“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Jennifer Rubin—Another Democrat, another Israel bashing:
Bill Clinton was caught off mike in Iowa this weekend “agreeing that the [Israeli] prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] was ‘not the man’ to make peace with Palestinians — a position at odds with his wife’s pro-Israel stance, a new report said Monday. Clinton’s spontaneous comments came during an impromptu conversation with pro-Palestinian activists after he and Hillary spent the day at a political event in Iowa on Sunday.” This is part of a pattern for Bill Clinton—“blaming the Israeli prime minister for the lack of progress toward peace with the Palestinians.” What do we learn from this?
- Democrats in private seem always to bash our ally Israel and never to criticize the Palestinians. If you believe what people say in private or off-script is more revealing of their real thinking, then you can conclude an anti-Israel bias is now a sort of sign of solidarity among Democrats. At the State Department, as we have seen from John Kerry’s utterances and the Israel bashing from negotiator Martin Indyk, it’s par for the course.
- Bill Clinton still plays loose with the facts. He opined that “don’t forget, both [former Palestinian leader Yasser] Arafat and [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas later tried to say they would take [the Camp David deal]. They said, ‘We changed our minds, we want it now.’ But by then, they had a government that wouldn’t give it to them.” This is nonsense. It was Clinton who complained bitterly to the incoming Bush administration that Arafat was a snake in the grass and not to be trusted. He of course initiated the intifada, which was Arafat’s real response to the attempt to broker peace. As for Abbas, he was given an even better deal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and turned it down. Netanyahu in 2013, of course, confirmed Israel’s willingness to recognize a Palestinian state. Abbas has never agreed to recognize a Jewish state and give up the so-called right of return. Why does Clinton feel the need to embellish history to make Israel look bad?
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SnyderTalk Comment: You have to ignore mountains of hard evidence to believe that Democrats aren’t anti-Israel and anti-Yahweh to the core. Israel bashing is only part of their problem. Booing God at their national convention is another. Applauding murder on demand without restraint is another. So is jumping for joy at the thought of legalizing sodomy and calling it “normal”.
If those statements offend you, then you are hypersensitive where political party is concerned and you have placed political party and ideology above Yahweh.
There isn’t a diplomatic way to say it. Besides, where evil and sin are concerned, Yahweh wants us to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That’s the truth.
I’m not suggesting that Republicans are perfect or that as a political party Republicans are any better than Democrats, but I am saying this: it’s not wise to put anything or anyone in Yahweh’s place. If you do that, you will be the loser, because Yahweh is going to win.
There is a Judgment Day. It will happen no matter what you think. No one can escape it. Either you are on Yahweh’s side or you are not. There is no middle ground. Fence-sitters are Yahweh’s enemies just as much as people who openly oppose Him and do everything they can to prevent Him from fulfilling His promises. When Judgment Day comes, you don’t want to be counted as one of Yahweh’s enemies.
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Caroline Glick: Obama’s self-defeating fight—The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem. The problem with Islamic State is not that it is brutal. Plenty of regimes are brutal. Islamic State poses two challenges for the US. First, unlike the Saudis and even the Iranians, IS actively recruits Americans and other Westerners to join its lines. This is a problem because these Americans and other Westerners have embraced an ideology that is viciously hostile to every aspect of Western civilization. Last Friday, Buzz Feed published a compilation of social media posts published by Western women who have left their homes in Chicago and London and other hometowns to join IS in Syria. As these women’s social media posts demonstrate, the act of leaving the West and joining IS involves rejecting everything the West is and everything it represents and embracing a culture of violence, murder and degradation.
Joel Greenberg: New Reality for Israelis on Golan Heights: Islamists Now Control the Other Side—Islamist rebels now control areas of Syria on the very doorstep of Israeli-controlled land on the Golan Heights. “Israel might be literally the front (line) of the West toward the radical Islamic movements…if they succeed in taking control on the Golan Heights,” said Yaakov Amidror, a former Israeli national security adviser. Analysts believe it is just a matter of time before al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and other Islamist groups on the Golan start carrying out attacks on Israel. Yoram Schweitzer, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, noted that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has spoken of using Syria as a staging ground for a “holy war” against Israel.
