Podcasts about israels

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Als Antwort auf den brutalen Überfall der Hamas führt Israel Krieg in Gaza. Die Art der Kriegführung kommt international zunehmend in die Kritik – und auch in Israel selbst verweigern immer mehr Reservisten den Einsatz.

Hvad fortæller amerikanske jøder sig selv for at kunne ignorere palæstinensernes skrig? Og hvad vil det sige at være jødisk efter Israels ødelæggelse af Gaza? Det taler Rune Lykkeberg med den amerikanske forfatter, podcastvært og professor i journalistik, Peter Beinart, om i denne uges udgave af Langsomme samtaler --- Peter Beinart er en af de store jødiske stemmer i den amerikanske offentlighed, og han har været stærkt engageret i debatten om israelernes besættelse af Vestbredden, angrebet d. 7. oktober 2023, og den efterfølgende krig i Gaza. Hans nye bog hedder Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (2025), og alene titlen har vakt vrede og forargelse blandt mange amerikanske jøder, fordi fokus ikke er på Hamas' terrorangreb, men på Israels gengældelseskrig. I bogen tager Peter Beinart et personligt udgangspunkt. Han beskriver blandt andet, hvordan han, når han kommer i synagogen, ikke længere ved, hvem der vil kigge væk, og hvem der vil række hånden frem. Han er selv en troende, praktiserende jøde, som følger jødiske ritualer og kan sin Tora, men i sine politiske synspunkter støder han mange amerikanske trosfæller fra sig, fordi de mener, at hans forsvar for den palæstinensiske sag og hans modstand mod krigen placerer ham på den forkerte side i konflikten. Beinart afdækker i sin bog de forsvarsmekanismer, som han mener eksisterer blandt amerikanske jøder, der fortsat støtter Israels krig i Gaza. Han giver et indblik i de historier, som gør det muligt for dem at ignorere palæstinensernes lidelser. Og de fortællinger, som tillader dem at fastholde støtten til en krig, der underminerer alt det, liberale og progressive mennesker står for. I løbet af samtalen med Rune Lykkeberg kommer Peter Beinart ind på betydningen af den jødiske offerfortælling, Israels oprindelsesmyte og den stærke jødiske lobby, som fortsat spiller en afgørende rolle i amerikansk politik. Men han tillader sig også at tænde et lille lys i mørket. For selv om der lige nu ikke er grund til at være optimistisk på det palæstinensiske folks vegne, så spirer der alligevel et lille håb i de ungdommelige folkelige bevægelser, som – muligvis, med tiden – kan ændre samtalen i amerikansk politik og bringe forandring til Palæstina og Israel.

I veckans huvudavsnitt bjuder vi in juristen Silas Aliki för att prata om de repressiva lagar och lagförslag som på kort tid har introducerats i Sverige. Vi diskuterar orsaken bakom, faktumet att det är så underrapporterat samt möjliga konsekvenser. I slutet pratar vi Israels våld i Gaza, som fortsätter obehindrat. Bland annat har armén nyligen blivit påkommen med att försöka dölja spåren av att man avrättat 15 palestinska hjälparbetare. Mörkt men viktigt att belysa.  Stötta oss på Patreon för regelbundna bonusavsnitt + mer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unter dem Krieg zwischen Israel und der Hamas leidet vor allem die Zivilbevölkerung. Mutmaßliche Kriegsverbrechen des israelischen Militärs sind nur die Spitze des Eisbergs. Doch Deutschlands Medien berichten darüber kaum - schon gar nicht kritisch. Kommentar von Hanno Hauenstein www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Politisches Feuilleton

Im Gazastreifen sind palästinensische Rettungswagen unter Beschuss der israelischen Armee geraten – mehrere Menschen und Sanitäter des Roten Halbmondes starben. Israel hatt behauptet, die Fahrzeuge seien nicht als Rettungswagen erkennbar gewesen. Auf Videos ist aber Blaulicht sichtbar. Weitere Themen: · Die italienische Ministerpräsidentin Giorgia Meloni steckt im Moment in einem Dilemma: Sie hat gute Beziehungen zur Trump-Regierung in den USA, will aber auch die EU nicht verärgern – und jetzt, wo diese hohen Zölle im Raum stehen, wird es für Meloni besonders heikel. Denn auch Italien bleibt von den Zöllen nicht verschont und die EU droht mit Gegenzöllen. · Emmentaler, Evian oder Barilla sind bekannte Marken und sie sind auch in den USA beliebt, werden nun wegen der Zölle von Donald Trump teurer. Werden Sie dort trotz hoher Zölle und demzufolge höheren Preisen weiter gekauft? Wann ist der Markenname eines Produkts wichtiger als der Preis? Diese Fragen beantwortet Tabea Höllger. Sie ist Markenexpertin bei der Unternehmensberatung Brand-Trust. · Mit 31 Prozent Zöllen will US-Präsident Trump Importe aus der Schweiz belegen. Um das zu verhindern – oder den Schaden zumindest zu begrenzen – braucht es jetzt Diplomatie. Die Schweiz hat darum Helene Budliger Artieda (Staatssekretärin für Wirtschaft) nach Washington geschickt.

Kitzler, Jan-Christoph www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

Warum glauben so wenige Juden an Jesus?

Zerback, Sarah www.deutschlandfunk.de, Interviews

Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz weitet die Offensive in Gaza wieder aus. Besetzt die Armee das Palästinensergebiet jetzt dauerhaft? Und: China setzt mit wiederholten Militärmanövern vor Taiwan auf einen internationalen Gewöhnungseffekt.(14:50) Tobias Armbrüster

