Happy July Fourth. Get ready to work.

Posted on July 2, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

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The Jewish Obligation to Save America
Liel Leibovitz
July 1, 2026

“America is over.” That, with some variation, is the message I’ve been getting from friends and colleagues ever since last week’s Democratic primaries elevated a host of radicals to prominence. In WhatsApp groups and text messages and long, doleful emails, intelligent, soulful people wrote to declare that the experiment that had begun on these shores 250 years ago was now at an end. America, they lament, is obviously on its way to becoming another Spain, Poland, Ukraine—just “another shithole country where Jews used to live…This covenantal nation, put here by God to spread the light of freedom to a benighted world, is a nation always busy being born. When it first emerged, 250 years ago this summer, it did so when a band of brave men decided to rise to the occasion and make new proclamations that put them in conflict with the mightiest military force on earth. They prevailed, and by doing so, forever changed the course of history. READ MORE

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“The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding tells Iran that Hezbollah survives and Israel leaves. The Trilateral Framework says that Hezbollah disarms and that, until it does, Israel stays in Lebanon”

Posted on July 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Washington Handed Iran the Paper and Kept the War
Pierre Rehov
July 1, 2026

…Consider what each document asks of the same actor. The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding tells Iran that Hezbollah survives and Israel leaves. The Trilateral Framework says that Hezbollah disarms and that, until it does, Israel stays in Lebanon. The Washington framework carries a verification schedule, a coordination body, and an American signature on the operational page. The Islamabad MOU was the consolation Iran was permitted to believe and has no mechanism behind it at all. A division of labor inside the Trump administration was deployed, and not concealed. The negotiations with Iran were led by Vice President JD Vance, who never wanted this war and made no secret of his wish to end it cheaply. He produced the Islamabad MOU, the paper Iran’s regime wanted to hear. The Lebanon framework was created by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has spent his career treating Iran’s proxy network as a threat to be dismantled rather than soothed. One man offered Iran the vocabulary of relief. The other wrote the document that conditions every concession on the disarmament of Iran’s most valuable proxy. READ MORE

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Just in from our partners in peace: Iranian newspaper Hamshahri runs front-page story featuring Trump’s face in crosshairs of rifle scope with a banner headline “Revenge is certain”

Posted on July 1, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NY POST
Powerful Iranian clerics call for assassination of Trump, Netanyahu: ‘Send them to hell’
Chris Nesi
July 1, 2026

Iran’s most senior clerics have called for the assassinations of President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, declaring the leaders mahdour al-dam — or deserving of death. The 88-member Assembly of Experts issued a 10-point statement in which they said killing “the wicked prime minister of the Zionist regime” and “the criminal American president” was a religious duty that must be carried out “under any circumstances.” The clerics — who are constitutionally tasked with choosing and supervising the supreme leader — wrote that the call for their assassinations that avenging the death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei was of “paramount” importance. READ MORE

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“Turkish President fiercely rejects Israel’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide, calling it a slanderous attempt to mask its actions in Gaza”

Posted on June 30, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Erdogan rejects Israel’s Armenian Genocide recognition, blasts ‘murder network’ in Gaza
Elad Benari
July 1, 2026

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a fierce denunciation of Israel on Tuesday following a unanimous vote by the Israeli Cabinet to formally acknowledge the Ottoman-era Armenian massacres as genocide. The legislative move and the ensuing diplomatic clash mark the latest breakdown in bilateral ties, which have deteriorated drastically amid the ongoing war in Gaza. Speaking directly after a cabinet session, Erdogan rejected the historical designation and forcefully turned the focus toward current events in the Middle East. “We do not give the slightest heed to the slanders about our country from the murder network that has the blood of 73,000 innocent Gazans, most of them children and women, on its hands,” Erdogan said, as quoted by Politico. “In our history there is no genocide, no massacre, no oppression, and no colonialism,” he claimed. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL PM tells Erdogan to ‘calm down’ with anti-Israel rhetoric, says he raised Egyptian military presence in Sinai with Cairo Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan should “calm down” in the face of his increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Israel. Asked during his Channel 14 interview if recent rhetoric coming out of Turkey concerns him, Netanyahu replies: “Of course it concerns me.” Erdogan and other senior Turkish officials have ramped up threats against Jerusalem recently, with Turkey’s interior minister calling earlier this month for the country to “liberate” Jerusalem. 

