The US-Qatar relationship is in dire need of a reset, and Israel’s recent actions provide a great opportunity to do just that

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

THE NATIONAL INTEREST
Following Israel’s Strike in Qatar, Trump Should Reset the US-Qatar Relationship
Natalie Ecanow
September 17, 2025

Washington can’t seem to quit Qatar. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made that much clear when he departed Israel for Doha on September 15. Speaking to members of the press, Rubio doubled down on the administration’s view that “Qatar can play a very key role” in negotiating an end to the war in Gaza. Nearly two years have passed since the White House tapped Doha to mediate between Hamas and Israel. Despite repeated failures at the negotiating table, successive US administrations have refused to sideline Qatar, a longtime sponsor of Hamas that has repeatedly  blamed Israel for the war the terrorist group started. Israel issued a stark reminder of the patronage Qatar has offered Hamas when it targeted the terror group’s leadership in Doha on September 9. READ MORE

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“The difference between chaos and civilization is not wealth or culture, but whether disputes are resolved by civil discourse and law rather than by force”

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA.ORG
Op-Ed by CAMERA CEO: What Charlie Kirk’s Murder Means for Democracy
Kurt Schwartz
September 15, 2025

…I spent years in homeland security and law enforcement, working to prevent violence and protect communities here at home. I saw firsthand how fragile order can be during the Boston Marathon bombing, when I witnessed the explosions and then helped manage the response and recovery when civic celebration on Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts was turned into carnage. That experience showed me what I have seen again and again in my career as a police officer, prosecutor and homeland security and emergency management leader; the difference between chaos and civilization is not wealth or culture, but whether disputes are resolved by civil discourse and law rather than by force. Law is the invisible contract that lets ordinary people speak freely, raise families and live without fear. Strip it away, and the violent abuse the peaceful, the strong prey upon the weak, the loud silence the thoughtful and society reverts to philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s description: nasty, brutish and short. READ MORE

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Spare us: ‘I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel,’ said a very brave actress at the Emmys. She then got an endorsement from Hamas.

Posted on September 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
What Nobody Said at the Emmys
Suzy Weiss
September 15, 2025

“Go, Birds, fuck ICE, and free Palestine.” That’s how the actress Hannah Einbinder ended her acceptance speech for her first Emmy last night. (She played a struggling writer in the HBO show Hacks.) When pressed by reporters to expand on that final point, Einbinder, in her silvery gown, with the self-righteousness of a million actresses before her, explained that it was her sacred duty as a Jew, and as the newest Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, to call out the Jewish state. “I thought it was important to talk about Palestine because it’s an issue that’s very dear to my heart,” she said, her co-star Jean Smart by her side. “I feel like it is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel, because our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing. . . institution that is really separate to this sort of ethno-nationalist state. READ MORE

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Israel’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, called the report “scandalous” and “fake,” saying it had been authored by “Hamas proxies”

Posted on September 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
The U.N. Genocide Report Against Israel Is an Assault on Critical Thinking
John Spencer
September 17, 2025

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s latest report on Gaza, which concludes Israel is committing a genocide, is a case study in how international bodies can dress propaganda in the language of law. Presented as a “legal analysis” from a trio led by Navi Pillay, the former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, anyone who reads the text with even a modest degree of critical thinking will see that it is not an impartial investigation. It is an advocacy document that begins with a verdict and works backward, collecting fragments of information that support its claim while excluding anything that would complicate or contradict it. The most surprising aspect of the report is not what it claims, but what it omits. READ MORE

JPOST UN overwhelmingly approves Palestinian statehood resolution as Israel calls it ‘theatre’ The proposal, initiated by France and Saudi Arabia, was approved as part of the New York conference held in July.

US DEPARTMENT OF STATE Marco Rubio: Sanctioning Foreign NGOs Directly Engaged in ICC’s Illegitimate Targeting of Israel Today, I am designating three foreign NGOs—Al Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Al Mezan), and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)—pursuant to Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court.” These entities have directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute Israeli nationals, without Israel’s consent. This administration has been clear: the United States and Israel are not party to the Rome Statute and are therefore not subject to the ICC’s authority. 

ARUTZ SHEVA UNIFIL’s well-earned obituary After 49 years and $6 billion in US taxpayer funding, UNIFIL, the so-called UN peacekeeping force in Southern Lebanon, is disbanding. Under a U.S.-led compromise in the Security Council, UNIFIL’s 10,000 troops will exit by the end of 2027. This is UNIFIL’s first obituary. Over its nearly half-century tenure UNIFIL has not saved lives. Its weakness, incompetence, corruption, and complicity with terror have cost lives, including 47 Israeli civilians and 82 soldiers in the war sparked by Hezbollah’s October 7, 2023 attacks. 

