Without real action against Iran and its proxies, few if any in the region would feel safe signing on to the well-meant but ultimately delusional designs presented by Secretary of State Blinken in Munich

Posted on March 12, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR
STRATEGY + SECURITY
Hitching the cart before the horse: A grand regional bargain cannot be advanced unless Iran is dealt with first
Colonel (res) Dr Eran Lerman
February 26, 2024

…To the untrained eye, this may seem like a proposition that Israel should heartily endorse, resolving some of its most fundamental problems and offering a future of successful integration in the region. Yet even when setting aside the ideological objections to a Palestinian state, and skipping over the leaps of faith and what could be called “magical thinking” about a transformed PA and a Saudi willingness to shake hands openly with Israel’s leadership, there is still a basic flaw in this design which raises serious questions as to its validity…Unless a much more robust effort is made to clip Tehran’s wings and cut off its talons, there will be a totalitarian temptation for the Palestinians to latch on to Iran (as they did with Nazi Germany and then with the Soviet Union) rather than accept an American proposition requiring them to accept the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish people’s right to self-determination. READ MORE

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The day after: “The clan is the paradigm that we should emulate in each and every city in Judea and Samaria and the five districts of the Gaza Strip”

Posted on March 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Dr Mordechai Kedar:’Only solution for Palestinians is clan government’
Yoni Kempinski
February 19, 2024

…According to Kedar’s plan, the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria would be divided into seven emirates: the Arab city of Hebron, Jericho, Ramallah, Shechem (Nablus), Turkarem, Qalqilya, and Jenin. He says the Gaza Strip should divided into five administrative divisions. He explains: “The government in each and every one of these Emirates should be delegated to the local Clans just like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, which are governed by clans. The clan government is the only paradigm that works in the Middle East, because the states which are conglomerates of clans, ethnic groups, religions, and sectarian groups, are failing states like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya. All of these are failing states because Europeans tried to establish states on ideas such as socialism, modernism, liberalism, and so on. The functioning countries, Kuwait, Qatar, and so forth are clannish countries, they are based on one clan, and this is why they are stable homogeneous, and therefore successful. READ MORE

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Theatre director at Deerfield High School on leave for pro-Palestine posts

Posted on March 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

PATCH
Antisemitism Allegations As Drama Teacher Disciplined For Social Media
Jonah Meadows
March 8, 2024

A social media post about the Israeli military shared by a beloved high school theatre director ignited a firestorm of controversy that resulted in disciplinary action, the teacher’s extended leave and the resignation of the Township High School District 113 board president…District 113 officials said they first received a complaint about a post on Kenyon’s personal Instagram account on Dec. 12 that featured a quote from Ibram Kendi…[post including] “What the Israeli military is doing in Gaza is not only a crime against humanity. It is a crime against history”…READ MORE

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“Ostensibly, Larry Summers was ousted because of a remark he made about women, but the real reason many on campus believed was his strong defense of Israel”

Posted on March 9, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CLARITY WITH MICHAEL OREN
Trials of the Ivy League
Michael Oren
March 5, 2024

The current wave of antisemitism sweeping many American campuses, most glaringly those of the Ivy League, is now national news. It is blatant, malicious, and woefully unchecked, even after the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and Penn. But it is hardly new. Neither is the cancel culture and the regime of microaggressions and intersectionality that has transformed some of the West’s finest universities into bastions of groupthink, Jew-hatred, and fear…Nearly twenty years ago—forty years after the 1960s—art at Harvard could only be viewed through a Communist lens and the mere suggestion that women and men might, in certain fields, display different levels of aptitude, could cost its president his job.  But the youth rebellion’s success was not merely confined to political correctness and the humanities. It had an immense impact on attitudes toward Israel. READ MORE

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Those We Have Lost

Posted on March 8, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Those We Have Lost
Stories of civilians and soldiers killed since Hamas’s onslaught on Israel on October 7, 2023.

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Hamas has said it can’t provide a list of the hostages who are still alive without a ceasefire

Posted on March 7, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hamas leaves Cairo without deal, talks to resume next week
Tovah Lazaroff
March 7, 2024

Hostage talks are expected to resume in Cairo next week, as Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked on the terms of a deal for a six-week pause to the Gaza war in exchange for the release of some 40 captives. Hope for an agreement by the start of the holy month of Ramadan on Sunday night appeared slim on Thursday. Negotiators still hoped, however, to finalize terms for a deal before the emotions of that sensitive period led to an explosion that could complicate the execution of a deal…Hamas officials have said a permanent ceasefire must be in place before the hostages are freed, Israeli forces must leave Gaza and all Gazans must be able to return to homes they have fled…Israel has wanted to see a list of who would be included in the first deal out of the remaining 134 captives in Gaza. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL US to build pier off Gaza coast that will enable maritime aid shipments US President Joe Biden will announce in his Thursday State of the Union address that the US military will embark on an “emergency mission” to establish a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza, which will allow for the direct delivery of humanitarian assistance from the Mediterranean Sea, senior administration officials told reporters in a briefing. “We’re not waiting on the Israelis. This is a moment for American leadership, and we are building a coalition of countries to address this urgent need,” a senior official said, in the latest demonstration of the lack of US faith in Israel’s ability to prevent a humanitarian crisis while prosecuting the war against Hamas in Gaza.

