GHF confirms eight-year-old Gazan boy falsely reported dead by ex-contractor is alive and safe, exposing fabricated claims and lies, including Tucker Carlson’s breathless coverage

Posted on September 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

THE DAILY WIRE
Viral Story Of Gaza Child ‘Gunned Down’ By Israel Officially Debunked — The Boy Is Alive
Kassy Akiva
September 4, 2025

The viral claim that a Gazan boy was “gunned down” by Israel’s military inside a U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site is false. The Daily Wire has exclusively confirmed that “Amir” is alive — and in a safe, undisclosed location after a false tale about his death was spread by an American contractor. The news that the boy is alive and unharmed debunks the claim made by former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) contractor Tony Aguilar, who has garnered attention from politicians, major media outlets, and prominent podcasts such as the Tucker Carlson Show. The child, who was erroneously labeled “Amir” by Aguilar but is actually named Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, can be seen in footage obtained by The Daily Wire smiling and introducing himself to an interviewer. Aguilar set the internet ablaze with his claim that he met the boy while working at a GHF aid site on May 28, only to see him killed shortly after by the Israel Defense Forces. READ MORE

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“That Spain’s PM would threaten to use nuclear weapons against Israel demonstrates how deranged Sanchez has become in his anti-Israel activism”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FDD
U.S. Slams Spanish Arms Embargo on Israel as Prime Minister Sanchez Laments Lack of Nuclear Weapons to Stop Gaza War
September 11, 2025

The State Department expressed concerns over Spain’s decision to impose an arms ban on Israel, saying the “measures embolden terrorists.” A spokesperson for the department stated that it was “deeply concerning that Spain, a NATO member, has chosen to potentially limit U.S. operations and to turn its back on Israel on the same day six individuals were killed in Jerusalem.” …..Spain’s Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faced close scrutiny after he appeared to express regret that Spain lacks nuclear weapons to counter Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. “Spain, as you know, doesn’t have nuclear bombs, aircraft carriers, or large oil reserves,” Sanchez stated on September 10. “We alone can’t stop the Israeli offensive. But that doesn’t mean we won’t stop trying.” READ MORE

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October 6, 2023: “On the phone call that afternoon, the consensus was that nothing was out of the ordinary”

Posted on September 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEWSWEEK
‘While Israel Slept’ Exposes How IDF Missed Hamas Plans for Oct. 7 Attack
Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot
August 27, 2025

When Hamas invaded Israel on the morning of October 7, 2023, the country was unprepared for the onslaught. Before the Israeli military could regain control, Hamas fighters had killed around 1,200 people and took about 250 more hostage—approximately 50 of whom are still being held, 20 of which are still thought to be alive in captivity almost two years later. For a country on constant alert to threats from its neighbors on all sides, how was Israel’s military caught by surprise? That’s the question former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post Yaakov Katz and military and defense journalist Amir Bohbot interrogate in their new book, While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East. Their book offers an analysis of the massive failure, with the goal of highlighting lessons that should be learned going forward. In this exclusive excerpt, Bohbot and Katz revisit the night before the attack, examining how Israeli intelligence could have prevented the invasion. READ MORE

JPOST NYC protesters disrupt launch of former ‘Post’ editor’s book on Hamas attack Protests erupted on Wednesday outside the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in Manhattan during the launch of While Israel Slept, a book examining how Hamas managed to surprise Israel’s military on October 7, 2023. The evening, which was meant to showcase a conversation about one of Israel’s darkest days, was repeatedly interrupted as demonstrators sought to drown out the discussion.

