http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/israeli-council-to-recommend-memorial-day-reading-omit-god/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/israeli-council-to-recommend-memorial-day-reading-omit-god/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 16:15:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133943 Religion Clause Blog: Haaretz reports today that in Israel, the Public Council for Soldiers' Commemoration will recommend to Defense Minister Ehud Barak that in Memorial Day ceremonies at military cemeteries the service use a remembrance reading that does not mention God. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/israeli-council-to-recommend-memorial-day-reading-omit-god/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/iranian-calls-for-islamic-awakening-to-destroy-israel/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/iranian-calls-for-islamic-awakening-to-destroy-israel/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133920 Israel National News: An Iranian official called this week for an ‘Islamic Awakening’ movement to help Palestinian Authority Arabs “demolish the Zionist regime”, the IRNA news agency reported. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/17/iranian-calls-for-islamic-awakening-to-destroy-israel/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/egypt-brotherhood-takes-harder-line-in-campaign/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/egypt-brotherhood-takes-harder-line-in-campaign/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 19:22:07 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133728 Fox News: "We are seeing the dream of the Islamic Caliphate coming true at the hands of Mohammed Morsi," the cleric, Safwat Hegazy, blared from his podium. "The capital of the Caliphate and the United Arab States is Jerusalem, God willing," he added . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/15/egypt-brotherhood-takes-harder-line-in-campaign/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/egypts-extremist-islamists-flex-their-muscles/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/egypts-extremist-islamists-flex-their-muscles/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 21:14:34 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=133095 AP: Militants who have vowed allegiance to al-Qaida attack security forces in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula close to Israel and enjoy unchallenged control of two border towns. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/07/egypts-extremist-islamists-flex-their-muscles/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/israel-calls-up-6-reserve-battalions-more-authorized/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/israel-calls-up-6-reserve-battalions-more-authorized/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 19:47:08 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132752 The Times of Israel: Knesset approves IDF request to call up a further 16 battalions if needed ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/05/02/israel-calls-up-6-reserve-battalions-more-authorized/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:16:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=132461 AP on Findlaw: Israel's Foreign Ministry has criticized a U.N. statement that places the country on a list of nations it says are moving to further restrict advocacy and rights groups. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/30/israel-says-inclusion-on-un-list-absurd/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/palestinian-sentenced-to-death-for-selling-a-home-to-jews/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/palestinian-sentenced-to-death-for-selling-a-home-to-jews/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:45:45 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131810 Weekly Standard: Former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala has reportedly been sentenced to death by the Palestinian Authority for selling a Hebron home to Jews. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/23/palestinian-sentenced-to-death-for-selling-a-home-to-jews/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/jewish-movement-in-israel-oks-gay-rabbis/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/jewish-movement-in-israel-oks-gay-rabbis/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:16:26 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131710 FoxNews: The Conservative Jewish seminary in Israel says it will allow gays and lesbians to become rabbis . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/20/jewish-movement-in-israel-oks-gay-rabbis/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/defying-ban-egyptian-christians-visit-jerusalem/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/defying-ban-egyptian-christians-visit-jerusalem/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:28:36 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=131069 AP: After the death of their spiritual leader, more than 2,000 Egyptian Copts have poured into the Holy Land for the Easter holidays, defying a ban he imposed on visiting Jerusalem and other Israeli-controlled areas. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/13/defying-ban-egyptian-christians-visit-jerusalem/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/israel-a-christian-haven-amid-islamic-persecution/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/israel-a-christian-haven-amid-islamic-persecution/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:00:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130807 CBN: The so-called Arab Spring has given a big boost to radical Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood. For Christians, it's been a much different story. Believers in Jesus are suffering major persecution throughout the Middle East and North Africa. But there is one place left in the region where they don't have to fear: Israel. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/israel-a-christian-haven-amid-islamic-persecution/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/exiled-son-of-shah-of-iran-calls-for-israels-help/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/exiled-son-of-shah-of-iran-calls-for-israels-help/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:25:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130741 Boston Globe (AP): The exiled son of the toppled shah of Iran called on Israel not to bomb his home country, but rather to help the opposition to the ruling system, in an interview aired Monday on Israeli television. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/09/exiled-son-of-shah-of-iran-calls-for-israels-help/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/rocket-fired-from-egypt-hits-israeli-city-of-eilat/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/rocket-fired-from-egypt-hits-israeli-city-of-eilat/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:55:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130497 BBC: A Grad rocket has landed in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, but has caused no damage or injuries, Israeli security officials said. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/05/rocket-fired-from-egypt-hits-israeli-city-of-eilat/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/international-criminal-court-palestine-not-a-state/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/international-criminal-court-palestine-not-a-state/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:34:56 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130392 One News Now: "The ICC prosecutor decided that Palestine is not a state, and because it's not a state, they can't file charges against Israel at the International Criminal Court," the attorney reports. