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Epicenter Conference was held today in Jerusalem. Many speakers including author Joel Rosenberg, Skip Heitzig, Pastor David Ortiz, Pastor Chuck Smith, Porter Goss, Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin... See website for details.

Today as I drove my Mom home from her dental appointment, we listened to Focus on the Family. All this week, FoF is focusing on "Radical Islam and the Family." I'd like to make a few observations. 1. Granted, we only caught the last fifteen minutes, but at no point was there any discussion of "the family and Islam," unless by this, one means something like, "Radical Islam wants to overthrow America and we should support the Iraq War." 2. Most, if not all, of the broadcast focused on Joel Rosenberg's bestseller Epicenter. 3. Consequently, we were treated to a...

Joel Rosenberg is a very popular writer who tells a compelling story. His books are even endorsed by Rush Limbaugh. In his book Epicenter, which ranks high up on the Amazon best-selling chart, Rosenberg argues that the current animus between Israel and Iran is actually foretold in chapters 38-39 of the famous prophecy of Ezekiel regarding Gog and Magog. As Rosenberg sees things, one day soon Israel will find itself cornered by a Russian-Iranian-Arab alliance which will threaten Israel's very existence. To prove his point he cites from a number of military, political and journalistic sources. He is probably right...

Is Iran planning an apocalyptic strike against Israel and/or the United States for August 22? If so, what should the U.S. do to protect Americans and our ally? Such questions are worrying a growing number of officials in the White House, at the CIA, and at the Pentagon, and for good reason.

For fans, Joel C. Rosenberg will be on Paula Zahn on CNN in about half an hour, presumably to talk about the prophetic implications of the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict. I'm not sure of the exact time of his segment.

MCLEAN, VIRGINIA (ANS) -- In spite of the continuous spate of bad news coming out of Iraq, unprecedented religious freedom has finally come to Iraq because of U.S. military action there, and more Iraqi Muslims are becoming followers of Jesus Christ today than at any other time in the history of the country. That was the message delivered by retired Iraqi General Georges Sada May 22 at a private dinner just outside of Washington, D.C., and then at McLean Bible Church in northern Virginia where Sada spoke to more than 1,000 people, according to Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York...

As Osama bin Laden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continue to breathe their murderous threats against Christians and Jews, and attempt to incite Muslims around the world to annihilate the U.S. and Israel, another Muslim leader made the rounds in Washington last week offering a radically different vision. Topping his agenda were under-the-radar peace talks with Israel, religious classes to teach Imams the history and virtues of the West, and dramatic new initiatives to build ties to Rabbis and evangelical Christians. Were Dr. Ahmed Abaddi merely a soft-spoken, gentle-mannered professor of comparative religion in his native Morocco, his views would...

Iraqi General Georges Sada has an incredible story to tell. A passionate evangelical Christian, he once served as a top advisor to Saddam Hussein. Today, he serves as a senior advisor to Iraq’s President and is the author of Saddam’s Secrets: How One Iraqi Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein. Come hear him take you inside his world – where Jesus is drawing Iraqis to Himself in the most amazing way. Monday, May 22, 2006 7:30pm Smith Center McLean Bible Church McLean, Virginia General Sada be interviewed by Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York Times best-selling author of The Last Jihad,...

The Ezekiel Option Joel C. Rosenberg's New York Times best-selling novels have an uncanny way of coming true. The first page of his first thriller, The Last Jihad, put readers inside the cockpit of a hijacked jet, coming in on a kamikaze attack into an American city … but it was written nine months before September 11, 2001. As Jihad unfolds, an American president finds himself in a war with Saddam Hussein over terrorism and weapons of mass destruction … but it was published five months before the actual war with Iraq began. Rosenberg's second novel, The Last Days, opens...

With all the hype of how difficult it is to find good Christian fiction, do we want to start a list on freerepublic of books we think the others would like?

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST – THE BUZZ CUT - "Iraq and Vietnam?" The elite liberal media is making much ado about the similarities between the two wars. Buzz discusses the debate with John Harriman, Vietnam vet and author of the hit series 'Delta Force." John's latest book, 'Prelude to War: A Delta Force Novel,' is just out. Harriman is also the author of the bestselling 'Force...

First off, I am not peddling his book. Second, this is fiction but it has very close correlation with current events it sends a chill down your spine. Third, I put this on "News" instead of "General" topic for that reason. Last night I read the first 5 chapters of this book, but I gotta stop since it'll keep me reading all night otherwise. I apologize if this book has been mentioned here before. Random says ".. Very good read, highly recommended..."

