Thousands of other families are now paying the price for Israeli leaders who sought protection from a billion-dollar fence while leaving wounded soldiers behind in Gaza

Posted on October 27, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Israel Abandoned My Son Out of Fear
Simha Goldin
October 26, 2023

People ask me, how does a prophet of the apocalypse feel when his prophecies come true? Or how does a historian feel when he holds up a mirror to leadership and they ignore or shatter it? How does a bereaved father feel when he points to the completely mistaken concept of achieving “quiet” at the cost of abandoning any security value, and yet the military and political leadership dismissively mutters, “He’s just a bereaved father.” My response is always the same: Those who abandon the dead will abandon the wounded and the living. By bolstering Hamas, we invited their aggression. And as we’ve learned, there’s no barrier impervious to a determined enemy. READ MORE

FDD Israeli Druze Colonel Killed in Gaza Fighting An Israeli tank battalion commander who distinguished himself in helping repel the October 7 Hamas onslaught was killed on November 1 during the Gaza ground offensive. Lt.-Col. Salman Habaka was a member of Israel’s Druze minority and commander of the Armored Corps’ 53rd Battalion. He was the 18th military fatality, and the most senior officer among them, in Gaza since Israel expanded ground operations a week ago. 

HAARETZ 19 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza Ground Operation, IDF Confirms Total number of Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip rose to 19. The IDF’s operation in the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday took control of a Hamas military stronghold and killed the commander of Hamas’ Jabalya Brigade

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While Israel has a citizens’ army, it does not have an armed citizenry. Only about 150,000 Israelis, or 2% of the population, are legal gun owners.

Posted on October 27, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israelis undergo sea change on need for personal firearms
David Isaac
October 29, 2023

The Hamas rampage against unarmed civilians revealed to Israelis just how exposed they are to attack once the country’s first line of defense is breached. It has awakened a once indifferent public to the need to take up arms. Demand has been such that a Knesset command center was set up to handle the flood of applications last Tuesday. “There are now over 120,000 requests for the Firearms Division”… Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a national address on Wednesday, “We’re encouraging citizens, and helping citizens, to arm themselves with personal weapons for defense.” READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Jewish Americans are flocking to learn gun safety and buy firearms amid war in Israel A growing number of American Jews are taking courses on firearm safety and going to shooting ranges around the country as they fear for their safety following Hamas’ attack on Israel…Many of those Kowalsky and other firearms instructors throughout the country have been teaching have never picked up a gun before, including many women. Some have even spoken in favor of gun control.

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Resolution in support of Israel passes Congress 412 to 10; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls AIPAC “racist and bigoted”

Posted on October 27, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
New US House Speaker Moves Quickly to Pass Pro-Israel Resolution in First Act
Andrew Bernard
October 26, 2023

Newly elected US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) moved quickly to enact a House resolution condemning Hamas and supporting Israel in the first vote of his term. Titled “Standing with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists,” the bipartisan resolution introduced by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-NY) passed 412-10, with 6 members voting “Present.”...The 10 “Nay” votes came mostly from members of the so-called “Squad” of far left Democrats who are among the most vociferous critics of Israel in Congress, including Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Cori Bush (D-MO), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY.). A similar resolution passed the Senate last week by a 97-0 margin. READ MORE

COMMENTARY Seth Mandel: AOC Finally Wins The Anti-Semitism First Prize! No one in Congress works harder to drum up Jew-baiting at home and abroad than AOC, yet her Democratic colleague Ilhan Omar gets all the credit. It’s unjust! Sure, Omar has specifically said that Jewish money buys members of Congress and that American Jews are disloyal citizens. But Ocasio-Cortez responded as any true competitor would and got creative. After all, no one else in Congress had thought to suggest U.S. testing of chemical weapons in Puerto Rico was “practice” for Israeli airstrikes on Gaza…Last night, the congresswoman tweeted straight from her wild heart [calling AIPAC “racist and bigoted”]

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Progressive Jews who call for a ceasefire do not speak for most Jews

Posted on October 27, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

Allowing Hamas to continue butchering and terrorizing Israelis is not a choice most Israelis can accept. Hamas, like ISIS, must be removed from power. Kill or be killed. Jews who advocate a ceasefire now are living in a dangerous alternative reality. Jews who attack Israel give oxygen to Jew-haters the world over. “Rabbis for Ceasefire” includes Chicago’s own Brant Rosen of Tzedek Chicago which has adopted anti-Zionism as a ‘core value’

Can Jews be antisemitic ? Yes.

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Schlichter: “Savages are not distinguished by their nobility. Their savagery distinguishes them. And we need to find the moral strength to do what is necessary to defeat them”

Posted on October 27, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TOWN HALL
Accept That Savagery Is the True Nature of the World – and Deal With It
Kurt Schlichter
October 30, 2023

…The world’s true nature is that good is forever pitted against evil. That has never changed. What happened over the last 70 years or so was an interregnum of peace in the West, created by violence against barbarians and facilitated by people willfully looking away from the butchery still continuing at the fringes of the map. The West managed to build a civilization that was – for the first time in history since perhaps the Pax Romana – generally internally peaceful. And the West convinced itself that this was normal. But it was not normal. It was an anomaly, a glorious one, but an anomaly nonetheless. The world is not a peaceful place, and it never was, and it never will be. Despite the best efforts of the arrogant left, human nature has not changed. Human nature is vicious and cruel. Rousseau’s noble savage nonsense, which we are still dealing with today in the form of eager sophomores in Che t-shirts slobbering over Hamas psychopaths – is a giant fraud. READ MORE

