“O magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt His Name together.” Psalm 34: 3
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Khaled Abu Toameh—Palestinians’ Anti-Peace Campaign:
Palestinian activists on May 11 broke up a conference in east Jerusalem where Israelis and Palestinians met to discuss the two-state solution. The activists belong to the “anti-normalization” campaign, which aims to thwart meetings between Israelis and Palestinians.
The conference at the Ambassador Hotel was organized by the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), a non-governmental organization (NGO) think tank based in Jerusalem. It has been working towards a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Entitled, “Is The Two-State Solution Still Relevant?,” the conference was supposed to include a discussion on the issue from the perspectives of the Palestinian side and the Israeli Left.
Organizers said the event was made possible by the support of the Government of the Netherlands.
The Israeli side was represented by Dr. Alon Liel, former Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ambassador to South Africa. The identity of the Palestinian representative was not announced before the discussion, apparently to avoid pressure from the “anti-normalization” activists.
Liel is an outspoken critic of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. Two years ago, he told The Times of Israel that he supports cultural boycotts of Israel, and that he himself started boycotting goods produced in the settlements to protest the lack of progress in the peace negotiations.
But all this did not stop the “anti-normalization” activists from disrupting his speech and forcing him to abandon the podium at the Ambassador Hotel.
Shortly after the discussion began, scores of Palestinian activists, many of whom are affiliated with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction, stormed the conference room and chanted slogans denouncing “normalization with Israel.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: Palestinian leaders don’t want peace. They have never wanted peace with Israel. All of them, Hamas and Fatah, are working feverishly to destroy Israel, and the two-state solution is a strategy to achieve that goal.
To Palestinian leaders, “normalization” is an abhorrent word. They don’t want normalization; they want there to be no Israel.
That is the essential fact of the case. Anyone who has a part in the two-state solution is begging for trouble.
The reality on the ground is obvious, but that doesn’t stop supposedly well-meaning world leaders from trying make something happen. A few days ago, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Jordan’s King Abdullah demanded the two-state solution. In fairness to Merkel and Abdullah, they are simply joining the chorus that the whole world is singing.
The two-state solution has been the politically correct thing to support since the Oslo Accords were signed more than 20 years ago. President George H.W. Bush is responsible for the Oslo Accords, but Presidents Clintons, Bush (W.) and Obama have made them an essential part of their Middle East policies.
It doesn’t matter how much support the two-state solution has outside Israel, because inside Israel where the rubber meets the road, it is a non sequitur. As I said, anyone, Merkel and Abdullah included, who has a part in the two-state solution for any reason is asking for trouble.
Consider this: the entire Middle East has been coming apart at the seams since the Oslo Accords were signed. When President Obama was elected, things began to spiral out of control at a much faster pace. The situation is so bad now that U.S. allies in the Middle East are openly abandoning us, and U.S. influence is evaporating like a morning mist under the heat of the sun.
The Iran nuclear situation is making things worse. According to Caroline Glick:
In a clear vote of no-confidence in US President Barack Obama’s leadership, Saudi King Salman led several Arab leaders in blowing off Obama’s Camp David summit this week. The summit was meant to compensate the Sunni Arabs for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
Salman’s decision is further proof that US-Saudi relations have jumped the tracks. For 70 years the Saudis subcontracted their national security to the US military. Deals were closed with a wink and a nod. That’s all over now.
Obama has destroyed Washington’s credibility. Salman views its gentleman’s agreements as worthless. All he wants now is military hardware. And for that, he can send a stand-in.
The Saudis never put all their eggs in America’s basket. For 70 years the Saudis played a double game, maintaining strategic alliances both with the liberal West and the most reactionary forces in the Islamic world. The Saudis pocketed petrodollars from America and Europe and transferred them to terrorists and jihadist preachers in mosques in the US, Europe and worldwide.