Den palæstinensiske jurist og aktivist Nisreen Haj Ahmad har troet på en tostatsløsning for Israel og Palæstina hele sit liv. Men nu har hun ændret holdning. Hør hvorfor i denne uges Langsomme samtaler med Rune Lykkeberg --- Hvordan ser virkeligheden ud på den anden side af krigen i Gaza? Hvilken fremtid skal man håbe på og arbejde for?  Det har ugens gæst i Langsomme samtaler gjort sig en hel del tanker om. Nisreen Haj Ahmad er født i de besatte palæstinensiske områder i Israel i 1974, men flygtede tidligt til Jordan, fordi hendes far var politisk aktivist. Hun uddannede sig til jurist, blev rådgiver for PLO, deltog i fredsforhandlingerne i slutningen af 1990'erne og arbejdede senere på det hold, som lavede anklageskriftet mod Israels sikkerhedsmur til Den Internationale Domstol i Haag. Siden var hun med til at grundlægge Ahel i Jordan, som uddanner folk i hele Mellemøsten til politisk deltagelse og hjælper med at opbygge organisationer. Nisreen Haj Ahmad har altid været tilhænger af en tostatsløsning. Men de seneste måneder har hun gjort op med det, hun tidligere troede på. En tostatsløsning vil, mener hun, muligvis blive anerkendt af ledere verden over, men den vil ikke være levedygtig, og den vil være moralsk forkert.  I denne uges udgave af Langsomme samtaler med Rune Lykkeberg kan du høre hende argumentere for, hvorfor vi i stedet – selv om det kan være svært midt i en ødelæggende krig – må forsøge at forestille os en fremtidig enstatsløsning. Med én samlet sekulær, demokratisk, tosproget stat, hvor muslimer, kristne og jøder alle nyder samme rettigheder.  Nisreen Haj Ahmad kommer til Danmark i forbindelse med Mellemfolkelig Samvirkes People Power Conference, som finder sted fra den 8. til 10. april i København.

Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz weitet die Offensive in Gaza wieder aus. Besetzt die Armee das Palästinensergebiet jetzt dauerhaft? Und: China setzt mit wiederholten Militärmanövern vor Taiwan auf einen internationalen Gewöhnungseffekt.(14:50) Armbrüster, Tobias

En entrevista para MVS Noticias con Luis Cárdenas, Leslie Cadena, nutrióloga fundadora de Nutrición Asertiva, e Israel Sánchez, presidente unión de padres de familia, hablaron sobre prohibición de comida chatarra en escuelas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wenige Tage nach Erscheinen dieses Podcasts werde ich eine Reise nach Israel antreten. Warum? Das erfährst du in dieser Podcastfolge. Aber viel wichtiger als das, was ich so unternehmen werde, ist: Wie kannst du dich an die Seite Israels stellen? Musst du das (als Christ) überhaupt? Sind Juden und Israel überhaupt noch von Gott erwählt? Ersetzen nicht Christen jetzt die Erwählung Israels? Diesen und anderen Fragen gehe ich in dieser Folge auf den Grund.

Nach dem schweren Erbeben in mehreren Ländern Südostasiens ist die Lage unübersichtlich. Das Epizentrum lag in Myanmar. Dort ist auch das Schweizer Hilfswerk Helvetas tätig. Severin Huber ist bei Helvetas Länderverantwortlicher für Myanmar und steht in Kontakt mit Kollegen vor Ort. (00:00) Intro und Schlagzeilen (01:25) Erdbeben in Südostasien: Myanmar schwer getroffen (05:11) Notstand in Bangkok nach schwerem Erdbeben (10:35) Nachrichtenübersicht (15:30) Droht ein Bürgerkrieg in Südsudan? (22:56) US-Vice Präsident Vance besucht Grönland (27:46) Israels militärische Ziele in Syrien (32:58) «Wir brauchen kein Wirtschaftswachstum, wir brauchen Stagnation» (38:19) Berner Oberländer Gemeinden gehen gegen Airbnb vor

Amin, Nina www.deutschlandfunk.de, Das war der Tag

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Ein Standpunkt von Jochen Mitschka. Ende März 2025 hatte Israel den Völkermord gegen Gaza wieder aufgenommen und gleichzeitig die ethnische Säuberung im Westjordanland eine Stufe höher geschaltet, bombardierte außerdem Syrien und den Libanon. Der Jemen, der androhte, Schiffe von und nach Israel an der Durchfahrt durch das Rote Meer zu hindern, so lange Israel nicht Nahrungsmittel, Medizin und Strom wieder durch die Blockade Gazas lässt, wurde vom Friedenspräsidenten Trump bombardiert, der gleichzeitig einen Krieg gegen den Iran androhte. Krieg liegt in der Luft.Waffenstillstand „beendet“Nachdem Israel nach fast tausend Brüchen des Waffenstillstandes, diesen vollständig „beendete“, erklärte die Hamas:„Die Bodenoperation der Besatzung zerstört das Waffenstillstandsabkommen unter amerikanischer Aufsicht. Die Vermittler müssen ihrer Verantwortung nachkommen, und der Widerstand ist bereit, auf den israelischen Schritt zu reagieren. Die Kontakte mit den Vermittlern bringen nichts Neues, da die Besatzung keine Verhandlungen führen will. Wir werden unsere Gefangenen nicht an die Besatzung ausliefern, es sei denn, Israel verpflichtet sich zu einem Waffenstillstand und einem Rückzug aus dem Gazastreifen.“ (1)Die israelische Zeitung Haaretz bestätigte am 19. März die Aussage der Hamas in einem Leitartikel:Israel, nicht die Hamas, sprengte den Waffenstillstand im Gazastreifen und verhinderte die Rückkehr der Geiseln.Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu habe den Preis für Itamar Ben-Gvirs Rückkehr an die Regierung im Voraus bezahlt. Und zwar mit dem Blut der 59 Geiseln, deren Schicksal durch die Wiederaufnahme des Krieges besiegelt werden könnte. Während die Angriffe bereits Hunderte von Palästinensern, darunter Frauen und Kinder, das Leben gekostet hatte.„Am Dienstag bezeichnete der aus der Hamas-Gefangenschaft befreite Eliya Cohen die erneute Kriegsführung als ‚Todesurteil‘ für die Geiseln. Doch das interessiert den Ministerpräsidenten weniger als seine Belohnung in Form der Rückkehr von Ben-Gvirs Otzma-Yehudit-Partei. Laut einer Erklärung von Netanjahus Büro wurde die Entscheidung zum Angriff auf Gaza gemeinsam mit Verteidigungsminister Israel Katz getroffen, nachdem sich die Hamas wiederholt geweigert hatte, unsere Geiseln freizulassen, und alle Vorschläge des US-Präsidentengesandten Steve Witkoff und der Vermittler abgelehnt hatte. Es muss jedoch klar und deutlich gesagt werden, dass dies eine Lüge ist. Israel, nicht die Hamas, hat gegen das Abkommen verstoßen. Am 16. Tag des Abkommens sollten die Parteien mit der zweiten Phase beginnen, die mit der Freilassung aller verbleibenden Geiseln enden sollte. Israel lehnte ab.“ (2)Israel, so der Artikel weiter, brach sein Versprechen, sich zwischen dem 42. und 50. Tag des Waffenstillstands aus dem Philadelphi-Korridor zurückzuziehen. Darüber hinaus habe Israel angekündigt, die Lieferung humanitärer Hilfe nach Gaza einzustellen und die Grenzübergänge zu schließen. Diese Entscheidung, ebenso wie die Entscheidung des Energieministers, die begrenzte Stromlieferung Israels an Gaza einzustellen, habe ausdrücklich gegen Israels im Abkommen enthaltene Verpflichtung verstoßen, die Hilfslieferungen fortzusetzen, solange die Gespräche über die zweite Phase andauern...hier weiterlesen: https://apolut.net/vom-friedensprasident-zu-volkermordleugnern-von-jochen-mitschka/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Levy, Sarah www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Fazit

