“I’ve had representatives of those groups come and testify on other issues. But you know, it just occurred to me, I’m gonna boycott them”

Posted on June 23, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
‘Disgusted’: Congressional Human Rights Chair Announces Boycott of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch Over Israel Treatment
Andrew Bernard
June 22, 2023

The chairman of the Congressional subcommittee responsible for human rights announced on Thursday that he would boycott representatives from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from testifying before his committee because of their position that Israel is an “apartheid” state. Speaking at a hearing on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in the UN, the Palestinian Authority and NGOs, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, said he was “disgusted” by the two human rights organizations…“To sit there and take that type of language and smear Israel with it is appalling and Human Rights Watch is doing the exact same thing.” READ MORE

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Israeli officials sought to ensure that UN report, which documents those who kill and main children in armed conflicts, did not falsely accuse Jewish State

Posted on June 23, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
After broad lobbying effort, UN leaves Israel off child-killer ‘list of shame’
Mike Wagenheim
June 23, 2023

Following a lobbying campaign by Israeli officials, the United Nations left the Jewish State off of its list intended to shame nations, whose armed forces do harm to large numbers of children. The United Nations distributed its annual report on the treatment of children in conflict zones to members of the U.N. Security Council on June 22. It is expected to release the report publicly on June 27. Israel has never been listed, but Palestinians and their allies pressured U.N. officials to flag the Jewish State this year, after it received a 2021 warning. READ MORE

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Judges presiding over PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s trial informed prosecutors that they would struggle to prove bribery in corruption charge

Posted on June 23, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Supporters blast Netanyahu trial after report shows bribery case falling apart
Michael Starr
June 23, 2023

After a report was published claiming that a bribery charge against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was collapsing, the Likud leader’s political allies showed their support of him on Thursday evening, attacking the corruption trials against him. “After years of media and legal persecution against the prime minister, a persecution that has turned an entire country, today the judges also say clearly that there is no chance of a conviction for bribery,” said Education Minister Yoav Kisch in response to a Channel 12 report about a secret meeting about Case 4000 between the judges, State Attorney’s Office representatives, and Netanyahu and Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch’s lawyers. READ MORE

YNET Drama in Netanyahu trial: ‘You would struggle to prove bribery,’ judges tell prosecutors Presiding judges advise prosecutors to opt for mediation, Channel 13 reports; PM still has to contend with charges of fraud and breach of trust even if bribery charge dropped

DNYUZ The Hollywood Producer Who Could Bring Down Israel’s Netanyahu The life story of Arnon Milchan, billionaire Hollywood mogul and secret agent, could have been made for the silver screen: He produced blockbusters like “Pretty Woman,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and also made a fortune from arms dealing, including covert exploits procuring weapons for Israel, his native country.

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We now know that Obama and his team worked in parallel or together with sympathetic Israeli officials to block Netanyahu from launching an Israeli strike in the period 2009-12

Posted on June 21, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Biden’s Ties That Bind
Michael Doran
June 20, 2023

…Biden officials regard Netanyahu as their bête noire not simply because he openly objects to their approach or because he sides with Republicans, but because he is better positioned than anyone else to expose the egregious flaws of the strategy they favor, which is based on the assumptions that accommodation with Iran is both possible and in the American interest. Netanyahu is that rarest of things: a foreign leader to whom Americans directly listen as if he were one of their own. Israeli military capabilities amplify his voice and embarrass the administration. Starting with Obama himself, supporters of the Iran realignment have never been open and honest with the American people about their true convictions. READ MORE

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“This is an opportunity for the PA to reassert itself in Gaza as a government that provides for the people”

Posted on June 21, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
Israel green-lights Gaza offshore gas development
June 18, 2023

The Israeli government gave the Palestinian Authority and Egypt a green-light on June 18 to develop a natural gas field off the Gaza Strip’s shore on condition that Israel’s national interests are safeguarded. Located about 22 miles out in Mediterranean waters, Gaza Marine is believed to hold about 1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, more than enough to cover Palestinians’ energy needs and provide them with a measure of economic independence. But the prospect’s development has been held up for years given the geopolitical combustibility of Gaza, which is ruled by Hamas, an Islamist terrorist group at loggerheads with the Palestinian Authority. READ MORE

