Monthly Archives: March 2016

March 31, 2016 SnyderTalk: Sisi asks Obama for military intervention to save Egypt from ISIS

1--Intro Covering Israel and ME

“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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2--SnyderTalk Lead Headline for use

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DEBKAfile—Sisi asks Obama for military intervention to save Egypt from ISIS:

Egyptian President Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi has sent a secret missive to President Barack Obama asking for urgent US military intervention in support of Egypt’s war on the Islamist State in Sinai, before the jihadis pose a real threat to Cairo. debkafile’s exclusive intelligence and counterterrorism sources report that El-Sisi has come to the conclusion that Egyptian army lacks the ability to eradicate the terrorist peril without direct US military support.

In his note, he asks Washington to replicate in Sinai the format of US intervention in the war on ISIS in Iraq and Syria, namely, to send in special operations forces to establish bases and operate drones against jihadist targets. Unless stopped, he warns, the Islamic State is on the point of transforming the Sinai Peninsula into its primary forward base in the Middle East, bolstered by its branches of terror across North Africa, especially in Libya. US intervention is necessary to avert this.

So far, Sisi has received no answer from the White House and no sign of one in the pipeline.

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SnyderTalk Comment: Ask yourself this question: What would Donald Trump or Ted Cruz do?

Then ask this question: What would Hillary Clinton do?

When you consider Clinton, keep in mind that she does one thing and says another most of the time.

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3--HNIY the Website

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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.

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SnyderTalk Comment: Europe as we know it is history.  In fact, the world as we know it is history.

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13--Perspectives 2

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1: Meira Svirsky—Secrets and Lies: Turkey’s Covert Relationship With ISIS:

A hot warning received by intelligence officials revealed that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is planning an “imminent attack” on Jewish children in Turkey. Officials believe the most likely target is in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, where a Jewish school is attached to a synagogue and community center.

The information was obtained after Turkey arrested six ISIS operatives in the southern city of Gaziantep last week.

“This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot,” a Turkey source said.

Less than 10 days ago, a suicide bomber stalked Israeli tourists in Istanbul before blowing himself up near them, killing five people (four of them Israelis) and wounding many more.

“The so-called Islamic State is believed to be behind both sets of attacks and the organization continues in determined efforts to perpetrate further attacks in Turkey and elsewhere,” reported Sky News, quoting from an intelligence report seen by the news outlet.

In addition to the six arrested, another three ISIS operatives were arrested last week. Turkey, it seems is scrambling to protect itself from attacks the terror group has threatened to execute all across Europe.

SnyderTalk Comment: See “Jordan’s King Abdullah accused Turkey of sending terrorists to Europe, report says”.

The whole world is beginning to get the picture.  What’s Obama’s problem?  Why doesn’t he get it?

Maybe he does get it, and he likes it.

My money is on the latter.

2: Abbas Qaidaari—Is Iran becoming a major regional arms producer?:

The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has been host to a special military and defense industry exhibition since March 5. Among the various countries displaying their goods, China has been particularly active. However, the perhaps most noteworthy feature of the exhibition is the strong — and official — presence of Iran’s Ministry of Defense, and the fact that a vast array of Iranian-made armaments and military equipment is being showcased. According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency, after China, the Iranian Ministry of Defense and the Defense Industries Organization of Iran have had the strongest presence at the exhibition when it comes to equipment variety.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) stipulates that Iran will until October 2020 be barred from conventional weapons trade, without first obtaining authorization from the United Nations Security Council. Nonetheless, during the past few years, in spite of extensive sanctions on exports of conventional military equipment, Iran has managed to become self-sufficient in the production of a vast range of weapons and military equipment. Indeed, a large portion of Iran’s military equipment is presently met by domestic production. Given this capacity, Iran appears now ready to establish a serious and effective presence in the international armament market.

In past years, both the Iraqi and Syrian governments — among the most important political and security allies of the Islamic Republic in the region — have been dealing with civil war and terrorism. As political differences emerged between the governments in Damascus and Baghdad on the one hand, and with Western countries on the other, the provision of Western military equipment to these countries was disrupted. Enter Iran, which — after the Islamic State’s capture of Mosul in the summer of 2014 — was the first country that sent arms to Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish peshmerga. Moreover, deliveries of weapons to Iraq have increased so much that all semi-heavy artillery equipment, sniper weapons and many other types of personal and armored weapons presently used by Iraqi paramilitary forces are Iranian-made. In addition, over the past year, Iran has also started sending the T-72S main battle tank to Iraq.

