“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Clifford D. May—Iran rising:
In his address to the U.N. General Assembly last week, U.S. President Barack Obama called the conflict in the Middle East “a fight no one is winning.” I think the evidence suggests he’s wrong. I think Iran is making significant gains.
That should distress us because the Islamic republic, no less than the Islamic State group, is committed to waging jihad. Iran’s 1979 revolution was led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a Persian, Shiite, Islamist version of Lenin. His intention: to spark a global uprising against the West.
Khomeini championed social justice — of a sort.
“If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth,” he said in a 1984 speech celebrating the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, “the infidel’s moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him.”
Among Khomeini’s disciples: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iran’s current president, the “moderate” Hassan Rouhani. Last year, Rouhani observed: “Saying ‘Death to America’ is easy. We need to express ‘Death to America’ with action.” His most strategic action to date: pushing back Obama’s red lines on Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapons capability.
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SnyderTalk Comment: Hassan Rouhani—”Saying ‘Death to America’ is easy. We need to express ‘Death to America’ with action.”
Benyamin Netanyahu is right. Iran is a greater threat to the world than ISIS.
Does Obama get it? I hope not, because if he does get it, his motives are sinister.
Whether Obama gets it or not is irrelevant since the result is the same.
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Uzay Bulut: Turkey’s relations with Hamas, ISIS and the West—”Just as it was in the past, if a leaf trembles in the Balkans, the Middle East, the Caucasus or Central Asia, Ankara will be the first to hear it and respond to it,” Turkey’s then-Foreign Minister and current Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in a speech in the Turkish parliament on July 1, 2010. He also declared his stance on Jerusalem: ”Jerusalem is our issue. East Jerusalem is part of the state of Palestine, not Israeli territory, and consists of territory that was invaded in 1967.” Jerusalem, he added, was a Turkish issue because of its period of Ottoman rule. ”Even the religious sites in east Jerusalem are administered according to the Ottoman precedent. There is no other practice. There is no other law. The Ottoman precedent is still valid there,” he said.
Sarah N. Stern: The law of unintended consequences— As Americans turn their attention to the war against the Islamic State group, an old enemy is, no doubt, delighted that they are turning their attention away from it, as Iran races to enrich as much uranium and produce as much plutonium as it can, and finish the missile delivery system for a nuclear weapon before the looming Nov. 24 deadline. It was recently learned that the P5+1 nations (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany) are trying to come up with some formulation to enable the Iranians to offer them yet another extension so that they can save face, and never go back on their vow not to weaken their nuclear capabilities. However, it is the American face that truly needs saving.
SnyderTalk Comment: Consequences, either intended or unintended, are the same. The U.S. will be held accountable for consequences that we help to bring about.
Matthew Levitt: The Khorasan Group Should Scare Us—More of a cell or network than a distinct group, Khorasan operates in Syria under the umbrella of the local al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, but it appears to function independently of Nusra and report back to al-Qaeda senior leadership in Pakistan. U.S. officials say the network only emerged on the ground in Syria over the past year, its members dispatched there by al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri for the express purpose of using the vacuum created by the war in Syria to “develop external attacks, construct and test improvised explosive devices and recruit Westerners to conduct operations,” according to aBBC report. U.S. officials now see the Khorasan group as the primary al-Qaeda entity plotting near-term attacks against the West. By September, a Pentagon spokesman said, intelligence reports indicated the Khorasan group was “in the final stages of plans to execute major attacks.” Before moving to Syria last spring, Khorasan head Mohsen al-Fadhli, a longtime al-Qaeda operative, had been living in Iran, where he served as al-Qaeda’s “senior facilitator” overseeing a network who were “working to move fighters and money through Turkey to support al-Qaeda-affiliated elements in Syria,” according to the State Department. With ISIL commanding all the attention, al-Qaeda appears especially keen on carrying out an attack to prove its continued relevance.
Clifford D. May: Iran Taking Advantage of the Focus on ISIS—The president had been demanding that Iran’s rulers dismantle key elements of their nuclear program and disclose past weaponization activities. Now, he appears prepared to settle for disconnecting some centrifuges or reducing the uranium gas fed into them (both easily reversible), deferring demands that Iran’s rulers admit past weaponization until after a deal is signed, and hoping that breakout to nuclear weapons can be deterred through enhanced inspections and whatever economic leverage the West retains – probably not much since a senior official in charge of the negotiations is already promising to suspend major sanctions soon after a deal. The Islamic State’s flamboyant barbarism has been consuming the oxygen, making it easy to forget that Iran has long been, according to the U.S. State Department, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Negotiations with Iran are to conclude Nov. 24. The president would be wise to make clear that no agreement is preferable to a bad agreement.