Med udgangspunkt i Usha Vance og Mike Walz' kommende besøg i Grønland taler de to chefredaktører i podcasten om effektiviteten af de forskellige positioner, der bliver indtaget af statsledere over for Trump. De har især fokus på det, de kalder "den samarbejdende position" eksemplificeret ved NATO's generalsekretær, Mark Ruttes, pinlige besøg i Det Ovale Værelse for nylig.  Rune Lykkeberg mener, at Rutte gjorde sig til medløber i Trumps aktive underminering af den regelbaserede verdensorden – endda som chefen for en af de institutioner, der har til opgave at opretholde den. Underminering af de globale institutioner medfører det, Bjarne Corydon kalder "en bilateralisering af verdensordenen", og med den følger helt nye muligheder for verdens despoter.  Til sidst diskuterer de to chefredaktører Israels rolle og muligheder i den bilaterale verdensorden, og hvorvidt mulighederne har ændret sig, nu hvor Trump er ved magten. Rune Lykkeberg mener, at Israel havde de samme muligheder under Biden, men at de blot blev pakket ind i pænere ord, mens Bjarne Corydon mener, at der nu er sket en acceleration af Israels handlerum.  Hvis du vil høre mere til de to chefredaktører, rykker Lykkeberg & Corydon uden for podcaststudiet og ind i Bremen Teater den 28. april, hvor de vil tale om Trumps første 100 dage i Det Hvide Hus. Du kan købe billetter her.

In Riad verhandeln Washington, Kiew und Moskau über eine Waffenruhe für die Ukraine │ Deutschland verurteilt Israels illegalen Siedlungsbau │ Ägypten legt einen eigenen Gaza-Plan vor │ Grönland wehrt sich gegen Annektionsansprüche der USA

Die Kämpfe zwischen Israel und der Terrorgruppe Hamas gehen seit knapp einer Woche weiter. Nun hat Ägypten wohl einen Vorschlag für eine erneute Waffenruhe vorgelegt. Gleichzeitig reift die Idee, dass Menschen den Gazastreifen "freiwillig" verlassen.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok und Instagram .

Ugens Radio Information handler om Trump-regeringens udvisninger, om Netanyahus motiver for at genoptage angrebene i Gaza og om en ny kunstudstilling om skønhed som modstand mod krig og undertrykkelse --- 8. marts blev den tidligere studerende og pro-palæstinensiske Mahmoud Khalil hentet uden for sin dør i New York af agenter fra de amerikanske immigrationsmyndigheder og sat i detentionscenter med henblik på udvisning. Det på trods af, at han har Green Card, altså opholds- og arbejdstilladelse i USA, og på trods af, at der ingen kriminelle anklager er blevet rejst imod ham. Rune Lykkeberg udlægger sagen og dens perspektiver for ytringsfriheden i Trumps USA.  Khalil var sidste år et af ansigterne på de omfattende studenterprotester mod Israels fremfærd i Gaza. Og kritik af Israels krigsforbrydelser er der ikke blevet mindre brug for, efter at landet tidligt tirsdag morgen brød våbenhvilen med massive luftangreb og siden med operationer på landjorden i Gaza. Men hvad får Benjamin Netanyahu til at genoptage den – også i Israel – upopulære offensiv? Anton Geist udlægger den aktuelle situation. Men det skal også handle om skønheden i verden. På Nivågaards Malerisamling kan man nemlig lige nu se en udstilling med og om den engelske Bloomsbury-gruppe. Gruppen, der bl.a. talte medlemmer som forfatter E.M. Forster og Virginia Woolf, hendes søster, maleren Vanessa Bell, og økonomen John Maynard Keynes, var et kunstnerisk og intellektuelt kraftcenter i England i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet, som eksperimenterende søgte efter intet mindre, end at gøre hele livet til kunst. Vores kunstanmelder Maria Kjær Themsen havde lyst til at flytte ind i den aktuelle udstilling, men valgte heldigvis i stedet at komme ind og fortælle om den i vores studie.   Og så hæng på til slut, for her fortæller Lærke Cramon om den 25-årige Salma, som for tiden ugentligt skrive breve i Moderne Tider fra Damaskus. Om drømme og håb og hverdagen i Syrien efter Assad-regimets fald. Læs eller lyt til alle hendes breve HER.

Vi hade mer politik att prata med Hasan Ramic så det fick bli ett En grej till-avsnitt med fokus på det utrikespolitiska. Vi pratar Trumps AI-genererade video om visionen för Gaza, rapporterna om USA och Israels plan att etniskt rensa Gaza genom att flytta den palestinska befolkningen till Östafrika, Rwandas destabilisering av Kongo samt gripandet och den stundande utvisningen av den propalestinska demonstranten Mahmoud Khalil. (OBS, det här avsnittet spelades in dagen innan Israel bröt mot vapenvilan i Gaza, därför tar vi inte upp det.)  Stötta oss på Patreon för regelbundna bonusavsnitt + mer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ziv Nevo Kulman intervjuad i Kvartal Idag. Zelenskyj i nytt samtal med Trump. JFK-dokument inte längre hemliga. Och delfiner uppvaktade försenade astronauter. Programledare: Staffan Dopping.

