“Systems that Russia marketed for years as nearly impenetrable have proven vulnerable to coordinated strikes, electronic warfare, and modern precision weapons”

Posted on March 13, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

URBAN WARFARE
War Reveals the Truth: Russian and Chinese Weapons Are Outmatched
John Spencer
March 13, 2026

Wars do more than determine political outcomes or redraw borders. They also test weapons. Every conflict becomes a brutal proving ground where military technology is exposed to the unforgiving reality of combat. Systems that appear formidable in parades or defense exhibitions must ultimately survive the trial of war. Across several modern conflicts, the verdict is becoming increasingly clear. Russian and Chinese military systems are struggling when confronted by the integrated intelligence, precision strike, and networked warfare capabilities fielded by the United States, Israel, and their partners. The current war involving Iran provides the latest example. For decades, Tehran has relied heavily on Russian and Chinese technology to build its defenses and offensive strike capabilities. Russia delivered the S-300PMU-2 long-range air defense system to Iran, and elements of that system have been deployed to help defend strategic sites such as nuclear facilities and military bases. READ MORE

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“Temple Israel is located on a street that the locals affectionately call “Synagogue Row.” It is home to no fewer than four synagogues, and there are 10 more within a mile radius”

Posted on March 12, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
My Hometown in Michigan Is Under Attack. I’m in a Bomb Shelter in Israel.
Polina Fradkin
March 12, 2026

My entire community back home in West Bloomfield, Michigan, is on lockdown. I’m 5,000 miles away, sheltering from Iranian rockets in a bomb shelter in Tel Aviv. Perhaps it sounds strange to say, but I feel safer here. At 12:59 p.m. ET, I see a text in my family group chat: Just a few miles from my childhood home, Temple Israel, the biggest synagogue in Michigan and the largest Reform congregation in North America, is under attack. A shooter has rammed his truck into the synagogue. He drove his vehicle down a hallway before he was killed during a firefight—either by a guard’s bullet or because his car caught alight. The images start flooding my phone. I have never seen so many police cars in my life. My 11-year-old brother is home, writes my mom, but his Jewish school, Hillel Day School, is just a five-minute drive from the site, and on lockdown. So is the high school I went to, the Jewish Community Center, and all other synagogues in the metro Detroit area. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Would-be Michigan car bomber rammed explosives-laden truck into Temple Israel preschool — before security guards shot him dead An armed wannabe car bomber plowed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the preschool of a Michigan synagogue Thursday in a “targeted attack on the Jewish community,” investigators said. A vehicle registered to a Lebanon-born US citizen smashed through the doors of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield just before 1 p.m. and sped through the building housing 140 students, according to cops and reports.  Heroic security guards opened fire and stopped the driver, who died at the scene, Oakland Sheriff Mike Bouchard told reporters. The unidentified driver — found dead inside the car and burned beyond recognition — was armed with a rifle, and mortar shells were discovered in the vehicle’s rear, sources told The Post. The vehicle at the center of the attack is registered to a naturalized US citizen from Lebanon who lives in Dearborn, Michigan…

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“The Iran war exposes, yet again, how many modern liberal movements now defend and excuse the very illiberal ideas they are supposed to oppose”

Posted on March 12, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Left forgot what liberal means.
Vanessa Berg
March 12, 2026

…Israeli society is democratic and liberal (in the classical sense). Palestinian society, by contrast, is inherently illiberal, which has nothing to do with so-called “oppression” or “occupation,” and everything to do with longstanding Arab and Muslim values that go back centuries before the modern State of Israel’s creation in 1948. In other words, many Western liberals now instinctively side with societies that embody fewer liberal values over those that embody far more. This would be intellectually interesting if it were merely a shift in geopolitical preference. But the deeper issue is that the shift reflects something more profound: the erosion of liberal principles themselves. One reason for this change is that politics has become less about principles and more about opposition. Take, for example, the reaction to Israel’s recent war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. READ MORE

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ADL: ‘Gracie Mansion belongs to all New Yorkers. Public office must never be used to legitimize hate’

