“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Pretending that “Palestinians” want Peace Can Cost Innocent Israelis their Lives
Hamas leaders have said that they won’t quit fighting until Israel lifts the blockade that has been so effective in preventing Islamist gangsters and terrorists from importing weapons into Gaza by sea. Operation Protective Edge has delivered a heavy blow to Hamas, but the job isn’t finished. Even though their terror tunnel network has been severely damaged, thus reducing Hamas’ ability to import weapons and to attack Israel by land, Israeli people at both ends of the political spectrum are beginning to realize that the tunnel network must be completely destroyed and that the sea blockade must remain in place.
Trusting the U.N. or other countries (Jordan and Turkey, in particular, but the U.S. as well) to protect Israel’s borders is foolish. U.N. schools in Gaza have become safe havens where Hamas stores weapons and ammo and from which they fire at Israel. In the midst of the mayhem surrounding Operation Protective Edge, Turkey let it be known that another flotilla is being planned to break the sea blockade; like a chirping canary, Jordan’s King Abdullah chimed in with a pronouncement that Israel was guilty of what amounts to war crimes against Hamas despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary; and the U.S. tried to impose a cease-fire that would have amounted to victory for Hamas. These undeniable facts should lay to rest once and for all any notion that the Israeli people can depend on others to do for them things that only they can do for themselves.
Although the elimination of Hamas is a laudable objective, it’s not realistic. Besides, wiping out Hamas wouldn’t solve Israel’s problem. Another Islamist terrorist group would pop up to take its place, and “Palestinians” would dance in the streets as a show of support for their latest perverted master while “death to Jews”, “death to Israel”, and “death to America” echoed through the polluted Gaza air. On cue, Gazans would chant the name of their god telling the world how great he is. I’m not speculating. We’ve seen it all before, far too many times.
“Palestinians” won’t be satisfied until Israel ceases to exist. Annihilating Israel is their passion, their reason for being, and I’m talking about “Palestinians” of the Hamas and Fatah variety in Gaza and the West Bank. Since Israel isn’t going away, “Palestinians” will never be satisfied, and fighting will continue in one form or another until Yahweh returns.
Israel can’t and shouldn’t let her guard down until that happens. At that point, Yahweh (i.e., the Messiah) will take control and Israel can rest secure. Until He returns, pretending that “Palestinians” want peace is insane. That misguided belief/hope can cost innocent Israelis their lives.
This is one way Hamas makes sure that “Palestinian” children remain in harm’s way during Israeli strikes against Islamist fighters and their weapons and ammo stockpiles. Children like these are called “human shields” and that’s what they are, but they aren’t volunteers as the picture shows.
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Robert Spencer: 6 Ugly Signs of Resurgent Worldwide Antisemitism— Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV channel in late July broadcast a Friday sermon in which an imam issued a chilling threat to Jews: “We will not leave a single one of you alive. Our doctrine in fighting you is that we will totally exterminate you. We will not leave a single one of you alive.” Such savagery may be expected from Hamas, but a similarly virulent antisemitism is becoming increasingly common all over the world. 6. Sweden: Muslim politician denounces “Jewish pigs”. Last week, the Swedish Social Democrat Omar Omeirat, a Muslim and a candidate for town council in Filipstad, wrote on his Facebook page: The entire Muslim world is sitting and watching while our brothers and sisters in Palestine are slaughtered by the Jewish pigs.
Dovid Efune: The Obama Admin. Has Permanently Destroyed its Standing Among Israelis— Sitting with Knesset Member Dov Lipman earlier this week, I could not resist asking, tongue-in-cheek, who was less popular in Israel nowadays – Hamas chief Ismael Haniyeh or U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. “Kerry is certainly not popular on the Israeli street right now,” he answered, as only a politician could. Joking aside, in my estimation, a poll to find out who is hated more would actually put them quite close.
