Senator Ted Cruz criticizes Biden administration after top officials accuse Israel of changing status quo on Temple Mount in wake of Ben Gvir visit

Posted on January 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
‘Pathological obsession’: Senator Cruz blasts Biden over condemnation of Israel
Elad Benari
January 5, 2022

US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, blasted the Biden administration on Wednesday, after top administration officials condemned Israel and suggested that the government may be changing the “status quo” regarding the Temple Mount following National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s visit to the compound. “The Biden administration’s pathological obsession with undermining Israel is endangering the national security of America and our allies,” said Cruz. “A visit by a minister from Israel’s government to a site inside Israel is not a change in any status quo arrangement, and it should not be controversial for a Jew to visit the holiest site in Judaism,” he clarified. READ MORE

JNS Letters slam major Jewish organizations for criticizing Netanyahu government The Eretz HaKodesh and Coalition for Jewish Values organizations criticized a letter — written by The Jewish Federations of North America, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Hayesod and the World Zionist Organization — which expressed concerns over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government. Netanyahu’s cabinet was sworn in last Thursday.

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In order to stop Iran, and on the way make peace with Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu may have to wait out President Biden’s administration

Posted on January 4, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Netanyahu might have to turn US policy on its head
Ariel Kahana
January 2, 2022

Amid the brouhaha of the past several days as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put the final touches on his government, he also set his sights on two major personal foreign policy goals. The first is his life’s mission – to stop the Iranian nuclear project. The second – to strike a peace accord with Saudi Arabia and thus put a practical end to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Realizing those two objectives may not seem to be such a hard feat at first glance, precisely because they are intertwined: Saudi Arabia detests Iran just as much as Israel does. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, the old adage says. In other words, having given tacit agreement to the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab states and opened its airspace for Israeli overflights, and let dual Israeli citizens enter the kingdom (along with subtle cooperation on other matters), Riyadh has every reason to move closer to Jerusalem. READ MORE

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Ken Levin: “Antisemitism in the United States is being exploited by separatists in order to destroy the integrationist ideal”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Understanding the upsurge in black attacks on Jews
Kenneth Levin
December 28, 2022

…The current dramatic rise in antisemitism in America has four main sources: far-right racist groups; Islamists and the far-left; and black groups that embrace radical and separatist ideologies, along with their acolytes among black political and cultural elites…The American Jewish response to the rise in Jew-hatred has been piecemeal and weak. This is largely because the increased antisemitism—or at least that part of it that has made the greatest inroads in American society—is coming mainly from sources towards which many American Jews have long felt affinity and identification: Black Americans, too often conceived as a monolithic community; progressives; and educators, especially those staffing what has become the greatest institutional font of antisemitism in America, the campuses. READ MORE

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London/NYC/Moscow: Resurgent antisemitism a global event

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Jewish Londoner Slashed While Walking with Wife and Infant Child
Dion J. Pierre
January 2, 2023

A Jewish man in London was assaulted and slashed while taking a walk with his wife and infant child, a local Jewish community watch group reported on Friday. “A racist male unhappy with the child’s speed pushed the 1-yr-old shouting ‘Move F** Jew, I will stab & kill you’ before cutting the victim on his face/hand,” Shomrim Stamford Hill, which provides security and support to the local Orthodox Jewish community — one of the largest in Europe — tweeted on Dec. 30. The incident is the latest in a spate of attacks on Jewish Londoners that have been occurring all year and peaked shortly after Halloween during what Shomrim described as a “hate crimes pandemic.” READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Elderly NYC jeweler clinging to life after brutal beating by brazen thieves An elderly Brooklyn jeweler was sent to the ICU after a pair of brazen thieves attacked him before robbing his store of six figures worth of merchandise — as his family on Wednesday decried criminals’ “golden ticket” to wreak havoc in New York City.

JTA Moscow’s former chief rabbi: ‘The best option for Russian Jews is to leave’ Pinchas Goldshmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow who fled the country earlier this year, said other Russian Jews should leave before it’s too late in an interview with the Guardian.  “When we look back over Russian history, whenever the political system was in danger you saw the government trying to redirect the anger and discontent of the masses towards the Jewish community,” Goldschmidt told the Guardian. “We saw this in tsarist times and at the end of the Stalinist regime.”

