May 7, 2014 SnyderTalk: The great peace blocker

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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Steve Apfel—The great peace blocker:

A half century of failed Middle East peace talks later, the peace talking camps blamed failure on a quartet of constant blockers:

(1) Arab antipathy to a Jewish flag in the neighborhood;

(2) Jewish settlement building in the West Bank;

(3) Occupation;

(4) A Palestinian demographic bomb called ‘Right of Return.’

American peace broker, John Kerry shuttled away in April 2014 empty-handed, stymied by the blocking constants. Not for President Obama’s envoy the ecstasy of stepping onto the tarmac and waving a piece of paper for the cameras. He stepped down long-faced and embittered. No reconciliation, no compromise, no coexistence. No paper to wave for posterity.

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13--Perspectives 2

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Jeffrey Goldberg: The Tragic History of the Two-State Solution—Over time I’ve noticed that Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama often neglect to mention a true, and relevant, fact about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East: The Israelis pursued a two-state solution even before there was an Israel. The Palestinians, and their Arab advocates, have rejected each previous attempt to bring about such a solution. The Palestinians, and their appointed (or unappointed) Arab representatives, have passed up numerous opportunities over an almost 80-year period to divide Palestine among its two native peoples, Arabs and Jews. The Israelis have repeatedly sought territorial accommodation.

Washington Post Editorial: After Kerry’s Failure, Time for a More Pragmatic Approach to the Middle East— SECRETARY OF STATE John F. Kerry’s quixotic attempt to broker a final peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians stumbled to an end last week — or at least “a pause,” as Mr. Kerry put it. The secretary’s intense focus on trying to wring compromise from Israeli and Palestinian leaders well known for their recalcitrance never made much sense; his energies would be much better spent developing workable strategies for the civil war in Syria, the growing threat of al-Qaeda in the region and Egypt’s reversion to dictatorship, not to mention troubles in other parts of the world. The failure of the latest “peace process” nevertheless raises questions about what will follow it — and there are plenty of bad options. Heading them off and finding ways to lay the groundwork for an eventual Palestinian state is a necessary sequel to Mr. Kerry’s surrender.

Daniel Greenfield: Arab Winter Comes to America— It may be warm outside now, but from colder hearts a winter blizzard is blowing. These cold hearts are frozen in the endless winter of Islam that leaves them empty of mercy for even their own daughters. The title of Robert Spencer’s new book, “Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In” may reference the now infamous Arab Spring, but its focus is more on domestic policy than on foreign policy. This is less of an analysis of what went wrong in Egypt and Tunisia, though that is also addressed, than what has gone wrong with how the United States deals with Islamic terrorism at home.

Elliott Abrams: Chlorine, nukes, and U.S. credibility— One of the greatest Israeli concerns about a possible nuclear deal with Iran goes beyond the terms of any deal itself to the issue of enforcement. The issue is summed up in a Laura Rozen piece: “The Israelis are also deeply concerned, [an unidentified] former U.S. diplomat said, that if there is a violation by Iran of a final nuclear accord, that the violation will be seen by Washington as too ambiguous or incremental, that there ‘is no smoking gun.’ The Israelis are ‘nervous that the U.S. will continuously say, we are checking into it, we need more proof,’ the former diplomat described. ‘At what point does the cumulative effect of the small things add up to a violation?'” She describes the diplomat as “a senior former U.S. diplomat involved in the April consultations in Israel.”

Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas: Do Not Believe Abbas; We Want Jihad— Will Hamas change its ideology and recognize Israel’s right to exist after signing the “reconciliation” agreement with Fatah? According to the Palestinian Authority [PA], the answer is yes. But according to Hamas, the answer is a big no and a pledge to pursue terrorist attacks against Israel.

Peter Beaumont: The Massacre at Kfar Etzion on the Eve of Israel’s Birth—On 14 May 1948, just before David Ben-Gurion declared Israel’s independence, he received a telegram: Jewish forces “waving a white flag at Kfar Etzion resulted in a massacre of the defenders by the Arabs.” Yossi Ron, now 67, was one year old when he became an orphan. His father, Yechiel Rosenfeld, was one of those executed after the fall of the kibbutz by local Arab militiamen on the grounds of the old German Monastery in Kfar Etzion. His mother, Tzipora, a nurse as well as a fighter, was killed by grenades thrown into the monastery’s cellar. They were among 127 killed. In 1967 Jews returned to the ruined kibbutzes and the Etzion Bloc was re-established, its prime movers the 71 “children of Etzion” who had lost parents in the battle.

Michael Freund: Fundamentally Freund: Israel’s best friend in Europe— Tucked away in a corner of Europe, amid a continent that is increasingly hostile to the Jewish state, there is a stalwart and spirited nation which boldly continues to buck the trend, defying international pressure as it proudly stands with Israel. And while most people are perhaps not familiar with Republika Srpska (which the media refers to as the Bosnian Serb Republic), it is time for world Jewry to show greater appreciation for these largely unsung friends of ours.

Matt Ford: Is North Korea Right About U.S. Human-Rights Abuses?— Some countries are accustomed to U.S. reports deploring their human-rights abuses. But on Wednesday, North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) retaliated with a human-rights report of its own titled “News Analysis on Poor Human Rights Records in US.” In it, KCNA claim that the U.S. is the “world’s worst human rights abuser” and a “living hell.” Do the agency’s claims hold up to scrutiny? Here’s a fact-check of the report.