Israel har återupptagit striderna i Gaza med full kraft och vapenvilan är därmed över. De senaste dygnen har flyganfallen avlöst varandra, och hundratals har dödats - många av dem barn. Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu säger bland annat att Israel kommer att agera mot Hamas med "utökad styrka" och att "det här bara är början". Så varför har Israel återupptagit striderna? Vad händer med gisslan nu? Och finns det ens ett slut på den här konflikten? Gäst: Wolfgang Hansson, utrikespolitiskkommentator på Aftonbladet. Producent och programledare: Olivia Bengtsson. Klipp i avsnittet: CNN, SVT. Kontakt: podcast@aftonbladet.se

Jan-Christoph Kitzler www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kommentare und Themen der Woche

Journalist i Tel Aviv: Kriget kommer fortsätta länge. Putins nya krav inför samtalet med Trump om vapenvila. KU pausar granskning av Landerholmaffären. Grön storslam när rekordsatsning på tyska försvaret röstas fram. Och är Polarpriset en hyllning till högkulturen? Programledare: Jörgen Huitfeldt.

Der langjährige israelische Spitzendiplomat und Buchautor Itamar Rabinovich („Israel und der Nahe Osten“) über Jahrzehnte vergeblicher Verhandlungen und mögliche Auswege aus Hass und Gewalt. Eine Debatte mit dem früheren EU-Abgeordneten Hannes Swoboda und der Aktivistin der palästinensisch-jüdischen Friedensinitiative Standing Together und Autorin Nadine Sayegh („Orangen aus Jaffa“). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Straffen skärps, pedofiler hängs ut på nätet, presidenter talar om hämnd. Har hämnden fått en renässans och kan det vara moraliskt rätt att hämnas? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. Hämnden har engagerat filosofer och religiösa tänkare genom historien. I Bibeln finns principen “öga för öga, tand för tand”, som handlar om att hämnden ska vara proportionell. I vårt samhälle ses hämnd som något ociviliserat. Staten tar över och ska skipa rättvisa. Varför har hämnd blivit fult? Efter förintelsen var det många nazister som undgick straff eller fick låga straff. Samtidigt fanns det judar som tog lagen i egna händer för att hämnas nazismens fruktansvärda brott. Om rättssystemet låter förövare gå fria, är det då moraliskt rätt att ta lagen i egna händer och hämnas? Idag ser vi hur hämnden tar olika former: Gängkriminalitetetens hämndspiraler leder till strängare straff, pedofiler hängs ut på nätet, mördaren Luigi Mangione fick en fanclub efter att han skjutit ihjäl en VD för ett försäkringsbolag i USA. Men även statsmän talar om hämnd. Efter Hamas terror- attack skrev Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu på X “vi kommer kraftfullt hämnas denna mörka dag” och Trump har sagt att han ska hämnas på sina fiender.Börjar hämnden bli rumsren?Medverkande: Kenneth Hermele, författare nu senast till boken Den vilda rättvisan: judisk hämnd efter förintelsen och Elena Namli, professor i teologisk etik vid Uppsala universitet.Programledare: Cecilia Strömberg WallinProducent: Marie LiljedahlVeckans tips:Bok:Hadji-Murat - Leo TolstojTV-serie:Tyska huset - Isabel Prahl och Randa Chahoud

Oscar-festen ligner altid noget fra en anden verden med sit overdådige show af skønhed og rigdom. Men da Hollywoods mest glamourøse show søndag gik i luften, var kontrasten til virkeligheden måske allerstørst, da skaberne bag dokumentarfilmen ’No Other Land’ lod sig hylde. For her stod en palæstinenser og israeler side om side og kaldte sig for »brødre«. Og sammen kritiserede de Israels bosættelser på Vestbredden, som filmen dokumenterer. At en palæstinenser og en israeler på den måde rækker ud til hinanden, giver nok ikke for alvor grund til at tro på, at en fredelig fremtid er nær. Men det lillebitte lys af håb, de to filmfolk tænder, er der i den grad brug for. Det fortæller Marcus Rubin, tidligere Mellemøsten-korrespondent, i dette afsnit af ’Du lytter til Politiken’. For – som også filmfolkene peger på – må der være en anden vej frem end død og ødelæggelse.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to episode 191of Grasp the Bible. In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of Psalms, covering chapter 30, a Psalm of Thanksgiving. Today, we will cover:- A congregational psalm for the dedication of the temple.- The difference between adoration and confession.- How easy it is to go from confidence in the Lord to self-confidence.- That we are all in desperate need of God's grace.Key takeaways:· God's anger lasts a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime.Quotable:· “David's death and Israels demise would not earn God praise, but Jesus earns God praise from the Grave.”· “I exist so that you are PRAISED! ALL to the praise of your Glory!!”· “David wrote this Psalm for the dedication of God's temple! He just didn't know his temple would one day be you and me!”Application:No matter where we remember that we praise God because- His anger lasts a moment but his favor lasts a lifetime- And his favor far more than we deserve!Connect with us:Web site: https://springbaptist.orgFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/SBCKleinCampus (Klein Campus)https://www.facebook.com/SpringBaptist (Spring Campus)Need us to pray for you? Submit your prayer request to: https://springbaptist.org/prayer/If you haven't already done so, please leave us a rating and review in your podcast provider.

