“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Amichai Magen—The “Something Worse than Hamas” Myth:
In seeking to dissuade Israel from putting an end to Hamas’s reign of terror in Gaza, the head of the US Defense Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, warned on Saturday that, “If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse.”
Referring to the radical Salafist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which last month declared that it had reestablished the caliphate in territories it controls in Iraq, Flynn predicted “something like ISIS” would fill the power vacuum created in the event of Hamas’s downfall.
Worse than Hamas? Really? While Salafi jihadists like ISIS and militant offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood like Hamas differ on questions such as the speed and methods by which Islamic law (sharia) should be imposed on Muslims, there is absolutely no daylight between them about the treatment of Jews. In their eyes all are deserving of death and must, as a matter of religious commandment, be annihilated.
If anything, it is ISIS’s attitude that is less fanatical, in that the Salafists are equal opportunity murderers – targeting Christians, Jews, Shi’ites and any Sunni who does not buy into their particular vision of Islamic utopia – whereas Hamas and its sister organization, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), are singularly obsessed with killing Jews.
Hamas has proven itself to be as implacable as the most radical Salafist armed groups operating in Syria and Iraq, and far more capable than they are at mobilizing for war. After taking control of the Gaza Strip through a violent coup in 2007, Hamas became responsible for governing 1.8 million Palestinians. Yet power has not moderated Hamas, as many had hoped.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Hamas is a cross between organized crime and terrorist organization. To Hamas, governing amounts to total and absolute control over Gazans, putting money in the pockets or Hamas leaders; and planning the annihilation of Israel. Hamas has turned summary execution into an art form. If you didn’t believe these things about Hamas before Operation Protective Edge, you should believe them now.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Hamas beating Arabs who try to evacuate after an Israeli warning to leave because they were about to attack. It’s part of Hamas’ death culture. Hamas wants, Hamas needs for those people to stay put precisely so they can die—for the cameras. It’s like a “snuff film” with mainstream media support. That’s the real Hamas, and that’s how indecent and immoral the mainstream media has become. If you are reading SnyderTalk, you know it.
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David D. Kirkpatrick: Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse than Israel, Stay Silent—Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting. Not this time. After the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led a new coalition of Arab states — including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the Gaza Strip. That, in turn, may have contributed to the failure of the antagonists to reach a negotiated cease-fire even after more than three weeks of bloodshed. “The Arab states’ loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Benjamin Netanyahu,” the prime minister of Israel, said Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents. “I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gaza and the pummeling of Hamas,” he said. “The silence is deafening.”
Alan M. Dershowitz: Qatar, and other American “allies”, are among the villains in Gaza— American allies, especially Qatar and Turkey, have been providing material support to Hamas, which the United States has listed as a foreign terrorist organization. This support includes financial, diplomatic, media and even the provision of weapons that deliberately target Israeli civilians from behind Palestinian civilians who are used as human shields. It also includes harboring war criminals, especially leaders of Hamas, who direct their followers from the safety of Doha. Without the support of Qatar and Turkey, Hamas would never have started this bloody war that has caused so much human suffering. Qatar, which is more of a family-owned gas station than a real country, regards itself as untouchable because of its oil wealth. Its residents—they are not really citizens because there are no genuine elections or freedom of speech or religion—are the richest in the world. It can buy anything it wants, including the 2022 World Cup, several American university campuses, some of the world’s greatest art, Al Jazeera television and other luxuries. It can also buy terrorist groups such as Hamas. Indeed, after Iran, which is the world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism, Qatar ranks near the top of this dishonor role of death.
Robert Tracinski: For Israel, the Hamas Bogeyman Is Real—The under-reported news of the Gaza war is the discovery of an extensive network of tunnels built by Hamas going into Israel, so that Hamas terrorists could commit mass killings and kidnappings. Hamas goons, carrying restraints and tranquilizers, were planning a massive operation for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, sending hundreds of terrorists to overrun Israeli villages. Any discussion about cease-fires or about the proportionality of the Israeli response should take into account the horror-movie monstrosity of this threat. Israelis now have to fear the prospect of humanoid creatures emerging from underground to drag them into the darkness. The Jews live in a live-action horror movie, and the Palestinian bogeyman really is out to get them.
