“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6
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Paul Cruickshank, Mariano Castillo and Catherine E. Shoichet—Belgian operation thwarted ‘major terrorist attacks’:
(CNN)—A terror cell on the brink of carrying out an attack was the target of a raid Thursday that left two suspects dead, Belgian authorities said.
A third suspect was injured and taken into custody in the operation at a building in the eastern city of Verviers, prosecutor’s spokesman Thierry Werts told reporters.
A senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN that the alleged terror cell is believed to have received instructions from ISIS.
Some members of the cell had traveled to Syria and met with ISIS, which plotted the attacks as retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, the Belgian source said.
“This was in the framework of an operation looking into an operational cell made up of people, some of whom coming back from Syria,” Werts said. “The investigation made it possible to determine that the group was about to carry out major terrorist attacks in Belgium imminently.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: Islamist terrorists are real; they are dangerous; they are global; and they are coming for you and your family unless you are one of them. That’s not my opinion. That’s what they tell us and that’s what they are doing right now.
For more, see “Terror Crackdown in Europe: Raids in Belgium, France and Germany” and “15 arrested in anti-terror raids as Belgium considers calling out army“.
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Ezra Levant: Fear Radical Islam—and Fight Back—Jihad means holy war against infidels. Infidels are all non-Muslims, or even Muslims who aren’t radical enough. Those at Charlie Hebdo magazine were attacked because they would not submit to the edict that no one may draw an image of Mohammed, let alone insult him. They would not submit, so they were murdered. You have to work very hard to pretend radical Islam is not at war with the West and our secular, liberal democracies. Israel is besieged, it’s surrounded. But it has one advantage over the West: it is not in denial. No one in Israel pretends that there is no jihad; no one in Israel talks about terrorists being just “lone wolves”; no one in Israel denies that terrorism was really terrorism. They don’t blame the victim. Jihad cannot be appeased. Everyone is scared of radical Islam. But you can meet fear with resolve and the decision to fight back. That’s what Israel has; that’s what the West used to have, back when the Nazis stormed across Europe.
Worldcrunch: How Turkey Wound Up Fueling Islamophobia Instead Of Fixing It—Instead of discussing the Paris massacres and the ties between Islam and terrorism, Turkey has instead been focused on “Islamophobia.” Someone not following the news could mistakenly believe, based on the debate here, that there had been a violent attack against Muslims in France instead of a jihadist terrorist attack against journalists, Jews and police officers. It seems the Charlie Hebdo attack has become a tool for us to discuss rising racism in even the most multicultural and pluralist countries — hate crimes against Muslims, the growing Pegida movement in Germany, and the mosque torchings in Scandinavian countries where democracy is strongest. The collective emphasis seems to be that Islam and Muslims are unwanted in the West, and that the West is afraid of growing Muslim populations. In short, every Muslim has become a target. So what do we do or suggest apart from expressing what we believe are the new realities? What has been put in front of the West in terms of “secularist” Islam experiences, practices and attempts during the time between 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo? What is out there as significant as the Charlie Hebdo massacre to prevent Islamophobia?
Burak Bekdil: Turkey’s Staggering “Shoeboxgate”: How Turkey “Fights” Corruption— Imagine an audio recording of the president calling his son and telling him to get rid of all the cash he keeps at home; and his son, after trying for several hours, telling him there are still millions left. For Erdogan, his election victories meant that all allegations of corruption were baseless. For the first time in the history of justice, voters had acted as the jury for a high-profile corruption case. Erdogan’s ambitions are also about securing a two-thirds majority in the May election so that the constitution can be amended. For the past year, Erdogan’s administration has suspended, reassigned, prosecuted and jailed thousands of (mostly) police officers on charges of attempting illegally to topple his government. The main opposition party replied: “If you don’t trust the top court, how do ordinary citizens trust the ordinary courts?” Good question.
Ed Payne: Paris terror attacks: Where are we now—More than a week after the Paris terror attacks and with an investigation in full swing, the evidence points to an international conspiracy by militants to bring terror to the streets of France’s capital. There are reports of a new accomplice in addition to the three gunmen killed by French authorities and the widow of one, who escaped. There’s a money trail that points to Yemen and a cache of weapons reportedly found in an apartment.
