“Trump’s declaration appeared to almost certainly be false, given that the 10-year memorandum of understanding on US military assistance to Israel, which gives the Jewish state $3.8 billion annually, runs for nearly two more years”

Posted on November 10, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Rubio: Israel rich enough to buy own weapons, Trump wants swift end to military aid
Lazar Berman
November 10, 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that US President Donald Trump believes Israel is “rich enough” to buy American weapons without relying on military aid, and that the president wants that arrangement to come into effect in the near future. Trump, said Rubio, “would like for the financing portion to end as soon as possible.” “We’re working through that in terms of how we negotiate the memorandum of understanding,” he told reporters at the G7 meeting in Paris. “But the president’s expectation is that Israel is now prosperous and rich enough to be able to be a sales country. They can buy the weapons from us, but we no longer have to provide the financing.”…Rubio said that Israel can “absolutely” get off aid by the end of the year if it wants to. “They also produce weaponry, by the way, so part of the MOU would also involve the ability to co-produce on some things,” Rubio said, adding that “we’ll negotiate the timeline.” READ MORE

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Phildelphia boycotters “made these Jewish restaurants rock stars”

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Philly ‘Kristallnacht’ protests at Jewish-owned businesses drowned out, shouted down by huge crowds
Steve Vago and Ronny Reyes
November 8, 2026

Protests of Jewish-owned businesses in Philadelphia by dozens of masked bikers on the eve of the Kristallnacht anniversary were drowned out by a massive crowd of heckling counter-protesters on Sunday. The boycott, which targeted restaurants run by Jewish Americans in Philly’s ritzy Rittenhouse Square neighborhood, came face-to-face with a large counterprotest aimed at supporting the businesses. However, the protest was forced to shut down early, with organizers claiming “safety concerns.”  Lines at the Jewish-owned businesses stretched out the door as supporters publicly come out toback them.  Social media posts for the protest demanded that the businesses leave the city….Despite the claim that the protest was “anti-Zionist,” one business owner said her mac and cheese shop had nothing to do with Israel, and believes she was targeted because she wears a Star of David. The protest Sunday came on the eve of the anniversary for the 1938 Nazi night of terror in Germany and Austria, where Jewish-owned businesses and neighborhoods were sacked. READ MORE

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“US District Court for the District of Columbia rules that Arnold and Frimet Roth, the parents of 15-year-old Malka Roth, can serve Tamimi with legal papers through social media”

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Sbarro bombing terrorist Ahlam Tamimi served with US lawsuit via X
Danielle Greyman-Kennard
November 4, 2026

Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist responsible for the Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem in 2001, was served with legal papers on X/Twitter on Tuesday in a case brought by the National Jewish Advocacy Center on behalf of the estate of Malka “Malki” Roth, according to the organization’s Rabbi Dr. Mark Goldfeder. The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Arnold and Frimet Roth, the parents of 15-year-old Malka Roth, could serve Tamimi with legal papers through social media on X/Twitter, because Tamimi continues to reside in Jordan at an unknown address. Arnold Roth, speaking for the Roth family, said: “This lawsuit places Tamimi under legal pressure in an American court for the first time. We hope the case will also draw public attention to the fact that the US criminal prosecution has remained stalled for more than a decade. READ MORE

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UNRWA’s acting chief advancing plan to gradually dismantle the agency amid a massive budget deficit and an Israeli ban on its operations

Posted on November 8, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
UNRWA faces shutdown as plan emerges to transfer responsibilities to Board of Peace
Danny Zaken
November 1, 2026

Arab and Western diplomatic sources tell Israel Hayom that a plan to gradually shut down the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and transfer its responsibilities and operations to the Board of Peace is expected to be presented soon, following talks between the two bodies. UNRWA, established in 1949 and operational since 1950, is the UN agency dedicated specifically to Palestinian refugees. Its mandate has effectively preserved Palestinian refugee status across generations, even though most of those registered as refugees have long since settled and established themselves in other countries or in territories administered by the Palestinian Authority. In recent years, Israel has passed two laws and additional legislation targeting UNRWA, banning its operations in Israel and prohibiting contact between the agency and Israeli government bodies. Most of its assets in Israel have been seized, while a sharp decline in contributions from Western and Arab countries has further undermined its ability to operate. READ MORE

