“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Laura Smith-Spark—Taliban school attack: What do the militants want?:
The scene was horrifying. Gunmen stalked through the school, shooting children as they cowered under benches and booby-trapping buildings with homemade explosives.
When the siege finally ended, Pakistan was left reeling and the world wondering: Who would do such a thing? And what do they hope to achieve?
The identity of the group behind the massacre at the army-run school in Peshawar is no mystery.
The Pakistan Taliban — who have long conducted an insurgency against the Pakistani government as they seek to overthrow the authorities and bring in Sharia law — were quick to claim the terror attack.
And they said it was revenge for the killing of hundreds of innocent tribesmen and their children during a recent offensive by the Pakistani military.
Earlier this year, the government held tentative peace talks with the Pakistan Taliban — formally known as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP — but it suspended them after two brazen attacks around Pakistan’s largest airport in Karachi in June.
Since then, Pakistan’s military has been conducting a ground offensive aimed at clearing out TTP and other militants in the loosely governed tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan. The campaign has displaced tens of thousands of people.
The Pakistan Taliban [is] also against Western-style education for children and the employment of women. Most famously, their militants shot schoolgirl education activist Malala Yousafzai in the head in 2012 as she traveled on a school bus. She survived to receive a Nobel Peace Prize last week.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The article asks this question: “What do Taliban militants want?”
I’ll answer it with another question: what do they say they want?
This is a related question: what is the difference between the Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist terrorist groups with menacing names? I’ll answer it in a moment.
We don’t have to guess about what they want because they have been telling us repeatedly for several decades. Now, they are making their voices heard with more dramatic events that are staged for the media, and they are getting the global attention that they lust for. Even more, they are attracting followers from among the Muslim masses and from Western countries that have tried their best to ignore the problem as though it was little more than a gnat a summer picnic.
We also know how Islamist terrorist groups differ. For our purposes, they don’t. They are one group with the same mission.
Islamist terrorist groups do have differences, though, but those differences don’t mean much to us. Eventually, their differences will divide them, and they will kill each other in a battle for ultimate supremacy of Islam. For the time being, their differences are on the back burner, and they will remain there until Islamist terrorists have achieved their primary objective.
In a nutshell, they want to bring down existing governments, establish a new world order with Muslim rule under a caliphate, and impose Sharia law. We don’t have to guess about that, either, because they have told us time and time again.
Are we listening and taking them seriously? The answer is obvious: no.
In due course, Barack Obama will address the nation yet again and tell us once more that “Islam is a peaceful religion”. That statement stretches believability beyond the limit. Most Americans have already recognized that the president is either lying or he is dangerously naïve. That’s what polling data tells us.
Adolf Hitler tried to hide his true intentions until he had absolute power in Germany, and even after he had complete control, he attempted to keep his deep, dark secrets from getting out to the larger world. Islamist terrorists have abandoned any pretense. They are brazenly telling us and showing us what they want and what we can expect if they succeed.
This war is well underway already. The enemy is making great strides, and we are still twiddling our thumbs and wringing our hands.
The longer we wait to admit that we have a serious problem, the more difficult it will be to eradicate it. If we wait too long, our children and grandchildren will regret it. Their children and grandchildren could regret it, too.
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Holly Robichaud: Elizabeth Warren not presidential material—There is not much of a Democratic presidential bench with first-term U.S. Sen. Lizzy Warren emerging as the alternative to Hillary Clinton. What does our senator have to offer the nation? Before serving in the Senate, she wrote the study on medical bankruptcies that was repeatedly cited by President Obama as a justification for passing Obamacare. Her findings grossly overestimated the number of health care-caused bankruptcies by counting people addicted to alcohol, drugs or gambling. Like MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, Congress should question Warren on her conclusions, seeing as they contributed to the country being saddled with Obamacare. Nowadays, ruinous scandals are only for Republicans. Democrats are given a free pass no matter how outrageous the offense. If we were in an equal treatment world, Warren would be automatically disqualified as presidential material for faking Indian heritage to enhance her career. During his short term in office, Warren’s predecessor, Scott Brown, was able to pass three pieces of legislation despite being in the minority party. As a majority party member, what three pieces of legislation has Warren passed? The first piece of legislation she filed was to lower the cost on school loans. While it appears noble to help lower the costs for college kids, it is also somewhat self-serving. These loans pay the outrageous tuition rates that pay outrageous salaries for professors. How about requiring professors who earn $350,000 to teach more than one class to reduce tuition fees?
