“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Burak Bekdil—The Few Brave Men of Turkey:
It is not easy to fight anti-Semitism in a country where there are 400,000 potential jihadists and anti-Semitism is an award-winning virtue.
The human rights activists, instead of finding anti-Semitism investigated, may in the end find themselves investigated.
The Turkish head of the physics department at Bilecik University, who proposed to revive the Nazi death camps, a month later was awarded a fund to sponsor his research from Turkey’s state scientific institute.
This summer, a former al-Qaeda offspring metamorphosed into a regular army and captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria. It first flagged itself as the Islamic Army of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL], then reflagged itself simply as the Islamic State [IS]. It declared the Islamic caliphate in the lands it captured and has since killed tens of thousands of “infidels,” including, primarily, Shia Muslims. It has beheaded the Western captives it held, declaring them casualties in its jihad against the Christian world. Its methods of imposing Salafism were denounced as “too extreme” even by al-Qaeda.
Against this backdrop, a recent survey by the prominent Turkish pollsters Metropoll found that 84% of the Turks think that ISIL (or IS) “is not acting on religious motives.” Almost a third of the Turks think that the Islamists, with whom they now share a 900-mile border, do not pose a security threat to their country, although ISIL in June attacked the Turkish consulate in Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city, and took hostage 46 Turks, including the consul general – only to release them recently in exchange of an unknown number of imprisoned militants.
There is a tricky finding in the same survey. Metropoll found out that “only a mere five percent of Turks say they feel sympathetic to ISIL.” The Turks (and the world) should be happy that only a marginal fraction of their countrymen feel sympathetic to a group that kills in the name of a specific interpretation of Islam. What is five percent, after all? Sadly, that is not the case.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is still alive in Turkey, but is it well? More importantly, is it strong enough to prevent the country from sinking further into the swamp of Islamism?
Atatürk worked tirelessly to prevent from happening exactly what is taking place in Turkey right now.
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Dror Eydar: Telling the truth in the hall of lies— 1. It was not unnecessary. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the United Nations General Assembly was only unnecessary in the eyes of the usual suspects. And in the eyes of Netanyahu’s enemies. But the speech was broadcast to millions of American viewers from coast to coast. This refutes the leftist commentators’ claim that the speech was directed only at an Israeli audience. Israelis know the things he said in his speech, but we need a messenger to relay our truth to the world. It is important that once every year, the head of the Jewish state comes to New York to tell the truth at the United Nations hall of lies. It is among the duties of any statesman worthy of his title. The leftist commentators also claimed that in his genocide speech, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas served the Israeli Right. Wrong. He doesn’t work for us. He revealed his true self, and that is a truth that the Left rejects.
David Parsons: Israel, you have true friends— The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, the largest Christian Zionist organization, will conduct its annual Sukkot conference in Jerusalem next week. Now, 34 years after it was founded, is the time to recount one of the architects who strengthened the relationships between the State of Israel and Christian Zionism — late Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. Begin stands out as the first premier to publicly welcome Christian Zionist support and to seek to harness it in defense of the Jewish state.
Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn: Why Would Obama Oppose Housing for Black and Muslim Families? Because They Are in Israel— Why would President Obama, a champion for the rights of underprivileged blacks and Muslims, try to prevent the construction of new housing for those groups? Because the blacks are Jewish, the Muslims are in Israel, and the housing is in Jerusalem. In any other part of the world, such housing would be regarded as progressive government intervention to aid the downtrodden. But such housing in Israel is being denounced by President Obama’s spokespeople as “poisonous” and “anti-peace.”
Peter Martino: The EU Creates a Mess—Again— While the West is fighting a war with ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the European Union is bringing the relations between Russia and the West over Ukraine into an ever greater mess. The free trade agreement between the US and the EU, the so-called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), is likely to become the next victim of the Ukrainian conflict. Last week, European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht warned that TTIP is at risk of never being agreed upon. He blamed the debacle on Washington’s and Berlin’s failure to provide political leadership. The real stumbling block, however, is De Gucht’s own European Commission in Brussels. It insists that TTIP include an energy chapter in which Washington guarantees the Europeans unlimited access to US energy and raw materials in case Russia limits its oil and gas supplies to Europe.
