“O magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt His Name together.” Psalm 34: 3
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Jews News—TEXAS: Muslims Outraged That Irving City Council Backs Bill That Will Ban Islamic Sharia Law Tribunals:
The intense national spotlight on Islam has shifted to Irving, where Mayor Beth Van Duyne has accused mosque leaders of creating separate laws for Muslims and the City Council voted Thursday to endorse a state bill that Muslims say targets their faith. (You can practice your so-called ‘faith’ in 56 countries. Pick one)
Dallas News: The dispute has made Van Duyne a hero among a growing movement that believes Muslims are plotting to take over American culture and courts. “It fuels anti-Islamic hysteria,” said Zia Sheikh, imam at the Islamic Center of Irving. “Her whole point was to rile up her supporters. … The problem is we become the whipping boys.”
The mayor stands by her statements, including an interview with former Fox News host Glenn Beck last month, when she said Sheikh and other imams were “bypassing American courts” by offering to mediate disputes among their worshippers according to an Islamic code called Sharia.
The mediation is advertised as voluntary, nonbinding, and in harmony with the law. But it has led Van Duyne to back a bill by state Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, that would forbid judges from using foreign law in their rulings.
While the bill does not mention religion, Leach has singled out the Islamic mediation panel as a “problem” it will solve. The wording is largely identical to that in a previous bill pitched by another lawmaker as a way to stop the influence of “large populations of Middle Easterners.”
Muslims in hijabs, burqas and business suits packed City Hall on Thursday, voicing protests before the council endorsed the bill in a 5-4 vote. “This bill does not reference Shariah, Islam or even religion. It has nothing to do with preventing any tribunal,” Van Duyne told the crowd. “Why anyone would feel this is hatred or bigotry is absolutely beyond me.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: Time is running out. Candidly, given the state of our nation, I believe that time will run out before we wake up.
I’m not suggesting that we can’t suddenly come to our senses, but it will take a miracle for that to happen.
Thankfully, Yahweh is in the miracle business.
I do know this, though: if we continue to betray Israel, there will be hell to pay.
See below:
- ISIS claims responsibility for Texas shooting, threatens more attacks
- Garland shooting is latest case involving Americans and Prophet Mohammed drawings
- Texas police shooting: Overmatched officer stops 2 with assault rifles
- Feds were investigating Texas gunman at time of cartoon contest attack
Now see “Garland Shooting Suspect’s Private Messages: ‘The Noose Is Tightening’”.
People may not like the thought that the “noose is tightening”, but it is. Those who have eyes to see can see. Others can’t. Even when the people who are pulling on the rope tell them what is happening, they still refuse to see.
There is a cost associated with blind ignorance.
As I have said before, people can stop waiting for the fight to reach the U.S. It’s already here, and it’s been here for a while.
You can’t see the light of day if your head is buried in sand or up your derrière.
Wake up America before it’s too late.
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SnyderTalk Comment: These are the people with whom we are negotiating. Do you trust them? If not, contact your senators immediately.
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Michael Curtis: Physicians heal Thyself and End Your Anti-Israeli Hysteria— Dr. Seuss, the world’s favorite physician, once explained “I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.” Unfortunately, their own nonsensical behavior did not awaken a number of doctors and medical practitioners, mostly in Britain, when they published an immoderate and fallacious political diatribe against Israel in the British medical journal, The Lancet. To the contrary, they have dishonored their professional code of conduct, betrayed the norms of medical science, and the understood ethics of impartial analysis. Dr. Richard Horton, editor in chief since 1995 of The Lancet, also ignored the code of conduct and the responsibilities of journal editors in publishing the diatribe. What a difference a day makes! Dr. Horton, confessed his critical opinions of Israel had been shaped by pro-Palestinian friends and by the Western media, but after his one-day tour of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa on September 29, 2014, he said he had completely changed his view of Israel.
SnyderTalk Comment: People who know only what Palestinians tell them and what the Western media typically reports believe that Israel is the problem in the Middle East. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It can take as little as one day in Israel to solve the problem, but a small minority of people will take the time to go there even though it is the Promised Land.