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“With antisemitism still raging throughout America, Jewish leaders — executive directors, CEOs and rabbis — are increasingly at risk as the public face of their institutions and movements.”

Posted on September 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
In an emerging ‘assassination culture,’ Jewish leaders need added protection, experts say
Jay Deitcher
September 12, 2025

America is entering into an “assassination culture,” the Network Contagion Research Institute and Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab warned earlier this year, with political violence becoming increasingly common and justified by a growing segment of the population, particularly on the extreme left. “Given the current economic volatility and institutional distrust, the online normalization of political violence may increasingly translate into offline action,” the groups wrote in an April report, largely based on the killing of Brian Thompson, a UnitedHealthcare CEO, who was shot in Midtown Manhattan last December, and the assassination attempt against President Donald Trump last June. Their prediction has since proven tragically accurate. READ MORE

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“I Will Not Forget the Gaslighting—- I want to express my burning contempt for the social media charade that I and every other conservative just had to endure…”

Posted on September 12, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
The Left’s Appalling Disinformation Campaign Surrounding Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Jeffrey Blehar
September 16, 2025

…As each new detail trickled out, and the killer’s transgender associations became clearer and clearer, the hysterical spin and assertions of blunt unreality mounted. Cynical pros began inserting outright lies into the mix, as partisan myrmidons took up their work and used it in desperate, craven attempts to either spin facts in ridiculous ways (“his parents are Republicans!”) or simply pretend the facts weren’t “facts” at all. All of it was done with the intent of trying to will into existence — through the spread of fear, uncertainty, and doubt — an alternate narrative whose intended moral calculus amounted to, in so many words, Charlie Kirk was killed by his own team, and this is actually your fault. So, no, I’m not about to move on just yet….Now that the gaslighting has become impossible to sustain, the left has moved on to its last line of defense: “Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed whom.” READ MORE

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As many Jewish leaders faltered in Israel’s darkest hours, one Christian activist spoke with the moral clarity and courage they abandoned.

Posted on September 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW ZIONIST TIMES
Charlie Kirk: A Righteous Evangel for Israel
Bob Goldberg
September 11, 2025

There was a time when the defense of Israel was the sacred duty of Jewish leadership—a duty carried out with eloquence, courage, and intellectual rigor. Today, too many of those who inherit that mantle retreat into conferences, commissions, and foundation boardrooms, content to issue statements no one reads and convene panels no one remembers. They lament antisemitism like aging thespians rehearsing lines from plays long past, all while the stage of history burns around them. Worse, many have abandoned Israel in its darkest hours and bravest moments—and after October 7, some even linked arms with the very forces seeking to destroy America and wipe Israel off the map. Enter Charlie Kirk, a man with neither pedigree nor portfolio in the established Jewish world, who has spoken, written, and organized on behalf of Israel with more force, reach, and moral passion than the entire retinue of salaried Jewish “leaders” who confuse grant applications with activism. READ MORE

ALLISRAEL NEWS ‘Lion-hearted friend of Israel’ – Charlie Kirk’s support for Israel was motivated by his love for Jesus and the Bible Following a public debate during the Student Action Summit (SAS) event earlier this year, after several anti-Israel and antisemitic comments were made during a debate between Dave Smith and Josh Hammer over the U.S.’s support for Israel, Kirk said, “There’s this dark Jew hate out there, and you see it, and I see it. I hate it. It’s not good. And everyone in this audience, guys, don’t get yourself involved in that. I’m telling you, it will rot your brain. It’s bad for your soul. It’s bad. It’s evil. I think it’s demonic.”

YOUTUBE J-TV Charlie Kirk silences anti-Israel Cambridge Student

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This “oppressor versus oppressed” binary makes Israel automatically the villain. The narrative requires it: Israel strong, Hamas weak.