Asmaa al-Ghoul: Deputy: Qatar’s expulsion of Brotherhood won’t impact Hamas—Hamas Deputy Leader Mousa Abu Marzouk said in an interview with Al-Monitor: “People stuck with the resistance in an unprecedented way, as the citizens who were the most affected were the ones most committed to the resistance….They expected that at least there will be demands commensurate with the victory, such as lifting the siege, the seaport and airport. But we could not get that in the cease-fire. It was postponed until upcoming negotiations.” “It was not possible to achieve more. At this stage of the battle, we couldn’t have gained more. But negotiations are coming up, and the cards are still in the hands of the resistance.” “Let me also acknowledge that an essential part of the capabilities of the resistance was from Iranian aid in the recent war and the war that preceded it. So we say that Iran’s position was positive, and it deserves thanks for that.” “As for how the resistance will rearm, everyone knows very well that we have always been able to get weapons and manage our affairs. There is no worry about that.”
Yaakov Lappin: What Does Hamas Really Want?— As the dust settles in Gaza and Israel after a relatively long war, the current truce forms a good opportunity to examine the reason Hamas began their conflict this summer in the first place. Many observers have cited Hamas’s goal of lifting the Israeli security blockade around Gaza as the aim of its war. The blockade was put in place to prevent weapons from being smuggled to Hamas inside the Strip, which is already saturated with rockets and arms. Israel’s blockade only exists because Hamas has turned Gaza into a heavily harmed hornet’s nest of terrorism. Hence, the idea that Hamas believed that firing thousands of rockets and attempting to send death squads into Israel through underground tunnels would somehow force Israel into easing the blockade to make attacking Israel easier seems unconvincing.
Ron Elving: How To Measure Success Against The New Monster In The Middle East?— Over the weekend, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough was asked on NBC’s Meet the Press what victory would look like in the new struggle against Islamist extremists in Iraq. “Success looks like an ISIL that no longer threatens our friends in the region, that no longer threatens the United States,” McDonough said. Vague as that is, it may be the best answer available at the moment. And that is a problem. The U.S. is undertaking another major, if primarily aerial, combat role in another Middle East conflict. This is happening because a new monster has emerged there, threatening to destabilize the never-too-stable region in worse ways than we have seen to date. But most Americans are far from clear as to what this “ISIL” monster is, other than a few shadowy, portentous figures on disturbing videotapes. This new monster is a murky creature, even in its naming. It calls itself the Islamic State, but is also referred to by the acronym ISIL (for Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria).
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith: Israel’s Worst-Kept Secret— Israel has a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons. Former CIA Director Robert Gates said so during his 2006 Senate confirmation hearings for secretary of defense, when he noted—while serving as a university president—that Iran is surrounded by “powers with nuclear weapons,” including “the Israelis to the west.” Former President Jimmy Carter said so in 2008 and again this year, in interviews and speeches in which he pegged the number of Israel’s nuclear warheads at 150 to around 300. But due to a quirk of federal secrecy rules, such remarks generally cannot be made even now by those who work for the U.S. government and hold active security clearances. In fact, U.S. officials, even those on Capitol Hill, are routinely admonished not to mention the existence of an Israeli nuclear arsenal and occasionally punished when they do so.
NPR, Fresh Air: 13 Days Of High Emotion That Led To The Egypt-Israel Peace— When President Jimmy Carter decided to bring Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to Camp David in 1978 to broker peace talks, his hope that the two men would like each other was “completely naïve and mistaken,” says journalist Lawrence Wright. The first couple of days turned into a screaming match. “His idea … was that if he could just get these two honorable men alone — away from the press of their domestic politics — and let them get to know each other, that they would … come to trust one another,” Wright tells Fresh Air‘s Terry Gross.
Michael Curtis: President Obama, This Is the Islamic State— The great American philosopher Casey Stengel, dispirited by the failures of the New York Mets he was managing in 1962, uttered the immortal words, “Can’t anybody here play this game?” He might have been complaining of the discordant voices coming from Washington, D.C. regarding the brutal Islamic State (IS). First, on September 11, 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke of the U.S. mission to defeat ISIL (sic). For Kerry, the mission was not a war. The word “war” was the wrong terminology and analogy. The U.S. was engaging in a “very significant counter-terrorism operation.” Then, on September 14, the White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, informed us, “Just as we have been at war with al-Qaeda, in similar fashion we are at war with ISIL.”