Iran isn’t the Saudis’ only concern. Although for outsiders the worldview of the theocracy governing Saudi Arabia seems all but identical to the worldview of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Saudis consider the Brotherhood a mortal foe. The Saudis claim that their tribal, top-down regime is the genuine expression of Islam. The Brotherhood’s populist, grassroots organization rejects their legitimacy.
And so, since the Arab revolutionary wave began in late 2010, the Saudis opposed the empowerment of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis are the primary bankrollers of Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi’s regime.
During Operation Protective Edge last summer, the Saudis sided with Sisi and Israel against Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and its Turkish and Qatari state sponsors. Although Saudi Arabia had previously been a major funder of Hamas, that backing ended in 2005 when, following Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas forged strategic ties with Iran.
This is the point: it is no coincidence that the Oslo Accords have produced the exact opposite of what the signers of the accords hoped to achieve. They strike at the heart of promises that Yahweh made to Abraham through Isaac and Jacob/Israel.
The Oslo Accords can’t work no matter what anyone says or does, and trying to make them work is inviting catastrophe. Yahweh will make sure of it.
Iran’s lust for Israel’s destruction is not coincidental. It’s a byproduct of world leaders’ efforts to impose a solution that is not supported by the people of the region. The closer a deal appears to be, the more violent those opposing it become.
That’s why Hamas and Fatah have joined the fray. They don’t want a deal, either. Hezbollah and other Islamist groups are waiting to join the fight. All of them share this objective: they want there to be no Israel, and they will not do anything that can be interpreted as support for Israel’s existence.
The elusive two-state solution has remained just out of reach since it was proposed. That’s where it will stay until it’s time for the real battle.
Yahweh’s thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not our ways. In the end, Yahweh will prevail, and those who oppose Him will suffer more than they can imagine.
And now this: two days ago, President Obama lambasted Israel in a Saudi paper for opposing the Iran deal. He thinks Israel is to blame for the problems that he has encountered trying to impose an unacceptable solution on people who reject his approach and his authority.
Israel is not Obama’s problem. Yahweh is. Obama doesn’t have enough sense to see it. Couple that with his lack of shame and morals and you have a deadly combination.
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Walter Russell Meade: The Plight of the Middle East’s Christians—The Christian communities of Syria and Iraq have survived 2,000 years of tumult and war. In some of them, prayers are still said in Aramaic, the language that Jesus used in daily life. These communities now tremble on the brink of destruction. The numbers are stark. Almost 1.5 million Christians lived in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Between the U.S.-led invasion that toppled his regime in 2003 and the rise of Islamic State, three-fourths of the country’s Christians are believed to have fled Iraq or died in sectarian conflict. The carnage continues. Of the 300,000 Christians remaining in 2014, some 125,000 have been driven from their homes within the past year, according to a March report on “60 Minutes.”
Anadolu Agency—Turkey: Experts: Palestine Cause Eclipsed by Arab Turmoil—As Palestinians mark the Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) on May 15, the date on which the State of Israel was established in 1948, observers argue that ongoing political upheaval in several Arab countries has largely shifted the focus away from the Arab-Israeli conflict, pushing the plight of the Palestinians further off the agenda of most Arab governments. “The Palestinian cause has become much less of a priority on both the international and Arab levels,” said Tarek Fahmi, political science professor at the American University in Cairo. “Arab regimes are preoccupied with the tumultuous ramifications of post-revolution transition phases, which has taken the focus off the Palestinian file.” Talal al-Atrissi, director of the Lebanon-based Center for Strategic Studies, noted, “Priority had earlier been given to negotiations related to resolving the Arab-Israeli struggle. But currently, the focus has shifted to issues like combating extremist groups and averting fresh popular revolts.”
