“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld—Can Israel Ever Trust Europe? Part III:
When one asks Segre where this all leads, he replies, “According to an ancient Jewish saying, since the Temple was destroyed, prophecy is reserved for babes and fools. I am not a babe and do not want to look a fool. I cannot make prophecies. All I can do is indicate trends, which may or may not be realized.”
He identified three major trends. The first is geographical. Israel is the only modern state halfway between Washington and Peking. This has many implications and creates multiple opportunities.
“Until a new satellite was launched recently, a TV satellite farm in Herzliya supplied TV stations all over the world with recordings from central Asian stations,” he says. “Now, following the political changes in Eastern Europe, a sort of new silk road has opened up for Israel to India and China.”
One paradoxical result of the Arab boycott has been that Tokyo and Mexico City are closer to Tel Aviv than Damascus or Cairo, at least in economic terms.
He notes that the boycott has cost Israel billions of dollars, but has forced it to diversify its production and to enter competitive markets, while Arab economies have remained mainly either agricultural or oil-dominated.
Today, he says, the economies of Israel and the Arab countries are not complementary. One possible beneficial consequence of the agreements between Israel and the PLO may be to increase the present low flow of trade, manpower and technology between Israel and the Arab countries. Although a Middle East common market may not emerge tomorrow, Segre says, the breakdown of economic barriers between Israel and the Arabs may turn out to be an energizing factor for both sides.
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To continue reading, click here. See parts I and II in the Perspectives section below.
SnyderTalk Comment: So, can Israel ever trust Europe? Given the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe, the answer seems obvious. It’s “no”.
That said, many Europeans are not anti-Semites. They have a heart for Yahweh, and they support Jewish people and Israel in many ways.
Even so, the risks for Jews living in or visiting Europe are rising. That’s not my opinion. It’s a fact that is supported by mountains of hard data.
It looks to me as though things are getting worse for Jews in Europe, not better. That leads me to conclude that now is a good time for Jews living in Europe to get out while they can and for Jews who are thinking about visiting Europe to choose another destination.
Will the situation for Jews in Europe deteriorate to the point it reached during the Third Reich? I can’t answer that question, but it’s possible.
Am I an alarmist or am I being logical? You’ll have to decide for yourself. I prefer to err on the side of caution.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Is Europe safe for Jewish people? I don’t think so, but judge for yourself.
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Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld: Can Israel Ever Trust Europe? Part I—Dan Segre was born in 1922 into an assimilated Jewish family in the Italian village of Rivoli, where he grew up on his mother’s family farm. His father was the country’s youngest mayor in the village of Govone. After Mussolini enacted anti-Jewish legislation in 1938, Segre fled to Palestine, without any Zionist awareness. He has described this period in the bestselling first part of his autobiography, The Memoirs of a Fortunate Jew, which has been translated into nine languages. Segre has started work on a sequel, which will cover the post-World War Two period.
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld: Can Israel Ever Trust Europe? Part II—As far as European nationalism goes, Segre says that Jews have been both its promoters and its victims. For those familiar with the history of modern Italy, it is striking that between 1835 and 1870 the Jews were a considerable factor in the Italian Risorgimento – the fight for Italian unity – despite their small numbers. People who demonstrate, through no fault of their own, the failure of the ideas of others are unlikely to be loved by those whose ideological balloons they have deflated. Segre says that Israel continues the Jew’s traditional role as test case for the failure of European ideas.
Paul Berman: Evil Is a Dirty Word— We moderns subscribe to the doctrine of “root causes,” but the ancient Greek and Roman poets subscribed to no such thing. The ancients believed in the power of evil. They considered that evil forces were capable of rising up unbidden and wreaking destruction for no reason whatsoever. The people in their poems fly into rages and insanely murder their children, or slaughter enemies, or exterminate populations. The poets recounted every last ghastliness with an air of wide-eyed fascination, and they went about it systematically, too. They adhered to the requirements of their own discipline. They applied the structures of verse to the permutations of horror. They were prosodists of derangement. But the ancient poets never tried to explain what they recounted. They operated on the assumption that unbridled urges for slaughter and destruction are a human impulse, or, in the case of the whimsical gods, who manipulate the mortals, a more-than-human impulse, and there was no reason to look for underlying causes. Nor did the poets try to demonstrate that outbreaks of evil are something other than outbreaks of evil.
