“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Shlomo Cesana, Gideon Allon, Mati Tuchfeld, and Yori Yalon—Netanyahu: Israeli Arabs can’t have it both ways:
Following a spate of public disturbances in east Jerusalem and in Israeli Arab towns over the weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israeli Arabs, who enjoy the benefits of Israeli citizenship “can’t have it both ways.”
“They can’t enjoy National Insurance stipends and child allowances while simultaneously violating the most basic laws of the State of Israel,” Netanyahu told his cabinet at the weekly meeting on Sunday. “I call on the leaders of the Arab community to act responsibly and stand up to this outpouring of violence and restore calm. Anyone who fails to respect the law will be arrested and punished severely.”
The riots were sparked by the death of Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir, whose charred body was found in the Jerusalem area on Wednesday. Believing that Jews had abducted Abu Khdeir and subsequently murdered him in revenge for the murder of three Jewish teenagers last month, rioters clashed with police and vandalized property throughout the weekend and into Sunday. Police are investigating the murder, and it is not yet clear who committed the crime.
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SnyderTalk Comment: It should be obvious that Netanyahu is correct, but it isn’t. Most people who don’t live in Israel have no idea what an “Israeli Arab” is and how they are different from so-called “Palestinians” or just “Arabs”. Ignorance works against Israel throughout the world, especially in Western countries, and this is a good example.
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Prof. Abraham Ben-Zvi: Kerry’s stubborn march of folly— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry again pounded the Middle East pavement, moving feverishly between Cairo, Amman, Baghdad, Irbil and Riyadh. Yet what we can glean from his statements — whether during his shuttling or after — is the impression that his wanderings only served to strengthen the misperceptions and faulty thinking he left with in the first place. Despite his frequent visits to the region, it appears the energetic secretary of state has not learned or discarded anything new, essentially adhering to his original belief system that American diplomacy has the power to navigate this tumultuous region toward Western-manufactured democratic horizons. Kerry, for example, used his visit to trumpet the preferred American formula for resolving crises — mostly to his audiences in Irbil and Baghdad — none other than forming a coalition between the rivaling factions. And while this recipe has, on numerous occasions, lowered the flames and fostered resolutions on the domestic front (in labor disputes for instance), things are different when contending with deep ethnic, religious, social and ideological chasms.
Paul Austin Murphy: Obama’s Good and Bad Islamists— Senior American politicians (such as the Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio) have just asked Barack Obama to provide Syria’s opposition with more money and help. More specifically, they have demanded that the U.S. Congress approve $500 million to train and equip what they call “moderate Syrian rebels”. It’s strange that on the one hand America may well be taking military action against Iraq’s Sunni Islamists (ISIS); and yet on the other hand it’s funding — to the hilt — Sunni Islamists (the Free Syrian Army, etc.) in Syria. Then again, the UK and US supported Islamists in Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood) at the same time as fighting against them in other parts of the world (e.g., in West Africa, etc.).
Elliott Abrams: Will Hamas choose war?— As the United States enters the July Fourth weekend, the Hamas leadership in Gaza faces a difficult and potentially important decision. The last couple of years have hurt Hamas. The level of support it receives from Iran has declined, so it is short of cash. The Egyptian Army has closed the smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza, further hurting the Gaza economy and Hamas’ tax revenues. The kidnappings in the West Bank last month turned into a disaster for Hamas: Instead of having captives to trade for Israeli prisoners, Hamas was condemned universally for the crimes and suffered severe blows to its organization in both the West Bank and Gaza.
Dr. Haim Shine: Where does Israeli Arab loyalty lie?— The riots in Jerusalem, in the Triangle region adjacent to the Green Line, and in Wadi Ara cast a heavy doubt about Jews’ and Arabs’ willingness to live together in Israel. Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, former MK Azmi Bishara, and Sheikh Raed Salah of the Islamic Movement are not lone voices. The hundreds of protesters who went wild and endangered the lives of police officers, border police, and civilians prove that the Arabs in Israel are becoming more extreme. They have started to wave black flags, desiring a separation from Israel. Incitement by the Arab leadership falls on a bed of hatred and disloyalty to the state of which they are citizens. The voice of the moderate leaders, if there is one, isn’t being heard.
Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith: Could You Ignore a Holocaust?— The Frankel, Shaer and Yifrach families are about to get up from sitting shiva, and many of us are wondering: now what? After all the prayers, Torah learning, and extra mitzvot, after experiencing such anguish that unified our people, where do we go from here? How do we ensure that this unity doesn’t evaporate? I think there is one foundation upon which our unity rests that is simple but profound, and also rather difficult to do: feel someone else’s pain.
Or Ben-Shimon: A blow to academic coexistence— Many people perceive Ariel University in Samaria as identified with the right-wing camp. And while a large part of its students do come from the national-religious sector, there are some 600 Israeli Arab students who study with us. They share the same classrooms, the same material, and the same educational experiences. Not long ago, two female Arab students approached me and asked me to sign a petition calling for the directorship to set aside a room for Muslim prayer. I was happy to sign it. That’s freedom of religion — they have a right to pray, too.
