January 8, 2015 SnyderTalk: Time to crack down on ‘Islamophobia’, Turkey’s Erdogan tells EU

1--Intro Covering Israel and ME

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6

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2--SnyderTalk Lead Headline for use

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AFP—Time to crack down on ‘Islamophobia’, Turkey’s Erdogan tells EU:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned the European Union it should crack down on “Islamophobia” amid rising anti-Muslim protests instead of trying to teach Turkey lessons about democracy.

Erdogan told Turkey’s ambassadors posted abroad in a speech in Ankara that they should pursue an assertive foreign policy to represent strong and self-confident “new Turkey” under his rule.

In a new attack on the EU, Erdogan called on the 28-member bloc to “revisit its Turkey policy”, accusing Europe of dragging its feet on Ankara’s decade-old membership bid.

“Believe me it is regrettable that the EU is trying teach a lesson to Turkey instead of trying to tackle very serious threats it is facing,” he said.

Erdogan said racist, discriminatory activities and Islamophobia were on the rise in Europe, complaining that racist organisations won sympathy in some Western societies with “each passing day”.

“The Islamophobia — which we constantly draw attention to and warn of — represents a serious threat in Europe.”

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SnyderTalk Comment: Turkish President Erdogan is right about one thing: it’s time to crack down.  Not on “Islamophobia” as he suggests, but on Islamists.

What is “Islamophobia”?  To Erdogan and people of his ilk, it’s a mental problem that afflicts people with deep-seated concerns about Islam and fears about where the world is heading if we don’t act to eradicate a malignant growth.  To people with good sense, “Islamophobia” is a derisive term that reveals the blatant ignorance of the person using it.

Given the things that have happened and are happening today, anyone who isn’t concerned about Islam has a serious problem.

Erdogan delivered his remarks in Ankara on Tuesday.  On Wednesday in Paris, 12 people were murdered when terrorists stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly newspaper.  I can’t swear that the assailants were Islamists, but in eyewitness videos of the shootings they can be heard screaming “Allahu Akbar” as they were slaughtering 12 innocent people.

Call it what you will: poetic justice, irony, fate, or confirmation of the facts.  Erdogan’s timing was impeccable.  He chose to condemn Europe for a problem that manifested itself again the very next day in vivid relief.  It makes me wonder about people who don’t have faith in Yahweh.  As I have said before many times, there are no coincidences.

It’s easy to understand why Erdogan didn’t point his finger at Islamists.  He is one.

It’s also easy to understand why European leaders are apprehensive about the thought of Turkey under Erdogan and his ruling party joining the European Union.  Islamists won’t be happy until they rule the world under Sharia law.  Inviting them to join your alliance is asking for trouble.  That’s what Islamists have been telling us and showing us in dramatic fashion.  Europe is their first target.  Next will come the U.S. and Israel.

I can’t imagine why we continue to allow Turkey to be a part of NATO.  Failing to boot them out is asking for trouble, too.

The YouTube video below presents a portrait of Islam that Erdogan thinks you shouldn’t be allowed to see because it supports the belief that Islam is a serious problem that the whole world must address.  It depicts Islam as it really is—not as Western politicians, Barack Obama in particular, pretend that it is.

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13--Perspectives 2

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Anat Berko: Terrorism-Lite: How Universities Let Students Abuse Academic Freedom— Why are some students doing this? Because they can. No one is stopping them. There is no accountability and no cost — either to them or to the people failing to educate them. Bad behavior is rewarded; it is allowed to go on. Will self-declared jihadis and other “speech police” decide what is, and what is not, allowed to be discussed and taught in Western universities? Is education now about instilling fear? The first amendment right should not extend to depriving others of their first amendment right. What criteria had the professor used — and for that matter Europe — to determine that Hamas was not a terrorist group, as opposed to the criteria used by the government of the United States to determine that, in fact, it was?

Jennifer Rubin: The Palestinian Authority’s Latest Charade—”Palestinians continue to be plagued by poor leadership. Being unable to get nine votes in the Security Council; losing when they might have won by delaying a month; energizing American opposition to their actions – all to join an organization [the ICC] where they are actually far more at risk than Israel,” observes former U.S. deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams. “The Fatah leadership in Ramallah is not brave enough to face down Hamas and make peace, nor brave enough to face their own people in an election. So they go for these gyrations in New York instead, hoping to fool Palestinians into thinking these charades constitute courageous action.” Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies notes: “The idea now is to sow fear among Israelis that the threat of war crimes lingers. But it’s still unclear whether the PA has a case, let alone standing….The Israelis are not cowering. The Palestinian street is not impressed. The international community has grown weary of these diplomatic stunts….Ultimately, there is little choice for the PA but to return to the tough slog of negotiations.”

