“It’s now clear that the UN heads were lying when they said they were unaware of the involvement of their employees with terror groups. In fact, they knew but did their utmost to appease Hamas”

Posted on January 31, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
US Suspends Funding for UN Palestinian Refugee Agency Over Employees Participation in Hamas Pogrom
Ben Cohen
January 26, 2024

The US announced on Friday that it was temporarily suspending funding for UNRWA, the UN agency dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, citing concerns about the participation of several of its employees in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas pogrom in southern Israel. “The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel,” US State Department Matthew Miller said in a statement. “The Department of State has temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them.” The US announcement came after UNRWA confirmed that it was launching an investigation into the employees suspected of involvement in the pogrom. READ MORE

UN WATCH Evidence Shows Widespread Support for October 7th Terrorists Among UNRWA Teachers in Gaza UN Watch continues to find abhorrent antisemitism and support for jihadi terrorism by UNRWA staff on social media. This report details how UNRWA teachers in a 3,000-member UNRWA staff Telegram group cheered and celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre while at the same time asking when their UNRWA salaries will be paid.

GATESTONE Bassam Tawil: Time to End UNRWA’s Jihad against Israel The UN, which has long ignored or denied the involvement of its employees in anti-Israeli terrorism and incitement, is now feigning shock and horror by the participation of some of its employees in the Hamas atrocities… The UN does not need to launch an investigation “to establish the truth” about the involvement of its employees in terrorism and incitement against Israel…For years, there has been ample evidence regarding the close connection between UNRWA and Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER GOP demands Biden permanently cut off UNRWA after staffers allegedly joined Hamas in Oct. 7 Israel attack The Trump administration decided in 2018 to cease funding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a move the Biden administration reversed in 2021 but paused on Friday after UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini announced the termination of the accused staffers.

UN WATCH UNRWA’S Terrogram How a Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers in Gaza celebrated the October 7th Hamas massacre.

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American taxpayers have been subsidizing educators who call for the murder of Jews. Suspending these funds isn’t enough. UNRWA must be abolished for good.

Posted on January 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE FREE PRESS
The UN’s Terrorism Teachers
Hillel C. Neuer
January 28, 2024

Many who watched the October 7 massacre likely wondered how a man’s mind can become so warped that he not only commits heinous acts of murder, rape, and mutilation, but proudly films this carnage for the world to see. It is a complicated question. But one of the primary answers is found in the schools that mold the minds of young people in their formative years. In Gaza, the organization that does much of the molding is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA. That organization pays the salaries of teachers who call for the murder of Jews. READ MORE

OPEN THE BOOKS Biden Allocated $1.2 Billion To The United Nations Relief And Works Agency (UNRWA). It’s Laced With Terrorist Extremists. Biden Administration re-started Palestinian aid by pumping $1.2 billion through the United Nations aid agency. It was a reversal of the 2018 policy when President Trump had zeroed them out.

CAMERA BLOG CNN Errs on UNRWA’s Refugee Definition, Downplays Scandals In a January 29 CNN article entitled “What we know about Israel’s allegations against UN staffers in Gaza,” the network gets it wrong when it comes to definitions of Palestinian “refugees.” The authors (Sophie Tanno, Hira Humayun, Richard Roth, Heather Chen, and Alex Marquardt) also fail to capture the extent of the scandals plaguing UNRWA, the refugee agency for Palestinians.

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“Qatar should no longer be allowed to be both the arsonist and the fireman; the party responsible for setting the fire and then the firefighter deserving credit for putting it out”

Posted on January 29, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Call out Qatar’s double game
Herb Keinon
January 28, 2024

Qatar, its Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said last week, was “appalled” at words of criticism Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leveled against it. That’s right, appalled. Qatar, a state that has provided diplomatic, media, and financial support to Hamas – a barbaric terrorist organization that murders and mutilates the bodies of men, rapes, and kidnaps women, and burns to death entire families – is appalled.…For years the Qataris perfected the art of appearing civilized, modern, and forward-looking while backing the most vile, vicious, antisemitic terrorist organization on the planet. It is time to consider an organized, diplomatic campaign to expose the charade. READ MORE

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“October’s slaughters were plotted with crucial input from Gazans employed in Israeli homes they had scouted and mapped for the purpose, making this the first military campaign designed to culminate in acts of beheading, torture, and rape of predetermined victims”