UNraveling UNRWA, Official Trailer

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How accusations against Jews enter juridical institutions and emerge with the appearance of legal validation

Posted on November 7, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Laundering Libel
Andrea Martin
November 5, 2026

…Law has been a double-edged sword in Jewish history. It has protected Jews and secured Jewish civil rights. But law has also classified Jews, excluded them, dispossessed them—and, perhaps most dangerously, transformed accusations, stereotypes, and false narratives about Jews into authoritative accounts of who Jews are. Consider Canon 67 of the Fourth Lateran Council, adopted in 1215. It condemned the “perfidy of the Jews” for supposedly extorting “oppressive and excessive interest” from Christians through usury. The true narrative was that in many places, Jews faced restrictions on landholding, guild membership, public office, and numerous occupations, while Christian canon law barred Christians from lending money at interest. As a result, money lending became one of the limited economic roles available to some Jews. That historical context was ignored. The law simply inserted an existing rumor and stereotype of Jewish greed, deceit, and guile into canon law. The stereotype came first; the law then adopted it as a premise. Once embedded in law, the stereotype helped justify further restrictions on Jews, including limits on their contact with Christians. READ MORE

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“When the socialists fail to deliver for the majority, the American right should be there to explain why our experiment with “the warmth of collectivism” failed, as it typically does”

Posted on November 7, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Here Come the Socialists
Noah Rothman
November 4, 2026

…Minnesotans, in all their wisdom, will send Bernie Sanders ally Peggy Flanagan to represent them in the upper chamber of Congress. She, too, ran on eliminating private health insurance, “tearing ICE apart,” banning investors from purchasing certain properties, packing the Supreme Court, and restricting the public’s right to engage in political speech. Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed does not describe himself as a socialist, but the socialists in his orbit don’t seem to have noticed. Who could blame them? He argues that his version of Medicare for All is some strange new species of capitalism. He opposes almost any government program that moves public money into private pockets, including school vouchers. And he, too, would abolish ICE and pack the courts. But it’s foreign policy that gets El-Sayed out of bed in the morning. Specifically, his desire to reimagine “the currently existing state of Israel” and cut off its access even to defensive munitions with no offensive application. After all, if Israeli civilians are more vulnerable to deadly terrorist attacks, perhaps Jerusalem will be more reluctant to defend itself with vigor. READ MORE

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Yashar rules out coalition with Netanyahu; Likud urges unity while calling rivals ‘the disaster bloc’

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Herzog says he’ll task a would-be PM on Sunday, after Eisenkot is recommended by 67 of 120 MKs
Stav Levaton
November 6, 2026

Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot on Thursday received the backing of a majority of Knesset members to be prime minister after parties consulted with President Isaac Herzog, paving the way for him to be granted the mandate to attempt to form the next government. Following the meetings, Herzog said representatives of factions totaling 67 lawmakers backed Eisenkot, while factions totaling 46 lawmakers recommended Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although the result was “clear,” the president said he would hold further talks with party leaders to clarify the situation before assigning the mandate to form a government on Sunday. Yashar subsequently urged Herzog to give Eisenkot the task “as soon as possible,” noting that the support of 67 seats is the largest number of recommendations given to a candidate since 2015. Despite the support, Eisenkot’s path to assembling a coalition is unclear. The anti-Netanyahu parties are split between a 48-member, four-party Jewish-led bloc and a 19-member bloc of two Arab-led parties. All six of these parties recommended Eisenkot as prime minister. But three of the Jewish-led parties are thus far refusing to partner with the Arab parties. READ MORE

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Hillbilly Alibi: Vance puts the finger on Israel

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Vance blames GOP’s dismal midterm performance on Iran war, U.S.-Israel relationship
Emily Jacobs
November 4, 2026

Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ poor performance in the midterm elections on the U.S. war in Iran, calling it “obvious to almost everyone,” as well as the current state of the U.S.-Israel relationship. Vance offered his assessment in a lengthy statement on X on Wednesday morning, attributing the fact that “many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026” to the Trump administration’s approach to Middle East politics…The vice president said that a pollster, whom he described as “one of the smartest people I know in politics,” told him on Tuesday that some voters who supported President Donald Trump in 2024 “were angry and planning to vote for Democrats” due to four primary reasons: a desire to “end the war” in Iran, to “focus on cost of living/inflation,” to “put America First,” and to “change our relationship to Israel.” READ MORE

JNS Vance blames election loss on Iran war, relationship with Israel “The reason we lost is the war,” the U.S. vice president wrote. “If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so” but “that’s at least honest.”

