“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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Steve Apfel—Passover and the Palestinians:
A people liberated from slavery. No wonder Passover is a time when advocates for a State of Palestine feel drawn to play a modern day Moses. Let the people go!
Passover, many think, comes around for a melodramatic appeal to the conscience of Israel. Have pity. Remember that your people were enslaved in Egypt and so howled in torment that it galvanized the Almighty into action. Hear oh Israel the cry of people in bondage under you. Let the Palestinians go. Let them make unto themselves a nation.
Thus entreats a devotee of human rights, one of a great multitude that makes a good living from his devotion. Listen carefully to him. In what he says and in what he believes lie the fatal flaws of the type: the modern day Moses. Uri Zaki, one-time the US Director of an Israeli human rights outfit named B’Tselem (in the image of), thought he’d stir up American Jews with an impassioned Passover appeal. Let the Palestinians go free. What Zaki actually said was:
“Israeli settlements in the West Bank make it practically impossible for the Palestinians to realize their right to self-determination in an independent and viable state of their own.” (Times of Israel, April 16, 2011)
The fatal flaw in Zaki’s browned-off appeal lies where? Look for the duty of one party to give and the right of the other party to receive. Defrocked, this is human rights or, for do-gooders of the Jewish faith, tikkun olam – mending the world. It all boils down to the right of Palestinians to want things and the duty of Israel to proffer them. One is owed, the other owes.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
People who have spent no time in Israel can’t imagine how warped the world’s logic is.
Surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs many of whom have dedicated their lives to Israel’s destruction is something that the people of Israel have learned to live with. Even so, Israel is a vibrant nation producing more in science, art, literature, and business than anyone has a right to expect.
Palestinians are global beggars. They have no economy, and they have no culture. They are best known for spreading death and destruction around the globe. They are led by tyrants who masquerade as downtrodden victims and showcase the misery that they impose on their people while they blame Israel for their crimes.
Palestinian leaders are bald-faced liars.
The Palestinian people are dependent on Israel’s prosperity for their survival, but their leaders seek to destroy the goose that lays golden eggs. That’s preposterous, but the fact that so many around the world support that nonsense is even worse.
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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: Soeren Kern—UK: What British Muslims Really Think:
Many British Muslims do not share the values of their non-Muslim compatriots, and say they want to lead separate lives under Islamic Sharia law, according to the findings of a new survey.
The poll — which shows that a significant part of the British Muslim community is becoming a separate “nation within a nation” — has reignited the long-running debate about the failure of 30 years of British multiculturalism and the need for stronger measures to promote Muslim integration.
The survey was conducted by ICM Research for the Channel 4 documentary, “What British Muslims Really Think,” which aired on April 13.
The 615-page survey found that more than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts. Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.
SnyderTalk Comment:
As I have said, Europe as we knew it is history, and Europeans did it to themselves.
Things will get worse going forward.
2: Israel Hayom—PM: UNESCO ignoring historic Jewish ties to Temple Mount:
UNESCO, the United Nations body responsible for protecting historical and archeological sites throughout the world, has changed its language for the Temple Mount, acquiescing last week to a request by the Palestinian Authority that it refer to the site using the term “Al-Aqsa mosque” only.
This means that the organization has de facto accepted the Palestinian position that denies any connection between Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount) and the Jewish Temples and rejected Israel’s position that the Temple Mount is the holiest site for the Jewish people.
SnyderTalk Comment:
“For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.” (2 Chronicles 7: 16)
That’s Yahweh speaking. He’s talking about the Temple Mount.
He spoke those words roughly 1,500 years before Islam was invented.
3: Caroline Glick—Obama’s political legacy:
The US presidential race is President Barack Obama’s political legacy. Depending on who succeeds him, that legacy will either fade or become the new normal.
To understand what he has wrought, a good place to start is with the man running to Obama’s left: Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The socialist from Vermont knows how to play to the crowd. Sanders knows that the people captivated by his tales of avaricious bankers aren’t too keen on Jews either.
And as a Jew, he’s cool with that.
