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Rabbi Steven Pruzansky—Battered Country Syndrome:
As a young attorney a few decades ago, I was trying a case of child neglect in the Family Court. The mother testified (trying to excuse her neglect) that she had been beaten regularly by her husband – weekly or monthly – for six or seven years. “Did you ever call the police?” I asked. “No.” “Well,” I said trying to impeach her credibility, “why would [you] stay for years with a man who was beating you?”
The wrath of the court fell on me. I was called to the bench, where the judge asked me: “Counselor, haven’t you ever heard of the ‘battered wife syndrome’?”
Indeed, I hadn’t, but quickly gained an education. There are women, I was told, who routinely live with abusive husbands. They stay because they can’t afford to leave, because they always think the situation will improve and the last beating is the last beating (until the next one, and that becomes the “last” one), because there can be long periods of domestic tranquility punctuated by explosions, or because they have low self-esteem and on some level “feel” that they deserve the beatings by provoking their malevolent husbands or by not being sufficiently good wives.
Obviously, it is irrational, and almost inexplicable to an outsider with a healthy psyche and a normal, healthy way of looking at the world.
Welcome to Israel, afflicted with the “battered-country syndrome.” There is really no rational explanation why a nation would enter into negotiations with an enemy sworn to its destruction, when any outcome of those negotiations will redound to its detriment, and almost immediately. Furthermore, the very notion that Israel should have to bribe its evil interlocutors to come to the negotiation table by releasing another 104 murderers of Jews is beyond bizarre, beyond explanation, and only attributable to a virulent strain of a mental illness that is unprecedented and, as yet, untreatable. It is painfully obvious that no other country on earth ever has or ever will agree to liberate the murderers of its own citizens simply to purchase the right to have an enemy negotiate them into further concessions and weakness.
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Obama praises Netanyahu, Abbas for peace talks
Iran calls to condemn peace talks during Al-Quds Day rallies
Netanyahu: US House sanctions send ‘clear message’ to Iranian regime
US lawmakers slam Erdogan’s ‘anti-Semitic’ statements
IDF Legal Adviser: Soldiers Should Stop Child Stone-Throwers
Palestinian NGO Network: Resuming Peace Talks Now Is “Dangerous”
Missile Used by Syrian Rebels Poses Limited Threat to Israel
Effort to stop Egypt aid fails in US Senate
Activists rally across Israel, West Bank against plans to relocate Beduin
McCain calls Dempsey’s warning against attack on Syria ‘disingenuous’
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Obama Speaks to Netanyahu and Abbas About Peace
Fund Chaired by Indyk Promoting Arab Rioting?
Police Brace for Rioting in Lower Galilee
US Embassy in Tel Aviv will be Closed Sunday
Iran: New Sanctions will Only Hurt Talks
Report: US Talking to Israel on Final-Status Security
Kerry: The Egyptian Army ‘Saved Democracy’
Senate Confirms Power as UN Ambassador
Jordan Foils Weapons Smuggling from Syria
Gay Rally in Jerusalem; 3 Arrested
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Obama tells Netanyahu, Abbas to ‘move fast’ toward peace deal
US embassies to shut down Sunday due to terror threat
Muslims prepare to mark Quds Day in 80 countries
Livni: We’ll Know Which Way Talks Are Headed in a Month
Netanyahu will have to show his cards — and a map
Peres: EU should ease pressure, give peace talks a chance
Israel Rejects UN Criticism of Bedouin Resettlement Plan
Israeli envoy on EU directives: ‘We weren’t asleep on the job’
Morsi supporters defy police warnings to disperse
Rockets land near presidential palace in Lebanon
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Jerusalem United (Video)
U.S.: Mideast Deal in Nine Months Is Target, Not Deadline
Palestinian Analysts: Peace Talks “Doomed”
Hurdles to Overcome in Mideast Talks
Livni: Agreement on format of peace talks has been reached
Report: Further Israeli Airstrikes on Syria Weapons Cache Likely
Egypt’s Government Orders Break-Up of Pro-Morsi Protests
Iran Gives Gazans Aid, But Bypasses Hamas
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Damien McElroy: Demands that Underpin an Israel-Palestine Peace Deal—To present a deal to its voters in a referendum, Israel must secure Palestinian agreement for recognition of the Jewish state as an integral part of the Middle East. The history of modern Israel is rooted in the homecoming of a religious community to a land where their faith began. But Arabs and Muslims have never formally reconciled with that historic development.
Noah Beck: The Five Flaws of Kerry’s Mideast Peace Process— 1) No Palestinian reciprocity at the outset. Israel agreed to release 104 convicted terrorists just to get the Palestinians to talk peace. Would the U.S. agree to release 104 Guantanamo prisoners for talks with anyone?
Victor Sharpe: The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Mahmoud Abbas— Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s Palestinian peace partner, (an oxymoron if ever there was one) just announced that: “In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier – on our lands.” And this was uttered by Abbas even as the farcical but perilous peace talks in Washington, DC., had hardly begun.
Patrick Goodenough: As Kerry Launches Peace Effort, Where’s the Goodwill Gesture from the Palestinians?— As Secretary of State John Kerry announced Tuesday a goal of achieving a “final status agreement” between Israelis and Palestinians within nine months, secrecy surrounds what concession or goodwill gesture – if any – Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas made to get the process underway.
Daniel Greenfield: Five Lessons from Egypt and the Arab Spring— 1. Don’t Believe Anything You Hear. Egyptian liberals allied with the Muslim Brotherhood to overthrow Mubarak and challenge the military. In those heady Tahrir Square days, they ridiculed the idea that Mubarak’s overthrow would benefit the Muslim Brotherhood.
Amir Taheri: Egypt’s Generals’ Dilemma—Egypt’s military is starting to divide into two camps. Several active and retired officers close to Gen. Sami Annan, a former chief of staff, urge the appointment of a “consensus” prime minister with a program for early elections. They also want Morsi released and invited to negotiations on the timetable for the transition. A second group of officers, close to al-Sissi, believe that only direct military rule can save the situation.
Lee Smith: How the Peace Process May Affect Jordan—Were Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, Hamas would rout the PA in a matter of months and leave Jordan’s King Abdullah with an Islamist group on his Western border.
Shlomi Eldar: True Democracy Still Out of Reach for Arab Spring States—In Egypt, Tunisia, the West Bank and Gaza, democracy begins with democratic elections, but what happened after those elections has no connection whatsoever to the values that stand at the core of democracy: liberty, equality, freedom of expression for the individual and the protection of the rights of minorities.
Clifford D. May: Al-Qaida is back!— Actually, it never went away. It adapted, evolved and morphed.
Tiffany Gabbay: Putin’s Eastern Promises— While Edward Snowden may seem a righteous truth-seeker whose only goal is to selflessly shield Americans from Big Brother, his actions appear quite incongruous with his story.
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Hosea 10: 3-4
Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere Yahweh. As for the king, what can he do for us?” They speak mere words, with worthless oaths they make covenants; and judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.
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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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Yahweh is the Name of God Forever
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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.
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- 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.