Posted on March 12, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
ADL condemns Zohran Mamdani for hosting Mahmoud Khalil at mayor’s mansion
Haley Cohen
March 10, 2026

The Anti-Defamation League condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday for hosting Columbia University anti-Israel protest leader Mahmoud Khalil at his official residence. “Welcoming someone known for justifying the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks as an honored guest at Gracie Mansion — while some in the Mayor’s inner circle have amplified antisemitic content and posts dismissing the atrocities of that day — sends a deeply troubling message,” an ADL spokesperson told Jewish Insider…On Monday night, Mamdani posted a photo which included his wife, who has come under fire in recent days for her social media support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks, and Khalil having an iftar meal at Gracie Mansion. Other Jewish groups have so far declined to publicly weigh in on the dinner.  READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Zohran Mamdani’s wife liked social media posts celebrating Oct. 7 attacks New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spent the mayoral campaign distancing himself from the most radical anti-Israel elements of his leftist movement, but an examination of his wife’s social media activity reveals she liked multiple Instagram posts cheering on Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault. The posts liked by Rama Duwaji, a Syrian-American artist, unambiguously celebrated the terrorist attack, which saw nearly 1,200 Israelis and foreign workers killed, thousands wounded, 251 civilians and military personnel kidnapped and numerous episodes of sexual assault.

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“The U.S. has joined the IDF in the enterprise, but Americans have not seen their military fight that kind of war in a long time. For some, it is a disorienting experience”

Posted on March 11, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
America and Israel Remind the World How Wars Are Fought to Victory
Noah Rothman
March 5, 2026

…Jerusalem’s objective is to “create the conditions” for regime change, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Toward that end, one Israel-based security expert told the Financial Times, Israel is attacking “the pillars of this regime” and “everything that holds it together.” But what will follow the Islamic Republic? That’s tomorrow’s problem. “If we can have a coup, great,” the analyst added. “If we can have people on the streets, great. If we can have a civil war, great.”. Israel is fighting this war as it has fought every conflict it has waged since October 7, 2023, with the goal of achieving tactical victories at the lowest possible cost in blood and treasure. The full flourishing of the Iranian people would be nice. And who wouldn’t welcome the establishment of a durable and placid social contract throughout the Middle East? Those are fine outcomes, but the IDF has a narrower agenda: break the back of the Iranian regime and rid the world of its terror masters once and for all while putting its soldiers at as little risk as possible. READ MORE

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“Florida colleges and universities are ahead of the curve when it comes to addressing antisemitism”

Posted on March 11, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

AFTER OCTOBER 7
Florida Universities Earn High Marks for Fighting Antisemitism – FAU, FIU and University of Miami Receive “A” Grades
Kevin Deutsch
March 11, 2026

Florida universities are receiving some of the strongest marks in the country for confronting antisemitism on campus, according to a new national assessment, though troubling data show anti-Jewish hostility and bigotry remain widespread among students. A new report released by the Anti-Defamation League finds that every Florida university evaluated received either an A or B grade for its response to antisemitism, placing the state among the national leaders in institutional efforts to protect Jewish students. The ADL’s third annual Campus Antisemitism Report Card evaluated 150 colleges and universities across the United States and found significant improvement nationwide. In Florida, all seven schools assessed earned high marks, including A grades for Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University, and University of Miami. READ MORE

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“The fact is that no one before Trump had the courage to attack. Iran has been waging a war against Americans, U.S. interests, and allies for nearly five decades, and no other American leader would stand up against that”

Posted on March 10, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Who Wants This War? Answer: winners
Lee Smith
March 5, 2026