Jonathan S. Tobin: Getting Into Bed with Iran in Iraq Will Have Consequences— At first glance, the idea that Iran’s elite shock troops operating in Iraq have been ordered to avoid targeting Americans seems like good news. But as much as we should hope that U.S. personnel (reportedly some 1,600 Americans are currently there advising Iraqi and Kurdish troops) will be able to operate without interference or attack from the Iranians, Eli Lake’s story in the Daily Beast about the latest intelligence assessment about Iraq is quite troubling especially in light of the U.S. making desperate offers to get Tehran to agree to another weak nuclear deal. If, contrary to public assurances from the administration, there is any quid pro quo between the U.S. and Iran over events in Iraq and Syria, then these dealings are indicative of the long-range problems brewing for American security.
Chloe Valdary: How to Defend Israel on College Campuses— As soon as I came out of my European History class last Thursday morning, I saw the grass in the distance littered with white papers. Right then and there, I immediately knew. I didn’t even have to approach the field because I had spoken with student government leaders days before and they had told me Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was planning something. Yet while my heart dropped a bit, I tried to convince myself that maybe this display was about something else. Maybe it was celebrating something, honoring something, teaching something. Maybe it had something to do with real justice, a concept I had found elusive in this god-forsaken conflict. So I approached the display, with feelings of equal parts dread and hope, fear and optimism. But my initial predictions were confirmed.
Denis MacEoin: Britain, Sweden – and a State of Palestine?— The British parliament, on October 13th, may be debating whether or not to recognize a Palestinian state. Recognizing what in all likelihood would quickly become yet another Islamic terrorist state can only set a precedent that could have a disastrous impact on future negotiations, international law, and lead to the establishment yet more launching pads for people dedicated to violent jihad, not just in Israel, but, as they now openly admit, worldwide, including Britain and Sweden. On October 3, newly elected Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven used his inaugural speech to announce a decision to recognize the “state of Palestine.” In what must rank as one of the most self-contradictory statements in political history, he declared: “A two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to peaceful co-existence. Sweden will therefore recognise the state of Palestine.”
Douglas Century: ISIS and the New Face of Narcoterrorism— Narcoterrorism, a word first coined by Peruvian President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in 1983, then made infamous with Pablo Escobar’s violence targeting the government of Colombia, has now vastly expanded from being a crisis limited to Latin America. In fact, I’d argue that whatever the nomenclature, Israel was among the first nations to be affected by the phenomenon of narcoterrorism. During the 1970s, Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Liberation Organization controlled clandestine laboratories in Lebanon, laying some of the foundations for the current narcoterrorism infrastructure, which boosted the PLO’s stashed bank accounts. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, an estimated 40 percent of the PLO’s weaponry was financed by the trafficking of heroin and hashish.
Mark Oppenheimer: Crucified by His Own Bishop— On Aug. 25, 2014, Fr. Bruce Shipman, the chaplain of the Episcopal Church at Yale University, in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, wrote that “the best antidote to anti-Semitism would be for Israel’s patrons abroad to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for final-status resolution to the Palestinian question.” Many readers believed that Shipman had implied that Jews were responsible for anti-Semitism. (I wrote about his letter in Tablet here.) Two weeks later, Shipman resigned. Some anti-Zionists concluded that Zionists had, by pressuring Yale administrators, forced Shipman out. On Sep. 29, I drove to Shipman’s apartment, overlooking the water in coastal Groton, Conn., to talk with Shipman myself. “I have in many ways a Jewish soul,” Shipman told me, over the course of a long, candid interview, delicious for its frank talk about those who actually, according to him, were responsible for his departure. —Mark Oppenheimer. I have an open-ended question. What happened?
