“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Caroline Glick—Anti-Semitism and its limitations:
Outside the US, throughout the Western world, anti-Semitism is becoming a powerful social and political force. And its power is beginning to have a significant impact on Israel’s relations with other democracies.
Consider South Africa. Following a lopsided vote by the University of Cape Town’s Student Union to boycott Israel, Jewish students fear that their own student union will be barred from operating on campus. Carla Frumer from the South African Jewish Student Union told The Times of Israel, “If they prove we are a Zionist organization and support Israel, they can have us banned and seek to de-register us.”
In Sydney, Australia, Jewish families received a triple blow last week when Jewish children on a chartered school bus were assaulted by eight anti-Semitic drunken teenagers.
The first shock was that their children, some as young as five, were terrorized on their school bus.
The second shock was that the bus driver made an unscheduled stop to allow the anti-Semites to board the bus and harass the children.
The third shock was that after catching six of the eight assailants, the police let them out of jail the same evening.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Violent anti-Semitism is obvious and growing. You have to live on another planet not to know about it.
So what must we conclude? Since it’s taking place in democratic countries and little or nothing is being done about it, I think you have to conclude that large numbers of people support it. In other words, there are lots of anti-Semites in the world.
Some people believe that it can’t or won’t happen in the U.S. They are wrong because it’s already happening in the U.S. It’s not as bad here as it is in Europe but that’s nothing to brag about. It will get worse if we don’t take immediate steps to stop it.
Keep in mind that anti-Semites are following their god, even though most of them probably have no idea that they are being led. Yahweh holds us accountable individually and collectively for what we know, should have known, do, and should have done. That’s a sobering thought. In other words, ignorance is not an excuse.
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David Ignatius: U.S. Intelligence Officials Assess Islamic State Threat—The Obama administration’s Iraq policy seems premised on the idea that the terrorist Islamic State is so toxic that it will be self-limiting and ultimately self-defeating. But in a briefing for journalists Thursday, five U.S. intelligence officials said the organization has shown remarkable durability. Under the leadership of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group has rebounded from about 1,500 fighters in 2010 to more than 10,000 today – becoming a global jihadist organization. “We don’t assess this as something that will collapse on its own,” said one official. The intelligence experts cautioned that counterterrorist tools, such as drone strikes and other air attacks, wouldn’t be sufficient “to defeat it rather than just ratchet it back.” The officials expressed skepticism that Baghdadi could be deterred from striking the U.S. “We assess that the group sees conflict with the U.S. as inevitable,” said one official. Another noted a chilling Internet statement several months ago: “America, we have not turned our gaze away from you.” Under its original name, al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Islamic State ferociously battled U.S. forces. Most of its leading fighters were imprisoned by U.S. occupation troops, but incarceration was a school for jihad, and they emerged tougher, better connected and more dedicated.
Patrick B. Johnston and Benjamin Bahney: Hitting ISIS Where It Hurts— When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria poured out from the eastern deserts of Syria into Iraq’s second-largest city last month, it was an image out of the eighth century: bearded Islamist marauders summarily executing unbelievers, pillaging as they went. But underneath that grisly exterior lurks something more modern and more insidious. As ISIS’s most recent annual report shows, the group is sophisticated, strategic, financially savvy and building structures that could survive for years to come. ISIS currently brings in more than $1 million a day in revenue and is now the richest terrorist group on the planet. Despite the recent calls from hawks in Congress for a broader offensive, there are few meaningful options available to the United States. There’s no political appetite for a ground operation in Iraq. A narrower intervention, like the airstrikes and humanitarian assistance President Obama authorized last week, may be able to limit ISIS expansion, but will not defeat it.
Zaki Shalom: The US Administration on Israel’s Military Activityin Operation Protective Edge: Fluctuating Positions— The indiscriminate rocket and missile fire at cities in Israel, the discovery of tunnels posing a grave threat to the Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, the fact that the Israeli government showed restraint and repeated willingness to accept a ceasefire in the middle of the conflict, and the broad support for Israel in both the Congress and among US public opinion led the Obama administration to support steadfastly and unequivocally Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas. While the President reiterated that the harm to civilians has to “weigh on our conscience,” he made an effort to make it explicitly clear that he was well aware of the dilemmas facing Israel in its military operation.
