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Rafael L. Bardají— Geneva: A Historic and Dangerous Agreement:
In terms of nuclear infrastructure Iran will be as close to getting the bomb in six months as it is today. Geneva leaves Iran with something it was never granted before: the right to enrich uranium. It decouples technologies from the activities of a regime that has sponsored terrorism, deceived IAEA inspectors, and systematically refused to meet the requirements imposed by the United Nations. And we all know how selective sanctions work: Nobody complies. Far from concessions, Westerners can expect more intransigence.
The idea, according to the U.S. administration, is to stimulate the Iranian leaders’ appetite to lead them into more concessions in exchange for improving Iran’s economy.
The agreement reached by the group of countries known as P-5+1½ (that is, the five permanent U.N. Security Council powers plus Germany and the European Union representative) with Iran regarding its nuclear program has been rated by its proponents—President Obama’s followers—as a “historic agreement,” while opponents—primarily Israel and the Gulf monarchies—have criticized the deal since they consider it to be a “historic mistake.” It’s actually both, a historic mistaken agreement.
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Palestinian, int’l activists stage ‘reverse flotilla’ to protest IDF Gaza sea blockade
Syrian gunmen, IDF forces exchange fire over Golan border
Police demand media outlets turn over material from Prawer Plan protest
Security situation in Syria poses difficulties in removing chemical weapons
Netanyahu holds first meeting with Pope Francis
US ship readies for Syria arms destruction
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syria death toll hits nearly 126,000
PM Harper vows ‘Israel will always have Canada’
Egypt begins revoking citizenship of Hamas leaders
Tel Aviv bus bomber convicted; agrees to plea bargain
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Saudi Arabia: Muslim Authority Threatens War Over Temple Mount
Lapid on Israel-US Relations: ‘Closeness Our Greatest Asset’
Peres Secretly Addressed 29 Arab State Representatives
Islamists Oppose Womens’ Rights: ‘Freedom Only in Islam’
UN Human Rights Chief Says Assad Ordered War Crimes
Elite Unit Honored for Ending Salafist Threat
‘Olmert Thinks Israel is America’s Slave’
Jewish Home Veto on Gay Benefits
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Opposes New Constitution
UN Decries New Execution Tactics in Iraq
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Threat of Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. Increasing–Not Decreasing
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Netanyahu gives pope his late father’s book on the Inquisition
Yair Lapid: Discord with US over Iran deal is a ‘family dispute’
Israel experiencing one of the driest winters on record
IDF accused of deliberately targeting journalists
Violence from Syria spills over into Israel
Another path besides conversion
Masorti Judaism is growing and thriving
Shas and Labor forge unlikely alliance
Rouhani fans make Obama-style clip
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Netanyahu, rebuffing Olmert: I won’t be silent on Israel’s security
Navy on high alert for ‘reverse flotilla’ from Gaza
Survivor Describes Nigerian Islamist Terror
‘Personal persecution of Netanyahu is unprecedented’
PA Forces Arrest 20 Salafists in West Bank
IDF patrol comes under fire near Syrian border; no injuries reported
Former CIA chief: Iranians too close to a nuclear weapon
Rouhani: No Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities
Iran: Geneva Deal Not Legally Binding
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Joshua Berman: What Is This Thing Called Law?: The Jewish legal tradition and its discontents—The headline-making issues facing American Jews and Judaism are all too obvious from the statistics gathered in the latest Pew report: climbing rates of out-marriage, growing numbers of Jews with no interest whatsoever in Judaism, a noticeable distancing from Israel. Only among the religiously observant, it seems, is the continuity of a vibrant Jewish life secured. But whatever partial comfort is to be had from this last finding, it would be wrong to conclude that Jews who remain deeply immersed in the practice of Judaism and highly affiliated with Jewish institutions are without troubles of their own. To the contrary: in Israel as well as in the Diaspora, these communities are embroiled in fierce internal debates over any number of contemporary issues—the public role of women in synagogue life; the requirements for conversion to Judaism; and others—that threaten their own cohesiveness and future vitality.
Avi Issacharoff—How sloppy US diplomacy is empowering Iran—After all the hype about an interim agreement between Iran and world powers on Sunday, it became clear on Wednesday that the deal is not actually finalized. Not only has the six-month interim agreement not come into effect yet, but also Iran is free to proceed with its military program at full speed until the deal’s final “technical” details have been worked out, as US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki put it.
