Author Archives: ArchitectGuy

Beresheet 2.0 is coming

SPACE.COM Israel Will Build Another Moon Lander by Mike Wall April 13, 2019 Israel will keep shooting for the moon. The team behind the nation’s Beresheet probe, which crashed during its historic lunar-landing attempt Thursday (April 11), will take another crack … Continue reading

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“Israel’s confusing plethora of small parties actually keeps Ḥaredim and Israeli Arabs, in particular, from becoming too alienated”

MOSAIC How Israel’s Electoral System Brings the Country’s Fringes Into Its Center by Evelyn Gordon April 9, 2019 Like Haviv Rettig Gur in “How and Why Israelis Vote,” I, too, think the advantages of Israel’s parliamentary system outweigh its disadvantages, … Continue reading

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West Bank annexation and Trump’s Deal of the Century

JERUSALEM POST Pompeo says Netanyahu’s ‘annex West Bank’ talk won’t hurt peace prospects by Tovah Lazaroff and Omri Nahmias April 14, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview Friday night that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk about … Continue reading

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American Jewish groups to Trump: We know what’s better for Israel, restrain Bibi

JTA Reform and Conservative movements join letter asking Trump to oppose Netanyahu bids to annex territory by Ron Kampeas April 12, 2019 Nine Jewish groups, including five associated with the Reform and Conservative movements, wrote to President Donald Trump asking … Continue reading

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Omar Barghouti, co-founder of BDS, shut out of US

ALGEMEINER US Blocks Entry to Controversial BDS Activist Omar Barghouti Ahead of Speaking Tour by Benjamin Kerstein April 11, 2019 Omar Barghouti, one of the world’s most prominent supporters of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, has been denied … Continue reading

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“Jews have no idea that they might have been killed this year” at 3 not-yet-identified synagogues

FRONT PAGE MAG 3 Muslim Terror Plots Targeted US Synagogues in 3 Months by Daniel Greenfield April 11th, 2019 …To the three Muslim synagogue terror plotters, anti-Semitism was a fundamental component of their religious and political values. Killing Jews was … Continue reading

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“By seeking to override or ignore the will of Israeli democracy, Democrats are accelerating the breakdown of the rapidly eroding bipartisan consensus in favor of the Jewish state”

JNS Democrats’ war on Netanyahu isn’t compatible with a pro-Israel stance by Jonathan S. Tobin April 11, 2019 When leaders of Tammany Hall—the legendary Democratic machine that ran New York City for more than a century—would be confronted with an … Continue reading

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Likud barely edges out Blue and White; Bibi to remain PM

JEWISH PRESS Huge Netanyahu Victory, Israeli Left Trashed, Orthodox Judaism Rules by David Israel April 10, 2019 Benjamin Netanyahu has won it all Tuesday, establishing himself as both the smartest politician in Israel’s history, and, very likely, the longest serving … Continue reading

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“Very little has been written about the reign of terror Hamas has inflicted on the people of Gaza”

ARUTZ SHEVA The suffering of Gaza’s population by Dr Mordechai Kedar Apri 5, 2019 …A reign of terror began in June 2007 when the Hamas movement seized control of the Strip and attacked the Palestinian Authority security forces with extreme … Continue reading

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Airbnb cancels ban on West Bank listings; Shurat HaDin negotiates settlement agreement

CBN NEWS Airbnb Reverses Ban on Israeli Homes in West Bank, Says it Never Supported BDS by Emily Jones April 10, 2019 Airbnb has reversed its decision to ban home listings in Israeli settlement communities in historic Judea and Samaria, … Continue reading

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