“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.”
Psalm 122: 6
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Fareed Zakaria—Making things worse in the Middle East:
Over the past few months, the Middle East has become an even more violent place than usual. Iraq is now once again home to one of the most bloody civil wars in the world, after Syria of course, which is the worst. Watching these horrors unfold, many in the United States are convinced that this is Washington’s fault or that, at the very least, the Obama administration’s “passive” approach toward the region has allowed instability to build. In fact, the last thing the region needs is more U.S. intervention.
The Middle East is in the midst of a sectarian struggle, like those between Catholics and Protestants in Europe in the age of the Reformation. These tensions are rooted in history and politics and will not easily go away.
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White House: World security hinges on success of Iran nuclear deal
‘Hillary Clinton mulled green light for Israeli strike on Iran’
Netanyahu says if Rouhani agrees to recognize Israel, he would consider meeting him
RCA says agreement reached with chief rabbinate
Lebanon’s Hariri willing to share power with Hezbollah
Syrian rocket fire on Lebanese border town kills 7
Report: Russia stepping up military aid to Syria’s Assad
Iran to have access to $4.2 billion in foreign exchange assets
IAEA inspectors to visit Iran uranium mine
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Demonstration Outside Arab Village After Near-Fatal Attack
Report: Netanyahu Supports Liberman Land Swap Plan
Officials: Gaza Ceasefire Is Dead
IDF Spokesman: We Won’t Hesitate to Up the Ante
Esh Kodesh Vineyard Replanted After IDF Destroyed
After 11 Years Rabbis Appointed to Kibbutzim
United States Welcomes Netanyahu-Abdullah Meeting
Syria to Miss Another Deadline in Chemical Removal
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PM, Livni said to support Liberman’s land-and-people swap plan
Liberman summons EU envoys over ‘one-sided’ policies
PM lashes European ‘hypocrites’ for settlement complaints
Can Hillel fully serve Jewish students and fully protect Israel?
Google puts fast Israeli 4G chips in its newest notebook
4,000-year-old erotica depicts a strikingly racy ancient sexuality
After rockets, Ashdod cancel classes in unprotected schools
Israeli minister to visit Abu Dhabi
After nuke deal, EU readies to lift some Iran sanctions
Hezbollah digs in for more conflict with Israel
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NSA phone data control to come to end
Netanyahu blasts European hypocrisy on settlements
Netanyahu vows to support Jordan’s interests in peace deal
UNESCO Pulls Jewish Exhibit After Last Minute Protest From Arab League
US urges Syria opposition to join ‘Geneva II’ peace talks
IDF on alert after Gaza rocket fire
Egyptians back constitution, pave way for Sissi presidential run
‘I’ll never recognize a Jewish state’
Under Palestinian Law, Abbas is Subject to Death Penalty if He Signs Peace Deal With Israel
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Michael Doran and Max Boot: Obama’s Losing Bet on Iran— A great deal of diplomatic attention over the next few months will be focused on whether the temporary nuclear deal with Iran can be transformed into a full-blown accord. President Obama has staked the success of his foreign policy on this bold gamble. But discussion about the nuclear deal has diverted attention from an even riskier bet that Obama has placed: the idea that Iran can become a cooperative partner in regional security. Although they won’t say so publicly, Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry surely dream of a “Nixon to China” masterstroke. They are quietly pursuing a strategic realignment that, they believe, will end decades of semi-open warfare between Iran and the United States and their respective allies. In our view, the Obama administration wants to see in its place a “concert” of great powers — Russia, America, the European nations and Iran — working together to stabilize the Middle East as in the 19th century, when the “Concert of Europe” worked together to stabilize that Continent.
Christine Williams: “Let’s Burn the Jew” is not Anti-Semitic?— Anti-semitism sank to a new low in Canada after a Winnipeg judge ruled that grabbing a Jewish classmate, flicking a lighter to her hair and saying, “Let’s burn the Jew,” was not anti-Semitic. The incident took place between two fifteen-year-old classmates, where the defendant pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon. The lawyer for the defendant implied that it was the girl’s fault that her hair caught fire — because she pulled away. Then Manitoba Provincial Court Judge Robert Finlayson agreed with the defense that the action was one of teen impulsiveness. The victim not only stated that the incident “changed her world upside down,” but that she needed therapy to deal with her fears and felt that she was blamed by some people in the school for making too much out of the incident. Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center in Canada expressed horror at Finlayson’s ruling. In a press release, CEO Avi Benlolo stated that he could not imagine “the same decision would have been rendered had the perpetrator targeted any other minority group in a similar way.”
Victor Davis Hanson: The Israel Double Standard— An obscure academic organization called the American Studies Association not long ago voted to endorse a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli universities. The self-appointed moralists were purportedly outraged over the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians. Given academia’s past obsessions with the Jewish state, the targeting of Israel is not new. Yet why do the professors focus on Israel and not Saudi Arabia, which denies women the right to drive and only recently granted them the right to vote? Why not Russia, which has been accused of suppressing free speech, or Nigeria, which has passed retrograde anti-homosexual legislation?
