PRESIDENT OBAMA ARRIVES IN THE EPICENTER OF ISLAM: And a must-read book about Muslims coming to Christ
Air Force One landed in Saudi Arabia this morning, the birthplace and epicenter of Islam. President Obama is meeting with Saudi King Abdullah to discuss three top White House priorities:

Building better U.S. relations with a 1.3 billion Muslims.
Strategizing on how the Saudi-crafted [...]

 
FLASH: Week-long Israeli homeland security preparedness exercises to begin on Sunday. Hezbollah on high alert. Lebanese Army and UNFIL forces to deploy 25,000 fighters near Israeli border. Tensions running high.

UPDATED: Keep your eyes on Iran on June 12th. That’s the date Iranian voters go to the polls to “choose” their next leaders. “Choose” is putting the best [...]

 UPDATE: 74% of Israelis do not believe Obama administration’s efforts with stop Iran from building or acquiring nuclear weapons — and 51% now say they back immediate, preemptive military strikes against Iran
With North Korea testing a second nuclear warhead (just weeks after testing a long-range ICBM) — and Iran feverishly trying to develop its own nuclear weapons – Israel’s [...]

YNet News:
American defense secretary tells NBC television president has instructed him to refresh plans for military action against Tehran prepared during Bush era. ‘Presidents always ask their military to have a range of contingency plans available to them,’ he says
by Yitzhak Benhorin
WASHINGTON – Technical or offensive move? US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said [...]

DESPITE REPORTS, WHITE HOUSE DENIES JUNE 4th SPEECH WILL DISCUSS DIVIDING JERUSALEM: But France now pushing to divide Holy City

Reuters: Israeli PM says Jerusalem will never be divided
Jerusalem Post: Obama won’t disclose Middle East peace plan in Cairo
Ynet News: US: Obama won’t present peace plan in Egypt – White House press secretary denies reports that [...]

NEW POLL: WHEN IT COMES TO THE IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE “GET IT” MORE THAN WASHINGTON
A fascinating new poll by McLaughlin & Associates finds Americans are deeply and overwhelming concerned about the rising Iranian nuclear threat both to the U.S. and to Israel, and deeply concerned about the potential for Radical Islamic terrorists to [...]

OBAMA TO SAY IT IS TIME TO DIVIDE JERUSALEM: No, Mr. President, it’s not.
I’m horrified by reports this morning that in his June 4th speech in Cairo,President Obama will say it is time to divide Jerusalem and make the holy city the capital of a Palestinian state.
 
 

No, Mr. President, it is not.
Jerusalem is and should be [...]

 
Please carve time out of your schedules today to pray that the God of Israel would bless the meetings today, tomorrow and Wednesday between  Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton, Defense Secretary Gates, and Congressional leaders. Given the high stakes in the epicenter, please pray that the Lord’s will would be [...]

 
“Iran’s spiritual supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Tuesday offered his implicit support to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the June presidential election,” reports Agence France Presse and Ynet News.

“We should elect those who have popular support and who live in a simple and modest way… are pained by the pain of the people,” Khamenei said [...]

THE POPE VISITS THE EPICENTER: “I am certain that this will be a continuation of the dialogue between Judaism and Christianity in the spirit of the Prophets,” says President Peres.

Pope Benedict XVI is in the epicenter this week, visiting the places where Jesus, the prophets and the apostles walked and taught, meeting with regional leaders, and [...]