SnyderTalk Comment: Holly Robichaud, the writer of this article, is from Massachusetts, the state that elected Elizabeth Warren to the Senate. Robichaud knows what she’s talking about, and she says that Warren is not presidential material.
Warren left the government job in Washington to which she was appointed by President Obama and returned to her faculty job at Harvard. She’s not academic material, either.
Warren’s shoddy reporting of facts is only part of her problem. Alone, it should have been enough to disqualify her for a faculty appointment at any respectable university, and Harvard is respectable. Warren’s false claim that she has native-American heritage should have been enough to get her fired from Harvard when the facts came out during the Senate race. It’s like a white person claiming to be black or a perfectly healthy person claiming to be disabled. It’s fraud. Why administrators Harvard overlooked that problem is beyond me, but they did.
The fact that Warren is the darling of the Democratic Party and the mainstream media is not a qualification for president. Those are the only qualifications that Obama had when he was elected president, and we know what happened next.
When Obama completes his term of office in 2 years, we will have had all we can stand from people who aspire to the highest office in the land despite their total lack of qualifications. I hope we can close the books on Obama and his gangster government in 2016.
Elizabeth Warren is part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn: Why Do 80% of Palestinians Support Murder?— In most parts of the world, it’s not easy to find a major issue on which 80 percent of the population agrees. An election victory in the United States is considered a “landslide” if the winner receives more than 60 percent of the vote, such as Richard Nixon winning 65 percent of the vote against George McGovern in the 1972 presidential race. But among Palestinian Arabs in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza, it turns out there is one issue on which there is more support than any other: randomly murdering Israeli Jews. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research last week asked a sample of 1,270 Palestinian Arab adults in the territories what they thought of the recent wave of attacks in which Palestinians stabbed Israelis or ran them over with their cars. Eighty percent responded that they support such attacks.
Carol Hunt: The Fears that Haunt Israelis in a Hostile World— A well-intentioned motion, one would think. Who could oppose self-determination for such a victimised people as the Palestinians? Recently, I asked this very question of Israeli diplomat Dr Einat Wilf, who was visiting Ireland. Einat is exactly the kind of politician I like: tough, intelligent, feminist, left-leaning, atheist and a supporter of the Israeli-Palestine two-state solution. We meet in the lobby of The Merrion Hotel, where she has her two-year-old son in tow – he’s just got a new Lego aeroplane and he’s delighted with himself. As we search for a seat, I recall that, historically, Ireland and the European Left were staunch supporters of the state of Israel. When we sit down and sort ourselves out with coffees and ice cream, I ask Dr Wilf, where did it all go wrong? “I recall the moment I realised something was happening. About 10 years ago I was invited to address the socialist members of the European Parliament. I was asked as a colleague, a member of the Israeli Labour Party, a socialist and so on… However, the more I talked to them as a Labour Zionist, the more I realised that the mere fact that I was a Zionist put me beyond the Pale as far as they were concerned”.
Michael Curtis: A Christian Priest Speaks Truth on Israel— In the British political system members of the royal family are not supposed to utter political or controversial remarks on political issues. It was therefore very meaningful that on November 4, 2014 British Prince Charles in a recorded video broadcast by the BBC, spoke truth to the people. Charles, not assumed to be a Zionist as detractors might imagine, sadly remarked, “It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East, an area where Christians have lived for 2000 years.” Charles was commenting on the just published report, Religious Freedom in the World 2014: Aid to the Church in Need, which concluded that religious freedom had deteriorated in 55 of the 196 countries studied. Most significantly, the report found that Christians remain the most persecuted religious minority, directly related to the fact that they are historically widely dispersed, often in cultures very different from their own. Many of the countries where Christians have been established for generations or even millennia have now become subject to extremism. In 20 countries studied, the highest levels of persecution result mostly from Islamist extremism and partly from authoritarian regimes.
Uzay Bulut: Ethnic Cleansing of Jews in Turkey— The real question is: Now that the ethnic-cleansing campaign of the Turkish regime has been “successfully” completed, and there are only two Jews left in Edirne, why is the governor of the city still so angry? The sweet little secret in both Turkey and Europe is that anti-Semites do not need the existence of a Jewish state to attack or threaten Jews. Hatred of Jews did not start with the re-establishment of the state of Israel. The truth is that those who carried out ethnic cleansing of Jews are the last persons who should whine about the non-existent Israeli “occupation.” Israelis are not occupiers in Israel. Israel is the home of the Jews; you cannot be an occupier in your own home. Israel has the legal, moral and historical right to exist as a sovereign state.
