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- Israel appropriates massive tract of West Bank land
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- “Desperate to preserve the nuclear deal, Iran with the help of its Western friends is creating just enough turmoil to make America, and not it, appear eager for war”
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Author Archives: ArchitectGuy
The common policy of the last three administrations tacitly assumes that the costs to the United States, to the Middle East, and to the world of a nuclear-armed Iran, while certainly unwelcome, would be manageable
THE JERUSALEM STRATEGIC TRIBUNE The United States, Iran, and the Lessons of the Last War Michael Mandelbaum July 2023 …The present policy rests on the conviction that confronting Iran with the threat of war would likely lead to war, and … Continue reading
A beloved educator was branded as a bigot in a series of DEI sessions and it destroyed his life
FREE PRESS A Racist Smear. A Tarnished Career. And the Suicide of Richard Bilkszto Rupa Subramanya and Ari Blaff August 3, 2023 Kike Ojo-Thompson, a diversity trainer in Toronto, was explaining to her class of 200 or so public school … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged DEI, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Kike Ojo-Thompson, Richard Bilkszto
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DeSantis went wrong almost immediately by choosing the wrong strategy
REAL CLEAR POLITICS DeSantis Has Only One Path Back From Failed Launch Charles Lipson August 1, 2023 Two decades before “Mad Men”-era advertising executives downed their martinis and bedded their secretaries, a brilliant predecessor came up with a powerful idea … Continue reading
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fresh from passing the first of his proposed judicial reforms, will next tackle an even more contentious proposal: democratizing the process through which judges are selected.
BREITBART Israel’s Next Judicial Reform: Democratize Selection of Judges Joel Pollak July 26, 2023 Currently, judges are chosen by a committee that includes judges, members of the Israeli bar association, and a number of members of the parliament, or Knesset. … Continue reading
Judicial reform facts you’ll never hear amid pearl-clutching over the “death of Israeli democracy” — this is all about power
CAMERA BLOG David Remnick’s Ignorance Knows No Bounds Alex Safian July 23, 2023 David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker magazine, once remarked “It’s one thing to be ignorant, it’s another to parade it as sophistication,” which has to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
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Yet again, a major movie has cast a non-Jew to play a famous Jew. This may be part of a deeper erasure of Jews — and antisemitism — going on under the surface of storytelling
JEWISH CHRONICLE Oppenheimer liked to pretend he wasn’t Jewish — like the film David Baddiel July 27, 2023 Another day, another film/TV show/play in which a famous Jew is played by a non-Jew. I have talked and written about this … Continue reading
The Opposition characterizes a program that seeks to restore a semblance of balance between an all-powerful court and judicial apparatus and the legislative and executive branches as a “coup” and “anti-democratic,” even though it would clearly make Israel’s system more rather than less democratic
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Who is actually doing the burning? Jonathan S. Tobin July 27, 2023 …Even the passage on Monday of the first part of the package, which would stop the court from ruling on issues merely … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Judicial Reform
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Calls from across the political spectrum to end Israeli aid, but for different reasons
JEWISH PRESS Buoyed by the Usual Suspects, NY Times Pushing for an End to US Military Aid to Israel David Israel July 23, 2023 On Saturday, NY Times pundit Nicholas Kristof, decidedly not a member of the we-all-love-Israel club, to … Continue reading
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The American Anthropological Association joins the #BDS mob
THE COLLEGE FIX Anthropologists vote yes on BDS-influenced Israel academic boycott Terrance Kible July 24, 2023 The American Anthropological Association voted this morning to boycott Israeli academic institutions in a move inspired by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. … Continue reading
As a defender of Jewish rights in Judea and Samaria, I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been called a murderer, Nazi, psychopath, colonialist, apartheidist, or simply an animal on social media
TABLET MAG I Have a Right to Live in Judea and Samaria Malkah Fleisher July 20, 2023 On June 20, four Jews near the town of Eli were just going about their day when they were targeted and shot to … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Judea, Malkah Fleisher, Palestinians, Samaria, West Bank
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