“O magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt His Name together.” Psalm 34: 3
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Suzanne Fields—The FBI, the Holocaust and us: It’s a struggle to recognize evil in America:
James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, at 6-foot-8 is the tallest man in the Obama administration. Despite his height and position, he emerged in sharp relief in the public eye only this week for a remarkable speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington about why he requires every new special agent and intelligence analyst to visit the museum.
“Naturally, I want them to learn about abuse of authority on a breathtaking scale,” he said. “But I want them to confront something more painful and more dangerous: I want them to see humanity and what we are capable of.”
Unfortunately, the message about the importance of understanding the nature of state-sponsored evil, and the way it spreads and enables men and women to surrender moral authority, was overtaken in controversy over the degree that the Poles were responsible for the deaths of Jews in the Holocaust. Some were clearly responsible, and many risked their lives to save Jews.
The speech, given in the Week of Remembrance, was framed to focus on something else, what the Holocaust means today, that no matter where we come from, whether liberal or conservative, Jewish, Christian or unbeliever, we all have an obligation “to refuse to let evil hold the field.” Any of us might say this, but it has a different kind of importance coming from the director of the FBI. He makes the point that it was the Nazis of Germany who led Jews to the slaughter, but there were killers and accomplices among the “good people” of society, “who loved their families, took soup to a sick neighbor, went to church and gave to charity.” These ordinary people believed they were doing the right thing.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Recognizing evil is a good first step, but that’s all it is—a first step. Taking action to prevent evil is far more important. I’ll go even further: recognizing evil and doing nothing to prevent it is acceptance of evil.
In the U.S. today, far too many people see evil and talk about it but refuse to do anything meaningful to stop it. You can see the problem clearly in our election results, in the laws we pass, in the things we watch for entertainment, and in many other ways.
See “As FBI Chief Apologizes to Poland, Jewish Group Praises Remarks Over Holocaust Complicity”.
Hitler couldn’t have done what he did unless the masses in Germany accepted and allowed it. That’s true in every country where evil flourishes. It’s a societal problem that leaders capitalize on.
Bottom line: acceptance of evil is evil.
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Michael Shear: Obama Calls for End to ‘Conversion’ Therapies for Gay and Transgender Youth—A 17-year-old transgender youth, Leelah Alcorn, stunned her friends and a vast Internet audience in December when she threw herself in front of a tractor-trailer after writing in an online suicide note that religious therapists had tried to convert her back to being a boy. In response, President Obama is calling for an end to such therapies aimed at “repairing” gay, lesbian and transgender youth. His decision on the issue is the latest example of his continuing embrace of gay rights. In a statement that was posted on Wednesday evening alongside a WhiteHouse.gov petition begun in honor of Ms. Alcorn, Mr. Obama condemned the practice, sometimes called “conversion” or “reparative” therapy, which is supported by some socially conservative organizations and religious doctors.
SnyderTalk Comment: Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline was written by Robert Bork almost 20 years ago. Liberals hated him. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Reagan, but the Senate led by liberal Democrats rejected him.
A few years ago, Michael Moynihan reread the book and wrote an article about it in The Daily Beast. Below is some of what he said:
Former solicitor general Robert Bork, whose bruising 1987 confirmation fight for a seat on the Supreme Court entered the verb “bork” into the American political lexicon, died Wednesday. He was 85. A notoriously cranky and conservative jurist, Bork was a stalwart “originalist” who argued that American freedom, prosperity, and morality were under siege by liberalism.
It was a thesis Bork bluntly explicated in his bestselling 1996 book, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, an angry jeremiad cataloguing the supposed moral collapse of the United States. A once great country, he argued, had come under assault by feminists, multiculturalists, gay- rights activists, the professoriate, libertarians, and liberals. The New York Times called it an “an ugly and intemperate book”; Christian conservative leader Ralph Reed praised it as “a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of American society at the close of the twentieth century.” And it sold by the pallet load.
A younger generation of conservatives, wary of a waging an endless culture war, moved away from Bork-style rhetoric. In 1999, then-Gov. George W. Bush told a gathering at the Manhattan Institute that the Republican Party required a certain degree of modernization to compete in the 21st century, taking a not-so-veiled dig at Bork: “Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America slouching towards Gomorrah.”
The jury isn’t out any longer. Bork was right. I hate calling them “liberals” because they aren’t liberal at all, but contemporary liberals have done exactly what Bork said they would do and the rest of the nation has accepted it.
Acceptance of evil is evil. Our nation is guilty. Unless we repent and change our ways pronto, we are in for serious trouble with the One who matters most—Yahweh.
Contemporary liberals think that’s silly. Democrats are still booing Yahweh. They have no idea what is in store for them if they don’t have a change of heart.