Yaakov Lappin: Hamas Showing Signs of Weakness—In recent days, Hamas members seized UN food coupons and prevented Gazan civilians from receiving the aid, in order to try and keep their own members fed. Moreover, Hamas refuses to publish most of the names of its members who were killed fighting the IDF, and disposes of their bodies quickly, to avoid harming morale. The IDF has seen Hamas tunnel fighters surrender because they have run out of food. The dominant view in Israel is that Hamas is managing the war from a position of weakness. Despite their rhetoric, some senior Hamas leaders are privately asking themselves whether the war they began is worth the price.
Miami Herald Editorial: Israel’s Right of Self-Defense Is Not Negotiable—No one could wish for the people of Gaza to endure prolonged misery. But it was Hamas that wished for the fighting, first, by attacking Israel, and then by rejecting an Egyptian cease-fire proposal because it wanted its own narrow demands addressed first. Israel must be allowed to crush the threat from Hamas, not just for a few months or a year, but for the foreseeable future. The right of self-defense is not negotiable.
Amir Taheri: In Most Muslim Countries There Is Little Support for Hamas—On Tuesday, leading Arab columnist Shamsan al-Na’ai wrote: “Hamas would have done better to tackle the task of improving the lives of the people. Instead it has spent resources on rockets and missiles that are like children’s toys in the face of Israel, which is the region’s major military power.” He castigates Hamas’ leaders for exposing “the ordinary people of Gaza” to the violence of war while they themselves are “hiding in the security in their secret bunkers.” Abdul-Rahman al-Rashed, CEO of the Al-Arabiya satellite TV network, also hits Hamas for “deliberate provocations without regard to the human cost of its policies.” He argues that if Palestinians want Israel to get out of their land, they can’t, at the same time, dig tunnels to sneak into Israeli itself. Interestingly, the most violent anti-Israeli demonstrations have taken place in the West. Amazing though it might sound, hatred for Jews, thinly disguised as opposition to Israel, appeared to be more intense in Western capitals than anywhere in the Muslim world.
Laurie R. Blank: Number of Civilian Casualties Says Nothing about Proportionality—Proportionality is one of a set of fundamental legal obligations that helps to minimize suffering during wartime. The principle of proportionality accepts that not all civilian deaths during war are unlawful, seeking to minimize civilian harm while accepting that such harm cannot be eliminated altogether. Attacks that are likely to cause excessive civilian casualties in light of the military gain from the attack are prohibited – not attacks that are likely to cause any civilian casualties, nor attacks that are likely to cause some civilian casualties, nor attacks that are likely to cause civilian casualties slightly greater than the military gain. An analysis that uses the numbers of casualties and extent of destruction to make legal claims is simply incorrect. Widely different numbers of civilian casualties between two sides in a conflict says nothing about the proportionality of particular attacks on specific targets.
Joshua Muravchik: How the UN Was Perverted into a Weapon Against Israel—The UN General Assembly chastises Israel three times as often as all other countries combined; has declared Palestinian terrorism to be a “legitimate” means of “fulfilling…one of the goals and purposes of the United Nations”; once classified Zionism as a form of racism; and has three special bodies devoted exclusively to agitating against Israel, although no other such body exists for any other country. After Europe adopted decolonization there were scores of new nations born in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The UN grew from 51 to 193 members. Many formed the Non-Aligned Movement. Originally this meant non-aligned in the Cold War, but NAM did not disappear with that conflict. Today it has 120 members, thus controlling every UN body except the Security Council. 57 of the NAM’s 120 members are members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which dominates the NAM – and the core of the OIC is the 22-strong Arab League. Thus, through telescoping leverage, the Arab states have turned the UN into a crusade organization against Israel. Beset by guilt over their colonial pasts, Europeans rarely buck the NAM.
Dr. Rephael Ben-Ari: UNRWA: An Agenda for Conflict—UNRWA, the only UN agency that deals with a single group of people, has become a powerful tool within the international anti-Israel propaganda campaign. The educational services provided by UNRWA, particularly in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, propagate a non-peaceful point of view, upholding a political vision of a continued struggle against a delegitimized Israel. The agency has become a fierce advocate for Palestinians in its dealings with Israel, although it remains nearly silent when Arab governments in host countries violate or restrict Palestinian civil rights. UNRWA has entrenched the idea of “return,” undermining any possibility of resolving the refugee issue in future peace negotiations. In July 2014, rockets were found in three schools in Gaza operated by UNRWA.
Dan Gordon: The IDF Doesn’t Teach Its Soldiers to Hate—I had the privilege of accompanying Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Avigdor Kahalani, one of Israel’s greatest war heroes and now chairman of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers (AWIS), as he went out to meet young soldiers serving near Gaza, under fire. Here is what Kahalani quietly told them: “You know why you’re here. It’s not to hate anybody. It’s to defend your people, your homes and your families. Each of you has to feel as if the whole fate of the whole people of Israel is on your shoulders. Each of you holds that fate in your hands. But it’s not about hatred.”