Posted on September 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MORNING MUSINGS
Six Jews Were Murdered in Cold Blood Today: I Blame You
Peter Himmelman
September 8, 2025

…These were not soldiers. They were not “legitimate targets.” They were regular human beings, murdered because they were Jews. And yet even in the face of these murders, the same narrative persists, the one that excuses or explains away Jewish blood when it’s spilled. And because of your tacit or overt support for Hamas and their radical Islamist ilk, I also blame you for the deaths of innocent Gazans. I never went to college. That’s not a boast or a lament, just a fact. There are disadvantages to skipping higher education, but one advantage stands out: I wasn’t spoon-fed the ideological gruel that passes for wisdom on so many campuses. Chief among these doctrines is the crude formula: downtrodden = virtuous, successful = damned. That lens has warped the thinking of artists, journalists, intellectuals—and much of the music industry I’ve spent my life in. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Six killed, 6 seriously injured in Jerusalem as terrorists open fire on bus, pedestrians Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction. The two gunmen, residents of the West Bank, arrived at the junction shortly after 10 a.m. — according to some reports, by car — and opened fire at people waiting at a bus stop as well at a bus that had just stopped there. Police said that a soldier and a number of civilians who were present at the scene fired at the terrorists and killed them.

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: Too many people still don’t understand Palestinian culture When a Palestinian drives his car into civilians at a bus stop or when a teenager pulls a knife on Jewish pedestrians, it is rarely described as terrorism. Instead, the world is fed euphemisms: a “lone wolf,” a “response to occupation” — as though stabbing strangers were a form of political dialogue. In such coverage, Jewish victims are reduced to footnotes, their humanity erased by framing that turns killers into “resistance fighters” and the dead into mere consequences. But this pattern is not new. Palestinian terrorism against Jews is part of a long, unbroken continuum of violence that stretches back more than a century.

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“The conservative star was murdered under one of those tents where he defended freedom—his, and all of ours”

Posted on September 10, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
The Charlie Kirk I Knew
Adam Rubenstein
September 10, 2025

…If I had to use a single word to capture him, it would be gracious. We could disagree about anything—and we did—but he would, without fail, engage civilly and explain his point of view. He did not do this, as many do, to make himself feel smart. He did it so he could share the other side of something he cared about. And he cared deeply. That’s the spirit he took to the hundreds of campuses he visited. Not denunciation. Not shouting down. Never an insult. He sought to debate ideas, and did so in hostile territory. Charlie all but recreated the public town square on these campuses with a tent and an irrepressible smile in an era where many people of his generation can’t look up from their phones…He had a mission. It filled him with meaning. And that, above all, was why he convinced countless young people to listen to him, to change their lives for the better, to stand up for things that used to be called common sense. READ MORE

JNS Melanie Phillips: A shocking watershed for America The reaction by liberals to the murder of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk displays the same twisted thinking as their demonization of Israel.

BEN SHAPIRO PODCAST Breaking: Charlie Kirk, 31, Assassinated But something has happened in our country that is so massively and unbelievably horrifying and dangerous. The murder of a young, beautiful person for the crime of speaking freely and passionately about the topics that matter is just beyond me. It’s beyond, I think, all of us. And it’s a symptom of a broader ill in American society, an ill that says that politics are bloodsport, that if you challenge ideas, that you’re challenging somebody’s existence and therefore you are fair game to be murdered, in cold blood, in public, in front of everyone.

NEW YORK POST Comedy Central pulls ‘South Park’ episode mocking Charlie Kirk after assassination Comedy Central has pulled a controversial “South Park” episode that parodied Charlie Kirk after the conservative activist was gunned down at a Utah college on Wednesday. The Paramount Skydance-owned network quietly removed the rerun of the episode “Got a Nut” from its cable lineup Wednesday night, just hours after Kirk, 31, was shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University.

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“Israel has assessed that the additional bodies found in the building, reported in Arab media as “unidentified,” are not those of senior officials”

Posted on September 9, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Israel’s attack against Hamas in Qatar was successful.
Joshua Hoffman
September 9, 2025

On Tuesday, Israel carried out an unprecedented airstrike in the Qatari capital of Doha, targeting what intelligence suggested was a high-level Hamas meeting. The strike reportedly aimed to eliminate Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya and other senior Hamas leaders as they discussed a U.S.-backed proposal for a hostages-for-ceasefire agreement. According to Hamas, none of the top leaders were killed, though Israel has not confirmed the extent of casualties. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani vowed retaliation, declaring that the strike “killed any hope” for the Israeli hostages, and threatened to pursue legal action against Israel, while condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At first glance, Israel’s strike appears inconclusive, even unsuccessful. READ MORE

JPOST Growing assessment that no senior Hamas officials killed in Doha, Israeli official tells ‘Post Israel has assessed that the additional bodies found in the building, reported in Arab media as “unidentified,” are not those of senior officials.

MIDDLE EAST FORUM The Reckoning in Doha: Why Israel’s Strike Against Hamas Was Both Justified and Overdue The Explosions That Shattered the Morning Calm in Doha’s Katara District on September 9, 2025, Marked a Restoration of Moral Clarity in Warfare

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