“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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Giulio Meotti—ISIS in Europe: How Deep is the “Gray Zone”?:
In the 1970s and ’80s, Europe was terrorized by a war declared by Communist armed groups, such as the Germany’s Baader Meinhof or Italy’s Red Brigades. Terrorists seemed determined to undermine democracy and capitalism. They targeted dozens of journalists, public officials, professors, economists and politicians, and in Italy in 1978, even kidnapped and executed Italy’s former prime minister, Aldo Moro.
The big question then was: “How deep is the ‘gray zone’?” — the sympathizers of terrorism in the industrial factories, labor unions and universities.
In the last year, the Islamic State’s henchmen slaughtered hundreds of Europeans and Westerners. Their last assault, in Brussels, struck at the heart of the West: the postmodern mecca of NATO and the European Union.
We should now answer the same question: How deep is the “gray zone” of the Islamic State in Europe?
Peggy Noonan recently tried to give an answer in the Wall Street Journal.
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SnyderTalk Comment: The ISIS problem in Europe is deep and wide. It affects every strata of society to some degree and every country.
This problem can’t be solved quickly or easily.
It’s war. The sooner Europeans open their eyes and see what they’ve done to themselves, the better off they will be—the rest of the world, too, for that matter.
Candidly, I have serious doubts about the willingness of Europeans to do what must be done. Hug-a-Terrorist is not the solution, and pinprick assaults after massive terrorist attacks isn’t, either.
For the time being, I’m glad that I live in South Carolina U.S.A.
Who knows? Maybe next year in Jerusalem.
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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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SnyderTalk Comment: I believe that Turkey will play an important role as the End of Days unfolds. I haven’t said so directly because I prefer to include information that provides evidence of it and let my readers see it for themselves.
That’s why I include so much about Turkey in SnyderTalk.
There are prophets and there are false prophets. Sharing information doesn’t make me a prophet. If I ever have something prophetic to say, I will start with this: “Thus says Yahweh….”
If I do that, listen up.
False prophets dream up stuff and present it as Yahweh’s word. Those people are in serious trouble even though many of them have attracted followers.
According to Yahweh, it’s easy to indentify false prophets. If their prophecy deviates from actual events in the slightest way, it didn’t come from Him.
Yahweh is 100% right 100% of the time. No one except Yahweh can do that.
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1: Samuel Westrop—Massachusetts Islamism:
A number of Massachusetts Muslim groups, led by Cambridge city councilor Nadeem Mazen, are currently spearheading a campaign against the Obama administration’s program, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), which has designated Boston as one of its pilot cities.
From the government’s perspective, Boston was an obvious choice. The city has a long, unfortunate history of producing internationally-recognized terrorists, including the Tsarnaev brothers, who bombed the Boston marathon; Aafia Siddiqui, whom FBI Director Robert S. Mueller describes as “an al-Qaeda operative and facilitator;” Abdulrahman Alamoudi, the founder of the Islamic Society of Boston, and named by the federal government as an Al Qaeda fundraiser, and Ahmad Abousamra, a key official within Islamic State, whose father is vice-president of the Muslim American Society’s Boston branch.
SnyderTalk Comment: Boston has problems that mirror the ISIS problem in Europe. “Intellectuals” in the Boston area are so “smart” that they can’t see past the ends of their noses.
I learned this lesson as a faculty member at the University of Virginia: college degrees are not good substitutes for intelligence and common sense.
Again, I’m glad that I live in South Carolina.
2: Fox News—US seizes thousands of Iranian weapons, including grenade launchers, in Arabian Sea:
The crew of a U.S. Navy ship stopped a massive Iranian arms shipment dead in its tracks, seizing thousands of weapons, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers that likely were headed to Yemen, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The seizure, which unfolded in the Arabian Sea on March 28, was the third of its kind in recent weeks, military officials say. Iran has been supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen in their proxy war against a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States. Like Iran, the Houthis are a Shia-led group.
The arms shipment appears to mark the latest provocative action from the defiant Islamic republic, which reported last month that it tested missiles marked with the phrase “Israel must be wiped out.” And on Monday, the Iranian government warned the U.S. to butt out of trying to control its missile program. “The White House should know that defense capacities and missile power, specially at the present juncture where plots and threats are galore, is among the Iranian nation’s red lines… and we don’t allow anyone to violate it,” Deputy Chief of Staff Brig-Gen Maassoud Jazzayeri told state media.
SnyderTalk Comment: How’s the Iran deal working out for you, Mr. President? It looks a lot like the Russia reset to me.
We’ll be paying for Obama’s misdeeds for many years to come.