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 1pm EST - Union bosses use millions of dollars coerced from their membership of workers to fund Leftist campaigns and causes. (Wasn't that supposed to be fixed?) Linda Chavez, nationally syndicated columnist, president of Stop Union Political Abuse and author of "Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics" will join us to discuss the seemingly never-ending problem of labor...

Listen While You Freep! All programs are replayed for 23 hours and again on weekends so tune in when it’s convenient for YOU! Call In Number - 866-884-TALK (8255) Heating the EDGE of a New Media! 12pm-2pm EST - VOICES OF SOLDIERS TOUR 2005!! BUZZ LIVE FROM BAGHDAD! Join Buzz as he broadcasts live from Camp Victory, Iraq. Lots of insightful interviews with our men and women in uniform from the front lines. The Buzz Cut! 2pm EST – “Breaking Free” with Kerri Houston and Peter Roff! 3pm EST - Live From Baghdad!!! Martha joins Buzz Patterson on the Voices...

June 27, 2005, 9:49 a.m. The Terror of Tehran The nuclear threat just went from bad to worse. By Joel C. Rosenberg There are three things you need to understand about Iran’s recent sham elections. The first is that contrary to the misreporting of the mainstream media, the Iranian people never had a choice between a “moderate” who might be more willing to halt Iran’s nuclear program, and a “hardliner” bent on a nuclear confrontation with the West. The Associated Press had the gall to describe the 70-year old Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as “the more moderate candidate” and...

More Hope in a dark time Meri Burlingame Mar 29, 2005 More hope in the midst of the storm--------- Joel C. Rosenberg is the New York Times best-selling author of The Last Jihad (about the demise of Saddam Hussein) and The Last Days (about the demise of Yasser Arafat). His next novel, The Ezekiel Option, comes out in August 2005, from Tyndale. An evangelical Christian from an Orthodox Jewish background, his grandparents escaped from Russia. Joel has served as a senior advisor to Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky...

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When Natan Sharansky stepped into Condoleezza Rice's West Wing office at 11:15 last Thursday morning, he had no idea the national security advisor would soon be named the next secretary of state. He was just glad to see her holding a copy of his newly published book, The Case for Democracy. "I'm already half-way through your book," Rice said. "Do you know why I'm reading it?" Sharansky, a self-effacing man who spent nine years in KGB prisons (often in solitary confinement) before becoming the first political prisoner released by Mikhail Gorbachev, hoped it had to do with his brilliant analysis...

It's tempting for conservatives to believe several major polls showing President George W. Bush four to six points ahead of Kerry right now. Tempting, but probably a mistake. A new tracking poll released by John Zogby on Thursday — and taken in the wake of the president's disappointing performance in the first debate — finds a statistical dead heat, with Bush at 46 percent, Senator Kerry at 44 percent, and 8 percent undecided. There is some good news for the president. Zogby says "Kerry's edge on the economy is gone. Among those who cite the economy as the top...

Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky went to Berlin in January to show German, French and other European officials excerpts of a vicious, anti-Semitic film. With all the media attacks on Mel Gibson and his new film, you might think Sharansky showed excerpts of The Passion of the Christ. He did not. Sharansky, for whom I briefly worked in 2000, wanted European officials to see a real anti-Semitic film. So he showed them excerpts of Al-Shatat ("The Diaspora"), a $5.1 million, 30-part "mini-series" produced by Syrian television. It was broadcast during Ramadan last year by Al-Mansar, Hezbollah's satellite television network. The...

Thirty-one years have passed since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. More than 43 million children have died. Yet even as the country's attitudes have shifted in favor of more restrictions on abortion, Democrats haven't shifted at all. Indeed, they have become extremists on the issue, and it may cost them, especially in the south. A CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted last January found that 70 percent of Americans support a ban on partial-birth abortion. Younger Americans feel even more strongly that killing a baby in the process of being born is downright barbaric. A whopping 77 percent of Americans...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 — This is a Washington success story. A year ago at this time, Joel C. Rosenberg was a conservative Republican political operative with a deep evangelical faith, three small children, no connections in the Bush White House or the Congressional leadership and no particular prospects for a steady job. Just before Thanksgiving last year, his first novel, "The Last Jihad," was published. It begins with a suicide pilot crashing his private plane into the president's motorcade and ends with the president saying a silent prayer as the nuclear bombs he ordered are dropped on Iraq. By December,...