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As a new documentary sheds light on Ada Karmi-Melamede’s life and work, her daughter, Yael, explores what it means to build beauty—and a legacy—in a fractured world

Posted on September 7, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Architect Shaping Israel’s Landmarks
Anna Rahmanan
September 09, 2025

In Israel, Ada Karmi-Melamede is architectural royalty. She codesigned the Supreme Court in Givat Ram, helped shape Ben Gurion Airport, and spent decades teaching and building on both sides of the Atlantic. However, for most of her career, she has been a woman in a man’s field. Although she is well known among Israelis, Karmi-Melamede’s legacy has remained surprisingly under-recognized in the United States. In a new documentary, her daughter, Yael Melamede, hopes to change that. Ada: My Mother the Architect, which premiered this May in New York and Los Angeles, is both an intimate portrait and a meditation on architecture as a life’s calling. Shot over several years, it follows Karmi-Melamede through her archives, buildings, and memories as she reflects on a career marked by quiet defiance and lasting impact. READ MORE

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The People’s Conference for Palestine gave terrorists and terror sympathizers a platform to speak

Posted on September 7, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Pro-Hamas US hatefest in Detroit reminds us of our enemy within
Editorial Board
September 4, 202

If you had any doubts about the true agenda of the “pro-Palestine” movement, just consider last weekend’s annual People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit. It was a gathering of martyrdom fetishists, Hamas supporters and antisemites, all bathing in an atmosphere of hate, rage and despair as they condemned Israel but reserved their deepest scorn for the United States. The focus was a kind of patriotism and love of country — for Palestine. No American flags were in sight, though a prominent “Glory to Our Martyrs” banner kept everyone mindful of their ultimate duty to the cause. READ MORE

HONEST REPORTING 10 Appalling Moments at the People’s Conference for Palestine 2025  The conference was filled with panelists and keynote speakers who expressed anti-Western sentiments, spoke about “intifada” as if it were an acceptable form of protest, called for an end to Zionism, and more. The language was militarized, negative, and sought to encourage “liberation” through violence and anger. Some of the speakers are terrorists, some terror sympathizers, and many regurgitated Hamas propaganda to thousands of people, including children, attending the conference. This was not an event that promoted peace and equality between Israel and the Palestinians, but one that incited hatred and encouraged violence.

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Asked during that interview whether Northwestern Qatar operates “in accordance with all Qatari laws,” Schill responded, “I believe it has to”

Posted on September 6, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Northwestern’s Contract With Qatar Forbids School From Criticizing Regime
Collin Anderson
September 5, 2025

Northwestern University’s contract with Hamas-allied Qatar, where the school operates a satellite campus, includes a clause that effectively forbids students and faculty from criticizing the Qatari regime, a House Committee on Education and Workforce interview with soon-to-be-former Northwestern University president Michael Schill revealed. The interview, which includes an extensive discussion of Northwestern’s contract with the regime-controlled Qatar Foundation, reveals the speech limitations to which universities submit when they operate in the Gulf state. READ MORE

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“The career of the retiring Manhattan congressman demonstrates the way partisan Democrats have abandoned support of Israel for leftist applause”

Posted on September 3, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Jerry Nadler and the moral collapse of American Jewish liberals
Jonathan Tobin
September 3, 2025

…Nadler showed that his priority was staying in sync with the leftist base of his party and not in defending Jews during the unprecedented surge in antisemitism post-Oct. 7. He defended prominent Jew-haters like Mahmoud Khalil, organizer of the pro-Hamas mobs at Columbia University, in his own district. He opposed administration efforts to force Columbia and other universities to end their toleration and encouragement of antisemitism on their campuses. And, even as he declared himself to still be a supporter of Israel, he joined those who were mainstreaming Hamas propaganda about the current war, as well as echoing the blood libels about the Jewish state and its government being guilty of mass slaughter and war crimes, even supporting an arms embargo on it. READ MORE

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“If other countries want to impose a Palestinian terror state on Israel, then Israel will have to do what it has to do”

Posted on September 3, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Israel has every right to annex the West Bank.
Joshua Hoffman
September 2, 2025

…The harsh truth is this: If Palestinians wanted their own state, they would have one by now. They have turned down every serious offer for peace and statehood — 1936, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2008, and 2014 — because every offer required accepting a Jewish state alongside them. The reality is that Palestinian leadership does not want a state of their own; they want the destruction of Israel. The infantilization of the Palestinian people by the global community — treating them as perpetual victims incapable of agency — is both absurd and insulting. They are not the only people in the world to face displacement or hardship, yet they are the only people treated as if they need other countries to do their bargaining and bidding for them. The Arab world controls one-sixth of the planet’s wealth, yet somehow Palestinians are uniquely helpless? READ MORE