MEDIA LINE Vance Blames Iran War, Israel Ties for Midterm Losses; President Trump Defends Strikes President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Vice President JD Vance was largely correct in attributing Republicans’ sweeping congressional election losses to the war in Iran and US relations with Israel, but defended his decision to launch the military campaign in February. Speaking to reporters while touring construction of a new White House ballroom, Trump said he agreed with Vance’s assessment of the election results but would not have changed his approach to Iran. “I know how he feels about it … I think it was fine. I thought it was good,” President Trump said of Vance’s post on X. “I knew the war was gonna impact [the election results]. Whether it impacted it or not, Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon,” he added. “I would’ve done nothing different.”

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“For me, the disaster isn’t that Democrats won or Republicans lost. It’s that politicians who demonize Israel, deny Jewish self-determination and explain away antisemitism are finding an increasingly receptive electorate in the world’s most important democracy”

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
Hatred Opened the Door. A Missed Victory Held It Open.
Micah Danzig
November 4, 2026

Tuesday’s midterm results should alarm anyone who knows Jewish history, understands antisemitism or recognizes why Israel is central to the identity of the overwhelming majority of the world’s Jews. For me, the disaster isn’t that Democrats won or Republicans lost. It’s that politicians who demonize Israel, deny Jewish self-determination and explain away antisemitism are finding an increasingly receptive electorate in the world’s most important democracy. Whatever the Democratic Socialists of America and their growing roster of allies insist, Zionism is not “colonialism.” It is the national liberation movement of an indigenous people who reclaimed sovereignty in their ancestral homeland after nearly two thousand years of actual colonialism in that land. Israel is the one country where Jews don’t depend on others’ goodwill for their collective survival. The last few centuries have taught us, at the cost of millions of lives, what that dependence means. READ MORE

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Trump added that he’d reached an agreement with Netanyahu on the issue, saying Bibi was the one who raised the issue given the Democratic opposition to the continued funding

Posted on November 5, 2026 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
An Abrupt End to U.S. Military Financing to Israel Would Hurt Both Allies
Justin Leopold-Cohen and Samuel Ben-Ur
November 5, 2026

President Donald Trump has promised to end U.S. military aid to Israel by year’s end, even as the two allies deliberate on whether to resume attacks on Iran. On November 3, the president asked why Republicans should “suffer the slings” from critics of Israel when Jerusalem “no longer need[s]” the money it receives from America. Trump then said aid would be cut off by the end of 2026. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu articulated a version of this idea in January, stating, “I want to taper off the military aid within the next 10 years.” This was a reference to the current U.S.-Israel memorandum of understanding (MOU) that provides Israel military assistance. Gradually phasing out aid became the premise for negotiating a new agreement in June. Ending U.S. military assistance before Israel can recalibrate would leave Israel’s military vulnerable, hurting Washington as well…The current MOU committed $38 billion for fiscal years (FYs) 2019-2028, including $500 million annually for joint missile and rocket defense programs. Of that annual $3.8 billion, $3.3 billion consists of Foreign Military Financing (FMF), the majority of which goes to American defense procurements, supporting the U.S. economy. READ MORE

JTA Trump says US aid to Israel will stop at the end of the year President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning said that the United States would halt billions of dollars in annual aid to Israel by the end of 2026, potentially ending decades of military funding for one of America’s closest allies in the Middle East. “We were giving them $4 billion. We are. But it gets cut off at the end of the year,” Trump declared during a call-in appearance on the “Fox & Friends” morning program on Fox News. Israel’s 10-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States, which currently gives Israel $3.8 billion annually, runs through 2028, so it’s unclear how easy it would be for the White House to stop the funding this year and whether Trump is truly committed to changing the arrangement. 

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