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The group said it urged Congress members to “show solidarity and firm commitment to securing the swift and total release of the hostages by wearing yellow ribbons and dog tags” during the State ofUnion

Posted on March 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
17 relatives of Americans taken hostage by Hamas will attend Biden’s State of the Union address
Ron Kampeas
March 4, 2024

…A list published Monday by the Families of the American Hostages in Gaza coalition named relatives of six hostages still held captive, two released captives and two hostages who were killed. The family members will be guests on Thursday evening of a bipartisan slate of members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Among the hosts are the speaker, Louisiana Republican Rep, Mike Johnson, and the minority leader, New York Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries…The six hostages believed to still be alive and in captivity who will be represented are Edan Alexander, Itai Chen, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Omer Neutra, Hersh Goldberg-Polin and Keith Siegel.READ MORE

DAILY CALLER Chaos Erupts Outside White House, Capitol Building Just Before SOTU Chaos erupted outside the White House between pro-Palestine protesters and Washington D.C. authorities Thursday evening, ahead of President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, video footage shows. Footage posted to Twitter shows various chaotic moments between activists and police officers as the group gathered for a ceasefire protest.

JEWISH VOICE Desperate Pleas for Freedom: Families of Hostages Urge Action at State of the Union In a heart-wrenching journey from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., Yael Alexander, the mother of Edan Alexander, a 20-year-old Israeli-born IDF soldier, shared the agony she endures since Hamas terrorists abducted her son on October 7. Yael, once immersed in the world of baking and selling fancy cakes, now devotes every waking moment to advocating for Edan’s release,

JTA Groups working to support Israeli hostages and their families awarded 2024 ‘Jewish Nobel’ Five Israeli groups supporting Israelis held hostage in Gaza and their families will receive the 2024 Genesis Prize, the $1-million award known as the “Jewish Nobel.”…Rachel Goldberg, the mother of 23-year-old Hersh Goldberg Polin, said in a statement, “We fervently pray this gift will be instrumental in continuing the family organizations’ valiant and tireless efforts to bring the remaining 134 beloved hostages home, now.” 

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#MeTooUnlessYoureAJew The mass rape of Israelis has elicited barely a yawn from feminists around the world gearing up to mark IWD with great fanfare

Posted on March 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hamas-UNRWA sex crimes and International Women’s Day
Ruthie Blum
March 6, 2024

…Israeli women on the left have been shocked at the global sisterhood’s lack of outrage with the Islamist rapists. After all, during last year’s mass demonstrations in the streets of Tel Aviv against plans by the newly formed government in Jerusalem to reform the judicial system, women in the United States, Europe and other continents leaped into immediate action. Naturally, they were happy to join in the chorus of claims that the Jewish state was on the verge of becoming a messianic dictatorship…IWD [Intl Womens Day] is an annual farce taken up by the United Nations in 1975 and devoted to progressive causes that do nothing to ameliorate the torment of truly subjugated women. Its theme this year—“Inspire Inclusion”—takes the absurdity to new heights. There’s little chance that the world body will celebrate IWD by repenting for obfuscating, abetting and making a mockery of the sex crimes committed on and since Oct. 7. READ MORE

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“We have hostages. I caught one,” UNRWA employee al-Hawajri said and could be heard laughing and describing an Israeli woman as a “noble mare”

Posted on March 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ALL ISRAEL NEWS
IDF releases recordings of 4 UNRWA workers involved in Oct. 7 attack and abduction of Israelis
March 5, 2024

Israel Defense Forces released recordings and the identities of four more UNRWA employees who participated in the Hamas Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 Israelis and the abduction of some 250 Israelis and foreign nationals in southern Israel…Critics have argued for years that UNRWA incites hatred against Jews and encourages terrorism against Israel, a clear violation of its official mandate as a humanitarian agency. Yousef Zidan Suliman al-Hawajri, an Arabic teacher in a UNRWA school in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah, in one recording proudly described how he crossed over into Israeli territory and was holding an Israeli woman that he kidnapped. The Israeli military identified him as a terrorist affiliated with the military wing of the Hamas terrorist group. READ MORE

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Kemp: “It’s terrible to reduce human life to statistics, but from what I can see so far, it appears that the IDF has been immensely successful at minimizing civilian casualties”

Posted on March 3, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Col. Richard Kemp: Arab States Want Hamas, Hezbollah ‘Destroyed’
Joshua Klein
March 3, 2024

Israel’s military operation in Gaza, led by the IDF, has been a strategic success against Hamas, significantly diminishing the terror group’s capabilities while prioritizing the minimization of civilian casualties, according to former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp, who noted that international allies, including Arab states, tacitly support Israel’s actions, especially considering the broader context of Iran’s influence which threatens the world. In addition, he argued, Western states’ frequent accusations against Israel are merely “for the consumption of anti-Israel voters,” though doing so is both “irresponsible” and “very dangerous.” READ MORE

TABLET MAG How the Gaza Ministry of Health Fakes Casualty Numbers This regularity is almost surely not real. One would expect quite a bit of variation day to day. In fact, the daily reported casualty count over this period averages 270 plus or minus about 15%. This is strikingly little variation. There should be days with twice the average or more and others with half or less. Perhaps what is happening is the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers. The graph of total deaths by date is increasing with almost metronomical linearity:

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