“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)
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Reuters—EU, Turkey clinch deal to return migrants:
European Union leaders approved a controversial deal with Turkey on Friday intended to halt illegal migration flows to Europe in return for financial and political rewards for Ankara.
The accord aims to close the main route over which a million migrants and refugees poured across the Aegean Sea to Greece before marching north to Germany and Sweden in the last year. But deep doubts remain about whether it is legal or workable.
After a morning of talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, European Council President Donald Tusk recommended that the 28 EU member states approve the text without changes and they rapidly agreed at a summit lunch in Brussels.
“Agreement with Turkey approved. All illegal migrants who arrive to Greece from Turkey starting March 20 will be returned!” Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka tweeted from inside the meeting.
A senior EU official said Davutoglu had indicated Ankara would accept the proposal if the EU leaders approved it. He was expected to join the EU leaders for a formal session soon.
Under the pact, Ankara would take back all illegal migrants who cross to Greece, including Syrians, in return for the EU taking in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and rewarding it with more money, early visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The deal between Europe and Turkey that was just announced doesn’t jive with this article: “Germany’s Merkel to Voters: ‘No Change to Migration Policy’”.
What’s up? Obviously, things have changed.
Merkel and her party took a “drubbing” at the polls as a result of her stance on immigration. Could her ego be getting in the way? Can she admit publicly that she was wrong?
A friend from Istanbul posted a video on Facebook that shows a side of many Europeans that I find repulsive. The video was taken in Madrid.
I want to make four points:
1: Europe never should have allowed unvetted “refugees” to enter.
2: Many of those “refugees”, enough of them to cause serious problems, have done exactly what I knew they would do.
3: Erdogan urged Europe to admit the unvetted “refugees” and now he is asking for payment for taking them back. The payment includes cash and, among other things, advancing talks aimed at admitting Turkey to the European Union. That doesn’t pass the smell test.
4: Some of those refugees are legitimate. Treating them like performing monkeys is disgraceful. Spain has a long history of mistreating minorities, and so do many other European countries.
See the video below:
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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1: Israel Hayom— Trump: If I win, it will be incredible news for Israel:
No more than 10 minutes’ drive from each other, and almost at the same time, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave their victory speeches Tuesday. The two have yet to be named as their parties’ presidential nominees — the idea that Trump may actually be the nominee has just barely entered the Republican establishment’s realm of possibilities — but after “Super Tuesday II” this week, they are both well on their way.
Clinton, the Democrat, who spoke at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in Florida, and Trump, the Republican, who spoke at his private Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago, both demonstrated that they are thinking ahead. They are already jumping head-first into the true battle, the one that awaits them after the primaries, the most insane and exhausting primaries in the political history of America. Florida and Ohio, this week’s main battlegrounds, will be returning to the headlines in November. Clinton and Trump will likely have a score to settle then.
2: Caroline Glick—The Obama Doctrine, unplugged:
It was ironic that the day The Atlantic monthly published what was supposed to be the definitive work on US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he was removing the bulk of his military forces from Syria.
Jeffrey Goldberg’s long profile titled, “The Obama Doctrine,” sought to define the theoretical underpinning of Obama’s foreign policy. Goldberg devoted the bulk of his twenty thousand-word corpus to analyzing Obama’s policies in Syria, where, he offered, Obama finally broke free from foreign policy community’s constraints, and set out on his own course.
Reading Obama’s view of Putin the same day the Russian leader surprised the US in announcing his decision to immediately withdraw Russian forces from Syria was instructive.
Putin, Obama sneered, is “constantly interested in being seen as our peer and working with us, because he’s not completely stupid. He understands that Russia’s overall position in the world is significantly diminished. And the fact that he invades Crimea or is trying to prop up [Syrian President Bashar] Assad doesn’t suddenly make him a player.”
Moreover, Obama said, Putin’s decision to deploy his forces to Syria would have no impact on Russia’s global influence.”
“The notion that somehow Russia is in a stronger position now, in Syria or in Ukraine, than they were before they invaded Ukraine or before he had to deploy military forces to Syria is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of power in foreign affairs, or in the world general. Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence.”
Although they sound smart, Obama’s statements were utter hogwash.
SnyderTalk Comment: Hogwash is a great descriptor. I use it a lot myself in connection with Obama.
Generally speaking, Obama’s pontifications are hooey, but to people who don’t know very much, he sounds good.
3: Joel S. Migdal—Six Hours in Gaza:
My first impression of the old city of Gaza was, unexpectedly, that it looked nothing like India. I had expected the wrenching poverty that I had seen in some Indian cities or many other Third World countries – collapsing infrastructure, rickety shacks, a surfeit of beggars, children in rags, adults sleeping on the sidewalks. None of that was visible.
Instead, I saw hordes of children going to school, university students walking in and out of two universities – both the children and the university students reasonably dressed. There were cranes and construction workers everywhere, with lots of uncompleted buildings being worked on. There was the occasional bombed out building from the 2014 War. But most buildings were in decent shape, and some apartment buildings were downright nice. Most of the cars looked like late-model varieties.
In conversation after conversation, there was no obsessing about Israel, which I found interesting. Indeed, there might even be a general acceptance of Israel in terms of realizing that Israel will long be part of their future.
SnyderTalk Comment: This supports my thesis that most Palestinians are not a problem.
My friends in Israel tell me that roughly 85% of Palestinians are no threat to Israel. They work together; they shop together; and they laugh together.
The other 15% of Palestinians get most of the global media attention because they are a problem. Regrettably, the PA and Hamas are leaders of that group. They are in the minority; they hold the trump cards; and they incite the violence that we read about and see on television.
4: Maayan Groisman—Hamas Delegation Meets with Iranian General Suleimani:
A Palestinian delegation headed by Musa Abu Marzouk, chairman of Hamas’ political bureau, met secretly on Wednesday with senior Iranian figures including Gen. Qassem Suleimani, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, the al-Mayadeen news site reported.
SnyderTalk Comment: See “Israel’s Main Concern in Syria: Iran, Not ISIS”.
5: Algemeiner— Argentinian President Says of 1994 Jewish Center Bombing: ‘Everything That Happened Made Us Look Weak in the World’:
“Everything that happened made us look weak in the world,” Argentinian President Mauricio Macri said in an interview with AP on Thursday, the 24th anniversary of the Israeli Embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, which came two years before the attack on the city’s Jewish center. “But now we are determined to bring what happened to light.”
Macri, who has reached the 100-day mark of his administration –characterized by its total about-face in relation to the policies of the previous government, led by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner — was referring to an investigation surrounding a case that rocked Argentina and garnered international notoriety.
The case in question is the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who was found shot dead in his apartment last year. Though police surmised it was a suicide, it occurred mere hours before Nisman was to provide evidence to back up his accusation that Kirchner had been in cahoots with Tehran in its attempt to deny involvement in the 1994 car-bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish center, which left 85 people dead and hundreds more wounded.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
