“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Burak Bekdil—Don’t Tell Erdogan Jihadists Kill People:
Slightly more than a year ago, the world was shocked at the dramatic death tolls in Kenya and Pakistan when jihadists, in separate attacks over one weekend, killed more than 150 innocent people — with the Kenya attack claiming victims aged between two and 78. In a public speech after the “black weekend,” Turkey’s then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (now President) looked very sad. Indeed, he was sad.
But not for the victims of terror attacks the previous weekend. He was mourning Asmaa al-Beltagi, a poor, 17-year-old Egyptian girl who had been shot dead by security forces in Cairo as she was protesting the ouster of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president, Mohamed Morsi, in a July coup d’état. Asmaa’s father was a senior Brotherhood figure and after her death, Erdogan once even shed tears during a televised speech. He then commemorated the girl at almost every election rally.
Earlier in 2013, Erdogan’s Egyptian comrades, the Muslim Brotherhood, had perpetrated the worst attacks against the Coptic Church of Egypt since the 14th century. In one particular week, 40 churches were looted and torched while 23 others were attacked and heavily damaged. In one town, after burning a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three of its nuns on the streets, as if the nuns were prisoners of war.
Two security guards working on a tour boat owned by Christians were burned alive; and an orphanage was burned down. Meanwhile, the Brotherhood’s Facebook page claimed that, “the Church has declared war against Islam and Muslims.”
Today if one typed the words “Islam” and “terrorism” into a quick search, Google would produce over 42 million results. But one of Erdogan’s favorite statements is his famous line, “There is no Islamic terror.” In various times and capitals, Erdogan has powerfully stated that, “Muslims never resort to terror or violence.” Once he said of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s Muslim president, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity: “I went to Sudan and did not see any genocide there. Muslims never resort to genocide.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has been in power for more than a decade, and his power continues to increase steadily. I fear that Turkey may have passed the point of no return.
Turkey played an important part in the early Christian church. All of the churches mentioned in Revelation are in Turkey, and Ephesus is in Turkey. There is no doubt that Turkey was important from a Christian perspective, but it may become important again.
Some argue that the anti-Messiah will come from Turkey—see Turkey As The Antichrist Nation Seven Scriptural Proofs – Turkey Fallen To The Islamists – Turkey In Islamic Prophecy – The Time Is Ripe For A Revived Muslim Caliphate – editorial.
Pergamum is of particular interest:
“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: the One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this: ‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality. So you also have some who in the same way hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. Therefore repent; or else I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of My mouth. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’” (Revelation 2: 12-17)
Below are a couple of websites that you may want to examine:
This much is certain: if Erdogan continues to target Israel as he has in the past, Turkey will suffer more than he and the Turkish people can imagine.
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David E. Sanger: Role for Russia Gives Iran Talks a Possible Boost— Iran has tentatively agreed to ship much of its huge stockpile of uranium to Russia if it reaches a broader nuclear deal with the West, according to officials and diplomats involved in the negotiations, potentially a major breakthrough in talks that have until now been deadlocked. Under the proposed agreement, the Russians would convert the uranium into specialized fuel rods for the Bushehr nuclear power plant, Iran’s only commercial reactor. Once the uranium is converted into fuel rods, it is extremely difficult to use them to make a nuclear weapon. That could go a long way toward alleviating Western concerns about Iran’s stockpile, though the agreement would not cut off every pathway that Tehran could take to obtain a nuclear weapon. With a Nov. 24 deadline looming on the nuclear talks, negotiators between Iran and the United States and five other nations are still far from agreement on a range of other issues that could derail a final agreement, including the number of centrifuges the country could keep spinning, the speed at which economic sanctions would be suspended, the fate of a heavy-water reactor that produces plutonium, and whether international inspectors would be free to visit any suspected covert facilities.
Louis Rene Beres: Iran’s open plan for genocide against Israel: A legal assessment— Every year, a sitting Iranian president, whether Hassan Rouhani or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, instructs the UN General Assembly that Israel represents some sort of defiling historical error, a mistake that should somehow be “rectified.” On occasion, Iran’s president, plainly, and with obviously full authority from (Supreme Leader) Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, goes beyond such narrowly focused denunciation, and offers an alleged rationale for Israel’s “disappearance.” What has yet to be examined, in any serious fashion, is whether these Iranian presidents have actually been urging genocide, and whether, in an aptly defensive response, the Israeli prime minister still retains proper legal authority to strike first. At a minimum, however, Israel has every right to request a General Assembly resolution calling for Iran’s formal expulsion from the United Nations. While such a diplomatic and jurisprudential rejoinder to Iran’s presumptively genocidal pleas could be permissible, it would also likely represent, at best, only a preliminary first step toward improving Israel’s national security.
