“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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David M. Weinberg—“Mahmoud Abbas seized the first opportunity to flee the negotiating room while blaming Israel”:
It is increasingly obvious that the two-state solution is close to obsolete, although it is still not politically correct to say so in polite diplomatic company. The two-state solution has little chance of coming into being, because the Palestinians do not want the constricted West Bank state that Israel can give them. And they are just not ready to close the book on all claims against Israel in exchange for a small West Bank and Gaza state.
And so, PA President Mahmoud Abbas seized the first opportunity he could find to flee the negotiating room while blaming Israel. After all, Abbas never really wanted to join these talks in the first place. He certainly did not want, and still is not ready, to make any concrete concessions to bring about an end to the conflict with Israel.
We need to remember that Abbas joined the talks only under extreme American pressure and only after Israel bought Abbas’ participation by promising to release from jail Palestinian terrorists over a nine-month period.
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Ehud Yaari: The Palestinians Want a State, But Without an End to the Conflict—Veteran Middle East commentator Ehud Yaari discussed the peace talks Friday on Channel 2: “We need to tell the truth and look at the reality. Within the Palestinian leadership and the Palestinian public there is no serious wish for a small Palestinian state in return for them making historic concessions and compromises on refugees, Jerusalem, and the like. They want a state, but without an end to the conflict….They want more – and they believe the UN channel will enable them to achieve a type of state under occupation, not a real state, in order to continue the conflict.”
Dr. Haim Shine: ‘Abbas spitting in Israel’s face’—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Palestinian Authority’s unilateral moves are a double-edged sword. Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz suggests countermeasures. “When I was finance minister, we halted transfer of tax funds to PA,” he says.
Mati Tuchfeld, Yoni Hirsch, Shlomo Cesana and Gidon Allon: If peace talks fail, what next for coalition?— The crisis in the peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians has shaken up the Israeli political scene. The stability of the governing coalition has once again come into question, with Yisrael Beytenu’s leader, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, saying on Sunday that he would prefer new elections over the release of more terrorists, and Opposition Leader Isaac Herzog (Labor) calling for the formation of a new government comprised of the Left and haredi parties without holding new elections. Speaking at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York on Sunday, Lieberman said the Palestinians’ unilateral steps toward U.N. recognition were akin to blackmail.
Isi Leibler: Blaming Israel for the collapse of talks— All signs indicate that the moribund peace process has now formally collapsed. Few Israelis will be surprised. The Obama administration was repeatedly cautioned that pressurizing of Israel and appeasing the intransigent Palestinians would only result in greater demands on Israel. That is precisely what happened. After Israel succumbed (unwisely, in my opinion) to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s pressure to release 100 mass murderers in order to “bribe” the Palestinians to merely agree to negotiate, what did we get in return?
Pinhas Inbari: Palestinian Defiance of Washington—The Palestinians have adopted a policy of defiance of Washington. Upon Abbas’ return from Washington, where he met with President Obama and rejected U.S. peace proposals, he was given a “hero’s welcome” for standing up to the U.S. Senior Fatah figure Abbas Zaki said the PA’s applications to UN bodies were made despite U.S. opposition, and accused U.S. mediator Martin Indyk of being a “Zionist.” The Palestinians are taking their case to the UN in a bid to free themselves from U.S. “hegemony” over the negotiating process and return to “internationalizing” the conflict. Moreover, the Arab world has been signaling to the Palestinians that the talks are dispensable. At the recent Arab summit in Kuwait, the Arabs omitted support for Kerry’s peace efforts from their statements.
Eugene Kontorovich: The other Crimeas —It has become a truism in discussions of Russia’s takeover of Crimea that in the post-World War II international order, countries no longer rewrite borders through force — or if they do, rarely find themselves faced with determined opposition from other states. As Secretary of State John F. Kerry put it, the Crimea campaign is a “19th century act.” Such statements ignore major pieces of inconvenient history. Though it is too early to say much about the 21st century, the late 20th century saw countries gobble up foreign territory. Indeed, even the more modest claim that such territorial conquest is unknown in Europe is not true. Sometimes these actions met determined international opposition, but just as often they did not. Immediate objections fade. Indeed, a comprehensive study of post-WWII conquest finds that United Nations condemnation happens in well under half the cases.
Adam Levick: The Economist Falsely Claims That Exports From Gaza Are Banned— The Economist’s Middle East blog, Pomegranate, published a post on April 2 about the art scene in Gaza, titled ‘Not so bleak’, which included the following closing passages: “Hamas now keeps its hands off the enclave’s burgeoning arts scene. ‘In the first years it banned exhibitions,’ says Mr Haj. ‘Now it stages its own…There’s a kind of a glasnost.’ Purists in the religious-endowments ministries stayed away. But the Hamas culture minister issued a licence, offering moral but not financial support and apologising that his $10,000 budget for such projects could not cover the show. The interior ministry did summon an artist, but only to inquire menacingly how he had managed to exhibit a painting in Israel. ‘I sent it by e-mail,’ came the reply. Selling the originals is trickier, since exports from Gaza are still banned.”
