“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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Steve Apfel—Anti-Zionism: heir apparent to Nazism?:
What is ideology but a body of beliefs with the power to stir up and mobilize people[?] The beliefs are not meant to be studied and understood, but to believe in with a burning faith.
Communism told the faithful to believe in a struggle between classes for political and economic power. Nazism mesmerized Germans to believe in a struggle between pure and impure races for world domination. And then came anti-Zionism…
To be heir-apparent to the earth-shaking isms of the 20th century, anti-Zionism must, as they did, convey a particular world view. For that matter so must Zionism if, as many would argue, it is the vilest ideology of all. It certainly is older than all. As a movement Zionism goes back to the last half of the 19th century, though as a faith, as the unwavering attachment of Jews and Judaism to a homeland, Zionism extends back to biblical days. Whether ideology is the right pigeonhole for it depends on the lessons we learn from anti-Zionism.
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Minister Naftali Bennett: Abbas, let us buy your UN ticket— One of the most famous tales about Chelm is called “The Broken Bridge.” The story goes, people would pass over the same bridge in Chelm, slipping and plunging some several meters below. So the wise men of the city congregated to find a solution. They decided to build a hospital underneath the bridge. According to their logic: We must fall down, so let’s pay the price and deal with the problem later. Over the past several years, a similar notion has become dominant in Israel. It says, “Anything but the U.N.” Anything but The Hague. Each and every year the fright festival starts up all over again: If we don’t do what the Palestinians want, they will head to the U.N., become a state and drag us to the The Hague over the actions of our government, the Israel Defense Forces and the settlers in Judea and Samaria. IDF officers won’t be able to travel to France, Spain and England. Our government ministers will become wanted men and women in East Asia. Apparently, it’s the Palestinians’ doomsday device. A certain former defense minister once gave it a name: diplomatic tsunami.
Prof. Efraim Inbar: Palestinian blackmail— The Palestinian Authority decided unilaterally to apply for membership to 15 U.N. agencies in order to demonstrate its uneasiness about the lack of progress with the American-sponsored peace negotiations and to buttress its claims to statehood. While this amounts also to a violation of its promise to refrain from going to the U.N. as long as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry continues his diplomatic efforts, the PA expressed its willingness to continue the negotiating process, but expects to get a better deal than the one Kerry worked on.
Yoram Schweitzer, Benedetta Berti, and Shlomo Brom: The Erosion of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire in Gaza— Recent weeks have seen a gradual erosion of the Egyptian-brokered November 2012 ceasefire that ended operation Pillar of Defense. While the first year following the ceasefire was characterized by a significant drop in violent exchanges between the parties, in the past few months the situation has been progressively less stable. Nonetheless, both Hamas and Israel need to provide mutual reassurance of their interest in returning to a situation of controlled conflict in the south, under which Hamas will “for the most part” keep the quiet and Israel will “for the most part” retaliate in a calibrated and limited way. Needless to say, this signal-based mode of conflict management is far from stable, but short of a larger political engagement and a revision of the current policy, it is the most plausible answer to the current instability.
Prof. Ron Breiman: US ‘peace’ can’t replace security— The head of the opposition never misses an opportunity to attack the prime minister and demand a “brave peace,” which is actually a cowards’ “peace”: fleeing, handing over the center of the country and half of Jerusalem, turning hundreds of thousands of Jews out of their homes in their country and putting millions of others in danger. MK Isaac Herzog (Labor) and his buddies — even in the coalition — are doing everything to see that the blame for the collapse of the fraudulent process falls on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Elliott Abrams: Bush on Middle East peace— On April 4, 2002, 12 years ago today, U.S. President George W. Bush gave the first of two important speeches about Middle East policy. The April 4 speech challenged the leadership of Yasser Arafat, whom the administration had found to be continuing to support terrorism and lie to American officials about it. Bush said this: “This can be a time for hope. But it calls for leadership, not for terror. Since September the 11th, I’ve delivered this message: Everyone must choose; you’re either with the civilized world, or you’re with the terrorists. All in the Middle East also must choose and must move decisively in word and deed against terrorist acts. The chairman of the Palestinian Authority has not consistently opposed or confronted terrorists. At Oslo and elsewhere, Chairman Arafat renounced terror as an instrument of his cause, and he agreed to control it. He’s not done so. The situation in which he finds himself today is largely of his own making. He’s missed his opportunities, and thereby betrayed the hopes of the people he’s supposed to lead.”
Jonathan Spyer: War Across the Borders— It has become a commonplace to claim that the unrest in the Arab world is challenging the state borders laid down in the Arab world following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. This claim, however, is only very partially valid. It holds true in a specific section of the Middle East, namely the contiguous land area stretching from Iran’s western borders to the Mediterranean Sea, and taking in the states currently known as Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. In this area, a single sectarian war is currently taking place. The nominal governments in Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut may claim to rule in the name of the Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese peoples. But the reality of power distribution in each of these areas shows something quite different.
