“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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Caroline Glick—The Left against Zion:
In the 1960s, the American Left embraced the anti-Vietnam War movement as its cri de coeur.
In the 1970s, the Left’s foreign policy focus shifted to calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament by the US and its Western allies.
In the 1980s, supporting the Sandinista Communists’ takeover of Nicaragua became the catechism of the Left.
In the 1990s, the war on global capitalism – that is, the anti-globalization movement – captivated the passions of US Leftists from coast to coast.
In the 2000s, it was again, the anti-war movement.
This time the Left rioted and demonstrated against the war in Iraq.
And in this decade, the main foreign policy issue that galvanizes the passions and energies of the committed American Left is the movement to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist.
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“During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the U.S. produced; 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It’s worth noting, that during the almost exact amount of time, the Obama administration couldn’t build a functioning web site.”
SnyderTalk Comment: But look on the bright side. Obama’s campaign website works perfectly.
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IDF deploys Iron Dome over Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheba and Sderot
Gaza rocket fire triggers Code Red sirens in Ashkelon
IDF commander: We know an attack from Gaza will involve multiple threats
Analysis: The situation is still under control
Steinitz: Sunni-Shi’ite nuke race will result if Iranian program isn’t stopped
Israel to again couple Palestinian prisoner release with new construction plans beyond Green Line
Mothers of terror victims go on offensive against impending Palestinian prisoner release
Explosion rocks bus in Cairo’s Nasr City district
200th Wounded Syrian Brought to Israel for Treatment
Israel’s Christian Community Continues to Grow
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Ya’alon: Iron Dome Will Protect South, But We’ll Hit Terrorists
Gaza Terror Could Mean Higher Grocery Bills
Zionist Rabbi: Enlisting Women Dangerous, Immoral
Report: Hamas Gathering Long-Range Rockets
Ya’alon: Government Reconsidering Prisoner Release
Govt. to Choose Terrorists to Release
Rain to Return for the Sabbath
Activist: Outpost Residents Without Power All Year
New Law on Non-Profits Could Shake PM’s Coalition
Mothers of Slain Children: We Cannot be Silent
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Hamas Responsible for Recent Escalation
Code Red alert sounded in south; Iron Dome deployed in Beersheba
Netanyahu to announce up to 2,000 new settlement homes
Despite threats, threefold rise in Christian IDF enlistment
‘We were in a craze to see blood’
Erdogan replaces 10 ministers amid corruption scandal
Turkish court rejects Mavi Marmara victim’s compensation plea
Iranians draft bill to up enrichment to 60 percent
Scurvy makes an unexpected comeback
‘Syrian al-Qaeda-linked group targets UN workers’
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Bloody Christmas for Iraq’s Christians
Liberty Institute: Veterans Affairs Bans Christmas Cards to Troops over Religious Content
Netanyahu warns Gaza terrorists: Don’t test us
Shots Fired from Car at IDF Patrol in West Bank
Naftali Bennett: ‘We Are Pursuing the Peace Process as if There is no Terror’
Israel sticks to its guns on security demands
Egypt freezes over 1,000 NGO bank accounts
Israel Tracks Syria’s Western Jihadis
Major Differences Remain in Israeli-Palestinian Talks
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Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall and Daniel Rubenstein: Sworn to Destruction: 20 Threats Iranian Leaders Made Against Israel in 2013— In 2008, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published its first in-depth study of the Iranian leadership’s views on Israel and Jews. At the time, much of the debate on the subject was focused on then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statement that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” A controversy arose over whether he indeed made this remark or was mistranslated, as some academics suggested. In fact, Ahmadinejad was articulating what has long been, and remains, common parlance in Iran. In 2012, the Jerusalem Center published a collection of Iranian leaders’ statements from 2009-2012. The study proved that anti-Israel incitement was never confined to Ahmadinejad, who in any event is no longer in power. The entire Iranian leadership, which takes its cues from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his predecessor, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, yearns for the day when Israel will be destroyed. This powerful circle includes senior clerics, top Revolutionary Guard commanders, and army officers.
Avi Issacharoff: When support for Hamas wanes, the cannons roar—You can’t say Hamas isn’t consistent. Just as it has refrained from tying itself directly to a string of recent skirmishes along Gaza’s border with Israel, the organization hasn’t claimed the shooting attack that saw an employee of Israel’s Defense Ministry slain on the Gaza border on Tuesday. In fact, according to assessments in the Strip, it was carried out by the Popular Resistance Committees. And yet, it would be a stretch to say that the government in Gaza isn’t the party most responsible for the recent escalation. Last Friday, someone on the Gazan side allowed a group of Palestinians to approach the fence and even attempt to lay explosives. Someone also looked the other way when a rocket was fired last week at Ashkelon. And on Tuesday, someone apparently allowed men from the PRC (which has been known to cooperate with Hamas) to fire into Israel.