Cal Thomas: Iran nuclear talks like bargaining with the devil— Having missed a July deadline for reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear program, the six world powers party to the talks — the United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany — have set November 24 as their new deadline. Iran says there will be no extension if a deal isn’t reached. Given the Obama administration’s horrible record in the Middle East — treating Israel as an enemy and Islamic dictatorships as potential friends — things don’t look good for an agreement that will curtail or reverse Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon. An indication of what the Obama administration hopes to achieve in these talks came from Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes. In remarks to a liberal group last January obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Rhodes said: “Bottom line is, this is the best opportunity we’ve had to resolve the Iranian issue diplomatically, certainly since President Obama came to office, and probably since the beginning of the Iraq war. … This is probably the biggest thing President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy. This is health care for us, just to put it in context.”
James M. Acton: Beware of an Iranian Atomic “Sneak-Out”—While America’s strategy for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons involves blocking the use of declared facilities that are inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency – the much-discussed “breakout” scenario – if Tehran goes nuclear it will almost certainly be more surreptitious and build a secret, parallel program dedicated to military ends. The U.S. should, therefore, aim to negotiate measures to prevent “sneak-out.” One critical lesson from history is that would-be proliferators try to sneak out; they don’t breakout. Six countries have been found by the IAEA to have violated their nonproliferation commitments: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya, Romania and Syria. Each of these states was guilty of clandestinely conducting nuclear activities that it was legally obliged to report. None made a brazen attempt to divert declared nuclear material that was under the watchful eyes of international inspectors. Iran’s focus on sneak-out is entirely rational; the IAEA is just too good at monitoring what’s declared. By contrast, detecting secret enrichment facilities is more difficult.
Caroline Glick: Terror Decentral—In the postmortems of the terrorist car attacks in Jerusalem, it is easy to see the writing on the wall. Ibrahim al-Akary, the terrorist who on Wednesday ran over crowds of people waiting to cross the street and catch the Jerusalem Light Rail, was the brother of one of the terrorist murderers freed in exchange for IDF hostage Gilad Schalit. He had placed the photograph on his Facebook page of Moataz Hejazi, the terrorist killed by police after shooting Yehuda Glick outside the Begin Heritage Center last Wednesday. A few days before Abdur Rahman Slodi got into his car and mowed down three-month-old Chaya Zissel Braun and a dozen other pedestrians two weeks ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas exhorted the Palestinians to prevent Jews from visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, by all means possible. Slodi had served time in prison for terrorist offenses and was active on social media where he expressed murderous hatred for Jews and a desire to kill them. So yes, the writing was on the wall. But unfortunately, the writing is on all the walls, or Facebook walls. It is not at all clear how Israeli security services could have known to distinguish these men from the thousands of other Palestinians and Jerusalem Arabs who hate Israel, support the murder of Jews and identify with various terrorist organizations.
Dovid Efune: Why Rejection of America’s Dictates is Crucial for Israel’s Security— In a telling follow-up to his now famous report on an Obama Administration official referring to Israel’s Prime Minister as a ‘chickenshit,’ The Altantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg makes a curious argument. Goldberg points to an editorial in the New York Jewish Week entitled Bibi Takes on the World, which implies that the PM is “disconnected from reality” and is “Jeopardizing Israel’s relationship with its most important allies” due to his continued insistence on Israel’s right to build in all of Jerusalem. The editorial, Goldberg claims, amounts to “More proof, if more proof were needed, that there is a crisis in US-Israel relations.” “When future historians write about this period in US-Israel relations, this editorial will warrant serious mention,” Goldberg asserts. “The unease felt by some American Jews about Israel’s direction is moving into the mainstream.”
Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians’ “Car Intifada” and Obama’s Peace Process— It began as a “children’s intifada” in Jerusalem, where Palestinians aged eight to 18 were encouraged to take to the streets and throw stones and shoot fireworks at vehicles driven by Israelis and policemen. Now, however, Palestinians are referring to it as a “car intifada” after two Palestinian drivers deliberately ran over Israelis in Jerusalem over the past two weeks. The “car intifada,” which has claimed the lives of three Israelis, including a three-month-old infant, is being hailed by many Palestinians as a “natural response to Israeli crimes.” The “crimes” they are referring to are visits by Jewish groups and individuals to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Palestinian Authority [PA], Hamas and Islamic Jihad are using these visits to stir up Palestinians against Israel. The recent terror attacks in Jerusalem are the direct result of this campaign of incitement.
Raphael Ahren: With Marmara case closed, Ramallah learns going to ICC not easy as ABC—Israeli officials didn’t break out the champagne after the International Criminal Court announced Thursday that it would not probe the 2010 flotilla incident, during which pro-Palestinian activists and IDF troops clashed aboard the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara ship. Ramallah didn’t celebrate over the decision either. Yes, the report suggests that Israeli troops might have committed war crimes. But as the Palestinians threaten to take Israel to the Hague-based court as well over war crime accusations, the decision to drop the Marmara case indicates that the ICC is a turf on which an automatic Palestinian victory cannot be taken for granted. From an Israeli perspective, the report in which ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda explained why she was not opening a full investigation was not ideal. Bensouda said the incident, which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish citizens during a melee aboard a ship trying to break the Gaza blockade, lacked “sufficient gravity.”
