“We urge everyone to not rest until all hostages are released. No hostage can be left behind,” the letter said

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Hundreds of Hollywood celebrities praise Biden’s handling of Israel-Hamas war
Judy Kurtz
October 23, 2023

More than 300 of Hollywood’s most famous names — including Madonna, Chris Rock, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jerry Seinfeld, Bradley Cooper and Tyler Perry — are praising President Biden’s efforts in the Israel-Hamas war as they urge him to “not rest until all hostages are released.” In an open letter to Biden posted Monday, the group of performers, producers and entertainment industry honchos thanked the 46th president for his “unshakable moral conviction, leadership, and support for the Jewish people, who have been terrorized by Hamas since the group’s founding over 35 years ago, and for the Palestinians, who have also been terrorized, oppressed, and victimized by Hamas for the last 17 years that the group has been governing Gaza.” READ MORE

JNS 18 House Democrats sign resolution for Mideast de-escalation, ceasefire A resolution “calling for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine” has drawn 18 House Democrats signatories, led by Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.). Bush’s fellow “Squad” members Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) were among the original co-signers of H.Res. 786.

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“This stimulant drug, also known as the “cocaine for the poor,” allowed the terrorists to commit heinous acts with a sense of calmness and indifference”

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
This is the drug Hamas terrorists took to help them slaughter Israelis
Walla!
October 19, 2023

Hamas terrorists who carried out a surprise attack on October 7 were found to be under the influence of Captagon, a synthetic amphetamine-type stimulant that has been clandestinely produced in southern Europe and trafficked through Turkey to the consumer markets on the Arabian Peninsula, as reported by Nir Dvori of Channel 12. The pills were recovered from the pockets of many terrorists who lost their lives on Israeli soil. READ MORE

AXIOS Barak Ravid: Israel says it found Hamas files with instructions for making cyanide-based weapon The Israeli military found a USB key with instructions for the production of a “cyanide dispersion device” on the body of a Hamas operative who participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to two Israeli officials and a copy of a classified Israeli Foreign Ministry cable obtained by Axios. It is not clear from the file whether Hamas had any serious or operational plan for using makeshift chemical weapons or whether the group had attempted to produce them.

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Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

Posted on October 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
A War Against the Jews
Michael Oren
October 26, 2023

It wasn’t the rallies with “Keep the World Clean” posters and chants of “gas the Jews.” Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and London, the tearing down of posters with the faces of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas. Not even the off-the-charts uptick in antisemitic incidents in Germany (240 percent), the United States (nearly 400 percent), and London (1,353 percent) convinced me. It was, rather, one of those realizations that so many generations of Jews before me have experienced. A realization that they, like me, surely tried to push out of their minds until the reality became unmistakeable.  This war is not simply between Hamas terrorists and Israelis. It is a war against the Jews. READ MORE

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Hamas won’t release images of a “destroyed hospital” because their own missile actually fell in an adjacent parking lot; IDF releases audio of Hamas admitting they fired at Gaza hospital

Posted on October 18, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
IDF tells world: This is how Islamic Jihad destroyed the Gaza hospital
Yonah Jeremy Bob
October 18, 2023

IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari on Wednesday laid out the IDF’s full comprehensive intelligence case to prove that an Islamic Jihad failed rocket caused the damage Tuesday night to a Gaza hospital, leading to a still-unclear, but large, number of Palestinian civilian deaths. The chief spokesman presented actual audio recordings in which Islamic Jihad members say out loud that they are responsible for the explosion. Hagari also presented a detailed video on top of earlier videos put out by Israel’s public relations apparatus showing different stages of the rocket’s trajectory and the layout of the hospital being hit…Moreover, he said the PIJ rocket was fired from a cemetery next to the hospital and hit a parking lot next to the hospital which likely had terror munitions, which caused further damage. READ MORE

FDD Hamas Unwittingly Admits Gaza Rockets Are Prone to Misfire Mark Dubowitz: “Hamas has been hoisted by its own petard. Its lies are collapsing upon themselves. It rushed to blame Israel within an hour of the hospital blast, and to assert a staggering death toll that could not credibly have been ascertained in that short a time. Too many international media and observers bought it…We know from Israeli radar trackers that at least 450 terrorist rockets have landed within Gaza since this war began on October 7 — an almost 10 percent ‘friendly fire’ rate. That will only rise as Hamas and Islamic Jihad feel the pressure of the IDF counter-offensive. Is it too much to ask that, from now on, no one listen to their lies?”

FEDERALIST Press Must Be Held Accountable For Fake Gaza Story That Instigated Violence Worldwide Tablet’s Armin Rosen, a really great reporter who’s no stranger to covering Israel and the Middle East, had this to say about the erroneous media coverage of a missile that supposedly hit a hospital in Gaza on Wednesday: Last night was the worst media f-ckup I’ve ever seen. In terms of the range/seriousness of info gotten wrong, #/prestige/geographic diversity of outlets that f-cked up, overall credulousness, real-world impact, the lack of reflection/remorse etc. Scores a 10 in every category.

