April 11, 2014 SnyderTalk: U.S. warns on Iran “breakout” capability

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 for use

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Justyna Pawlak and Parisa Hafezi—U.S. warns on Iran “breakout” capability:

The United States said on Tuesday Iran has the ability to produce fissile material for a nuclear bomb in two months, if it so decided, as Tehran and six world powers swung into a new round of talks in Vienna on resolving their atomic dispute.

Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments in Washington highlighted Western concerns about Iran’s nuclear intentions and the wide divisions between the two sides that could still foil a deal. Iran says its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful.

The overarching goal of the powers – Britain, France, China, Russia, Germany and the United States – in the talks is to persuade Iran to scale back its programme to the point that it would take it much longer, perhaps as much as a year, to produce fuel for a bomb if it chose to do so.

“I think it’s public knowledge today that we’re operating with a time period for a so-called ‘break-out’ of about two months. That’s been in the public domain,” Kerry testified at a Senate hearing.

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Soldiers stood idly by as Yitzhar settlers destroyed army post.

This incident led Colonel Amatzia Chen to say that the Israeli people have lost faith in the IDF.  He may be right.

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13--Perspectives 2

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Gideon Allon: Ya’alon: “Every Time, the Palestinians Run Away and Try to Blame Us”—The Palestinian Authority is a partner that wants only to receive, and not give anything in return, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said Tuesday. Ya’alon said Israel is in the midst of a crisis with the Palestinians regarding the peace process: “Every time, the Palestinians run away and try to blame us.”

Marissa Newman: Chinese President Tells Israeli President He “Fully Understands” Security Concerns Regarding Iran—China is well aware of Israel’s concerns with the Iranian nuclear program, and will continue to support the nuclear negotiations to prevent Iran from acquiring weapons, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Israeli President Shimon Peres Tuesday in Beijing. China, a major Iranian oil customer, has been a staunch backer of Tehran and has resisted efforts to impose heavier sanctions on the regime. The Chinese are seeking a greater diplomatic role in the region, especially concerning Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Jonathan S. Tobin: Is Israel to Blame for Peace Talks Collapse?—It is disingenuous to say that the publication of tenders for housing units precipitated the bitter impasse in peace negotiations last week between Israel and the Palestinians. Kerry knows very well that the negotiations were doomed once the Palestinians refused to sign on to the framework for future talks he suggested. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas wouldn’t say the two little words – “Jewish state” – that would make it clear he intended to end the conflict. Since the talks began last year after Abbas insisted on the release of terrorist murderers in order to get them back to the table, the Palestinians haven’t budged an inch on a single issue. Thus, to blame the collapse on the decision to build apartments in Gilo – a 40-year-old Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem that would not change hands even in the event a peace treaty were ever signed and where Israel has never promised to stop building – is, to put it mildly, a mendacious effort to shift blame away from the side that seized the first pretext to flee talks onto the one that has made concessions in order to get the Palestinians to sit at the table.

Zalman Shoval: A Predictable Collapse—Just as former U.S. President Bill Clinton exposed the true face of Yasser Arafat at Camp David, we must thank Secretary of State John Kerry for exposing PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ rejectionist colors. The Palestinians booby-trapped the process from the start and never abandoned their original plan to ultimately turn to the UN. While Kerry’s honest intentions need not be questioned, perhaps he and his advisers should have been more cognizant, based on the facts from the past, of the prearranged Palestinian script. What was the basis for their belief they would succeed, this time around, to overcome the fundamental Palestinian negativism toward any process obligating them to compromise on the conflict’s core issues?

Ira Sharkansky: Quiet Steps Short of Peace Ease Jewish-Arab Relations—Thanks to Oslo, Israel leaves Palestinians to run their own affairs. Exceptions occur when it is necessary to send in the troops for the sake of Israelis’ security. By all the signs, the world will have to accept the anomaly of a Palestine short of statehood, with substantial but incomplete autonomy – a state recognized by others but not by Israel, that will continue to surround all of Palestine-West Bank and most of Palestine-Gaza. Egypt sits on the short part of Gaza’s borders, and is currently no more friendly to the Gazans than is Israel.

Crispian Balmer: Tit-for-tat gestures would replace Middle East talks— If Middle East peace talks collapse this month, lawfare rather than warfare looks likely to fill the void, with the Palestinians set to confront Israel on the diplomatic stage rather than in any popular uprising. The Israelis will seek to retaliate in such a way as to avoid an international fire storm, analysts and diplomats say, still leaving open the vague possibility of a negotiated end to their seemingly perennial conflict at a later stage in history. After eight months of largely fruitless discussion aimed at achieving peace, the Israelis and Palestinians are at stalemate, prompting an increasingly glum U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to call for a “reality check”.

Forrest K. Lewis: Intelligence Experts: Mideast Status Quo Sustainable, But Not Preferable—Former director of the CIA David H. Petraeus and Meir Dagan, former director of Israel’s intelligence service, the Mossad, analyzed the prospects for future peace in the Middle East at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Universityon Monday. Dagan asserted that the Palestinians are unwilling to make any immediate compromises, a result of what he calls the “legacy of [Yasser] Arafat.”