Ben Cohen: Washington Summit Highlights Arab Displeasure With Obama on Iran— It’ll be interesting to see if Saudi Arabia’s King Salman gets the “Bibi treatment” from the news media this week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, you’ll remember, was accused of snubbing President Barack Obama when he addressed Congress on the Iranian nuclear threat back in March. Contrastingly, King Salman can be said to have snubbed the president by not coming to Washington for his May 14 summit with Gulf Arab leaders. In any case, supporters of Israel should feel some relief at the political heat being directed, if only temporarily, about a thousand miles east of Jerusalem. We should also regard this as an opportunity to remind the American public of how the Gulf states regard a nuclear Iran as such a peril that they’ve lined up with Israel to stop that outcome. As unpleasant as it is to see Israeli democracy aligned with these regimes, whose human rights records are abominable, there’s no denying the strategic significance of this de facto alliance. Above all else, it demonstrates conclusively that the Iran deal Obama is trying to drive through is opposed by most of the Middle East.
Jihad Yazigi: Iran building long-term influence in Syria— Recent weeks have seen the Syrian economy deteriorate further and the national currency, the Syrian pound, fall to an all-time low. Four years of an uprising-turned-civil war have taken their toll on Syria’s economy and society. Following European sanctions on its oil sector and the takeover of all the main oil fields by ISIL and Kurdish groups, the government has stopped generating foreign currency receipts, while the destruction of most business activity has reduced fiscal revenues. Increasingly, the government is seeking the help of its allies, Iran and Russia, to fill the gap. Iran, in particular, has taken a leading role in providing financial support to Damascus. In January 2013, it extended a credit line of $1 billion. The Syrian government could use the money to pay for imports with the condition that 60 percent of these imports came from Iran. Since then many tenders issued by public sector companies have included the mention that bidding is open only to Iranian companies. Then, in August 2013, Tehran provided another credit line, this time worth $3.6 billion, dedicated to the purchase of oil products, also mostly from Iran. These two financial agreements helped Iran increase its share of Syrian imports to a third of the total.
David Blair: Has America lost its allies in the Middle East?— One leader in the Middle East is openly estranged from the White House; another tactfully avoids meetings with President Barack Obama. A certain Arab king chooses to attend the Royal Windsor Horse Showrather than accept the hospitality of the commander-in-chief of the superpower that guarantees the security of his throne. Meanwhile, there is one foreign minister from the region who gets to spend more time with the US secretary of state than any other envoy in the world. The identities of this cast of characters speak volumes about the geopolitical earthquake now shaking the Middle East. In brief: the leaders who cannot bear to speak to Mr Obama are America’s oldest allies in the region – and the emissary who passes countless hours with John Kerry is the unlikely figure of Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of Iran.
Burak Bekdil: Erdogan’s Dream: The Sultan Rules— It is election time in Turkey. On June 7, the Turks will go to the ballot box to elect a government and a prime minister who will rule the country for four years. In reality, they will go to the ballot box to decide whether they want an elected Sultan or not. Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than just to win a parliamentary majority for his Justice and Development Party (AKP). He wants a two-thirds majority, so that the constitution can be amended to introduce an executive presidential system and the Sultan can once again officially rule. In 2013, Burhan Kuzu, the AKP’s chairman of the parliament’s Constitution Commission, compared the U.S. presidency to the broad powers of Turkey’s prime minister (who at the time was Erdogan), saying, “Obama is a poor man, the Prime Minister is powerful.”
Rolene Marks: Something’s Rotten in the State of South Africa— South Africa is synonymous with surf and safari, biltong and the fragrant smell of summer braaivleis. It is also a country that has overcome a dark and racist history in the hopes of embracing a bright, democratic future where all citizens are equal under the law. Iconic anti-Apartheid activists like Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, and others fought for the freedom of all South Africans and the country can boast of having one of the most liberal and progressive constitutions in the world. But lately the fragrance of the air has been permeated with the stench of something rotten. Racism and xenophobia is on the rise in the Rainbow Nation. Once celebrated for embracing diversity, South Africa has taken immeasurable steps back and is on the fast track to ruining all that was accomplished.