Shadi Hamid: The Roots of the Islamic State’s Appeal—In September, ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani expounded on his group’s inherent advantage: “Being killed…is a victory.” Religion – rather than ideology – matters. ISIS fighters are not only willing to die in a blaze of religious ecstasy; they welcome it. ISIS draws on ideas that have broad resonance among Muslim-majority populations. The notion of a caliphate – the historical political entity governed by Islamic law and tradition – is a powerful one, even among more secular-minded Muslims.
David Zucchino: Why Iraqi Army Can’t Fight, Despite $25 Billion in U.S. Aid, Training—On June 9 in Mosul in northern Iraq, a federal paramilitary police division and two army divisions disintegrated as thousands of soldiers and police officers shed their uniforms, dropped their weapons and ran for their lives before attacking Islamic State fighters. “Our commanders were afraid of Daesh [IS]. They were too afraid to lead us,” said police officer Hussein Shehab, 43. The military collapsed in Mosul even though Washington spent eight years and $25 billion to train, arm and equip Iraq’s security forces. Iraqi security force members acknowledge that many Sunnis and other minorities see the Shiite-led army as a brutal occupying force. Under former Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, a Shiite, Sunnis were driven out of the security forces and replaced by Shiites. Worse, Maliki integrated Shiite militias, accused of torturing and killing Sunnis, into the army and police. “The army became Maliki’s private militia,” said retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, who was in charge of military training in Iraq in 2003 and 2004.
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Analysis: MKs at center of Temple Mount tensions
‘Abbas to blame for J’lem violence’
Navy fired on fishing boat from Gaza that loaded cargo in Egypt
Israeli car set on fire in Taibe, man rescued by locals
Iraqi official confirms Islamic State leader Baghdadi injured in US airstrike
Netanyahu turns Right at Likud central committee meeting
Sheldon Adelson, Hiam Saban urge Obama to reconsider nuclear deal with Iran
Begin-Reagan tape highlights reluctance by Israeli prime minister to say no to US president
Israeli Arabs furious over Galilee killing
Citing Hamas security warning, Fatah cancels Gaza rally marking Arafat’s death
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Jordan’s PM Slams Israel, Rules Out Cancellation of Peace Treaty
Netanyahu: Most of the Incitement Comes from the PA
Musician Peter Gabriel: I’m Not Anti-Israel, I’m Anti-Occupation
Adelson on Iran: Talks Can Only Accomplish So Much
Obama: There’s a ‘Big Gap’ Between the West and Iran
Syrian Jihadists Capture Key Town Near Golan Heights
Trump: No Greater Enemy to Israel than Obama
MK: Livni’s Sense of Justice Ends at Maale Adumim
DM: Decision on Gaza Belt Security Officers Soon
Clashes in North, Rock Attack on Highway 1
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Al-Aqsa Mosque Turns Into War Zone
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‘Iran may have violated interim nuclear deal’
Opposition group claims new info showing Iran still working toward nukes
Iran nuke deal seen unlikely after UN says probe stalled
SnyderTalk Comment: Thank Yahweh for the mid-term election results. The political message was clear, and it could make a significant difference.
After slamming Israel, UK’s Miliband decries rising anti-Semitism
Fatah posts cartoons urging car attacks on the ‘foreign settler’
SnyderTalk Comment: Mahmoud Abbas is a man after Obama’s own heart. They are birds of a feather—lying potoos.
Jerusalem hospitals treating 8 injured in attacks
Terrorist praised would-be assassin of Temple Mount activist
PA security posts cartoon of Israel ‘raping’ Temple Mount
Ya’alon: Jewish visitors to Temple Mount ‘fueling fire’ of incitement
Kerry: No link between Iran talks, other Mideast issues
SnyderTalk Comment: John Kerry is an idiot or he must think that everyone else is. He and Obama are a perfect match.
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Romney to Israeli expats: Obama is distancing US from its allies
Director of Org Funded by Nazi Collaborator to Head ADL
Palestinian Press, Social Media, Urging Drivers to Perpetrate ‘Martyrdom Operations’
Palestinian Radicals Are Desecrating the Al-Aqsa Mosque
Western Double-Standard on Israeli “Racism”
Latest Proof of Radical Islamist Cruelty Against Women
Christians “Losing Everything” to Islam
Now the World Fiddles as Gaza Cries
Terror Attacks in Jerusalem Receive Abbas’ Blessing
Egypt Levels [680] Sinai Homes to Battle Islamist Militants
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Genesis 37: 5-8
Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have had; for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.” Then his brothers said to him, “Are you actually going to reign over us? Or are you really going to rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.
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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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.
