“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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David J. Theroux—Duck Dynasty and the Secular Theocracy, Part II:
Phil Robertson himself is certainly no lightweight. The Los Angeles Times has called him “a man of legendary individuality, who once passed up an opportunity to sign with the NFL because it might interfere with his hunting.” One of seven children raised in a log cabin in northern Louisiana with no electricity, bathtub, or toilet, Robertson grew up in a poor family living off garden fruits and vegetables; deer, squirrels, fish, and other animals that they hunted and fished; and the pigs, chickens, and cattle that they raised. Nevertheless, in high school he became All-State in football, baseball, and track and received a football scholarship to Louisiana Tech University. At Tech, later football legend Terry Bradshaw was at the time benched as second-string to Robertson, who was star quarterback. And although Robertson chose to quit football in college for the freedom to hunt during duck season, he went on to receive a master’s degree in education, taught school, and became a commercial fisherman. In 1972, the young enterprising Robertson patented his first duck call and created the Duck Commander Company, which has been leveraged into today’s vast fortune and cultural phenomenon that includes Duck Dynasty. His autobiography Happy, Happy, Happy became a number one New York Times bestseller, and his new book for 2014, Phil-osophy, will share his philosophy of life, as he outlined in an interview before the release of his autobiography:
“My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don’t see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That’s the message I have. . . . America and the world, we have a love problem. I’m trying to get people aware of that. A loving person is not going to pick up a spear or a knife because when the Ten Commandments were written it was before guns, and God was saying, ‘Look, quit murdering each other.’ Now I’m just trying to say, ‘Folks, let’s try to love one another no matter what the color of their skin.’”
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Two become one: Ministers approve proposal to have only one chief rabbi
PM: Hamas should be wary of Israel’s policy of responding forcefully to every rocket fired
Cabinet orders cessation of gas mask distribution
Jewish groups praise Pope Francis on opening of Holocaust archives
Israel plans laser interceptor ‘Iron Beam’ for short-range rockets
Assad reportedly says giving up power not up for discussion
Israel shrugs off Kuwaiti boycott, joins Arab states, Iran at Abu Dhabi conference
Outcome of constitutional referendum: New hope for Egypt?
Rouhani to woo business in Davos but Iran hurdles abound
US, Canada urge UNESCO not to postpone exhibit on Land of Israel
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Temple Mount Desecration: ‘The Public Needs to Know’
Temple Mount: Jewish Woman Barred Over ‘Muslim’ Dress Code
Netanyahu to UN: Can You Handle the Truth?
Palestinian Authority Residents Complain Over Foreign Workers
Police Make Several ‘Price Tag’ Arrests
Haniyeh Aide: Hamas Won’t Accept PA ‘Concessions’
Video: Terrorist Hit in Gaza Strike
Revealed: Terror Attacks Doubled in 2013
Soldiers Nab Terrorist who Opened Fire at Kibbutz
Al-Jazeera Host with Rare Praise for Israel
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Canada’s PM urges Abbas to negotiate with ‘Jewish State of Israel’
Ya’alon: US and Europe ‘don’t understand’ Middle East
Livni: We face South Africa-style isolation because of settlements
Why is Stephen Harper one of Israel’s staunchest supporters?
Netanyahu slams UNESCO for scrapping Israel exhibit
Pope may seek to unseal Holocaust-era archives
65 surrogate babies born to Israeli gay couples stuck in Thailand
Kuwait bails UAE meet over Israeli presence; Iran stays
Israeli company to unveil laser-based rocket interceptor
Africa: The next big destination for Israeli start-ups?
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Prosor: UN Continues to Oil Palestinian Propaganda Machine
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Introduces Legislation to Combat Palestinian Incitement
Taliban Calls Deadly Kabul Cafe Attack ‘Retaliation’ for Earlier Coalition Strike
Andrew Cuomo: Pro-Life People “Have No Place in the State of New York”
Israel Warns Hamas over Upsurge in Rocket Fire from Gaza
Netanyahu: Many Arab Countries Now See Israel as a Friend
Report: Israeli Security Apparatus Fears Dissolution of Ceasefire Agreement With Hamas
Al Jazeera Host Asks Why Can’t Arab Armies Be More Humane, Like Israel?
Iran Hangs 40 People in Two Weeks Amid Surge in Executions
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This woman should be in the Big House, not the White House.
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Dan Margalit: Letting Pinto off the hook? Absolutely not!— Officials at the State Attorney’s Office were outraged over what Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch had to say over the weekend. He said Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto was guilty “in the true sense of the word.” They were mad because Aharonovitch’s conduct undermined the investigation against Pinto. But his comments were appropriate. Why? Because Pinto’s people had been spreading rumors that Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein struck a deal: The rabbi would be cleared in exchange for incriminating information on Maj. Gen. Menashe Arbiv. In other words, Arbiv, who allegedly received improper gifts from Pinto when he served as the head of the Israel Police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit, will stand trial, but the rabbi who initiated the transaction will walk.
Dr. Haim Shine: A filthy sea of moral turpitude— The rabbis’ courts have turned into meeting places for politicians, police commanders, businesspeople and crime bosses. The meetings resemble scenes from the “The Godfather.” In the presence of the rabbis, these criminals and tycoons try to ease their consciences, which have grown heavy and burdened by the violence, intimidation and exploitation of the poor, those who invested their pension funds and life savings only to lose them in the grand festival of debt reconstruction.