Polls show that Republican support for the Donald Trump administration’s campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities, ballistic missile program, and other military capabilities and dismantle the Islamic Republic is over 80%. Nonetheless, there are reports of a split in the Republican Party and the Trump movement itself. Some members of the MAGA opposition are mad because, they say, Trump—and America—is being led to war by Israel. Accordingly, antisemitic agitator Tucker Carlson says that Trump’s Iran campaign is “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Former Fox News siren Megyn Kelly says that the Iran campaign “is clearly Israel’s war. Mark Levin wanted it, it’s his war, Ben Shapiro, Lindsey Graham, Miriam Adelson—that’s obvious. They are the ones who’ve been pushing us into it.” READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Ted Cruz warns GOP not winning battle against right-wing antisemitism Cruz has emerged in recent months as one of the Republican Party’s most vocal critics of right-wing antisemitism. He has targeted influential commentator Tucker Carlson and his strain of isolationist, anti-Israel politics that has in recent months crossed over into overt antisemitism, though Cruz has bemoaned other Republicans’ wariness to criticize Carlson by name. At the RJC event, Cruz called Carlson “the single most dangerous demagogue in this country.” But he said that not enough of his colleagues and allies on the right are aware of the extent of the problem.

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“The underlying message of these reports is both conspiratorial and clear: be it Jews or Arabs, America is effectively ruled by influential foreigners who hold power over the U.S. government”

Posted on March 10, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
The ZOG and the AOG: The media’s foreign conspiracies about Iran
Omri Tubi
March 6, 2026

As the United States and Israel began their war with Iran in February 2026, the media tried to understand why the U.S. went to war. Among the suggested explanations, two versions stand out. One, offered by The New York Times, right-wing commentators, some progressive and conservative politicians, as well as anti-Israel activists and organizations, implies that the U.S. was dragged to war by Israel and/or Jewish bodies such as the religious group Chabad. By extension, this version alleges that any price the U.S. may pay for the war, such as the killing of American soldiers by the Iranian regime, is to be blamed on Israel and “the Jews.” READ MORE

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UAE under attack: “America did not help broker the Abraham Accords only to watch their boldest Arab partner become an exposed target”

Posted on March 9, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
To Defend the Abraham Accords, Trump Must First Defend the UAE
Robert Williams
March 9, 2026

…That choice became unmistakable in 2020, when the UAE signed the Abraham Accords with Israel. The agreement formally established peace, diplomatic relations, and full normalization between the two states. Its significance went far beyond diplomacy….That break with the past is exactly why the UAE became a target. The Iranian regime and its proxies understand perfectly well what the Emirates represent. A confident Arab and Muslim-majority country that embraces modern governance, welcomes investment, works closely with the United States, and makes peace with Israel is a living refutation of their entire worldview. Tehran’s ideological project depends on persuading the region that dignity can only come through militancy and permanent hostility. The UAE proves the opposite. It demonstrated that sovereignty can be defended without fanaticism, and that prosperity can be built through peace rather than perpetual war. This is why attacks on the UAE are not merely attacks on a country. They are attacks on a model for peace. READ MORE

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Memo to Democrats: “As supposed moderates like Gavin Newsom demonize AIPAC and smear the Jewish state to appeal to their party’s mainstream, voters will have to draw their own conclusions”

Posted on March 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
If pro-Israel Democrats become extinct, what will liberal Jews do?
Jonathan Tobin
March 6, 2025

…Everywhere you look, you find evidence of mainstream Democrats scurrying for cover as their invariably more left-wing primary opponents use past visits to Israel or reports of their getting funding from pro-Israel PACs, as well as those connected to AIPAC, as campaign issues. Among Democrats, AIPAC is more and more being falsely compared to radical right-wing hate groups, despite the absurdity of the comparisons. Examples of this abound. In Illinois, State Senator Laura Fine is being bashed for taking pro-Israel PAC money by her opponent Daniel Bliss, as they compete for the Democratic nomination to replace Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), herself a veteran Israel-basher in the state’s heavily Jewish 9th District on Chicago’s North Side and adjoining suburbs. All three are Jewish. READ MORE

BOSTON HERALD Democrats the only friends Iran has left It’s too bad that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not around. If he were, he would be hosting a fundraiser for the Democrat Party, particularly for those members of Congress—including all of them from Massachusetts– who voted to shut down the war with Iran that the U.S. is winning. They failed, of course, but their vote no doubt lifted the spirits of Khamenei’s remaining militant Islamic fanatics who are still holed up in their underground bunkers and missile sites waiting to die.

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