February 9, 2015 SnyderTalk: Netanyahu Speech: How far will Democrats go to save Obama’s pride?

“Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: may they prosper who love you.” Psalm 122: 6

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Michael Goodwin—Netanyahu Speech: How far will Democrats go to save Obama’s pride?:

Asked if Democrats might skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress about Iran next month, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi answered, “I don’t know.”

The implied threat is remarkable — and a sign of how bent out of shape the White House remains over Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to the Israeli prime minister. The growing anger is turning what aides initially called a breach of protocol into a dangerous test of how far the party will go to defend President Obama’s foolish pride.

On one level, I hope the Dems stay home. That way, there won’t be any confusion about which party is most devoted to American and Israeli security.

Iran is the most dangerous nation on earth, and Obama’s disproportionate reaction to the planned speech reveals his determination not to have reality intrude on his craven negotiations with the mad mullahs. By all accounts, he has offered so many concessions that the deal in the works would effectively approve Iranian nukes.

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SnyderTalk Comment: President Obama’s pride and arrogance are two of his problems. There is no reason for Prime Minister Netanyahu to feed his gigantic ego.

Obama doesn’t like Israel—never has. That’s obvious, and it’s been apparent since the day he took office. The only reason he has pretended to like the Jewish State is because he thinks there would be political hell to pay if he didn’t. He’s right.

No matter what Netanyahu does or says, those political pressures will remain. Obama backed himself into a corner. There is no reason for Netanyahu to help him out.

Netanyahu should tell Congress the unvarnished truth and let the chips fall where they may. This may be the last time he has the opportunity to share his knowledge about Iran with a global audience that is fixated on what he has to say. With a childish tantrum, Obama created the brouhaha that has attracted so much attention. It would be a shame to let this opportunity slip away no matter how it came about.

Netanyahu should thank Obama for his “tireless efforts on Israel’s behalf” and then get down to the business at a hand.

If you haven’t seen this Netanyahu political ad, I think you will like it. It hits the nail on the head:

National security will be a key issue during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. Netanyahu gets it. Islamism is the problem. Obama doesn’t get it and neither do most Democrats. They are as foolish as he is.

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And now this: Kerry ranked least effective US diplomat in past 50 years. I think that’s a fair assessment. John Kerry is even worse than Hillary Clinton, and that’s saying a lot. Can we ever forget her “reset with Russia”? I don’t think so. Maybe Kerry should tell us more stories about his heroics in Vietnam or how he lied to Congress afterwards. He’s a good liar—not great, though. Obama is a great liar.

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Elad Zeret: ‘Israel is the mirror of the world’— Veteran French cartoonist Jean Plantureux (aka Plantu) was sitting at home on the morning of Thursday, January 7, about to leave for a routine meeting with the president of the “Reporters Without Borders” organization. A senior political cartoonist in France, who had for decades worked for “Le Monde,” Plantureux had been thinking about his next cartoon. But then the phone rang and everything changed. He rushed to turn on the TV and watched as the apocalypse unfolded before his eyes. It was the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s offices. “I was shocked,” he recalls. “It was like the sky had turned black. I fell onto the couch when they read out the names of the dead, I had known them all for decades. I had worked with one of them on an exhibition about free speech a few years ago. I cannot even describe what I felt at that moment. I could not tear my eyes from the screen. It was – I’m sorry, it still is – very sad.”

Uki Goñi: Uruguay demands to know why Iranian had fake bomb near Israel embassy—Uruguay has expelled a senior Iranian diplomat over last month’s planting of a dummy bomb near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. Citing an unidentified “senior official in Jerusalem”, the newspaper said the diplomat was expelled two weeks ago and although Uruguayan officials briefed Israel on the move they made no public announcement. “Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the Iranian embassy,” Haaretz’s diplomatic correspondent wrote. “The Uruguayan government turned to Iran’s government for information and after consultations between the two, it was decided to expel one of the senior diplomats at Iran’s embassy.”

Judson Phillips: Barack Obama: What the heck is wrong with you?— On Tuesday, the radical Islamist group ISIS released a video of the horrifying execution of a Jordanian pilot. Horrifying does not even begin to describe what happened to the 26-year-old pilot. He was soaked in gasoline and then marched into a cage. A trail of gas was poured that led to the cage and then lit. The pilot watched as the flames followed the gas trail to his cage and eventually set his clothes on fire. For well over a minute he hops around, screaming in agony before eventually collapsing and dying. Barack Obama was asked about this gruesome murder that the Islamic savages filmed and then released on Tuesday. The photo-op president of the United States was in the middle of another Obamacare promotional event when a journalist asked him about the death of the Jordanian pilot. Mr. Obama, instead of reacting with the horror that real Americans or even any sane individual has over this shocking murder, seemed to be seriously irritated that someone would dare interrupt his photo-op.