Tim Lister: Why Australia may be prone to terror threats—The Sydney siege has brought home some troubling truths to Australians. They are not immune to the upheavals in the Middle East, despite being on the other side of the world. They are as vulnerable as Canadians or Europeans to what are often called “lone-wolf” terror attacks. And recently-introduced anti-terror laws, while some of the toughest in the world, can only do so much. Radicalized Australians have been drawn to ISIS for many months, as well as to al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra. Intelligence estimates put the number of Australians fighting with militant groups in the region at between 60 and 100. And long before Syria and Iraq became the jihadists’ destinations of choice, Australians were among foreign militants converging on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. Besides those who leave Australia, there has been growing concern about networks which facilitate travel and raise money, raising the risk of attacks on the homeland.
SnyderTalk Comment: Australia has some of the most radically restrictive gun laws in the world. That means Australians are practically defenseless. Restricting gun ownership for law-abiding citizens doesn’t help. It hurts. That fact has been proven time after time, and research studies done at Harvard support it.
It’s clear that in Australia criminals and Islamist terrorists have no trouble getting their hands on guns and ammunition. The only people who are hurt by those restrictive gun laws are the law-abiding citizens that the government is supposed to protect.
Jonathan S. Tobin: No UN Palestinian Veto? Obama’s Tempted.— This week push may come to shove on the long-simmering feud between President Obama and the Israeli government. With the Palestinians pushing for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would unilaterally recognize their independence in the territory won by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, the administration must decide whether it is truly in its interests to facilitate an end run around the peace process it has sponsored by refusing to veto the measure just to demonstrate its pique at Prime Minister Netanyahu and or undermine his chances for reelection in the March elections. But while the stakes here are high for both Israel, whose isolation could be greatly increased by passage of such a resolution, and Netanyahu, the danger to Obama’s foreign policy and U.S. interests from such a vote is high as well. Just as important, the notion that passage of this resolution has anything to do with promoting peace is farcical. The Palestinian Authority’s motives for seeking to gain a Security Council vote on recognition of their independence are clear. They claim that the peace negotiations promoted by the U.S. over the years has not brought them closer to their declared goal of gaining a state and that only by having the international community force its hand will Israel ever be willing to retreat to the 1967 lines and let Palestinians enjoy sovereignty and self-determination. That is the argument behind the decisions of several European parliaments to adopt resolutions endorsing Palestinian statehood.
Eli Leon, Shlomo Cesana, and Nitzi Yaakov: “Hamas Will Liberate West Bank, Just Like Gaza”—Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar said over the weekend: “Just as we liberated Gaza, just as we established a real national government there, just as we built a victorious army, just as we built a protective police force, and just as we have created security apparatuses with which to fight the enemy, we will repeat the same steps in the West Bank as preparation for our arrival in all of Palestine.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Gaza in the West Bank. That’s just what we need.
Soeren Kern: Europe Declares War on the Internet— “Spanish newspapers formed suicide pact, invited Google to pull the trigger. Google did.” — Twitter user. Spain’s ailing newspaper industry, which is utterly dependent upon Google News search engine to drive traffic and revenues, is now at risk. The spirit of the new law “is not really about compensation, but about extorting money from Google… The final result of the Google Tax: no one gets paid, media lose traffic and Internet users lose an important service. Spanish newspaper publishers should be thankful that an external agent drives readers to their publications for free.” — Alfredo Pasqual, technology commentator. Europe’s obsession with Google may be more about anti-Americanism than anything else.
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn: The Arrogance of Martin Indyk— During an old controversy involving Martin Indyk, then the U.S. ambassador to Israel, one Israeli political official invoked a particularly nasty historical analogy. Indyk reportedly had been contacting individual Israel cabinet ministers to demand they support making more concessions to the Arabs. “Ambassador Indyk needs to be reminded that he is not the British High Commissioner,” said the chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. Not many Israelis today remember when a foreign power ruled Eretz Yisrael through the proclamations of an absolute dictator, nor how oppressive it was to live under his rule. But prior to Israel’s independence in1948, Jews living in the Holy Land could not shape their own fate. Outside powers – in this case, the British ruling authorities – called the shots, with their High Commissioner deciding what was best for the Jews. Martin Indyk also acts as if he knows what’s best for the Jews. As President Obama’s special envoy, he declared in an August 2010 New York Times op-ed that Israel should “withdraw from at least 95 percent of the West Bank and accept a Palestinian capital in Arab East Jerusalem.”
