“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”—Psalm 122: 6
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Caroline Glick—The disappearance of US will:
The most terrifying aspect of the collapse of US power worldwide is the US’s indifferent response to it.
In Europe, in Asia, in the Middle East and beyond, America’s most dangerous foes are engaging in aggression and brinkmanship unseen in decades.
As Gordon Chang noted at a symposium in Los Angeles last month hosted by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, since President Barack Obama entered office in 2009, the Chinese have responded to his overtures of goodwill and appeasement with intensified aggression against the US’s Asian allies and against US warships.
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Jonathan S. Tobin: Why Smear Israel and Whitewash Iran?— The decision of the Obama administration to take a firm stand on Iran’s decision to send one of the participants in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to serve as its ambassador to the United Nations may have surprised the Islamist regime. A year of diplomacy aimed at appeasing the Iranians and allowing them to keep their nuclear infrastructure must have convinced Tehran that there was almost nothing it could do to get a rise out of Washington. By denying the terrorist turned diplomat a visa, the president indicated that he understood there are limits to how far he can go toward accommodating the ayatollahs in an effort to get out of having to keep his campaign pledges on the nuclear issue. The dismay among some of the foreign-policy establishment about the latent hostility toward Iran that was illustrated by the anger over the appointment was palpable.
Ron Prosor: The Middle East War on Christians— This week, as Jews celebrate the Passover holiday, they are commemorating the Bible’s Exodus story describing a series of plagues inflicted on ancient Egypt that freed the Israelites, allowing them to make their way to the Holy Land. But over the past century, another exodus, driven by a plague of persecution, has swept across the Middle East and is emptying the region of its Christian population. The persecution is especially virulent today. The Middle East may be the birthplace of three monotheistic religions, but some Arab nations appear bent on making it the burial ground for one of them.
Tom Wilson: Palestinians Need More Than Borders—PA head Mahmoud Abbas wants the next round of negotiations to focus on the borders of a Palestinian state. But the precise geographical parameters of a Palestinian state must be of less concern than the internal nature of that state. Indeed, if we could all be confident that a future Palestinian state would have the national characteristics of, say, Switzerland, then the question of the defensibility of Israel’s borders might be somewhat less critical. But because there is good reason to suspect that a future Palestinian state in the West Bank, like the Palestinian polity in Gaza, would have more in common with Afghanistan, the exact positioning of its borders should hardly be our most pressing concern.
Aron Heller: Israel Police Disperse Riot at Jerusalem Holy Site— Israeli police stormed a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem on Wednesday, firing tear gas to disperse a protest by Palestinian Muslim worshippers, officials said. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the crowd hurled stones and firecrackers from atop the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Rosenfeld said police then entered the site and dispersed the group with tear gas and other non-lethal means. The compound is known to Muslims as the “Noble Sanctuary” and is Islam’s third-holiest site. Israel captured the area along with the rest of east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 war. Clashes often erupt at the site.
Jonathan Spyer: The Peace Process is Dead. Let it lay in Peace— The April 29th deadline has not yet been reached, but it may be said with confidence that the initiative by Secretary of State John Kerry to revive the ‘peace process’ between Israelis and Palestinians has already reached its final destination: failure. The failure of this initiative was obvious from the beginning. To everyone except, apparently, Kerry himself. This reality lent an element of low farce to the entire proceedings. By now, it should really be obvious to any serious observer that there is no chance that the Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process will produce a comprehensive peace between the two sides. There are two core reasons for this. One of them is of long-standing, the other is a development of the last decade.
Michal Navot: Israel’s Relationship with the UN Human Rights Council: Is There Hope for Change?—The UN Human Rights Council (HRC), since its establishment, has been characterized by its obsessive bias, selectivity, discriminative attitude, and double standards toward Israel. On January 1, 2014, Israel was admitted as a member of the Western European and Others Group (WEOG) in Geneva. As a full member of a regional group, Israel will be able to participate in shaping policies and be able to better defend its position.
Yoni Hirsch and Israel Hayom Staff: US president sees fumbling approval ratings— Fox News poll finds U.S. president’s approval rating down in all key demographics, as only 15% of registered voters lend him any credibility. Ahead of 2016 presidential race, 49% say Jeb Bush is trustworthy, with 41% saying the same of Chris Christie.
