive oil
½ cup low fat cottage cheese
1 tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper
½ tsp. parsley flakes
1 ¼ cups white or whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 medium sized green zucchini, scrubbed, unpeeled and sliced into thin rounds
1 medium sized yellow zucchini, prepared same as above
1 red pepper, sliced thinly
1 small red Spanish onion, sliced into thin rounds
8 green pitted olives, halved or sliced
1 large, firm tomato, sliced
½ cup tofu, shredded, optional
½ cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Preheat the oven to 350°F / 180°C.
Prepare a deep round 9 or 10 inch pan or deep pie plate by spraying it with some olive oil spray. Set aside.
Mix together the eggs, olive oil, cottage cheese, salt, pepper, parsley flakes until smooth. Add in the flour and baking ...   more »

Irwin Cotler
Zoltan Kluger, Reuters
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the UN Partition Resolution of Nov. 29, 1947. It is sometimes forgotten that this was the first ever blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution. Regrettably, while Jewish leaders accepted the resolution, Arab leaders did not, and by their own acknowledgement, declared war on the nascent Jewish state.
Had the Partition Resolution been accepted, there would have been no Arab-Israeli war, no refugees and none of the pain of these last 60 years. Annapolis could now be the site of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Yet the revisionist Mid-East narrative continues to hold that there was only one victim population, Palestinian refugees, and that Israel was responsible for the Palestinian naqba (catastrophe) of 1947.
The result was that the pain and plight of 850,000 Jews uprooted and displaced from Arab countries -- the forgotten exodus -- has been expunged from the historical narrative these past 60 years. Moreover, the revisionist narrative has not only eclipsed the forgotten exodus, but denies that it was also a forced exodus, for the Arab countries not only went to war to extinguish the fledgling Jewish state, but also ...   more »

By REGAN E. DOHERTY,
A biblical wall that has eluded archaeologists for years has finally been found, according to an Israeli scholar. A team of archaeologists in Jerusalem has uncovered what they believe to be part of a wall mentioned in the Bible's Book of Nehemiah.
The discovery, made in Jerusalem's ancient City of David, came as a result of a rescue attempt on a tower which was in danger of collapse, said Eilat Mazar, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research and educational institute, and leader of the dig.
Artifacts including pottery shards and arrowheads found under the tower suggested that both the tower and the nearby wall are from the 5th century B.C., the time of Nehemiah, according to Mazar. Scholars previously thought the wall dated to the Hasmonean period (142-37 B.C.).
The findings suggest that the wall is actually part of the same city wall the Bible says Nehemiah rebuilt, Mazar said. The Book of Nehemiah (chapters 3-6) gives a detailed description of construction of the walls, destroyed earlier by the Babylonians.
"We were amazed," she said, noting that the discovery was made at a time when many scholars argued that ...   more »

In meeting at Labor Party headquarters, defense minister says 'next year will be very busy – both in the political and defense arenas.' Criticizes Minister Shaul Mofaz and former party chair Peretz
Attila Somfalvi
From Annapolis to the Labor Party: Minister of Defense and Labor Party Chairman Ehud Barak Thursday night said that "Israel must be anywhere there is a chance for settling (the conflict) or work towards peace."
In a meeting at party headquarters in Tel Aviv, Barak spoke of his participation in the Annapolis conference: "No prime minister can allow himself not to be in a place like that and work for a breakthrough. The negotiations were neither simple nor easy. We will need to remain level-headed to safeguard Israel's interests."  
"In discussions with the Americans, Israel's security concerns were raised," he continued. "There are many issues on the table, but I find (the Americans) attentive, and I also spoke with the Russian foreign minister. Their position is not far off from that of the US on several issues."  
On the winning side
Regarding the future, Barak said "the next year will be very busy – both in the political and defense arenas, and difficult decisions ...   more »

The United States, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a dozen or so other mostly "Islamic interested parties" met this week in Annapolis, Md., to discuss the age-old "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."
It is a question that has perplexed mankind ever since God declared to Abraham that He chose his second son Isaac instead of his first-born, Ishmael, to be heir to the covenants He made with Abraham.
The Jewish nation has been under siege for the crime of being Jewish since Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomon's Temple and carried its treasures (and its people) away to Babylon. For most of the past 2,000 years, wherever the Jews set up a community in exile, pogroms, persecution and destruction have soon followed.
This is precisely what Moses predicted would happen to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob after the second destruction of the state of Israel:
"Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known – wood and stone. And among those nations you shall find no rest, nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting ...   more »

