Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told The Atlantic magazine last year that the Kingdom sees Israel as ‘a potential ally’

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Israel-Saudi normalization deal could be worth the costs
David Weinberg
August 3, 2023

It is important to refute the many arguments being bandied about against a peace deal involving Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the United States. I think that the doubters and naysayers, as well as those who are actively trying to sabotage such an agreement, are wrong. Wrong about the chances for a deal (I think they are high), wrong about the risks of a deal (much lower than feared), and wrong about the worth of a peace breakthrough (much higher than imagined). The Saudis themselves seem keen on a deal. Faisal J. Abbas, editor in chief of the Saudi Arab News, wrote this week that Saudi normalization with Israel is eminently possible: “It is highly likely that such a deal might be possible.” READ MORE

AXIOS Israel’s Mossad chief secretly visited D.C. to discuss Biden’s Saudi initiative Mossad director David Barnea secretly visited Washington nearly two weeks ago for talks with senior White House and CIA officials about the Biden administration’s efforts to reach an agreement with Saudi Arabia that would include normalization between the kingdom and Israel, two U.S. sources told Axios.

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“The real news here is that CUNY abhorrently and with impunity is now expanding this witch hunt for Jews who complain about antisemitism”

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
CUNY probes 4 Jewish profs for ‘discrimination’ against BDS activists
August 7, 2023

An advocacy group Students and Faculty for Equality at the City University of New York (SAFE CUNY) reported on Sunday that four pro-Israel Jewish professors were under investigation for alleged “discrimination” against antisemites and BDS activists. “Four Zionist Jewish Professors who complained about antisemitism on their campuses have now been placed under investigation by CUNY for “discrimination” against BDS and radical Islamist antisemitic activists,” the group tweeted, adding that they “have all the details but cannot share yet.” READ MORE

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Video surfaces…2,500 Jews were freed from a train to Theresienstadt in 1945

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

THE JC
Newly unearthed footage shows US soldiers saving Jews from Holocaust train
Hannah Gillott
August 2, 2023

Previously unseen footage has emerged of the liberation of 2,500 Jews from a death train en route to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The footage, taken 78 years ago by American soldiers, shows the “Miracle at Farsleben”, when US soldiers opened the doors, freeing the thousands of Jews inside. The clip was unearthed during documentary research by an American history teacher. Farlesben was the village at which the train stopped. READ MORE

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“Like many others who carry water for terrorists, Rosenfeld attempts to portray the Palestinian Authority as merely a subcontractor for Israel”

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
Rolling Stone Jumps on Pro-Terrorist Bandwagon
Karen Bekker
August 3, 2023

Although they’re slightly late to the party, Rolling Stone seems to have gotten the memo that the latest trend in antisemitic agitation posing as journalism is glamourizing young Palestinian terrorists. A nearly 6000-word piece by Jesse Rosenfeld – who has previously written for +972, The Nation, and Al Jazeera – fails to inform readers of Palestinian rejectionism, payments of salaries to convicted terrorists, or the effect of terror on Israeli society. Instead, Rosenfeld portrays “Gen Z” terrorists as having no alternative but to take up arms against Israeli civilians: “‘Israel has left us no choice,’” he quotes his 22 year-old interview subject, a member of a Jenin-based terror cell, saying. “‘The occupation has proven that the more we are silent, the more it will take from us.’” READ MORE

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Confining people in wretched conditions serves the interests of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in maintaining breeding grounds for terrorists

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The real reason why there is still a refugee camp in Jenin
Mitchell Bard
August 7, 2023

In all the coverage of Israel’s operation to root out terrorists from the Jenin refugee camp, did anyone ask the question: Why is there a refugee camp in an area controlled by the Palestinians? The refugee camp has been a nest of terrorism for years but should not exist. The Jordanians first established it in 1953 to accommodate Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war after the government annexed the West Bank. Jordan’s 19-year occupation of the area, which generated none of the uproar associated with Israel’s “occupation,” was recognized by only two countries – Great Britain (which had aided in Jordan conquering the area the United Nations had allotted for an Arab state in its partition resolution of 1947) and Pakistan. READ MORE

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The alleged distress of “pro-Palestinian” individuals and pressure groups has nothing to do with a genuine concern for the Palestinians — and everything to do with a racist hatred of Jews

