Monthly Archives: December 2013

December 31, 2013—SnyderTalk Lead Headline: Abbas to Blame Jews’ Prayers for Rain for Halting Peace Talks

1--Intro

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”

Psalm 122: 6

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2--SnyderTalk Lead Headline UVA for use

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Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu—Abbas to Blame Jews’ Prayers for Rain for Halting Peace Talks:

Jerusalem – Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas declared on Thursday that Israel must not be a Jewish state. He supported his demand by blaming Jews in Israel for influencing God to send the snowstorm that delayed visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Kerry was scheduled to meet with Kerry Thursday night, while the Secretary of State’s discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu were postponed because of the early winter storm.

“The Jews inserted special prayers last month for God to bring them rain but used Kabbalistic ideas in a code that encrypted requests that a winter storm would coincide with Kerry’s visit and disrupt his schedule,” Abbas told the official Palestinian Authority news agency.

He also noted that only a few days before the current storm, IDF soldiers stormed the Al Aqsa compound to learn about the alleged presence of the Holy Temples.

“There are too many coincidences, here,” Abbas told reporters in Kerry’s entourage after the Secretary of State landed at Ben Gurion Airport. “This is only a hint of what would happen if we were to recognize Israel a Jewish state. The Jews cannot be trusted. They will use their influence on God to get what they want. There might even be peace, Allah forbid, one day.

“The Jews will stop at nothing to ditch the negotiations that are aimed at two states, a Palestinian Authority state based on our needs for secure borders and an Israeli state with clear and secure boundaries of Dizengoff Square, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Azreilla Mall.”

Abbas also threatened that if Jews do not rip out from their Sabbath prayer books the prayer for the government of Israel and the IDF, he will go to the United Nations to declare a boycott on all synagogues throughout the world.

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SnyderTalk Comment: A little levity on New Year’s Eve, but as 2014 begins, remember that Yahweh can and will thwart men’s plans if they are opposed to His design.  Yahweh wins in the end, and nothing and no one can prevent it.  However, there are dire consequences for those who stand in His way and try to stop Him.  And ignorance is no excuse.  You will be held accountable for what you should have known.

All jesting aside, Yahweh does answer prayer, so pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  He’s not called the Lion of Judah for nothing.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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Message in an artillery shell

UNIFIL vows to find perpetrators of rocket attack on Israel

Netanyahu says Lebanese rocket attack constitutes ‘double war crime’

Israel warns against new Iranian centrifuges ahead of new Geneva talks

Releasing Arab terrorists proves Jewish blood is cheap, say those protesting prisoner release

Palestinians: Postponing prisoner release is Israeli blackmail

Palestinians attack symbolic ministerial vote to annex Jordan Valley

US Defense Secretary expresses concern over Egypt turmoil

Iran negotiating with Russia over construction of new nuclear plants

Israel’s population reaches more than 8 million at year’s end

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10--Arutz Sheva

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Eldad: Treat the Temple Mount Like a Holy Site

Brits Duped by Anti-Israel Show at St. James’s Church

Center in Kafr Qara Spreading Islam to Jewish Women

Fogels’ Son Asks: Why Are they Releasing Murderers?

Anti-Hezbollah Chants at Funeral of Former Lebanese Minister

Protestors Demand Govt. Back Off on PA Deals 

Gaza Border Towns Get New Tax Breaks, Benefits

Protest Set Outside Home of Jerusalem Terrorist

Samaria Community Among Most Expensive in Israel

Peres: Impossible to Separate Religion and State

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Bill annexing Jordan Valley advances; PM to oppose it

‘Israel likely to be blamed for failed peace talks’

Herzog: Freeze settlements, don’t release prisoners

Kerry heads back, yet again, to a peace effort mired in crisis

Oren: Israel must recognize all forms of Judaism or risk alienating US Jews

UN troops vow to catch Lebanese rocket launcher

Two Katyusha rockets land in northern Galilee

Saudi Arabia to give Lebanese Army $3 billion

Nuclear leaker Vanunu denied exit from Israel, again

Pollard’s fate unconnected to peace talks, insists US envoy

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12--Other News

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Female suicide bomber kills 14 at Russian rail station—Early in July, Chechen Islamist resistance leader Doku Umarov, responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in Russia, said his fighters will use “maximum force” to prevent the Olympics, which he called “satanic games held on the bones of our ancestors.”

