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Jonathan Tobin—The Big Problem in Jerusalem Isn’t the Jews:
In time for the Jewish calendar’s fall holiday season (Jews around the world are celebrating Sukkot—the feast of tabernacles—this week), today’s New York Times took up the delicate issue of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount where, we are told, troublemaking Jews are breaking the rules and making coexistence, if not peace, that much more difficult. Since some Jewish extremists do foolishly dream of replacing the mosques that are atop the Mount (which looks down on the Western Wall) with a rebuilt Third Temple, a scheme that would set off a religious war no sane person would want, Israel has always sought to keep the peace in the city by limiting Jewish visits and prohibiting Jewish prayer there. So with increasing numbers of Jews wanting to look around and perhaps even surreptitiously utter a prayer, the conceit of the Times piece appears to be that this is just one more instance in which Israelis are giving their Arab neighbors a hard time and pushing them out of a city that is sacred to the three monotheistic faiths.
But however dangerous any idea of endangering the Dome of the Rock or the Al Aqsa Mosque might be to world peace, the Jews are not the problem in Jerusalem. That’s because the dispute in the city isn’t really so much about who controls the Temple Mount but the Muslim effort to deny the Jewish history that is literally under their feet. Were it just a question of sharing sacred space, reasonable compromises that would give full Muslim autonomy over their holy sites while allowing Jewish prayer at the spiritual center of Judaism would be possible since Jewish extremists who want to evict Islam from the place are a tiny minority. Yet as long as the official position of both the Muslim Wakf religious authority, which has been allowed by Israel to govern the place since the 1967 Six-Day War, and the Palestinian Authority is that the Temples never existed and that Jews have no rights to their ancient capital, that will constitute the real obstacle to peace.
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Quartet calls for undeterred progress of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Kerry says Israel, Palestinian talks to intensify with increased US role
Abbas to Obama: Palestinians to ‘exert every effort’ for peace with Israel
Code Red siren sounds after apparent rocket fire from Gaza
Palestinians clash with security forces on anniversary of second intifada
Rouhani on peace process: Whatever the Palestinians accept, Iran will accept
Obama, Rouhani have first direct contact between US, Iranian leaders since 1979
Iran to present its plan at Geneva P5+1 talks next month
Iran announces mass production of Shahed 129 drone
United Nations Security Council unanimously votes to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons
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Abbas is a War Criminal: The Evidence
Violence, Arrests in Eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria
MK Regev Pushes Law Banning Discrimination Against IDF Soldiers
Syria: UN Investigating Seven More Chemical Attacks
UN Hails Iran For Attitude on Nuclear Program
Defense Minister says Assad Must Go
No Verification Americans Involved in Kenya Attack
No Verification Americans Involved in Kenya Attack
EXPOSÉ: A Christian Fatwa Against Israel
Sharia-Life: A Geo-Political Time Bomb About to Explode
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Rouhani: Palestinians shouldn’t have to pay for Nazi crimes against the Jews
Abbas at UN: End ‘settler terrorism’ and seize ‘last chance’ of peace
Top minister accuses Abbas of lying to world in UN address
A Game of Thrones at Abbas’s UN speech
World powers say window open for Iran nuclear deal
‘Iran already has a nuclear bomb,’ Israeli paper claims
WH: Progress on nuclear talks depends on Iran’s ‘seriousness’
Chemical watchdog wants to begin Syria probe by Tuesday
Kenya releases dramatic pictures of besieged mall, as Al-Shabab vow more attacks
Spain’s clocks still on Hitler time
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When it comes to stopping Iran, it is now or never
Historic Kerry-Zarif meeting signifies ‘change in tone’ in US-Iran relations
Top Israeli minister warns against sympathetic response to Iran
The rise of the Islamist threat
Assad: Syria has weapons that can blind Israel
French diplomat who struck soldier to be expelled from Israel
Palestinian president warns: ‘Time is running out’ for peace talks
Jihadist Flags Fly Over NYC’s Muslim Day Parade
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Ruthie Blum: Lies, damned lies and the unadulterated truth— Abbas considers Israel’s establishment to be the real “nakba.” Talking about the 1967 borders is a ruse for Western and Israeli consumption.