Yonah Jeremy Bob: UN Resolution 242 Is Recognized as the Key UN Resolution on the Israeli-Arab Conflict—In an article to be published soon in the Chicago Journal of International Law, Prof. Eugene Kontorovich of Northwestern University compares UN Security Council Resolution 242 to all 18 other Security Council resolutions dealing with territorial withdrawals and finds that the resolution was unique in its ambiguity as to how much territory Israel needs to withdraw from, with other resolutions being explicit about a full withdrawal. Kontorovich cites five pre-1967 UN resolutions obligating withdrawals, noting that the USSR had to withdraw from “the whole” of Iran, and that Belgium had to withdraw from “the territory” of Congo. In contrast, the intentional dropping of “the” in 242 and leaving out of a set date or geographic marker shows that the UN intentionally left the issue vague. Former UN Ambassador and Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs president Dore Gold responded to the article, saying, “Unfortunately there are voices that believe the whole discussion of the absence of the definite article ‘the’ in 242 is being picky. What they don’t understand is that the language of the resolution was drafted at the highest levels of the U.S. government at the time.”

Aaron David Miller: Why the Palestinians’ Diplomatic Intifada Will Fail—The Arabs remain Israel’s best talking points. Much of the region is melting down right now. Regarding the U.S.-Israel relationship, I know there’s a view out there that Barack Obama is just waiting to stick it to Benjamin Netanyahu. And that now that the president isn’t running for anything anymore, he has a chance to be tough. But back on planet Earth, there are any number of factors that will prevent such toughening. The more the Palestinians press to isolate Israel, the harder the Administration will work to prevent it. This month the Republicans will take over both Houses of Congress and will likely move to support Israel by sanctioning the PA and introducing more sanctions on Iran. And let’s be clear. The president’s real priority isn’t the peace process; it’s to determine whether he can reach a deal with Iran on the nuclear issue. He’ll have a hard enough time selling that one to Congress and the Israelis (along with the Saudis) without opening himself up to charges that he’s jamming the Israelis when it comes to not standing up to the Palestinians’ diplomatic intifada.

Ana Maria Luca: Hizbullah’s Global Intelligence War with Israel’s Mossad—After Israel’s Mossad alerted Peruvian intelligence, on Oct. 28, 2014, Peruvian police raided an apartment in Lima and arrested Mohammad Ghaleb Hamdar, 29, a Lebanese Hizbullah agent with a passport from Sierra Leone who had explosive devices and traces of nitroglycerine in his apartment. On his personal computer they found over 200 photos of strategic objectives in Lima: the airport, metal detectors, banks, police stations, the Peruvian Ministry of Finance, as well as private security at some public institutions, tourist attractions and hotels that had the Israeli flag hoisted out front. During his interrogation, Hamdar admitted he was a Hizbullah member, hired in Beirut, given a fake identity and “advised” to marry his Peruvian sweetheart in order to obtain residency documents in Peru. Hamdar’s story resembles that of Houssam Taleb Yaacoub, a Swedish-Lebanese who was arrested in Larnaca in 2012, who also confessed to the police that he was a scout and a courier for Hizbullah.

Stephen Flatow: If Pictures Are Worth a Thousand Words, How About Maps?— A major book publisher, deluged with criticism for leaving Israel off a map in its Middle East Atlas, has apologized and withdrawn the book from circulation. You don’t have to know the name of the publisher to know one thing for certain: it’s not the Palestinian Authority’s publishing division. Because if it were, there would be no outcry, no apology, no withdrawal. Why is there such a double standard?

Yoram Schweitzer, Ariel Levin, and Einav Yogev: Suicide Attacks in 2014: The Global Picture— Since the start of the millennium, suicide attacks have become a common mode of operation for many terrorist groups around the world, particularly Sunni Salafist jihadi organizations affiliated with global jihad. For them, suicide attacks are not only an effective tactic for causing death and destruction and sowing terror; they are also a trademark and proof of the willingness of their operatives to sacrifice themselves for the sake of God (fi sabil Allah). In 2014 there were 592 suicide attacks, a 94 percent increase over the previous year, which caused the deaths of approximately 4,400 people (compared to some 3,200 in 2013). This trend was influenced by three main factors: the turmoil in the Middle East, which causes governmental instability and allows non-state organizations to grow stronger; the meteoric rise of the Islamic State (IS) as an influential player in the region and the world; and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Moshe Phillips: Anti-Israel Forces Are Losing Ground— Critics of Israel periodically issue doomsday warnings about how the Jewish State will face international isolation if it does not quickly give in to Palestinian demands. Last week’s United Nations Security Council vote shows, once again, how wrong they are. Earlier this year, Secretary of State John Kerry warned that Israel’s reluctance to make more unilateral concessions would lead to “an increasing delegitimization campaign.” New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and other pundits likewise declared that Israel is increasingly “isolated” and is being treated as a “pariah” state.