2 explosions in 2 days hits Russian city, 27 dead

Turkish Corruption Investigations Mark AKP-Gulen Power Struggle 

PM: We don’t hesitate to strike those who threaten us 

Hamas should disengage from ‘terrorist’ Muslim Brotherhood: Fatah

Benghazi attack organized by local leader, not Al Qaeda: report

House GOP: al-Qaeda was involved in Benghazi attacks

Syria unlikely to meet deadline to destroy chemical weapons: UN

Iraq troops arrest leading Sunni MP in violent raid

When the revolution comes to Israel

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13--Perspectives 2

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Clifford D. May: Iran’s Delays and Deceptions: The Mullahs Are Acting in Bad Faith—Consider the current state of play with Iran. The Joint Plan of Action was concluded on Nov. 24. On the Iranian side, the agreement “has yet to be implemented,” a State Department spokesman said last week. In the meantime, Iran’s centrifuges continue to spin, turning out 20% enriched uranium. Construction is ongoing at the Arak heavy-water reactor, a facility that will be able to produce weapons-grade plutonium. Weaponization and ballistic-missile development have not been halted. We too often assume that those across the table are, like us, seeking common ground and sincerely open to compromise. In reality, the rulers of such nations as North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Iran regard negotiations as warfare. Their goal is not “conflict resolution.” It is victory.

Amir Taheri: The Geneva Deal Is Designed to Circumvent UN Resolutions—Iran has already crossed the threshold after which it would be able to build a bomb. Even if Iran were to carry out all its commitments under the Geneva deal it would still not revert to its pre-threshold position. The six resolutions passed by the UN Security Council were designed to dismantle the Iranian nuclear program, not to freeze things at the current high level. I am not against talking to the mullahs and trying to find a diplomatic solution. What matters is what the talks are about. The talks should be about implementing the UN resolutions. The Geneva format is designed to circumvent the UN resolutions.

Zalman Shoval: Why We Need to Hear the Palestinians Recognize a Jewish State—Those who question why Netanyahu insists on receiving recognition of a Jewish state from the Palestinians do not understand the real reasons behind the all-out war they are waging. The Islamic world in general and the Palestinians in particular reject the very notion of the Jews as a nation or people, and because in their view Judaism is only a religion, the Jews do not deserve their own state. The Palestinians say: “There is indeed a state called Israel, which for lack of any other choice we were forced to recognize as an existing fact because it is stronger than us militarily and because it has an ally like America. But if the day comes when these basic variables change, we will know how to deal with this illegitimate state, which settled in our midst and which the nations of the world created at our expense to compensate the Jews for what they did to them in the Holocaust.”

Zvika Fogel: PA Has Neither Desire or Capability to Deal with Extremism—Israel finds itself in the eye of the Islamic storm, surrounded by Arab countries going through revolutions and internal strife. Neighboring countries have become fertile ground for terrorist groups that seek to conduct attacks against the Jews. The more than one hundred terror incidents in the West Bank each month are definitive proof that even when we choose the path of reconciliation and compromise, there remains on the ground an ongoing extremist ideological belief among the Palestinians against our right to live here. The Palestinian Authority, with which we conduct negotiations about coexistence, does not have the desire or capability to deal with extremism among its people.

Evelyn Gordon: Palestinians Erasing Christian History—When the Palestinians claim that Jesus was a Palestinian, it’s not only Jewish history and the Jewish religion Palestinians thereby erase. They are also erasing Christian history and the Christian religion. What becomes of the famous scene of Jesus evicting money-changers from the Temple if, as Palestinian officials claim, the Temple never existed? What becomes of Mary’s husband Joseph, who was “of the house and lineage of David” (Luke 2:4), if, as Palestinians claim, the Davidic kingdom never existed? The entire story of Jesus as related in the Gospels takes place in a Jewish state with a largely autonomous Jewish political and religious leadership. If no Jewish state ever existed, how did these foundational Christian stories ever occur? Absent the historic Jewish kingdom of the Gospels, there quite literally is no Jesus.