David Frum: How Iran Scammed America Out of a Nuclear Deal— You have to salute the rulers of Iran. They stand on the verge of scoring a stunning diplomatic triumph over the United States. Even more impressive: They did it all on bluff. Their adversaries possessed material advantages in terms of money, technology, military power, and more. But Iran’s rulers had clarity of purpose and the will to win. Without these qualities, the adversaries’ material advantages have seeped away. A year ago, the rulers of Iran faced disaster. Their currency had lost three-quarters of its value, due in largest measure to the tough economic sanctions drafted by Senators Mark Kirk and Robert Menendez in 2011, and very reluctantly signed into law by President Obama at the beginning of 2012. Inflation was raging, unemployment was surging. Their most useful regional ally, the Syrian regime’s Bashar al-Assad, seemed doomed to destruction, attacked from within by a violent uprising and threatened from without by Obama’s commitment to intervene to stop Assad’s use of chemical weapons.
Xinhua News: Hamas Seeks to Establish Islamic State in Place of Israel—A senior Hamas official announced on Tuesday that his movement still believes in establishing an Islamic state on all the lands of Palestine. Mahmoud al-Zahar, the Hamas strongman, said in a ceremony to honor police officers killed in the last Israeli offensive on Gaza that “we don’t want to establish an Islamic emirate in Gaza; we want an Islamic state in all Palestine.” Hamas militants were the major Palestinian militant group that confronted the Israeli army during the large-scale Israeli air and ground offensive that started on July 8 and lasted for 50 days on the Gaza Strip. He said that Hamas defeated Israel during this war, adding that if Hamas movement moves part of what it had in hand to the West Bank, “we will be able to go for a successful battle that we will win it at the end.” Al-Zahar vowed that his movement will be sticking “to the program of resistance,” adding that “during the last war on Gaza, we learned how to liberate all the occupied lands of Palestine.”
New York Post Editorial: Life and Death with Hamas—Last week we had another illustration of the defining moral difference between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of mourners marched in honor of Marwan Kawasme and Amar Abu Aysha, both affiliated with Hamas, who murdered three Israeli students. Now compare this to the Israeli response to the horrific, retaliatory killing of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khudair. Israeli authorities pulled all stops to hunt down and arrest those suspected in the killing. In the clash between the Jewish state and its enemies, it helps to remember that one side uses all its might to bring to justice those who target innocent life – while the other too often celebrates this deadly work so long as the target is a Jew.
Jeffrey Goldberg: Understanding the Goals of Hamas and Israel— A couple of weeks ago, Laurie Goodstein, in the Times, wrote of American pulpit rabbis who are sometimes too skittish to express their true feelings about Israel and, in particular, its current government: “Debate among Jews about Israel is nothing new, but some say the friction is now fire. Rabbis said in interviews that it may be too hot to touch, and many are anguishing over what to say about Israel in their sermons during the High Holy Days …” I expressed the thought on Twitter (a famous vehicle for complicated thoughts) that it is pathetic for rabbis to avoid discussing certain subjects for fear of offending members of their congregations. What’s the point of being in the clergy if you can’t speak your heart? Many rabbis, particularly in the Conservative and Reform movements, have sometimes found themselves to the left of their congregations—or at least to the left of their most influential congregants—on matters related to Israel, but speaking truth to (synagogue board) power is a risk they are required to take.
JTA: Could artificial intelligence hold the key to fighting hate?— Last week, the Anti-Defamation League released a list of “Best Practices” to counter hate speech on the Internet. Sober and serious, it includes suggestions like “Share knowledge and help develop educational materials and programs that encourage critical thinking in both proactive and reactive online activity” and “Respond to user reports in a timely manner.” It even advises to try “comedy and satire when appropriate. Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, hopes there might one day be a more exciting option for dealing with hate speech: artificial intelligence. “AI systems may ultimately allow us to better prioritize and better understand how to rank and deal with evil speech,” Schmidt told JTA in a phone interview. Schmidt, who was presented last Friday with the ADL International Leadership Award, said Google’s current philosophy is for its search engine to mirror what is available on the Internet as accurately as possible. Google searches are based on an algorithm that is content neutral, so the prospect of nudging aside hate speech would mark a shift.
Caroline Glick: Netanyahu’s statements and policies—Although commentators overlooked it, the Obama administration did it again. They blindsided Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on the eve of his trip to Washington. The last time it happened was in May 2011 when US President Barack Obama set out his policy toward Israel and the Palestinians as Netanyahu was in flight, en route to Washington to meet with him. In that speech Obama announced his support for an essentially full Israeli withdrawal to the entirely indefensible 1949 armistice lines in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. Obama adopted this position despite the fact that Netanyahu and the Israeli public rejected it and viewed it as a threat to Israel’s survival. This time the Obama administration didn’t blindside Israel on the eve of Netanyahu’s visit with another hostile pronouncement in relation to the Palestinians. This time they did so in relation to Iran.
SnyderTalk Comment: It’s no wonder that the Israeli people don’t trust Obama. How can they? It should be obvious to everyone by now that he is not a man to be trusted.