Nir Boms and Shayan Arya: Why the Mullah is Smiling— Although physically weak from recent routine prostate surgery, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, emerged smiling from his hospital bed — and for a good reason. He has never been stronger. From Syria to Iraq, from Tehran to Gaza and UN headquarters in New York, he feels empowered and this shows nowhere better than in Geneva. Khamenei has many reasons to smile. The sanctions that were crippling his regime just a year ago appear to be receding. Companies from Europe to Asia are lining up to do business in Iran. His significant efforts to assist Bashar Assad in Syria and to keep Hezbollah afloat have paid off as well. Many in Washington have begun to see Assad as a potential ally against what they believe to be the real threat, namely ISIS. His disciple, President Hassan Rouhani, has just met British Prime Minister David Cameron in New York. Rouhani appears to be making new friends.
Jeremy Bernstein: The Simple Math of an Iranian Nuclear Bomb— In 1993 the Iranians received 115.5 kilograms of 19.75 percent enriched uranium fuel elements for the Tehran Research Reactor—the TRR from Argentina. We do not know precisely how this reactor has been run. Its maximum power output is 5 megawatts thermal. How many days a year it has been run at this maximum, or how frequently it has been shut down, one does not know. It is also not known how the fuel has been managed. The core seems to contain eighteen fuel elements, each with 1.87 kilograms of enriched uranium, and five control elements, each containing 1.08 kilograms—the core total then being 39.06 kilograms. Thus, the Iranians were supplied enough uranium for more than one core change. Whether they changed the entire core every few years or some of the elements every year, I do not know. Given the type of reactor, it is possible to estimate how many kilograms of 19.75 percent uranium would be required for it to run at full power for a year. The answer is about 7. Therefore, if it ran full time at 5 megawatts thermal, the total fuel the Iranians acquired in 1993 would have run out in about sixteen years, and the last year of its operation would have been 2009. If it has been running with less power or less often, the time would of course be longer. But in any case the end of its present operational cycle was in view. During this time it would have generated a few hundred grams of plutonium. This would be nowhere near enough for a bomb but plenty to study the chemistry of plutonium separation. Seaborg and his people only had milligrams. This means that the TRR fuel must be carefully supervised. In fact, now it is being manufactured in Esfahan from 20 percent enriched uranium produced by the indigenous centrifuges.
Michael Curtis: Muslims who Saved the Lives of Jews— The horrors committed by evil people during the Holocaust are well known and documented. Less well known are the merciful deeds performed by good people during the years of World War II. Among the least known of these decent individuals are the Muslims in Albania who saved Jews. The screening in October 2014 of a film BESA: The Promise, directed by Rachel Goslins, with music by Philip Glass, is a welcome reminder of this minor but significant segment of Albanian history, in which a small number of Muslims protected Jews from Nazi Germany. The film portrays a number of compelling and moving stories. It is based on the book BESA, written by Norman H. Gershman, a Jewish American who narrates and is the central figure in the film. Over a five-year period he collected stories and photographed members of Albanian families who acted in a compassionate way during the war years. The story remained largely unknown during the almost 50-year period after the war while Albania was controlled by the Communist regime known as the Socialist People’s Republic from 1944 to 1991. During those five decades, displays of religion were banned in what was an inhumane and brutal regime, and contacts with the outside world, especially Israel, were forbidden.
Dexter Van Zile: Time for Church of England to Bring an End to Vicar’s Jew-Baiting— Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer, an Anglican vicar who serves a church in Surrey, England, has a long and storied history of Jew-baiting. He’s good at it, really good at it. He has been antagonizing Jews and saying hateful things about Israel for years. He works a lot of his mischief on his blog and Facebook page, where he has posted links to articles that downplay or minimize the Holocaust, and accuse Jews of controlling the world and of being responsible for starting World War I and World War II. But that’s not all. Dr. Sizer has spoken a number of times on Iranian television to condemn Israel and its supporters and has spoken at conferences in Indonesia and Iran organized by Holocaust deniers and attended by anti-Israel and anti-Western terrorists.
Douglas Murray: Free Speech: A Motorway Pile-Up of Moral Confusion— Who has the “right” to talk about Islam? The question arose thanks to the response of a Muslim student society at an American university. Last week saw the latest in the apparently interminable efforts to make the Somali-born human-rights activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali into some kind of pariah. Readers will recall the atrocious treatment of Hirsi Ali by Brandeis University earlier this year, when the “liberal arts university” invited Hirsi Ali to speak and then withdrew the invitation at the behest of certain Muslim students and anti-free-speech activists among the university’s faculty staff. As said at the time, the university’s dropping of Hirsi Ali was a classic case of dropping a firefighter in order to appease arsonists.