ARUTZ SHEVA Trump: I convinced Erdogan to stay out of the Iran conflict US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he had prevented Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from joining the war in Iran. Speaking to reporters at the White House alongside NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump said, “He’s a friend of mine, and he stayed out of the war.”The President added, “You know, he was a prime candidate to go into the war with Iran. Maybe, on Iran’s side because he’s not a big fan of Israel, as you know. And I asked him to stay out. He stayed out.” Trump also lavished praise on Erdogan, calling him a friend and describing him as a respected leader.

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“Indeed, this is the fourth time in under 25 years that Lebanon has “agreed” to disarm Hezbollah, and yet — here we are, agreeing once again to do what we’ve (supposedly) already agreed to three times”

Posted on June 30, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
The New Lebanon Deal Is a Seismic Shift — But Not How You Think
Daniel Pomerantz
June 30, 2026

…An upheaval of historic proportions lies “hidden in plain sight,” right at the beginning of the document: Israel and Lebanon affirm the right of each state to exist in peace, and their mutual desire to live in security as neighboring sovereign states. In other words: Lebanon has, for the first time in history, acknowledged Israel’s existence and right to continue existing. This is a seismic shift, which the world hardly even noticed….The essence of the Framework is Israeli withdrawal in exchange for the official Lebanese government disarming and dismantling Hezbollah, and re-asserting sovereignty over its own country. This is a lofty goal, and a worthy vision for both the Israeli and Lebanese people. Yet as we’ve explained in detail, it’s presently impossible for one simple reason: Hezbollah controls Lebanon. In addition to having military capacity that rivals the Lebanese Armed Forces (the “LAF”), Hezbollah also holds the largest voting bloc in the Lebanese parliament. Indeed, the Framework was signed by Lebanon’s ambassador to the United States, but never actually adopted by Parliament – that’s politically impossible. READ MORE

MEDIA LINE IDF Destroys Major Hezbollah Tunnel Under Southern Lebanon Village The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that troops operating in southern Lebanon destroyed a major Hezbollah underground complex in the village of Majdal Zoun, describing the site as a significant weapons and launch facility built with Iranian expertise. The IDF said the tunnel system extended more than 200 meters, reached a depth of more than 25 meters, and contained hundreds of weapons along with four launch shafts directed toward Israeli territory.

IT’S NOON IN ISRAEL Amit Segal: History in the Making? The two sides commit to formally end their state of war and pursue normal relations through later negotiations. The engine is a reciprocal, sequenced process: Lebanon pledges the complete, verified disarmament of all non-state armed groups—Hezbollah is named—and the restoration of Lebanese Armed Forces control over all its territory, while, in exchange, the IDF redeploys zone by zone as disarmament is verified. Two initial “pilot zones” are agreed, with the rest left to a forthcoming Security Annex. Lebanon affirms Israel’s right to exist and that only the Lebanese state may authorize force on its soil; Israel disclaims any territorial ambitions…For the past four months, Iran has been demanding Israel withdraw from sovereign Lebanese soil; Lebanon’s own government has effectively answered, “You first.” 

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A key voice in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago, is speaking up in support of the Jewish people

Posted on June 30, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Cardinal Cupich’s support shows Jews are gaining powerful allies against antisemitism
Yehiel Poupko and Joshua Stanton
June 27, 2026

Amid the din of antisemitism, a growing chorus of voices is speaking up in support of the Jewish People and Israel. Even as we struggle against the scourge, we should note the remarkable ways in which our friends are standing with us to ensure that we need not face it alone. Whether it is the Black Christian Leadership Council on Israel Relations, which is planning a trip for 500 leading Black pastors to Israel or the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, Eagles’ Wings, and the Israel Allies Foundation, which with Jewish Federations of North America and other organizations brought hundreds of Christian and Jewish leaders together in support of Israel and against antisemitism, we feel bolstered by those who stand with us…We note that for the first time in history, a Muslim group marched in the Israel Day Parade and that local Latter-day Saints communities are collaborating with their Jewish counterparts around security. READ MORE

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“Lenient sentence was reached after several meetings with the judge, who determined that the case involved “two older men who got into an argument that ended in an accident”

Posted on June 29, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
Arab lecturer gets one year for killing Jewish protester in California
Daniel Edelson
July 1, 2026