Yoram Ettinger: Is Israel Really Isolated?— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that “if we do not resolve the issues between Palestinians and Israelis, if we do not find a way to find peace, there will be an increasing isolation of Israel.” However, a thorough examination of Israel’s international standing reveals an increasingly splendid integration of the Jewish state — economically, technologically and scientifically — irrespective of the Palestinian issue.
Dr. Rafael Medoff and Mishpacha Magazine: Hitler on Trial— “Hitler’s eyes are curiously childlike and candid… His voice is as quiet as his black tie… He has the sensitive hand of the artist.” This description of the Nazi dictator, which was written by a New York Timesreporter in Germany in July 1933, was all too typical of American press coverage of Hitler during his first year in power. The front-page article, “Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans,” presented the Nazi leader in sympathetic terms and provided him with a platform for long statements justifying his totalitarian policies and attacks on Jews.
Emily B. Landau and Anat Kurz: Arms Control and National Security: New Horizons— The articles compiled here probe some prominent current and emerging proliferation-related challenges and dilemmas, both regional and global, and propose directions for dealing with them. The articles cover a wide range of issues, from the Pakistani nuclear situation to weapons trafficking in Sinai. Other articles focus on European efforts to confront Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the threat of autonomous unmanned robots in future warfare, the phenomenon of complex deterrence equations on the basis of new research into the US-Israel-Iraq deterrence triangle in the 1991 Gulf War, and the possibility of devising an arms control treaty to curb cyber warfare.
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Poll: 9 out of 10 Jewish Israelis say little chance of deal between Israel, PA
Israel wants peace, but it won’t be Palestinians’ ‘sucker,’ Liberman says
Arab League: Progress still possible in deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian talks
Ya’alon condemns extremist settlers who attacked soldiers, police in West Bank
IDF, far-right settlers clash during razing of illegal structures in West Bank
Israeli company develops ‘radiation belt’ for nuclear emergencies
Austrian politician quits under fire after comparing EU to Third Reich
‘Cyber attack’ hits Knesset – Rivlin’s e-mail hacked
Iran talks resume in Vienna ‘on pace’ toward draft of final deal
Russian lawmakers approve bill making Holocaust denial illegal
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Activist: Police Ignore Temple Mount Damage
Ha’etzni: Act on Sovereignty Before PA Does
Former IDF Chief Rabbi Calls Yitzhar Extremists ‘Anti-Zionists’
Defense Minister Calls for Order After Yitzhar Rioting
Minister: Outraged Yitzhar Rioters ‘Unrestrained Criminals’
Rights Lawyer: No Legal Precedent for Yitzhar Demolitions
SnyderTalk Comment: I wonder how Yahweh sees the settlers in Judea and Samaria and how He sees the officials in government and religion who view the settlers as “unrestrained criminals.”
I’m reminded of something that King Solomon said: “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14: 12)
I believe that when Yahweh makes clear where He stands on this issue, many people will be surprised. Some of them will be shocked.
Here is a question for you: With two exceptions, every adult who left Egypt during the Exodus died in the wilderness because Yahweh would not allow them to enter the Promised Land. Why were they not allowed to enter the Promised Land?
The answer is as terrifying as it is simple. It was because they lacked faith in Him. That was the root cause of all the problems in the wilderness, and it prevented every adult who left Egypt except Joshua and Caleb from realizing the dream of a land of their own.
Leftists Abuzz after TV gets ‘Tough’ with Terrorist
Former MK: ‘Extreme Right’ Controls Likud
FM Offers Talks Without Terrorist Releases
Peres Insists Israel Should Continue Peace Talks
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Obama and Kerry to confer as peace push stalls
Iran, powers seek to narrow divide as nuke talks resume
Senate moves to bar Iran’s UN envoy from entering US
Tehran slams EU parliament over rights resolution
Russia and Iran said to be in talks for major oil deal
Why is this probe different from all other probes?
In Egypt, women still have a long way to go
Australia opposition chief: ‘Some’ settlement activity illegal
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Netanyahu Blames Palestinians for Collapsing Peace Talks
Livni: Netanyahu and Abbas Should Talk Directly
Third Palestinian Uprising [Intifada] Seen Unlikely
Ukrainian Jewish Immigration to Israel Rises 70 Percent Amid Instability
The First Legal Slave Owner in What Would Become the United States was a Black Man
Sheriff warns of second American revolution if gun confiscation laws pass
Coffee Drinkers Rejoice! Your Cup Of Joe Can Prevent Death From Liver Disease
Undercutting the Iran Nuclear Talks
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Malachi 4: 1-3
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says Yahweh Sabaoth, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
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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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The Messiah May Return Sooner than You Think
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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.