Caroline Glick: Hamas and the nexus of global jihad— On Wednesday, Hamas leader in Gaza Mahmoud Zahar called on Hamas terrorists in Lebanon and Syria to attack Israel “to help us liberate Palestine.” At the same time, Zahar denied that Hamas has been involved in the terrorist insurgency in Egypt. As he put it, “Our guns are always trained on the enemy,” that is, Israel. The Egyptian regime was not impressed by Zahar’s protestations. Last Saturday, an Egyptian court upheld an October 2014 decision by the Egyptian government to outlaw Hamas’s terrorist shock forces Izzadin Kassam, and designate it a terrorist organization. Both the government’s initial designation and the court’s decision were in some sense, watershed events. They represent the first time an Arab regime ever defined any Palestinian terrorist organization as a terrorist group. But in truth, Egypt had no choice. Despite its insistent protestations that the Jews are its only enemies, Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has been a major player, indeed, arguably the key player in the jihadist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula that threatens to destroy the political, economic and military viability of the Egyptian state. The declared purpose of the insurgency is to overthrow the regime of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and integrate Egypt into Islamic State’s “caliphate.”

Eli Lake: Obama’s Middle East Fantasy— Way back in the George W. Bush administration, his progressive critics used to call themselves members of the “reality based community.” The phrase was first popularized by Ron Suskind in a lengthy criticism of Bush’s so-called war on terror. Bush and his team were blinded by the moral certainties of ideology, whereas their critics understood the world as it is. Reading through President Barack Obama’s new 2015 National Security Strategy, I think it’s time to resurrect the phrase, because this document bears very little relation to reality, at least in the Middle East.

Lizzie Dearden: Jordan vows to ‘wipe Isis out completely’ as it investigates claim US hostage killed in air strike—Jordan has vowed to hunt down Isis and “wipe them out completely” as it investigated claims an American hostage was killed in one of its air strikes. Kayla Jean Mueller, an aid worker, was the last known US hostage being held by the militants following a series of beheadings that started in August last year. Jordan is seeking to avenge the death of air force Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh, 26, who was burned alive in a cage after being captured by Isis when his plane went down.

Armin Rosen: The most important thing in the Middle East that no one is talking about— Two of the most important actors in the Syria conflict are the al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS, Sunni extremist groups that have attracted thousands of foreign recruits based on violently differing views of how the global jihad should be waged. There’s a third jihadist vision contesting the Syrian battlefield, according to a major new study published by Phillip Smyth for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and it’s arguably been the most successful of the bunch.

Ben Shapiro: Obama’s Transformed Middle East Burns— President Barack Obama spoke at the State Department about the so-called Arab Spring. He celebrated the “extraordinary change taking place in the Middle East and North Africa.” He also said that the United States had sided with the changes taking place across the region: “There must be no doubt that the United States of America welcomes change that advances self-determination and opportunity…after decades of accepting the world as it is in the region, we have a chance to pursue the world as it should be.” He talked of the rights of women, the rights of religious minorities, rights to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. He spoke of standing up for individuals rather than dictators. He said that we would help build a “world that is more peaceful, more stable, and more just.” He lied.

Uzay Bulut: Jews in Turkey: Unending Discrimination— It is really hard to please the Jew-haters. When Jews cannot protect themselves because they do not have a military, they are “cowards” and are persecuted in Turkey and worldwide. When they do protect themselves, thanks to their military, they are “oppressors.” To anti-Semitic or anti-Israel people, Israel is the problem. Many of us in other countries in the Middle East, on the contrary, see Israel as the only light of freedom and democracy in the midst of darkness, terrorism and hatred in the region. Just recently, on January 12, Mahmoud Abbas, a Holocaust denier and terrorism glorifier, met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. Before that, on December 29, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spoke to the congress of the ruling AKP and said “Inshallah we will liberate Palestine and Jerusalem again in the future.”

Burak Bekdil: Turkey: Don’t Get Mad, Take Over a Bank— “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names,” John F. Kennedy apparently once said. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan follows a different practice: He neither forgives them, nor forgets their names — not even those of his enemies’ friends. Until they openly declared war on each other at the end of 2013, Erdogan and Fethullah Gulen, an influential Muslim preacher who lives in self-exile in Pennsylvania, were best political allies. Everyone thought this was a “marriage made in heaven” between an ambitious Islamist politician and a preacher who, together with his millions of followers, ran a worldwide empire of schools, charity organizations, banks, media companies and businesses. Surprisingly, the ideal partnership broke up over ideological differences and a struggle over sharing power.