Why is Israel called the Promised Land? It’s because Yahweh promised it to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob/Israel.
Borrowing a line from C.S. Lewis, when the Author takes the stage, there will be no doubt about where the truth lies. Those who have accepted the truth will rejoice. Those who have rejected it will regret it for eternity.
This may be difficult for many so-called “Christians” to accept, but you can’t say that you love Yahweh but you reject Israel. That’s because Yahweh made most of His promises to and through the Children of Israel. Judah is one of twelve tribes of Israel, but they are the most recognizable of the twelve tribes. That’s why Jewish people take the brunt of Israel hatred.
The penalty for rejecting the truth defies description. The Messiah talked about fire that burns eternally and weeping and the gnashing of teeth. That’s good enough for me. I don’t want to go there.
Marc A. Thiessen: The Baltimore Democrats built—Martin O’Malley (D) says he plans to announce his presidential campaign in Baltimore. Perhaps he’ll used a burned-out police car or a looted storefront as his backdrop. The former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor tried to blame last week’s unrest on structural problems in our economy, outsourcing and a failure to invest in infrastructure. Nice try. The fact is, O’Malley and the Democrats own Baltimore and the disaster it has become. As one resident who met O’Malley at an inner-city food drive last week put it, “He’s walking into the aftermath of his legacy.” It’s not his legacy alone. The last time Baltimore had a Republican mayor was 1967, nearly five decades ago. Indeed, the state of Maryland has had just two Republican governors since 1969 (and one took office just four months ago). Baltimore is a deep blue city in a deep blue state. The mayor is a Democrat. Every member of the city council is a Democrat. The school system is run by Democrats (and their teachers union overlords). So when you see Baltimore on fire, Democrats built that.
SnyderTalk Comment: And to top it off, Democrats booed Yahweh. That sealed their fate for me.
I can’t believe that we keep electing them. Maybe Obama has taught us a lesson. I hope so.
At what point will the American people say, “Enough is enough.”
Rafael Medoff: Baltimore ‘Riot Mom’ Needed in Jerusalem— One of the most enduring images from the Baltimore riots was that of the irate mother of a rioter vigorously admonishing and slapping her law-breaking teenage son. Millions of frustrated Americans, watching the televised images of mobs of young people burning and looting at will, no doubt wondered, “Where are their parents?” Toya Graham, dubbed “the Baltimore Riot Mom” by the media, was one parent who refused to stand idly by any longer. Some Israelis are probably wishing there were a few “riot moms” in the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem. The New York Times on May 1 published a lengthy, sympathetic report about two Arab boys, ages 12 and 7, who were arrested for throwing rocks at a bus in Jerusalem. The newspaper’s correspondent, Diaa Hadid, reported that human rights groups claim that by arresting young rock-throwers, Israel is unfairly “traumatizing the children.”
Majid Rafizadeh: Ignoring Crucial Issues with Iran—Spending too much political capital on Iran’s nuclear file and ignoring other threats imposed by Iran’s military will neither completely contain the Iranian nuclear threat, nor moderate Iran’s expansionist foreign policies in the region. Viewing Tehran only from the prism of nuclear proliferation will assist Iranian leaders and senior officials of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be more emboldened in extending their geopolitical and military influence in the Middle East. The strategy of viewing Tehran from the prism of nuclear negotiations rather than of its regional policies falls right into the interest of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Iran’s army establishments. Even if a nuclear deal is reached, the Islamic Republic’s regional hegemonic ambitions will not fundamentally be altered due to the ideological tenet of Iran’s foreign policy. While President Obama and many others believe resolving Iran’s nuclear threat will alter the Islamic Republic’s expansionist policies, as long as one crucial pillar of Iran’s foreign policy remains ideological, Iranian leaders will not change their regional ambitions, revolutionary principles, or be less assertive in extending their military influence in the region.