Michael Curtis: Truth and Misinformation: Yasser Arafat and the CIA— What is there in common between the CIA and Michael J. Morell, its former acting director, and the late Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)? Very little, except that both were involved in misunderstandings about or manipulation of information about events with which they were officially concerned. Michael Morell, who became acting director after the resignation of David Petraeus, became embroiled in two related controversies concerning the attacks onSeptember 11. 2012 on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. The first is the question of who was responsible for the attacks? The other is the more unsettled one: why was incorrect information, whether it was known to be false or not, about responsibility for the attacks given to Congress and to the American public?
Dr. Ronen Yitzhak: The next generation of jihadists— “Oh, mother, don’t be sad at my departure.” These are the opening words to the theme song played at the training camp for children in northern Syria, established by the al-Qaida-affiliated organization, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (abbreviated “ISIS”). The core of this organization, founded in 2004 by Abu Musab al-Zarkawi in Iraq, has recently intensified its activities in Iraq and, at the beginning of this year, took control of several cities in the Anbar Province in the west of the country on the border with Syria and Jordan. The group’s operatives — infamous for their brutality, including beheadings — have caused considerable casualties among the Iraqi security forces struggling to impose order and security in the country that has been embroiled in a civil war ever since the American invasion and the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.
Dan Margalit: The Olmert saga continues— Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s legal situation has become even more complicated now that his former bureau chief Shula Zaken has handed over the secret recordings of their conversations. Investigators are trying to determine whether he had obstructed justice during the Holyland trial and other trials. But the investigation may go even beyond that. On Friday, Channel 1 anchorwoman Ayala Hasson said that when the two met in December 2013 — their most recent meeting — Olmert had the feeling Zaken was wired. Olmert is lucky in the sense that Judge David Rozen he might listen to the “Zaken tapes” when he reviews the terms of Zaken’s plea bargain and only once Olmert had been sentenced (at the latter’s request). This will ensure the recordings bear no impact on Olmert’s sentence.
The Times of Israel: Arsenal: Syria jihadi is not an ex-player—London’s Arsenal soccer club has denied reports that one of its former players features is now an Islamist extremist in Syria who features in a new video. The footage, which was posted by FiSyria.com and later uploaded by MEMRI, shows a masked man posing with an AK47 rifle and speaking to the camera.
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Will the real J Street stand up… for Israel?
Nasrallah: Assad will not be toppled, Israel concerned
‘Palestinians say no breakthrough in last-ditch peace efforts’
Former Navy chief: Israel in a ‘secret war’ to stop Iranian weapons smuggling to terrorists
Experts split over anti-nuclear-weapons fatwa in Iran
Iran ‘plotting in the back room’ for nuke talks failure, Menendez says
Liberman at JPost Conference: I’d rather go to new elections than release Palestinian terrorists
Why Israeli dairy cows eat kosher for Passover
Far-right Jobbik party gains as Hungary re-elects maverick PM
Romanian PM: New generation of young politicians in Europe
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Committee on Temple Mount Prayer Convenes
Crisis over ‘Anti-Semitic Infiltrators’ in Israel Day Parade
Entry-Permit Forgery Lab Busted Near Hevron
Anti-Israel Hackers Get A Taste of Their Own Medicine
This October, Will Every Jew in the World Keep One Shabbat?
Nasrallah Declares ‘We Bombed Israel in Revenge’
Erekat: Hamas Not, and Never Was, a Terror Group
Cleric: Israel Occupied Territory Since 1948
Top US Senator to Abbas: Recognize Jewish State
Al-Qaeda Head’s Brother to Face Trial in Egypt
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IDF Elite Intelligence Forces Caught in Action on Camera
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The lost sheep of the house of Israel
Israeli diplomats brawl with Indian official in Delhi
Hezbollah chief admits group targeted Israeli patrol
IDF thwarts bomb attack along Gaza border
No breakthrough seen in last-ditch Mideast talks
Israeli sites shuttered in advance of cyber attack
Bennett: Failed talks weren’t leading to peace
British opposition leader to visit Israel this week
The Islamic sex cult supporting Turkey’s prime minister
Group threatens to sue Palestinians in Hague over terror ties
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Israel negotiator: US should change its role in Middle East peace talks
Ukraine Reveals to Us How Vladimir Putin Sees the Middle East
Iran says expert-level nuclear talks have been ‘useful’
Police expand new Olmert probe on alleged ‘hush money’
In Taliban stronghold, a scared electorate
Netanyahu: Israel wants peace talks but “not at any price”
Attacks across Iraq kill at least 11 people
US to send 2 more missile defense ships to Japan to protect from North Korea
Two killed as Egyptian tribal clash resumes
Ukraine arrests 15 pro-Putin plotters
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This is Elijah’s view of the Mediterranean Sea from the top of Mount Carmel.
This is the place where Elijah had a confrontation with the prophets of Baal.
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Malachi 3: 16-18
Then those who feared Yahweh spoke to one another, and Yahweh gave attention and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear Yahweh and who esteem His name. “They will be Mine,” says Yahweh Sabaoth, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.” So you will again distinguish between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him.
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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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Jeremiah said the Messiah is Yahweh
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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.