Raphael Ahren: Why is this occupation different from all other occupations?— Many Israelis have long felt that the European Union is biased against them. Two legal scholars – a former Israeli ambassador and an American Jewish international law professor — think they’ve found the perfect case to prove the claim: A new fishing deal, signed between the Europeans and Morocco, which applies beyond Morocco’s internationally recognized borders, taking in the territory of Western Sahara, which Morocco invaded in 1975 and has occupied ever since. And they are challenging EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to explain why the agreement, which doesn’t exclude Morocco’s occupied territory, doesn’t show that the body holds Israel to a double standard.
Cnaan Liphshiz: French use Nazi-like salute with impunity—To outsiders, they seem like ordinary men striking macho poses for the camera. But there is a dark side to the photos that are appearing with growing frequency in the French media. The men — and less frequently women — are performing the “quenelle,” a gesture vaguely similar to the Nazi salute that some believe was invented solely to express hatred of Jews without inviting prosecution.
Ariel Ben Solomon: Analysis: Sinai jihadists likely behind Tuesday’s attack in Egypt—The Egyptian Interior Ministry stated on Facebook that initial signs point to a suicide car bomb attack in Mansoura Egypt early Tuesday, which analysts believe was likely perpetrated by jihadists based in Sinai. While the Brotherhood condemned the attack, the Facebook page of its Freedom and Justice Party blamed Christians for the attack, specifically referring to Christian businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris.
Lee S. Bender and Jerome R. Verlin: Media’s Lexicon Poisons Public Perceptions of Israel— Vice President Biden voiced an under-appreciated truth this month in telling a Jewish group that the Jewish people face the most concentrated international effort he has seen in his 40 years of public life to delegitimize Israel. The Western media participates in this delegitimization campaign by lacing its Israel reporting with loaded terms that slander and misrepresent the Jewish state. These terms are used so persistently that even Israel’s supporters habitually use them. The media repeatedly writes that “Jewish settlements” across Israel’s “1967 borders” in “the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem” impede “a two state solution” that would effectuate the UN’s 1947 attempt to partition Palestine “between Palestinians and Jews.”
Yoram Schweitzer and Yoel Guzansky: Al-Qaeda and (In)Stability in Yemen— A recently captured document written by the commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (al-Qaeda in Hijaz) reviews the organization’s strategy in 2011-2012, when operatives seized control of several provinces in the southern part of Yemen. It reveals the organization’s internal debate regarding its relationship with the local Yemeni population, deliberations that were prompted by the organization’s drive to gain popular sympathy and support in its fight against the Sana’a government. The document offers a rare glimpse into the mindset of al-Qaeda leaders and plans for their continued struggle against the Yemeni regime. It also represents similar dilemmas of al-Qaeda affiliates in other arenas fighting against weak governments.
Rita Freedman: Why Academic Boycotts Undermine Peace and Freedom— There is a growing, worldwide effort to ostracize Israel and to make it into a pariah state. (This despite the fact that Israel is still the only democratic country in the Middle East.) A key ingredient of this campaign is the call to boycott, divest from, and impose sanctions on Israel (known as BDS for boycott, divest, sanction). Within the world of higher education, this takes the form of calls to boycott all Israeli academic institutions, sometimes including boycotting all Israeli scholars and researchers. The rationale is that this will somehow pressure Israel into an agreement with the Palestinians, one which will improve their lot and lead to an independent Palestinian state that exists adjacent to the State of Israel (although it is worth noting that some in the BDS movement envision a future without the existence of Israel).
Ron Ben-Yishai: Abbas Must Realize that “Popular Uprising” He Initiated May Jeopardize PA—”The Palestinians don’t want an intifada,” a senior security official in Israel said Sunday, but they may get one, referring to recent Palestinian attacks on Israelis. Israel and the American mediators are not firm enough in their demand that the Palestinian Authority stop the incitement against Israel in the media, while the PA is knowingly allowing a certain level of violence. It is doing nothing to stop the throwing of stones and firebombs, which are considered a legitimate part of a popular uprising. Abbas and his advisors believe, apparently, that they can control the popular uprising and not jeopardize the negotiations with Israel and the upcoming prisoner release.
Michael Rubin: Don’t Expect Rouhani to Transform Iran—During the Ahmadinejad years, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had gained unprecedented political and economic power. More parliamentarians, governors, and ministers were veterans of the IRGC than at any time in the Islamic Republic’s history. While expectations are high that Rouhani will transform Iran at home and on the diplomatic stage, it is not clear that he can or even wants to do so. True, Rouhani quietly moved to unravel the IRGC’s chokehold on Iranian politics, but he has replaced ministers and governors with veterans of the intelligence service.
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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.
Nahum 3: 1-4
Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies [and] pillage; [her] prey never departs. The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of the wheel, galloping horses and bounding chariots! Horsemen charging, swords flashing, spears gleaming, many slain, a mass of corpses, and countless dead bodies–they stumble over the dead bodies! [All] because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the charming one, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations by her harlotries and families by her sorceries.
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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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Does it matter what we call 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.
