Israel-Turkey Relations

Israel And Turkey Make Nice: 26 Feb 2013 - Israel has agreed to deliver (after a three year delay) $25 million of electronics needed to complete four Turkish AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control) aircraft. The delay was caused by increasing hostility between the Islamic politicians in Turkey and Israel. This led to a sharp decline in Israeli military equipment sales to Turkey. Read more>> 

Israel 'seeks to repair ties with Turkey': 27 Feb 2013 - Israel is reported to have sent messages to the Turkish government in recent days saying it's interested in restoring "a more positive dynamic" in badly strained relations with its onetime strategic ally. Read more>>

Turkish PM Labels Zionism ‘Crime Against Humanity’ at UN Event: 28 Feb 2013 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again verbally attacked Israel in a public forum, this time at a United Nations conference in Vienna. Read more>>

Israel, Turkey row over Zionism deepens rift between ex-allies: 28 Feb 2013 - Israel's prime minister accused his Turkish counterpart on Thursday of making "dark and false" statements by calling Zionism a crime against humanity - comments likely to hit efforts to repair ties between the two former allies. Read more>>

Netanyahu Condemns Erdogan's Statements on Zionism: 1 March 2013 - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply condemned on Thursday evening Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement about Zionism and its comparison to fascism.  Read more>>

U.S. Finds Erdogan Comments on Zionism ‘Offensive,’ Official Says: 1 March 2013 - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States found a comment by Turkey's prime minister, likening Zionism to crimes against humanity, "objectionable", overshadowing their talks on the crisis in neighboring Syria. Read more>>

The Two-State Solution

The two-state solution has been an ongoing idea since the 1930's - even before the State of Israel was formed in 1948.  Though the solution has had different parameters over time, the concept has remained the same - establishing coexisting states of Israel and of Palestine.  For various reasons over the years proposals have been rejected by one or multiple parties, and this solution for Middle East peace remains to be seen.  

The Bible lays out a plan for peace, not only in the Middle East, but throughout the whole world. Despite the view of many that the two-state solution is the only realistic way to bring peace to the Middle East, it is not.  It is only the coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment on God's kingdom on earth that will provide an enduring solution to this ongoing struggle between the Jews and Arabs.  

Read more about this in the online resource 

Who's Land? The Bible Answer to the Palestinian Question.  


The two-state solution in the news

EU Labels Jerusalem Construction "Provocative": The European Union is targeting Jewish construction in Jerusalem, calling it “systematic, deliberate and provocative.” Read more>>

UN peace process envoy to Haaretz: Two-state solution 'on life support: 

The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process describes 2013 as a critical year for the two-state solution, saying Israel and the Palestinians have reached 'make or break time.' Read more>>

The history of the two-state solution 

Wikipedia entry about the two-state solution  

Opinions on the two-state solution

• Five Reasons Why the two-state solution won't die 

• Why a two-state solution will never work

• William Hague: Two-state Mid-East peace chance slipping away

• In Israel, Time Is Running Out for a Two-State Solution

Israel tests missile defense

Israel successfully tests Arrow 3 missile defense:

The Ministry of Defense carried out its first successful test of the Arrow 3 missile defense interceptor on Monday morning, firing it into space from a coastal military launching pad in central Israel. Read more >>

The Existence of God

"Veneration, conscientiousness, faith, and hope are the highest and noblest features of the human mentality.... They lead to devotion, prayer, worship, and moral heroism. They all point to God. They have no adequate object apart from Him.... the higher faculties of the human brain prove the existence of God, as plainly as the human eye proves the existence of light."

R. Roberts, Is there a God? p.8 originally published in "Good Company"

A United Knesset

Israel's Knesset is united for the first time since 1967 In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel. Forty-five years later, in the middle of the night of May 7-8, 2012, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shocked his country by bringing the main opposition party, Kadima, into a national unity government. Shocking because just hours earlier, the Knesset was expediting a bill to call early elections in September. Read more>>

U.S. Warns Israel on Strike: U.S. defense leaders are increasingly concerned that Israel is preparing to take military action against Iran, over U.S. objections, and have stepped up contingency planning to safeguard U.S. facilities in the region in case of a conflict. Read more>>

Impending war?

Israel Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to rally support in his cabinet for an attack on Iran, according to government sources. Read more>>

Israel test-fires missile as Iran debate rages: Israel test-fired a missile from a military base on Wednesday, two days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of the "direct and heavy threat" posed by Iran's nuclear program. Read more>>

Iran Rattles Saber at Israel, US: Iran would cause serious damage to the United States and Israel should Jewish state strike the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, Iran's top military official said on Wednesday. Read more>>