“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)
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Khaled Abu Toameh—Palestinians: Laughing Their Heads Off:
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited Ramallah last week, and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his top officials are laughing their heads off.
Why not laugh? Biden arrived in the region hoping to persuade the Palestinian leaders to issue a “condemnation” of the reign of terror, which they continue to describe as a “popular and peaceful uprising.” This in itself reeks of gallows humor.
But what Biden got was even funnier, from the point of view of Abbas and his friends.
The Palestinian president offered “condolences” over the killing of a U.S. citizen in Jaffa the previous day: “The President [Abbas] offered his condolences over the killing of the US citizen, while stressing at the same time that the occupation authorities have killed 200 Palestinians over the past five months,” according to a statement released by the PA leadership in Ramallah.
Abbas’s crocodile tears were shed for Taylor Force, a West Point graduate from Texas who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian during a rampage on the Jaffa beachfront promenade. Abbas is doubtless also upset because Israel has killed Palestinian stabbers and shooters.
Just before Biden arrived in Ramallah, Abbas’s Fatah faction praised the murderer of Force, calling him a “martyr.” But Fatah was quick to delete the posts to avoid embarrassing the Palestinian leadership during Biden’s visit.
It seems that the murder of an American visitor is condemnable, but the murder of some 34 Israelis since last October, including a pregnant woman and civilians, is somewhat less so.
Where was the condemnation of the wounding of nine Israelis in the attack that killed Taylor Force? Where was the condemnation of the attacks the took place on that very day in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva?
But Abbas explained everything to Biden: Israel was in fact fully responsible for the “violence and bloodshed” because of the “occupation” and “settlements.”
Here is a dirty little secret: the Palestinian attackers were not driven to murder Jews because of “settlements” and “checkpoints.”
Check their Facebook accounts: what fueled their hatred were the lies they had been fed for the past few years by President Abbas and other Palestinian leaders, concerning Jews “desecrating” Islamic holy sites and plotting to destroy them. No checkpoint snags, no settlement issues, no protests against construction of new apartments in Jerusalem for Jewish families.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Of course, Palestinians are laughing their heads off. They are playing ignorant and naïve donors around the world for suckers, and they are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in the process.
What’s not to laugh about?
If you are an Israeli, the loss of innocent lives isn’t funny. If you are an American, seeing tourists from your country butchered isn’t funny. If you love Yahweh, seeing the world lining up behind people whose only reason for being is to prevent Him from fulfilling His promises isn’t funny.
Palestinians won’t be laughing forever. Yahweh will make sure of it. That’s a promise.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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1: Politico—What’s Wrong With Hillary?:
When Hillary Clinton began her second run for the White House, it must have seemed that the road ahead would rise up to meet her. This time, there would be no political phenomenon in her way—no younger, more charismatic figure who would strip Clinton of the mantle of “change.” All that stood between her and the nomination were a 74-year old socialist from Vermont and the obscure former governor of a state whose previous best-known politician was Spiro Agnew. Back then, if you had told Clinton’s campaign that she would be outraised by that Vermont socialist, that she would be losing younger Democrats, including young women, by landslide proportions, and that she would be facing a months-long slog through every primary—you would have been accused of smoking some of that now-legal-in-Colorado product.
So what exactly is going on here? Why won’t Bernie Sanders go away? And why does Hillary Clinton’s Bernie problem pose a danger not only to her but to the Democratic Party—even if she does (as it seems highly likely) secure her party’s nomination? Three big reasons: First, Hillary Clinton commands little trust among an electorate that is driven today by mistrust. Second, her public life—the posts she has held, the positions she has adopted (and jettisoned)—define her as a creature of the “establishment” at a time when voters regard the very idea with deep antipathy. And finally, however she wishes it were not so, however much she argues that she represents the future as America’s first prospective female president, Clinton still embodies the past, just as she did in 2008 when she lost to Barack Obama. The combination of those three factors is already playing out in the Democratic primary, where younger voters are turning away from her and embracing a geriatric, white-haired alternative in droves.
The far more serious issue is whether all these factors will seriously threaten her prospects and those of the Democratic Party in November—even at the hands of Donald Trump.
SnyderTalk Comment: Anyone who asks the question “What’s Wrong With Hillary?” and is serious is woefully uninformed.
No one who knows anything of substance about the Clintons can deny that they are dirty. Filth follows them everywhere they go, and it’s their own doing.
Most people see Bill Clinton as a likeable bad boy. Hillary is much worse than Bill, and she’s not likeable.
2: Sid Dinerstein—Democrats Deserve to Be Labeled Bigots:
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Of course we have to start with the blacks, the all purpose “straw men” for every argument over any policy, foreign or domestic. Here the bigotry of the left is in full display.
The Democratic Party has been anti-black for its entire existence.
In the beginning there was slavery, the Democrats’ original version of complete dependency.
The three-fifths compromise in our Constitution meant that the Democrats could count 3 people for every 5 blacks, while letting none of them vote. Who’s a bigot?
One day Republicans will refer to the Civil War in a more telling way, not as the North versus the South but as the Republicans versus the Democrats.
Even after the Democrats lost the Civil War they wouldn’t let blacks vote.
There was the KKK, the terror wing of the Democratic Party; lynching whites and blacks alike for voting or wanting to vote (Republican).
The KKK was fully represented in the United States Senate by Sen. Robert Byrd (of West Virginia); “a voice of principle and reason,” according to President Obama. Jim Crow laws, segregated schools, back of the bus seating; these were pillars of the Democratic Party tactics.
But, they say, didn’t the Democratic Party give us the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960’s? Not exactly.
Those acts, proposed by Republican President Eisenhower in 1957 failed because Democrats such as Senators Al Gore, Sr. and John Kennedy, a presidential hopeful, wouldn’t (or couldn’t) support them.