David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini: The U.S. Fact Sheet’s Missing Parts: Iran’s Near 20 Percent Low-Enriched Uranium—Iran continues to retain a significant portion of near 20% low-enriched uranium (LEU) in the form of oxide. The U.S. Fact Sheet does not discuss the fate of the near 20% LEU. LEU oxide powder is easily re-convertible to hexafluoride form, which can then be used in a breakout because near 20% LEU is much closer to weapon-grade uranium than 3.5% LEU. A challenge for negotiators is to remove from Iran or blend down to natural uranium most of this LEU.
Dan Williams: Iran’s allies, not atoms, preoccupy Israeli generals—While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thunders against a looming Iranian nuclear deal, his defence chiefs see a more pressing menace from Tehran’s guerrilla allies. Chief among these is Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that fought Israeli forces to a stand-still in their 2006 war and has since expanded its arsenal and honed its skills helping Damascus battle the Syria insurgency. Ram Ben-Barak, director-general of Israel’s Intelligence Ministry, accused Iran on Tuesday of “seeking footholds” from Syria to Yemen to Egypt’s Sinai and the Palestinian territories. But he deemed Hezbollah a foe as formidable as the conventional Arab armies that clashed with Israel in the 1967 and 1973 wars. “The only entity that can challenge us with a surprise attack on any scale nowadays is Hezbollah in Lebanon,” Ben-Barak told a conference organised by the Israel Defense journal.
Calev Ben-David and Ilya Arkhipov: Russian Missile Sale to Iran Involves Unseen Deals With Israel—Last month, when President Vladimir Putin of Russia announced plans to sell a powerful anti-missile system to Iran before the lifting of international sanctions, Israel was quick to join the U.S. in expressing shock and anger. But behind the public announcements is a little-known web of arms negotiations and secret diplomacy. In recent years, Israel and Russia have engaged in a complex dance, with Israel selling drones to Russia while remaining conspicuously neutral toward Ukraine and hoping to stave off Iranian military development. The dance may not be over. Critics of the Russian move say it undermines efforts to apply pressure to Iran by removing one building block of a sanctions regime that will be hard to put back together. It would also enhance Iran’s defenses against a potential U.S. or Israeli attack, as both countries have said they’d consider using force if diplomacy fails.
SnyderTalk Comment: Dancing with the devil is a terrible idea.
Alan Philps: Iran Is Reaching Its Limits in Syria—The Syrian rebels appear better armed and more united, while the regime forces are suffering the attrition of four years of war, with repeated call-ups of young men testing the loyalty of families in regime-held areas. The foreign militias mobilized by Iran in support of the Syrian regime have been depleted by Iraqi Shia volunteers leaving to fight against Islamic State at home. The Iranians make no secret how important their alliance with Syria is. By providing a supply route to Hizbullah in Lebanon and bringing their forces face-to-face with Israeli troops on the Golan Heights, it elevates Iran from a peripheral power in the region to a central actor. More foreign fighters cannot compensate for the regime’s inability to mobilize its own defense. The 7,000-8,000 foreign fighters that Iran has mobilized have saved the Syrian regime, but even double that number would not turn the tide to reconquer the lost part of the country.
Yoni Ben Menachem: Escalation in Syria—Iran is very concerned about the situation in Syria. The military assistance it gives the Assad regime for its war against the rebels has turned out to be insufficient. Nor has Hizbullah’s role in fighting alongside the Syrian army stopped the rebels’ progress toward Damascus and the city of Latakia on the northern Syrian coast. If the rebels’ advance toward Damascus from the east and north continues, Iran will have to intervene even more significantly to save Bashar Assad’s regime. According to various sources, Qatar has been able to persuade the new Saudi king, Salman bin Abdulaziz, to forge a new alliance with Turkey and Qatar that will strongly support the Islamist rebel coalition against the Assad regime.
