“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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Jerusalem Post—Turkish Police warn of possible attacks against synagogues, churches:
Police in Turkey have warned of possible attacks by the Islamic State against Christian and Jewish targets over the Easter weekend.
The possible targeting of churches and synagogues on Sunday was listed in a nationwide police alert, according to Turkish media reports. Consulates and embassies also were told to stay on high alert.
The warning comes a week after a suicide bombing at a main shopping center in Istanbul killed three Israelis and one Iranian national. Turkish media later reported that the bomber targeted an Israeli tour group, with Islamic State taking responsibility for the attack.
Another 10 Israelis were wounded, three of them in moderate to critical condition, and the rest suffering from slight injuries.
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SnyderTalk Comment: They’re called pogroms.
A pogrom is “an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, in particular that of Jews in Russia or Eastern Europe”.
We haven’t seen them in the U.S. yet, but Europe and Russia have seen plenty of them.
Nazis were expert pogrom organizers.
I think President Erdogan is in cahoots with the Islamists because he is one of them. Is he?
We’ll see.
This is an uplifting thought: Israel has a Protector. His Name is Yahweh. Jewish people need to go home before it’s too late. That’s where they are safe. Yahweh planned it that way.
It’s Yahweh, not your way.
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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: TIME—Outpouring of Sadness and Solidarity for Pakistan as World Reacts to Lahore Blast:
Terrorism shook the world for the third time in less than a week on Sunday, with a suicide bombing that killed at least 65 at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, prompting a global outpouring of grief and solidarity.
Global heads of state, leaders and prominent personalities joined thousands of others in extending their thoughts and prayers to the tragedy-stricken South Asian nation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to condemn the attack on Twitter, reportedly calling his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif as well, with several other leaders including French President François Hollande and British Prime Minister David Cameron following suit.
SnyderTalk Comment: What’s it going to take to wake people up?
An “outpouring of sadness and solidarity” is not a good substitute for effective action.
The attack on innocent Christians in Pakistan wasn’t a random occurrence. It was another act of war perpetrated by Islamists against non-Muslims. This time they happened to be Christians, but they are at war with everyone.
We can’t wish this problem away, and pretending that it isn’t Islam against the world is just plain stupid.
2: Eyal Zisser—The Pax Americana Is Dead. Welcome to the Age of the Godfathers:
In mid-March 2016 the world marked five years since the outbreak of the civil war in Syria. The number of those killed in the fighting approached half a million. About 10 million Syrians, amounting to about half the population of the state, had lost their homes, and about 8 million had become refugees, fleeing abroad to neighboring Arab states, Turkey, and Europe. About three-quarters of Syria’s social and economic infrastructures—including the health, education, transportation, electricity, and water systems, oil and gas fields, and grain storage facilities—had been ruined or destroyed during the war.
Thus, nothing remains of the Syria over which Bashar al-Assad and his opponents began fighting. In the shadow of the ongoing bloodbath the Syrian state disintegrated into a series of semi-state entities: In eastern Syria and western Iraq the ISIS State (the Islamic Caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) emerged; in the west, in the remains of the original Syrian state, a kind of “Syria Minor,” the Assad dynasty remained and remains in control, enjoying Russian patronage and Iranian influence; in the east and north of the Syrian region there are autonomous Kurdish enclaves; and finally, stretching over large parts of northern Syria and in the south, there are enclaves controlled by various rebel groups—headed by the “Support Front for the People of the Syrian lands” (Al-Nusra Front, or Jabhat al-Nusra), an al-Qaida affiliate.
SnyderTalk Comment: We elected a president who is wrong about most things but certain he is right about everything. This is the result.
Hillary and BHO are birds of a feather.
3: Times of Israel—Obama reassures Belgians ‘America has their back’:
US President Barack Obama on Saturday offered his prayers for the families of the two Americans killed in the bombings in Brussels and reassured Belgians that “America has their back” in the fight against terrorism.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama renewed his vow to continue the campaign against the Islamic State, which took credit for Tuesday’s bombings that killed 32 and wounded 300. He said US officials were working with allies to root out the jihadist group’s operations in Europe.
Obama said US officials have ramped up intelligence cooperation and that FBI agents are in Belgium assisting with the investigation into the deadly blasts.