Dan Margalit: The land of the Color Red sirens— On Saturday, just before noon, David Tadagi from Sderot and Adi Trabelsi from Netivot met for their usual group get-together at a coffee shop at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. They have a standing date with a group of friends. By the time I said goodbye to them, only one friend had arrived. Trabelsi told me that fortified shelters were being built in homes along the Sderot-Netivot axis, but if a mother wants to go to the store 300 yards from her house, what is she to do when the sirens go off, he asks. At dawn, the Color Red siren sounded again, warning of an incoming rocket. The residents of the area have stopped counting the sirens. They hear dozens every day. In Sderot, no one sets foot at the marketplace. They don’t set their tires there either. Here and there you can see someone rushing for service at the synagogue.
Patricia L. Dickson: Politics and The Christian Church— Whenever the subject of politics and religion comes up, some individuals wish to believe that the two are not connected. Yet, many people are concerned with the speed of America’s moral collapse. Throughout both the bible and world history, the two have collided (wars were fought over religion). When the Kings and Judges in the bible were godly, the people and the land flourished. On the other hand, the evil kings and judges brought famine and destruction upon the people and the land (does any of this sound familiar?) Our founding fathers were men of deep religious convictions based in the Bible and their Christian faith in Jesus Christ. America’s conflict appears to center around the Christian church and the current ruling politics.
Rev. Dr. Hugh MacKenzie: The Gimlet-eyed People— Perhaps it was because of the recent 100th anniversary of the “Great War” or my re-reading of Barbara Tuchman’s classic, The Guns of August, but as I sat on my back deck, on an absolutely wonderful day, a chill crept up my spine. The kind of feeling you get from free-floating anxiety bubbling up from your subconscious when the phone rings at 3 am. Tuchman’s opening chapters are a sort of halcyonic travelog around a self-satisfied Europe. A Europe at peace with itself: optimistic, enjoying a summer of blissful weather. Ah, but the reader knows better. The cracks were already widening into the iron maw of total industrialized warfare. One sees the dead men walking on the golden strands of Paris, London, Vienna, and Berlin, so unaware, so ripe for the slaughter to come. Nine million of them enjoying the last summer of peace and prosperity.
Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein: For Being a Jew— In defiance of the mighty Roman Empire, which destroyed Jerusalem and our Temple, Rabbi Akiva taught Torah to his disciples, for which he was arrested and brutally murdered on a bed of nails. In his last moments he said the words of the Shema and became one of the greatest symbols of Jewish martyrdom in history. And yet the Talmud tells us that as he was dying the angels in the heavens cried out before God the terrible question: “This is Torah and this is its reward?!” At this time of agony, as we see the pictures of the pure shining faces of Gilad Shaer, Eyal Yifrah and Naftali Fraenkel, and of their bereft parents, when we see the sad, lonely, flag-draped coffins, we can almost hear the angels in heaven thunder in protest: “This is Torah and this its reward?!”
SnyderTalk Comment: This is the text of an email that I sent to a Jewish person with whom I have been corresponding for some time now. He is a college professor from South Africa, and his son is a rabbi:
I have one more point to make: Rabbi Goldstein lacks understanding about the person Rabbi Akiva.
Akiva lived during the time of the Bar Kochba rebellion. When things were going well and it looked as though the Children of Israel might actually expel the Romans, he declared that Bar Kochba was the messiah. That presented a serious problem for one sect of Judaism–the sect of the Nazarenes. Until that day, the Nazarenes fought alongside their Jewish brothers.
At that time, so-called “Christians” were almost entirely Jewish, and they were known as the sect of the Nazarenes. Jewish people today should have no difficulty with the notion that Judaism is fragmented and divided into sects. Just look at the number of sects we have right now: from Orthodox to Ultra Orthodox to Conservative to Reformed to the LGBT group that parades around Tel Aviv AND JERUSALEM, Judaism is as fragmented as any “religion” on the planet.
When Rabbi Akiva declared that Bar Kochba was the messiah, the sect of the Nazarenes withdrew their support as a matter of principle, and eventually Bar Kochba was defeated. Looking for someone to blame, Akiva pointed his finger at the Nazarenes and declared that they were not even Jewish as if he had the right to make such an absurd proclamation. Jewishness is determined by lineage not belief. As I said, to this day there remain many sects of Judaism including the LGBT group, but no group of Jews has ever been singled out like Nazarenes were.
But Akiva didn’t stop there. He declared that henceforth Jewish people were to have nothing to do with the Nazarenes, and his declarations became integral parts of the Oral Tradition. I don’t need to tell you this, but in the minds of most Jewish religious leaders, the Oral Tradition has as much authority as the Torah itself. In fact, in their minds it has more authority. I know that for a fact because when Oral Tradition and the Torah are diametrically opposed, Jewish religious leaders go with Oral Tradition.