Greg Miller: Former CIA Official Cites Failure to See Al-Qaeda’s Rebound—U.S. intelligence agencies badly misjudged al-Qaeda’s ability to regain strength across the region after Osama bin Laden was killed, according to a new book by former CIA deputy director Michael Morell. “We thought and told policy-makers that this outburst of popular revolt [the Arab Spring] would damage al-Qaeda by undermining the group’s narrative,” Morell wrote. Instead, “the Arab Spring was a boon to Islamic extremists across both the Middle East and North Africa.” Morell added that although the Islamic State militant group severed ties with al-Qaeda, the group is ideologically indistinct from al-Qaeda.
Michael Knights and Alexandre Mello: The Islamic State on Defense—The Islamic State has been on the defensive in Iraq for more than eight months and it has lost practically every battle it has fought. After peaking in August 2014, its area of control has shrunk, slowly but steadily. There is nothing mystical about the Islamic State as a defensive force: it has succeeded almost entirely due to the absence of effective opposition, not because of its inherent strength. At the tactical level it is highly dangerous and can still win engagements, but at the operational level it lacks strategic coherence and displays a chronic inability to defend terrain. The core Islamic State is still a very small military movement in Iraq. It is far too small to perpetually defend the territories it currently dominates. It boasts many skilled and charismatic small unit leaders, but it is not a professional military institution by any measure.
Samuel Westrop: How to Radicalize an Entire London Borough— In February, three London schoolgirls flew to Istanbul, from where they travelled by road to Syria to join the Islamic State. British police have confirmed that at least 700 Britons have now joined the terrorist group as fighters. Over the past year alone, 22 British women, most under the age of 20, are believed to have travelled to Syria to become “jihadi brides.” These three London schoolgirls, who lived in the borough of Tower Hamlets, were not the first from there to travel to Syria. They were not even the first Islamic State recruits from their school — nor, it seems, will they be the last. In December 2014, a friend and fellow pupil of the three London schoolgirls travelled to Syria after being “in covert phone contact with an unknown woman.” These four 15- and 16-year-old Islamic State recruits were all pupils at the Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets.
Burak Bekdil: Turkey’s Obsessive Fantasy— In his 2007 bestseller book, “The Children of Moses,” quirky Turkish writer Ergun Poyraz claimed that then Prime Minister [now President] Recep Tayyip Erdogan was a crypto-Jew. The book’s cover depicted Erdogan and his wife in a Star of David, and portrayed Erdogan as a secret agent of “international Jewry.” Only six years after the publication of “The Children of Moses,” in 2013, Erdogan, along with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei and UN official Richard Falk was on top of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s annual list of the top 10 anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs. If one asked Poyraz, the author of the book, he would most likely explain Erdogan’s deep anti-Semitism with another conspiracy theory: his public anti-Semitism is a perfect “disguise” for him to serve the Jews.
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Gen. Uzi Dayan: Hamas and Hizbullah Will Attack Israel Again
Hamas Destroys Jihadist Gaza Mosque
Analysis: Revenge and Israel’s coalition crisis
Ya’alon: After Gaza war decisions, ‘I can still look at myself in the mirror’
High Court ruling paves way for demolition of unauthorized Palestinian village
Fans lash out at Lauryn Hill: ‘You succumbed to the Jew-haters’
SnyderTalk Comment: That’s exactly what happened. Lauryn Hill and Mick Jagger are not the sames kinds of people. He was pressured, too, but he went to Israel and gave a great performance.
Too bad for Hill. She misses out.
With new coalition, Israel has prominent place on Hispanic Evangelical agenda
In wake of last year’s war in Gaza, Defense Ministry ramps up orders for new APCs
Case closed in police killing of Kafr Kana man
PM Secretary: We adopted many Turkel recommendations, but reject time limit on indictments
Student groups at 5 universities join BDS movement
Russian Jewish leader: Increased authoritarianism a cause for aliya
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Left Concerned Over Shaked as Justice Minister
SnyderTalk Comment: I’m encouraged. If the left in Israel is concerned, something good is likely to happen, I hope.