The president in his address also urged Americans not to stigmatize Muslims, saying that doing so is “counterproductive” in the fight against radical Islam.
SnyderTalk Comment: Obama didn’t mean it as a joke, but it was a good one nonetheless.
I’m reminded of something Gen. George Patton said: “I would rather have the Germans in front of me than the French behind me.”
Just substitute Obama for French and Islamists for Germans.
4: Washington Post—In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State Is In Retreat on Multiple Fronts:
In the latest setbacks for Islamic State militants on Thursday, Syrian government troops entered the outskirts of Palmyra after a weeks-old offensive aided by Russian airstrikes, and U.S. airstrikes helped Iraqi forces overrun a string of Islamic State villages in northern Iraq. The militants have not embarked on a successful offensive in nine months. Their leaders are dying in U.S. strikes at the rate of one every three days, according to U.S. military officials.
Front-line commanders speak of Islamic State defenses that crumble within days and fighters who flee at the first sign they are under attack. “They don’t fight. They just send car bombs and then run away. And when we surround them they either surrender or infiltrate themselves among the civilians,” said Lt. Gen. Abdul-Ghani al-Assadi, commander of Iraq’s counterterrorism forces. “Their morale is shaken. We listen to them on their communications devices. Their leaders are begging them to fight, but they answer that it is a lost cause. They refuse to obey orders and run away.”
“As time goes on, as our systems mature, we’re becoming more effective,” said Col. Steve Warren, the U.S. military’s spokesman in Baghdad. “We’ve become much better at spotting them. Anytime they try to move, we’re able to find and finish them.”
In eastern Syria last month, the Kurdish YPG – aided by U.S. Special Forces – seized the town of Shadadi. “Shadadi was going to be a major six-week operation,” a senior U.S. official said. “The ISIS guys had dug trenches and everything. Instead, they completely collapsed. They’re collapsing town by town.”
Plans for an operation to capture Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State’s caliphate in Syria, are on hold because of tensions between Kurds and Arabs over who would participate and how to govern the city after it has been taken. Likewise, preparations for an offensive for Mosul, the biggest Iraqi city under Islamic State control, are being held up by disputes over who should take part and how to govern the city. “We could probably liberate Mosul tomorrow, but…a lot of work needs to be done to ensure an orderly transition of power,” said Michael Knights of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
SnyderTalk Comment: Before jumping up and down for joy and declaring victory, people should take some time to reflect on this fact: animals are most dangerous when they are wounded.
A little time in the woods with a gun can teach a person many things.
This is another bit of wisdom: a snake can bite you and kill you after you chop off its head.
5: Dr. Yvette Alt Miller—Dark Days for Jews in Brussels:
The normally busy morning rush hour turned deadly in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, when a series of bombings at Brussels’ Zaventem International Airport and the busy Maelbeek metro train station killed 31 and injured hundreds of commuters, many seriously.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the carnage.
Brussels immediately went into a lockdown, with residents warned to stay indoors. It was a familiar echo of the aftermath of the Paris attacks four months earlier, when Belgian officials also asked Brussels residents to stay indoors while police searched for the terrorists, who were thought to have been based in the Belgian capital.
For Brussels’ 15,000-strong Jewish community, the terror attacks and subsequent lockdown are having a devastating effect. In exclusive Aish.com interviews, Jewish residents of Brussels speak of a community that is subdued and fearful, and which increasingly sees little future for Jewish life in their city.
SnyderTalk Comment: Jewish people in Brussels have good reasons to be afraid.
6: Jerusalem Post—Bill Maher says maybe Europe won’t be an a****** to Israel after Brussels:
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“The UN, as of 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council had issued more official condemnations of Israel than the rest of the world’s nations combined. I wonder now that Europe has been attacked four times now in a little over a year, and they say ISIS has 400 fighters that they are ready to introduce back into Europe, and they’re trying to get a dirty bomb. Maybe Europe will have a little more sympathy for what Israel goes through.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Hoping that European leaders will change their wicked ways is just wishful thinking. They have had plenty of time to repent, but they haven’t.
I suspect it’s far more likely they will conclude that Israel is the problem.
Pogroms are already breaking out in Turkey. Europe is next.
This is my advice to European leaders: “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’”
Actually, I’m quoting King David.
Hosea said it differently: “They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: This is a full-length movie. I think you will enjoy it.
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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”.