Republicans want to modernize to connect with the electorate. Rather than standing for morality and truthfulness, they are scampering to get in line with those who are heading for oblivion.
This isn’t a political problem, but it shows up in politics since political leaders write the laws that govern this nation. Elected leaders simply reflect what is in the heart of the American people, and America is a heartsick nation.
Preachers used to say “we need revival.” I’ll tell you what we need. We need to confess our sins, ask for forgiveness, and repent. Nothing short of that will work. Time is running short.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians Vote for Iran’s New Ally: Hamas— Hamas’s crushing victory in the April 22 student council election at Bir Zeit University shows that the Islamist movement continues to maintain a strong presence in the West Bank. Hamas supporters on campus won 26 seats, compared to 16 for their rivals in the Fatah faction, headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. The results of the election mean that Bilal Barghouti, who is serving 16 life terms in prison for his role in a series of suicide attacks against Israel, has become the “Honorary Chairman of the Bir Zeit University Student Council.” The Hamas victory came less than 48 hours after its supporters scored a major achievement on another campus: Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron. There, Hamas supporters won the same number of seats as their rivals in Fatah – a move hailed by leaders of the Islamist movement as a “huge achievement.”
SnyderTalk Comment: This is peace Palestinian style. If we had enough sense, we would stop funding Palestinians and tell them to get ready for real peace Yahweh style.
Michael Doran: The Tectonic Shift in Obama’s Iran Policy— When President Obama took to the podium in the White House rose garden on April 2, his mood was victorious. With evident pride, he announced that negotiators in Lausanne had reached a “historic understanding with Iran, which…will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” In truth, the negotiators had reached no understanding, historic or otherwise. Obama was celebrating something that did not exist—at least not yet. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif had failed to agree on a text describing the terms of the so-called “Lausanne framework.” In its place, each issued a separate “fact sheet.” On some key issues the documents contradicted each other; on others they were entirely mute. Statements from officials did little to clarify the discrepancies or rectify the omissions. One official statement even seemed to widen the areas of disagreement.
Caroline Glick: Bibi better have the cojones to take on a White House proudly abandoning Israel— In testimony last week before the House committee in charge of State Department funding, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power acknowledged that the Obama administration intends to abandon the US’s 50 year policy of supporting Israel at the United Nations. After going through the tired motions of pledging support for Israel, “when it matters,” Power refused to rule out the possibility that the US would support anti-Israel resolutions in the UN Security Council to limit Israeli sovereignty and control to the lands within the 1949 armistice lines — lines that are indefensible. Such a move will be taken, she indicated, in order to midwife the establishment of a terrorist-supporting Palestinian state whose supposedly moderate leadership does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, calls daily for its destruction, and uses the UN to delegitimize the Jewish state. In other words, the Obama administration intends to pin Israel into indefensible borders while establishing a state committed to its destruction.
Michael Widlanski: How Western Corruption Helps Fuel Radical Islam— What do the big money and cushy lifestyles of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as Mideast leaders like Shimon Peres, Hosni Mubarak, Ehud Barak, and the late Shah of Iran, have to do with Middle East security and Islamic terror? Consider two points: 1) A big enticement for radical Islamic movements is that “pure Islam” rolls back the “corruption”—fasaad in Arabic—of the West and pro-Western Arab regimes. Corrupt Leaders like Mubarak and the Shah of Iran were pushed aside because their high-handedness and high-living became so offensive. 2) The big money pay-offs and the close ties with people making the pay-offs have become trademarks for certain pro-Western regimes and some notable Western politicians. The Clintons made millions of dollars from private firms and governments when Mrs. Clinton was still in office as Secretary of State (and presumed to be on the road to being president.) In 2011 alone, Bill Clinton earned more than $13 million dollars in lecture fees. Foreign government gave millions more in foundation donations.
SnyderTalk Comment: People who think this doesn’t matter don’t understand politics. The donors aren’t giving the Clintons all that money for no reason, and love for the Clintons has absolutely nothing to do with it. They want and expect something in return. Absent a quid pro quo, there would be no contributions.
Dore Gold: Why does the West apologize to Iran?— It is impossible to explain the present policy of the Obama administration toward Iran without an understanding of how a large part of the American foreign policy establishment actually believes that America shares the blame for the deterioration of relations between the two countries since 1979, when Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was overthrown and the Islamic Republic was founded. The key historical event that adherents to this school of thought repeatedly stress is the alleged role of the CIA in the 1953 coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. Resurrecting the story of what the U.S. supposedly did in Iran in 1953, levels the moral playing field for Tehran. When Americans charge Iran with supporting terrorism or intervening in the affairs of its neighbors, Tehran can respond by saying that the U.S. is no better considering what it did in Iran back in 1953. The problem begins when some U.S. policymakers behave as though the Iranians have a point.