Bennett Demands: Justice Ministry or Opposition
Haifa Rethinks Funding for Arab Theater Glorifying Terrorist
Nasrallah Vows: Hezbollah Will Defeat Syrian Rebels
‘We’re Giving Up Our Freedoms so as Not to Offend Savages’
United Torah Judaism Supports Unity Government
Regev to Bennett: Stop Playing Games
‘We’ll Patrol After Attack on Rabbi Lior’s Home’
IDF Begins its Move to the South
One Wounded in Rock Attack on Rabbi Lior’s Home
Police Who Shot Arab Knifeman Won’t Be Prosecuted
Iran ‘Won’t Rest Until US is an Islamic Republic’
Nasrallah: Assad Fall Would Mean Fall of Hezbollah
Assad’s Barrel Bombs Close Main Hospital in Aleppo
‘Iran Deal Must Not Destabilize Region’
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Islamists Target Hamas Security Headquarters in Gaza
Stepping down, Liberman exposes frailty of coalition-building
Bennett looking to squeeze 11th-hour coalition concession from Netanyahu
Exit of blunt-talking Liberman opens horse race for new top diplomat
Ultra-Orthodox Shas inks deal to join coalition
In Nepal, missing the earthquake for the rubble
Government failed to implement anti-pollution laws, comptroller charges
Separate, but not equal treatment plagues Israel’s Ethiopian Jews
After protests, Netanyahu pledges to eliminate ‘deep problem’ of racism
Olmert pleads for leniency in Talansky sentence
Activist Glick allowed monthly visits to Temple Mount
British Jewry shares roller coaster ride with Jewish potential PM
Islamic State claims Texas attack, its first on US soil
UNRWA: Mortar that killed 4-year-old not fired from UN installation
Entrepreneur boasts sprinkler could end world hunger
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Arab youth use social media to send message of peace to Israel
As Britain’s election ends, UKIP suspends candidate for saying he would shoot political rival
ISIS in Gaza Says Hamas Worse Than ‘Jewish Occupiers’ as Tensions Between Groups Rise
Major Jewish Group Accuses Popular Soccer Website Goal.com of ‘Inciting Jew-Hatred’
Next round of violence will be harder on Gaza, ex-IDF chief says
Shin Bet, Tax Authority foil arms smuggling into Gaza
Facing Palestinian pressure, Lauryn Hill cancels Israel show
Report: Harassment, threats against Czech Jews on the rise
‘Crime against humanity on a daily basis’ in Aleppo, Amnesty warns
Ex-IRA commander shot dead in Belfast
Israel tests anti-missile defense system
At violent protests in Israel, new generation of Ethiopian Jews is heard
Indonesia to stop sending domestic workers to Middle East
Utah Army Reservists deploying to Middle East to help troops fight ISIL
More than 20-million birds affected as avian flu spreads to 4 new sites in Iowa
UK Taxpayers Fund “Pro-Terrorist” Play
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The latest sign Turkey may still be playing a double game with ISIS
Report: Bomb ingredient flows into ISIL-held areas from Turkey
‘Syria-bound’ British family held in Turkey to be deported to Moldova
Turkey’s Kurdish opposition accuse Erdogan of breaching constitution
Egypt, Greece, Greek Cyprus form alliance, isolates Turkey further
Russia accused of disrupting new energy link between Sweden and Lithuania
North Korea might be courting Russia, but China still looms larger
Russia: the unsustainable superpower
Russia and China have had enough of western banking
SnyderTalk Comment: Don’t underestimate the importance of the movement away from the dollar as the global reserve currency. It’s a really big deal.
Those who don’t understand why will feel it in their pocket books when it happens. You can count on that. It will be unmistakable.
Chinese Financial Prowess in the Service of Political Ambitions
State Department Questions Iranian Report of US Oil Delegation Visiting Iran
Republicans labor to move Iran legislation forward
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Exodus 9
8 Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.” 10 So they took soot from a kiln, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses threw it toward the sky, and it became boils breaking out with sores on man and beast.11 The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians. 12 And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not listen to them, just as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
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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Yahweh is the Name of God Forever
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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.