Christopher Ingraham: Which Groups Do Criminals Target?— Here’s a sobering chart for the weekend from the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, showing that the likelihood of being a victim of crime is much, much higher for people in low-income households. Across all types of personal crimes, victimization rates are significantly higher for individuals living in low-income households… In 2008, the latest year for which data are available, the victimization rate for all personal crimes among individuals with family incomes of less than $15,000 was over three times the rate of those with family incomes of $75,000 or more.

Jon N. Hall: Hobby Lobby and the Fall Campaigns— By “rewriting” ObamaCare in NFIB v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court created a strange new twist on federal taxation: they imposed a surtax on the poor. The Court did that by redefining the penalty (for not having health insurance) as a tax. Usually, government levies surtaxes at the other end, on the wealthy, such as in 1993 when Congress levied 3.6 percent surtax on the highest incomes. But with ObamaCare, an individual who has even the smallest of income tax liabilities and who hasn’t purchased health insurance can owe an additional tax as of 2014.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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Families of terror victims interrupt Netanyahu’s Remembrance Day speech in protest

Bereaved families to PM: Stay away from Remembrance Day events

3,000 attend Israeli-Palestinian alternative Remembrance Day ceremony

Livni stresses Israel’s commitment to equality at Druse Remembrance Day ceremony

Ya’alon on Remembrance Day: Israel’s values are its guiding light, must fight ‘price tags’

Hundreds of mourners gather at Western Wall on eve of Remembrance Day

Ukraine moving special forces to control Odessa

Knesset remembers the fallen through songs, poetry and films

PA leader Abbas, Hamas’s Mashaal to meet in Qatar for Palestinian unity talks

Qatar looks to mend Hamas-Fatah ties with $5 million pledge

SnyderTalk Comment: If giving “Palestinians” money was the way to achieve peace with Israel or between Hamas and Fatah, we would have had peace a very long time ago.  Instead, for the most part the money is used to fund terrorism and to make the “Palestinian” leaders filthy rich.

This is the question: why do governments continue giving “Palestinians” money when they know for a fact that it is diverted to uses that they profess to abhor?

This is the obvious answer: government leaders really don’t detest the way “Palestinians” use the money given to them.  Either that or the government leaders are fools.  I suppose that it could be a combination of the two: they don’t care and they are fools.

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10--Arutz Sheva

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‘We Couldn’t Just Sit Down and Do Nothing’

‘Dramatic Developments’ in Shelly Dadon Murder Case

Odessa Jews ‘Ready to Flee’

‘To Our Enemies, Fighting Against Israel, Jews the Same’

Ex-NYPD Officer Arrested for Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Bereaved Protest Netanyahu at Memorial Event

Ya’alon Pains Bereaved with Price Tag Allusions

Netanyahu: No Pain is Greater than Bereavment

Recording of Heroic Brother Puts PM on Defensive

Israel Remembers 2,495 Victims of Terrorism 

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Hamas official: Unity deal forbids security cooperation with Israel

Ukrainian Jews Immigrate to Israel Amid Growing Unrest 

Hamas Leader: We Will Never Accept Quartet Conditions on Israel

Iranian Commander: Front Line Now in Southern Lebanon

‘iNakba’ app finds former Palestinian towns in Israel

Ya’alon: We must fight hate crime with ‘iron fist’

On Mount Herzl, with the keepers of the graves

Ministers shoot down bill for JNF transparency

State Department ‘partner’ of fair featuring anti-Semitic books

China publishes PM adviser’s hawkish book on Jerusalem

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12--Other News

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‘Without the fallen, we would not be here’

Iran Official Denounces Zionism at Synagogue

Israel by the Numbers

In hate-filled weekend, ‘price-tag’ attacks crop up across Israel

Report: Pakistan planned to bomb Israeli consulate in India 

Nigeria’s Boko Haram Threatens to Sell Kidnapped Schoolgirls

Belgium pulls plug on ‘anti-Semitic hatefest’

In Iraq and Syria, a Resurgence of Foreign Suicide Bombers

Inside The Plots To Kill Rwanda’s Dissidents

Artificial Intelligence Might Be Humanity’s Worst Mistake

SnyderTalk Comment: Artificial intelligence may be a terrible mistake especially when you consider the fact that natural intelligence appears to be sorely lacking and that we continue to fund schools that don’t teach even the basics well.  Even so, artificial intelligence is not a good substitute for human intelligence.

It’s been said that you can judge people by the things they do to entertain themselves.  Using that standard, it’s safe to say that we are not doing well as a society on the intellectual front or on the moral front.  Today, things that are thought of as “quality entertainment” and that win Academy Awards, for instance, would have been considered mindless garbage just a few decades ago, and they target people with elementary school educations.  Problem is that often times the target audiences are “mature adults”.

Those behind artificial intelligence know how poorly equipped intellectually and morally most people are, and they can use artificial intelligence to subjugate the masses.  Does that sound farfetched?  Not at all.

Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not opposed to artificial intelligence.  In fact, I’m for it, but as I said, it’s not a good substitute for human intelligence.

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

Genesis 6: 1-4

1 Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3 Then Yahweh said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

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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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