3: Times of IsraelIslamic State said planning imminent attack on Turkey Jewish school:

Islamic State terrorists are planning an imminent attack on Jewish kindergartens, schools and youth centers in Turkey, according to a report by Britain-based Sky News Monday.

The report came hours after Jerusalem issued an alert for all Israeli citizens to leave Turkey as soon as possible, citing an Islamic State threat, and nine days after three Israelis were killed in a bombing in Istanbul.

According to Sky News, citing an “intelligence source,” terrorists are plotting to attack a synagogue which also doubles as a school and community center in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul.

The source said the threat was imminent and could happen at any moment.

“This is a more than credible threat. This is an active plot,” the source said. “We don’t know when it’s scheduled for. It could be in the next 24 hours or next few days.”

SnyderTalk Comment: Jewish people should get out of Turkey while the getting is good.

4: Rukmini Callimachi—Long Before Brussels, ISIS Sent Terror Operatives to Europe:

In the two years before the deadly assaults in Paris last November and in Brussels this month, Islamic State dispatched at least 21 operatives trained in Syria to carry out small attacks meant to test and stretch Europe’s security apparatus, according to court proceedings, interrogation transcripts and records of European wiretaps obtained by the New York Times. Yet local authorities repeatedly discounted each successive plot, describing them as isolated or random acts, the connection to the Islamic State either overlooked or played down.

“They have been contemplating external attacks ever since the group moved into Syria in 2012,” said Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Michael T. Flynn, who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. “All of the signals were there,” said Michael S. Smith II, a counterterrorism analyst. “For anyone paying attention, these signals became deafening by mid-2014.”

SnyderTalk Comment: I wonder if the editors at the NYT have any idea how hypocritical they are.  It sounds like they don’t read the material they edit.

Maybe they use trained monkeys to do the editing.  Monkeys couldn’t do any worse.

5: Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah—Is Turkey Planning to Destabilize Lebanon?:

The Turkish leadership saw the uprising in Syria and Egypt as an opportunity to intervene and change the regimes opposed to Turkey’s policies in the Middle East and replace them with Islamic regimes close to Turkey’s ideological stand. In both countries, the Islamic opposition was headed by the Muslim Brotherhood, natural allies of Turkish President Erdogan.

In Syria, Turkish Military Intelligence (MIT) was instructed to assist rebel factions opposed to the Assad regime almost from the very first days of the civil war. Turkey chose to shelter, train, arm, and finance rebel groups, and allow almost total free movement of jihadists inside Turkey en route to their units in Syria.

It now appears that in its efforts to destabilize Assad, Turkey may have chosen to take advantage of the already boiling situation inside Lebanon between Hizbullah and its Sunni opponents and try to provoke a renewed civil war in Lebanon, a situation that would force Hizbullah to withdraw its troops from Syria and return home to fight. Sending weapons to radical Sunni Islamists in northern Lebanon is but the tip of the iceberg. A ship loaded with weapons supposedly destined for Muslim radicals in northern Lebanon was intercepted by the Greek Coast Guard on February 28, 2016.

SnyderTalk Comment: Erdogan is desperate to be a player in the Middle East.  I wouldn’t put anything past him.

6: Zvi Magen, Vera Michlin-Shapir, and Shlomo Brom—A Russian Withdrawal from Syria, or Merely a Change in the Form of Involvement?:

On March 14, 2016, Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of the majority of Russian military units from Syria, after, he claimed, the Russian force had achieved the goals set for it when it entered Syria five and a half months earlier. Yet whatever the reasons for Russia’s surprising move, it is apparent that Russia has announced a limitation on its participation in the fighting in Syria, not the conclusion of its military involvement. For its part, Israel has thus far refrained from choosing a side and intervening directly in the Syrian crisis. Russia, which views Israel as a significant regional actor, prefers to see it adhere to its neutral policy regarding the conflict in Syria. Alongside a general interest in weakening the Shiite axis led by Iran, Israel’s concrete interests in Syria will continue to include distancing the threat posed by the Shiite axis and jihadist groups in border regions and preventing Hezbollah’s acquisition of game-changing weaponry. Israel’s freedom of action in these areas remains a condition for its continued cooperation with Russia in the region. Overall, however, Israel has no reason to object to the Russian actions.

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SnyderTalk Comment: As I have been saying, those “ordinary peaceful Muslims” aren’t Muslims.  They just think they are.

Yahweh is separating the wheat from the chaff.

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15--Concentric Circles 5

“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”.