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Tolerance and freedom of worship are not terms that can be found in the Palestinian lexicon. The Palestinians will be satisfied only when they replace Israel with an Iranian-backed terror state and erase all traces of Jewish history and faith

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Why Palestinians Want to Slaughter Jewish Worshippers
Bassam Tawil
January 5, 2023

In the past several years, Jews visiting the holy site of Joseph’s Tomb in the city of Nablus in the West Bank have been targeted by Palestinian rioters and gunmen. The most recent attack took place on December 21, when Jewish worshippers and the Israeli soldiers guarding them came under heavy gunfire. According to Palestinian sources, during the Palestinians’ attempt to prevent the Jews from entering the holy site, one gunman, Ahmed Atef Daraghmeh, was killed and four others injured. The Oslo Accords, signed in 1993 and 1995 between Israel and the Palestinians, placed Nablus and Joseph’s Tomb under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. READ MORE

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“The Istanbul Convention is not only about the rights of women. It’s also about undermining host countries who make the mistake of opening their gates to hordes of refugees in the hope of one day sending them home”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
Smotrich Saves Israel from Istanbul Convention Trojan Horse
David Israel
December 26, 2022

…On its face, the Istanbul Convention aims at preventing violence, offering victim protection, and ending the impunity of perpetrators. But seeing as the ancient city of Troy, the birthplace of the Trojan Horse, is only about 140 miles from Istanbul, one should beware of the gift-bearing Greeks, who currently reside in Brussels. If you care about the Jewish future of the Jewish State, you should familiarize yourself with articles 59, 60, and 61 of the Istanbul Convention. At the time, I couldn’t figure out what would be the upside of joining the convention, but the downside is devastating..READ MORE

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“Kuper’s report details the rampant antisemitism at just one school at just one North American university. Her observations are all the more shocking since they occurred at a medical school”

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

CANARY MISSION
Shocking Anti-Semitism at Univ of Toronto Medical School
January 2023

…In the years before the Gaza war, Kuper reports that she overheard her colleagues complaining about “those Jews who think their Holocaust means they know something about oppression.” Yet, as Kuper noted, the 2021 war inaugurated a seminal change in the nature of anti-Semitism at UT’s medical school. This change was also common on many other college campuses across North America. Kuper notes that the Gaza war masked the growing anti-Semitism at UT’s medical school. The war allowed it to be reframed as “political activism against Israel.” Further, the staff argued that such activism falls under the rubric of academic freedom. READ MORE

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Such initiatives as the “1619 Project” cannot even be described as pseudo-history. They are mere propaganda exercises.

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
We must rescue America’s heroes from those who tear them down
Douglas Murray
December 22, 2022

When I first moved to the United States I did what any new arrival should do. I read about the country. And the first book I chose was Paul Johnson’s “A History of the American People.” Published 25 years ago, it has a memorable opening line: “The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures.” Just one thing that struck this then new arrival was that 25 years later it would be almost impossible for a book about this great country to begin with such a positive line. Even in the period I have been here I have seen the whole story of this country turned on its head. A country that used to feel good about itself is being taught to feel bad about itself. READ MORE

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If you’ve ever wondered why after all the billions of dollars expended, Alzheimer’s has yet to be conquered

Posted on December 30, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
The Reason There’s Been No Cure for Alzheimer’s. Medicine had nothing to offer my father and millions of other Americans. I set out to find out why
Joanne Silberner
January 4, 2023

In the mid-1990s, my father, a gentle and kind man who loved being around people, began avoiding social contact, embarrassed by his inability to remember words and faces. He had been a brilliant physician until Alzheimer’s disease started eroding his brain. By the time my sister, mother, and I convinced him to get checked out, he couldn’t draw a clock with the numbers in the correct location, couldn’t be trusted to drive, and stared blankly at his neurologist when asked the name of the current U.S. president. (Though he delighted his politically aligned doctor by answering, after a long pause, “I don’t remember his name, but I do remember I don’t like him.”) READ MORE

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Netanyahu presents new government’s agenda; Lapid: ‘Try not to destroy the country’

Posted on December 29, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu returns as PM, wins Knesset support for Israel’s most hardline government
Carrie Keller-Lynn
December 29, 2022

…According to coalition agreements signed between Likud and each of its five partner parties, as well as its published guiding principles, the incoming government will prioritize comprehensive judicial reform, including a commitment to pass a High Court override law designed to reduce judicial checks on executive and legislative power, expand settlement and consider West Bank annexation policy, combat the cost of living, and further centralize ultra-Orthodox control over state Jewish services. Speaking to the Knesset plenum before the vote of confidence, Netanyahu presented three top priorities for his new government: stopping Iran’s nuclear program, developing state infrastructure — with an emphasis on connecting the so-called periphery to the center of the country — and restoring internal security and governance. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Ahead of inauguration, Netanyahu announces final Likud ministerial posts Veteran Likudnik Israel Katz has been appointed to the highly prestigious position of foreign minister in rotation with Eli Cohen, a move that reportedly led to a fallout in the meeting with the incoming prime minister…Netanyahu was originally reported to want to nominate [Ron] Dermer for the position of foreign minister, but he is instead to receive the strategic affairs portfolio that would allow him to be a member of the Security Cabinet nevertheless. 

JERUSALEM POST Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians vow to confront ‘fascist’ new government Palestinian leaders from Fatah and Hamas called for unity and popular resistance against the incoming Israeli government.

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