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Canary Mission confirms at least three Hamas-linked “activists” fundraised for Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
Canary Mission: Tlaib has ‘extensive fundraising ties’ to Hamas
October 25, 2023

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has “extensive fundraising ties to Hamas supporters” and in fact hired three activists with links to the terrorist organization to fundraise for her 2018 campaign, according to an investigation by the watchdog group Canary Mission. The congresswoman, who has long been accused of antisemitism and who has come under fire for refusing to remove a social-media post blaming Israel for a Palestinian Islamic Jihad attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, hired one person who spent eight months in prison for “alleged connections to Hamas,” according to Canary Mission. Tlaib also used a “pro-terror Facebook page, PAC-USA,” to raise funds for her 2018 campaign, and in 2015, co-founded “the Detroit-based, anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-terror hate group, Black4Palestine,” the watchdog added. READ MORE

DAILY WIRE Lawmaker Calls For Tlaib To Lose Clearance Over Security Concerns : Her ‘Allegiance Lies With Hamas’ Rep. Rashida Tlaib is facing calls to be barred from receiving future classified briefings on military operations in Israel after she has continued to tout debunked Hamas propaganda and repeatedly attacked Israel in the days following an unprecedented terror attack in the country that resulted in the deaths of 1,400 Israelis.

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Rachel Goldberg begged world leaders to keep fighting for the release of her son Hersh and the others held in Hamas captivity

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

KVELLER
This Hostage’s Mother’s Speech at the U.N. Is Heartbreaking and Necessary
Lior Zaltzman
October 25, 2023

I keep thinking I might be done crying since October 7, and then I realize, as more and more news keeps pouring in, there will always be more tears. Today, those tears are thanks to Rachel Goldberg, a dual American-Israeli citizen who talked to the U.N. about her son, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnapped by Hamas from the Supernova festival in Re’im, where almost 300 were killed. It has been both devastating and inspiring to see how the families of hostages are sharing some of the most eloquent, prescient words to describe the situation they find themselves in, even with all their fear and grief. Through sleepless nights, they are finding a kind of endless energy to fight these battles. READ MORE

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The same country now protecting Hamas’s senior leaders has donated billions to American universities. Here’s why.

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Qatar’s War for Young American Minds
Eli Lake
October 24, 2023

Right now, senior leaders of Hamas, the perpetrators of the worst atrocity against Jews since the Holocaust, are huddled in Qatar. They’ve been there for years. But American foreign policy has turned a blind eye. Why? One reason might be that for the last 25 years, this small, energy-rich state has pumped billions into America to purchase influence and good favor. The Qataris have spent their lavish fortune at American law firms, on lobbying contracts with former senior officials, and on junkets and partnerships with big media companies. The biggest recipients of Qatari largesse, though, have been major universities and think tanks. READ MORE

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“Your support of Israel will save you from this jihadist campaign against western values and culture. Don’t stand idly by.”

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST INSIGHT
A call to the civilized world
Dr Mordechai Kedar
October 23, 2023

…Hamas is the Palestinian tentacle of the Iranian octopus which has reached also into Lebanon, Hezbollah, militias in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, who are all preparing to wipe out Israel as per the orders of the Ayatollahs regime in Iran. Israel’s struggle for survival is not only for Israel. If the jihadists succeed to destroy Israel, Europe will be the next and the Atlantic Ocean is not wide enough to keep America safe from this evil. This is a war between good against evil, civilization against savagery, normalcy against barbarism. It is the struggle between western culture and the jihadists lead by Iran, who want to destroy it. Just imagine what the world will look like if Iran succeeds to acquire the doomsday weapon. READ MORE

JNS A naive West must awaken to the jihadist threat: Hamas isn’t just after Israel, they’re coming for you too. Many in the West are now afraid that if they speak critically of radical Islamism they will be labelled racist or be socially cancelled for failing the multiculturism test. They shouldn’t be afraid. Many Muslims, Persians and Arabs in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria and Iran long for the day they will no longer ruled by the tyrants of Islamism. This is not about being anti-Islamic but about being anti-jihad.

FRONT PAGE MAG Jason D. Hill: The Case for Foreign National Deportation The time has come for great purges because in a civilizational war when the enemies announce themselves in the open and act with impunity, we must act in the spirit of self-preservation and exercise justice. Why should Americans live in fear of foreign nationals, supercilious young people, many of whom can barely write a term paper, but who want to dictate the terms of our domestic and foreign policy? By what right?

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In light of the growing international interest in (and denials of) the Palestinian terror group Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, representatives of the global press were invited to see the horrors for themselves

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIA LINE
Evidence on Display at Israel’s Forensic Pathology Center Confirms Hamas’ Atrocities
Aaaron Poris
October 20, 2023

Stifling the urge to retch became a difficult task as I walked through the lower levels of Israel’s National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Tel Aviv. The smell of rotting human remains, much of which was completely unrecognizable as human due to the brutality of the attack, was at times too much to bear. Forensic pathologists, including Israeli staffers as well as volunteers from abroad, were visibly disturbed by the evidence before them. Despite every effort to remain objective and detached—as called for by the profession—many broke down into tears throughout the day. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL IDF shows foreign press Hamas bodycam videos, photos of murder, torture, decapitation Government says it’s revealing horrific footage collected from various sources to the media in order to fight ‘Holocaust-like denials’ of Hamas’s massacres in southern Israel

FORWARD Top IDF chief confirms rape and other ‘crimes against humanity’ in Oct. 7 attack A morgue worker for the military told the Daily Mail: “There is evidence of mass rape of so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.”

YOUTUBE “Look how many Jews I killed!” IDF releases audio of Hamas terrorist bragging about killing Israelis

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