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- The Iran-ISIS Connection
- "One Family, an organization that provides support to injured and bereaved families across Israel, throws a costume party in celebration of Purim by inviting families who have been affected by terrorism"
- Rabbi at NY Gay Synagogue offers special prayer, fireworks ensue
- #SwissAir CEO receives an interesting letter
- Free Speech: A Motorway Pile-Up of Moral Confusion
- Some Israelis are resorting to importing butter
- My Evening with Sarah and Bibi
- My #NYU classmates talk about the '#Zionist grip on the media' and tweet 'death to Israel.'
Author Archives: ArchitectGuy
“Given Linda Sarsour’s record, her claim that she supports Bernie Sanders because of rising anti-Semitism in America is irony thick enough to cut with a chainsaw”
FEDERALIST Warren Mimics Bernie’s Promotion Of Anti-Semite Linda Sarsour To Campaign Surrogate by Warren Henry September 11, 2019 Personnel is policy, or so the saying goes. So it is troubling that the two leading left-wing presidential candidates—Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged antisemitism, BDS, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren, Linda Sarsour
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“Over the past year, more than a dozen Jewish-American professional ballplayers have obtained Israeli citizenship under the nation’s Law of Return”
WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel’s Baseball Team: Now Starring Actual Israelis by Jared Diamond September 10, 2019 …Buoyed by that unexpected success, Israel now hopes to earn a spot in the Tokyo Olympics next year, with baseball returning to the program … Continue reading
Is Pakistan Preparing to Recognize Israel?
HAARETZ Israel Would Welcome Ties With Pakistan. Should India Worry? by Efraim Inbar September 10, 2019 According to an op-ed in Haaretz this week, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his military supporters are allowing a highly-censored media unprecedented freedom to discuss … Continue reading
“The 30-year old Avi Berkowitz plainly lacks the heft Jason Greenblatt – though an international affairs novice, he was a veteran, seasoned attorney and negotiator – brought to the table”
JEWISH PRESS Enter Avi Berkowitz Editorial Board September 11, 2019 …It is no secret that while the Trump Administration is ready to go, the Palestinians have rejected the plan out of hand by virtue of the plan’s reputed abandonment of … Continue reading
“At American universities, personal grievances are what everyone’s talking about”
BLOOMBERG The Rise of the Comfort College by Steven B. Gerrard September 9, 2019 Last year, in the fall of 2018, I tried to stand up for campus free speech. A small group of faculty at Williams College in Massachusetts, … Continue reading
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“Sources in Washington acknowledged that there is no contradiction between Netanyahu’s plan to annex the Jordan Valley and Trump’s peace plan. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these statements”
ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Netanyahu’s earth-shattering announcement by Caroline B. Glick September 11, 2019 Hamas, which seeks to annihilate Israel, certainly was none too pleased with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement Tuesday evening that if re-elected, he would … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Gaza, Hamas, West Bank
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John Bolton “acted as a break on the president’s neo-isolationism. The future of diplomacy with North Korea, the Taliban and even Tehran now hangs in the balance”
JNS With Bolton gone, will Trump make a deal with Iran? by Jonathan Tobin September 10, 2019 Perhaps it was as much about personalities as policy. The notoriously brusque and hard-driving John Bolton was always an awkward fit as National … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Hassan Rouhani, Iran, John Bolton
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On the morning of 9/11, former IDF commando Danny Lewin boarded American Airlines Flight No. 11 to fly from Boston to LA.
JEWISH JOURNAL Honoring Danny Lewin. A Genius, a Hero, and the First Victim of 9/11 by Micha Danzig September 11, 2019 …Based on the investigation done by the FBI’s and FAA, it appears rather certain that Danny Lewin was the … Continue reading
“The greatest strategic threat to the future of Israel and the Jewish people is growing divide between my generation of American Millennial Diaspora Jews and those previous generations of diaspora Jews and current Israelis who believe in the survival of the Jewish state”
TIMES OF ISRAEL The Privilege of American Millennial Diaspora Jews by Micah Q. Jones September 7, 2019 This August, I traveled to Israel as one of 40 Israel Law and Policy (“I-LAP”) delegates. The I-LAP tour was hosted by Our Soldiers Speak (“OSS”)—a non-profit … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Anthony, Micah Q. Jones, Our Soldiers Speak
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“The decisive factor in next week’s election — and the reason for Benjamin Netanyahu’s durability — is a repressed memory”
NEW YORK TIMES The One Thing No Israeli Wants to Discuss by Matti Friedman September 9, 2019 …No single episode has shaped Israel’s population and politics like the wave of suicide bombings perpetrated by Palestinians in the first years of … Continue reading
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