Most Clicked This Week
- “America's team of real estate developers and financiers may beat Iran's diplomats at the bargaining table”
- #MAGA "Jerusalem is now looking at what may be the most pro-Israel White House in the history of the bilateral relationship"
- Students find affordable housing in shipping container apartments
- This all has to change: "Palestinian curriculum rejects the legitimacy of Israel’s existence, justifies violence against it, defines such violence as a religious obligation and informs students that Jews and Zionists are irredeemably evil"
- Eurovision Song Winner Barzilai was "unrepentant with her popular techno dance beat about women's empowerment" [VIDEO]
- Set in New York in 1977, “Hunters” follows a band of Nazi hunters who find out hundreds of Nazi officials living in the US are plotting to establish a “Fourth Reich”
- "The new AT age -- "After Trump" -- began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented"
- “Yale University has quietly adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of antisemitism”
Monthly Archives: July 2016
1947 Partition Plan: “Although the land allocated to the Jewish state was slightly larger than the land allocated to the Arab state, much of the Jewish part was total desert, the Negev and Arava, with the fertile land allocated to the Arabs”
GATESTONE The Arabs’ Historic Mistakes in Their Interactions with Israel by Fred Maroun July 10, 2016 We Arabs managed our relationship with Israel atrociously, but the worst of all is the ongoing situation of the Palestinians. Our worst mistake was … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
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“Why the widely loathed Netanyahu was able to defeat [defense establishment] the most respected institution in Israel…experts will never be able to persuade voters to disregard the lessons of their own lived experience”
COMMENTARY Why Bibi Defeated the Generals by Evelyn Gordon July 10, 2016 …[Israel’s] defense establishment consists “mostly of men who grew up in the strongholds of the left-leaning Israeli Labor Party” and hold dovish views. Thus they were understandably appalled by … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran, Labor Party, Two State Solution, US Congress
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“Only about 3% of Israeli Jews identify with the Reform movement, and most of those are English-speaking immigrants. The ‘non-observant Orthodox’ aren’t rushing to join them, either”
ABU YEHUDA What’s the problem with Reform Judaism? by Vic Rosenthal July 8, 2016 …Just as very few Israelis are attracted to Reform Judaism, very few agree with the political point of view that the URJ [Union for Reform Judaism] … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Reform Judaism, Rick Jacobs, Union for Reform Judaism
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International community “fosters the incorrect, dubious argument that #Israel is still legally responsible for #Gaza as an occupier”
WAR ON THE ROCKS Recognizing that Israel is not an Occupying Power in Gaza is good for everyone by Gilead Sher and Dana Wolf July 8, 2016 …Although Israel fully evacuated Gaza eleven years ago and a 2015 U.N. Human … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Occupation, UN Human Rights Council
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London Jews in the First World War, We Were There Too
TIMES OF ISRAEL UK lottery money funds digital memorial to British Jewry’s WWI fallen by Jenni Frazer July 9, 2016 Their names are scarcely known these days, often not even by their descendants. But an extraordinary project launched this week … Continue reading
#Brexit “The astounding increase in open anti-Jewish feeling in Britain has occurred while it belonged to the EU”
THE JC.COM Leave vote was about identity by Melanie Phillips July 7, 2016 The Brexit vote has heightened passions right across the nation. Many have been left deeply upset and anxious. Families and friendships have been ripped asunder. The temperature … Continue reading
#IranDeal Brad Sherman (D-Calif): “virtually certain” the Boeing aircraft would be used for nefarious purposes [VIDEO]
THE HILL House passes legislation blocking Boeing sale to Iran Air by Kristina Wong July 7, 2016 The House on Thursday evening passed Republican-led legislation to block Boeing’s planned sale of aircraft to Iran — a move that was not … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Airbus, Boeing, Congressman Brad Sherman, Congressman Peter Roskam, Iran
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ArchitectGuy on Israel 