By Shlomo Shamir
In a sudden about face, the United States on Friday withdrew a United Nations resolution endorsing this week's agreement by Israeli and Palestinian leaders to try to reach a Mideast peace settlement by the end of 2008 after Israeli objected to it.
Israel expressed opposition to the American initiative to pursue Security Council support for the proposed resolution because it does not consider most of the member states of the council to be friendly toward Israel.
U.S. deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff informed the Security Council that the United States was pulling the resolution from consideration less than 24 hours after U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad introduced it and welcomed the very positive response from council members.
UN sources said that Israel expressed dissatisfaction over the fact that Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to the UN, did not give it advance notice of its intentions to pursue UN adoption of decisions made at the Middle East peace conference held in Annapolis, Maryland earlier this week.
"It's not the proper venue," Israel's deputy ambassador Daniel Carmon told reporters after Friday's council meeting. "We feel that the appreciation of Annapolis has other means of being expressed than in a resolution."
"We ...   more »

Israel should drop its preconditions and immediately resume peace talks with Syria, Labor MK Danny Yatom said Saturday.
In an interview with Israel Radio, Yatom added that it would be easier to reach a deal with Syria than with the Palestinians, and that progress with Syria could accelerate Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
It was not immediately clear whether Yatom was speaking on behalf of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, or if was expressing his personal view. Israel Radio said Yatom was briefed by Barak after the defense minister returned from the Annapolis conference.
The conference focused on the Israeli-Palestinian track, but Syria also attended, raising hopes that it could be persuaded to break its alliance with Iran if talks with Israel resume.
An Annapolis follow-up conference, tentatively scheduled for Moscow in the spring, may address the Israeli-Syrian conflict directly.
Yatom, a former chief of the Mossad, said the government should drop a series of preconditions and start talks with Syria immediately.
In the past, Israel has demanded that the Syrian government withdraw support for terrorist groups, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah.
In exchange for peace, Syria wants Israel to return the entire Golan Heights. Yatom said that in March 2000, then-US President ...   more »

A Syrian state-run newspaper on Saturday described this week's US-sponsored Mideast peace conference as a "defeat" for the Palestinians and for peace in the region.
In a surprise move lauded by participants at the time, Syria took part in the conference in Annapolis last week where Israel and the Palestinians announced that peace talks would resume after a violent seven-year freeze and agreed to try and reach an agreement by the end of 2008.
"The US administration has the right to consider the Annapolis meeting a brilliant victory, but not for the Palestinian people ... only for Israel," said the front page editorial in the Tishrin daily.
"While the Bush administration and Israel may consider what happened and what could happen to destroy the Palestinian cause a victory, we consider it a defeat for a just and comprehensive peace," Tishrin said. That peace, it added, can only be achieved by ending Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
The newspaper, which reflects government views, criticized US President George W. Bush's statement at the opening session of the Annapolis meeting in which he referred to Israel as a "Jewish state," calling it a "consecration of Israeli racism."
It described the conference as a ...   more »

By Adam Leech
PORTSMOUTH — Presidential hopeful Delaware Sen. Joe Biden stated unequivocally that he will move to impeach President Bush if he bombs Iran without first gaining congressional approval.
Biden spoke in front of a crowd of approximately 100 at a candidate forum held Thursday at Seacoast Media Group. The forum focused on the Iraq war and foreign policy. When an audience member expressed fear of a war with Iran, Biden said he does not typically engage in threats, but had no qualms about issuing a direct warning to the Oval Office.
"The president has no authority to unilaterally attack Iran, and if he does, as Foreign Relations Committee chairman, I will move to impeach," said Biden, whose words were followed by a raucous applause from the local audience.
Biden said he is in the process of meeting with constitutional law experts to prepare a legal memorandum saying as much and intends to send it to the president.
When local resident Joel Carp asked Biden why not impeach now, given what has already been done, Biden said it was a valid point, but might not be constitutionally valid and potentially counterproductive. A case for impeachment must have clear evidence, ...   more »

