January 15, 2015 SnyderTalk: Who Is Mehdi Nemmouche, and Why Did He Want To Kill Jews?

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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Marc Weitzmann—Who Is Mehdi Nemmouche, and Why Did He Want To Kill Jews?:

Nine a.m., rue Carnot, one of the quietest, most opulent-looking streets of Versailles, and the terror choreography’s already in full swing: strident sirens, red flashlights, flashbulbs, and yelling of the press. Two black cars with tinted bulletproof windows and circled by a squad of motorcycle cops enter the paved rectangular courtyard of a venerable edifice. The Sun King Louis the XIV had it built in 1672 for his wife Thérèse of Austria; she housed her horses here. After her death, the queen’s stables went to Adelaïde de Savoie, Duchess of Bourgogne, then to Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France, and finally to Marie Antoinette. Then the revolutionaries used it as a jail, butchering 14 prisoners there during the 1792 September massacres. Now it houses the Court of Appeal, whose task today is to debate the fate of Mehdi Nemmouche, the alleged author of the Brussels Jewish museum killings.

Faces hooded, M-14s in hand, .38 caliber pistols on the side, the mute black silhouettes of the RAID team—the French equivalent of the SWAT—check every one of us as we pass the freestone walls and, across the courtyard, take the wooden staircase leading to the first floor where the court hearing takes place.

Nemmouche, handcuffed and with three RAID men to guard him, enters the court’s glass cage at 9:43. He’s 29, midsize, with black hair. He wears a colorless pair of jeans and a shapeless pullover, and he bears no sign of the brutal determination so obvious on the picture that the authorities gave to the press—an image that was probably taken at the police station of Roubaix, his city of birth, near the Belgian border, back in 2005 or so, when he was just another juvenile delinquent. No signs of fear, embarrassment, or shame. No trace, either, of the scary militia aura emanating from the museum surveillance videos that showed a black-and-white, blurred, muscular man, cap on his head, sunglasses on his eyes, and—just like Muhammed Merah, the Toulouse killer, had two years ago—a GoPro camera attached to his chest so he could film his murders.

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SnyderTalk Comment: In The Art of War, Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

We need to know ourselves but we must also know our enemy or we will lose.  Pretending that they aren’t our enemy is the worst mistake of all.

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13--Perspectives 2

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Todd Gitlin: Jewish Lives Do Matter—to Terrorists. To a Distracted Left, Not So Much.— Please indulge me a fantasy that is probably in bad taste: I would like to think that the Charlie cartoonists died laughing. They must have been great laughers. Their cartoons, overall, are wild, rambunctious, Rabelaisian—deeply French. They jeered and prided themselves on jeering. In the words of Robert Darnton, our greatest historian of French writing from the revolutionary period, “Charlie Hebdo specialized in broad, free-swinging jokes, loaded with sex and in-your-face bad taste.” They seem to have known full well who they were and to have relished it. Their idea of freedom was not everyone’s. (That is, in a way, inherent in the definition of freedom.) But they had a belief system and a way of life that embodied it. They believed—however foolishly, however brilliantly, however childishly—in the power of the pen. For them, as for the millions who rallied in France after the killings, freedom of speech, of caricature, of insult, and yes, of silliness, is the Enlightenment’s deepest current. In their way, the wildsoixantes-huitards of Charlie Hebdo were old-fashioned not only because their generation was passing but because they believed in Immanuel Kant’s great slogan for the Enlightenment: “Have the courage to use your own understanding!”—or more pithily translated, “Dare to know!” They were professional blasphemers. And so they were firebombed in 2011. After that, they worked under (obviously insufficient) police protection. They understood that blasphemy is dangerous.