Fareed Zakaria: The fantasy of Middle Eastern moderates— Hillary Clinton was expressing what has become Washington’s new conventional wisdom when she implied, in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic, that “moderates” might have prevented the rise of the Islamic State. In fact, the United States has provided massive and sustained aid to the moderates in the region. Remember, the Islamic State, formerly known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, was created in Iraq and grew out of that country’s internal dynamics. Over the past decade, the United States helped organize Iraq’s “moderates” — the Shiite-dominated government — giving them tens of billions of dollars in aid and supplying and training their army. But, it turned out, the moderates weren’t that moderate. As they became authoritarian and sectarian, Sunni opposition movements grew and jihadi opposition groups such as ISIS gained tacit or active support. This has been a familiar pattern throughout the region.
Michael Curtis: Israel in the Face of Aggression— At the outset the obvious should be stated, as Abraham Lincoln stated it in his Second Inaugural Address on March 4, 1865. There was no moral equivalence between the two sides in the Civil War. One side would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. There is no moral equivalence between the objective of the terrorist group Hamas to kill as many Israeli civilians as possible and the response of Israel to stop the flow of thousands of rockets directed against it. The directive to massacre all Jews is unmistakable in the Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) broadcast of July 20, 2014. It called on Jihad fighters “to enter settlements (towns in southern Israel) to kill them all… they are all invaders, they are all criminals… have no mercy on them.”
Rachel Ehrenfeld: A Saudi Challenge to Israel— The Saudi English-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat published a thought -provoking op-ed regarding the latest round of Hamas’s confrontation with Israel. In an article titled No Longer an Arab-Israeli Conflict, Mamoun Fandy, opines that Hamas’s attacks on Israel from Gaza is Iran’s doing with the help of the Muslim Brotherhood and its champions Qatar and Turkey. Indeed, Fars News reported today that the deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri announced: “The countdown has started for a change in the model of confrontation in the West Bank.” He went on to denounce “the rulers of certain Arab states, complaining that the Arab reactionary leaders have been acting on behalf of the US and Britain for tens of years.” He reiterated that there was “no limit for Iran’s humanitarian and other type assistance to the Palestinian people…and arms aid,” sparing no efforts, he added.
Mamoun Fandy: No Longer an Arab–Israeli Conflict— The war in Gaza is the second stage of a process of change regarding the nature of what used to be called “the Arab–Israeli conflict.” The first stage was the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, in which Iran, a non-Arab state, fought Israel in a proxy war via Hezbollah. The weapons, financing and training of Hezbollah is Iranian. In the recent conflict Iran has also backed both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as the leaders of both organizations, Khaled Mishal and Ramadan Shalah, who have consulted closely with Tehran. While Iran was the main player in the war of 2006, what is new this time around is that Turkey has been brought in, through an alliance with Qatar, as political backup for Hamas and as the regional sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood. The nature of the conflict has also changed from conventional warfare, where the armies of opposing states face each other on the battlefied, to asymmetrical warfare, where armies fight guerrilla battles against political movements in cities. The conflict that was between Arab states against Israel, and led to wars in 1948, 1967, and 1973, with the outcome of the latter leading to peace between Egypt and Israel, is no longer a reality. Israel’s wars now are with movements such as Hezbollah and Hamas, not with Arab states, and the patrons of these movements—Iran and Turkey—are obviously non-Arab.
Ofra Bengio: Meet the Kurds, a Historically Oppressed People Who Will Get Their Own State— The month of June 2014 will be remembered as a turning point in the annals of the Middle East, as two new entities might emerge from the ruins of the century-old entity that was once modern Iraq. The trigger for the dramatic change was the melting down of the Iraqi army in its encounters with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Kurdish army, the Peshmerga. In a matter of a few days ISIS captured important cities in the Sunni heartland including Mosul, the second-biggest city in Iraq. No less important was the success of ISIS in taking hold of strategic assets such as banks, oil and gas depots, refineries, airports, and American-made heavy weapons that the Iraqi army had abandoned without a fight. ISIS’ success was so swift that by the end of June it declared the establishment of the Islamic State encompassing parts of Syria and Iraq. In certain ways the ISIS onslaught reminds one of the Mongol attack in 1258, when the Abbasid army collapsed instantly and abandoned Baghdad.
