For Washington, joint planning might work as a guarantee that there would be no surprises from Jerusalem

Posted on May 18, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
U.S. proposes joint military planning with Israel on Iran
Jonathan Regev
May 18, 2023

America offered joint military planning to Israel, in regards to Iran. But some officials in Jerusalem are hesitant to accept, according to some Israeli media. On paper, what’s being offered sounds good…but, apparently, the concern is that it might tie Israel’s hands if it decides to act while the U.S. opposes such action. “One of the main concerns of the United States is that Israel might act alone militarily and this is something that the United States does not want to happen,” remarked Danny Ayalon, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, “being together neck to neck or shoulder to shoulder with Israel means they will know exactly if and when Israel will act.” READ MORE

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Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount raised Israeli flags and sang “Hatikva” at the site

Posted on May 18, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
WATCH: 50,000 join Jerusalem Day flag march, scuffles erupt in Old City
Tzvi Joffre
May 18, 2023

About 50,000 Israelis gathered in Jerusalem for the Jerusalem Day flag march on Thursday, with police working throughout the day to break up scuffles that broke out between Jews, Arabs and journalists. The march was conducted on its traditional route, departing from the center of the city along King George and Agron streets before splitting into two, with men continuing through Damascus Gate and the Muslim Quarter and women continuing through Jaffa Gate before meeting up again at the Western Wall. A number of Jews carrying Israeli flags headed to the Damascus Gate area ahead of the flag march, with scuffles breaking out in the area between Jews, Arabs and police. READ MORE

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While Islamic Jihad fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in response, Hamas – with a rocket arsenal estimated at four times the size – stayed on the sidelines, apparently unwilling to see a repeat of the fierce 10-day conflict it fought in May 2021

Posted on May 18, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Why Hamas was not Israel’s target in Gaza airstrikes – this time
Nidal Al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie
May 18, 2023

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left familiar images of towering spirals of smoke and wailing sirens but none of the buildings left in rubble by the jets belonged to its main enemy, Hamas. Instead, the strikes targeted the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad, killing six senior commanders who Israel said had planned and carried out attacks on Israelis, and destroying dozens of rocket silos, mortars and tunnels across Gaza. READ MORE

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Twitter CEO’s post led to a “flood” of antisemitic conspiracy theories on the platform

Posted on May 17, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Musk tweet about Soros had ‘antisemitic flavor,’ says Israeli official
May 17, 2023

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday criticized a tweet by Twitter CEO Elon Musk accusing Jewish billionaire George Soros of conspiring against humanity. Foreign Ministry Director of Digital Diplomacy David Saranga stopped short of accusing Musk of antisemitism, but said that his remark had “an antisemitic flavor.” In a follow-up tweet to an original post comparing the 92-year-old American Holocaust survivor to the Marvel Comics villain Magneto, Musk accused Soros of conspiring against civilization itself. READ MORE

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The contemporary Nakba narrative is a masterpiece of ahistorical distortion and antisemitic propaganda. It casts the events of 75 years ago as a monstrous crime successfully committed by Jews against Palestinians

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

BOSTON GLOBE
The real origin of the Palestinians’ catastrophe
Jeff Jacoby
May 14, 2023

MAY 15 IS the anniversary of Israel’s birth in 1948. It is also the date on which Palestinians in recent years have commemorated their Nakba, or “catastrophe.” The events of 1948 were indeed catastrophic for the Arab refugees, perhaps as many as 700,000, who fled their homes to escape the war that raged after Israel proclaimed its independence. But the Nakba was self-inflicted. Contrary to the mythology promoted in many quarters today, the war that created the refugees was not launched by the infant Jewish state in order to drive the Arabs out. It was launched by the Arabs to smother that infant in its crib. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM WATCH: 75 years of Nakba lies that define today’s Israeli-Palestinian conflict Brooke Goldstein, the executive director and founder of The Lawfare Project, which seeks to raise awareness about the abuse of Western legal systems and human rights law, explains why the narrative that casts Israel’s creation as a “catastrophe” for the Arabs is replete with falsehoods.