Christa Case Bryant: Christians Are Under Siege in the Middle East—The First Baptist Church of Bethlehem was bombed 14 times during the first intifada, and is now facing a legal battle with the Palestinian Authority, which doesn’t recognize it as a church. It was founded three decades ago by the Rev. Naim Khoury, who survived a bullet to the shoulder from a sniper while in the church parking lot five years ago. Christianity is under assault across the entire Middle East. Iraq has lost at least half of its Christians over the past decade. Egypt has seen the worst spate of anti-Christian violence in 700 years. In Syria, jihadists are killing Christians and burying them in mass graves. Christians now make up only 5% of the population of the Middle East, down from 20% a century ago. As political Islam gains support, Christians can no longer find refuge in a shared Arab identity with their Muslim neighbors.

Harold Rhode: Turkey: Are Erdogan’s Days Numbered?—Turkey’s once seemingly-invincible prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seems in a tailspin. Erdogan’s faction identifies and allies itself with the [Arab] Muslim Brotherhood. This faction was strongly supportive of ousted Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi, and also of Syria’s fundamentalists. Supporters of the U.S.-based conservative Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen look down upon “Arab Islam.” To them, “real” Islam is the Islam of the Turks – meaning the people who live in Turkey, Central Asia, and Western China.

Samuel Westrop: Human Rights Gets It Wrong— For the broadsheet newspaper editors who offered Ahmad column inches, and for the “human rights” groups who joined arms with extremist institutions in opposing Ahmad’s extradition, what does Ahmad’s guilty plea mean? Will these self-proclaimed champions of liberalism, human rights, and habeas corpus also offer their time to Ahmad’s victims – the women and children slaughtered by the very Taliban fighters to whom Ahmad supplied money and personnel?

Ruthie Blum: Housing illusions— The release of the next batch of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails is scheduled to take place some time next week, following a discussion about which 26 murderers with Jewish blood on their hands will be returning to the bosom of their families. The families of their victims, in contrast, suffered another blow on Thursday, when the High Court of Justice rejected a petition against the move — the third of four such prisoner releases that Israel consented to under the agreement that restarted Israeli-Palestinian discussions.

Chana Rosenfelder: A moral message to the nation— Israel, we are told, is meant to be a light unto the nations. This term is used in three places in the Prophets to describe the nation of Israel at the time of redemption. The modern State of Israel has many achievements under its belt. We produce Nobel Prize laureates at a higher rate than almost any other country — 50 percent more per capita than the U.S. and more than double the Canadian rate. Much medical technology was developed here, in addition to technology for daily use, such as the popular Waze navigation software. Israel created the cherry tomato, the drip irrigation system, and the USB flash drive.

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

The scripture below is from the New American Standard Bible, and the hyperlinks associated with each word are from Strong’s Concordance for the New American Standard Bible.

Habakkuk 1: 1-4

The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. How long, O Yahweh, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save. Why do You make me see iniquity, and cause [me] to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; strife exists and contention arises. Therefore the law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

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5--HNIY Print form 2

His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important.  It’s available in eBook format and in paperback.  It’s also available for free in PDF format.

  • God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
  • “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
  • “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.  In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
  • Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)

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6--His Name is Yahweh Audio Presentation 3

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Peace in the Middle East: The Facts Tell an Interesting Story

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6--Freely You Received Freely Give

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14--Blessings from Revelation 2

Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now.  There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.

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Other Books by Neil Snyder

  • Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming.  Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days.  Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall.  Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace.  With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.
  • What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life?  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.
  • Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide.  It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.  Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided.  They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make.  As they say, forewarned is forearmed.  Click here to order the eBook.  Click here to order the paperback.

15--Concentric Circles 2

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