Samuel Westrop: Britain’s “Murky Anti-Semitic Subculture”— Recent anti-Israel protests have been attended by thousands across Europe. These protests come in opposition to attempts by Israeli forces to quell the rocket fire aimed at Israeli citizens by the Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In Britain, the protests in support of Hamas have been chiefly organized by a mixture of Sunni Islamist groups and groups aligned with the Socialist Workers Party. The attending protestors, though, seem to come from across the political and religious spectrums. European hatred for the small Jewish state, or Jews in general, apparently continues to transcend all ideological differences to the point where pro-Assad activists can march alongside Sunni Islamists, while neo-Nazis stand shoulder to shoulder with Marxists.
Monique van Hoogstraten: Hamas in the City: Invisible, But Not Gone—Since the war started, one population group in Gaza has disappeared from the streets: people in uniform. Army green uniforms, blue-grey uniforms, black uniforms, they were all over the place. From one day to the next they are gone. “He does not dare to talk to you,” says the wife of someone who has been placed under house arrest because he is known for criticizing Hamas. She too does not dare to tell his story, because “we are being watched.” This is the case for most people who are no friends with Hamas. Although the uniforms might have disappeared from the streets, Hamas has not. High-ranking members monitor in civilian clothes. Whoever talks about Hamas critically on the streets is immediately spoken to. But this does not mean that most residents of Gaza do not support Hamas.
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“A video posted last Friday shows terrorists of the IS and Al Qaeda affiliated organizations active in Gaza. Masked terrorists can be seen making declarations in front of the black IS flag and firing mortar shells at Israel.”
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Netanyahu: Hamas will not be able to cover its military defeat with a diplomatic victory
Bennett calls on Israel to immediately halt negotiations with Hamas
Erdan: No deal on Gaza better than a bad deal
Israel’s defense establishment testing new tunnel detection system
Hamas: Lifting the blockade of Gaza is the only way to ensure Israel’s security
Schabas vows to probe Gaza operation even without Israel’s cooperation
Analysis: Fixing Gaza’s broken clock
Rivlin slams incitement against wedding of Muslim man and Jewish-born bride
UN watchdog chief holds top level nuclear talks in Iran
Khamenei: US’s treatment of black people is an anti-human rights act like its support of Israel
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Israel: ‘Protective Edge’ Isn’t Over
Hamas Threatens Terror in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria
Watch: UN’s Schabas Called Netanyahu ‘Greatest Threat to Israel’
Mixed-Marriage Protest Allowed From a Distance
Ya’alon Offers Deal to Demolish Teens’ Memorial Community
Netanyahu: Israel Won’t Gift Hamas ‘Political Win’ in Truce
Minister Condemns Racism Against Israeli Arabs
Bennett: ‘Yes’ to Humanitarian Aid, ‘No’ to Terror
IDF Chief of Staff Visits Wounded Soldiers
Far-Left Rally Call for Netanyahu to Step Down
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Lift Gaza blockade for security, Hamas spokesman demands
Analysis: Egypt’s proposal, bad for both sides, means the conflict may end with no deal
PM: No ceasefire agreement unless deal meets security demands
Top general says Israel should have hit tunnels sooner
Islamic State said to kill 700 people from Syrian tribe
IS jihadis could wind up on UK streets, Cameron warns
Israeli hurt in Molotov cocktail attack near Jerusalem
20,000 march in Kolkata in show of support for Israel
Thousands of Israelis call for dialogue at TA peace rally
1 killed in motorcycle bomb blast near Haifa
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Islamic State: “We Will Take Spain Back”
Fear, fatalism or support: Why isn’t Gaza revolting against Hamas?
Israel Expands Law of Return to Include Interfaith Gay Couples
Holocaust Imagery, Anti-Semitic Stereotypes Punctuate Chicago Anti-Israel Rally
Clashes in Pakistan after shots fired at opposition leader Imran Khan
Arab Bank Called Hamas “Paymaster” as Trial Opens in New York
Israel: UN Funds Organization that Seeks to Prosecute IDF Soldiers
Putin, Merkel seek ways to de-escalate Ukraine crisis
IDF Medical Corps Improved Survival Rate of Soldiers in Gaza War
Russians Start Paying the Price for Putin’s Ukraine Adventure
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Genesis 25: 19-23
19 Now these are the records of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham became the father of Isaac; 20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife. 21 Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and Yahweh answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived. 22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to inquire of Yahweh. 23 Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb; and two peoples will be separated from your body; and one people shall be stronger than the other; and the older shall serve the younger.”
SnyderTalk Comment: And so it was. Edomites, descendants of Esau, served Israel, descendants of Jacob/Israel. 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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Jeremiah said the Messiah is Yahweh
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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.