Discusses being booted from George Galloway's office
WND Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein will be a guest Sunday on Fox News Channel's "Hannity's America."
Klein will be discussing his episode made public Friday in which leftist British lawmaker George Galloway abruptly booted Klein and radio talk-host Rusty Humphries from his London office and handed them over to Parliament police, claiming the two were Zionist operatives who had breached security by falsely presenting themselves as reporters.
Klein is author of the new book, "Schmoozing with Terrorists," subtitled "From Hollywood to the Holy Land, Jihadists Reveal their Global Plans – To a Jew!"
Among the highlights of "Schmoozing with Terrorists:"
Madonna and Britney Spears stoned to death? What life in the U.S. would be like if the terrorists win.
Terror leaders dish on loudmouth, antiwar celebrities like Rosie O'Donnell, Sean Penn, Susan Sarandan, Jane Fonda, and Richard Gere and even sound off about American talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Jihadists list their U.S. election favorites, mouth off about politicians and even threaten to kill one 2008 presidential candidate.
Klein and friends confront well-armed senior terrorists about whether suicide bombers really get 72 virgins after their deadly operation.
A ...   more »

Muslim lobby group has troubling record of terror arrests
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, says its aim is "to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."
Maybe so, but federal prosecutors have also named the group an "unindicted co-conspirator" in a plot to fund the terrorist group Hamas, several of CAIR's leaders have been convicted on terror charges since 9/11, and one of its founders has reportedly declared that America should be governed by Islamic sharia law.
Adding to the controversy over the high-profile lobby group, CAIR is now being sued by radio talk show host Michael Savage over CAIR's attacks on him and what he says constitute illegal use of his broadcasts.  
The lawsuit alleges CAIR is a "political vehicle of international terrorism" that seeks to do "material harm to those voices who speak against the violent agenda of CAIR's clients." Filed in U.S. District Court in California, the suit seeks damages equal to the ongoing donations from CAIR supporters "who expect CAIR to act in this manner in exchange for continuing financial support" as well as "actual damages according to ...   more »

While mega-pastor Rick Warren has joined a group of 100 church leaders calling for interfaith dialogue and the building of "common ground" with Muslims, he has a slightly different outlook toward Christians with whom he disagrees.
In his latest missive to fellow pastors, he writes: "You've got to protect the unity of your church. If that means getting rid of troublemakers, do it."
"As pastors, as shepherds of God's people, it's our job to protect our congregations from Satan's greatest weapon – disunity," he writes. "It's not always easy, but it's what we've been called to do."
I may not be pastor of a mega-church, but, I've got to tell you, Rick Warren's priorities and sensibilities and his biblical literacy and standards are upside-down, inside-out and twisted beyond anything remotely connected with Scripture. And I'm not afraid of his threats of ex-communication from the new papacy he apparently seeks to create.
Warren cites Paul's advice in II Timothy 2:23-26 as the basis for when and how "pastors" should draw the line on disagreements among the flock. However, Paul was addressing Timothy not as a "pastor" or "priest," but rather as an itinerant evangelist doing his utmost to spread the Gospel ...   more »

by John Higgins under: The Falling Away, Days of Lot
News Date: Ruth Gledhill,
Days of Lot
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.”
—Jude 1:7
The Falling Away
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;”
— 2Thessalonians 2:3
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, presided at a “secret” Eucharist yesterday for lesbian and gay clergy in the Church of England.
At the service, in London, he gave a talk on “present realities and future possibilities for lesbians and gay men in the Church”. Conservative church members condemned the Archbishop, claiming that the service would make him the “focus of division”.
The venue, originally scheduled to be St Peter’s, Eaton Square, Belgravia, was changed to avoid media attention after news of the meeting emerged on the Church Society website this year. The meeting was organised by the Clergy Consultation, a support group for gay clergy, ordinands ...   more »

Chuck Baldwin Chuck Baldwin
Please consider this scenario. Several youngsters are drowning in a neighborhood lake. They are thrashing the water and crying out for help. There is a large, heavy raft nearby that could be used to rescue the drowning youths, but it would take several people to haul it into the water and then row it out to the victims.
Now, as it happens, there are more than enough people standing around the lake whose combined efforts would be more than adequate to rescue the drowning young people. Instead of grabbing the life raft and heading out to save the victims, however, they all start making speeches.
One by one, the would-be rescuers holler out that they believe in life; they believe in saving the lives of the drowning young people. They are all "pro-life." The only problem is, none of them grabs the raft and actually attempts to save the victims. So, here is the sixty-four million dollar question: are these people really "pro-life"? Do they really want to save the victims, or are they simply pro-life pretenders who only want to talk about saving lives but not actually do anything about it?
There is no one ...   more »