Kevin Connolly: ‘Not safe’: French Jews mull Israel emigration—The grim and violent climax to the Paris hostage crisis was followed with horror wherever the news is watched. Israel’s community of French-speaking Jews followed the unfolding drama with particular sadness but without surprise. The mood was captured when Israel’s Channel 10 interviewed one of the survivors of the siege at the kosher supermarket who had hidden in a basement cold room as the gunman murdered his victims in the shop above. Yohan Dumas described how the frightened little group had struggled to stay warm – but then broke off in mid-interview to announce that he had decided to move to Israel at the start of the next week. By way of explanation he said simply: “We’re not waiting around here to die.”

The Golden Report: No-Go Zones—Today, France has 751 No-Go Zones. The Police cannot and will not go into them – they are mini states inside a country, set up and established under Sharia Law with the blessing of the French Government.  These No-Go Zones have grown into populations in the millions of Islamic Muslims and today it is just too late for France to reverse the situation, meaning France is practically finished as a free western state. It is just a matter of time and not much of that either. You may remember a few years ago I started saying this would happen and France would be the first to go.  Well I was only half right. Sweden is the first to go, but with France right on her heels – with the rest of Europe not too far behind.

Ben Cohen: ‘Mossad Inflames Islamophobia by Causing Such Incidents:’ Anti-Semitic Ankara Mayor Blames Paris Terror on Israel— The openly anti-Semitic mayor of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, has engaged in another ugly tirade against Jews, blaming the Israeli intelligence service Mossad for last week’s deadly terrorist attacks in France. Ibrahim Melih Gökçek, a member of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, told a youth congress on Sunday that Israel was angry with France for having voted in favor of Palestinian statehood resolution at a United Nations Security Council meeting last month. “Israel certainly doesn’t want this sentiment to expand in Europe. That’s why it is certain that Mossad is behind these kinds of incidents. Mossad inflames Islamophobia by causing such incidents,” Gökçek said, according a report in the Turkish newspaper Zaman.

Peter Bergen: Does Islam fuel terrorism?— Does Islam have anything to do with the terrorist atrocities in Paris last week? The short, uncomfortable, answer is: Of course it does. Consider the choice of targets of the terrorists: A magazine that in the terrorists’ minds had insulted the Prophet Mohammed. Before they died on Friday, one of the Kouachi brothers who carried out the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine spoke on the phone to a French journalist, saying, “We are just telling you that we are the defenders of Prophet Mohammed.”

Yvette Alt Miller: Blaming Jews for the Paris Attacks— Mere days after the brutal terror attacks in Paris that left 17 people dead – including four Jews who were murdered in a kosher grocery as they shopped for Shabbat – some public figures are already seeking to blame Jews and Israel for the attacks. Some of these smears are predictable, coming from marginal individuals who routinely find ways to blame Jews and the Jewish state for all the world’s ills. For instance, one regular contributor to Iranian-backed Press TV wasted little time in writing that Israel “orchestrated” the Paris attacks – and for good measure, ludicrously added that Israel was behind Malaysian airplane crashes, too. The founders of the Free Gaza Movement, which has been endorsed by public figures such as Desmond Tutu, echoed this slander, posting on social media the patently false smear “MOSSAD just hit the Paris offices of Char­lie Hebdo in a clumsy false flag designed to dam­age the accord between Pales­tine and France…”

Leonid Bershidsky: How Germany Became an Integration Weltmeister—The anti-Islamic demonstration in Dresden, Germany, Monday night was, predictably, the biggest in the three-month-long history of the now infamous Pegida movement. Yet the 100,000 Germans who attended counter- demonstrations in other cities dwarfed the 25,000 assembled in Dresden. Europe — and France in particular — should look to Germany for guidance on how to integrate Muslim communities. The European Union’s biggest country’s record is far from perfect, but it has tried hard — both as a nation and as a government — to work out an acceptable solution.