Edward N. Luttwak: Why Great Palestinian Victories Are Worse than Defeats—As soon as the shooting stopped on Aug. 26, Hamas leaders came out of hiding to declare that they had won a great victory in the 2014 Gaza war, which had been preceded by the Gaza wars of 2008 and 2012, which they had also declared to be great victories. In each war, the martyrdom-seeking Islamic warriors of Hamas were badly outclassed in hand-to-hand combat by seriously trained Israeli conscripts, while its rockets were mostly ineffectual, unlike Israeli artillery and air power. Israel’s superior strength in war presents a very personal problem for each believing Muslim. It all starts with Islam itself, as a faith originally validated by the immense conquests of the first Muslims. The Quran is replete with categorical promises of victory for true believers, and Islam as a religion still rests on those promises. Defeats inflicted by Jews are an even more acute problem, because in the Quran they are written off as weaklings, easily defeated. Hamas’ video re-enactments of the recent fighting, featuring pathetic Israeli soldiers bursting into tears before being killed or surrendering meekly to the noble warriors of Hamas, have been wildly popular. Rioting demonstrators in Berlin and Paris in August 2014 comforted themselves with shouts of “Remember Khaibar!” evoking Muhammad’s conquest of the Jewish oasis of Khaibar in the year 629 – thus testifying to the dearth of notable Muslim victories over Jews over the last 1,385 years.
Denis MacEoin: Islam and the “Killing of Innocents”— Last week, before the Islamic State beheaded its third Westerner, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that, “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.” Well, not exactly. How often — despite the current spectacle of the Islamic State [IS, ISIL or ISIS] in Syria and Iraq — do we hear politicians and church leaders say that Islam is a religion of peace; that Islamic extremism is a modern innovation, a profound deviation from some imagined “true” Islam, and even that its very name, the word “Islam,” means peace? It is not just Muslims who say that Islam is a religion of peace: some Western politicians and churchmen repeat it too. Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, emphasized it last week on BBC on Sept 13, in response to the beheading by ISIS of the British aid worker, David Haines. Former U.S. President George W. Bush said so more than once, including in a speech he delivered on September 17, 2001.
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Monitor: Islamic State wins new recruits in Syria after Obama speech
Kosovo makes arrests in new push to stem flow of fighters to Syria, Iraq
Russia, Egypt seal preliminary arms deal worth $3.5 billion
Source: Gunmen seize Lebanese soldier in border town
New al-Qaida branch in South Asia claims major attack
Hamas arrests Palestinians who launched rocket from Gaza
US warns Iran’s current position in nuclear talks ‘unacceptable’
State Comptroller to check conduct of cabinet during Operation Protective Edge
Mortar from Syria explodes in Israeli territory in Golan Heights
Top Saudi clerics speak out against militancy
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Why the Yom Kippur War is Recalled with Embarrassment by Our Children
Israeli Christians’ New Nationality: Aramaean, not Arab
Why Qatar is Abandoning the Muslim Brotherhood – And Hamas
Watch: ISIS Declares War on Obama Hollywood Style
Intelligence Minister Warns EU Against ‘Bad Deal’ on Iran
Remand Extended for Suspects Who Tried to Blow Up French Hill Gas Station
Airport Worker Strike – Cry of Outrage at the Minister of Finance
Postal Strike Continues to Escalate
Police Investigating Suspicious Death of Petah Tikva Construction Worker
Wendy Sherman: Gaps Remain in Talks with Iran
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First, Syrian Rebels Aim to Take Damascus, Not Jerusalem
UN evacuates all troops from Golan as Syria fighting worsens
Assad atrocities outstrip Islamic State in Syria, UN panel says
US begins expanded air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq
Ahead of historic vote, many Scottish Jews wary of independence
Palestinian bagpipers pull for Scottish independence
Scottish independence leader appears to equate Israel, Islamic State
Ya’alon scolds ministers for Protective Edge carping
EU’s Ashton to handle Iran talks beyond November deadline
When the Law of Return does not apply to a Holocaust survivor
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Brother of top ISIS repents, converts to Christianity
Syrian Rebels Seize UN Weapons in the Golan Heights
After Obama Authorizes Airstrikes, Islamic State in Syria Goes Underground
US General Opens Door to Embed Troops in Islamic State
U.S.: Iran’s Current Position in Nuclear Talks “Unacceptable”
Pro-Iranian Houthis Advancing in Yemen
Ebola crisis: why Obama is involving the US
Tubby tummies taking their toll
How Private Space Taxis for Astronauts Could Help NASA Reach Mars
Meteorite That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Actually Helped Forests Flourish
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Genesis 30: 9-13
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took her maid Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad. 12 Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “Happy am I! For women will call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
SnyderTalk Comment: 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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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.