Louis Rene Beres: Creeping toward Palestinian statehood— One year ago, on Nov. 29, 2012, the U.N. General Assembly voted to upgrade the Palestinian Authority (PA) to the status of a “nonmember observer state.” Although it is more or less widely thought that this organizational elevation was tantamount to a bestowal of formal legal personality, this is not the case. Jurisprudentially, at least, “Palestine” still remains outside the community of separately sovereign states. This exclusion is evident “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Authoritative criteria of statehood making this point are already long-standing, explicit and readily available. More precisely, under pertinent international law, a state must always possess the following specific qualifications: a permanent population; a defined territory; a government; and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
Caroline Glick: Israel, the Pilgrims and the Maccabees— Back in October 2001 then prime minister, Ariel Sharon, raised the hackles of the White House when he warned the United States, “Do not try to appease the Arabs at our expense. We cannot accept this.” Sharon then invoked the 1938 Munich Pact. As he put it, “Don’t repeat the terrible mistakes of 1938, when the enlightened democracies in Europe decided to sacrifice Czechoslovakia for a comfortable, temporary solution.” Israel, he said, “will not be Czechoslovakia.” Sharon was sharply rebuked not only by the White House, but by leading American supporters of Israel. They attacked him for daring to make the comparison. In time, with the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Sharon’s warning was largely forgotten.
Mariam Karouny: Insight: After Assad, Syria democrats learn to fear Al Qaeda— When he was agitating for revolution, urging fellow Syrians to rise up against President Bashar al-Assad, Abdullah dreaded the midnight knock at the door from the secret police. Now that the uprising has succeeded in his home town near Aleppo, pro-democracy activists are living in fear again – and this time those who brand them “traitor” don’t bother to knock.
Boaz Bismuth: Sorry we were right— Israel began the ordeal of confronting Iran’s nuclear program alone, and it appears that is how it will end it. The very imperfect “interim deal” signed in Geneva; the international conglomerates already seeing the dollar signs and reserving hotel rooms in Tehran; smiley-faced Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s interviews to the press, now being broadcast after the deal was signed; and primarily the feelers sent out between Iran and the Gulf States, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — which all point to one thing: Iran will be nuclear, and that this is first and foremost our problem.
Charles Krauthammer: An outbreak of lawlessness— For all the gnashing of teeth over the lack of comity and civility in Washington, the real problem is not etiquette but the breakdown of political norms, legislative and constitutional. Such as the one just spectacularly blown up in the Senate. To get three judges onto a coveted circuit court, frustrated Democrats abolished the filibuster for executive appointments and (non-Supreme Court) judicial nominations. The problem is not the change itself. It’s fine that a president staffing his administration should need 51 votes rather than 60. Doing so for judicial appointments, which are for life, is a bit dicier. Nonetheless, for about 200 years the filibuster was nearly unknown in blocking judicial nominees. So we are really just returning to an earlier norm.
Tony Badran: The Secret History of Hezbollah— Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn’t Hezbollah’s first terrorist operation, but this attack, the most memorable in Lebanon’s vicious and chaotic 15-year-long civil war, marked the Party of God’s entry onto the world stage. Three decades later, thanks to the efforts of Israeli Hezbollah expert Shimon Shapira, we now know that one of the men responsible for the attack was an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander named Hossein Dehghan—the man Iranian president Hassan Rouhani recently tapped to be his defense minister. In other words, Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran have been joined at the hip from the very beginning, even before the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Mudar Zahran: Jordan’s king and the Islamists: In one boat?— With the Arab Spring boiling, it is would be rather naive for anyone to assume any Arab regime is immune to a revolution. Nonetheless, many in Israel and elsewhere seem to believe the kingdom of Jordan is stable. Those people should just listen to the king himself. In a congressional hearing, US Senator Lindsey Graham said Jordan’s king had told him he “did not think he would be in power within a year from now” because of the crisis in Syria. To which US Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey responded: “Yes, that is basically his fear.”
Dror Eydar: Our international trial— 1. We should be thanking the European Union for making us insist, time and again, that Israel is our own ancestral country. Love of the Jewish people is not the most prominent characteristic of EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who came up with the regulations forbidding the EU to provide economic support to any Israeli “entity” with an address in Judea and Samaria, the Golan Heights and even east Jerusalem (!). Exempt from the restrictions are activities that “aim at benefiting protected persons under the terms of international humanitarian law who live in these territories and/or at promoting the Middle East peace process in line with EU policy.” In other words, left-wing organizations that work to cut us off from our own land, the land on which our lives are based, are eligible for EU funds.
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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.
Micah 3: 1-4
And I said, “Hear now, heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice? “You who hate good and love evil, who tear off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones, who eat the flesh of my people, strip off their skin from them, break their bones and chop [them] up as for the pot and as meat in a kettle.” Then they will cry out to Yahweh, but He will not answer them. Instead, He will hide His face from them at that time because they have practiced evil deeds.
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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.
