October 15, 2018 SnyderTalk: China isn’t the big problem now. Saudi Arabia is.

“From the rising of the sun even to its setting, My Name will be great among the Gentiles,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.

(Malachi 1: 11)

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China isn’t the big problem now.  Saudi Arabia is.

See “Al Arabiya op-ed warns of oil spike and ‘economic disaster’ if US sanctions Saudi Arabia”:

Oil prices could surge to all-time highs if the U.S. imposes economic sanctions against Saudi Arabia, according to an opinion piecewritten by the general manager of Saudi Arabia-based Al Arabiya television.

The warning from Al Arabiya’s Turki Aldakhil comes amid heightened tensions between Saudi Arabia and the West, after journalist Jamal Khashoggi — a U.S. resident and prominent critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — disappeared after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

Turkish authorities claim Khashoggi was murdered and his body removed. Saudi Arabia has fiercely denied that.

“If U.S. sanctions are imposed on Saudi Arabia, we will be facing an economic disaster that would rock the entire world,” Aldakhil wrote on Sunday.

“It would lead to Saudi Arabia’s failure to commit to producing 7.5 million barrels. If the price of oil reaching $80 angered President Trump, no one should rule out the price jumping to $100, or $200, or even double that figure.”

International benchmark Brent crude traded at around $81.43 Monday morning, up around 1.2 percent, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) stood at $72.12, slightly more than 1 percent higher.

Expensive energy

Energy watchers are closely monitoring Brent, which has pulled back from recent multiyear highs but remains firmly established above $80 a barrel.

So far this year, the price of oil has surged more than 25 percent, prompting some investors to bet that a return to triple-digits could be just around the corner.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is banking on Saudi Arabia to curtail soaring energy prices and help offset lost Iranian oil supply. But, in theory, an escalation of tensions in the Middle East could send prices sharply higher.

The U.S. has Vast Oil and Gas Reserves

Saudi Arabia wasn’t bluffing when her leaders threatened to retaliate if the U.S. imposes sanctions on the oil-rich kingdom for murdering Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national who contributes to The Washington Post.

The jury is still out on the guilt or innocence of Saudi officials, but the truth will be known soon enough.

Europe is in the same boat as the U.S., but Europe’s oil and gas reserves are insignificant.  The U.S. has vast quantities of oil and gas.

Saudi Arabia may be a gamechanger for Europe.

Arabs and Saving Face

Even if Saudi officials are guilty of ordering Khashoggi’s murder, they will feel obligated to retaliate if sanctions are imposed.  It’s part of Arab culture.

We see evidence of the same problem in Israel’s dealings with Palestinians.  For instance, Palestinians in Gaza are launching burning balloons and kites into Southern Israel and setting Israeli fields ablaze.  They are building terror tunnels into Southern Israel for the purpose of taking Israeli hostages and killing innocent Israelis.  They hold weekly riots on the Gaza border to attract global attention.

Israel is bombing the terror tunnels and threatening to retaliate if the unprovoked Palestinian attacks continue.  Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said that war with Hamas in Gaza is inevitable.  Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the same thing.

When Israel has finally had enough and actually retaliates against Hamas aggressively, Palestinians (Hamas in particular) will claim victimhood and try to save face even though they are as guilty as sin.  It’s Arab culture.

Westerners don’t understand Arab culture.  Israelis do.

I visit Israel often.  I interact with Palestinians regularly while I’m in Jerusalem.  To Arabs, you can’t overstate the importance of face saving.  Palestinians are not an exception.

To Arabs, it’s not about guilt or innocence, right or wrong.  It’s about saving face after you are caught red-handed committing crimes.  As I said, it’s not a world that Westerners understand.

Donald Trump is Yahweh’s Man for a Time Like This

I don’t know what President Trump will do, but I do know that he is Yahweh’s man for a time like this.  His job is to protect Israel during the difficult days ahead, and he will do his job.

President Trump’s experience over the past 21 months has taught him several lessons:

  1. If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.
  2. No matter what he does, he will be criticized, so he may as well do the right thing.
  3. The right thing isn’t attractive to “liberal progressives”.
  4. The establishment media is an appendage of the Democrat Party. For all of them, lying is as natural as breathing.
  5. The battle in Washington isn’t between the right and the left. It’s between right and wrong.

Thankfully, Donald Trump is President

Yahweh knew what He was doing when He gave us Donald Trump as president.  At a time like this, an establishment politician from either political party would have been a disaster.

Believers need to stand with the president.  If we support him, we will be blessed.  If we don’t, we won’t.

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SnyderTalk Comment:

Establishment media types tell us everything they know and then some.

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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”.

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