Larry Kudlow's stock is skyrocketing. His CNBC political/financial show with Jim Kramer attracts some of the biggest names in Washington and on Wall Street. He signed a book deal with Harper Collins to write about supply-side economics. And he's got the ear of the president, whom he advised on the new tax-cut law. Excerpts from a WORLD interview: By Joel C. Rosenberg On President Bush's political skills—George W. Bush is by far the most dominant politician in the country—and I mean dominant—and the most underrated. He's very clever at getting things done. The Beltway media don't get him. He's a...

Joel C. Rosenberg, national correspondent for WORLD magazine (www.worldmag.com) reports the following: Bill Clinton stunned a Syracuse University audience on Mother's Day. The controversial former president delivered a commencement address devoid of controversy or partisan politics. And at a time other Democrats - including his own wife - are attacking the White House on everything from tax cuts to judicial nominees, Clinton actually praised his Republican successor. "I applaud President Bush for proposing to triple funding from America to combat HIV and AIDS, including providing greater treatment to those with the disease in fourteen poor nations in Africa and...

This exclusive interview is republished with the permission of World Magazine Washington, D.C. -- Newt Gingrich is making news again, sharply criticizing President Bush's top diplomat in an exclusive interview with WORLD magazine. Last month the former Speaker of the House warned that the idea of Secretary of State Colin Powell going to Syria to meet "with a terrorist-supporting, secret police-wielding dictator" was "ludicrous." Powell struck back. "He's accusing the president of a ludicrous act," Powell told a TV interviewer. "Mr. Gingrich was taking a broad swipe and a shot at the policies of the president of the United States....

WASHINGTON – Major war operations in Iraq are over. And President Bush scored big in last night's prime-time speech. But rather than talk about the war or the road ahead for peace, former President Bill Clinton this weekend will take a shot at Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and the Fox network over family values and network television, WORLD magazine has learned. In a debate with Bob Dole on Sunday during his weekly appearance on the CBS program "60 Minutes," Clinton will say: "Fox, the network full of conservative Republicans, has reality shows. You and Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh haven't...

RUSH'S ROADMAP: Where do we go from here? An exclusive interview with talk-radio titan Rush Limbaugh What's next after Operation Iraqi Freedom? Who were the war's political winners and losers? Rush Limbaugh shares his insights in this exclusive interview with WORLD. WORLD: If Rush Limbaugh were president, where would the U.S. military go next and why? LIMBAUGH: This question implies active use of the military and I will answer it thus, keeping in mind that it is of course arguable that there should be a "next" mission. It seems to me that our mission to defeat the world's terrorist networks...

WASHINGTON – Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh is breaking with the Bush administration on its post-war approach to Syria. In an exclusive interview with WORLD magazine that will be published in next week's issue, Limbaugh says Secretary of State Colin Powell should not go to Damascus as planned. He also warns that Syria is a "terrorist Disneyland" that "must eventually be dealt with," perhaps even militarily. Secretary Powell says President Bush asked him "to go to Syria in the very near future" to conduct diplomatic negotiations. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has stirred controversy at the State Department and...

Flashtraffic: Ground Game The gospel ground game in Iraq is indeed a great story, and Franklin Graham doesn't mind who knows what he's doing.By Joel C. RosenbergThe gospel ground game in Iraq is indeed a great story, and Franklin Graham doesn't mind who knows what he's doing. He runs Samaritan's Purse, a disaster relief ministry with a 2003 budget of $194 million. For months, Samaritan's Purse stockpiled emergency supplies and equipment in Amman, Jordan. Now Mr. Graham's team is helping provide food, drinking water, clothes, and medical supplies to more than 100,000 Iraqis. Other groups led by Arab Christians...

Fox News Channel's Ollie North reports from the front lines with fellow Marines. CNN's Walter Rodgers tells The Washington Post via satellite phone from inside Iraq, "I don't believe I've ever had such access over 36 years of reporting." ABC's Sam Donaldson calls the whole idea "a stroke of genius." Who's behind the strategy of "embedding" reporters inside coalition combat units? Bush administration insiders say it's the brainchild of Victoria "Torie" Clarke, the Pentagon's assistant secretary for public affairs. She developed the idea last fall in an effort to win the spin war. By early winter, she persuaded her boss,...