Soeren Kern: European Court Undermining British Sovereignty— The new president of the ECHR, Judge Dean Spielmann, threatened in June 2013 that if Britain did not adhere to European human rights laws, it could face being ejected from the European Union altogether. Britain’s Lord Judge told the BBC that Judge Spielmann was claiming too much power for a body of unelected judges whose rulings could not be challenged. “This is a court which is not answerable to anybody,” he said. “My own view is: stop here.” “The process by which democracies decline is…subtle… What happens is that they are slowly drained of what makes them democratic, by a process of internal decay and mounting indifference….” — Supreme Court Justice Lord Sumption
Abigail R. Esman: In Turkey, Terror Probe Infuriates Prime Minister—On Tuesday, two senior al-Qaida leaders were arrested in Kilis Province, Turkey during a large-scale counterterrorism sweep by Turkish police. The arrests, conducted alongside a raid on the Van province offices of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (known as IHH), took place less than six months after Turkey partnered with the United States to develop a specialized counter-terrorism program aimed at reducing Islamic radicalism in the Middle East. Well done, you say? Not so fast.
Melanie Phillips: Iran Goads the Gullible West—One of the more notable characteristics of what we must surely call the world jihadi community is how proud – indeed, positively boastful – they are about their murderous intent. That’s presumably because they really do believe they are fulfilling a sacred mission. From Gaza to Mogadishu, from Ramallah to Tehran, those bent on holy war repeatedly announce their support for and encouragement of the defeat of the west, the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Much, but by no means all, of this incendiary rhetoric is delivered in Arabic. Statements in English often comprise the emollient phrases of compromise and moderation which are a mandatory precondition of jihadi participation in talks with the west, and which accordingly are carefully crafted to exploit the fathomless gullibility of the cultural-suicide crowd.
Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall: The Internal Iranian Struggle in the Aftermath of the Geneva Nuclear Agreement—The Geneva nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 has become a focus of growing domestic controversy in Iran between the conservatives and Revolutionary Guard on one side, and President Hassan Rouhani, the nuclear negotiating team, and those considered the reformist camp on the other. Optimism on a possible improvement of U.S.-Iranian relations is gradually giving way to the anti-American discourse that Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guard promote. At the same time, the regime’s security establishment, particularly the Revolutionary Guard and the Intelligence Ministry, are continuing a crackdown on the opposition and social networks, making clear that they will do whatever is necessary to protect Iran’s revolutionary Islamic nature. In the short time Rouhani has been in office, the Revolutionary Guard commanders have had considerable success in constraining his hesitant efforts toward a domestic transformation, while repeatedly warning that they will not accept the use of the nuclear agreement to facilitate far-reaching domestic, regional, and international changes (mainly toward the U.S.) that would divert Iran from the path they have ordained for it.
Dror Eydar: Why the uproar?— 1. What was the uproar in the media this week all about? Was it about the statements of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, or about the description of John Kerry as “acting out of misplaced obsession and messianic fervor”? Most of the media was busy pointing fingers at Ya’alon. The talks with the Palestinians are a fundamental principle of the catechism of left-wing orthodoxy, and nobody should oppose them or, worse still, accuse the messenger who is forcing an agreement upon us of caring more about his Nobel laurel than about the facts. In revealing the statements made off the record, Yedioth Ahronoth sought to undermine the defense minister’s ability to withstand the enormous pressure the United States has placed on him to surrender to the plan that will mortgage our future.
Jerold Auerbach: Moshe Ya’alon and the Dangers of Truth-Telling— As former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and current Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon have recently been reminded, honesty in politics can be costly. Gates’s memoir, Duty, recounts the resistance of President Obama to winning wars, especially in Afghanistan. The former Secretary concluded, in a memorable passage: “the president doesn’t trust his commander, . . . doesn’t believe in his own strategy and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.” That is not the way to win friends from Obama administration lackeys in Washington or the liberal media.
Jeryl Bier: Kerry: ‘Root Cause of Terrorism’ Is Poverty—“We talked about the common interest of Pope Francis and President Obama in addressing poverty and extreme poverty on a global basis. The United States of America is deeply involved in efforts in Africa and in other parts of the world – in Asia, South Central Asia – to address this poverty, as is the Catholic Church. And so we have a huge common interest in dealing with this issue of poverty, which in many cases is the root cause of terrorism or even the root cause of the disenfranchisement of millions of people on this planet.”
Typical John Kerry: 99.94% Pure BS
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Zephaniah 2: 1-3
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather, O nation without shame, before the decree takes effect—the day passes like the chaff—before the burning anger of Yahweh comes upon you, before the day of Yahweh’s anger comes upon you. Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the earth who have carried out His ordinances; seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
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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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Hamas is No Peace Partner for Israel
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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.