Pew Research: The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society— Overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law (sharia) to be the official law of the land, according to a worldwide survey by the Pew Research Center. But many supporters of sharia say it should apply only to their country’s Muslim population.
Yoni Hirsch and Eli Leon: How do you say Holocaust in Persian?— Iranian news agencies have questioned the CNN translation of an interview with Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, where he apparently called the Holocaust reprehensible and condemned killing Jews, continuing to cast himself as a moderate figure. During his interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the anchorwoman broached a topic that has been controversial for Iranians for the past decade. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on more than one occasion disputed historical claims over the extensive Nazi campaign to exterminate European Jewry. Rouhani’s answer was almost historic.
James Jay Carafano: Playing by Iran’s Rules—Hassan Rouhani has one mission: to get the Europeans to back off sanctions while preserving Iran’s option to go nuclear whenever it wants. The way to do that will be to 1) appear less threatening to the West, 2) offer to help the U.S. on some thorny geo-political problems, and 3) slow-walk Tehran’s weapons programs while the regime perfects its long-range missiles.
Ben Cohen: Can We Really Negotiate With Iran?— From the brink of war, the Middle East has moved at dizzying speed to the cusp of peace. Or so we are led to believe. The issues at hand are Iran and Syria—and incidentally, there is good reason to feel some relief from that fact, since it’s a timely reminder that Palestinian opposition to Israel’s legitimacy is not the core dispute in the region, but a sideshow in the larger civil war with Islam that has engulfed much of this neighborhood.
Olli Heinonen and Simon Henderson: Nuclear Talks with Iran: Diplomacy and Diminishing Time— Efforts to resolve the long-running international crisis caused by Iran’s failure to explain aspects of its nuclear program appear to be gaining momentum. President Hassan Rouhani will be in New York this week for a UN General Assembly meeting, and speculation is rife that he may meet with President Obama there. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has signaled support for Rouhani to make a deal in return for relief from economic and financial sanctions, stating last week that now is the time for “heroic leniency.”
Michael Singh: Syria’s Lessons for the Iran Nuclear Talks—The Obama administration has asserted that the chemical weapons deal with Syria was made possible only due to the credible threat of force. Thus the administration is now committed to the principle that credible threats of force facilitate diplomatic breakthroughs.
Victor Davis Hanson: Goodbye Syria, On to Iran!— To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way Syria ends: Not with a bang, but a whimper. We are back where we started — lots of people dying — as the crisis recedes with a high five and a sigh, rather than with America blowing some stuff up. The locus of our original outrage — 99,000 Syrians lost in a brutal sectarian war — had almost nothing to do with Assad’s alleged use of WMD. Thus the Syrian violence never could be addressed through even successful negotiations about mostly irrelevant WMD. It would have been as if, at the height of the Rwanda crisis, we had threatened to bomb an RPG depot to force the Hutus and Tutsis to continue with their machetes — then backed off, had an ongoing dialogue with Putin about such dangerous rocketry (as Rwandans continued at it with edged weapons), and called our bluff “non-stylish but smart diplomacy.”
Dan Margalit: One of history’s greatest deceptions— The heart wants to believe that Rouhani is eyeing a deal that would put the brakes on Tehran’s nuclear program, but wisdom indicates otherwise.
Jeffrey Barken: Will Norway’s New Government Crack Down on Anti-Semitism?— Earlier this month, conservative candidates in Norway won landslide elections, deposing the Labour party majority that has ruled for nearly a decade. Many are hopeful that the new government will address social intolerance in Norway, including the rampant anti-Semitism affecting a population of nearly 2,000 Jews. But Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, an author who has written extensively on the prejudices facing Norway’s Jewish community, is skeptical that Norwegians will be able to forget their prejudices. He uses the phrase “part-time anti-Semitism” to describe common attitudes and to highlight the general public’s susceptibility to bias.
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The scripture below is from the New American Standard Bible, and the hyperlinks associated with each word are from Strong’s Concordance for the New American Standard Bible.
Amos 2: 11-12
“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares Yahweh. “But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and you commanded the prophets saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’”
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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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Do we all worship the same god?
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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.
