By the end of 2048, Israel’s population is expected to reach 15 million people

Posted on September 14, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israeli population nearing 10 million ahead of Jewish New Year
September 14, 2023

About 9.8 million people are living in Israel, with the population expected to reach 10 million by the end of next year, according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics. By the end of 2048, Israel’s population is expected to reach 15 million people. Of the 9.8 million, 7.2 million (73%) are Jews and about 2.1 million (21%) are Arabs. Another 549,000 were from other sectors. Israel’s population grew by about 194,000 people this past year, marking a 2% growth. READ MORE

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Caroline Glick: The End of the Rule of Law in Israel. And the Oslo Deal at 30 years.

Posted on September 14, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

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“Israel still bleeds from its self-inflicted wound”

Posted on September 13, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Oslo at 30
Kenneth Levin
September 14, 2023

The formal initiation of the Oslo process on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993, was supposed to herald an era of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. But that hope was based on Israeli delusions. The truth was readily evident. On the evening of the White House ceremony, Yasir Arafat broadcast a speech on Jordanian television assuring Palestinians that they should understand Oslo in terms of the Palestine National Council’s 1974 decision. This was a reference to the so-called “plan of phases,” according to which the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) would acquire whatever territory it could by negotiations, then use that land as a base for pursuing Israel’s annihilation. READ MORE

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH Itamar Marcus: The Oslo Deception – New Evidence New testimony that Arafat never intended to make peace with Israel, by PA member of Parliament. Arafat planned “the two-state solution as a first stage”. Arafat: “You will see the Jews fleeing from Palestine like mice fleeing from a sinking ship”

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If the United States Supreme Court overturned a law on the grounds that it was not “reasonable” there would be rioting in the streets; in Israel though its business as usual

Posted on September 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Supreme Court hearing on ‘reasonableness’ law kicks off
September 12, 2023

Israel’s Supreme Court, sitting as the High Court of Justice, convened on Tuesday to consider petitions against the so-called “reasonableness” law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary passed by the Knesset in July. The hearing, three days before the start of the High Holidays, is the first time in the court’s 75-year history that all 15 justices have presided over a case. The amendment, passed on July 24 by all 64 lawmakers in the governing coalition, bars justices from using “reasonableness” as a justification for reversing decisions made by the cabinet, ministers and “other elected officials as set by law.” Following its passing, NGOs immediately filed petitions asking the Supreme Court to strike it down. READ MORE

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Mossad chief vows to target Iran’s ‘highest echelon’ if Israelis, Jews hurt in terror

Posted on September 11, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Ex-Mossad official claims spy agency chief’s threat to Iran actually aimed at US
Emanuel Fabian
September 11, 2023

A former senior Mossad official said Monday that a warning issued by spy agency chief David Barnea to Iran a day earlier was in fact aimed at making it clear to the United States that Israel has the freedom to act, even in the heart of Tehran. Haim Tomer, a former Mossad chief of intelligence and operations, additionally claimed that Barnea’s comments carried the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…Barnea on Sunday warned Iran’s leaders that they would pay a direct price, even if they were deep in the Iranian capital, should any Israelis or Jews be harmed in what he said was an ongoing, significantly stepped-up, state-organized Iranian terror effort worldwide. READ MORE

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Phish and Contemporary Jewish Identity’ explores the the relationship between the band and Jewish fans

Posted on September 11, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
What’s Jewish about the jam band Phish? Many things, according to a new book
Stephen Silver
September 9, 2023

Those who are Jewish, or Phish fans — or both — have likely noticed at one point: Jews really seem to love Phish. There are many possible reasons for this, starting with the fact that the genre-bending jam band has many ardent fans of all stripes, having sold millions of albums and played to enormous festival crowds for decades. Two of the band members — bassist Mike Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman — are also Jewish, and the group has been known to play Jewish songs such as “Yerushalayim Shel Zahav” and “Avinu Malkeinu” live. But there’s something else — a certain kind of spiritual aspect to Phish fandom that seems to attract the average modern Jewish fan. READ MORE

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McKinney recently said that “we know that the Jews represented by AIPAC and ADL have a problem with strongly opinionated Black men” and that “Zionists run Washington”

Posted on September 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Jews Are The Problem’: Former US Congresswoman Promotes Antisemitic-Black Nationalist Crossover Event
Andrew Bernard
September 11, 2023

Cynthia McKinney, a former US congresswoman and 2008 presidential nominee for the Green Party, on Monday promoted a livestream event featuring notorious white supremacist David Duke and the black nationalist author of a book called Jews Are The Problem. “I know where I’ll be and what I’ll be watching at 6:00 pm EASTERN time today!” McKinney posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. Her post included a promotional image of an event with the question “Can Black people and White people work together to defeat our common enemy?” written above a large Star of David and a photo of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the US. READ MORE

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German tennis player Alexander Zverev told the match umpire that a spectator had chanted “Deutschland über alles.” The man was promptly removed from the rest of the US Open match.

Posted on September 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

DEUTSCHE WELLE
Tennis fan kicked out of US Open for singing Nazi-era anthem
September 5, 2023

A tennis fan was ejected from the US Open in New York on Monday after German tennis player Alexander Zverev protested that the man had been chanting words from the Nazi-era anthem. Zverev said that the spectator had chanted “Germany above everything” during his encounter with Italy’s Jannik Sinner. “He started singing the Hitler anthem. That was too much,” Zverev said. “As a German, I’m not proud of that part of history and it’s not OK to do that. He was sitting in the front row, so a lot of people heard it. If I didn’t react, it would have been bad from my part,” he said. READ MORE

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“The last Mayor of Chicago was 1) Black 2) a woman, and 3) a lesbian and even she didn’t play the victim card this quickly”

Posted on September 8, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JOHN KASS NEWS
Let’s Talk About Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Ultra-Thin Black Skin
John Kass
September 13, 2023

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is consumed by the color of his skin. It seems that his black skin is all he wants to talk about. Someone close to him might want to tell the poor fellow to simmer down, grow up and act like a man—and inform him he is not the first black mayor of Chicago. But why talk of the color of his skin? Instead, let’s talk about the thinness of it. I’ve been covering Chicago politics for decades—since the 1980s—and never has there been a politician with skin as thin as his. It’s not merely rice paper thin, it is so thin that it makes rice paper resemble cardboard. Brandon Johnson’s skin is so thin it must have been made by the faeries, ephemeral and disappearing, as light as a cherub baby’s breath. READ MORE

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U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt urges Abbas to apologize

Posted on September 7, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
International community appalled by Abbas’ comments about Holocaust
September 7, 2023

European and American officials on Thursday issued statements condemning the speech delivered by the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas where he said Adolf Hitler ordered the mass murder of Jews because of their “social role,” rather than antisemitism. The speech delivered at Fatah’s 11th Revolutionary Council in late August caused outrage and international condemnation. The EU spokesperson’s statement said that it “contained false and grossly misleading remarks” about Jews and antisemitism…It added that Abbas’ remarks “trivialize Holocaust,” fuel antisemitism and “are an insult to the millions of victims of the Holocaust and their families.” READ MORE

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