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Kenneth D.M. Jensen Misreading Russia— Andrei Zubov, a well-respected Russian historian at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, was recently fired because of an op/ed that aptly compared Putin’s annexation of Crimea to Hitler’s annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland in 1938-39. In response, one of Putin’s intellectual henchmen, Andranik Migranyan, justified Zubov’s firing and thus embraced the parallel between Hitler and Putin. Migranyan said: “We should distinguish between Hitler before 1939 and Hitler after 1939, and separate chaff from grain. The fact is that while Hitler was gathering German lands; if he … were known only for uniting, without a single drop of blood, Germany with Austria, Sudetenland with Germany, Memel [the German name for Klaipeda] with Germany, in effect achieving what Bismarck could not; and if Hitler stopped at that, he would be remembered in his country’s history as a politician of the highest order.”
Alan H. Gill: In Ukraine, Caring for Caregivers—My first visit to Odessa—the “pearl of the Black Sea”—was in the 1990s after the Soviet Union’s collapse. The city, even after decades of communist rule, remained a historical gem with its Potemkin Steps and ornate Opera House. It was also home to a significant Jewish population that has earned a distinct reputation for its special brand of pride. Having survived the Nazis and the Soviets, these Jews were eager to reclaim their identity and embrace the challenges of a post-communist existence. And they had a legacy of Jewish greats to draw from: Isaac Babel, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Boris Goldstein, and even the Olympic medal-winning swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg.
Dmitriy Shapiro: Can Bunker Busters Solve Israel’s Iran Dilemma?— Alarmed by what they believe to be diplomatic failures by the Obama administration in nuclear negotiations with Iran, leading scholars of a Washington, DC-based think tank have proposed to have the United States provide Israel with the largest “bunker buster” bombs in the U.S. arsenal to help restore the administration’s leverage in its negotiations. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on April 8, Michael Makovsky, chief executive officer of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and a former Pentagon official—along with retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, the former chief of Air Force intelligence and senior advisor to JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy—recommended that the U.S. provide the Israel Defense Forces with the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs.
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US Synagogue network urges Jews not to walk home alone
Palestinians lash out at PA official who decried Passover attack on road to Hebron
Bennett responds to Abbas’ threat to disband PA: ‘Israel won’t stop you’
Bennett calls on PM to annex 60% of West Bank
Bennett privately threatened PM to quit coalition
2 Border Police hurt, 24 arrested in Temple Mount riots
Report: US lawmakers wary of Israeli spying hesitate on visa waiver
‘Israeli embassy in Bangkok urges Thailand to beef up security in tourist hubs’
Iran: Row with world powers over Arak reactor ‘virtually solved’
Israel denies UN envoy barred from pre-Easter ceremony in Jerusalem
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Abbas Threatens to Disband the PA
Hamas: PLO doesn’t Represent Palestinians
Rioting After Police Limit Muslim Access to Temple Mount
Riots Begin in Jerusalem After Muslim Prayers
Five Killed in Eastern Ukraine as Clashes Continue
Minister: Arak Announcement an ‘Iranian Deception’
Bethlehem Attackers Try to Set IDF Pillbox on Fire
Syrian Airstrikes Right By Israeli Border
UN Envoy Ruffled by Security Checks on Easter Eve
Iran Fits Destroyers with New Cruise Missiles
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Police, Arab rioters skirmish on Temple Mount
If talks fail, Abbas said to be weighing dissolution of Oslo, PA
Turkey mulls leaving World Wide Web, minister says
Thousands rally in Jerusalem for pot legalization
How Dutch student exposed Holocaust taxes scandal
US synagogues urged to adopt new security measures
7 Italians charged over anti-Semitic site
Egypt’s censorship board head resigns in film spat
Israeli minister plays down progress in Iran nuke talks
Two Egyptian police officers killed in attack
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Obama to bolster US ‘rebalance’ to Asia
VISA Distances Itself from Egyptian Newspaper’s ‘Blood Libel’ Article Featuring its Ads
Cairo Court Rejects Lawsuit to Ban All Israeli Activities in Egypt
Former Iranian Atomic Energy Director: We Hid Information from IAEA
U.S.: Forfeiture Deal over Iran Assets Sets Record
Obama signs into law ‘terrorist’ UN envoy visa ban
Green Tea Boosts Brain Power, May Help Treat Dementia
NYPD disbands Muslim community surveillance unit
Christians Mark Good Friday in the Holy Land
South Sudan deploys army to guard UN base after attack kills dozens
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Genesis 2: 15-17
15 Then Yahweh Elohim took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. 16 Yahweh Elohim commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”
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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 Palestinian Charter Still Calls for Israel’s Destruction
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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.
