“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My Name will be great among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My Name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My Name will be great among the Gentiles,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Malachi 1: 11)
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Patrick Cockburn— Turkey elections: Defeat would not be the end of President Erdoğan:
I asked a friend, long resident in Turkey, if he thought that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan might be more conciliatory towards his enemies and more moderate in his pursuit of power after the parliamentary election. The friend laughed at my naivety. “Do you imagine that Dracula ever thinks he has enough blood?” he asked derisively. “Do rich men ever feel that they have made enough money? Do you imagine that there will be cuddly Erdogan toys in the toy shops six months from now?”
It is the figure of Mr Erdogan, leader of Turkey for the past 13 years, who stands at the centre of an election that will decide if he can win back his majority in parliament. He lost this by a whisker in the last election on 7 June, primarily because he had offended conservative and Islamic Kurdish voters, who previously supported his Justice and Development Party (AKP), by apparently favouring Islamic State (IS) over the Syrian Kurds in the war in Syria.
Mr Erdogan and his party have waged a ferocious campaign, as if they were fighting for their lives and liberty. This is not far off the truth, since they know that, if they lose power, their triumphant opponents will not hesitate to initiate corruption trials against them. Turkish politics is merciless towards losers. Mr Erdogan is ceaselessly combative and on the attack. “He takes no hostages,” said my friend who had used the Dracula analogy. He pointed to the case of two children, aged 12 and 13, in the south-eastern city of Diyarbakir who are reported to have been arrested for “insulting the Turkish president” because they tore down posters of Mr Erdogan. The children, who are cousins and are known only by their initials RY and RT, now face up to two years and four months in prison. Explaining they did not even know whose face was on the posters, RY said: “We just wanted to remove them in order to sell them to a junk dealer.”
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SnyderTalk Comment: As long as he has breath, Erdoğan is here to stay in some form or fashion. He reminds me Adolph Hitler. His struggle for power and conquest consumed him and led to the downfall of his country.
Will the Turkish people allow Erdoğan to drag their country down? So far, they have, but we’ll see what comes next.
See “Turkey: Kurds Threatened Before Election” and “What Turkey’s Elections Will NOT Change”.
Update: the verdict is in. See “Erdoğan’s Party Sweeps Back to Power in Turkey With Surprise Win”.
I predict trouble on the horizon.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh. Both of them explain the importance of God’s Name.
The website is loaded with factual information that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Yahweh is our Savior and that the Messiah is Yahweh.
I hope you will take a few minutes and explore the website. I also hope you will share it with your friends and family.
It’s time for believers to tell the world about our God by His Name—Yahweh.
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Daniel Heinrich—Friendship with Turkey has its price:
Of late, Jean-Claude Juncker has been addressing the Turkish president as “Dostum” – my brother. When Erdogan visited the president of the EU Commission in Brussels at the beginning of October, the relationship between the two politicians displayed at their joint press conference was markedly cordial.
Turkish opposition MP Yusuf Halacoglu believes that Juncker’s chummy behavior is merely the result of calculated and pragmatic political considerations: “The European Union only wants to use Turkey as a buffer state that is to intercept all the refugees who want to travel on to Europe,” the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) politician told DW.
Even now, Turkey plays a major part in coping with the refugee crisis. In total, more than 2 million Syrians have found shelter from mayhem and civil war there.
Hurriyet Daily News—A difficult era awaits Turkey on foreign policy:
Sunday’s parliamentary election will mark yet another milestone in Turkish political history, just five months after the election in which the Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its single-party government for the first time in 13 years. The Nov. 1 re-election came about as a product of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP top brass’ discontent with the June 7 poll results; they forced another election in order to fix this and push for the required majority at parliament.
There is no need to speculate more about the potential results of the election, as we’ll all have a clear picture late on Nov. 1. Instead, let’s evaluate a potential change in Turkery’s foreign policy, particularly on Syria, in the aftermath of the election.
However, before speculating, it’s worth analyzing the main developments in foreign policy between the two elections. It should be noted that a caretaker government has been in place during this period, in which two important agreements have been reached.
The first came in mid-July with the U.S. over the use of Turkish airbases and airspace by American warplanes in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The second was reached with the EU over handling the growing refugee crisis in return for re-energizing Turkey’s stalled accession talks.
