“There are two actors in the world who believe that conquering Gaza City will bring about Hamas’ defeat and the end of the war: the first is Benjamin Netanyahu. The second, ironically, is Hamas”

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Who’s crazy?
Amit Segal
September 19, 2025

… Now, Hamas operatives are streaming into Gaza City for what they perceive as the ultimate battle. Hamas’ view is that Israel has gone mad, that Netanyahu has gone mad. Where are the Jews who used to surrender when hostages were on the other side? Where are the Jews who avoided operating in an urban zone with hundreds of thousands of civilians? Amongst Hamas’ external leadership, spirits are high after the failed assassination attempt in Doha. But in Hamas ranks inside Gaza, there’s silence in order to preserve operational security, alongside widespread hysteria ahead of the IDF’s conquest of Gaza City. And afterwards? Netanyahu believes the fall of the strip’s capital would be like the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE. Masada and a few other outposts would remain, but the war would be decided. READ MORE

JPOST ‘Another painful heartbreak that grips an entire nation’: Officials mourn four slain IDF soldiers Israel mourned the loss of four “heroic fighters” who died in combat in Rafah on Thursday.  The soldiers were named as Major Omri Chai Ben Moshe, 26, from Tzafriya; Lieutenant Ron Arieli, 20, from Hadera; Lieutenant Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, 22, from Har Brakha; and Lieutenant Eran Shelem, 23, from Ramat Yohanan. They were killed in Rafah when their Hummer transport vehicle ran over an improvised explosive on Thursday morning. Three other soldiers were injured. 

TIMES OF ISRAEL Two soldiers killed by knifeman driving Gaza-bound aid truck at West Bank-Jordan crossing Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack near Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Thursday. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian aid truck headed for the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator arrived at Allenby Crossing from the Jordanian side at around 3 p.m., driving a truck transporting humanitarian aid intended for the Gaza Strip. Upon his arrival, he opened fire at soldiers at the crossing with a handgun, before the truck could be inspected, a preliminary military investigation found.

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“Tucker positions himself as a skeptic, who is generously open to revisionist theories and questioning, and lets his guests do the dirty work of talking about “Zionist minders””

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Netanyahu slams ‘insane’ conspiracy theories linking Israel to Charlie Kirk’s death, says lies could be Qatari-funded
David Propper
September 18, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed wild conspiracy theories that his government was involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination — floating the idea that the lies could be Qatari-funded. “Somebody has fabricated a monstrous big lie — that Israel had something to do with Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder,” he said in a social media video posted Wednesday morning Israeli time. “This is insane, it is false, it is outrageous. Netanyahu said Kirk loved Israel and the Jewish people, and had sent a supportive letter to the Israeli leader recently before his death. “Now, if Charlie disagreed with a policy of mine or a decision here and there, not only did I not mind, I welcomed it,” Netanyahu said. READ MORE

AMERICAN REFUGEES  Roger Simon: Soul Corruption: Tucker, Candace & Steve
The best we can say for the new Tucker is that he is not as whacked-out as Candace Owens. Candace has become the poster woman for something we might call ICI or “Internet-Caused Insanity,” the lust for more and more online notoriety until your brains explode. Every day it’s something new. Brigitte Macron is a man. Stalin is Jewish. Now it’s the Jews who killed or coerced Charlie (hard to tell with Candace who appears to be dodging another defamation suit in her phrasing—one’s enough).

TABLET MAG Op Nation: Why Tucker Carlson became America’s conspiracist-in-chief The similarities between Obama’s politics and Tucker Carlson’s hardly stop at America’s shores. Both men are suspicious of U.S. ties to Israel, and seek to position the U.S. as sympathetic to Muslim terrorists who kill Americans. Both men feel entirely comfortable doing business with tyrants like Vladimir Putin and with Holocaust-denying theocracies like Iran. Both men share a common dislike for Winston Churchill, whose bust was removed from the White House under Obama, and whom Carlson has recently painted as the chief villain of World War II. Both men use polite euphemisms like “Likudnik” and “Zionist” to license overt antisemitism among their followers.

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Israel announces operational deployment of Iron Beam, the world’s first high-energy laser defense system ready for combat

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Breakthrough: Israel’s ‘Iron Beam’ Laser Defense System Operational, Intercepts Missiles at Near-Zero Cost
Joshua Klein
September 17, 2025

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense, confirmed completion of final development trials for the Iron Beam 450, demonstrating the ability to intercept rockets, mortars, and drones “with unmatched speed, precision, and near-zero cost per engagement.” Defense Minister Israel Katz called the achievement a “historic milestone” and emphasized its strategic significance…The economic implications are stark. Each Iron Dome interceptor costs roughly $50,000, while an Iron Beam laser shot costs around $5. READ MORE

IT’S NOON IN ISRAEL Israel Will Soon Have 100% Protection From Missiles “With a laser we destroy the target essentially by a beam of light, by rays of light that travel at 300,000 km [185,000 miles] per second,” Steinitz said. “The moment the target is seen, it is destroyed…But within five years, he believes Israel will also have a laser that can intercept ballistic missiles from Iran and Yemen.

JNS Israel becomes first nation to deploy ‘historic’ laser defense system The former strategic affairs minister said that after 60 years in which all the world powers, led by the United States and including Israel, tried to create laser weapons and failed, “there was a breakthrough at Rafael five years ago that allowed us to create the world’s first effective laser weapon.” “In the last war, both in Lebanon and in the 12 days [of fighting] against Iran, a single laser device—the smallest of our devices—shot down dozens of drones, with exceptional success rates,” he went on to say.

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“Even those who listen to the white nationalist Nick Fuente support Israel by a one-point margin, 38 to 37 percent”

Posted on September 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
MAGA Youth Remain Pro-Israel, Free Beacon Poll Shows
Eliana Johnson
September 16, 2025

The kids are alright: Influencers like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes may be popular among young conservatives, but their anti-Israel views aren’t, a Washington Free Beacon-Echelon Insights poll found. Of the 1,000 young conservatives and Trump voters surveyed, an overwhelming majority have a positive view of Israel and support Donald Trump’s handling of the U.S.-Israel relationship. For all their fulminating against the Jewish state, 54 percent of Carlson’s listeners and 58 percent of Owens’s listeners have a favorable view of the Jewish state, suggesting that young people may be tuning in, but they aren’t being persuaded. READ MORE

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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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