Sanders’s courtship of Jew-haters in a staple of his campaign. The depth of his efforts was made clear at the end of a campaign event at the Apollo Theater in Harlem last Saturday when an audience member got up and began spewing anti-Jewish slanders.
SnyderTalk Comment:
It’s not just Sanders. The entire Democrat Party hierarchy is anti-Israel to the core.
They talk one way and act another. Behind closed doors, they speak the truth, but not in public.
There’s a word for that.
4: Business Insider—We’re about to find out what happens when you give poor people basic income for life:
Over the past decade, interest has grown in an ostensibly unorthodox approach for helping people who don’t have much money: just give them more of it, no strings attached.
In the old days of policymaking by aphorism—give a man a fish, feed him for a day!—simply handing money to the poor was considered an obviously bad idea. How naïve—you can’t just give people money. They’ll stop trying! They’ll just get drunk! The underlying assumption was that the poor weren’t good at making decisions for themselves: Experts had to make the decisions for them.
As it turns out, that assumption was wrong. Across many contexts and continents, experimental tests show that the poor don’t stop trying when they are given money, and they don’t get drunk. Instead, they make productive use of the funds, feeding their families, sending their children to school, and investing in businesses and their own futures. Even a short-term infusion of capital has been shown to significantly improve long-term living standards, improve psychological well-being, and even add one year of life.
SnyderTalk Comment:
That assumption wasn’t wrong. Given enough time, human nature always manifests itself.
Problems will emerge in due course. When they do, misguided compassion will have brought them about.
It’s not as though this kind of thing hasn’t been tried before. Europe is suffering right now because of those kinds of policies, and the U.S. is moving in that direction quickly.
Russia and China learned the lesson the hard way, too.
Why do we keep repeating our mistakes?
Albert Einstein said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
According to Einstein’s definition, the world is insane.
5: Shoshana Bryen—Israel, Turkey, Russia and Egypt:
Turkish sources assert that Turkish-Israeli governmental relations are about to come out of the deep freeze. But this is a reflection of Turkey’s regional unpopularity and glides over Turkish demands for Israel to end the blockade of Gaza. To meet Turkey’s condition, Israel would have to abandon the security arrangement it shares with Egypt — which has increased Israel’s security and has begun to pay regional dividends. To restore full relations between Israel and Turkey would irritate Russia, with which Israel has good trade and political relations, and a respectful series of understandings regarding Syria. Israel’s relations with the Kurds are also at issue here.
SnyderTalk Comment:
Erdogan will remain a problem as long as he holds office.
He’s not a problem for Israel alone. That should be obvious by now.
See “Angela Merkel Chooses Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Over Free Speech Of German Citizens”.
At this point, I’ll give Merkel the benefit of the doubt and say that she is very foolish, but I’m beginning to believe that’s too kind.
6: Washington Post—Netanyahu vows that Israel will never give up Golan Heights:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday to declare that Israel will retain full control of the mountainous plateau forever and never return the strategic highlands to neighboring Syria.
As talks on the future of Syria are underway in Geneva, Netanyahu convened a symbolic meeting of his cabinet on a mountaintop in the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria during the 1967 Six-Day War.
SnyderTalk Comment:
Security concern demand that Israel maintain control of the Golan Heights. It’s imperative.
7: ABC News—Iran Vows to Defend Muslim Nations Against Terrorism, Israel:
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbors should not feel threatened.
Speaking during a National Army Day parade in which Iranian forces displayed sophisticated air defense systems recently acquired from Russia, Rouhani praised Tehran’s role in helping the Syrian and Iraqi governments roll back the Islamic State group.
“If tomorrow your capitals face danger from terrorism or Zionism, the power that will give you a positive answer is the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said. But he added that Iran would only help if Muslim countries asked it to, and said its military power was purely for defensive and deterrent purposes.
“The power of our armed forces is not against our southern, northern, eastern and western neighbors,” he said.
SnyderTalk Comment:
I call Iran one of the TRIC countries for a reason. It’s Turkey, Russia, Iran, and China.
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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”.