Bob Feferman: How Can Anyone Have ‘Iran Fatigue?’— For two years, I have been doing outreach work around the country for the advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI). While I have heard all kinds of responses over the years, I recently heard a new expression for the first time: “Iran fatigue.” One person told me: “Many people have been reading and hearing so much about Iran’s nuclear program that they don’t want to hear any more.” Beyond my initial shock, I felt it was worth asking: who really suffers from “Iran fatigue” – and what does it actually mean?

Elliott Abrams: U.S.: The Great Problem That Needs to be Solved— Arabs and Israelis nowadays are both saying the same thing: “What is the matter with you people? You are going to walk away and you think your interests are going to be protected here?” One of the things that has changed in this administration is that people who are fighting for democracy in places such as Turkey, Russia or China do not feel as if they have any moral or political support coming from Washington in a way that they have over the years. Is this foreign policy reversible? My answer is yes for a number of reasons.

Lt. General David Deptula, USAF (ret.) and Dr. Michael Makovsky: Sending a Bunker-Buster Message to Iran— Prussian leader Frederick the Great once lamented, “The ways of negotiation have failed up to the present, and negotiations without arms make as little impression as notes without instruments.” The same could be said about nuclear negotiations with Iran. The Obama administration has cut a deeply flawed interim deal, forgone new sanctions, and effectively taken the military option off the table. It’s time to increase the pressure on Tehran by boosting Israel’s military capacity to cripple Iran’s nuclear program. It’s hard to imagine negotiations succeeding. The interim deal has undercut the leverage of the U.S. and its partners. It has triggered a rise in Iran’s oil-export revenue, while its nuclear-breakout timing remains unchanged due to increased centrifuge efficiency, as permitted in the deal. Tehran continues to deny inspectors access to key nuclear facilities. Recent tensions with Russia will only create new opportunities for Iran to exploit the U.S. in negotiations.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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US may test weight at UN by denying visa to Iran envoy

Powers ‘set to draft’ Iran nuclear deal, despite remaining gaps

Herzog: PM disconnecting from PA confirms the death of peace talks

Bennett calls on PM to annex 60% of West Bank

Does Israel have an expiration date?

Israel to withhold funds from PA equaling amount paid each month to prisoners

Israel: Construction Tenders for Jerusalem Neighborhood Were Not New 

Israel ‘deeply disappointed’ with Kerry’s ‘poof speech’

After Israel signals ‘deep disappointment,’ State Dept. urges to keep Kerry comments in context

Kerry: Israeli “Settlement Building” in Jerusalem Caused Talks Crisis

SnyderTalk Comment: John Kerry is naïve or stupid.  He might be both.  If it hadn’t been “settlement building”, it would have been something else.  Anything would have done.

At Wye River Plantation, Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat virtually everything that he asked for including a huge chunk of Jerusalem, but he still refused to accept Israel’s offer.  History is replete with examples like this, and the upshot is that the “Palestinians” will never sign a peace treaty with Israel.

The reason is simple: whoever signs a peace treaty with Israel for the Palestinians is a dead man.  Arafat knew it, and Abbas knows it, too.  As much as “Palestinian leaders” enjoy encouraging others to blow themselves up, they are unwilling to risk their own lives.  That’s a pity.

And by the way, I’m trying to keep Kerry’s idiotic statement in context as the State Department suggested.  It makes perfect sense if you believe as I do that Kerry is arrogant, ignorant, naïve, and stupid. I’ll stop there because I don’t want to be accused of exaggerating.

Regrettably for the people of the United States, Kerry is tampering with the apple of Yahweh’s eye.  Since the Hebrew word that’s translated as “apple” in that context means pupil, in essence, it means that Kerry is poking Yahweh in the eye.  That’s not a good thing.

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10--Arutz Sheva

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Top IDF Officer: Israelis Have Lost Faith in IDF

Israel: Hezbollah Still Violating UN Resolutions

Homesh Group: Govt. is Trying to Shut Down Homesh Yeshiva

Israel Launches ‘Ofek 10’ Satellite into Space 

Israeli Air Force Receives First ‘Super Hercules’ 

Second Attack on Israel in 24 Hours

Leftist Security Veterans Condemn Yitzhar

Livni: Bennett ‘Defiant Child’

Hospital Moves to Evict Adelle Biton

Bennett Demands Judea and Annexation

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Messiah is Coming

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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‘Israeli punitive measures will topple the PA’

Israel explores penalties against PA for unilateral steps

Israel urges UN action against Hezbollah

US in talks with France over Holocaust reparations

Police nab 5 more suspects in Yitzhar settler attack

Key Knesset committee fight returns to High Court

Iran claims ’50 to 60 percent agreement’ on nuke deal

Iran: US denial of visa to UN envoy is ‘unacceptable’

Israel greets the long-awaited Super Hercules

NATO may send US troops to Eastern Europe

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12--Other News

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Why Heartbleed, the Latest Cybersecurity Scare, Matters

Jerusalem is not up for grabs

Kerry: Israel and Palestinians Are Still Talking

Testifying Before U.S. Senate, Kerry Places Blame on Israel for Peace Talks Failure

Kerry forgot to blame himself

Israel, Palestinians Press on with Peace Talks Rescue Bid

Palestinians Are Not Impressed by These Peace Talks

Has the U.S. Started Arming Syrian Rebels?

Peres: China is key to preventing a nuclear Iran 

‘An orchestrated campaign to politically damage the PM’

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

Genesis 1: 1-5

In the beginning God [Elohim] created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.

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5--HNIY Print form 3

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 5

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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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