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SnyderTalk Comment: “Bigot” and “Democrat” are synonymous.
I know that most Democrats don’t see themselves as bigots, but keep in mind that plantation owners in the Old South most of whom were Democrats thought they were doing what was best for black people.
Right now, today, the Democrat Party has American blacks on their plantation, so to speak. What’s infinitely worse is that most blacks don’t mind at all. In fact, they love it.
I’m reminded of something that P.T. Barnum said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.”
3: Algemeiner— ‘We Live in Constant Fear,’ Says One of Eight Remaining Jews in Terror-Torn Iraq:
Eight Jews remain in terror-torn Iraq, hesitant to leave their homes, the Hebrew site nrg reported on Sunday.
“We live in constant fear,” one woman, a 60-year-old dentist, told the Israeli news outlet over the phone from her home in the Iraqi capital.
The backdrop for this exclusive story, nrg explained, is the World Culture Festival, organized by the Art of Living Foundation — headed by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — and taking place in New Delhi, India. The festival is being attended by a non-Muslim Iraqi parliament member, who serves as a kind of caretaker and sponsor for these Jews – and who requested anonymity for the interview.
This MP, it was revealed, also met several times with Israel’s representative at the conference, Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoob Kara.
According to the Iraqi lawmaker, seven of the eight remaining Jews in his country are women; all reside in Baghdad; none has family; and all are elderly, educated professionals or businesspeople. The MP told nrg that these Jews possess substantial property across Iraq, barely managing to protect it from hostile attacks, including at the hands of the government.
SnyderTalk Comment: Resist the lies you hear about “Jewish people living peacefully in Muslim countries”. Nothing could be further from the truth.
4: Times of Israel—Abbas reportedly turned down new US peace initiative presented by Biden:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly turned down a peace initiative put forward by US Vice President Joe Biden in Ramallah on Wednesday.
The deal offered a settlement construction freeze and a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem in exchange for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and the relinquishment of Palestinian rights to return to live in Israel, Palestinian newspaper Al Quds reported.
The idea was floated on Tuesday by White House officials who told The Wall Street Journal that President Barack Obama, who leaves office in less than year, wanted to bequeath more promising ground to his successor by announcing an initiative of some kind to push the moribund peace process forward. One of the ideas on the table was the one Biden reportedly proposed to Abbas.
However, a US official told The Times of Israel that Biden did not pitch any new pitch initiatives during his visit to Ramallah. “He did, of course, reiterate the United States’ enduring support for a two-state solution,” the official said.
The last US-backed effort to kick-start the peace process broke down in 2014.
Biden’s push came as the French Foreign Ministry’s special envoy Pierre Vimont was making preparations to visit Jerusalem and Ramallah on March 13. The French are pushing an international peace conference aimed at bringing the two sides together this summer.
SnyderTalk Comment: Obama has the U.S. playing the role of Balaam. That’s dangerous.
5: Al-Monitor—Has IS established foothold in Jordan?:
Jordanians are still reeling from the shock of a dramatic security operation undertaken March 2 in the northern city of Irbid. The predawn, hourslong raid on a cell linked to the Islamic State (IS) resulted in special forces killing seven extremists wearing explosive belts. The government’s action followed the arrest of 13 suspects earlier in the day. One Jordanian security officer was killed and five others were injured in the operation.
This was the first confrontation in the kingdom with an armed group associated with IS since Jordan joined the international coalition fighting the Salafist jihadist organization in September 2014. In a March 2 statement, the General Intelligence Department said that the seven men killed in Irbid were planning to carry out attacks on military and civil targets in the kingdom.
The government has released very little information on the incident, leaving many questions unanswered. On March 3, government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani told the official Jordan Radio and Television Corporation, “Initial information indicates that all the slain cell members were Jordanian nationals.” Those arrested were being interrogated and will be tried before the State Security Court, official sources said.
The incident has shifted the public’s attention to the threat that IS and other such extremist groups pose on the domestic front. Since IS emerged in 2013 in Iraq and Syria, two countries with long borders with Jordan, fears have focused on the possibility of militants crossing into the kingdom to carry out attacks.
According to political commentator Fahd al-Khitan, at least one of the dead militants had recently returned from Syria. In his March 5 column for the daily Al-Ghad, Khitan pondered whether the Irbid operation indicates that IS has established a Jordanian branch or whether the cell members were unaffiliated people sympathetic to the group’s ideology.
SnyderTalk Comment: ISIS is closing the circle around Israel. It won’t be long now.
6: RT—Putin orders start of Russian military withdrawal from Syria, says ‘objectives achieved’:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to start the withdrawal of forces from Syria starting Tuesday. Russia will however keep a military presence at the port of Tartus and at the Khmeimim airbase to observe ceasefire agreements.
“I consider the objectives that have been set for the Defense Ministry to be generally accomplished. That is why I order to start withdrawal of the main part of our military group from the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic starting from tomorrow,”Putin said on Monday during a meeting with Shoigu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“In a short period of time Russia has created a small but very effective military group [in Syria]… the effective work of our military allowed the peace process to begin,” Putin said, adding that with the assistance of the Russian Air Force “Syrian government troops and patriotic forces have changed the situation in the fight with international terrorism and have ceased the initiative.”
To control the observation of ceasefire agreements in the region, Moscow will keep its Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province and a base at the port of Tartus, Putin said.
At Moscow’s initiative, a phone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Syria’s President Bashar Assad was held on Monday evening, the Kremlin reported.
SnyderTalk Comment: ISIS is not defeated. The war is far from over. Russia’s withdrawal at this point is curious.
See “Russia’s Announced Withdrawal From Syria Reshapes the 5-Year-Old Conflict”.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