Situationen i Mellanöstern blir alltmer ansträngd. När den första fasen av vapenvilan mellan Israel och Hamas löper ut i helgen har förhandlingarna om nästa inte ens inletts. USA:S president Donald Trump fortsätter sin retorik om att ta över Gaza, och för första gången på 20 år har israeliska stridsvagnar rullat över gränsen i Västbanken. Håller Gazakriget på att spilla över till Västbanken? Vad vill egentligen Trump med Gaza? Och kommer det bli en fas två på vapenvilan? Gäst: Anders Persson, Mellanösternexpert. Producent och programledare: Olivia Bengtsson. Klipp i avsnittet: BBC News, Sveriges Radio, DW News. Kontakt: podcast@aftonbladet.se

Nun, da US-Präsident Trump darangehen will, gemeinsam mit dem begeisterten Ministerpräsidenten Israels, Netanjahu, den Gazastreifen endgültig von den Palästinenserinnen und Palästinensern zu säubern und nach den bewährten Kriterien der Immobilienbranche für seine Klienten herzurichten, herrscht in der westlichen Welt plötzlich Überraschung und Empörung. Eine Rezension von Norman Paech. Dieser Beitrag ist auch als Audio-Podcast verfügbar.

Ring P1 från Luleå om bland annat Donald Trumps uttalanden om Ukraina, värdet av arkitektur och om Israels behandling av en palestinsk bokhandel i Jerusalem. Programledare: Nicke Nordmark, ansvarig utgivare: Sabina Schatzl Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play.

Die Nachrichten an diesem Morgen: In Riad treffen sich Russland und die USA zu Gesprächen. Israels Armee soll sich bis heute vollständig aus Libanon zurückgezogen haben. Und der BGH verhandelt über den Rechtsstreit zwischen Renate Künast und dem Tech-Konzern Meta.

Trump inviterte Israels statsminister Benjamin Netanyahu til Det hvite hus som den første utenlandske statslederen som fikk besøke den nye presidenten i Washington. Og Trump stjal alle overskriftene ved å si at han ønsker at USA skal ta over Gaza. 

USA:s president föreslår en okonventionell lösning på kriget. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I veckan var Israels premiärminister Benjamin Netanyahu på besök hos Donald Trump i Vita huset. Under en gemensam pressträff presenterade Donald Trump ett förslag som går ut på att alla palestinier lämnar Gaza och att USA tar kontroll över området. Trump menar att då kan USA återuppbygga Gaza och säkerställa freden. Hur realistiskt är förslaget?Världens rikaste man tillika nedskärningsgeneralen Elon Musk har sjösatt en offensiv mot den amerikanska statsapparaten. I syfte att hitta besparingsmöjligheter angriper han bland annat USA:s biståndsmyndighet USAID. Vad är det som sker med amerikanska myndigheter under den nya administrationen? Och vilket mandat har egentligen Musk att göra det han gör?Medverkande: Ginna Lindberg och Roger Wilson, Sveriges Radios USA-korrespondenter samt Cecilia Uddén, Sveriges Radios Mellanösternkorrespondent.Programledare: Sara StenholmProducent: Viktor Mattsson & Marina Nilsson Malmström

Are there two Israels??? One stagnates on the front pages of the world press, bleak, dark and angry. The other Israel - mine - rife with hope, vibrant and alive! Pull Up a Chair 30JAN2025 - PODCAST

Israels Relationship to the Promised Land

DPalæstinensere jubler og danser i gaderne. Hvis alt falder i hak, så træder en våbenhvile nemlig i dag i kraft. I månedsvis har der været endeløse, umulige dialoger mellem parterne. USA's præsident Biden har forsøgt at stoppe bomberne fra at falde i Gaza og få de israelske gidsler hjem, men uden held. Indtil nu. I 11. time af hans præsidentskab, og først efter at Donald Trump har truet med at helvede bryder ud, hvis der ikke ligger en aftale, før han er indsat som ny, amerikansk præsident, sker der noget. Onsdag aften kommer en aftale på plads, og hvis Israels premierminister Benjamin Netanyahu får opbakning fra sin egen, splittede regering, så kan stilheden fra i dag flyde i Gaza. I dagens Genstart fortæller mellemøstkorrespondent Nanna Muus Steffensen, hvorfor det lykkes at få en aftale på plads - og om det overhovedet kan lykkes at skabe en holdbar fred. Vært: Simon Stefanski. Program publiceret i DR Lyd d. 19. januar 2025.