Uri Heitner: Dennis Ross gets it— What do the diplomatic plans of Meretz leader Zahava Gal-On, Hatnuah leader Tzipi Livni, Labor leader Isaac Herzog, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman, and Habayit Hayehudi leaders Naftali Bennett and Uri Ariel have in common? It’s hard to say. There is a huge ideological chasm, one impossible to bridge, between the first person on that list and the last. And yet, there is one thing they share: Not a single one of their plans has a Palestinian partner. “Just get out of the territories and everything will be fine, oh yes,” generations of protesters sang wistfully in city squares. So simple. A clear mathematical equation. Sharp and smooth.

Steven J. Rosen: Are Palestinian Offensives Inviting Israeli Reprisals?— In response to Palestinian Authority [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas’s latest diplomatic offensive at the United Nations and the International Criminal Court [ICC], Israel’s security cabinet is to meet this week to decide on possible measures to take. Israel has floated a number of possible countermeasures. It seems to be considering, among other legal actions, lawsuits against Hamas and the PA for war crimes that they have committed. The United States, for its part, has threatened to withhold funding from the PA; and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) threatened to withhold US funding from the UN if it attempts to impose the terms of a Palestinian statehood.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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Study: anti-Semitism most common prejudice in Turkish media

Netanyahu: Terrorists trying to destroy western civilization

‘Charlie Hebdo,’ brazen champion of political incorrectness, loved poking fun at Islam

France: Importing conflict from, and exporting problems to the Middle East

French police hunting 3 suspected in deadly Paris attack

Bennett slams Livni’s approach to peace against backdrop of Paris attack

US: Palestine not a state, does not qualify for ICC membership

German press council rebukes daily for false Israel claim

JPost’s Caroline Glick among candidates suggested by public for reserved Likud spot

Gazans displaced by war struggle to find heat, shelter in stormy weather

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10--Arutz Sheva

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ISIS Praises ‘Lions of Islam’ for Paris Terror Attack

French Authorities ‘Know the Identity of Paris Terrorists’

Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Let Gunmen into Building

Gafni: Jewish Home the Real ‘Enemy’ of Hareidim

Watch: Yehuda Glick Takes On the BBC 

Storm Leaves 10,000 without Electricity

Bennett Mocks Livni in Attack on Left

Livni: We Will Make Israel ‘Popular’ Again

UN Says ‘Palestine’ Will Join ICC on April 1

UN Investigators Confident Chlorine Used in Syria

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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12 killed in attack on offices of French newspaper

Jerusalem sealed off as heavy snows reach capital

Storm dumps snow, rain and hail across Middle East

Israel braces itself as rains, winds and snow bear down

Mastermind behind teens’ murder receives 3 life sentences

Swedish foreign minister cancels trip to Israel

Peace chances mothballed by Palestinian moves, Netanyahu says

Brandeis ‘whistleblower’ stirs up new hornets’ nest

Terrorist touts jihad as LinkedIn skill

2014: The Year of the IDF Soldier

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12a--Other News

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Car bomb kills 30 outside Yemen police college

Hamas says Israel’s claim that its exiled leader has been expelled from Qatar is ‘baseless’

Isis fighters ‘high on cocaine’: Huge bag of drugs found at home of Islamic State leader accused of drugging troops to boost morale

Rand Paul Offers Another Pro-Israel Bill to Cut Palestinian Aid

Snow falls on Hermon Mount, power outages across Israel

France warns Palestinians over escalating crisis with UN bid

Sharansky: 50,000 French Jews Inquired about Aliya in 2014

Palestinians May Face Charges of War Crimes

Palestinian Breach Means Oslo Accords No Longer Valid, Israeli Think-Tank Declares

Israeli suffers anti-Semitic attack in Berlin

Bill Clinton’s Name Found 21 Times In Sex Offender’s Phone book During Prince-Andrew Probe

SnyderTalk Comment: I’m sure it’s part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.

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12b--TRIC

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Turkey bombing: ‘English-speaking’ female suicide bomber attacks Istanbul police station – killing one and wounding another

Turkey detains Dutch journalist on ‘terror’ suspicions

Turkey’s ruling party takes alarming steps to consolidate power

Growing Talk of Hamas Moving from Qatar to Turkey Prompts Concern Over Integrity of NATO Alliance

North Korean defector: ‘Bureau 121’ hackers operating in China

Why China Is Launching Massive $1.1 Trillion Stimulus Package

What an Iranian Funeral Tells Us About the Wars in Iraq

Why Iran’s economy won’t be opening anytime soon

Iran Accuses Saudis of Oil Conspiracy

The top threat is still Iran

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

Genesis 42: 29-34

29 When they came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them, saying, 30 “The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly with us, and took us for spies of the country. 31 But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies. 32 We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’ 33 The man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me and take grain for the famine of your households, and go. 34 But bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”

SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.

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5--HNIY Print form 3

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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6--His Name is Yahweh Audio Presentation 5

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The Palestinian Charter Still Calls for Israel’s Destruction

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14--Blessings from Revelation 2

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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