Khaled Abu Toameh: Islamic State Joins Hamas, PA in Threatening Palestinian Journalists— The Islamic State terror group appears to have joined the Palestinian Authority [PA] and Hamas in their campaign to silence Palestinian journalists. Over the past few days, several Palestinian journalists have received death threats from the “Gaza branch” of Islamic State. The group accused the journalists of publishing “lies” about Islamic State in particular, and Islam in general. The threats were sent to the journalists through social media and messages to their mobile phones. “Islamic State warns the journalist and media people against their continued and constant attacks on us,” read one of the messages sent to the journalists. “We in Islamic State affirm that we will execute the rule of the sharia [Islamic religious law] against these apostates, who are sowing discord among Muslims.” The last threats have created panic among many Palestinian journalists, who are already being targeted by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the PA in the West Bank.

Ari Yasher: Allahu Akbar: Hamas ‘Conquers the University of California’— “Hamas has taken over UC Davis” wrote a student senator, after anti-Israel activists at the University of California, Davis, shouted “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) at Jewish students during a vote to boycott Israel that passed last Thursday evening. The Jewish students took part in an attempt to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) effort that has been rampant on American campuses. As they left ahead of an eight to two vote in favor, activists waving flags of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorist group heckled them, as seen in a video received by the Washington Free Beacon from a pro-Israel student group on the campus, Aggies for Israel.

Zeina Karam: Syria’s Bloody Civil War Taking Back Seat to IS Horrors— The world may be gripped by the horrors perpetrated by the Islamic State group, but a wider bloodbath provoked by Syria’s civil war is continuing unabated, with several hundred people killed in the past week alone. Syrian opposition activists said Friday that the government has increased airstrikes against their strongholds in recent days in hopes of wearing out rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. Among the latest casualties were at least 25 civilians killed Thursday night when army helicopters dropped two barrel bombs into a crowded square in the northern city of Aleppo. Many victims were sitting on a public bus, while others were waiting to collect water from a tanker, when the “barrels of death” — as the crude helicopter-dropped explosives are known to Syrians — landed. An amateur video posted by activists online showed paramedics helping a wounded man whose face was covered with blood come out of the bus. The lifeless body of a woman can be seen in the back of the bus, while another man is lying on the pavement outside. The footage shows paramedics, flashlights on their helmets, pulling an older man from a bus window in the darkness. An unidentified man offers a plea to the camera that bombs are “falling on us every day!”

Ian Traynor: Fear of Vladimir Putin grows in EU capitals amid spectre of ‘total war’—In Brussels and other European capitals, the fear of Vladimir Putin is becoming palpable. The mood has changed in a matter of weeks from one of handwringing impotence over Ukraine to one of foreboding. The anxiety is encapsulated in the sudden rush to Moscow by Angela Merkel and François Hollande. To senior figures closely involved in the diplomacy and policymaking over Ukraine, the Franco-German peace bid is less a hopeful sign of a breakthrough than an act of despair. “There’s nothing new in their plan, just an attempt to stop a massacre,” said one senior official.

Channel 4 News: What does Putin want? The key questions—Margaret Thatcher famously said of Mikhail Gorbachev: “I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.” It is hard to imagine David Cameron – or any other western leader – being as effusive about Vladimir Putin, although Chancellor Merkel and President Hollande hope to make some progress in the Russian capital. How did the Ukraine conflict begin? The conflict started in April 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea, previously part of Ukraine, in a move the west failed to avert. This followed Putin’s brutal response to rebellion in Chechnya and invasion of Georgia. Pro-Russian separatists seized large parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in eastern Ukraine, causing 1.2 million people to flee their homes, in their fight for independence from Kiev. In the last 10 months, 5,300 people have died, according to the UN. The most shocking event was the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17, with the deaths of 298 people. The incident has been blamed on separatists.

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SnyderTalk Comment: There is no confusion about the philosophical underpinnings of ISIS’ ideology. It’s the Quran. They quote it religiously while they do exactly what it says. Obama can’t bring himself to accept that fact. Even though he can’t, we must.