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Is Obama secretly working to replace Netanyahu?
Liberman slams EU: Hamas is just like ISIS and al-Qaida
Liberman hits EU support for unilateral PA moves then jabs Netanyahu for not presenting initiative
Israel’s defense establishment lies about failed missile test – again
Pressure remains on Israel as Kerry declines veto guarantee at UN
EU: Decision on removal of Hamas from terror list is legal not political
Netanyahu: We expect the EU to put Hamas back on the terror blacklist immediately
Report: Mossad spy that infiltrated Hezbollah was in charge of Nasrallah’s security
PM Cameron: Britain faces threat of Sydney-style attack at any moment
Erdogan’s regime becoming more dictatorship than democracy
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Abbas’s Religious Adviser: Israel Will Disappear
‘God Gave Me My Life Back to Continue With My Mission’
Shoval: Hamas ‘Listgate’ Proves EU Is No Friend of Israel’s
European Parliament Votes to Recognize ‘Palestine’
EU Stresses it ‘Still Considers Hamas a Terrorist Group’
Ariel and Yishai Meet as Jewish Home Split Looms
8,000-Year-Old Olive Oil Discovered in Galilee
Yehimovich Blames Netanyahu for Israeli Poverty
Yishai Split With Deri For ‘Leaning to the Left’
Teen Terrorist Nabbed Before ‘Stabbing Zionist’
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French-Israeli sells out aliya-themed show in Paris
Sydney teen who yelled ‘Kill the Jews’ sentenced to Shabbat dinner
Ramallah to push UN bidWednesday, will maintain security ties
Analysis: Seemingly mixed moves show Palestinians playing long game
PM: Europeans boosting Palestinian statehood should heed Hamas
Why the Book of Mormon is the Great American Novel
Shin Bet, police foil ‘pregnant’ suicide bomber plot in Tel Aviv
Parents of slain journalist to honor son at Hanukkah event
Weapons from Israeli Embassy shooting were used in ’13 Athens attack
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Kerry to Palestinians: Delay UN bid until after Israeli elections
New Poll Shows Netanyahu Opening Strong Lead Over Rivals as Election Battle Intensifies
Kerry Recycles Discredited Claim That West Bank Mosque Fire was ‘Indefensible Price Tag Attack’
EU court removes Hamas from terror blacklist
Arabs on Social Media: CIA Torture Pales in Comparison to Practices in Arab World
ISIS Casts a Shadow Over the Sydney Hostage Crisis, Connected or Not
5 Palestinians arrested in Israel for planned attacks
Senate narrowly confirms new surgeon general
SnyderTalk Comment: The new surgeon general thinks that guns are a public health concern. That perspective is absurd and it contradicts the best research on the subject available. He’s a nutjob and a perfect fit for the Obama administration.
UK: Hamas-linked Interpal Enjoys Mainstream Support
Israel Will Rebuff Any UN Moves to Set a Timeframe for West Bank Withdrawal
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Iraq: Iran’s “Boots on the Ground”
Sydney siege: Iran says it ‘requested extradition’ of gunman Man Haron Monis in 2000
‘French Effect’ Hits Turkey as Jews Look to Future Outside of the Country
Calls for Legitimizing Iran Weaken Moderate Forces
Putin Leads the Russian Power Play
UK foreign aid millions helped Iran hang 3,000 in reign of terror
Turkey Promotes Religious Schools, Often Defying Parents
Turkey’s Erdogan battles ‘parallel state’
Russia economy: What is the risk of meltdown?
Western-style stores growing in Iran
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Genesis 41: 25-37
25 Now Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same; God has told to Pharaoh what He is about to do. 26 The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one and the same. 27 The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine. 28 It is as I have spoken to Pharaoh: God has shown to Pharaoh what He is about to do. 29 Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt; 30 and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land. 31 So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe. 32 Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determined by God, and God will quickly bring it about. 33 Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. 35 Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it. 36 Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.” 37 Now the proposal seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.
SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “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)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