All people want to be happy. I have spent a lot of time with people as a pastor, and the majority of couples and individuals who met with me over the years did so because they longed to be happy. It is also true that the motivation for couples seeking marriage or divorce, the desire for a new job or the determination to quit a job, what led to substance abuse or a willingness to break an addiction is all the same: the desire to be happy. In fact, there have been people who claimed to be Christians who sought marriage, divorce, drugs, freedom from addiction, debt, and freedom from debt out of the belief that God wanted them to be happy. How about you? Do you believe God wants you to be happy? Do you believe that the ends justify the means to achieve and experience the happiness you believe God wants for you? Maybe you are asking any one of the following questions: I am unhappy where I live, if I have the means to do so, can I move so that I can be happier? I am tired of driving the same old car, should I buy a new one that will make me happier? I feel unfulfilled where I work, can I look for a new job that will fill my day with a little more joy? I feel ignored and taken for granted in my marriage, my spouse does not meet my needs, I am unhappy, our children are miserable because we are miserable... something needs to change so that we can be happy. So here is what I want to do with the time we have left. I want to show you from the Bible three things: God expects you to seek happiness. God commands you to pursue your joy. Finding your joy/happiness is possible. By answering the above three questions, I hope that you will have a clear and biblical understanding as to whether God wants you to be happy. God Expects You to Seek Happiness (vv. 1-5) Let me begin by stating that in Psalm 95 alone, the word joy is repeated three times in the first two verses: sing for joy..., shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation, shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments. But Psalm 95 is not the only place where such language is used; consider the language from the Bible: Delight yourself... (Ps. 37:4) Rejoice... (Phil. 4:4) Rejoice always... (1 Thess. 5:16) Let us rejoice and be glad... (Ps. 118:24) But where is it that God expects us to find our joy? Again, consider the same above verses: Delight yourself in the Lord... (Ps. 37:4) Rejoice in the Lord always... (Phil. 4:4) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thess. 5:16-18) This is the day which the Lord has made, lets us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24) Is our happiness only to be found in God? What about verses like Ecclesiastes 9:9, does it not tell us to enjoy life while we have it? Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for this is your reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun. Yes and no. Consider the first two verses of Psalm 19 and what it says about creation: The heavens tell of the glory of God; and their expanse declares the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. The heavens are what God created, and like your wife whom you love, like the life you enjoy, and everything else... it all points to the glory of the Creator! The reason why Psalm 95 begins with these words: Come, lets sing for joy to the Lord, lets shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Lets come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, lets shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments is because He is the giver of all good things! Why should we worship Yahweh? Because Psalm 95:3-5 is true of only Him: For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods, in whose hand are the depths of the earth, the peaks of the mountains are also His. The sea is His, for it was He who made it, and His hands formed the dry land. This is why, of the Ten Commandments, Jesus summed up the first four: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind (Matt. 22:37; see also Deut. 6:5; Exod. 20:1-11). Listen, God expects us to seek our joy, but not ultimately in His good gifts but in the giver who gave those good gifts... namely God Himself. In fact C.S. Lewis rightfully observed from reading his Bible that, Joy is the serious business of heaven.[1] God Commands You to Pursue Your Joy (vv. 6-7) Psalm 95 begins with an imperative, which is a command: Come, lets sing for joy... Why does He command us to pursue our joy? Because we exist for something greater than the good gifts of His creation. We exist because of Him and for Him! The second imperative in Psalm 95 begins with verse 6, Come, lets worship and bow down, lets kneel before the Lord our Maker. Why are we commanded to bow before God? Because He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand (v. 7). The command to pursue our joy is not that we find it in anything, but in the One who made all things. He is God, and by definition there is nothing and no one that is greater than He is. To look for or expect our happiness or joy to be primarily found in anything or anyone else will not only leave you empty and disappointed, but is to worship the gift over the Giver! To worship the gift over the Giver is to expect from the gift the thing that only the Giver, God, can provide. C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, Reflections on the Psalms, something that I have found helpful, so I will share it with you: I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. Do you hear what C.S. Lewis is saying? We praise what we value and care about and our delight is not complete until our delight is expressed. If it is true, that there is no greater beauty, reality, or person than the God who created all that is beautiful and good, true worship cannot be experienced unless it is directed at Him. This is why the Westminster Catechism is right to begin with these words: The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But even on this point, C.S. Lewis made the following observation that helps us get a little closer to answering the question as to what kind of happiness God wants for us; here is what Lewis wrote: The Scotch catechism says that mans chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But we shall then know that these are the same thing. To fully enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. John Piper took it one step further by swapping out the word and in the Westminster Catechism of Faith with the word by: The chief end of man is to glorify God byenjoying Him forever. God does expect us to seek our happiness, and He does command us to pursue our joy, but a happiness and a joy that is rooted in Him. If our happiness and joy is sought in anything other than God, it will not satisfy. However, if the pursuit of our happiness and joy is sought in Him, there will be a joy and happiness that will be rooted in a contentment in Him. This is how and why James 1:2-3 is only true for those who find their joy in Jesus Christ: Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Finding Your Joy/Happiness is Possible (vv. 8-10) So, does God want you to be happy? Yes, He wants you to be happy in Him! Does that mean that He wants you to leave your marriage because it does not make you happy? No! Does that mean you should leave your job because it does not make you happy? No. Does that mean you should get a new car because it does not make you happy? No, not necessarily. Why? Because your happiness and joy cannot ultimately be found in anything or anyone except the God who is your Maker. When we come to Psalm 95:8, there is a shift from the command to find your joy in God to Israels rebellion while they were in the wilderness, and more specifically, the Psalm refers to something that happened in Exodus 17:1-7 not long after God saved Israel from Pharoh and his army by parting the Red Sea. While in Egypt, Israel witnessed their God and Maker do mighty deeds that should have left little room to doubt His goodness and love for His people. Even though they had no reason to doubt Gods faithfulness to them, they still struggled to believe His faithfulness to them, so they complained: So the people quarreled with Moses and said, Give us water so that we may drink (Exod. 17:2)! Moses response gives us a glimpse into 40 years of Israel in the wilderness: Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord? Throughout Israels existence, they were known for complaining and faithlessness towards God. Even after 40 years in the wilderness, God said of His people: Be appalled at this, you heavens, And shudder, be very desolate, declares the Lord. For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living waters, to carve out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that do not hold water (Jer. 2:12-13). The great evil that Israel was guilty of was that She traded God for idols that could not satisfy. Consider another example from Isaiah 55:1-3 when God invited His people to turn away from the things that could not satisfy what they really needed: You there! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David. So what happened in Exodus 17? Moses immediately brought Israels complaint before God out of a fear that they might eventually stone him to death. Moses asked, What am I to do with this people? (v. 4). Listen to the way God responded to Israels lack of faith and sin: Then the Lord said to Moses, Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel (17:5-6). In other words, God said to Moses: Moses, take your staff that ought to be used to strike Israel for their sins, and take your rod and strike the rock I will be standing on so that Israel will not die of thirst. In 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, the apostle Paul said that the rock Moses struck was a picture and example of what God would do to satisfy the thirst of all who desire to be satisfied. The rod of Gods judgment for our sin came down upon Jesus as the rock of our salvation! Paul said of the rock Moses struck: for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ (v. 4). Now, listen to what Jesus said in John 7:37-38, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Psalm 95 begins with these words: Come, lets sing for joy to the Lord, lets shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Jesus is the rock of our salvation! Again, Psalm 95 continues, Come, lets worship and bow down, lets kneel before the Lord our Maker (v. 6). Of Jesus, the Bible testifies, ...for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authoritiesall things have been created through Him and for Him (Col. 1:16). Because the rod of Gods holy wrath came upon Jesus in our place, we are told: And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross. For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:8-11) The Psalmist then reminds us that not only is God our Maker, but that He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness... (v. 7). Can you not hear the words of Jesus in Psalm 95:7, did He not say: I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.... I am the good shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me.... And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice; and they will become one flock, with one shepherd (John 10:11, 14, 16). Conclusion Is joy and happiness possible for you? The answer is Yes! But it will not come from your car, through your job, or from any other person, but your Maker and the Great Shepherd of His sheep... namely Jesus! If you are seeking your happiness and joy in anything other than Jesus, then C.S. Lewis words serve as a fitting conclusion to this sermon: It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. God wants you to be happy and He wants you to experience joy, but it is a happiness and a joy that can only be found in Him. The joy and happiness that can only be found in God is the kind of joy and happiness that does not dissolve through suffering but sustains the sufferer because of the One from Whom true happiness and joy comes from. Amen. [1] C.S. Lewis,Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer(San Diego: Harvest, 1964), p. 93.

