“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Matthew Levitt—Kidnapped Israeli Teens Compel Scrutiny of Hamas’ International Finances:
As Israeli military and intelligence officers fan out across the West Bank searching for the three kidnapped Israeli teens (one is a dual U.S. citizen), they are targeting not only known Hamas militant operatives but also the movement’s political, social, and financial institutions. These arrests and raids are aimed not only at uncovering intelligence on the perpetrators of the kidnapping and location of the three boys, but also at uprooting the financial and civilian infrastructure that the movement has worked long and hard to rebuild in the West Bank.
In fact, Israel has been quietly targeting Hamas’s financial infrastructure for some time now as part of Operation Biur Hametz. (The name refers to the pre-Passover custom of burning any leftover bread before the onset of the holiday.) Much of Israel’s focus the past few months has been on Hamas’s financing from abroad, but the kidnappings have thrust this campaign into full throttle.
Hamas’s European Finance Network
Seven days into the search for the kidnapped boys, the Israeli Defense Ministry banned the UK-based charity Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), accusing the organization of serving as “one of the sources of Hamas’s funding and a means for raising funds from various countries in the world.” Several IRW chapters, including those in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, were run by Hamas members, according to a statement.
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A Muslim welcome for Jewish Temple Mount visitors. Notice the 3-finger Hamas salute. They have started doing more of that to show their support for the Hamas kidnapping of 3 Jewish kids.
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Samuel Rodriguez and Robert Gittelson: Christian Firewall Against 21st Century Anti-Semitism—We feel that the actions of the Presbyterian Church can best be described as misguided, reprehensible and insensitive to the fact that violence against Israel is part and parcel of the underlying problem that deters a meaningful peace agreement between Palestine and Israel. How can Israel in good faith continue in what seems a unilateral attempt to forge a two-state peace solution between themselves and the Palestinian Authority, when the PA operates in partnership with Hamas, a certifiable terrorist organization bent on the destruction of Israel, and everything that Israel stands for? How can Israel make peace with a people that cannot and will not agree that the State of Israel has even a right to exist?
Richard Landes: Why the Arab World Is Lost in an Emotional Nakba, and How to Keep it There— Anthropologists and legal historians have long identified certain tribal cultures—warrior, nomadic—with a specific set of honor codes whose violation brings debilitating shame. The individual who fails to take revenge on the killer of a clansman brings shame upon himself (makes him a woman) and weakens his clan, inviting more open aggression. In World War II, the United States sought the help of anthropologists like Ruth Benedict to explain the play of honor and shame in driving Japanese military behavior, resulting in both intelligence victories in the Pacific Theater and her book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Taking her lead, the great classicist E.R. Dodds analyzed the millennium-long shift in Greek culture from a “shame” culture to a “guilt” culture in his Greeks and the Irrational, where he contrasted a world in which fame and reputation, rather than conscience and fear of divine retribution, drive men to act.
Khaled Abu Toameh: Hamas Prepares for War as Abbas Talks Peace— The Fatah-Hamas reconciliation accord has had no moderating effect on the Islamist movement. On the contrary, Hamas seems headed toward more extremism, and its recent actions and statements show it is preparing for war against Israel, despite Abbas’s assurances that the new government would reject violence. Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh announced this week that, in the West Bank, the intifada against Israel has already begun. As in previous years, summer camps are being used to give Palestinian schoolchildren training in guerrilla warfare. Abbas has thus far failed to condemn his Hamas partners for threatening to fire rockets at Israel. Like many in the international community, Abbas is continuing to bury his head in the sand by refusing to see what his Hamas partners are up to.
Pnina Sharvit Baruch: The Fight against Hamas: The Legal Angle— Following the abduction of three teenagers on June 12, 2014, Israel launched a campaign against Hamas in the West Bank that involves intensive activity on the ground, including searches, arrests, interrogations, confiscation of property, and other actions. The campaign is consistent with Israel’s obligations and rights to guarantee its security and the security of its citizens. To the extent that these measures involve arrests, there is a legal framework that regulates their implementation. Legal difficulty, however, arises in regard to two potential measures, the expulsion of Hamas members from the area and the demolition of terrorists’ homes. The questionable legality of these steps must be factored into the decision making process undertaken by Israel’s leadership. • Abduction of youths is a despicable act. Hamas must be attacked and terrorism must be quelled, and there are many actions that can be taken to this end within the framework of the law. However, there is a price to be paid for actions of dubious legality, both internationally and domestically. Decision makers must take this price into account.
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn: Surprise! ‘Peaceful’ Palestinian Leaders Tolerate Terror Buildup— One of the most important, but least-reported stories connected to the recent kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinian terrorists is the discovery of numerous terrorist tunnels and weapons depots in areas ruled by the “peaceful” Palestinian Authority. The conventional wisdom is that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas is a “moderate” who opposes terrorism and wants to make peace with Israel. PA spokesmen have assured Western reporters that they oppose the Hamas terrorists and are “cooperating” with Israel in the search for the abducted teens. But what Israeli soldiers have found in their search missions tells a very different story.
David Pollock: 60 Percent of Palestinians Say Goal Is Reclaiming All of Historic Palestine—A new West Bank-Gaza public opinion survey conducted on June 15-17, 2014, shows that fewer than 30% of Palestinians now support a “two-state solution”: a West Bank-Gaza Palestinian state in lasting peace with Israel. Moreover, 60% say that the five-year goal “should be to work toward reclaiming all of historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.” Nearly two-thirds said “resistance should continue until all of historic Palestine is liberated,” while only a third said that “it might be necessary to give up some of our claims so that our people and our children can have a better life.”
