“We all have war fatigue, and we all want it to be over. If only it were that simple. You don’t have to be with us, though it would be great if you were. But please don’t be against us, just because you’re tired of it.

Posted on September 25, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Why Israel can’t just “wrap up this war”
Karen Bekker
September 22, 2025

My colleagues at CAMERA and I have spent the past two years responding to a tsunami of lies about Israel, beginning in the immediate aftermath of October 7, 2023, with the claim that Israel caused the attack on itself. Then there was the claim that Israel attacked Al Ahli hospital, killing hundreds of people; the claim that Israel intentionally targeted World Central Kitchen aid workers; the claim that Israeli snipers were shooting Palestinian children in the head; and the starvation and genocide libels, including the absurd claims that 83 percent of casualties were civilians and that 14,000 babies were imminently about to die of starvation. It’s exhausting. It would be tempting for me to say that no one wants Israel to end the war more than I do. But I’m pretty sure that every single IDF soldier fighting in Gaza, not to mention the wives and mothers of those soldiers, wants Israel to conclude a lot more than I want it. Certainly, those with actual skin in the game want that more than Megyn Kelly, who said on her September 16 podcast that “Israel needs to wrap up this war. READ MORE

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US State Department intervenes to prevent FIFA sanctions against Israel

Posted on September 25, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Trump poised to prevent Israel’s World Cup expulsion
Erez Linn
September 25, 2025

The Trump administration intends to prevent FIFA from banning Israel’s national soccer team before the 2026 World Cup, according to a report from Sky News. UN advisory experts this week urged the global and European soccer bodies to suspend all Israeli teams because of the war in Gaza. As Israel’s men’s team attempts to qualify for next year’s World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico, FIFA has not yet responded to the UN rapporteurs. The US government, through Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has intervened directly to stop sanctions. READ MORE

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South Yemen leader: “When we have our southern state, we’ll make our own decisions, and I believe we will be part of these accords”

Posted on September 25, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
South Yemen would join Abraham Accords, says separatist leader Aidaros al-Zubaidi
September 25, 2025

An independent South Yemen would join the Abraham Accords and establish relations with Israel, senior anti-Houthi Yemeni official Aidaros al-Zubaidi said in an interview with UAE state media outlet The National. Zubaidi, who is president of the Southern Transitional Council, a South Yemen separatist movement, and deputy chairman of the anti-Houthi government, the Presidential Leadership Council, spoke to the outlet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Wednesday. He told them that before the Israel-Hamas War started, the STC was “advancing towards joining the Abraham Accords.” READ MORE

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“Save for a few courageous souls, this deeply troubled and inept organization has become the United Nations of Jew-Haters”

Posted on September 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The United Nations hates Jews
Joshua Hoffman
September 24, 2025

The United Nations Security Council scheduled an “emergency” meeting on Gaza for Tuesday — the very day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. This meant that Israeli diplomats and Jewish UN staff could not attend one of the most consequential discussions about Israel because it coincided with one of Judaism’s holiest days. Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, wrote to the rotating Security Council president, requesting to reschedule this meeting, but his request was ignored. The symbolism could not be clearer: The world body that never misses a moment to pass judgment on Israel scheduled its judgment at a time when Jews could not even be present to defend themselves. Opening the General Assembly that same Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared that “the horrors are approaching a third monstrous year” in Gaza. He accused Israel of carrying out disproportionate “collective punishment” and making “decisions that defy basic humanity.” READ MORE

JPOST Danny Danon: The UN is entertaining dangerous Palestinian adventurism Instead of allocating equal resources and attention to all major crises worldwide, like the ongoing war in Ukraine or the humanitarian disaster in Sudan, the General Assembly is about to make a dangerous spectacle out of entertaining Palestinian adventurism, with no regard for the violent actors driving the Palestinian cause…Historical amnesia has kicked in. Nearly two years after this horrific atrocity, the assembly has yet to pass a formal, unequivocal condemnation of Hamas. This moral vacuum sends a chilling message to the world: that terrorism and mass murder can be ignored, even legitimized, for the sake of political expediency.

THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT Andrew Fox: Who Was Really Behind the Recognition of Palestine One striking pattern emerged on Sunday: within minutes, progressive-led governments in Canada, the UK, and Australia all recognised a Palestinian state, a policy long championed by the far left but historically resisted by the political mainstream. The coordination was palpable.

JPOST 71% of French, 87% of UK public against Palestinian state recognition without Hamas conditions Over two-thirds of French citizens and almost 90% of the British public don’t support their governments’ expected moves this week to recognize a Palestinian state without preconditions, such as Hamas’s release of hostages and surrender, being met, according to two separate polls by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF) and JL Partners.

JPOST Milei to UN: Free Gaza hostages now, remember AMIA and embassy bombings Argentine President Javier Milei used his address to the 80th United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to demand the “immediate release” of hostages still held in Gaza and to remind the world of Argentina’s own trauma from the 1992 bombing of Israel’s Embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center attack.

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“I ran Israel’s national intelligence agency from 2016 to 2021. As an agent in the 1980s, I convinced a Hezbollah terrorist to join us”

Posted on September 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
How I Recruited a Hezbollah Terrorist to Work with Israel
Yossi Cohen
September 19, 2025

…When I recruit a source, he does not become a member of the Mossad. He is not a friend, although I will do everything in my power to make him think that he is. The Mossad does not force anyone to work with us. You can’t threaten someone, saying, “I’ll show a video of you doing this and that with that attractive Dutch lady if you do not cooperate.” That’s for trashy movies or throwaway paperback books. And it doesn’t work. If they don’t want to, they don’t want to. Eventually, they will learn what they are doing, and who they are doing it with. You have to convince them that it is okay, that there is a future in it. Betrayal must be a conscious act. READ MORE

FREE PRESS HONESTLY Bari Weiss: Inside the Mossad Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen talks spycraft, the war in Gaza, Palestinian statehood, Iran, Qatar, Israel’s recent mind-boggling missions, and why he believes intelligence failed on 10/7.

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“American voters should remember exactly who is willing to gamble with Israel’s security—and America’s credibility—in the name of symbolism.”

Posted on September 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
When Senate Democrats side with Hamas over Israel
Stephen M. Flatow
September 25, 2025

At first glance, the surge of support by Democratic elected officials for recognizing Palestinian statehood seems an act of moral clarity: After decades of suffering, political displacement and human tragedy, isn’t it overdue for Palestinians to receive the diplomatic recognition so many world powers already afford them? Beneath the veneer of humanitarian concern and lofty rhetoric, however, lies a host of practical, ethical and strategic problems that Democratic politicians seem to gloss over—and that deserve a harder look from voters and policymakers alike…Their proposal may be symbolic, but symbolism carries weight. A resolution like this signals to the world that swaths of the Democratic Party are willing to bypass negotiations, downplay terrorism and demand concessions from Israel without reciprocal demands of the Palestinians. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Majority of House Democrats warn Israel against West Bank, Gaza annexation A letter led by Reps. Brad Schneider and Jamie Raskin says such a move would ‘not only violate international law but undermine decades of bipartisan U.S. policy and threaten the progress of the Abraham Accords’

AXIOS Democrats in Congress are breaking with Israel like never before Some of Israel’s staunchest Democratic supporters on Capitol Hill are wavering like never before as progressives grow more emboldened in their defense of the Palestinian cause. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza has soured U.S. public opinion on Israel, and while members of Congress have been something of a lagging indicator, they are now shifting as well.