3: Michael Curtis—Did ISIS Just Reveal Its Plans?:
The first task of the Obama administration should be to fight and eliminate Islamist terrorism. A document just issued by ISIS is perplexing because it is unclear whether the terrorist caliphate is helping the U.S. administration in this task or teasing it by revealing the essence of its terrorist strategy. The document, a February 2016 article in the French edition of the ISIS online propaganda magazine, Dar al-Islam, has explained its campaign to wage war against the West.
In a surprising revelation, ISIS’s article rediscovers the basis of German maneuver warfare. It says it is copying the 19th-century tactics of Auftragstaktik, a combat doctrine of the German army similar to Mission Command in the U.S. and U.K. That doctrine was adopted as a response by Germany after its military defeats by Napoleon.
The article cites a 1908 German infantry manual asserting that there is nothing more important in tactics than educating a soldier to think for himself. Though a little un-Germanic, it asserts that a soldier’s autonomy and sense of honor push him to do his duty even when it is not in front of his superiors.
The ISIS article explains that the terrorists plan three types of attacks. These include large-scale plots coordinated by the leaders, though these now seem a lesser priority. More important is a warning to the West that the attacks also include isolated actions of individuals who have no direct contact with ISIS but act in its name. This means that followers of ISIS will carry out terrorists attacks without them being traced to the central chain of command.
4: Steven Emerson—The media co-conspirators with the ‘Palestinians’?:
The willful blindness of the Western media and intellectual elites to Palestinian incitement and their hyper-focus on any incident they can use to portray Israel in a negative light were on abundant display last week when footage emerged of an Israel Defense Forces soldier shooting a wounded and disarmed Palestinian terrorist.
Since then, The New York Times and The Washington Post have run no fewer than 16 stories about the incident. This volume of coverage reinforces the patently mendacious Israel-is-evil “narrative” promoted by the mainstream media, the liberal elites in bed with Palestinian and jihadist killers, the demonstrably one-sided United Nations, and the sanctimonious rants of several congressional leaders who claim they are speaking out in the name of human rights.
Meanwhile, these same news outlets consistently fail to speak out against the massive and ongoing denial of human rights, suppression of basic freedoms and daily torture meted out to any Palestinian dissident by both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Many of these violations have been investigated and documented in horrific detail by the courageous Palestinian human rights advocate Bassam Eid.
5: Oded Eran and Gallia Lindenstrauss—The New EU-Turkey Agreement: Shortsighted Considerations vs. Long-Term Perspectives:
On March 18, 2016, a new agreement on the Syrian refugee crisis in Europe was concluded by the European Union and Turkey, similar to a previous deal formulated four months earlier. According to the latest agreement, Greece will return “irregular migrants” to Turkey (mainly those who were smuggled into Greece), and beginning April 4, for every refugee returned from Greece to Turkey, Turkey can send one Syrian refugee to Europe if s/he entered Turkey legally. The latest deal with Turkey highlights the EU’s distress regarding the flow of refugees fleeing the Middle East and North Africa, especially those from Syria. Through its two deals with Turkey, which reflect the classic conflict between values and interests, the EU made it clear that it was willing to pay Turkey a high price for playing the role of a barrier state. In effect, Turkey has consented to an arrangement in which it is to absorb an unstipulated number of Syrian refugees. In return, the EU is liable to find itself obliged to pay a high price, while it is unclear whether the benefit it receives matches the expectations, particularly while it loses its main levers of influence over events in the domestic Turkish sphere.
6: E.J. Dionne—This time it really is the end of Trump. Really.:
It’s time to go back to where we began: not only that Donald Trump will lose the Republican presidential nomination, but also that he could be so weakened by the end of the primaries that his party will not even have to worry about choosing someone else.
I feel your skepticism. Hasn’t Trump so far defied all predictions of his demise? Absolutely. Hasn’t every claim that “now he’s gone too far” been wrong? Of course.
Let’s be honest about journalists: We find a lot of ways of being wrong.
One trap is “presentism,” the idea that whatever is happening now will keep happening. And it is, indeed, easy to project Trump’s impending doom after his most miserable week yet.
He responded rather ineffectually to criticisms from Wisconsin conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes. His campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, was charged with battery. Trump reacted by aggressively attacking the credibility of conservative reporter Michelle Fields, the woman Lewandowski is accused of hurting. The front-runner thus fed the perception that he’s a misogynist.
SnyderTalk Comment: I don’t know what Yahweh has in store for Donald Trump, but I do know this: E.J. Dionne thinks he’s a lot smarter than he is.
For 25 years, the Washington Post was my daily paper. There are some talented people at the Post. Dionne isn’t one of them–really.
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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”.