Ishaan Tharoor—Why Turkey’s election is a very big deal:
On Sunday, Turkey will hold a national election, less than six months after voters delivered the country’s first hung parliament since 2002.
The vote takes place in a climate of real tension and polarization. Months of concerted campaigning by Turkey’s main political parties have exacerbated the sense of division within the country. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled for 13 years as either prime minister or president, is a man either loved or reviled by his people.
After more than a decade firmly in power, Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party, known by the Turkish abbreviation AKP, lost its clear majority in parliament in June elections. The vote was a real blow to Erdogan’s aspirations: He had hoped for a super-majority in parliament that would give his party enough of a mandate to rewrite the Turkish constitution and grant the presidency — a ceremonial and apolitical post that Erdogan has occupied since 2014 — more executive powers.
Instead, the past few months have seen a worrying unraveling within Turkey, with the economy slumping, the decades-old conflict with Kurdish separatists flaring up, and suspected Islamist militants striking targets within the nation.
Hugh Naylor—Palestinians who work on the Jewish side of Jerusalem fear blowback:
Despite this city’s notoriously volatile divisions, Bassem Zidani had felt fairly comfortable working in a cafe on the Jewish side of town.
His commute was only a 10-minute walk from his impoverished neighborhood on the city’s Palestinian side. He was friendly with his Israeli boss. In fluent Hebrew, his conversations with Israeli co-workers centered on mostly breezy topics like the weather.
Then came a wave of Palestinian attacks, and a crackdown by Israeli authorities.
In recent weeks, 11 Israelis have been killed in scores of assaults involving knives, screwdrivers and even a meat cleaver. Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in the Israeli response to the unrest, which has been especially intense in Jerusalem and brought an already fragile co-existence here to a breaking point.
SnyderTalk Comment: Most Westerners don’t realize that with the exception of Jordan no Arab country has opened its doors to “Palestinian refugees”. They also don’t know that Palestinians represent the majority in Jordan and that the minority in Jordan resents being thought of as Palestinians.
There’s a reason why no Arab country wants Palestinians. Wherever Palestinians have gone, they have caused havoc. Jordan was the first to learn the lesson the hard way. Lebanon was second.
Many knowledgeable people believe that the reason why so many Arabs want Israel to absorb the Palestinian horde is that they think it will lead to Israel’s demise. No guns, no war. Palestinians will take care of it by being themselves.
That’s a logical conclusion. It’s not pie-in-the-sky theory. It’s based on decades of experience.
Well-educated Israeli people will tell you that only about 15% of Palestinians are troublemakers. That may be the case, but their true colors emerge when they think they have the upper hand. Gaza is a perfect example.
Prime Minister Sharon forced Israeli “settlers” to abandon their homes and their businesses in Gaza in 2005 and to withdraw. Immediately, Palestinians elected Hamas and destroyed what the Israelis left behind. Since that day, Israel has had nothing but trouble.
Some Palestinians really do love Israel and being Israeli citizens. It’s regrettable that they have to suffer for the actions of the majority of their brothers and sisters.
If it’s true that only 15% of Palestinians have terrorist leanings, it’s also true that 75% of them dance in the streets when an Israeli Jew is murdered by Palestinian terrorists. The remaining 10% can’t let their feelings be known for fear that they, too, will be murdered.
This problem won’t go away quietly. Palestinians will make sure of it. If it’s not the Temple Mount, it’s settlers or the Kotel or something else. For them, there is always another reason not to live in peace.
Yasser Arafat said it succinctly: “Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.”
Arafat also said, “Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Since January 1965, when Fatah was born, we have become the most dangerous enemy that Israel has….We shall not rest until the day when we return to our home, and until we destroy Israel.”
Arafat was telling the truth. See “Palestinians”.
Shoula Romano Horing—Israel must make no concessions on Temple Mount:
If Israel gives up the right of Jews to visit the Temple Mount in an effort to prevent further terrorist attacks, the next battle will be against Jews’ right to visit or pray at all Jewish holy sites such as the Western Wall.
Israel must reject any attempt by the Muslim Arabs in Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, as well as US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, France, the European Union and the United Nations to diminish the Jewish people’s historical rights to the Temple Mount, including Israel’s sole sovereignty over the site as well the right of any Jew to visit and worship on it.
I am not an observant Jew, or a settler or any other so-called provocateur, but merely a Jew who still believes in the historical truth that the Temple Mount is still the holiest site of the Jews as it has been for the last 3,000 years, as the place where the two Jewish holy temples stood.