Posted on January 28, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Kafka at the International Court of Justice:
‘The Trial’ was angst; this is evil
Ruth R. Wisse
January 25, 2024

…Taking this tactic of martyring their fellow Arabs to a new level, Hamas turned Gaza into suicide central. Above ground, residents were allowed to conduct a quasi-normal life, knowing that, below ground, every school, every hospital, and many private homes were booby-trapped for the Israelis whom their leaders would lure into their cities. The IDF continues to uncover a tremendous amount of infrastructure built over years, confirming Hamas’ intention of invading and killing Israelis en masse. In the words of one of its soldiers “[It] is clear they expected us to arrive and laid plans to exact a cost in the form of IDF casualties.” The attack of Oct. 7 had to be monstrous enough to provoke Israel into full-scale war in the hope of rescuing the hostages and destroying the terrorists—a plan that would also ensure the collateral death of as many Gazans as possible to attract Western sympathy. READ MORE

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“J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami said the reevaluation was prompted by Bowman’s recent statements about Israel, including accusations of genocide”

Posted on January 27, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE FORWARD
J Street withdraws endorsement of Jamaal Bowman for ‘crossing the line’ on Israel-Hamas war
Jacob Kornbluh
January 26, 2024

J Street, the self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby, has rescinded its endorsement of New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for “singling out” Israel for blame in the war in Gaza and accusing it of genocide. The group removed his name on Friday from a list of 122 members of Congress it endorsed in the 2024 election cycle. Bowman, 47, first elected in 2018, is facing a tough primary battle against George Latimer, Westchester County’s popular executive, who is backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Jewish GOP, independent voters urged to register as Democrats to sway primary for ‘Squad’ member Bowman’s seat A new group is pushing independent voters and Jewish Republicans to switch registration to the Democratic Party in an effort to tip the scales in a hotly contested party primary in one New York congressional district. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a member of the liberal House “Squad” that also includes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been under fire for being critical of Israel while his opponent George Latimer has campaigned as a staunch supporter of the Jewish state.

JEWISH INSIDER George Latimer announces huge fundraising haul in campaign against Rep. Bowman Despite the warning, Latimer is expected to draw significant support from leading pro-Israel groups such as AIPAC, whose political action committee officially backed his campaign last week — in its first endorsement of a non-incumbent this election cycle.

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“Israel is a nation that is truly at risk of genocide given that there are enemies around it that declaredly want to destroy it”

Posted on January 27, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Sa’ar says he’ll start work on filing genocide case against Iran at International Court of Justice
Jeremy Sharon Follow
January 28, 2024

Cabinet minister Gideon Sa’ar says he will begin working on having Israel file a case against Iran in the International Court of Justice on genocide charges, pointing out that Iranian leaders have called for Israel’s destruction and that Iran gives strong backing to Hamas and other Gaza terror groups that carried out the October 7 atrocities. Numerous experts in international law have said that the massacres and other crimes carried out by Hamas on October 7 likely constitute a genocidal act since they appear to have been aimed at destroying “in whole or in part” a national group, in this case Israelis. “There are public statements by senior Iranian officials in favor of destroying Israel,” Sa’ar tells the Kan public broadcaster. READ MORE

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Senator Fetterman—who is not Jewish—has a history of displaying support for Israel, including wearing an Israeli flag during a rally in Washington D.C. in November

Posted on January 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY MAIL
John Fetterman trolls pro-Palestine protestors by waving huge Israeli flag at mob who turned up at his Pennsylvania home, chanting ‘you’re supporting genocide’
James Gordon
January 27, 2024

…Fetterman, who is not Jewish, has been criticized by member of his own party over staunch support of Israel to defend itself from Hamas terrorists in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks. Fetterman has been a vocal supporter of Israel placing emphasis on the tragedy suffered by innocent Israelis. A deep intra-party rift has broken out among Democrats as the death toll in Gaza continues to rise and even President Biden has accused Israel of an ‘indiscriminate bombing campaign.’ Fetterman, meanwhile, plastered photos of Israeli hostages to the wall outside his office and draped himself in an Israeli flag in photos. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher: What Arabs REALLY think.