Debbie Schlussel: Coming to America: Dutch Cops Paid ISIS Muslims to “Police” The Hague on New Year’s Eve— Hmmm . . . maybe they should rename The Hague, “The Hage,” as in “The Hajj.” That’s what Dutch police apparently had in mind when they hired a jihadist Sunni Muslim group sympathetic to ISIS to police Muslim areas of The Hague on New Year’s Eve. And though my headline is “Coming to America,” this is already here. In fact, under President George H. W. Bush a/k/a “41,” Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Jack Kemp hired the Nation of Islam and its paramilitary unit, the Fruit of Islam, to police several federal housing projects, including Chicago’s Cabrini Green. He was called to task about it by the late Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” but didn’t provide much of a plausible answer (maybe because there is no plausible answer).

Marc Weitzmann: How a City in France Became a Mecca for Islamists— Once upon a time, in the extreme north of France, a few steps away from the Belgian border, the town of Roubaix was called “the city of the thousand chimneys” in reference to the many textile factories that gave it its distinctive shape and energy. Eager to work, ready to fight—“The mecca of socialism” was its other nickname; the town remained a bastion of the left from the mid-19th century to the last municipal elections—workers from all over Europe would populate the red-brick streets of its neighborhoods and the many guinguettes for which the town was otherwise known. Today, as the broken, dirty streets that I visited last week indicate, Roubaix is devastated by a 40-percent unemployment rate. It maintains an astonishing crime rate of 84 incidents per 1,000 inhabitants and is classified by the government as the largest “high-priority security zone” in the country. This is where Mehdi Nemouche, the alleged Brussels Jewish museum killer, was born and partly raised.

Soeren Kern: Germany Bracing for Islamic Terror: Paris “Just the First Shot”— The offices of a German newspaper that republished satirical cartoons from Charlie Hebdo, a French magazine known for lampooning Islam, have been hit by arsonists. No one was hurt in the attack on the Hamburger Morgenpost, which occurred in the early morning hours of January 11 and caused only minor damage. Although police arrested two individuals in connection with the incident, their identities have not yet been released to the public. But German police said they are “working under the assumption” that the attack was connected to the decision by the paper, also known as MOPO, to republish cartoons spoofing Mohammed on its front page on January 8, as an act of solidarity with the attack on the journalists of Charlie Hebdo.

Yoram Schweitzer and Oded Eran: The Terror Attacks in Paris: Tip of the Iceberg or a Passing Episode?— The shock that gripped France following the terrorist attacks in Paris in early January 2015 will probably wane as time passes. Similarly, the urgency assigned to effective handling of the danger originating on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq that threatens Western democracies will likely decline. The need to take up the challenge will be postponed to a time when the leaders of Western countries have no choice but to deal with it directly, on a broad scale, and perhaps violently. Presumably only a chain of exceptional events, i.e., showcase terrorist attacks that cause a large number of casualties, will unequivocally highlight the risk incurred in not stepping up the military struggle against the challenge to the West posed by the Islamic State organization.

Rishi Iyengar: A German Paper That Reprinted Charlie Hebdo Cartoons Was Firebombed—A German tabloid that reprinted cartoons from French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, following last week’s terror attack on the magazine’s Paris offices, was targeted by arsonists on Sunday. A firebomb and several stones were thrown through a window of the Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg’s Othmarschen borough, theGuardian reported. Authorities said the fire was contained quickly and the damage was relatively minor. The attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices by two al-Qaeda-affiliated gunmen on Wednesday killed 12 people including the magazine’s top staff, following which the Morgenpost reprinted three of the magazine’s controversial cartoons on its front page under the headline “This Much Freedom Must Be Possible!”

Alan M. Dershowitz: Brandeis University: Both Pro-Israel and Pro Free Speech— Brandeis University, like many other academic institutions, is experiencing a wave of vicious, irrational and extremist hatred of Israel, the nation state of the Jewish people, and Zionism, which is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. On many campuses, anti-Israel zealots among the faculty often misuse the classroom to promote bigotry, hate speech and extremism. Much of their venom is directed not only against Israel, but also against Western democratic values, and especially the United States. These hateful attitudes often influence young students who identify with popular radical professors. Sometimes the students come to the university with these views already formed.