Real Clear Politics: Karl to White House: After Repeated Congressional Failures Under Obama, Who Is The Leader of The Democratic Party?—Noting that nearly a third of the Democratic House caucus voted against reauthorization of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and that a substantial amount of Democrats in the House and in the Senate oppose President Obama on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked deputy White House press secretary Eric Schultz who is the leader of the Democratic Party? “Who right now is the leader of the Democratic party?” Karl asked after laying out his argument. “It doesn’t seem like the president is really showing persuasive power with Democrats on Capitol Hill right now.” “Jon, I’m not sure that’s true,” Schultz replied. “The president is the leader of the Democratic party,” Schultz also proclaimed.
SnyderTalk Comment: Schultz is correct. Obama is the head of the Democrat Party. It’s a party that stands for perversity and it’s the party that booed Yahweh.
That’s not a political statement. It’s a statement of fact. It’s certainly not an endorsement of Republicans.
Uzay Bulut: “No Big Difference between Iran and ISIS”— Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, a Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist who left Iran together with his older siblings in the early 1980s, is the spokesperson of Iran Human Rights (IHR). The organization was started about 10 years ago as a network of defenders of human rights, and in recent years has developed a broad network inside Iran. “We receive reports about the human rights violations, especially the death penalty, from many prisons across the country,” said Moghaddam in an interview with the Gatestone Institute. “Every year we publish an annual report on the death penalty in Iran. About 50% of Iran’s execution cases included in the report have not been announced by the official sources. We only include the cases that we manage to confirm through two independent sources. It is a difficult task, but important. People who send information about the human rights abuses can be persecuted and get heavy sentences.”
SnyderTalk Comment: The thing that matters most in this instance is that Iran and ISIS are vying for control of Islam. That’s the reason for the animosity between them. If ISIS suddenly decided to attack Israel, Iranian leaders would jump for joy.
Concerning human rights abuses in Iran, they are the stuff of legend. Iran’s leaders are criminals. It’s organized crime with the cloak of statehood.
John Bolton: Can a Nuclear Iran Be Contained?—America’s diplomatic efforts to stop Iran have failed; Iran is on track to get nuclear weapons at a time of its own choosing. The only issue remaining is whether a nuclear Iran can be contained and deterred. The monarchs meeting Obama this week at the White House and Camp David are just as worried about Iran becoming a nuclear-weapons state as Israel. Washington might offer sophisticated weapons systems in an effort to reassure the Gulf Arabs, but enhanced conventional firepower is utterly insufficient to contain or deter a determined nuclear power. Even the threat of nuclear retaliation by another nuclear power is hardly likely to deter use of nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime like Iran’s. Unfortunately, the Islamic Revolution does not follow the same cost-benefit analysis that Soviet leaders did during the Cold War. For the mullahs, as Bernard Lewis astutely observed, the threat of retaliatory destruction is an incentive, not a deterrent.
SnyderTalk Comment: Cutting to the chase, the answer is “no”. Iran’s nuclear ambitions can’t be contained. It’s as simple as that. Nothing short of regime change will alter their path. It may be too late for that.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Concessions to Israel Are “Crimes of High Treason”—The Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership continues to give false hope to Palestinians regarding the “right of return” to their former villages and towns in Israel, instead of helping the refugees and encouraging them to move on with their lives. Abbas’ PA media regularly refer to Acre, Haifa and Jaffa as “Palestinian cities.” If and when the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ever resume, PA leaders will not be able to make any concessions on the refugee issue. The leaders will have only themselves to blame for having radicalized their people over the years to a point where Palestinians consider any concessions to Israel as a “crime of high treason.” This stance not only applies to the refugee issue, but also to other matters, such as the two-state-solution, the status of Jerusalem and the future borders of a Palestinian state. Neither Abbas nor any future Palestinian leader will be able to reach a compromise with Israel when the PA itself continues to promote such anti-Israel sentiments.