Posted on January 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

Today I want to talk a little bit about the end of the two-state solution and why the two-state solution was dead from the beginning…I want to start by telling you a little story that happened to me…

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“Reasonable people, usually old-school liberals, still don’t understand the Left. And so they also don’t understand what happened to their movement, their party and their country”

Posted on January 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Domestic Terrorists of Tomorrow are Blocking Traffic Today
Daniel Greenfield
January 28, 2024

After Hamas supporters were caught screaming “shame on you” at children receiving cancer treatment at a Manhattan hospital (“make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows”) some people wondered what they were trying to accomplish. Questions like that only reveal the vast gap between the pro-Hamas mob and everyone else. The pro-Hamas protests, allegedly in pursuit of a ceasefire, but in reality celebrating Hamas and now Houthi terrorism, have picked random fights with Starbucks, Christmas tree lightings and Alec Baldwin, to name a few. They are not so much for anything as they are against things. READ MORE

 

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Master Sgt. (res.) Elkana Vizel, 35, from Bnei Dekalim: “If you are reading these words, apparently something has happened to me”

Posted on January 24, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Wide swath of society: The stories of some of the 21 troops killed in Gaza blast
Michael Bachner
January 24, 2024

Twenty-one Israeli soldiers were killed Monday in the deadliest single incident for Israel Defense Forces troops since the ongoing ground operation began. The tragedy occurred when the group of reservists came under RPG attack in the southern Gaza Strip, triggering a blast that collapsed two buildings with the soldiers inside them. Here are some of the stories of the fallen: Sgt. First Class (res.) Cedrick Garin, 23, from Tel Aviv. Garin was born in the Philippines and came to Israel as a child with his mother, who worked as a cleaner for many hours every day. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER 21 Israeli Soldiers Killed as Buildings Collapse in Gaza Blast The names of the fallen are: Major General (Res.) Itamar Tal, 32 years old, from Kibbutz Masilat, Sergeant major (res.) Adam Bismuth, 35 years old, from Samaria, Major General (Res.) Shay Biton Chayon, 40 years old, from Zichron Ya’akov, Major (res.) Daniel Kassau Zagiya, 38 years old, Mikneam Illit, Sergeant major (res.) Matan Lazar, 32 years old, from Haifa, Major General (Res.) Hadar Kapluck, 23 years old, from Mevo Beitar, Sergeant Major (Res.) Sergey Guntmacher, 37 years old, from Ramat Gan, Major General (Res.) Elkana Yehuda Sepaz, 25 years old, from Kiryat Arba, Maj. (Res.) Yuval Lopes, 27 years old, from Alon Shabot, Major (Ret.) Yoav Levy, 29 years old, from Yehud-Monoson, Major (Ret.) Nicholas Berger, 22 years old, from Jerusalem, Major General (Ret.) Cedric Green, 23 years old, from Tel Aviv-Yafo, Sergeant major (res.) Rafael Elias Moshioff, 33 years old, from Pardes Hana-Karkur, Major General (res.) Barak Haim ben Valid, 33 years old, from Rishon Lezion, Major General (res.) Ahmed Abu Latif, 26 years old, from Mahrat, Captain (res.) Nir Binyamin, 29 years old, from Givatayim, Major (res.) Elkana Wiesel, 35 years old, from Bnei Dekalim, Major (responsible) Israel Sokol, 24 years old, from Samaria, Captain (res.) Ariel Mordechai Wolfstal, 28 years old, from Elazar, Major General (Res.) Sagi Idan, 24 years old, from Rosh Ha’Ain, Major General (Res.) Mark Kononovitch, 35 years old, from Herzliya, Major David Nati Alfasi, 27 years old, from Be’er Sheva, Major Eli Levy, 24 years old, from Tel Aviv, and Captain Eyal Mebaruch Toito, 22 years old, from Beit Gamliel.

TIMES OF ISRAEL In deadliest incident of Gaza combat, 21 soldiers killed as buildings collapse in blast Explosion possibly caused by Palestinian RPG attack as IDF prepared structures for demolition using explosives, with nearby tank hit by a missile; death toll in ground op reaches 219

NBC NEWS Death of Israeli soldiers in explosion highlights friendly fire accidents in Gaza Out of 170 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza last year, 29 were either shot by fellow soldiers or died in accidents, according to the latest available IDF data. That means nearly 1 in 5 or 17% of all Israeli losses have come not at the hands of Hamas, but from mishaps on their own side.

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