A California court sentenced Loay Abdel Fattah Alnaji, a 53-year-old lecturer of Jordanian descent, to one year in jail and two years of probation after he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Jewish protester Paul Kessler near Los Angeles in November 2023. The incident, first reported by ynet, occurred during dueling pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, California, one month after the October 7 attack. Prosecutors said Alnaji, a computer science lecturer at a community college in California, struck Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish retiree, in the head with a megaphone, causing him to fall backward and hit the pavement. Kessler died of his injuries the next day…The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office opposed the court’s decision, saying Kessler “lost his life in a violent attack that took him from his family and his wife…” READ MORE

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“This betrayal indicts not just the Democratic antisemites but the entire party. It does so because it is clear that, had action been taken in time, the thing could have been stopped”

Posted on June 26, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NO DELUSIONS, NO DESPAIR
The Democrats’ betrayal of the Jews
Benjamin Kerstein
June 26, 2026

..,The victories of a series of antisemitic candidates in New York this week mark a turning point, as nearly everyone has acknowledged. For non-Jewish Democrats, it means that radical outsiders have more or less conquered the party. For Jews, the implications are much more ominous: It is now clear that antisemitism is a powerful, motivating, systemic, and institutionalized force in the Democratic Party. Defined by cruelty and violence, genocidal in ideology and rhetoric, and determined to destroy Israel and ghettoize American Jews, the new Democratic Party leaves liberal and progressive Jews—that is to say, the vast majority of the community—not only without a political home but under existential threat. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Dan Goldman, and the decline and fall of liberal Jewish Democrats
The end of the political career of Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) is filled with irony. He was a child of immense privilege who may wind up best remembered for being a victim of discrimination. He was also a man whose rapid rise in public life was fueled by rabid partisanship and the weaponization of the law against political opponents. But his career came to an abrupt end earlier this week, when he was brought down by an even more extreme faction of his party that had decided he wasn’t sufficiently ideologically pure to suit the current political fashion of delegitimizing Jewish identity on the left.

FREE PRESS Melat Kiros Called October 7 ‘Inevitable’ and May Be Heading to Congress The 29-year-old political novice is the latest DSA candidate to topple an incumbent Democrat. She refused to call an attack on Jews ‘antisemitic’ and plans to hold the party hostage in the House…In May, she justified October 7 as the “inevitable consequence of apartheid, of occupation, decades of occupation” while appearing on Piker’s livestream. Last week, a local TV news reporter asked Kiros if that same logic applied to the United States on 9/11. She replied that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL American pro-Israel activists may have just had their worst week ever One party is voting for the loudest critics of Israel; the other is cutting a generous deal with Jerusalem’s top adversary; after years of bipartisan support, a new era is dawning

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‘Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent speech about pro-Israel civic participation is dangerous, unacceptable and beneath the office he holds,’ the letter reads

Posted on June 26, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
700 US rabbis to Mamdani: Apologize for calling AIPAC ‘monsters’
June 26, 2026

More than 700 rabbis and cantors from across the United States signed onto a letter published Friday morning calling on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to apologize for his remarks last week in which he described the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as “monsters.”..It called out the mayor for his remarks at a rally last week ahead of the Democratic primaries in New York, in which several congressional candidates backed by the mayor notched victories, as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency…No elected leader should demonize Jews or those who stand with the Jewish state,” the letter continued. “Criticizing Israeli policy is not antisemitic. Treating millions of Zionist Jews as morally suspect, politically illegitimate or less deserving of equal participation in public life is.” READ MORE

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The recently foiled DC terror attack has received scant media attention for various reasons. Look at what this group of 23 individuals had planned:

Posted on June 26, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

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Brewing in a Garage Near You
Andrew Fox
June 24, 2026

…The conspirators planned a multistage attack, a mix of high tech elements and low. The first stage would consist of a swarm of flying drones, the type of quadcopters used by hobbyists, law enforcement, and the military, that would carry small loads of explosives to set buildings surrounding the White House afire and panic the large crowds gathered for the UFC event. The explosives would be detonated in a sequence intended to herd the crowd toward areas where snipers would be positioned, who would then conduct a coordinated slaughter. This massacre and its accompanying explosions would provide cover for the assault’s second stage, a breaching of the White House gates by another group of gunmen. These killers would seek out high-value targets: the president and his family; billionaires; tech magnates and politicians pushing the spread of AI data centers across the nation…and senators and congressional representatives who received campaign funding or support from AIPAC. READ MORE

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