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- Lappin: “U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff's ties to Gulf state businesses raise increasing concerns about his role in proposed ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel”
- The Iran-ISIS Connection
- Sister of soldier who fell in Gaza op makes aliyah
- Europe's Great Migration Crisis
- 22-nation Arab League designates Hezbollah a terrorist organization. Duh.
- Facebook shuts down Fatah's page, later reinstated with apologies
- Taylor Force Act kicks in with US aid to Palestinians frozen
- Some of what went down at RJC Vegas, both Trump and Pence speaking with barely an hour in between
Author Archives: ArchitectGuy
UCLA Student Council: Omer Shem Tov event was “selective platforming” of an Israeli voice — with no Palestinian counterpart — that would “legitimize and normalize” Israel’s war in Gaza and bombings of Lebanon”
LA TIMES UC Regent Jay Sures condemns UCLA student government for criticizing Israeli hostage event Jaweed Kaleem April 24, 2026 In a rare rebuke, UC Regent Jay Sures is speaking out in a blistering criticism of UCLA student government leaders … Continue reading
“Women living under Hamas rule in Gaza describe to the Mail how they are sexually abused by the terror group’s fighters and forced to have sex in return for food aid”
JNS Gaza women break silence on sexual abuse and extortion under Hamas rule Bar Shaffer April 22, 2026 Gazan women living under Hamas rule are describing sexual abuse by men in senior positions, sexual extortion in exchange for aid or … Continue reading
Tennessee General Assembly votes to change all official references to the region to “Judea and Samaria”
WPLN.ORG Tennessee bans the name ‘West Bank’ from official documents Marianna Bacallao April 13, 2026 Tennessee will no longer recognize the Middle Eastern region known as the West Bank in official state documents. The General Assembly voted to change all official … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Judea, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Samaria, Tennessee, West Bank
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“The strategic paradigms that governed the Middle East for decades have shifted. Not all of them. Not fully. But the shift is real, larger than is yet fully understood, and Israel drove it”
MIRYAM INSTITUTE Is Israel Safer Today? John Spencer April 21, 2026 It is hard to call any war’s outcome while it is still happening. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either not paying attention or not being straight with you. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, John Spencer, Lebanon
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“He thought nobody was listening. The Saudis heard everything. And the Palestinian Authority will never recover”
SUBSTACK The Tape That Just Ended Mahmoud Abbas Hen Mazzig April 17, 2026 …I have spent years being told, in every Western capital where I am invited to speak, that the Palestinian cause is the conscience of the Arab world. … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority, Saudi Arabia
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“By ignoring the ideological reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, Klein treats Israelis and Palestinians as props in a Western morality play rather than actors in a high-stakes struggle for survival”
FREE PRESS Ezra Klein Doesn’t Understand Israel Haviv Rettig Gur April 17, 2026 …Because [Klein] misses the central point that any Westerner concerned for Palestinians must deal with: Any Israeli withdrawal from significant parts of the West Bank will almost … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Ezra Klein, Gaza, Palestinians, West Bank
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Dershowitz: “I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much”
WALL STREET JOURNAL Why I’m Becoming a Republican Alan M. Dershowitz April 20, 2026 …I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Alan Dershowitz, Democrats, Republicans
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“Fishback has raised little money and is polling poorly, but his campaign appearances are attracting crowds of antizionist bigots openly hostile to Jews on college campuses across Florida”
AFTER OCTOBER 7 After Jewish Students Were Blocked From His Event at USF, Antizionist Gubernatorial Candidate James Fishback Set for FAU Appearance Kevin Deutsch April 17, 2026 James Fishback, the anti-Jewish, anti-Israel Florida gubernatorial candidate whose campaign has been defined … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, antizionism, Florida, James Fishback
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A Yom Hazikaron Reflection with Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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“‘Lox and Loaded’ partnership comes as anxieties fuel interest in firearms”
THE FORWARD A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense Louis Keene April 17, 2026 Capitalizing on heightened anxieties and surging Jewish interest in gun ownership, the National Rifle Association this week announced a partnership … Continue reading
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