“American historian Daniel Pipes recently visited Israel to meet with key people and also discuss his visions for Israel’s victory in its current conflict”

Posted on January 6, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
How can Israel win the Palestinian conflict? Historian explains
Seth Frantzman
January 7, 2023

Daniel Pipes: A just resolution of the conflict requires the Palestinians to lose hope. Only when they give up their war goal of eliminating Israel will the conflict come to an end. Israel must win, and the Palestinians must lose. This argument may come as a surprise because it precisely contradicts the premise of the Oslo Accords, which promoted not victory but a notion of Palestinian hope and compromise. It theorized that nice apartments, late-model cars, fine schools and excellent medical care would vest the Palestinians in prosperity, de-radicalize them, and make them true partners for peace. But, nearly 30 years on, all polling and endless anecdotal evidence indicate that most Palestinians retain the fantasy of eliminating the Jewish state. READ MORE

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Israels recent immigrants from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus are changing what’s on the menu—from cafes to bars

Posted on January 6, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The New Flavors of Israel
Flora Tsapovsky
January 10, 2023

Since early 2020, first due to the pandemic, and, most recently, during the war in Ukraine, Israel has been experiencing a slow yet persistent wave of immigration from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Last February alone, according to the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, saw close to 40,000 immigrants—the highest number of people making aliyah from the region since the early 1990s. Alongside the usual challenges—like Hebrew classes shortages and employment deficit—these new, social media-savvy, young, cosmopolitan olim face surprises on the culinary front. The Israeli dining and drinking scene, as advanced and trend-driven as it may be, doesn’t necessarily have some of the key elements newcomers have grown accustomed to in their home countries. READ MORE

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This perverse behavior by Western liberals, aided by Israeli leftists, hugely incentivizes further Palestinian rejectionism and violence

Posted on January 6, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The Israeli canary in the West’s cultural coal mine
Melanie Phillips
January 5, 2022

Those scratching their heads over the way Western liberals have lost all connection with reason over issues of race, gender and Western “colonialism” might usefully look at the reaction to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount this week. Here was a Jew walking for 15 minutes on the site that is most sacred to Judaism. He did it without fanfare or media attention, early in the morning when the compound was almost empty, and didn’t pray there or say anything to stir up trouble. Yet his visit provoked uproar with claims that it was an extremist act, that it was likely to spark a new terrorist war and even—this from a Ha’aretz columnist—that Ben-Gvir was leading Israel “on the road to hell.” READ MORE

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“Florida in particular is becoming a home for the wayward right-leaning Jew”

Posted on January 6, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR BOOKS
The New Jew: The Beginning of a Jewish Political Realignment
Karol Markowicz
January 11, 2023

…For so long, Jews were seen as a political monolith. This was never exactly so. My own ex-Soviet-Jewish community in Brooklyn was always very conservative yet still rarely represented by Republicans. The so-called “ultra” Orthodox Jews of Boro Park and Williamsburg were also, of course, very conservative, but often voted Democrat anyway. Israeli-Americans, Syrian Jews, so many small pockets of Jews in America actually always leaned right. The type of Jew that was a reliable liberal in the last 50 years was rarely an immigrant. Sometimes their families had been here since the turn of the century, missing the pograms in Russia, the oppression of the Soviet Union, the camps of World War II. American Jews have been the luckiest Jews in history but the Jews whose families had been here for a hundred years were something else beyond that. They did not know struggle or pain or true ostracism because of a faith you often couldn’t practice but also were not allowed to discard. READ MORE

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Israel Ambassador Erdan at UN: “We are here discussing the peaceful 13-minute visit of a Jewish minister to the holiest Jewish site under the sovereignty of the liberal democracy of Israel”

Posted on January 5, 2023 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Poison, lies’: Israeli, Palestinian envoys spar at fiery UN session on Temple Mount
Luke Tress
January 6, 2022

Israel’s envoy to the United Nations lashed the Palestinians for what he described as “poison and lies” at an emergency Security Council session on National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s recent visit to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The council’s members, including the US, repeatedly stressed the importance of maintaining the status quo at the flashpoint compound, while the Palestinians warned of violence and denied any Israeli claim to the site, the holiest in Judaism. Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan said the meeting, held in response to the visit by Ben Gvir on Tuesday, was “absurd” and hypocritical. Ben Gvir’s 13-minute visit to the site was met with international condemnations and expressions of concern. READ MORE

YNET NEWS Ben-Gvir visits Temple Mount despite concerns of violence National security minister arrives flanked by security guards after secret plan made with police, just day after canceling scheduled visit to the holy site; Jordan says it condemns the visit in ‘severest’ terms. “Our government will not succumb to Hamas threats,” Ben-Gvir said. “Temple Mount is the most important site for the people of Israel, and we maintain our freedom of movement there,” he said adding that threats must be met with an iron fist.

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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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