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Students at University of Georgia protest homecoming football game on Yom Kippur
Netanyahu Rejects U.S. Censure of Israeli Housing Moves in Jerusalem
Security forces on high alert as Israelis mark Yom Kippur
JPost Special: Yom Kippur War through the archives
Diplomacy: Unbridgeable divide
Frontlines: The unrepentent builder
UN nuclear watchdog team to visit Tehran for talks
As Kurds regain ground in Iraq, new challenges emerge
Almost 30 Libyan soldiers killed in Benghazi attacks
Turkey will try to stop Kurdish border town falling to Islamic State
SnyderTalk Comment: Try? Quoting U.S. Army General George Patton, “Either you’ll stop them or I’ll find someone who will.”
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Shabbat Shalom and G’mar Chatima Tova!
353 US Reps to Kerry: Iran ‘Stonewalling’ on Nuke Detonator
Khamenei Calls for Muslim Unity for Israel’s ‘Annihilation’
100 Feared to Have Had Contact with First Ebola Case in US
EU Threatens Israel Over Construction Plans in Jerusalem
Public Bus Laws Revolutionized by Hareidi Passenger
Arab MK Calls for ‘United Islamic States’
Ya’alon: We’ll Build in Jerusalem
Hevron’s Jews: We Expected Better Treatment
‘Israel’s Most Bitter Western Enemy is America’
SnyderTalk Comment: “The harsh criticism flung by US President Barack Obama’s administration against Israel this week for a building project in Jerusalem is only a sign of things to come, according to Attorney Yoram Sheftel. The controversy came over a building project of 2,610 housing units in Givat Hamatos, a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, which was in the works since 2012, and which Netanyahu accused far-left group Peace Now of reporting precisely now so as to scuttle his meeting with Obama. Writing in his weekly Hebrew column for Arutz Sheva, Sheftel wrote “Obama doesn’t want a nuclear Iran, but he wants an Iran that can enrich uranium and threaten Israel – it’s one of the most hostile regimes for Israel that wants Iran to threaten us, because today we have no more bitter enemy in the western world than the United States.”
Israeli attorney Yoram Sheftel gets it. According to the latest polling data, at this point so do most Israelis. Regrettably, most Americans don’t get it yet, but they will.
I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but I’ll say this again anyway: any country taking positions that hinder Yahweh’s fulfillment of His promises to and about Israel the people and Israel the state will suffer unimaginable consequences. Countries taking actions that threaten the existence of the State of Israel are at even greater risk.
It’s especially troubling since there is no way under the sun that anyone or any nation can prevent Yahweh from doing exactly what He said He will do. In other words, they are fighting a losing battle.
If you are a believer, you must realize that nothing happens by chance. Either Yahweh causes things to happen or He allows things to happen by removing His protective hedge. With that thought in mind, why do you think the Ebola virus made its way to the U.S. at this critical moment?
I’m not prophesying. I’m just trying to connect the dots. There is a difference.
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Awkwardly timed settlement announcement, part two
French teen with jihadi aspirations told to kill Jews
Israel Okays New Homes for Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem
Leaders bid to downplay tensions as Yom Kippur, Eid al-Adha clash
Israel shuts down, police on alert ahead of Yom Kippur
Israeli-Arab radio to continue broadcast during Yom Kippur
A bubble of undistilled spirituality surfaces in war-torn Ukraine
Medieval inn, bathhouse beneath Jerusalem’s Old City to open to public
Israeli docs remove bullet from Syrian boy’s neck
Report: Kerry Working on New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
SnyderTalk Comment: What do you call a person who can’t learn?
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Sweden to become first major European country to recognize state of Palestine
#JSIL: Activists come up with new ISIS-inspired name for Israel
Video purports to show 4th Islamic State beheading
Erdoğan hints at Syria intervention in Parliament’s opening session
DC, Maryland hospitals evaluating two patients who have Ebola-like symptoms
Mob Attacks Hong Kong Protesters; Students Cite ‘Triads and Thugs’
Gaza reconstruction plan ‘risks putting UN in charge of Israeliblockade’
Myanmar men confess to murder of British tourists: Thai police
Fatah: Hamas Leaders Stole $700 Million Collected for Gazans
Nigeria to Be Certified Ebola Virus Disease Free
SnyderTalk Comment: You wanna bet? For now, maybe, but why the rush to certify the abolition of a disease that you can’t see until you have it? Speaking for me and my family, we won’t be planning any trips to West Africa any time soon. I guess I’m old-fashioned, and I’ve learned to be skeptical of governments, any government.
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Genesis 32: 1-5
1 Now as Jacob went on his way, the angels of God met him. 2 Jacob said when he saw them, “This is God’s camp.” So he named that place Mahanaim. 3 Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom. 4 He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now; 5 I have oxen and donkeys and flocks and male and female servants; and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.”’”
SnyderTalk Comment: 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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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.