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In March, Biden declared that he would not meet with Netanyahu, even after the latter suspended his judicial reforms

Posted on June 21, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Amb. Friedman: It’s ‘Despicable’ that Biden Won’t Meet Netanyahu
Joel B. Pollak
June 15, 2023

“This idea that Biden can get away with not meeting with Netanyahu. … One the one hand we preach about democracy and how important it is, and [yet] we refuse to meet with Israel’s democratic leaders,” he said. Friedman was one of the most consequential ambassadors to Israel in U.S. history, playing a key role in forging the Abraham Accords, a series of peace agreements between Israel and several Arab states in the region. Friedman blamed the leadership of the American Jewish community for the impasse as well, because it had joined the Israeli left in condemning Netanyahu’s proposed judicial reforms, and had not criticized Biden. READ MORE

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When the initiative was launched, people from all over Israel donated more than 1,500 books, which were then distributed

Posted on June 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
Israel: Curbing crime in Arab society through knowledge
Caroline Haïat
June 22, 2023

While more than 100 murder victims have been recorded in the Arab community in Israel since the beginning of the year, a project that restores hope, focused on culture and knowledge, has been set up in the Negev, southern Israel. It was organized by Kaid Abu Latif on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, the largest of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam, which will take place next Wednesday. The project of collecting books and distributing them to families in need was carried out in cooperation with the community center of the Bedouin city of Rahat. “Following the frightening increase in the crime rate in Arab society, it was necessary to give a coherent response to what is happening. READ MORE

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A network of scholars has released statements noting that the resolution is “misguided, aimed at the wrong target, and will have absolutely no impact upon the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”

Posted on June 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Will an Anthropology Faculty Group Become a Political Tool to Boycott and Attack Israel?
Miriam F. Elman
June 19, 2023

At a time of rising antisemitism on campus, why is a professional academic association, headquartered in Virginia, poised to embark on a course of action that will further marginalize and alienate Jewish students and potentially contribute to more anti-Jewish hatred and harassment? On June 15, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) opened a membership-wide referendum on a proposed resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions…The vast majority of scholarly societies and academic organizations, like the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), recognize that such a measure runs afoul of the bedrock principles and core mission of the academy. READ MORE

A joint statement issued by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), and the Alliance for Academic Freedom (AAF) has been endorsed by more than 100 city-wide, state-wide, national, and international educational, Jewish, and civil rights organizations from across the political spectrum. Click here to sign the petition condemning AAA’s Proposed Academic Boycott of Israel

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Bibi: “There are 10 military battalions training for this thing. Although it is still not enough, they are preparing exactly for this day”

Posted on June 20, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Netanyahu says IDF preparing in case Arab Israelis join enemy in wartime
June 20, 2023

…Lawmakers asked Netanyahu if Israel was ready for a multi-front war, and whether that included preparations for a possible internal threat from certain segments of the Arab Israeli population. Israel became aware of the possible danger during “Operation Guardian of the Walls” in May 2021. While Israel was engaged in a military operation against terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Arabs within Israel rioted, blocking roads, including those leading to army bases. Twenty-three police stations were also damaged, and about 300 policemen were injured. In response, the IDF incorporated scenarios in which rioting hampered the movement of Israeli forces during wartime in its “Chariots of Fire” exercise in May-June 2022. READ MORE

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Sharansky: Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it his business to demonize Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish background to cast Ukraine as the Nazis

Posted on June 16, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Ukraine-Russia War: Putin not antisemitic, demonizes Zelensky
Zivka Klein
June 19, 2023

…“Putin is not antisemitic, isn’t an antisemite, on the contrary, he sympathizes with Jews for many reasons but he is now building a new dictatorship,” Sharansky explained. He elaborated that Putin has made it his business to demonize Zelensky’s Jewish background since he wishes to return to the days when the Red Army of the Former Soviet Union freed the world from the Nazis…Russia is returning to the “period of the Iron Curtain that forbids people to say what they think or want,” Sharansky continued, adding that “Russia ‘limits freedom.’ There are four times more Jewish who have left Putin’s Russia than Zelensky’s Ukraine.” READ MORE

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