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9--Jerusalem Post

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Nasrallah: Israel can’t even imagine Hezbollah’s weapons arsenal

Report: Turkish newspaper gets police protection after publishing Charlie Hebdo cartoon

‘Families of Paris terror attack victims will not be charged’

Liberman calls Turkey’s Erdogan ‘an anti-Semitic, neighborhood bully’

Analysis: Labor members send Palestinians a memo

‘We told you so’ – Israeli embassy in Ireland posts photo of Mona Lisa in Muslim headdress

Nearly half of British Jews say they have no future in Europe, study finds

Candidly Speaking: The fruits of cowardice and appeasement

First US terrorism trial against PA begins today

Jerusalem cleric, Muslim world slam publishing of new Charlie Hebdo cartoons

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10--Arutz Sheva

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Assad Says Paris Attacks Due to Western ‘Terrorism’

Turkey Blacks Out Media to Cover Up Syria Arms Deal

Ahead of Mass French Immigration: Who’s Still Jewish?

Firebomb Attack Victim’s Mother: We’ve Seen Miracles

Female IDF Soldier Wounded by Arab Rock-throwers

New Negev Town for 100,000 Hareidim

 Israeli Workers Happier Than Their US Counterparts

Injured 11 Year-Old Thanks Public for Prayers

Jewish Home ‘Messianic’, Says Ex-Candidate

‘Labor Founders Are Rolling in Their Graves’

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11--THE TIMES OF ISRAEL

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Polls show British Jews fear for future in rising anti-Semitic climate

Post-attack Charlie Hebdo sells out across France in minutes

New Muhammad sketch comes under fire in Muslim world

Interview: For anti-racism group, French values can trounce terror

A massive wave of French aliya? The ‘Boeing Aliya’ trend suggests not

Spike in emigration could deplete France’s Jewish community

Minister: Expand settlements to absorb French immigrants

Confusion, pressure around burial of Jewish Paris victims

How did Jewish Home become this election’s coolest campaign?

Analysis: For Labor, a primary focused on women, unity and victory

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17--Special Section Curiouser

SnyderTalk Comment: These two articles juxtaposed give you some idea how dangerous things are for Israel right now: “Netanyahu’s shameful behavior in Paris” and “France insults Netanyahu by Israel-shaming at Paris ‘unity’ rally”.

The political left in Europe and in Israel denigrates everything that Netanyahu does.  European leaders and our own president have made no secret of their disdain for an Israeli leader who doesn’t do what he is told when he is told.  Netanyahu is not a perfect leader, but he stands head and shoulders above his European and American counterparts who have their heads so far up their derrieres that they can’t see the light of day.

If leaders in Europe and the U.S. knew what they were doing, we wouldn’t be confronting evil personified at this moment.  They have failed to do their jobs.  They are responsible for this mess.  Netanyahu is the only one among them who has actually confronted terror at home.  When he has erred, as in the time that he released 1,000 known terrorists from prison, he was responding to pressure from European and American leaders.  They assured him that he had to do it for so-called “peace” with the Palestinians.  There was no quid pro quo.  It was one of many one-sided deals that Western leaders have shoved down Israel’s throat.

As I reflect on the Paris march, I’m beginning to understand what General George Patton meant when he said, “I would rather have the Germans in front of me than the French behind me.”  If he were alive today, I wonder what Patton would say about Barack Obama.

I think it’s time for French Jews to say au revoir and go home.  Don’t wait until it’s too late.

Now let’s take a look at Turkey.  The title of this article speaks volumes: “Turkish President Erdoğan blasts Netanyahu for ‘daring’ to attend Paris rally”.  Immediately following the Paris rally, Erdoğan honored Mahmoud Abbas with a hero’s welcome in Turkey.  (See “Erdogan gives a warrior welcome to Mahmoud Abbas”.)  Then he raided a paper in Turkey that had the “daring” to print the Charlie Hebdo Solidarity Edition.  (See “Turkey Raids Paper Printing Charlie Hebdo Solidarity Edition“.)

