“This past Christmas Eve, the New York Times went to a place I’d never imagine: It published an essay by Gaza City’s mayor, an appointee of Hamas. You know, the world-renowned terrorist group”

Posted on December 29, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Day the New York Times Died
Joshua Hoffman
December 28, 2023

…Publishing the views of a democratically elected politician [Senator Tom Cotton, 2020, provoking an apology from NYT management] went too far for the Times and its readers, but platforming Gaza City’s mayor, who was appointed by an atrocious terror organization, is perfectly fine…“Times readers are being served a very restricted range of views, some of them presented as straight news by a publication that still holds itself out as independent of any politics,” according to James Bennet, a former editor at the Times. “The paper leads its readers further into the trap of thinking that what they are reading is independent and impartial — and this misleads them about their country’s center of political and cultural gravity. Throughout the Israel-Hamas war, the New York Times has continued to give Hamas a dangerous platform, which the newspaper defends as important to shed more light, not less, on the most extreme corners of the world. But less light is what readers get. READ MORE

CAMERA BLOG CAMERA’s Alex Safian appears on Mark Levin’s Life, Liberty and Levin CAMERA’s Alex Safian joined Mark Levin on his top-rated FoxNews program Life, Liberty and Levin to discuss the abysmal media coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, which was triggered by the terrorist organization’s horrific massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7. Distorted, biased and inaccurate reporting by the New York Times, CNN and MSNBC was the major focus of the segment (11/12/23) – watch it here:

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Sergeant First Class (res.) Joseph Gitarts wrote in a letter his parents received after his death: ‘I lived a good and interesting life, I wasn’t afraid of death; I made this choice myself and followed it through to the end; I fell with honor for the sake of my people, I have no regrets’

Posted on December 29, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
‘I gave it all, I have no regrets’: The letter a fallen IDF soldier left for his parents
Adam Kutub
December 26, 2023

“I could have chosen not to come here and hide. But that goes against everything I believe in and value – and the person I consider myself to be. Therefore, I had no choice, and I would do the same thing if I could choose again.” This is what Sergeant First Class (res.) Joseph Gitarts, 25, from Tel Aviv, who was killed in Gaza on Monday, wrote to his parents. The sealed letter that Gitarts wrote before he was called to the reserves to fight in Gaza, anticipating the tragic scenario that has now unfolded, began with an attempt to console his parents. “Dear Mom and Dad, I love you very much. Everything is as it should be. I chose this path myself. I’ve lived a good and interesting life. Nevertheless, I have never been afraid of death. I made this choice myself and followed it through to the end. I fell with honor for the sake of my people. I have no regrets.” READ MORE

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Support Israel Economy: Buy From Israeli Shops

Posted on December 29, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

Amid the economic challenges brought on by the ongoing war in Israel since October 7th, 2023, small businesses are facing unprecedented struggles. In response, we’ve launched a pro-bono initiative to support these local shops. Within just two weeks, over 500 Israeli shops have already joined our list, and every day more are joining – and it’s 100% free to do so! We offer supporters of Israel worldwide the opportunity to connect directly with these businesses, providing quality merchandise and a chance for people globally to contribute to Israel’s economic resilience during these challenging times. Let’s make a positive impact together – your shopping helps Israelis rebuild their economy. Am Yisrael Chai! Shop goopss !

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Soldiers who killed Israeli hostages to remain in Gaza

Posted on December 28, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
IDF takes no action against soldiers who killed Gaza hostages
Yonah Jeremy Bob
December 28, 2023

The IDF announced on Thursday that it will not take any current action against soldiers who mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages on December 15 who were waving a white flag, screamed “help” in Hebrew, and were bare from the waist up. The three, named Yotam Chaim, Samer Talalka, and Alon Shamriz, were all taken hostage during Hamas’s October 7 massacre against southern Israeli communities. In publishing the results of its final probe into the issue, the IDF said that despite the soldiers clearly violating the rules of engagement – by firing on persons who presented no immediate danger and were waving a white flag – the enormous complexity of the circumstances led to no immediate punishment. READ MORE

MIRYAM INSTITUTE Benjamin Anthony: A Conversation with Iris Chaim, Mother of Yotam Chaim, Z”L Yotam was cynically and falsely designated a ‘technical combatant’ by Hamas and was thus among those Israeli hostages deemed least likely to be released by the terror organization in any hostage deal.