SnyderTalk Comment: This is the reality that most Westerners don’t see and those who see don’t seem to understand. Palestinian leader don’t want peace with Israel. They never have.
The situation is so bad that any Palestinian leader who signs a peace treaty with Israel is signing his own death warrant. His own people will kill him.
Nick Gass: Iran Warns U.S. on Yemen Aid Ship—Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, the Iranian deputy chief of staff, warned the U.S. not to stop an aid ship from Iran heading to Yemen, saying that doing so would “spark a fire.” Iranian officials maintain that the ship is carrying food, medicine, rescue workers and peace activists. U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren said American forces are keeping an eye on the ship. A Saudi military spokesman said Tuesday that if Iran wants to deliver humanitarian aid, it should coordinate through the UN.
Raphael Ahren: With ‘best allies’ like these, who needs enemies?— Forget the United States of America. Move over, Canada, Australia and Germany. The days when those countries were considered Israel’s closest friends are over. The Jewish state’s new best buddies are Egypt and Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. At least that’s the impression one could get if one listened carefully to a recent speech by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Our best allies actually these days are some of our Arab neighbors, because they know we face a common threat,” Netanyahu said Tuesday at a conference in Jerusalem. The idea he referred to is not new: Israel and the so-called moderate Sunni Arab states have a common foe in Iran, and the enemy of my worst enemy must be my best friend.
Ricki Hollander and Tamar Sternthal: Distorting Netanyahu’s Words in the New York Times—Anat Biletzki charged in the New York Times Opinionator blog on May 11 that after last summer’s kidnapping of three Israeli teens, before their bodies were discovered: “During those three weeks, Israeli leaders openly called for retribution, with Prime Minister Netanyahu openly quoting the national poet Haim Nacham Bialik’s ‘Vengeance like this, for the blood of a child, Satan has yet to devise.'” In fact, Netanyahu did not call for retaliation. Bialik’s lines, and Netanyahu’s quotation of them, are a call for heavenly justice and a rejection of human vengeance for a heinous crime. The full, relevant quotation from the poem in question, penned by Bialik in response to the Kishinev pogrom, is: “And cursed is the man who says: Avenge! No such revenge – revenge for the blood of a little child – has yet been devised by Satan.” By including Biletzki’s false implied charge against Netanyahu – that he had called for vengeance – under its imprimatur, the New York Times is willfully deceiving its readers.
Jacob Siegel: Iraq Counts on Magic Wands to Stop ISIS—Between 2007 and 2009 the Iraqi government spent $85 million to purchase ADE-651 bomb detectors that are still carried today by police and soldiers manning checkpoints in Baghdad. The “magic wands” were sold by British businessman James McCormick, who repackaged a device designed to find golf balls. In 2010 McCormick was arrested by British authorities for fraud and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2013. The wands provide a visible symbol of Iraq’s rampant corruption. They were bought despite warnings that they didn’t work and kept in service after it was proved they didn’t work.
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Analysis: Hotovely as deputy FM won’t make Israel’s position in the world any easier
SnyderTalk Comment: It’s not about Hotovely. It’s not about Bennett. It’s not about Shaked.
It’s about Yahweh.
The political left in Israel has joined forces with those around the world that are determined to prevent Yahweh from fulfilling His promises to Abraham through Isaac and Jacob/Israel. It’s not going to be easy no matter who is elected or appointed.
See “Obama rules out Israeli-Palestinian peace deal with Netanyahu”. It’s not about Netanyahu, either.
‘If Boston can execute an Islamic terrorist, so should Israel’
Netanyahu: Jews gave world idea of man’s dignity, no room for racism in Jewish state
New justice minister Shaked seeks ‘balance between judicial, legislative branches’
Hezbollah chief denies rumors of illness, says he sips lemonade, not medicine during speech
Analysis: A softer Obama tone on Israel?