So much for freedom of expression in Turkey under the Erdoğan regime.  It must have been swept away along with Ataturk’s legacy.  Erdoğan has a lot in common with his close friend Mahmoud Abbas as this “Open Letter to the French President” makes clear.  It was written by a Palestinian journalist in Ramallah.  He didn’t provide his name because revealing his true identity would have cost him his life.  Journalists who speak freely in Turkey may understand what that’s like soon enough.

Erdoğan is very strange and his behavior is getting more outlandish by the day.  I’m beginning to believe that he has mental problems.  Actually, I’ve thought that for some time, but his actions of late confirm my suspicions.  Insane heads of state can do a lot of damage.  Problem is that left-leaning journalists and politicians in Europe, the U.S., and Israel are in lockstep with Erdoğan.  That should tell us something.

Thankfully, the Israeli people can see through the subterfuge.  (See “Benjamin Netanyahu Rides Paris Terror Stance to Lead at Polls“.)  They are showing their willingness to go against popular opinion because it is at odds with what is in their best interest.  I hope that this is the beginning of a move toward Yahweh.  He’s not in step with the times, either.

“For Yahweh Sabaoth has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?” (Isaiah 14: 27)  We are on the path toward completion of Yahweh’s plan.  There is no stopping it or delaying it.

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12a--Other News

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The Three Muslims Who Murdered 12 People In France Were Connected With Major Saudi Imam Who Called For The Annihilation Of Westerners Who Criticize Islam

US tempers criticism of Muhammad cartoons after Paris attack

Analysis: Attack claim shows al Qaeda desperate not to be eclipsed by ISIS

SnyderTalk Comment: Soon the bullets will start to fly between al Qaeda and ISIS.  They may be flying already.

ISIS Video Appears to Show Child Soldier Executing Two Men

Analysis: African Christians Saved Israel at the UN

Germany is popular in Israel, study says

Oil’s slump could upend $2 trillion in investments: Goldman

World Bank cuts global economic outlook despite oil price drop

US Takes Aim at North Korea’s Remaining Financial Links

Anti-Islam Rallies Are Gathering Support in Germany In Wake of ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attacks

German Muslims speak in face of anti-immigrant movement

Angela Merkel attends tolerance rally as Germany’s anti-Islam movement grows

Muslim leaders rally for tolerance in Berlin with Merkel and Gauck

SnyderTalk Comment: I suspect that German leaders may have waited too long to deal with this issue.  Fact is they still haven’t dealt with Islamist terrorism and neither have other world leaders.

We appear to be reaching a tipping point.  If we are, be mindful that people who feel threatened and believe that their government isn’t doing its job are prone to take matters into their own hands.  It’s called vigilante justice, and it’s dangerous.

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12b--TRIC

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Putin Will Not Attend Auschwitz Anniversary: Spokesman

Iron Ore Imports by China Advance to Record as Price Collapses

Chinese space program achieves lunar milestone

US, EU Condemn Rising Ukraine Violence

How Turkey Fights Extremism: “Do Not Keep Pet Dogs at Home!”

How Are Things in Kobani?

The Impasse in Iraq (Part 1: The Shi’a Side)

The Impasse in Iraq (Part 2: The Sunni Side)

Russia: Shovel snow yourselves, says city politician

SnyderTalk Comment: In Russia, the natives are getting restless.  That means Putin is in T-R-O-U-B-L-E.  When Russians talk about revolution, they mean it.

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4--Scripture of the Day Yahweh

Genesis 44: 1-5

1 Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack. 2 Put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his money for the grain.” And he did as Joseph had told him. 3 As soon as it was light, the men were sent away, they with their donkeys. 4 They had just gone out of the city, and were not far off, when Joseph said to his house steward, “Up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good? 5 Is not this the one from which my lord drinks and which he indeed uses for divination? You have done wrong in doing this.’”

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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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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