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
A Cry for Help from Palestinians
Bassam Tawil
August 4, 2023

On July 30, thousands of Palestinians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip took to the streets to protest harsh living conditions and a shortage of power and gas. The protests, held under the banner “We want to live!”, reflected growing discontent among the Palestinians against the Iranian-backed Hamas, which seized control of the Gaza Strip through a violent and bloody coup in the summer of 2007. At the same time as the Palestinians were demonstrating in the Gaza Strip, armed clashes erupted in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, where at least 11 people were killed, including a senior Palestinian security official, and several others were injured. READ MORE

FDD Violence Among Palestinians in Lebanon Spurs Travel Advisories The United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined a growing list of countries on August 6 warning its citizens against traveling to Lebanon in the wake of clashes between Palestinian militant groups in Ayn al-Hilweh, the largest pocket of Palestinians claiming refugee status in the country…The alerts highlight the instability of Lebanon and its Palestinian population, as the country continues to struggle with a lack of a functioning government, a collapsed economy, and control by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah.

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Obamas former white girlfriend: “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism”

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAGAZINE
The Obama Factor: A Q&A with historian David Garrow
David Samuels
August 2, 2023

There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila Miyoshi Jager. In Dreams, Obama describes a passionate disagreement following a play by African American playwright August Wilson, in which the young protagonist defends his incipient embrace of Black racial consciousness against his girlfriend’s white-identified liberal universalism. As readers, we know that the stakes of this decision would become more than simply personal: The Black American man that Obama wills into being in this scene would go on to marry a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago named Michelle Robinson and, after a meteoric rise, win election as the first Black president of the United States. READ MORE

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Pittsburgh synagogue shooter ordered to die by execution, more than 4½ years after he killed 11 in Squirrel Hill

Posted on August 3, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
‘The joy you took away will be reclaimed’: Relatives of the 11 synagogue shooting victims confront gunman as he’s sentenced to death
Megan Guza
August 3, 2023

One by one, they filed to the front of the fifth-floor courtroom — a place where most have spent each day for more than two months. They spoke of times before Oct. 27, 2018, when a gunman tore through the Squirrel Hill synagogue where congregations Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Light worshipped. They spoke of the times after that. The finding out, the pain, the grief, the trial of Robert Bowers, and his sentence of death returned a day prior by the jury. They spoke of their lost loved ones: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. READ MORE

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The downfall of the White House’s favorite Iran whisperer is a mystery wrapped inside a cover-up

Posted on August 3, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
What Happened to Robert Malley?
Lee Smith
July 23, 2023

In late June, reports started circulating that White House heavy Robert Malley had been suspended from his job in the Joe Biden administration. That was surprising. Before he was pushed out, Malley had been seen as the visionary architect of the Democratic Party’s Middle East policy. He’d been Barack Obama’s conduit to Iran before Biden named him to do the same thing for his White House. For someone in his position to lose that job amid renewed talks with Iran was notable, but the most intriguing detail, hidden by the Biden team for months, was the reason why he was sidelined: He had reportedly mishandled classified documents. READ MORE

THE NATIONAL NEWS Biden administration ‘refused’ to give Congress information on Iran envoy Malley House foreign affairs committee tells The National the Biden administration gave no meaningful answers in a closed-door briefing as to why envoy was placed on leave

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Before the 1967 Six Day War, the valley was a no man’s land and used mostly as a garbage dump

Posted on August 3, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

VIN NEWS
Longest Suspension Bridge In Israel, Over Valley Of Hinom To Mt. Zion, Inaugurated Sunday
Yehuda Dov
July 30, 2023

The longest suspension bridge in Israel will be inaugurated on Sunday, connecting Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to the Valley of Hinnom, after nine months of construction and a cost of 20 million shekel. The 202-meter (663 feet) long bridge is expected to be one of the main tourist attractions in the capital and will be open for pedestrians from 6 am to 10 pm daily. From the bridge, visitors will be able to see the natural valley that surrounds the Old City from the south. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion said the municipality has invested millions in the development of tourist attractions and invited Israelis and visitors from abroad to visit the bridge. READ MORE

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