Israel at center of international diplomatic storm as vatican, FIFA, EU step up pressure
Netanyahu cronies vow he will lead foreign policy
‘The Dead Sea is in danger’ – Negev workers blast Netanyahu in mass protest
Religious affairs: ‘The Torah will emanate out of Zion’
UK Jewry experts cast doubt on rise in anti-Semitism
SnyderTalk Comment: That’s weird in light of the evidence.
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Netanyahu: There is No Place for Racism in Israel
Shaked Promises to Restore Checks and Balances
Zionist Union Warns: Opposition Lacks Cohesion
Did the Pope Really Call Abbas an ‘Angel of Peace’?
In Italy, a Church Becomes a Mosque
Israel Must Reshape its Relations with Sweden
Herzog Accuses Netanyahu of ‘Buying’ Last Election
Hanegbi: This Government Can’t Last Four Years
MK Hazan: We Should Not Fear Living in Israel
92% of Israeli Jews Say J’lem is Eternal Capital
Indictment: Car Terrorist Shouted ‘Allahu Akhbar’
Samaria: Arab Rioters Wounded in Clashes with IDF
Security Video: Teens Run Down by Terrorist
‘Close Off Etzion Route to Palestinians’
European Leaders Back Call to Fight Anti-Semitism
European Parliament VP: We Need Jews in Europe
German Court Authorizes Return of Looted Painting
French PM Honored by European Rabbis
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Pope calls Abbas ‘angel of peace’ during Vatican visit
SnyderTalk Comment: Wow! Talk about being out of sync. This is it.
Abbas is many things, but “angel of peace” isn’t one of them.
Obama: Peace between Israel, Palestinians unlikely this year
PM: Israel to pursue ‘diplomatic settlement’ with Palestinians
UN urges new Israeli government to scrap settlement plans
Rome hails illegal immigrant who saved drowning Israeli
Obama says Syrian war not likely to end before he leaves office
SnyderTalk Comment: Obama will leave behind messes all over the world for the next president to clean up, if he/she can.
Khamenei: US destabilizing Gulf for own interests
Iran’s Shah ‘asked Mossad to kill Ayatollah Khomeini’
Greek town wants Star of David off Holocaust memorial
By narrowest of majorities, Netanyahu’s coalition sworn in
‘PM: Haggling over portfolios almost cost us the government’
Who’s who in Netanyahu’s 2015 government
Is Ayelet Shaked planning to strangle the High Court?
Vandals target French Jewish cemetery, Vienna’s Freud museum
Clintons made $25M from recent speeches
SnyderTalk Comment: Nablus is Shechem.
Nablus clashes with IDF leave 10 Palestinians wounded
Foreign photographers aim to reframe Israelis and Palestinians
Obama offers Gulf states ‘ironclad’ support on Iran
SnyderTalk Comment: You can’t trust Obama no matter what he says.
No one hurt aboard ship fired on by Iranians in Gulf
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Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death
SnyderTalk Comment: Tsarnaev killed and injured innocent people without mercy. He’ll be executed mercifully.
Even so, it’s not too late for him to turn to Yahweh and ask for forgiveness. Yahweh will grant it. All Tsarnaev has to do is ask in faith.
Will he?
I hope so. Facing death focuses the mind.
I don’t want to minimize what Tsarnaev did, but the Messiah made it clear that His thoughts are not our thoughts and His ways are not our ways.
For example, what we call “murder” is too narrow. To Yahweh, if a person is angry enough with someone to want to kill him, he is guilty of murder no matter what he actually does. It’s in the Sermon on the Mount—Matthew chapters 5, 6, and 7.
That’s why believers say, “There but for the grace of God, go I.”
The Hebrew word for “grace” is “chen”. It means unmerited favor. None of us deserve salvation. As Paul said, salvation is by grace through faith.
I love the way Yahweh explained it to Isaiah:
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh, “though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.” (Isaiah 1: 18)
Yahweh is more merciful than any of us can imagine.
