“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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Caroline Glick—Kerry’s oh-so-’90s security nonsense:
Like his supporters, US Secretary of State John Kerry has apparently been asleep for the past 20 years.
Kerry has proffered us security arrangements, which he claims will protect Israel from aggression for the long haul. They will do this, he argues, despite the fact that his plan denies the Jewish state physically defensible borders in the framework of a peace deal with the PLO.
There are several serious problems with Kerry’s arrangements. But in the context of Kerry’s repeated claims that his commitment to Israel’s security is unqualified, their most glaring flaws are rooted in their disregard for all the lessons we have learned over the past two decades.
Kerry’s security arrangements rest on three assumptions. First, they assume that the main threats Israel will face in an era of “peace” with the Palestinians will emanate from east of the Jordan River. The main two scenarios that have been raised are the threat of terrorists and advanced weaponry being smuggled across the border; and a land invasion or other type of major aggression against Israel, perpetrated by Iraqis moving across Jordan.
It is to fend off these threats, Kerry argues, that he would agree to a temporary deployment of Israeli forces in the Jordan Valley even after Israel expels all or most of the 650,000 Israeli civilians who live in Judea, Samaria and eastern, northern and southern Jerusalem.
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4 Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon at western Galilee
IDF fires artillery rounds at Lebanon in response to Katyusha rockets
Ministers release list of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be freed in advance of Kerry’s arrival
Bereaved families protest as Israel prepares to release 26 Palestinian prisoners
Pollard group downplays reports of his release in return for freeing of Palestinian prisoners
In technical talks with Iran, the devil is in the details
Person of the year in the Syrian crisis: Israeli health care professionals
English soccer league to probe alleged anti-Semitic gesture by French star
Tremors from Mediterranean earthquake felt in Israel
Left urges Netanyahu not to build in West Bank
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Activists Skeptical Over Kerry’s Pollard ‘Offer’
Rocket Hits Northern Israel; IDF Opens Fire
Has Court Found a Solution for Amona?
Winter Weather to Continue to Tuesday
Proposal on Jordan Valley: Make It Part of Israel
Cabinet to Approve Benefits to Residents of South
Kerem Shalom Crossing with Gaza to Re-open
Murderer of 16 Among Terrorists to be Freed
‘Jewish Blood Is Not a Gesture’
‘Anti-Semitic’ Comedian Faces French Ban
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Hizbullah Agents Use Foreign Passports, Train in Cyprus
Kerry heads back, yet again, to a peace effort mired in crisis
Kerry to return to Middle East next week
‘Kerry offers to release Jonathan Pollard’
Israel slightly delays releases of third round of prisoners
French soccer player uses Nazi-like ‘quenelle’ salute to celebrate goal
Israel braces for stormy weather
Egyptian student killed, 14 injured in university protests
Netanyahu visits hospital with sinus infection
As peace talks plow on, right tries to make a legislative stand
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Israeli Arab Political Party’s Facebook Page Airs Released Terrorist’s Call to Kidnap IDF Soldiers
Knesset Member Proposes Bill That Would ‘Annex the Jordan Valley Forever’
‘Don’t free Palestinian prisoners without Pollard’
A slight American ear infection
Beirut Bomb Kills Former Ambassador to U.S., 4 Others
Islamic Charity Gave Millions to Al-Qaeda, U.S. Says
Azerbaijan: A Shiite Nation Embraces Its Jews
Lebanon Media Council: Seeking Israeli Comments Is Illegal
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Andrew McCarthy: Why the Brotherhood Targets Christians – Remember the Maspero Massacre— A pogrom against Christians — torching Churches and killing believers — is perfectly consistent with the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic supremacist ideology. But there are many despicable things, consistent with that ideology, that are not on display at the moment. By contrast, the Brothers and their sympathizers are very consciously and very publicly besieging Christians due to a key tactical calculation: In Egypt, framing a dispute as “Islam v. the Enemies of Islam” works. The pogrom tells us more about Egypt than it does about the Brotherhood. It is convenient to make the Brothers into the all-purpose villain here, and to comfort ourselves in the notion that if they could be defeated our problems would be solved. But doing so misses the main point: the Muslim Brotherhood is a product of Egypt’s Islamic supremacist culture, not the other way around. The Brothers are an effect, not a cause.
David M. Weinberg: Palestinian Christ persecuted by Israel?— On the most important week of the year for Christian faith, you would think that churches around the world and the Western media would bear witness to the accelerated persecution of Christians in Arab lands by the forces of Islam. You would think that the de rigueur bashing of Israel might be put aside for a moment of Christian self-defense and solidarity. Think again. Much of Western media devoted its Christmas ink, and many Christian nongovernmental organizations dedicated their Christmas appeals, to purveying the false impression that Christians are under assault by Israelis; and worse still, that Jews are crucifying Christians smack in the heart of Bethlehem.