Steve Apfel: A Dybbuk in the White House—In Jewish folklore a dead malcontent may return to possess the living. The troubled soul is known as a “dybbuk’, and it runs amok making mischief. Writers and people of stage and screen invoked the fiend to aggravate family wrangles to the point of madness. Yet for all its wicked antics the dybbuk wants nothing more sinister than to settle a score. It may upturn some lives in the ghetto, but not the balance of world power. And no dybbuk, until now, toyed with the President of America. Love or hate Obama’s par-cooked nuclear deal, there’s no doubting the architect’s turn-up of the old order. Iran, hitherto America’s number one foe, is to be, in the world’s number one hotspot, America’s number one ally. A detente, in other words, is brewing between the world’s powerhouse and the world’s sour pickle jar. The President’s resolve to bring war-mongering mullahs in from the cold is life-changing. Debate his grip on reality; fret at the madness of trusting Iran to abide by unverifiable terms; believe that the terms will inhibit or pave the way to nuclear breakout; extol Obama’s indefatigable self-belief or cut at his mulish naïveté, it all pales beside one dominating horror. Effectively a president of America has decamped to the enemy.
Giulio Meotti: ‘Obama’s Loss of Nerve Aids and Abets Islamofascism against the West’—Islamic State has released a video of the beheading 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya. In Turkey, the Islamic authorities attacked Pope Francis for his mention of the “Armenian genocide” (1.5 million Apostolic Christians slaughtered in a planned Jihad a century ago). The free world stayed silent, as did the International Court in The Hague which decided there are no bases to open an investigation on ISIS. The White House and the United Nations refused to stand with the Pope in his rare moral stance against genocidal Islamism. Meanwhile, Israel has been abandoned by the United States, which is forging an alliance with the Islamic Republic.
Dr. Mordechai Kedar: Obama, Ayatollahs and the History Books—I have always been of the opinion that logic is the force driving America’s foreign policy. Recently, however, it has become apparent that there is a group among America’s decision makers who want to reach a nuclear agreement with the Ayatollahs at any price. From the moment the Ayatollahs became aware of this group and its goals, they hardened their positions in order to extract a permit to maintain a nuclear program – as a reward for doing the U.S. the favor of signing the agreement. This, naturally, presages an agreement that is good for the Ayatollahs and bad for America and the world. Note that I am not saying “Iran” because most of the population of Iran – which is totally secular – wants the Ayatollahs to fall, and is not interested in an agreement that will give them economic breathing space and political power, whether or not they develop nuclear weapons.
Nadav Shragai: Trouble beneath the [Temple Mount] surface— In the same week Hamas flags were unfurled on the Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa mosque paid homage to the terrorist Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, a Holocaust denier, one of the first and most prominent Jewish researchers to extensively study the holy places passed away in Jerusalem — Professor Asher Kaufman. In the 1970s and 80s, Kaufman felt quite at home on the Temple Mount. He could be seen walking around the complex in his trademark casquette cap, armed with a small notepad and pencil, painstakingly chronicling every agonizing detail about the harm being done to antiquities at the site. As inconceivable as it may sound today, waqf officials (the Jordanian authority with day-to-day control of the site) harbored great respect for Kaufman. From time to time, they would invite him into their offices for conversations about research matters and archaeology.
Jeffrey Veidlinger: A Tale of Two Assassins— Soghomon Tehlirian, a 24-year-old Armenian student in Berlin, was a melancholy man—his former landlady would testify at his murder trial that he would sit in his room in the dark playing sad songs on his mandolin. She had learned that his entire family had been killed in 1915, but thought it best not to ask too many questions about it. She would often hear him waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares and had recommended to him a doctor who specialized in nervous disorders. Lately, he had taken up dance lessons to help calm his nerves and started to practice his German by flirting with girls. Occasionally he suffered fainting spells. Tehlirian’s landlady was surprised when, in early March 1921, he suddenly announced he was leaving her flat to move into a new apartment on Hardenbergstrasse near Berlin’s zoo in the upscale Charlottenburg neighborhood. Tehlirian explained that he was moving because his doctor had recommended that he find an apartment with more natural sunlight. But in truth Tehlirian moved because he had learned that a man he had never met who went by the name of Ali Salih was living across the street from the apartment he had just rented, and Tehlirian had decided to murder him.