Now see “Defense unable to generate sympathy for a terrorist”. It’s hard to have sympathy for a cold-blooded killer no matter how young he is.
FBI Investigating Possible Links Between Amtrak Crash, Other Trains Hit by Objects
SnyderTalk Comment: Just coincidence? I wonder.
Key events in Egypt since the 2011 uprising
SnyderTalk Comment: This one misses the mark. It should have been titled “Key events in Egypt since Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech”. The 2011 uprising resulted from Obama’s speech.
Delta Force Commandos Kill Key ISIS Leader in Ground Raid in Syria
Syria Raid on ISIS Leader Abu Sayyaf Puts Spotlight on Terror Group’s Finances
My Classmate Was Run Over by a Terrorist in Israel Today
Islamic State seizes capital of Iraq’s largest province
Islamic State crisis: Iraq sends troops to Ramadi
Netanyahu’s new government sworn in
On post-election high, Scotland aims to wrest more power from London
Cameron rules out another Scottish independence vote
Israeli military official: Hezbollah hiding arms in villages
ICC threat of ‘one-sided’ Gaza war probe sparks outrage in Israel
EU’s Mogherini to visit Netanyahu and Abbas next week
U.S. Intelligence: Assad Failed to Disclose More than Ten Chemical Weapons Sites
The Arab States Have Four Minutes to Act If Iran Fires a Missile
Legal Experts Question International Court’s Authority to Intervene on 2014 Gaza War
Syria’s Mercenaries: The Afghans Fighting Assad’s War
Lebanese-American Sent Three Shipping Containers of Weapons to Beirut
PM [Netanyahu] instructs new ministers to ‘leave differences outside’
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Israeli sources: Israel willing to accept Iran deal for US compensation
Iran Threat Behind Israel, AIPAC Silence Amid Arms Sales to Arab States
Czechs stopped potential nuclear technology purchase by Iran
Saudi Arabia says Houthis violate truce again
Turkey’s Erdogan criticizes death sentence handed down to ousted Egyptian President Morsi
SnyderTalk Comment: That’s no surprise. Both Erdogan and Morsi are Islamists.
Morsi’s role in the Benghazi attack that resulted in innocent deaths is irrelevant to Erdogan. The culprits in the U.S. may never have to face a jury of their peers. They should stand trial for complicity before and after the fact.
Who are they? President Obama, former Secretary Clinton, and National Security Advisor Rice to name just a few.
Clinton wants to be president. She should be preparing for a trial. Actually, she should be preparing for several trials. Her trail of criminal activity goes back a long way.
Also see “Egypt’s former President Mohamed Morsy given death sentence in jailbreak case” and “Hamas slams Egypt death verdicts for group members”.
Russia Rejects Automatic Sanctions Return If Iran Cheats on Deal
SnyderTalk Comment: Promise number one up in smoke. Others will follow.
Iran Envoy: Inspection of Military Sites Not Included in Framework
US’s John Kerry warns China over land disputes
SnyderTalk Comment: First, Kerry had a meeting with Bashar al-Assad where he lauded his performance as brutal dictator, but not in those words. Then he condemned Assad’s tyranny. Nothing changed except Kerry’s words.
John Kerry just talks. What he says is not important to him.
US, China budge not a bit over South China Sea activity
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Exodus 10
3 Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me. 4 For if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory. 5 They shall cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land. They will also eat the rest of what has escaped—what is left to you from the hail—and they will eat every tree which sprouts for you out of the field. 6 Then your houses shall be filled and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all the Egyptians, something which neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day that they came upon the earth until this day.’” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. 7 Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God. Do you not realize that Egypt is destroyed?” 8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God! Who are the ones that are going?” 9 Moses said, “We shall go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we shall go, for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.” 10 Then he said to them, “Thus may Yahweh be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind. 11 Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve Yahweh, for that is what you desire.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
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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Torah Life interview with Neil Snyder during Sukkot 2012 in Glen Rose, Texas
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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.