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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad hide behind their own children, using them as human shields

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel calls off Gaza strike after detecting Palestinian children
May 11, 2023

The Israel Defense Forces called off an airstrike on Palestinian Islamic Jihad assets in the Gaza Strip so as not to put at risk two children identified in the area at the last moment, the IDF revealed on Thursday. Hamas and PIJ have long been known to build and store terrorist infrastructure in, around and under schools, hospitals, mosques and other civilian sites in Gaza, to shield its assets from Israeli strikes and from which to launch missile attacks against Israeli population centers. In December, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency revealed the presence of a “man-made cavity” found beneath a school in Gaza. The structure, said UNRWA, “is a serious violation of the agency’s neutrality and a breach of international law. Moreover, it exposes children and agency staff to significant security and safety risks.” READ MORE

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“In violating the UN Charter and violently seeking to prevent the implementation of Resolution 181, the Arab coalition in 1948 was also attempting to block the first major UN effort at peacemaking in an international conflict”

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

UNHERD
The UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba
Shany Mor
May 15, 2023

…The political evolution of the word nakba in the decades following 1948 is the story of how a defeat was refashioned into an injustice. The high point of this process was 50 years later in 1998, when a newly formed Palestinian Authority turned the date most associated with the Nakba, 15th May, into an official national day of commemoration, eagerly adopted by pro-Palestinian partisans. The transmutation of the Arabs’ failed effort to wipe out the Jewish state into their own cosmic tragedy, together with the adoption of this counter-narrative by intellectuals and self-styled humanitarians in the West, is noteworthy in itself. But for the UN, and the General Assembly specifically, to play along is particularly ironic for a number of reasons. READ MORE

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In advance of Jerusalem Day, marking 56 years since the city’s unification, the Magazine brings you a tapestry of 10 of Jerusalem’s iconic places and people

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Jerusalem Day: 10 iconic must-see spots in Israel’s capital
Peggy Cidor
May 13, 2023

Jerusalem is not only the eternal capital of Israel and the Jewish people, but it is also a center of three religions, with the hearts of millions focused on it every day. In addition to its stones and sacred pillars, and political challenges, it’s a city that over the years has grown to about one million inhabitants. In advance of Jerusalem Day, marking 56 years since the city’s unification, the Magazine brings you a tapestry of 10 of Jerusalem’s iconic places and people, in alphabetical order. READ MORE

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The new limited series follows elusive Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh’s rise from the slums of South Beirut to his mysterious killing in Syria in 2008

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Showtime’s ‘Ghosts of Beirut’ examines CIA-Mossad op that brought down one of world’s most elusive terrorists
Gabby Deutch
May 16, 2023

Imad Mughniyeh is the most famous terrorist you’ve never heard of. That’s the premise of “Ghosts of Beirut,” a new limited series from Showtime that traces the elusive Hezbollah leader’s rise from the slums of South Beirut to his mysterious killing in Syria in 2008. He orchestrated attacks that killed hundreds, and pioneered suicide bombs as a brutal method to shock and sow chaos. The full story of Mughniyeh’s death, which was long assumed to have been masterminded by the CIA and the Mossad, remains classified by the intelligence agencies. So the series’ creators — “Fauda” creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz, Emmy-winning documentary producer Greg Barker, and “All Quiet on the Western Front” producer Daniel Dreifuss — offer what the show’s title sequence calls “a fictional account of deeply researched events.” READ MORE

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The Jewish community relations umbrella group has broken from the Federations, and has now chosen a veteran of J Street and progressive Democratic politics.

Posted on May 12, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The JCPA will fight for the hard left, not Jewish interests
Jonathan S. Tobin
May 10, 2023

Perhaps it was inevitable. The partisan split among American Jews is such that the majority of them are loyal Democratic voters and lean to the left on most issues. So, having the group that purports to best represent Jewish interests shed even the pretense of nonpartisanship or interest in speaking for every segment of the community may have always been in the cards. Yet now that it’s happened, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs has made it clear that it is not just at home among liberal Democrats but aligned with the hard-left progressive wing of that party, the correct response to this shouldn’t be indifference. By hiring Amy Spitalnick, a former staffer for J Street and Democratic politicians like former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the group has sent a clear message to the rest of the Jewish world about its priorities. READ MORE

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