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Tucker Carlson accused of stoking antisemitic conspiracy theory about Charlie Kirk murder at memorial service

Posted on September 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Gen Z’s casual antisemitism is growing — seeded by influencers like Tucker Carlson
David Harsanyi
September 25, 2025

On Wednesday night, a Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech honoring the late Charlie Kirk took an ugly turn. A male student stood up to ask popular podcaster Megyn Kelly if she was concerned about the growing, unseemly influence of “rich billionaire Jews” on American politics. “Did you say, ‘rich billionaire Jews’?” Kelly incredulously responded. “Yes,” the questioner said, as if this was a completely normal topic to bring up. It’s just one more example of the abnormal fixation younger Americans have on Israel and Jews. The young man seemed to be allied with the progressive left, which has long flirted with this kind of rhetoric. But similar comments are increasingly spreading on the right, as well — even in the glare of the public spotlight. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Tucker Carlson accused of stoking antisemitic conspiracy theory about Charlie Kirk murder at memorial service Tucker Carlson has been accused by Jewish groups and Israeli media outlets of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The conservative commentator and former Fox News host evoked the death of Jesus during his address at the memorial for Kirk on Sunday, appearing to draw comparisons between the two…His comments sparked outcry from a number of Jewish groups and Israeli figures, who accused Carlson of evoking medieval “blood libel” conspiracies about Jewish people being responsible for the death of Christ.

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“My story does not end with survival – it continues with service,” said the Israeli-American who was held in Gaza for 584 days until May

Posted on September 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Freed hostage Edan Alexander says he’s returning to the IDF next month
Grace Gilson
September 19, 2025

Just months after former hostage Edan Alexander was freed from 584 days in Hamas captivity, the Golani Brigade soldier has announced he will return to service. “Next month, God willing, I will return to Israel. I will once again put on the IDF uniform, and I will proudly serve alongside my brothers,” Alexander said at an FIDF event…His announcement at the FIDF gala marked his first public statements since the Trump administration negotiated his release in May. In July, he met with Trump alongside his parents at the Oval Office. Alexander, 21, joined the IDF after graduating from high school in New Jersey and was captured while serving near the Gaza border during Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. READ MORE

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“The Druze stand for an alternative Syria that extremists cannot tolerate”

Posted on September 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

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Syria: Al-Sharaa’s Campaign of Extermination against Druze, Minorities
Uzay Bulut
September 19, 2025

…The Jolani regime (HTS/al-Nusra) declares the Druze outside their narrow definition of Islam and frames its attacks on them as a jihad (holy war). The deeper reason, however, is that Sweida and the Druze community have consistently called for a secular, democratic Syria based on equal citizenship, human rights, and the rule of law. This vision directly contradicts the Islamic state government that Jolani seeks to impose. You can see it in his constitutional declaration, his loyalty-based government, and his reliance on Sharia law rather than universal legal principles.
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TIMES OF ISRAEL PM reports progress in talks with Syria as US official says security deal ‘99%’ done Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel has made progress in talks with Syria that could lead to peace agreements with both Damascus and Beirut, ahead of a reported meeting to be convened on Sunday evening to discuss the issue. Shortly thereafter, a Trump administration official told The Times of Israel that an emerging security agreement between Israel and Syria is “99%” complete, and that an announcement is expected within the next two weeks. 

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Leland Vittert: “I never got invited to a birthday party or playdate. I had no friends. People made fun of me about everything.”

Posted on September 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
How My Dad Helped Me Master My Autism
Leland Vittert
September 25, 2025

When I was a kid, experts didn’t have a name for what I had. Asperger’s wasn’t a term until the 1990s, and autism wasn’t understood to be a spectrum disorder. The only diagnosis they could offer was “social blindness,” or “pervasive developmental disorder,” which gave my parents little hope things could get better. In fourth grade, my school brought in a specialist to administer an IQ test. A learning disability was usually defined by a 20-point spread between the verbal and nonverbal halves. My spread was 68 points. On one end of the spectrum, I was a genius. On the other, I was considered, in the medical jargon of the 1980s, mildly retarded. Math and science came easily; social reasoning was hopeless. If they could have measured my emotional intelligence, it would have been near freezing. READ MORE

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