Renewed Israeli-Palestinian
peace negotiations have almost no chance of success, and are being carried
out for the sole benefit of US President Barack Obama and his hope of
reelection.
So said Syrian President
Bashar Assad during a weekend visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran.
“The talks are only aimed
at supporting Obama’s position inside the US,” said Assad shortly after
meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Assad and Ahmadinejad vowed
to counter US-brokered “peace” efforts by increasing their support for
“resistance,” a common reference to Palestinian and other Muslim terrorism
targeting Israel
and its Jewish population.
A growing number of
commentators are insisting that, like George W. Bush before him, Obama is
only focusing so heavily on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because he
needs a major diplomatic achievement to shore up his faltering presidency.
Israeli education returns to the Bible
Israel’s
Ministry of Education recently discovered that a shocking percentage of
students were graduating high school with little or no knowledge of the
Bible, despite the fact that it is an official school subject in Israel.
For years, teachers have
been able to pretty much pick and choose what they taught about the Bible,
and to use various study aids enabling students to go through the entirety
of their school years without ever actually opening a Bible.
That is about to change.
“Many students today
complete their matriculation exams without knowing the book of Genesis,
Abraham and the Hebrew Prophets,” lamented Drora Levy, national Bible
supervisor in the ministry, in remarks to Israel’s Ynet news portal. “The
book of Genesis is the Bible’s genetic code, our foundation as a people.
Without it we have no roots, no promise.”
According to new ministry
guidelines, all schools in Israel will be required to teach the Bible in
chronological order, and without study aids, meaning the students will
actually have to read from the Bible in order to learn the material.
“The students will learn
the Bible in the appropriate manner,” insisted Levy.
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'Middle East peace talks only serve Obama'
Renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations have almost no chance of success, and are being carried out for the sole benefit of US President Barack Obama and his hope of reelection.
So said Syrian President Bashar Assad during a weekend visit to the Iranian capital of Tehran.
“The talks are only aimed at supporting Obama’s position inside the US,” said Assad shortly after meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Assad and Ahmadinejad vowed to counter US-brokered “peace” efforts by increasing their support for “resistance,” a common reference to Palestinian and other Muslim terrorism targeting Israel and its Jewish population.
A growing number of commentators are insisting that, like George W. Bush before him, Obama is only focusing so heavily on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because he needs a major diplomatic achievement to shore up his faltering presidency.
Israeli education returns to the Bible
Israel’s Ministry of Education recently discovered that a shocking percentage of students were graduating high school with little or no knowledge of the Bible, despite the fact that it is an official school subject in Israel.
For years, teachers have been able to pretty much pick and choose what they taught about the Bible, and to use various study aids enabling students to go through the entirety of their school years without ever actually opening a Bible.
That is about to change.
“Many students today complete their matriculation exams without knowing the book of Genesis, Abraham and the Hebrew Prophets,” lamented Drora Levy, national Bible supervisor in the ministry, in remarks to Israel’s Ynet news portal. “The book of Genesis is the Bible’s genetic code, our foundation as a people. Without it we have no roots, no promise.”
According to new ministry guidelines, all schools in Israel will be required to teach the Bible in chronological order, and without study aids, meaning the students will actually have to read from the Bible in order to learn the material.
“The students will learn the Bible in the appropriate manner,” insisted Levy.
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