SnyderTalk Comment: That’s absolutely right. Any concession, no matter how small, is a terrible move.
Jonathan Adelman—What Putin is doing in the Middle East:
Russia’s bold but limited military move into Syria has upended the strategy of the United States and its allies, who have reacted with plans to put U.S. boots on the ground.
The White House announced Friday it would be sending “less than 50” Special Operations forces to northern Syria to offer logistical support to local Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the terrorist group ISIS.
The move follows Russia’s decision a month ago to join the conflict in Syria. That announcement was widely derided in the West, echoing the repeated dismissal of Vladimir Putin’s “machismo.” But the reality is that such criticism fails to account for the successes of the Putin-Sergey Lavrov team — a success that is underscored by Moscow’s forcing President Barack Obama’s hand over troops in Syria.
SnyderTalk Comment: See “Russia’s Military Intervention in Syria Has Changed the ‘Middle East Dynamic’” and “Syria decision the latest blow to Obama’s Middle East legacy”.
Khaled Abu Toameh—Iran’s New Palestinian Terror Group: Al-Sabireen:
- The Iranians are also believed to have supplied their new terrorist group in the Gaza Strip with Grad and Fajr missiles that are capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
- The leader of Al-Sabireen, Hisham Salem, is a former commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. His activities and rhetoric have worried many in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who fear that his group is beginning to attract many of their followers.
- Salem has been accused by many Palestinians of helping Iran spread Shia Islam inside the Gaza Strip, where all Muslims belong to the rival Sunni denomination.
- This, of course, is bad news for [Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas, who is now watching as many of his former loyalists have become on Iran’s payroll and are sharing its radical ideology.
- Many Palestinians and Arabs in the region are already voicing concern. The last thing Abbas, Egypt’s President Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah need is another Iranian terror group such as Hezbollah in the Middle East.
- It now remains to be seen whether the Obama Administration and other Western powers will wake up and realize that the Iranians are continuing to fool them, not only regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, but also concerning its territorial ambitions in the Middle East.
- Unless the U.S. and Western powers realize that Iran remains a major threat to world peace, Al-Sabireen and other terrorist groups will one day manage to establish a UN-recognized Palestinian state that would pose an existential threat to Israel and destabilize the entire Middle East.
Bassam Tawil—Muslim Blood and Al-Aqsa:
- We all know perfectly well that Al-Aqsa mosque is in no danger. Ironically — I am ashamed to admit it — thanks to the Israel Police, Al-Aqsa is the safest mosque in the Middle East.
- Today we sacrifice both our sons and daughters on the altar of empty slogan — lies such as “Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger,” in the vain, blasphemous notion that omnipotent, omniscient Allah needs us to die as martyrs for his sake.
- Muhammad’s hadith says one drop of Muslim blood is more valuable than the Kaaba in Mecca, so the same must be true for the stones of Al-Aqsa, which is less holy to Islam than the Kaaba.
- The hypocrisy and politicization of Islam has led our sheikhs deliberately to misinterpret verses in the Qur’an, and in that way we disrespect the words of Allah. There are clerics present Islam as a hideous religion bent on murder and paganism, and on sanctifying the stones of Al-Aqsa mosque more than the lives of faithful Muslims.
- The Qur’an promises the Children of Israel that they will return to the land of Israel from the four corners of the earth… so we should have greeted their return as living proof of the words of Allah and the realization of the prophecies of Muhammad. Instead, we fight the Jews, which means we fight the wishes of Allah.
- The Qur’an tells us that the Jews are the chosen people and the inheritors of the land, so why do our religious leaders deny it and refuse to admit that the Qur’an does not name or even hint at “Palestine” or “Palestinians?”
- If the Jews had come without divine intervention, they would not have been able to overcome the Arab armies that attacked them during the wars after that. Their victory was proof that Allah was on their side.
- When the Second Caliph, Omar bin al-Khatab, conquered Jerusalem, he and his advisor Caab al-Akhbar (a Jew who converted to Islam) both affirmed that the location of the Temple of the Jews had been on the Temple Mount, next to today’s Al-Aqsa mosque.
- When we claim that Jesus was a Palestinian, we make ourselves an international laughing stock.