All people want to be happy. I have spent a lot of time with people as a pastor, and the majority of couples and individuals who met with me over the years did so because they longed to be happy. It is also true that the motivation for couples seeking marriage or divorce, the desire for a new job or the determination to quit a job, what led to substance abuse or a willingness to break an addiction is all the same: the desire to be happy. In fact, there have been people who claimed to be Christians who sought marriage, divorce, drugs, freedom from addiction, debt, and freedom from debt out of the belief that God wanted them to be happy. How about you? Do you believe God wants you to be happy? Do you believe that the ends justify the means to achieve and experience the happiness you believe God wants for you? Maybe you are asking any one of the following questions: I am unhappy where I live, if I have the means to do so, can I move so that I can be happier? I am tired of driving the same old car, should I buy a new one that will make me happier? I feel unfulfilled where I work, can I look for a new job that will fill my day with a little more joy? I feel ignored and taken for granted in my marriage, my spouse does not meet my needs, I am unhappy, our children are miserable because we are miserable... something needs to change so that we can be happy. So here is what I want to do with the time we have left. I want to show you from the Bible three things: God expects you to seek happiness. God commands you to pursue your joy. Finding your joy/happiness is possible. By answering the above three questions, I hope that you will have a clear and biblical understanding as to whether God wants you to be happy. God Expects You to Seek Happiness (vv. 1-5) Let me begin by stating that in Psalm 95 alone, the word joy is repeated three times in the first two verses: sing for joy..., shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation, shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments. But Psalm 95 is not the only place where such language is used; consider the language from the Bible: Delight yourself... (Ps. 37:4) Rejoice... (Phil. 4:4) Rejoice always... (1 Thess. 5:16) Let us rejoice and be glad... (Ps. 118:24) But where is it that God expects us to find our joy? Again, consider the same above verses: Delight yourself in the Lord... (Ps. 37:4) Rejoice in the Lord always... (Phil. 4:4) Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thess. 5:16-18) This is the day which the Lord has made, lets us rejoice and be glad in it. (Ps. 118:24) Is our happiness only to be found in God? What about verses like Ecclesiastes 9:9, does it not tell us to enjoy life while we have it? Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your futile life which He has given you under the sun, all the days of your futility; for this is your reward in life and in your work which you have labored under the sun. Yes and no. Consider the first two verses of Psalm 19 and what it says about creation: The heavens tell of the glory of God; and their expanse declares the work of His hands. Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. The heavens are what God created, and like your wife whom you love, like the life you enjoy, and everything else... it all points to the glory of the Creator! The reason why Psalm 95 begins with these words: Come, lets sing for joy to the Lord, lets shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Lets come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving, lets shout joyfully to Him in songs with instruments is because He is the giver of all good things! Why should we worship Yahweh? Because Psalm 95:3-5 is true of only Him: For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods, in whose hand are the depths of the earth, the peaks of the mountains are also His. The sea is His, for it was He who made it, and His hands formed the dry land. This is why, of the Ten Commandments, Jesus summed up the first four: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind (Matt. 22:37; see also Deut. 6:5; Exod. 20:1-11). Listen, God expects us to seek our joy, but not ultimately in His good gifts but in the giver who gave those good gifts... namely God Himself. In fact C.S. Lewis rightfully observed from reading his Bible that, Joy is the serious business of heaven.[1] God Commands You to Pursue Your Joy (vv. 6-7) Psalm 95 begins with an imperative, which is a command: Come, lets sing for joy... Why does He command us to pursue our joy? Because we exist for something greater than the good gifts of His creation. We exist because of Him and for Him! The second imperative in Psalm 95 begins with verse 6, Come, lets worship and bow down, lets kneel before the Lord our Maker. Why are we commanded to bow before God? Because He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand (v. 7). The command to pursue our joy is not that we find it in anything, but in the One who made all things. He is God, and by definition there is nothing and no one that is greater than He is. To look for or expect our happiness or joy to be primarily found in anything or anyone else will not only leave you empty and disappointed, but is to worship the gift over the Giver! To worship the gift over the Giver is to expect from the gift the thing that only the Giver, God, can provide. C.S. Lewis wrote in his book, Reflections on the Psalms, something that I have found helpful, so I will share it with you: I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good he is; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with. Do you hear what C.S. Lewis is saying? We praise what we value and care about and our delight is not complete until our delight is expressed. If it is true, that there is no greater beauty, reality, or person than the God who created all that is beautiful and good, true worship cannot be experienced unless it is directed at Him. This is why the Westminster Catechism is right to begin with these words: The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But even on this point, C.S. Lewis made the following observation that helps us get a little closer to answering the question as to what kind of happiness God wants for us; here is what Lewis wrote: The Scotch catechism says that mans chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. But we shall then know that these are the same thing. To fully enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him. John Piper took it one step further by swapping out the word and in the Westminster Catechism of Faith with the word by: The chief end of man is to glorify God byenjoying Him forever. God does expect us to seek our happiness, and He does command us to pursue our joy, but a happiness and a joy that is rooted in Him. If our happiness and joy is sought in anything other than God, it will not satisfy. However, if the pursuit of our happiness and joy is sought in Him, there will be a joy and happiness that will be rooted in a contentment in Him. This is how and why James 1:2-3 is only true for those who find their joy in Jesus Christ: Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. Finding Your Joy/Happiness is Possible (vv. 8-10) So, does God want you to be happy? Yes, He wants you to be happy in Him! Does that mean that He wants you to leave your marriage because it does not make you happy? No! Does that mean you should leave your job because it does not make you happy? No. Does that mean you should get a new car because it does not make you happy? No, not necessarily. Why? Because your happiness and joy cannot ultimately be found in anything or anyone except the God who is your Maker. When we come to Psalm 95:8, there is a shift from the command to find your joy in God to Israels rebellion while they were in the wilderness, and more specifically, the Psalm refers to something that happened in Exodus 17:1-7 not long after God saved Israel from Pharoh and his army by parting the Red Sea. While in Egypt, Israel witnessed their God and Maker do mighty deeds that should have left little room to doubt His goodness and love for His people. Even though they had no reason to doubt Gods faithfulness to them, they still struggled to believe His faithfulness to them, so they complained: So the people quarreled with Moses and said, Give us water so that we may drink (Exod. 17:2)! Moses response gives us a glimpse into 40 years of Israel in the wilderness: Moses said to them, Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord? Throughout Israels existence, they were known for complaining and faithlessness towards God. Even after 40 years in the wilderness, God said of His people: Be appalled at this, you heavens, And shudder, be very desolate, declares the Lord. For My people have committed two evils: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living waters, to carve out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that do not hold water (Jer. 2:12-13). The great evil that Israel was guilty of was that She traded God for idols that could not satisfy. Consider another example from Isaiah 55:1-3 when God invited His people to turn away from the things that could not satisfy what they really needed: You there! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without money and without cost. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David. So what happened in Exodus 17? Moses immediately brought Israels complaint before God out of a fear that they might eventually stone him to death. Moses asked, What am I to do with this people? (v. 4). Listen to the way God responded to Israels lack of faith and sin: Then the Lord said to Moses, Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel (17:5-6). In other words, God said to Moses: Moses, take your staff that ought to be used to strike Israel for their sins, and take your rod and strike the rock I will be standing on so that Israel will not die of thirst. In 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, the apostle Paul said that the rock Moses struck was a picture and example of what God would do to satisfy the thirst of all who desire to be satisfied. The rod of Gods judgment for our sin came down upon Jesus as the rock of our salvation! Paul said of the rock Moses struck: for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ (v. 4). Now, listen to what Jesus said in John 7:37-38, If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water. Psalm 95 begins with these words: Come, lets sing for joy to the Lord, lets shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Jesus is the rock of our salvation! Again, Psalm 95 continues, Come, lets worship and bow down, lets kneel before the Lord our Maker (v. 6). Of Jesus, the Bible testifies, ...for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authoritiesall things have been created through Him and for Him (Col. 1:16). Because the rod of Gods holy wrath came upon Jesus in our place, we are told: And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross. For this reason also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:8-11) The Psalmist then reminds us that not only is God our Maker, but that He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand. Today if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness... (v. 7). Can you not hear the words of Jesus in Psalm 95:7, did He not say: I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.... I am the good shepherd, and I know My own, and My own know Me.... And I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice; and they will become one flock, with one shepherd (John 10:11, 14, 16). Conclusion Is joy and happiness possible for you? The answer is Yes! But it will not come from your car, through your job, or from any other person, but your Maker and the Great Shepherd of His sheep... namely Jesus! If you are seeking your happiness and joy in anything other than Jesus, then C.S. Lewis words serve as a fitting conclusion to this sermon: It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased. God wants you to be happy and He wants you to experience joy, but it is a happiness and a joy that can only be found in Him. The joy and happiness that can only be found in God is the kind of joy and happiness that does not dissolve through suffering but sustains the sufferer because of the One from Whom true happiness and joy comes from. Amen. [1] C.S. Lewis,Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer(San Diego: Harvest, 1964), p. 93.