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews gang up on IDF officer in Mea Shearim section of Jerusalem
Israel shocked by ultra-Orthodox mob assault of IDF officer in Jerusalem
‘Hezbollah built airstrip for Iranian-made drones in Lebanon’
US authorities investigate bomb scare at Statue of Liberty
Family of Jewish victim of US drone attack ‘disappointed’ in Obama
Liberman lashes out at South Africa after Israel denies visa to Communist minister
Ongoing tensions over Temple Mount stoked by Jordanian-funded carpet
Deputy foreign minister Hanegbi urges Palestinians to resume direct talks with Israel
Israeli Arabs march for right of return on Independence Day
German lawmakers defy Turkey, call massacre of Armenians ‘genocide’
A century on, regional politics force White House to avoid the term ‘Armenian genocide’
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Haredim Assault IDF Officer in Jerusalem, Politicians Condemn
WSJ Says Obama’s Iran ‘Obsession’ Has Sunk the Democrats
Israel Eleventh Happiest Country Worldwide
Former Commander: Next War With Hamas By End of 2015
Ettinger: Jewish Growth Due to Israeli Optimism
Mount Hermon Gets ‘Snow You Only See in January’
Post-War ‘Baby Boom’: 49 Born in One Hospital
Arab Citizens Mourn ‘Catastrophe’ of Israel
Did Police Bungle Yehuda Glick Attack Response?
Stabbed Jew Found in Trunk of Arab Car in J’lem
Biden: We’ll Deliver New F-35s to Israel in 2015
Hamas: We’re Not Responsible for Rocket Attack
Assad’s Former Political Spy Chief Dies
Damascus ‘Buy Syrian’ Fair Highlights War Damage
Hamas Wins University Election at Fatah Stronghold
Morocco: Shimon Peres Branded a ‘Child Killer’
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SnyderTalk Comment: The difference between history and remembering is profound. History is His story, so let’s remember.
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Air force chief can ‘get job done’ if order comes to hit Iran
Iran nuke deal won’t repeat mistakes of North Korea, US vows
SnyderTalk Comments: Yeap. That’s right. The mistakes this time won’t be mistakes. They’ll be calculated.
Likely GOP contender Jeb Bush calls Iran deal ‘naive’
Why Jewish communities welcome 7-year-old transgender kids
SnyderTalk Comment: “As society grows more accepting of trans community, doctors seek to save teens’ lives by helping them transition at increasingly early ages.” Talk about weird logic. This is a serious problem.
Family of Jewish hostage killed in drone strike ‘disappointed’ in US
Judge orders Minnesota men held for plan to join IS
Iranian parliament seeks ban on Israeli-born visitors
Israel says it won’t tolerate ‘a dribble of rockets’
On Independence Day, moderate Syrian rebels send warm wishes
With 12 days to go, Netanyahu struggles to clinch coalition
Why Israel still refuses to recognize a century-old genocide
Jordan prince looks to protect youth from jihadist ‘dark world’
Former SS guard: ‘Couldn’t imagine’ Jews surviving Auschwitz
Congress moves to pressure Europe against BDS steps
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Italian police round up terror suspects in failed Vatican plot, deadly Pakistan attack
Empirical Vote Data Shows Democrats Still Control US Senate
Boy, 14, faces UK court over alleged Melbourne Anzac Day parade terror attack
Fourteen migrants hit by train and killed in former Yugloslav republic of Macedonia
Joe Biden shores up US-Israel ties, says Iran deal isn’t a ‘grand bargain’
SnyderTalk Comment: Biden will say anything, and I mean anything. Some people think he’s stupid. I think he’s crazy. I wonder if he knows the difference between the truth and a lie, but I’ll say this for him: he’s a good Democrat.
Half the US Faces Earthquake Risk
Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Is Even Bigger Than Previously Believed
Israel fires at Gaza ‘terror site’ after rocket strike
“Accountant of Auschwitz”, 93, offers Germans something rare: A Nazi who admits what he did
Former State Department Official: Iran Playing 3-D Chess While US Plays Checkers
SnyderTalk Comment: I like this title. The symbolism is deadly accurate.
The [Israeli] Left’s prophecy of doom
Saudi Arabia Catches ISIS Gunman Who Killed 2 Cops: Police
New York’s Statue of Liberty evacuated after bomb threat
Hizballah copycats Hamas’ terror tunnels for Lebanese-Galilee border. No IDF solutions yet
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BBC: Brothers again? How deep is the Xi-Putin bromance?
As Yemen bombing subsides, Saudi may struggle with peacemaker role
Yemen conflict: What’s going on? What happens next?
Russia: Iran won’t get S-300 missiles in foreseeable future
57% of Americans disapprove of Obama’s Iran policies, poll finds
SnyderTalk Comment: Support for Obama’s policies is still too high—way too high.
As Iran talks resume Republicans seek changes that may derail deal
Ex-Yemeni president tells Shiite allies to withdraw
Turkey and Iran: From Competition to Cooperation?
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Exodus 8
1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 2 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite your whole territory with frogs. 3 The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls. 4 So the frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants.”’” 5 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’” 6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt. 7 The magicians did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
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.
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- 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.