Yoram Ettinger: U.S. Deterrence and Islamic Terrorism— According to the July 30, 2014 Rasmussen Reports, 59 percent of likely U.S. voters believe that there is a global conflict between the Muslim world and Western civilization, only 17 percent disagree and 24 percent are undecided. Likely voters also believe that the Arab Spring does not bode well for the U.S. The U.S. posture of deterrence played a key role in bolstering Western civilization in face of intensifying threats, checking global violence and instability, bolstering the confidence of U.S. allies, and constraining the maneuverability of rogue regimes.
Mordechai Ben-Menachem: Hamas Tunnels Used To Target Israel’s Kindergartens—Multiple media outlets report that Hamas’s offensive tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th) as a mass terror attack. The attack was meant to generate as many as ten thousand casualties, men, women and particularly children and hundreds of captives. Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens to make certain that these “institutions” would be the first struck, even before any thing else. The IDF recently published the below map showing that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of nearby communities. The known cost of the infrastructure – each tunnel costs upward of some $1 million – clearly shows that Hamas was planning a coordinated mega-attack. It must be understood that use of even one tunnel would inevitably trigger Israeli retaliation against the entire network.
Albert Wachtel: There is No Israeli Genocide— Inadvertently, the Obama Administration has acknowledged that Israel’s conduct in the war against Hamas and other terrorists in Gaza is right. But the road to that recognition has been painful. Instinctively, human sympathy runs on a small scale. We react to what is in front of us: one person, with one face and two eyes at a time, even in the midst of crowds. People naturally see that way, and there is a level at which Judaism supports that view. In the Mishna, the recorded oral law with which the Talmud begins, the saving of one life is considered the saving of a world, more important than the commandments of the Bible – and the loss of one life is the loss of a world. Protecting many lives, obviously, is saving many worlds.
Jay Newton-Small: Kurds Welcome US Help in Iraq, But Remember History of Betrayal—For a few hours, the city of Erbil was in a state of panic. Word came that Gwar, just 30 minutes from the Kurdish capital, had been taken by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and Kurds and ex-pats alike were packing up, trying to book airline tickets or, in a worse case scenario, preparing to drive to Turkey. But then American war planes swooped in and began bombing and President Obama pledged to defend Erbil.
Sara Yoheved Rigler: An Open Letter to Wolf Blitzer Re: Blood Libels— Dear Wolf, My Fellow Jew, You looked distraught in your recent CNN interview with Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan. You had been “very disturbed” by a video from Al-Quds TV in which Hamdan, in Arabic (translation verified by CNN), stated: “We all remember how the Jews used to slaughter Christians in order to mix their blood with their holy matzot. This is not a figment of the imagination or something taken from a film; it is a fact acknowledged by their own books and historical evidence.” Incredulous that your interviewee would promulgate such medieval slander, you respectfully asked, “You believe that Jews would kill Christians to mix their blood to bake the holy matzot on Passover? Is that your belief, Mr. Hamdan?”
Rabbi Benjamin Blech: Hollywood and Hamas— Hollywood has gone gung ho for Hamas and the Palestinians. Academy award winner Javier Bardem and his popular actress wife Penelope Cruz who cosigned a letter with over 100 other celebrities condemning Israel for committing acts of genocide (!?) are but a small segment of the movie industry’s elite proudly proclaiming their identification with the Palestinian cause. It is a self-understood given in the Hollywood community that Israel is the villain in today’s world. Those who openly support it find themselves ostracized and, unless they are super A-listed stars, unemployed.
Khaled Abu Toameh: The Real “Siege” of the Gaza Strip— Recent calls for lifting the “siege” on the Gaza Strip have ignored that Hamas’s main demand, even more than for an airport or seaport, is that Egypt reopen the Rafah border crossing, the Palestinians’ only gateway to the Arab world.Hamas wants open borders because it wants to pursue its ultimate goal of “liberating all Palestine, from the river to the sea.” Now that it has lost most of its smuggling tunnels as a result of Egyptian military operations, Hamas is searching for other ways to bring weapons into the Gaza Strip. Hamas’s leaders know that their chances of getting an airport or a seaport are extremely low. In the past, material brought into Gaza has included mainly weapons, cement taken to build attack-tunnels into Israel, and dual-use material. Much of this was either brought into Gaza through smuggling tunnels, or else through Egypt’s Rafah terminal, along its Gaza border which is nearly nine miles [14 km] long.
