“Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth.
(Zechariah 4: 6)
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Caroline Glick—Ending the Palestinian Exception:
When Rosh Hashanah ended on Tuesday evening, Jews discovered that over the holiday, the Trump administration had enacted two policies – one foreign and one domestic – that on their face, don’t appear to be connected. But actually, they stem from the same rationale. And both together and separately, these two policies give Jews much to be thankful for.
First, the administration announced it is closing the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington, DC. US National Security Advisor John Bolton explained Monday that the administration decided to close the PLO office due to the PLO’s refusal to carry out substantive negotiations towards the achievement of a peace agreement with Israel. Then too, by working to prosecute Israeli nationals at the International Criminal Court, the PLO is violating the conditions Congress set as law for the continued operation of its Washington office.
Second, Kenneth Marcus, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights determined that from now on, the US Department of Education will use the State Department’s definition of antisemitism in adjudicating all complaints regarding alleged acts of antisemitism in US educational institutions.
The State Department’s definition of antisemitism is based on the definition drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The IHRA’s working definition of antisemitism explicitly states that anti-Israel activities which among other things reject Israel’s right to exist and the Jewish people’s right to self-determination; compare contemporary policies of the State of Israel to policies of Nazi Germany; and apply a standard for judging Israel’s policies and actions that is not applied to other nations and states, are all acts of antisemitism. As such, they are prohibited under the civil rights statutes that protect Americans against discrimination based on their group identity.
The common phenomenon both policies address can be referred to as “the Palestinian exception.”
The Palestinian exception was born with the Oslo process, whose 25th anniversary was marked on September 13. Ironically, the more the process failed, the more entrenched the Palestinian exception became.
The Palestinian exception involves giving the Palestinians and their supporters a pass for actions that would otherwise be illegal, simply because they are Palestinians and pro-Palestinian activists.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
See “‘Frustration’ in White House Grows Over Jewish Opposition to Trump”.
It’s easy for me to understand why people in the White House, President Trump in particular, are frustrated with Jewish people in the U.S. I’m not talking about all Jewish people in the U.S., but I am talking about most of them.
Presidents of the United States have been promising to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem for decades, but none of them kept their promise. President Trump did.
The reactions of most Jewish people in the U.S. were not what we should have expected. They were not happy about it.
Did you know that a very large number of rabbis in the U.S. don’t believe the State of Israel should exist? Many of them believe that the Messiah will establish Israel as a state when He arrives and that He is the only One who can do it.
They are right. The Messiah is the only One who can establish the State of Israel, and He did it in 1948.
I’m reminded of a joke about a woman who was trapped in her house during a flood. She climbed out a window and made her way to the roof of her house. While she was sitting on the roof, she prayed for Yahweh to save her. A few minutes later, a rescue boat came by. The boat driver pulled the boat up to her house and told her to get in. She said, “No, thanks. I’m waiting for Yahweh to save me.”
I’m also reminded about the Messiah’s parable about the rich man and Lazarus:
“Now there was a rich man, and he habitually dressed in purple and fine linen, joyously living in splendor every day. And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores, and longing to be fed with the crumbs which were falling from the rich man’s table; besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores. Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’” (Luke 16: 19-31)
Yahweh gave us President Trump as a blessing. He promised to do lots of things while he was campaigning, and he has kept his promises. He promised to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and he did it. He promised to work on a peace treaty between Israel and Palestinians, and he did it.
Palestinians have rejected every peace overture that President Trump has made, and they have ramped up terrorist attacks on Israel in response to those overtures. As a result, the president has tightened the screws on Palestinians.
Since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, U.S. presidents have been giving in to Palestinian demands to avoid confrontations with them. As a result, we have had more and more violent confrontations with Palestinians, and the Israeli people have suffered.
Realizing that what we have been doing for 25 years hasn’t worked, President Trump decided to try another approach. He is giving Palestinians an attitude adjustment.
President Trump is holding Palestinians accountable for their actions. They aren’t used to it and don’t like it, but they don’t have to like it. They have to accept it. If they won’t accept it, they will suffer.
President Trump isn’t playing games. He means business. Palestinians need to wake up to that reality.
The current crop of Palestinian leaders seem determined to wait out the president and deal with the next president in 2024. They have no idea who is behind President Trump. They can’t wait Him out.
By 2024, the U.S. will be on a different path than the one we are on today. Yahweh’s people in the U.S. are waking up, and we are moving closer to Him.
Rather than supporting the president, most Jewish people in the U.S. are opposing him every way they can. They can’t see and won’t accept the fact that Yahweh is doing things through President Trump that He promised to do. So, in a nutshell, they are rejecting Yahweh.
That’s the same mistake that the spies made when Moses sent them into the Promised Land to scope it out. They rejected Yahweh, too, and the Children of Israel had to spend 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
Try telling that to a Jewish person who opposes President Trump and watch his reaction. I’ve done it. I was ridiculed for daring to believe that Yahweh would use a human being, much less a man like Donald Trump, to fulfill His promises.
When I get that response, I know that the person I’m talking with doesn’t know the Torah or the Prophets or the Writings—i.e., the Tanach or the Old Testament. They don’t know much about David or Solomon or Elijah or Gideon or Moses or Aaron on anyone else that Yahweh used, either.
This is the bottom line: They don’t know Yahweh or His word.
They know about Yahweh, but they don’t know Him. The difference is huge. I could even say that the difference is everything.
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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)