Alex Traiman: Familiar Pattern: Palestinian Terrorism Surge Runs Parallel to Negotiations— Upsurges in Palestinian terrorism are often tied to progress—and eventual breakdowns—in Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations over the past 20 years. The latest round of talks, brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, are proving to be no different.
Michael Freund: Ignore Obama’s lame-duck quacking— If the various rumors and reports are true, January may prove to be one tough month for US-Israeli relations. According to several accounts, the Obama administration is said to be gearing up to push Israel into a corner by offering its own proposals regarding how to shape a deal with the Palestinians. With the clock ticking on the nine months allotted for an agreement to be reached, US Secretary of State John Kerry likely will be twisting Israel’s arm, and applying pressure to other anatomical parts, to coerce the Jewish state into capitulation.
Ryan Mauro: American Muslim Women Not Immune to Islamist Abuse— The women’s rights catastrophe in the Muslim world has reached America. Islamist groups and preachers in the U.S. are directly legitimizing the abuse of women or indirectly through advocacy of sharia law, and Muslims and non-Muslims, men and women, must hold them accountable. Exhibit A is the Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America (AMJA), a group based in California that fashions itself as an authoritative voice of matters of Islamic law. It issues fatwas, or religious declarations, in response to questions from Muslims seeking guidance. Its website has a fatwa bank that will shock anyone concerned about women’s rights.
Gonen Ginat: Gut yontif— Despite the fact that there isn’t a Christmas tree in the square adjacent to the Knesset, we have to admit it — many Jews celebrate Christmas. There are parties, kisses at midnight, and shopping sprees that we just love to take part in. Most of the celebrating Jews have no interest in the religious aspect of it. They just love to party. Still, those celebrating will preserve Jewish tradition, which states that any Jewish celebration cannot be a complete one. For 2,000 years, we have been smashing the glass underneath the wedding canopy as a way of remembering the destruction of the temple. We have also been marking Memorial Day alongside Independence Day.
Michael Gerson: Can Muslim Lands Learn to Tolerate Christianity?—On Christmas Day in Iraq, 37 people were killed in bomb attacks in Christian districts of Baghdad. In recent months, we’ve seen Coptic Christians gunned down in Cairo and churches burned. Thousands of Syrian Christians have fled to Turkey. “Where we live,” said one refugee, “10 churches have been burned down….When the local priest was executed, we decided to leave.”
Khaled Abu Toameh: What the Palestinians and Arabs Think of Kerry’s New Ideas— The Palestinian Authority does not like U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest ideas for peace between the Palestinians and Israelis. The Palestinians especially do not like Kerry’s proposal that Israel maintain a military presence in the Jordan Valley if and when a Palestinian state is established next to Israel. Kerry, however, does not seem to be impressed with the Palestinians’ rejection of his ideas. He appears convinced that immense pressure on the Palestinians will eventually force them to succumb. Palestinian Authority officials complained this week that Kerry is obviously not taking them seriously. “Although the Palestinian Authority leadership has turned down his ideas, Kerry continues to exert heavy pressure on us because he thinks he can impose his will on us,” remarked a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah. “Of course, Kerry is living in an illusion if he thinks we would change our position.”
William Dalrymple: Arab Spring Turns into Christian Winter in Middle East—Long before the Assads came to power, Syria was a reliable refuge for the Christians of the Middle East. Syria took in many Christians driven out of Iraq a decade ago. Now those Iraqi refugees face a second displacement, while their Syrian hosts themselves live in daily fear of having to flee for their lives.
David Solway: Why Transform?— When I heard Barack Obama exulting in the fundamental transformation of America that he promised to bring about in his 2008 speech at the University of Missouri, I was dumbfounded. Why, I thought, would anyone want to transform the most dynamic and successful nation on the face of the planet? Improve it gradually and intelligently through what philosopher Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies called “piecemeal social legislation,” certainly. Seek to strengthen its position in the world, to guarantee its security, and to stimulate a free market economy, with moderate safeguards but without undue and heavy-handed interference, absolutely. But to steer it in a direction that would render it similar to Europe’s increasingly defunct socialist polities or, for that matter, that would resemble my own country, Canada, with its onerous cost of living, high taxation (with a disproportionate tranche falling on the middle class), faltering institutions and intrusive legislation — no way. Americans did not seem to realize how fortunate they were, and some of my American correspondents have indicated that they are beginning to look north for a template to follow. They should look again.
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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: 16-19
“You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven– the creeping locust strips and flies away. Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, and the place where they are is not known. Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains and there is no one to regather [them]. There is no relief for your breakdown, your wound is incurable. All who hear about you will clap [their] hands over you, for on whom has not your evil passed continually?”
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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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It’s time to remove the veil and tell the world who God is by Name.
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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.