Aharon Lapidot: Anti-Semitic genie out of the bottle— The world’s reaction to the situation in Gaza has been disproportionate, bordering on absolute hysteria. True, the images from Gaza have been difficult to view. Any normal person feels pain at the sight of dead children. Unfortunately, we are inundated with images like these all the time, from all over the world — Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Sudan and Kosovo, for example. But responses to images coming from those places come nowhere close to the violent, hate-filled response, mainly in Europe, to the images coming from Gaza. There is not enough space to cover it all. Tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations in Paris, London, Berlin, Brussels and Rome — and also even in Boston and New York. Protesters have carried signs with slogans we have not seen in years, such as “Hitler was right” and “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas.”
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Gaza operation not over, says defense minister
Ya’alon to Red Cross: Fighting in Gaza complex due to Hamas’s use of ‘human shields’
Hamas official: This is second and final cease-fire with Israel
Mideast powers endorse new Iraqi prime minister-designate
Liberman to ‘Post’: First get rid of Hamas, then hold PA elections, then pursue regional accord
Saudi FM: Israel’s only objective is to uproot Palestinian existence
Bennett: Giving Hamas money in exchange for quiet is ‘political extortion’
Head of UNHRC’s Gaza probe disputes claims he’s ‘anti-Israeli’
Iran slams Egypt for stalling to green light aid shipment
Interior Minister Sa’ar: Jews can now make aliya together with same-sex partners
SnyderTalk Comment: That’s pathetic. Sa’ar is an embarrassment, and he’s not alone.
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Hamas Brags of Holding Israel ‘At Gunpoint’ in Talks
Hamas Clarifies Truce Would Only Be to Plan Next War
Watch: US Air Strikes Pound Islamic State in Iraq
Will PA’s New ‘Arab Idol’ Song Replace Hamas Hit?
State Refuses to Declare Protective Edge a ‘War’
Saudi FM Slams Israel, Pledges $500 Million to Gaza
Dignitaries Attend Aliyah Ceremony for 338 Olim
Old City to Become Disabled-Friendly
Right of Return Extended to Gay Couples
MK Blames New Israel Fund for Smear of Col. Winter
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Why Gazans view lifting of blockade as crucial
Palestinian delegation chief: Hamas rule in Gaza is over
Hamas vows to keep fighting amid differing reports on ceasefire progress
Analysis: Talk of a deal seems unduly optimistic, as time ticks away
Official: ‘Gaps very wide’ in Cairo talks
Has the Hannibal Protocol run its course?
IDF to field-test two tunnel-seeking technologies
How much has Israel’s war against Hamas cost?
Foreign press group condemns Hamas intimidation in Gaza
SA Jewish student’s pro-Palestine Facebook post triggers outrage, support
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ISIS militant announces his marriage to terrified 7-year old in occupied city in Syria
Jerusalem irate over anti-Israel UN war probe panel
Hamas: This will be last truce; Israel: No progress in talks
Iran Calls on West Bank Palestinians to Take Up Arms Against Israel, Encourages Violence
How Richard Nixon Helped Save Israel
BBC Wakes Up to Hamas’s Exaggerations, Warning ‘Caution Needed With Gaza Casualty Figures’
Media Pretends to Wake Up on Gaza Coverage…Too Little, Too Late
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Genesis 24: 60-61
60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her, “May you, our sister, become thousands of ten thousands, and may your descendants possess the gate of those who hate them.” 61 Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
SnyderTalk Comment: Do you see it? The blessing that Rebekah’s family prayed over her that day is exactly what is happening right now. Abraham’s descendants through Isaac and Jacob/Israel are hated by Arab Muslim usurpers yet his descendants possess the land that they claim as their own even though Yahweh never gave it to them. Read His Name is Yahweh.
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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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Yahweh Said He is Our Only Savior
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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.