Zvika Fogel: A teetering Palestinian illusion— The unpredictable Middle East obligates us to reassess the situation around us almost on a daily basis. The Arab world is a strange brew. We see, on the one hand, the terror armies of Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaida and the Islamic, and the vulnerable states of Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon on the other. We have Palestinians, Sudanese, futureless Syrian revolutionaries without national identities, facing radical Islamist warmongers like Iran, Qatar and Turkey, who put the future in jeopardy. All of these together create possibilities that even the most gifted of Hollywood script writers could never imagine. Yesterday’s enemy could become tomorrow’s ally, and whatever happens two days from now is anyone’s guess.
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Biden apologizes to Turkey’s Erdogan
SnyderTalk Comment: “Turkish president demanded apology after Biden said Erdogan admitted Turkey was wrong for allowing foreign fighters to cross border into Syria.”
If Biden told the truth, why did he apologize?
Something stinks. A foul odor surrounds anything that Erdogan touches.
Turkey should not be a member of NATO. Conditions have changed so dramatically that allowing Turkey to remain a member of the coalition threatens our security.
Declassified information gives insights into ’73 intel
Iran’s Khamenei vows ‘Zionist regime and its supporters will go extinct’
United Airlines flight quarantined as passenger tested for Ebola
PLO welcomes Sweden’s announcement of statehood recognition
Foreign Ministry to summon Sweden’s ambassador
Hamas leader Haniyeh tells Gazans: We will continue building the weapon of resistance
Navy intercepts weapons-building material bound for Gaza as Hamas bids to rearm
Analysis: The fight against Islamic State – and America’s coalition woes
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Panetta Criticizes Obama Over Failure to Act in Syria
Yom Kippur Ends; Preparations for Sukkot Begin
Samaria Town Appeal After Terrifying Attack
Gaza Terrorists Fire Rocket into Sea
Hamas Says IDF Didn’t Destroy All Terror Tunnels
Barkat Tells Netanyahu ‘Silent Intifada’ Must End
Campaigning Under Way for Tunisian Elections
Fourth Hostage Beheaded by ISIS Savages
Three US Citizens Join Kurdish Fight Against ISIS
Khamenei: Muslim Unity for Israel’s ‘Annihilation’
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Egyptian activist loses bid for EU honor over call to kill Israelis
PM: No chance for peace deal if Israel sued for war crimes
Shiite rebels hostile to US and Israel are new masters of Yemen
Islamic State must be destroyed, says Cameron after latest beheading
Parents of US army vet threatened by IS plead for mercy
As US targets IS, Assad emerges for holiday prayers
The police spy who found his ‘brothers’ in Mea Shearim
Chief Rabbi, Muslim leader in joint call to end violence
Dutch police advise against sukkah in Muslim neighborhood
Columbia, Harvard, Yale anthropologists among 360 backing boycott of Israel
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Murder of Alan Henning ‘unforgivable’—Cameron
Violent mobs with triad links threaten Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters
Hong Kong police deny ‘working with gangs’ to target protestors
Dallas Ebola Family Joins Long History of Quarantines
Dozens of people killed in India in stampede at religious festival
Palestinians Hail Swedish Announcement On Statehood, As US Urges Caution
UN: 9 Peacekeepers Killed in Northern Mali
Settlements: Ruining US-Israeli Press Conferences Since 2010
Parents of ISIL hostage issue video plea for son’s life
SnyderTalk Comment: As we know from experience, pleas for mercy mean nothing to people who have no morals and no mercy. The parents of people who have every reason to believe that their child is about to be murdered on camera for the world to see must be experiencing hell on earth while the shock value is wearing off on the masses due to over use. The first part is exactly what the murderers want. The last part is a tragic reality.
The Nazis did everything they could to prevent news or their brutality from leaking out. They feared the reactions of the German people and the world at large. But what if they had broadcast their films? What would the world have done?
By publicizing their atrocities, ISIS has made all of us coconspirators if we fail to act to prevent them from carrying out any more massacres.
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Genesis 32: 6-8
6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed; and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks and the herds and the camels, into two companies; 8 for he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.”
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.