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“What we see in Bethlehem today, this need to affirm that Jesus was not Jewish, is political”

Posted on December 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
‘Jesus Would Be a Hostage in Gaza if He Was Alive Today,’ Says French Catholic Priest Who Pioneered Holocaust Research
Ben Cohen
December 26, 2023

The French Catholic priest who developed an international reputation for his pioneering research into the Nazi “Holocaust by bullets” in Ukraine has spoken out forcefully against the antisemitic attitudes coloring criticism of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. “I always say: if there were no Jews in Israel, few people would look out for the Palestinians,” Father Patrick Desbois told the French language service of Israeli broadcaster i24 on Tuesday. Desbois was particularly irked by repeated claims on social media over the Christmas holiday that Jesus himself would be persecuted by Israel were he still alive. “If he had lived in 1942, Jesus would have been deported to Auschwitz, and if he had been born today, he would be the target of missiles or be a hostage in Gaza,” Desbois remarked… READ MORE

The Gospel According to Berkeley

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If UNRWA were not there, Hamas would have been forced to fill the vacuum and, for example, build hospitals and schools and find solutions to economic hardship, including unemployment and poverty

Posted on December 26, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
How UNWRA Grooms Terrorists
Bassam Tawil
December 26, 2023

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was originally a small agency mandated to provide basic humanitarian relief for Palestinians, including a vote for renewal every three years. Seventy-three years and four generations later, and with more than 30,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1 billion, it has astonishingly become one of the largest UN agencies.…Palestinian textbooks produced by UNRWA contain “antisemitic, hateful, and violent passages,” according to IMPACT-se. Some of these passages in an Islamic education drill include labeling Jews as inherently treacherous. A poem included in the educational content glorifies the killing of Israelis, and portrays dying as martyrs by killing Israelis as a “hobby.” READ MORE

UN WATCH U.N. UNRWA: Obstacle to Peace UN Schools use Western taxpayers’ money to teach Palestinian children to hate Jews

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Alice Walker, author of “The Color Purple,” in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own

Posted on December 25, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
As ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, Alice Walker’s antisemitism returns to spotlight
Andrew Lapin
December 23, 2023

…But even as the reputation of “The Color Purple” has soared over the decades, Walker’s own has become more muddled — specifically for her difficult relationship to Judaism and her outright flirtations with antisemitism. Married to a prominent Jewish civil rights lawyer when she was younger, Walker in the mid-2010s began promoting works by an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and authored an antisemitic poem of her own. This combined with her longtime outspoken criticism of Israel has led some in the Jewish community to question her continued stature as a well-regarded figure of American letters and led to her being disinvited from a major book festival just last year. READ MORE

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Tailoring, matchmaking, jogging: Israelis are finding quirky and unusual ways to pitch in to aid those affected by the events of October 7 and the ongoing battle in Gaza

Posted on December 22, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL 21C
12 unusual ways Israelis are volunteering during the war
Abigail Klein Leichman
December 27, 2023

The Hamas attacks on October 7 unleashed a tsunami of death and destruction on the Israeli people. But it also unleashed a tsunami of volunteering. Several studies show that about half of Israeli citizens have been giving of their time since the war began, in addition to thousands of foreign volunteers. Preparing meals for soldiers and displaced families; filling in for high-tech workers on reserve duty; donating blood and breastmilk; and harvesting produce on severely shorthanded farms, are among the needs volunteers are stepping up to fill. Other volunteers are folding laundry at evacuee hotels, stocking supermarket shelves in the absence of regular workers; cleaning hospital rooms; babysitting for children of reserve soldiers; and giving haircuts and beauty treatments to evacuees. READ MORE

How you can volunteer in Israel during the war If you’re visiting Israel during the war, or living here, you can make a meaningful contribution with the gift of your time.

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It will take years to correct the damage the generals wrought by reducing the size of the IDF and inducing its total dependence on the United States

Posted on December 22, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine
Caroline B. Glick
December 22, 2023

…As Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Brick, (retired) who served as the IDF ombudsman for ten years, has documented, operating under the spell of [Ehud] Barak’s doctrine, the IDF shut down multiple reserve divisions. It cut its artillery forces by 50%. Armored brigades were shut down. The reserve force was reduced by 80% between 2003 and 2017. The non-commissioned officer corps was gutted. The bulk of the IDF budget and nearly all the U.S. military aid were diverted to the Air Force—the strategic arm of the “small, technological and lethal” IDF. The doctrine was repeatedly exposed as a farce. But to no avail. READ MORE

BREITBART Caroline Glick Warns Israel Perilously Dependent on U.S. Munitions, Biden’s 2-State Plan Would ‘Annihilate’ Israel Israel has become dangerously dependent on American munitions, according to conservative Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick, who is calling for Israeli self-sufficiency, while slamming the Biden administration’s push for a “hideously anti-Israel” two-state solution policy, declaring it a “plan to annihilate Israel, piece by piece.”

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Would College Students Donate to Support the Killing of Jews?

Posted on December 22, 2023 by ArchitectGuy
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