VOICE OF ZION Reclaiming Every Inch: Judea, Samaria, Gaza – No Apologies For decades, the world – and weak-willed leaders among us – pressured Israel to compromise, to cede land, to “take risks for peace.” We tried. Oslo, Camp David, Gaza disengagement – all of it led only to more Jewish blood and global indifference. The experiment of appeasement is over. October 7 proved beyond any doubt that every concession is seen as weakness and every pause is used to sharpen the enemy’s knives.

FDD Turkey Announces Severing of Economic Ties With Israel, Closes Skies to Israeli Aircraft Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on August 29 that Ankara had closed the country’s airspace to Israeli aircraft as a protest against Israel’s continued military campaign against the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. Turkey previously prevented Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s plane from using the country’s airspace in November while he flew to a summit in Azerbaijan, but Friday’s statement in front of the Turkish parliament was the first time Ankara had declared the total exclusion of Israeli aircraft from Turkish airspace.

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United Airlines announces it will restart flights between Tel Aviv and Washington, DC, as well as Chicago beginning November 1, 2025

Posted on September 2, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
United Airlines to resume flights from Chicago and Washington to Tel Aviv
September 4, 2025

United Airlines announced Thursday that it will restart flights between Tel Aviv and Washington, DC, as well as Chicago beginning November 1, 2025, using Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. From Chicago, the carrier will operate four weekly round-trip flights, while Washington will see three weekly flights, restoring the same schedule that was in place before service was suspended on October 7, 2023. Tickets go on sale tonight. Patrick Quayle, a senior executive at United, said the resumption of service underscores the airline’s long-standing commitment to Tel Aviv…United is also expanding its kosher meal options, adding fresh kosher meals on long-haul flights from Chicago and considering introducing kosher food at its Polaris lounge at O’Hare International Airport, a potential added draw for the route. READ MORE

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The father of Hersh Goldberg-Polin writes about leading services for the first time since his son was killed in captivity in Gaza.

Posted on September 2, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Last Shabbat in my Jerusalem synagogue, I began to see our complex world anew</
Jon Polin
September 4, 2025

…During my year of mourning since our son Hersh was killed in captivity in Gaza, I accepted the custom to not lead prayer services as the shaliach tzibbur on Shabbat or holidays. I’m not a particularly good shaliach tzibbur anyway, but I am generally willing. When Aharon the gabbai (who organizes the services) approached me as I was absorbing the photos and teachings on the wall and asked me if I would lead the opening part of the service, the Psukei D’zimra, I was thrown momentarily. I hadn’t performed any formal task at my synagogue since the cursed morning of Oct. 7, 2023, when I was in the role that Aharon is in today, gabbai. Was I now ready to take this step out of formal mourning? “OK,” I said, and I got up and started. “Rabbi Yishmael says on 13 principles the Torah is interpreted…” READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s father asks Netanyahu to stop ‘taking credit’ for his return Polin added that before Hersh’s murder, “a negotiated deal was possible to release a number of hostages, including Hersh and at least three others of the five with whom he was held,” and blames Netanyahu for instead deciding to “continue with the risky military operation in Rafah.” That decision, he said, led to the execution by their captors of Hersh and the five hostages he was held with — Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, Eden Yerushalmi, and Alex Lobanov.

YNET ‘Let leaders decide who in their family will suffer hunger and torture in a tunnel—or take their place’ Despite the relentless toll of their grief clock, they do not shy away from words. Instead, they face, with a kind of reverent fear, the weighty questions that have been forced upon them—just like the reality they never chose, since that cursed morning when terrified children huddled in a shelter that became a death trap. They have no privilege of escape, no way to flee a calendar closing in on them: on one side, news of the looming operation to capture Gaza City; on the other, the first memorial marking the day their son was murdered by his captors.

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