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/04/international-criminal-court-palestine-not-a-state/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/u-s-state-department-wont-say-jerusalem-is-in-israel/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/u-s-state-department-wont-say-jerusalem-is-in-israel/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:45:58 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129784 The Washington Free Bacon: Keeping up with its longstanding policy, the State Department refuses to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital—despite a U.S. law stating otherwise. Obama faced criticism on the issue last year, when it was revealed that the White House had scrubbed all references to Jerusalem being part of the Jewish state from a collection of photos on its website. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/28/u-s-state-department-wont-say-jerusalem-is-in-israel/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/organ-recipient-testifies-at-trial-in-kosovo/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/organ-recipient-testifies-at-trial-in-kosovo/#comments Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:14:39 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129443 AP: A Canadian man testified Friday that he paid $105,000 ((EURO)80,000) to an Israeli citizen in 2008 to organize a kidney transplant in a Kosovo clinic allegedly used by an international organ trafficking network for dozens of illegal operations. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/23/organ-recipient-testifies-at-trial-in-kosovo/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/christian-churches-sue-in-israel-challenging-discriminatory-property-tax-law/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/christian-churches-sue-in-israel-challenging-discriminatory-property-tax-law/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:42:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=129287 Religion Clause Blog: . . . all the properties of synagogues, including space used for commercial purposes, are exempt from real estate tax. However, for other religions, only prayer halls are exempt. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/21/christian-churches-sue-in-israel-challenging-discriminatory-property-tax-law/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-protest-school-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-protest-school-ruling/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:35:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128807 Washington Times: Tens of thousands of black-clad ultra-Orthodox Jews staged mass demonstrations on Thursday to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-protest-school-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/palestinian-authority-refuses-to-recognize-baptist-church-in-bethlehem/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/palestinian-authority-refuses-to-recognize-baptist-church-in-bethlehem/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:00:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128790 IsraelNationalNews.com: The Palestinian Authority declared a Baptist Church in Bethlehem to be unlawful and said that it will no longer receive rights as a religious institution, Algemeiner reported. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/15/palestinian-authority-refuses-to-recognize-baptist-church-in-bethlehem/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/israel-calls-off-legislators-us-trip-after-snub/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/israel-calls-off-legislators-us-trip-after-snub/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:51:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128416 AP: Israel's parliamentary speaker called off a legislative delegation's visit to the U.S. after Washington denied an ultranationalist lawmaker a visa, citing his links to a terror group. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/13/israel-calls-off-legislators-us-trip-after-snub/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/israel-and-the-plight-of-mideast-christians/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/israel-and-the-plight-of-mideast-christians/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:24:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128140 WSJ: Just as Jews were once expelled from Arab lands, Christians are now being forced from countries they have long inhabited. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/israel-and-the-plight-of-mideast-christians/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/pat-buchanan-is-the-gop-becoming-a-war-party/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/pat-buchanan-is-the-gop-becoming-a-war-party/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:10:32 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=128138 Townhall: Today's GOP front-runners -- Newt, Mitt and Rick Santorum -- all clearly believe that a warlike stance toward Iran will appeal to the evangelical base and to Jewish voters who went for Obama by 57 points in 2008. But they are rolling the dice with a war-weary America. Ron Paul, whose youth vote the party needs and who receives the largest number of contributions from the military, has split with them on Iran. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/09/pat-buchanan-is-the-gop-becoming-a-war-party/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/israel-court-rules-lesbian-couple-can-both-be-recognized-as-mothers/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/israel-court-rules-lesbian-couple-can-both-be-recognized-as-mothers/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:33:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127723 Jurist: Israel's Ramat Gan Family Court ruled Sunday that a lesbian couple can both be recognized as mothers of a child they had together. The women received permission from the Health Ministry [official website] in 2006 to conceive the child by fertilizing one woman's egg with the sperm of an anonymous donor and implanting the embryo in the other woman's uterus. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/06/israel-court-rules-lesbian-couple-can-both-be-recognized-as-mothers/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/islamists-attack-egypt-israel-gas-pipeline-for-12th-time/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/islamists-attack-egypt-israel-gas-pipeline-for-12th-time/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:18:43 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127704 Boston Globe (AP): Egyptian security officials say militants have again blown up a gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that transports fuel to neighboring Israel. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/islamists-attack-egypt-israel-gas-pipeline-for-12th-time/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/israeli-mail-carriers-object-to-delivering-new-testaments/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/israeli-mail-carriers-object-to-delivering-new-testaments/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:01:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127647 Religion Clause Blog: In Israel, mail carriers in the city of Ramat Gan are refusing to deliver thousands of copies of the New Testament translated into Hebrew that have been mailed to city residents. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/israeli-mail-carriers-object-to-delivering-new-testaments/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/obama-makes-case-against-striking-iran-now/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/obama-makes-case-against-striking-iran-now/#comments Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:42:21 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=127636 AP: "Loose talk of war" only plays into Iran's hands, Obama said Sunday. On Monday, he will try to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to slow quickening pressure among many in his hawkish government to attack Iran's disputed nuclear development sites. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/03/05/obama-makes-case-against-striking-iran-now/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/israel-rise-in-single-mothers-giving-birth/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/israel-rise-in-single-mothers-giving-birth/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:44:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126942 Jerusalem Post: Statistics bureau: Some 4,900 single Jewish women in Israel gave birth in 2010, nearly double the number who gave birth in 2000. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/israel-rise-in-single-mothers-giving-birth/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/catholics-ask-israeli-leader-to-help-end-attacks/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/catholics-ask-israeli-leader-to-help-end-attacks/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:47:01 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126858 AP: A top Roman Catholic official has taken the rare step of asking Israel's president to help put an end to attacks on Christian holy sites. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/27/catholics-ask-israeli-leader-to-help-end-attacks/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/israeli-religious-party-says-military-exemptions-ruling-wont-threaten-ruling-coalition/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/israeli-religious-party-says-military-exemptions-ruling-wont-threaten-ruling-coalition/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:14:48 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126532 Star Tribune (AP): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top religious partner said Wednesday that Israel's ruling coalition would not be shaken by the Supreme Court's annulment of a contentious law allowing ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to avoid military service. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/22/israeli-religious-party-says-military-exemptions-ruling-wont-threaten-ruling-coalition/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/21/harvard-conference-calls-for-eliminating-jewish-state/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/21/harvard-conference-calls-for-eliminating-jewish-state/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:44:04 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=126386 Washington Times: Harvard University is going to be hosting a conference entitled “One State Conference: Israel/Palestine and the One State Solution,” scheduled to take place March 3-4. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/21/harvard-conference-calls-for-eliminating-jewish-state/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/thailand-iranians-planned-to-attack-israelis/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/thailand-iranians-planned-to-attack-israelis/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:49:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125877 AP: Three Iranians detained after accidentally setting off explosives in Bangkok were planning to attack Israeli diplomats . . . ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/16/thailand-iranians-planned-to-attack-israelis/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/israel-will-not-extradite-fugitive-to-u-s-unless-he-will-have-kosher-food-in-prison/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/israel-will-not-extradite-fugitive-to-u-s-unless-he-will-have-kosher-food-in-prison/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:36:41 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=125683 Religion Clause: According to Haaretz, a trial court in Israel on Sunday ruled that a U.S. request for extradition of a convicted hit-and-run driver should be denied unless it is assured that the driver will have access to kosher food while serving his sentence ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/02/14/israel-will-not-extradite-fugitive-to-u-s-unless-he-will-have-kosher-food-in-prison/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/19/gop-field-leaves-scs-religious-right-uninspired/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/19/gop-field-leaves-scs-religious-right-uninspired/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:30:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=123459 News from The Associated Press: The Greenville-Spartanburg area, home to many of South Carolina's evangelical voters, should be prime political ground for Rick Santorum, a longtime anti-abortion crusader who was embraced by a group of Christian leaders meeting last weekend in Texas. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/19/gop-field-leaves-scs-religious-right-uninspired/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/anti-us-chants-as-slain-iran-nuclear-expert-buried/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/anti-us-chants-as-slain-iran-nuclear-expert-buried/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:01:42 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122909 News from The Associated Press: Thousands of mourners chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" on Friday during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran's nuclear program. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/13/anti-us-chants-as-slain-iran-nuclear-expert-buried/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/are-the-assassinations-of-iranian-scientists-an-act-of-terrorism/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/are-the-assassinations-of-iranian-scientists-an-act-of-terrorism/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:04:38 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122877 CSMonitor.com: Evidence of a covert war against Iran's nuclear program is mounting. Yesterday's assassination of an Iranian scientist tied to the program is just the most recent data point in the last year that indicates an accelerating effort to spread fear and slow the country's nuclear work. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/12/are-the-assassinations-of-iranian-scientists-an-act-of-terrorism/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/11/us-denies-role-in-killing-iranian-nuclear/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/11/us-denies-role-in-killing-iranian-nuclear/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:06:20 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=122715 JPost: Clinton flatly denies US involvement "in any kind of act of violence inside Iran," calls Hormuz threats "provocative, dangerous." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/01/11/us-denies-role-in-killing-iranian-nuclear/feed/ 0