Marc Weitzmann: ‘In the Beginning, the Brothers, They Told Me To Kill’—With some 20,000 residents, the city of Toulouse, in the southwest of France, boasts “the biggest of the small Jewish communities” of France. The Ozar Hatorah school, the community’s main educational establishment, with 200 students coming from all parts of the country, runs from grades 6 to 12. It is set in “La Roseraie,” a discreet residential neighborhood of detached houses fringed with flowers. Not much distinguishes the three low edifices of the school from the rest of this peaceful, silent area. Seen from the courtyard where children run and play, the modest synagogue could even be a small swimming pool or little administrative building. Like the rest of the very assimilated Jewish community in Toulouse, the school’s remarkable feature is its lack of ostentatiousness. Indeed, until the killings of March 2012 that gave the place its instant worldwide fame—and made France the only Western country since World War II where children from 3 to 8 could be killed in the street, and in broad daylight, for being Jewish—the only thing the school was known for was its reputation of excellence. To this day, the Ozar Hatorah school still gives France each year 100 percent pass rate at the baccalaureat national secondary-school exit exam, 87 percent of which are scored grade A.
Selim Azouz: Was participating in the presidential election a mistake by the Brotherhood?— It was as if he had never said any other sentence in his life. Ibrahim Munir, a senior member of the international organisation of the Muslim Brotherhood, apparently commented that the movement made a mistake by running in the Egyptian presidential election. The implication is that the Brotherhood made a mistake and is now paying the price for it. In effect, it was not wronged by the coup; it wronged itself. Did the Muslim Brotherhood really make such a mistake?
Liel Leibovitz: After Paris, Whither the BDS Movement?— Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that you belong to a group committed to ending the Israeli presence in the West Bank and erecting a Palestinian state. In the face of repeated criticism, you’ve insisted that you have no problem with Jews, that it’s Israeli policy that you abhor. Maybe you advocate an immediate Israeli return to the 1967 borders. Maybe you’re more hardened and believe that the Jewish state should give way to a multiethnic one stretching from the river to the sea. Whatever the case may be, you insist that you’re committed to reconciliation, to justice, to peace. Now let’s assume—hypothetically, of course—that terrorists run rampant in a European capital far removed from Jerusalem and Ramallah. In one case, they single out one woman and shoot her for being Jewish. In another, they attack a kosher supermarket, executing four shoppers. How do you react?
Asharq Al-Awsat-UK: Saudi ISIS Members Attack Saudi Border Guards on Iraqi Frontier—A deadly attack that killed three Saudi border guards along the Saudi-Iraqi frontier this week was carried out by Saudi members of the Islamic State seeking to cross back into the kingdom, security sources in Riyadh said. The Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed that at least three of the four attackers were Saudi nationals.
Alina D. Sharon: Momentum Grows for Halt to U.S. Funding of Palestinian Authority—U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Bob Corker (R-TN) on Friday released a joint statement calling on the U.S. government to defund the Palestinian Authority (PA) over its decision to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). “The Palestinian Authority’s decision to join the International Criminal Court is deplorable, counterproductive, and will be met with a strong response by the United States Congress,” the senators’ statement said. They declared that nothing will bring about a Palestinian state “other than direct negotiations” between Israel and the Palestinians. At the same time, three Republican senators – Marco Rubio (FL), Rand Paul (KY), and Ted Cruz (TX) – have similar stances.
John Bolton: Egypt’s Leader Battles Islamic Extremists— When Egyptian President Anwar Sadat traveled to Jerusalem in 1977, he shattered decades of isolation and war with Israel to search for peace. No single act in the former general’s remarkable career showed more courage. In 1981, Muslim Brotherhood assassins made Sadat pay with his life for standing against the pan-Arabist conventional wisdom of his era. This New Year’s Day, Egypt’s current president (also a former general), Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi, followed directly in Sadat’s footsteps. At Cairo’s Al-Azhar University, he spoke forcefully against today’s Western conventional wisdom regarding Islam and terrorism.