Alan Baker: Palestinian Manipulation of the International Community— The lengthy and continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has evolved, over the years, through various phases or cycles of terror on the one hand, and attempts at peace-making on the other. These cycles have ranged from sporadic, individual, and organized acts of violence, terror, and armed conflict by the various Palestinian terror organizations, individually or collectively. They have included organized, centrally orchestrated, and systematic military action by shelling of Israeli towns and villages by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist organizations based in, and emanating from, the Gaza Strip. Similarly, these cycles have often evolved into periods of outright low and medium-intensity armed conflict, with reaction by Israel to the Palestinian terror attacks, in defense of its towns, villages, and civilian population. On the other hand, there have also been phases and cycles that have included periodic attempts, at the behest of, and with the active involvement of, the international community, to seek a solution to the conflict through negotiations and attempts at reconciliation and bon-voisinage between the two sides and the two peoples.
Alan Baker: The Hostage Crisis and Palestinian Manipulation—The capture of three Israeli youths by a Palestinian terror organization doesn’t really seem to bother or interest anyone outside Israel. Moreover, Palestinian propaganda has repeatedly instilled the idea that any action by Israel is wrong. A new book recently published under the auspices of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs exposes the extent to which the Palestinian leadership and institutions are continuously and systematically manipulating the international community, with the aim of advancing the very selective, partisan, misleading and patently false narrative that lies at the root of the present apathy.
David M. Weinberg: A believing nation— As I walked into work yesterday after a two-week study trip abroad, a colleague grabbed me to talk about the kidnapped boys: Naftali, Eyal and Gil-ad. She knows that I live in Nof Ayalon, Naftali Frenkel’s neighborhood, and that his parents are my friends. “The mothers of those three boys are amazing,” she said. “Especially Rachel Frenkel, who spoke so eloquently and inspiringly at the U.N. in Geneva this week. It must be easier for them as religious women to handle the situation, since they have faith to rely upon. Oy, sometimes I wish that I had such faith too. I am secular.” I responded to her philosophically. A world without faith is a harsh and cold world, I said, a world without sustainable hope. Religious people indeed believe that the ultimate reality at the heart of the universe is not blind to our existence, deaf to our prayers, and indifferent to our fate. Faith in God’s providence is a central tenet of the Jewish religion; indeed, of all the world’s major religions.
Emily B. Landau: Coming Soon: The U.S.-Iran Blame Game—A month ahead of the deadline for the current negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 over a comprehensive nuclear deal, the stated positions of the two sides could not be further apart. This negotiation is fundamentally not about achieving some middle ground on the nuclear issues. Rather, the onus is on Iran to adhere to international demands after it violated its NPT commitments, cheated and deceived, and lost the trust of the international community. The Obama administration has been bending over backwards since October 2013 so as not to upset Iran, with the aim of preempting any Iranian attempt to blame it of acting in bad faith. Yet despite the U.S. administration’s best efforts, Iran is poised to blame it anyway. For Iran, beyond a P5+1-Iran deal which enables it to maintain the critical components of its nuclear program while still gaining sanctions relief, an impasse in the talks would be the next best outcome. Iran would emphatically claim to have negotiated in good faith, and been blocked by an uncompromising U.S.
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Liberman: Israeli Arabs who demonstrated against IDF are terrorists
Over 1,000 Africans march towards Egypt border, defy orders to return to Holot facility
EU envoy: Europe losing patience with Israel over settlement building
Disraeli childhood home, British Jewry HQ sold for $10 million
IDF arrests 9 Palestinians in overnight operations in West Bank
Explosive device detonates near Gaza security fence
WATCH: A yoga retreat in the Holy Land
Washington roars for whispering Peres
Arab states at United Nations deplore ‘Israeli aggression’
Israel steps up campaign over ‘bad’ nuclear Iran deal
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Iron Dome Intercepts Two Gaza Rockets
5 Injured as Israeli Arabs Riot, Call to Kidnap Soldiers
Kerry Confirms Indyk’s Resignation
Minister Warns of Radicalization Among Israeli Arabs
UN Human Rights Office Calls Israel to ‘Exercise Restraint’
IDF Canine Unit Helps Hunt for Kidnapped Teens
Two Terrorists Killed in IAF Gaza Airstrike
Yaalon: Still Assuming Kidnapped Teens Are Alive
Hamas Calls on Iran to Join ‘Struggle’ on Israel
ISIS Cutting Off Baghdad in Strategic Victories
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US Mideast envoy Martin Indyk quits after attempt at peace deal
Hamas Confirms Two Suspects Were Its Members
Israeli Mini-Farm Could Feed Third-World Hungry
A mother’s plea for ‘prayer, positive energy, whatever it takes’ to find kidnapped teens
Israel names suspects in kidnapping of three teens
Israeli jets strike car, killing 2 Palestinians in Gaza
Gush Etzion residents hold nighttime prayer session for youths
Israeli nanotech innovation can ‘smell’ bombs
2 French Jews jailed for assaulting anti-Israel reporter
For Israel at the UN, a Jordanian ‘ray of light’?
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Mexican law enforcement helicopter fires at US agents
EU signs trade pact with Ukraine, threatens sanctions on Russia
Ukraine pact with European Union prompts warning from Russia
Iraqi Prime Minister: “I Am Indebted to Iran”
Hamas Summer Camp Sparks Near-Lynching of Jews on Temple Mount
Israel Tests New Counter-Abduction Strategy in Ongoing West Bank Operation
President Obama blasts planned GOP lawsuit, says Republicans are ‘mad that I’m doing something’
Obama to Seek More Aid for Moderate Rebels in Syria
Iran sending military aid to Iraq’s fight against Sunni insurgents
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Genesis 13: 14-18
14 Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; 15 for all the land which you see, I will give it to you and to your descendants forever. 16 I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your descendants can also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.” 18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.
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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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Jehovah is not the Name of 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.