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Douglas Murray: “It should not be acceptable that the Jewish community among all the communities in this diverse country should be the one community expected to accept with equanimity those who cheer on the murder of Jews”

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JC NEWS
Douglas Murray: ‘Treat UK Hamas supporters like Isis supporters’
October 12, 2023

A leading political commentator has called for supporters of Hamas in the UK “to be treated exactly the same way as supporters of Isis”. Speaking at an event on Jewish leadership in London, Douglas Murray, who isn’t Jewish, told the audience: “If you stand in Britain with the Hamas flag, you should not be allowed to be free in Britain. You should have your citizenship withdrawn. You should have your passport withdrawn. You should be deported.” Telling the audience that “all my life, I have chosen to be surrounded by Jews”, he stressed that Israel and the Jewish community in the UK were not alone. “There is a Democrat president of the United States who has been fully behind the Jewish state. You have a Conservative prime minister in the UK, who has been utterly supportive of the Israeli state to date. The whole civilised world is behind the Jewish state today.” READ MORE

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Caroline Glick: A War for Jewish Survival, Ben Shapiro: You’re being lied to about Israel

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

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“After terrorists killed my cousin Daniel Pearl, my family called for peace. But after the worldwide celebration of our people’s slaughter, my hope for peace is dead”

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Once, I Was a Peace Advocate. Now, I Have No Idealism Left.
Ilan Benjamin
October 13, 2023

The story I’m about to tell is one that many progressive Jews can relate to. In some ways, it’s a prototypical arc of a diaspora Jew who has always advocated for nuance. This week, something broke in us. We watched history repeat itself. Not just on the global scale, with the wanton massacre of our people, the savage mass murders and dismemberments of entire families and communities. But for many, my family included, history is repeating itself on a personal level as well. READ MORE

JNS Kathleen Hayes: I was you, ‘defender of the Palestinians,’ and now I want to puke Decades ago the left declared that Israeli settlers were fascists who could be blown away at will; today all Israelis are deemed fascists who can be blown away at will.

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“Hamas wants the benefits of being a perpetrator and the sympathy of being a victim at the same time”

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Hamas bears the blame for every death in this war
Bret Stephens
October 15, 2023

…Murdering Jews is an end in its own right for Hamas, because it believes it fulfills a theological aim. The original Hamas covenant invokes this injunction: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’”…Hamas also achieves practical and propagandistic goals by putting Palestinians in harm’s way. More civilians in combat zones mean more human shields for its forces. More dead and wounded Palestinians mean more sympathy for its side and more condemnation of Israel. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: The Savage Nihilism of ‘Free Palestine’  “Free Palestine”—the slogan, the fantasy, and the policy—has always consciously implied the mass murder of Jews in their towns, streets, shops, and living rooms. Few are willing to say so openly, but in many intellectual, professional, and popular circles in the Middle East and the West, the idea of Palestinian national liberation has long been framed in terms that condone or necessitate the indiscriminate killing of Jews. For more unambiguous actors such as Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran, freeing Palestine simply means the total eradication of Israel without qualification. This is not a polemical point, but a basic reality and fact of our lives that demands scrutiny.

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How the United States blinded Israeli intelligence gathering efforts on Hamas and other Palestinian groups inside Lebanon

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Eyeless in Gaza
Tony Badran
October 18, 2023

It will be a while before we’re able to piece together a more complete picture of how Israel, despite its vaunted intelligence-gathering capabilities, was blindsided by the massive Hamas terrorist onslaught on Oct. 7…A key focal point for these inquiries will be Lebanon…So how did Israel find itself blind and deaf in Lebanon? Why was it that, with all this activity taking place in Lebanon over several months, Israel was not able to pick up meaningful intelligence on a lethal adversary? To answer these questions, we must turn to the current security environment in Lebanon, which in turn shaped and constrained Israel’s intelligence gathering capabilities. READ MORE

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“The leadership of Harvard have proven they have lost their moral compass. Not only do they allow Jew-hatred and pro-terror rhetoric to permeate their campus, but they cannot bring themselves to immediately condemn terrorism”

Posted on October 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
‘Stunned, sickened’ by Harvard’s silence on Hamas, Wexner cuts ties
October 16, 2023

…Following Hamas’s terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis, the Wexner leaders were “stunned and sickened at the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stand against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians by terrorists,” they wrote. “Since then, many of our Israel fellows no longer feel marginalized at HKS. They feel abandoned,” the leaders wrote. “Our core values and those of Harvard no longer align. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST UC Berkeley law professor urges firms to not hire his ‘antisemitic’ students Steven Davidoff Solomon, who teaches corporate law at the University of California, Berkeley, alleged that some of his students at the college promoted hate toward Jews and therefore should not be given jobs, in an op-ed he penned for the Wall Street Journal.

NBC NEWS Top law firm rescinds job offers to Ivy League students over Israel letters Top U.S. law firm Davis Polk announced in an internal email that it had rescinded letters of employment for three law students at Harvard and Columbia universities who it believed were tied to organizational statements about Israel, one of the latest responses to open letters from university groups about the Israel-Hamas conflict that have roiled university donors, employers, alumni and students.

WSJ Hamas War Shows Us What American Universities Stand For A Cornell history professor appearing at a pro-Palestinian rally this week referred to Hamas’s butchery as “exhilarating” and “energizing.” Columbia political scientist Joseph Massad described the attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 people, including at least 30 U.S. citizens, as “awesome” and a “major achievement of the resistance.”

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