Peter Martino: Pegida: The New German Revolution— Every Monday evening since last October, thousands of citizens have marched through the city of Dresden as well as other German cities to protest the Islamization of their country. They belong to an organization, established only three months ago, called Pegida, the German abbreviation for “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West.” Pegida is a democratic grassroots organization, without origins in the far-left, far-right or links to any political parties, domestic or foreign. The French Front National [FN] of Marine Le Pen even made it clear that it wants nothing to do with “spontaneous initiatives” such as Pegida. According to the FN, “something like Pegida cannot be a substitute for a party.”
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Hezbollah’s firepower of 150,000 projectiles exceeds all European armies combined
Hezbollah admits capturing high-level Israeli spy, shattering image of impenetrability
Nasrallah: Hezbollah prepared for war deep into Israel, beyond the Galilee
Turkish PM says Netanyahu on par with Paris terrorists
IDF intel officer testifies in NY on PA’s ‘revolving door policy’ for terrorists
German paper apologizes for anti-Semitic cartoon
European Jewish leaders demand EU name anti-Semitism czar
Arab League backs Palestinian plan to resubmit UN bid
Meet David Cohen: The Jewish ‘sanctions guru’ appointed deputy chief of the CIA
UN says alarmed by ‘downward spiral’ of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Jewish Schools in Belgium Cancel Classes Amid Terror Alert
Israeli Envoy: UN Encouraging PA to Avoid Negotiations
Kahlon: The Likud Abandoned its Social Principles
Bennett Promises High-Voltage Election Campaign
Deri: I Call on Those who Left Shas to Come Back
Poll: Labor Squarely over Likud, Liberman Collapse
Shas’ Rabbi: Jewish Home? ‘Home without Jews’
Law Enforced in ‘East Jerusalem’ – Against Jews
Bennett Refraining from Adding More Names to List?
Arab Suspect’s Odd Toilet Clogging – 300 Bullets
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Netanyahu compares France to pre-Inquisition Spain
Netanyahu urges mass immigration to Israel
Jewish leaders skeptical of Europe’s tough talk on anti-Semitism
In a town built on Jewish headstones, still no fixing what the Nazis destroyed
The dark side of Labor’s upbeat primary
Herzog promises political ‘revolution’ as he launches ‘Zionist Camp’ campaign
Shaked is top vote-getter in Jewish Home primaries
Kahlon says his party will back peace, but there’s ‘no partner’
‘US Consulate in Jerusalem arming Palestinian guards’
Hamas hardliner runs secret Gaza terror cells targeting Fatah
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Boko Haram Appears to Be Using Abducted Girls as Suicide Bombers: Experts
French Jews Fret About Leaving Good Life Behind
Charlie Hebdo: ‘France will send aircraft carrier to Middle East’
Israel’s facing worsening international isolation, warns Foreign Ministry paper
Pope on Charlie Hebdo: ‘You cannot insult’ others’ faith
Pope: There are limits to free expression
Saudi Arabia publicly beheads a woman in Mecca
Swedish foreign minister not welcome in Israel, official says
UN asks Israel to unlock Palestine tax funds
Obama Administration Urges Congress to Delay New Iran Sanctions
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In Erdogan’s Turkey, Paris Attack Is West’s Failure on Islam
Turkey vows to thwart ‘Mohammed insults’
Turkey opens probe against columnists over Mohammed cartoon
Turkey and the West Part Ways on ‘Charlie Hebdo’
Turkish PM equates Israel’s Netanyahu to Paris attackers
Netanyahu Blasts Erdogan for ‘Shameful Remarks’ Claiming He Should Not Have Attended Paris Rally
Israel calls Erdogan ‘anti-Semitic bully’ hindering war on terror
Russia Just Made A Bold Move To Keep Its Gas Leverage On Europe
Iran to try Washington Post reporter
Exclusive: U.S. lawmakers push ahead on Iran sanctions – senior senator
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Genesis 44: 6-13
6 So he overtook them and spoke these words to them. 7 They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing. 8 Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house? 9 With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves.” 10 So he said, “Now let it also be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and the rest of you shall be innocent.” 11 Then they hurried, each man lowered his sack to the ground, and each man opened his sack. 12 He searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack. 13 Then they tore their clothes, and when each man loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.
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.