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Fighting in Gaza continues as truce collapses
Hamas Terrorists Trained in Malaysia for Parachute Attack
Obama calls for ‘unconditional release’ of IDF soldier held captive in Gaza
US seeks Qatari, Turkish help to free reportedly abducted IDF soldier
Netanyahu to Kerry: Hamas bears responsibility for consequences of its actions
Father of missing soldier: IDF will ‘bring Hadar back safe and sound’
US Senate OKs $225 million in aid for Israeli Iron Dome system
Violence mars protest in West Bank city of Tulkarem
5 soldiers killed on the Gaza border
IDF chief Gantz briefs Rivlin on Gaza operation
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Obama Calls on Hamas to Release Kidnapped Soldier
Kerry Demands Hamas Release Kidnapped IDF Soldier
Watch: Reporter Confirms Hamas Fires Rockets from Hospital
Arutz Sheva Interviewed Abducted Soldier
Netanyahu Vows to Make Hamas Pay for Abduction
Sderot Yeshiva Reaches Out to Support Soldiers
MKs Urge Netanyahu to Stop Cease-Fire Agreements
Senate Approves Additional Iron Dome Funding
Arab Rioter Shot Dead in Samaria
UN Blasts Israel for Not Sharing Iron Dome with Hamas
SnyderTalk Comment: Can you believe the idiocy of UN officials? It’s difficult for me to comprehend their stupidity.
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Senior infantry officer describes divine protection in Gaza
PM tells Kerry ‘Hamas will pay’ as IDF hunts for soldier seized in Rafah during truce
IDF searches for officer kidnapped in Rafah attack that also killed 2 soldiers
UNRWA spokesman denies handing rockets over to Hamas
US rebukes Israel, says ‘little doubt’ it shelled school
US partisan squabbling delays Iron Dome funding
The images missing from the war with Hamas
Opposition head rallies behind war: ‘It’s a battle for our home’
A calm Paris pro-Israel rally ahead of anotherSaturday storm?
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10 Myths and Facts about the Gaza War
Defense Secretary Hagel: Resolution of Gaza Crisis Must Include Disarmament of Hamas
Canada Blames Hamas for Gaza Dead
Congress Must Counter Efforts to Delegitimize Israel
IDF: Over the past 24 hours 36% of rockets fired at Israel fell short
Cease-fire collapses between Israel, Hamas
SnyderTalk Comment: Decent people who have kept up knew that the “cease-fire” between Israel and Hamas would collapse within hours of taking effect. All they have to go on are 9 years of experience with Hamas controlling Gaza.
Hamas is as predictable as the sun setting in the west. Hamas leaders haven’t been shy about saying that they don’t want a cease-fire. If you listen to them and interpret their words to mean what say, you know that they have been telling the world consistently and publically that they don’t want a cease-fire. In fact, their charter precludes a cease-fire. The best that Israel can hope for from Hamas is a temporary reduction in the intensity of the fighting. This cease-fire was most likely a trick so they could kidnap an Israeli soldier.
Therefore, I believe that someone, probably John Kerry but maybe Barack Obama, talked with Hamas leaders and told them that it would be in their best interest from a PR point of view to show a little compassion. Little did they know that the word “compassion” doesn’t appear in the Hamas dictionary. Where it should be, they have inserted “Kill the infidel” and “Jew, Jew cowardly pig. Kill, kill, kill”. They proved their duplicitous motives with the kidnapping during the “cease-fire”.
So this is my conclusion as offensive as it will be to some: the only people who can say that they believe Israel is the aggressor in this and other situations having to do with Hamas are people who are either anti-Semitic and instinctively blame Jewish people and Israel for everything from poor weather to shark attacks in the Red Sea; people who are ignorant and refuse to do a little work to inform themselves; and people who are naïve or stupid.
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Genesis 23: 1-9
1 Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 3 Then Abraham rose from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 “I am a stranger and a sojourner among you; give me a burial site among you that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” 5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6 “Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.” 7 So Abraham rose and bowed to the people of the land, the sons of Heth. 8 And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and approach Ephron the son of Zohar for me, 9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site.”
SnyderTalk Comment: Today, Hebron is a hotbed of terrorist activity aimed at Israel. Read His Name is 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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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.
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- 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.