Yahweh’s Name is a perfect case in point: the Torah makes it perfectly clear that Yahweh wants us to call Him by Name and to tell others about Him by Name. Take a look at Exodus 3: 15–“This (Yahweh) is My Name forever. It is the Name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” Jewish religious leaders over the millennia have had to go to absurd lengths to try to explain that away and to make it fit with Oral Tradition. Problem is that Oral Tradition is wrong and dangerously so where Yahweh’s Name is concerned.
Back to my point: the repercussions of Rabbi Akiva’s pronouncements have been devastating for the Jewish people in more ways than I can count and Jewish people for almost 2,000 years have accepted what he said as though it came from Yahweh Himself. The only person in history who has even come close to Rabbi Akiva in terms of bringing about negative consequences for the Jewish people is the Roman Emperor Constantine. He lived about 150 years after Akiva. By that time, Akiva’s edicts had taken hold. During Constantine’s day, the sect of the Nazarenes was mostly made up of Gentiles. Shortly after Constantine declared “Christianity” the official religion of the Roman Empire, he drove lasting wedges between Jewish and Gentile believers. The two most notable are Shabbat and Pesach. He changed the day of Shabbat from Saturday to Sunday, and he declared that Pesach is Easter, a pagan holiday for the goddess Ishtar.
Constantine had no more authority to do what he did than Akiva had to do what he did. Regrettably, the Oral Tradition of today’s Christian Church has abandoned the 4th Commandment and Passover, and most people who call themselves Christian today have no idea that there is even a problem.
This is the bottom line: the Oral Traditions of Jews and Christians are at the root of the divide between the two groups and both of them are way off base. I’ve said this many times, but I doubt that you have ever heard me say it: Christianity is entirely Jewish. Slowly but surely, Christians are beginning to wake up to that fact.
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Abbas urges UN to investigate alleged revenge killing of Arab boy by Jewish extremists
6 Jewish nationalists arrested in Jerusalem revenge killing of Arab teen
Rocket fire pummels South amid calls for Gaza operation
IDF arrests Hebron terror suspect, Palestinian media says
Comment: Facing the ugly truth
Japan picks Israel as first research & development cooperation agreement partner
Shelly Dadon murdered by Arab taxi driver, police reveal
Father of Tariq Khdeir to ‘JPost’: Why did you beat him up like this?
Ministers approve bill to put released terrorists back in prison
Netanyahu: Rioting Israeli Arabs can’t act violently while benefiting from state payments
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Netanyahu Tells PA: Find Teens’ Murderers, Like We Found Khder’s
Police Accused of Covering Up Terror Motive in Dadon Murder
Netanyahu, Liberman Spar Over ‘Tough Talk’
Bus Ambush: This is How It Looks from Inside
Watch: In Sderot, Meretz MK Pours Salt on Mayor’s Wounds
Police Arrest Suspect in Murder of Shelly Dadon
MK Regev Condemns Murder, But No Excuse for Riots
Israel Investigates US Citizen ‘Beaten by Police’
Britain’s Largest Trade Union Joins Israel Boycott
Iranian Official: Kurdish State ‘A Zionist Plot’
SnyderTalk Comment: Iranian officials may be duplicitous, but I’ll say this for them: they are consistent.
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‘Jewish extremists’ arrested in killing of Jerusalem teen
Beaten Arab American teen sent to house arrest
Suspected accomplice in 3 teens’ killings arrested
Mossad chief: Palestinian conflict is main threat to Israel
Rash of violent attacks on Jewish targets in Jerusalem
Arabs demonstrate in Nazareth as popular protests spread
Netanyahu on Gaza: Israel must act ‘calmly and responsibly’
Abbas urges Mashaal to stop Gaza escalation
Hamas boasts that all Israeli cities are within its reach
Palestinians in Hebron set up neighborhood watch for fear of reprisals
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Palestinians, Israeli-Arabs riot throughout weekend
Six Jewish suspects arrested over death of Palestinian teenager
Israel: Jewish Extremists Suspected in Teen Death
Al-Shabab claims responsibility after 18 people killed in Kenya
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in public, according to video
Nigerian Troops Kill 53 Insurgents During Fighting in Borno
Slovyansk rebuilds as Ukraine rebels regroup in Donetsk
Main Western-backed Syrian opposition group to elect new president
Next Indonesian leader will face economic storm
Where will Middle East turmoil lead? And, how effective are drones?
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Genesis 16: 7-12
7 Now the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur. 8 He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9 Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.” 10 Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.” 11 The angel of Yahweh said to her further, “Behold, you are with child, and you will bear a son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has given heed to your affliction. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; and he will live to the east of all his brothers.”
SnyderTalk Comment: And this, my friends, is exactly what we are witnessing today in the Middle East. Ishmael’s descendants are against their Arab brothers and sisters and against Israel and Jewish people. As always, Yahweh is absolutely correct. Wishing, hoping, and not believing will not change it.
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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 Name Yahweh Sets the Messiah Apart
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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.