Zalman Shoval: Walking together?— All along, it has been no secret that Washington has maintained a bilateral channel of communication with Iran regarding strategic issues in the Middle East, even as the U.S. has worked to halt Iran’s nuclear program. The New York Times, often the voice of the Obama administration, recently wrote that the U.S. and Iran, “find themselves on the same side of a range of regional issues,” including their mutual opposition to al-Qaida. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has not tempered his anti-American rhetoric, but words are one thing and interests are another. Khamenei understands that his country has been presented with a golden opportunity that could serve both its ideological aspirations and its hegemonic strategic interests.
Elliott Abrams: In need of some urgency— When the Obama administration began, the post of ambassador at large for international religious freedom was vacant. This post, at the State Department, was established by the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 because Congress wanted State, and the entire executive branch, to pay more attention to the issue of religious freedom. (The act also established the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, of which I am a member.) The Obama administration filled the post of ambassador at large — in April 2011, more than two years after the president came to office. That’s one good way to judge what priority White House has given to the issue. And it filled the post with someone who had literally no experience at all with international religious freedom problems and policy.
Ryan Bellerose: Israel, Palestine: Who’s Indigenous?—I am a Metis, one of the recognized aboriginal peoples in Canada, a native rights advocate, and a Zionist. There is a very clear guideline to being an indigenous people, as detailed by anthropologist Jose R. Martinez-Cobo (former special rapporteur of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities for the UN). Israel is the world’s first modern indigenous state: the first time in history that an indigenous people has managed to regain control of its ancestral lands and build a nation state – a great example for indigenous peoples to emulate. Palestinians have what are called “rights of longstanding presence,” and although these are legitimate rights, they do not trump indigenous rights. If indigenous people allow the argument that conquerors can become indigenous, we are then delegitimizing our own rights. If conquerors can become indigenous, then the white Europeans who came to my indigenous lands in North America could now claim to be indigenous.
Dan Diker: Sharon’s Legacy of Defensible Borders—Will Sharon be remembered as a security hawk who morphed into a political dove? Did Sharon’s insistence on establishing the security fence in the West Bank near the pre-1967 lines reflect his intention to establish Israel’s eastern border? Col. (res.) Danny Tirza, former IDF chief of regional strategic planning and the architect of the security fence, told Army Radio on January 12 that Sharon never intended the fence to be a political border. Rather, Sharon considered the security barrier a last line of defense against terrorist infiltrators. Tirza added that Sharon’s security considerations in determining Israel’s eastern border included his commitment to defensible borders and retaining the Jordan Rift Valley, including the West Bank hill ridge.
Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall: The Internal Iranian Struggle in the Aftermath of the Geneva Nuclear Agreement—In the short time President Hassan Rouhani has been in office, the Revolutionary Guard commanders have had considerable success in constraining his hesitant efforts toward a domestic transformation, while repeatedly warning that they will not accept the use of the nuclear agreement to facilitate far-reaching domestic, regional, and international changes (mainly toward the U.S.) that would divert Iran from the path they have ordained for it. In any case, Rouhani is part of the establishment, and his room to maneuver in effecting major domestic changes is limited to begin with. His charm offensive in the West does not add up to a real change in Iran, given the strong status of the Revolutionary Guard.
Abraham H. Foxman: Exposing the Israel Bashers: Opinions Without Facts, Facts Without Context— How appealing, even seductive, it is to justify prejudiced expressions by simply asserting the defense of “we’re just expressing our opinion.” Very few of us would feel comfortable arguing that people shouldn’t be able to say what they think about almost anything. So, why all the fuss and bother about a few hundred members of the American Studies Association being able to express their opinion in the passage of resolution calling on the ASA to boycott Israeli academic institutions? Well over 180 university presidents and a number of prominent academic associations have forcefully answered that question — in their opinion, it is just plain wrong. They rightly say an academic boycott flies in the face of the greater good achieved through the open exchange of ideas, not by penalizing professors and universities for the policies of the country in which they live and work. Nonetheless, the ASA now is on record as an organization supporting the exclusion of interaction with Israeli academic institutions.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: UNESCO Support a Bad Investment for U.S. Taxpayers—U.S. laws precludes us from funding UNESCO or any other body at the UN that recognizes a Palestinian state. Now the Obama administration is lobbying Congress to undermine these laws by restoring full or partial funding by asking for a waiver to this legal prohibition. The administration is seeking to restore almost $80 million for this fiscal year and pay nearly $250 million more in arrears to an agency that has an anti-U.S., anti-Israel agenda, that works against our interests at every turn. By even partially funding UNESCO, we are tacitly agreeing to undermine the peace process by granting de facto recognition to a Palestinian state without it first coming to an agreement with Israel to resolve the conflict.
Brian Wingfield: Obama Says Racial Animus Blunts Approval, New Yorker Reports— President Barack Obama said that racial tensions may have softened his popularity among white voters within the last two years, according to a story posted on the New Yorker magazine’s website today. “There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president,” Obama said in the article by David Remnick, appearing in the magazine’s Jan. 27 edition. “Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president,” Obama said in his most direct comments on how race has affected his political standing since he’s been in office.
SnyderTalk Comment: This man is pathetic. If anyone is a racist or harbors racial animus, he is or he does. We elected a man who is half black to serve as President of the United States, and those who voted for him had nothing to rely on but his word. He had no record of accomplishment, so it was a crap shoot. As quickly as he was elected, he proceeded to break his word again and again and again and again. As I write this, he is still breaking his word to the American people to the people of Israel and to the people of the world. No, Mr. President, our disgust for you has nothing to do with your race. It’s all about you.
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Zephaniah 2: 6-7
So the seacoast will be pastures, with caves for shepherds and folds for flocks. And the coast will be for the remnant of the house of Judah, they will pasture on it. In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening; for Yahweh their God will care for them and restore their fortune.
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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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It’s time to remove the veil and tell the world who God is by Name.
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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.