Douglas Murray—Academic Freedom Opposed by “Who”?:
It is that time of year again. News arrives of 343 “university teachers” who signed a letter pledging that henceforth they will not cooperate with Israeli academic institutions. Their joint letter took up a full page today in Britain’s left-wing Guardian newspaper (where else?) and has caused almost no stir in Britain. It comes days after a letter signed by 150 leading British writers, musicians and others — including JK Rowling, Simon Schama and Hilary Mantel — opposed any and all such boycotts against Israel, and pointed out that in the eyes of most people, intellectual and cultural exchange is a good thing.
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Report: Israeli Air Force attacked Hezbollah targets in Syria
ICC mulls war crimes charges against Israel, Palestinians amid ongoing violence
Jerusalemites conflicted over dividing city
Government in talks to invest billions in Arab sector
Haredi newspaper sparks outrage by asking Arabs, ‘Don’t stab us, we don’t go to Temple Mount’
Israeli envoy to Chile says local Palestinians threaten Jews with violence
Analysis: Why Palestinian attacks have shifted from Jerusalem to West Bank
Russia’s Air Campaign in Syria Approaches Israeli Border
Russia-Israel Coordination Mechanism on Syria Is Not Working
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Temple Israel Of White Plains funds anti-Israel organization
Additional suspect arrested in Old City Sukkot attack
Druze ex-MK begins sentence for meeting terror chief in Syria
State to intervene in anti-Israel sports boycotts
Ra’anana stabber hoped to be a ‘martyr’
Why is BDS losing? Simple: Israel is just too good
Law to expose links between NGOs, foreign sources
Clinton gives Israel peace mission at Rabin rally
Foreign Ministry cadets headed to Samaria
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US, Israeli hostility to receive ‘crushing response,’ Iran warns
Abbas: Israel rejected US offer to broker talks to calm incitement
Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashes in Sinai
SnyderTalk Comment: ISIS claimed responsibility for downing the Russian airliner. Did they do it? Probably.
Abbas: I don’t seek full ‘right of return’ and I won’t cancel Oslo
Palestinians: ICC must accelerate probe into ‘Israeli war crimes’
Reports: IAF targets Hezbollah assets in Syria
Trump: ‘Obama hates Israel, Jewish state safe with me’
Gantz: Diplomatic impasse is fault of both Israel and Palestinians
Russia backs New Zealand’s UN bid to restart Israel-Palestinian talks
NII chief: No benefits for families of underage attackers
Iranian-American reportedly held in Iran; fourth in custody
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15 die when militants lay siege to hotel with bombs and guns in Somalia
11 killed as Pakistanis vote in local government polls
NASA study: Net gains for Antarctic ice sheets
SnyderTalk Comment: Earth is cooling. Why won’t the mainstream media cover it and why do politicians keep denying it?
See “Nations’ climate pledges will still leave emissions rising for years, UN says”.
Carbon emissions are rising and the global temperature is falling. What does that suggest?
Read Stand!
Trump: ‘Obama is the worst thing that has ever happened to Israel’
SnyderTalk Comment: I don’t agree.
It’s true that Obama has been very bad for Israel, but left-leaning Israeli Jews have been much worse. They must deny reality every single day to believe that Palestinians want peace.
Concessions to achieve peace have led to predictable results. Those “peace efforts” have been thrust upon Israeli citizens by left-leaning Israeli Jews.
It’s true that they were urged to do it by Western leaders, but they actually did it. They could have refused.
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Russian delegation arrives in Egypt to begin crash investigation
SnyderTalk Comment: I’ve read reports about Russia’s plan to use tactical nuclear weapons against ISIS. I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the reports, but they are interesting.
First on CNN: Trump slams Obama over ground troops in Syria
Erdogan Seeks to Consolidate Rule in Turkish Election
China’s October factory, services surveys show economy still wobbly
Ya’alon: Despite the Nuclear Agreement, Iran Continues to View America as the Great Satan
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Exodus 28
1 “Then bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priest to Me—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons. 2 You shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty. 3 You shall speak to all the skillful persons whom I have endowed with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister as priest to Me. 4 These are the garments which they shall make: a breastpiece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of checkered work, a turban and a sash, and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister as priest to Me. 5 They shall take the gold and the blue and the purple and the scarlet material and the fine linen.”
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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His Name is Yahweh—Jim Hutchens
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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.
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