Israels wollte die Hamas zerstören. Das Ziel wurde verfehlt. Laut Schätzungen rekrutiert die Gruppe so viel neue Kämpfer, wie getötet wurden. Ohne langfristige Konzepte und Perspektiven gibt es keine Hoffnung auf eine Lösung des Konfliktes. Hammer, Benjamin www.deutschlandfunk.de, Kommentare und Themen der Woche

Direkt från Teater Tribunalen pratar Edgar och Sam om det brittiska mandatet i Palestina under mellankrigsåren. Vad var det för system, och hur bidrog det till Israels bildande och Nakba?Samtalet är inspelat inför en uppsättning av pjäsen Mandatet som behandlar samma tidsperiod, som sålt ut Teater Tribunalen i Stockholm i flera veckor.

Efter 15 måneders brutal krig i Gaza stillede præsident Biden sig onsdag stolt frem og fortalte, at Israel og Hamas er kommet frem til en aftale om våbenhvile. Han fortalte, at når Israels folkevalgte stemmer for aftalen, vil de to parter begynde at udveksle gidsler i bytte for palæstinensiske fanger, give adgang til nødhjælp og trække Israelske tropper tilbage. Så er det her begyndelsen på fred i Mellemøsten? Eller vil våbenhvilen smuldre? Politikens Marcus Rubin fortæller i dagens afsnit af 'Du lytter til Politiken' om, hvorfor våbenhvilen kommer få dage før Trumps indsættelse som USA's præsident, og hvad der skal til for at genopbygge det sønderbombede Gaza.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Vertreter der islamistischen Hamas und Israels haben sich auf ein Abkommen geeinigt, doch nun kommt es zu Verzögerungen. Damit die Waffenruhe in Kraft treten kann, muss das israelische Kabinett zustimmen. Dieses will vorerst aber nicht darüber entscheiden und beschuldigt die Hamas. Alle Themen: (00:00) Intro und Schlagzeilen (01:11) Banges Hoffen: Kommt die Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen tatsächlich? (10:01) Mittepartei vor Richtungsentscheid (14:50)) Wie wollen Österreichs FPÖ und ÖVP den Haushalt sanieren? (18:59) Tschad: Sinnbild der gescheiterten Afrikapolitik (24:47) USA blasen zum Grossangriff auf den ICC (28:15) Reitschule Bern: kreativer Freiraum oder übler Schandfleck? (33:39) Schneesport 2050: Wo kann man künftig noch Ski fahren?

16 januari. Vapenvilan mellan Hamas och Israel innebär att en del av gisslan släpps och att Israel delvis drar sig tillbaka från Gaza. Kommer den att hålla? Andreas Ericson diskuterar med Jonathan Conricus, tidigare presstalesman för Israels försvarsmakt, och Magnus Ranstorp, docent i statsvetenskap.