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PLEASE SIGN THE CONDOLENCE BOOK: http://www.otn.com/netking/ Nov. 2, 2003 200,000 Remember Rabin By MATTHEW GUTMAN An estimated 100,000 people packed Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to pay homage to slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, gathering at the spot where he was gunned down eight years ago to show support for the peace process he helped launch. Security was tight for the event, with some 1,500 police and soldiers manning barricades. Security guards combed the crowds, following several acts of vandalism at the site, including Rabin's memorial itself. Speakers delivered their speeches behind thick panes of bulletproof glass....

Germans are America’s big ethnic secret. No people and no culture has contributed more to what the United States is and is becoming. In the nation’s ethnic tangle, no root runs deeper than German America. As a scattered community only fitfully conscious of its own existence, none has more successfully pursued wealth, power and intellectual influence. And as a philosophical force in US politics — a whole political mindset — none has greater potency. Germany as a European state may have lost her way, the German language may struggle to keep its world grip, but the German spirit is alive...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon granted an interview to Ari Shavit of Ha'aretz, which was published today. A Makor Rishon analyst noted that the terms "People of Israel" and "Nation of Israel" flowed off his tongue in a refreshingly spontaneous way. Excerpts: "If the concept 'conquest' [referring to Israel's presence in Judea, Samaria and Gaza] ever had any relevance, it lost it as far as I'm concerned in the year 2000. Israel presented a proposal that was supposed to remove the Palestinians from off our back, but instead [of getting off], they started stabbing us… I [therefore] maintain...

Was the War for Independence Biblical? Dear Doug, Recently some of the men in our congregation were studying the scriptures regarding submitting to the governing authorities, recognizing that God had put them there (e.g. Rom 13, 1 Pet 2, Tit. 3). We were somewhat impressed that every single one of the cases, as well as all the examples we could think of, indicated that this was an attitude we should have even if the ruler was not good. The question came up as to whether we were justified in presenting the efforts of Christian leaders of the American Revolution as...