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Exclusive ‘Post’ poll: Support for Netanyahu hits peak

Zarif says Israel can’t use Iran as excuse for atrocities as Netanyahu warns of bad deal

Europe looks to Israel for private security after surge in terror attacks

How Cairo is taking the fight to Sinai militants

Herzog calls on Netanyahu to cancel Congress speech, has brief hallway meeting with Kerry and Biden

In Munich, talks with Iran broaden beyond the nuclear file

Liberman says he will demand defense portfolio in next government

Abbas establishes committee to gather complaints to bring to ICC

Jordanian air force bombs ISIS targets for third day

Druse IDF soldier beaten ‘for speaking Arabic’ after leaving nightclub

UNESCO dismisses reports that Palestinian poster collection nixed due to anti-Semitism

Why ISIS is so barbaric

German Judge: Torching of Synagogue not motivated by anti-Semitism

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Arab Labor Leaders Demand Herzog Give Up ‘Zionist Camp’ Name

PA Prisoner Salaries: Kill More Israelis, Get More Cash

Report Exposes EU Illegal Settlement in Judea and Samaria

Did ISIS Blow Up a Hamas Official’s Car in Gaza?

Leftists Bash Bibi after Biden Boycott on Congress Talk

New ISIS Trend: Yazidi Mass Graves

Betrayer of Mossad to be Next Turkish Foreign Minister?

Israeli Driver Attacked Near Hebrew U

Firebomb Terrorist Shot in the Act

Terrorist Shot Trying to Snatch a Soldier’s Gun

Greek PM: No Change in Relations with Israel

UK Jihadi Who Faked His Own Death Jailed

Hungarian Jewish Leader Apologizes to Merkel

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Angry over Netanyahu’s speech, Democrats hope to limit harm

Jordan says pilot’s murder a ‘turning point’ in IS fight

The Israeli decision that could ignite the West Bank

PA studies details of each terrorist act before issuing salaries

UK ‘sees record’ of anti-Semitic incidents in 2014

EU said to fund illegal Palestinian construction in West Bank

American Jewish leader: Danger of anti-Semitic ‘spillover’ in US criticism of Israel

Israeli ambassador gets an earful from Jewish Dems

Netanyahu warns against progress on Iran’s terms to nuclear deal

Westerners join Kurds fighting Islamic State in Iraq

Heaviest skirmish in years as PA forces battle gunmen near Nablus

Lawyers: Evidence shows Saudi Arabia aided 9/11 hijackers

Former spy to testify on death of Argentinian prosecutor

Tunisian tennis player withdraws rather than face Israeli

Jordan vows to ‘eradicate’ Islamic State

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Obama security agenda urges ‘strategic patience,’ drawing criticism amid ISIS threat

IAEA: Iran nuclear deal unlikely by March deadline

Islamic State crisis: Thousands rally in Jordan

Islamic Shariah Tribunal Begins Operating in Texas

Federal authorities levy terrorism charges at 6 people in the US

6 Bosnian immigrants supplied military equipment, money to terrorists, US says

US says 6 Bosnian immigrants sent cash, supplies to terror groups

Iraqi officials: Suicide bombing in east Baghdad kills 13 people, wounds 30

Islamic State says US hostage killed in Syria

Islamic State: US has ‘no proof’ of Kayla Mueller death

Yemen’s Houthis Dissolve Parliament

The Shiite Houthis Have Officially Taken Over Yemen

One Way Greece Can Keep Its Banks Alive

Israel Reluctantly Accepts Hamas Rule

David Cameron with perhaps the dumbest comment in world history…the west is totally hopeless

Official: Nigeria postponing Feb. 14 elections so multinational force secures Boko Haram areas

Obama says US supports India’s role as regional provider of security

Undersea Volcanoes Erupt with Gravity, Shifting Earth’s Climate

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Turkish FM pulls out of Munich conference due to Israel

Turkish Intelligence Chief Resigns, Will Run for Parliament

RIA Novosti: Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks in favour of introduction of presidential system in Turkey

Kerry Visits Ukraine Amid Arms Plea as NATO Sees Violence Worsen

The West shows internal divergence over Ukraine crisis

Putin Denies Russia’s Intent to Cause War, Vows to ‘Cooperate With All’

IMF wary of providing Kiev with extra bailout funds

Merkel and Hollande to Visit Russia, Ukraine to Defuse Crisis

Nato readjusts as Ukraine crisis looms

China protests over Dalai Lama presence at Obama event

Angela Merkel takes on world’s major crises – Ukraine and Islamic State

Fears of Western split over Ukraine as Germany rebuffs American threat to send weapons

Ukraine needs strong Western support to fend off Russia’s aggression

Ukraine: UN Says 1 Million Are Now Displaced As Civilians Flee

Kerry: US Won’t ‘Close Eyes’ to Russian Aggression in Ukraine

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Genesis 47: 29-31

29 When the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and faithfulness. Please do not bury me in Egypt, 30 but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.” 31 He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

SnyderTalk Comment: Read His Name is Yahweh.

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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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