Karam Shoumali and Anne Barnard: Slaughter Is Feared as ISIS Nears Turkish Border— ISTANBUL — Islamic State militants pushed on Monday into the eastern edge of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border, after sustained shelling that drove back the Kurdish fighters and Syrian insurgents fighting alongside them, killing 16 and raising fears of a massacre of civilians, Kurdish fighters and activists said. Anwar Muslim, a coordinator in Kobani for the People’s Protection Committees, a Kurdish militant group known as the Y.P.G., said Monday night that 12,000 civilians were trapped inside the town. He said that his group was running out of heavy ammunition, and with Islamic State militants close by the population was in constant fear of car bombs or suicide bombers.
Harry Ben-Zvi and Gidon Ben-Zvi: UNfriend: The Case for Israel Pulling Out of the United Nations— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the UN General Assembly last week took place in the Western world’s epicenter for the promotion, codification, and implementation of institutional anti-Semitism. After all, it is no coincidence that behind every conflict Israel has ever fought there has been a failed United Nations resolution. Simply scrape the gloss off the noble sentiments expressed in the Charter of the United Nations and you will discover that the world body’s Near East policy has from its inception fanned the flames of Arab nationalism, perpetuating regional conflicts that have effectively preserved a status quo sympathetic to authoritarian Arab regimes, at the expense of Israeli security and sovereignty.
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Kerry to use Gaza aid conference to push for restarted talks
Works of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Patrick Modiano deal with Holocaust issues
US: Turkey to support training, equipping Syrian opposition
British opposition to help secure Palestinian vote in UK parliament
Christian clerics to Europe: Recognize Palestinian statehood
Foreign affairs: Northern exposure
Elie Wiesel: Quietly moving worlds
EU to ban dairy products from over the pre-1967 lines as of January
PA, Jordan blame Israel Police for Temple Mount riot
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Clueless – and Useless – in Jerusalem
America Praises and Supports Terrorist Government
Could ISIS Target the West with Ebola?
Hamas Vows Fight to ‘Last Drop of Blood’ on Temple Mount Friday
Kotel Rabbi: ‘Temple Mount has Turned into a Terror Base’
‘High Court Only has Consideration for African Infiltrators’
Hareidi Extremists Show IDF Soldiers as Pigs in Poster Campaign
Western Diplomat Reveals Gaza Facing ‘Donor Fatigue’
Christian Clerics to Europe: Recognize ‘Palestine’
US Calls Hamas-Fatah Unity Meeting ‘Positive Step’
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Wary of riots, police restrict Temple Mount access
Islamic State praises death of ‘youngest martyr’
Kobani holds out against IS; US urges Turkey to get involved
Palestinian allegedly killed for selling Silwan homes to Jews
Report: Blast at suspected Iran nuke facility was caused by ‘foreign country’
Hamas indicates deal for soldiers’ bodies in the works
UNRWA to seek $1.6 billion for Gaza aid
Meeting in Gaza, Palestinian unity gov’t seeks to signal that aid won’t go to Hamas
The glorious nature reserve that rainfall forced Israel to create
Christian clerics urge recognition of Palestinian state
SnyderTalk Comment: I wish they would just say clerics. If it were left up to me, I would add a less than euphemistic descriptor: clerics of their own delusions.
Although they call themselves “Christians”, they can’t hide their hostility toward Israel. That means they are opposed to Yahweh, so I have serious doubts about their “Christian” faith.
Who said that you can tell a tree by its fruit? It was the Messiah:
“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Grapes are not gathered from thorn bushes nor figs from thistles, are they? So every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, you will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7: 15-20.)
He’s the Judge, and He made it pretty clear.
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Outrageous “coincidence:” Obama sends personal thank you to beheader’s OK City mosque
Obama administration’s unprecedented outburst
Blackballed Jordanian Author: ‘Jews Have a Right to the Land of Israel’
British Watchdog Freezes Galloway’s Hamas-Supporting Charity
The Tel Aviv version of Judaism
Families torn apart as Western girls join Islamist cause
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Genesis 33: 12-14
12 Then Esau said, “Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.” 13 But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
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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Obey Yahweh and Let the Name Jesus Go
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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.
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