“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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“Contrary to U.S. media reports, we seek to bring the Jewish state closer to the American model”

Posted on December 29, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Israel’s New Government Isn’t What You’ve Heard
Bezalel Smotrich
December 27, 2022

…Is­rael is a Jew­ish and de­mo­c­ra­tic state and will re­main so. Af­ter five elec­tions in less than five years and suf­fer­ing the rule of a weak and frac­tious coali­tion de­pen­dent on a rad­i­cal Is­lamist par­ty’s back­ing for a year and a half, the coun­try has fi­nally formed a pop­u­lar and sta­ble gov­ern­ment. Our bloc will strengthen Is­rael in the face of rad­i­cal Is­lam and its ter­ror prox­ies, open the coun­try up eco­nom­i­cally, and usher in growth and pros­per­ity for the ben­e­fit of all cit­i­zens. READ MORE

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While the left-wing opposition laments what it falsely calls “the end of democracy,” the overwhelming majority of Israelis disagree. The incoming government is not anti- democratic, it is anti-progressive.

Posted on December 29, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israel’s historic right-wing government is the democratic will of the voters
Alex Traiman
December 29, 2022

Israel inducted a historic right-wing government Thursday, led by three-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s return to power and the formation of a strong right-wing government is a tremendous achievement for a nation that has increasingly turned towards the right-wing values of strong security and protecting the Jewish character of the state. The 64-member Likud-led coalition, joined by Netanyahu’s loyal right-wing and religious allies, puts to bed years of electoral instability wrought by politicians who attempted to will Israel’s longest-serving prime minister out of power. Ultimately it was the voters themselves who tired of prosecutorial and political tricks aimed at removing Netanyahu from office. READ MORE

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Netflix has produced “an antisemitic movie. When I heard about it, I was appalled”

Posted on December 27, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

YNET NEWS
War of Independence veterans protest ‘defamatory’ Netflix movie
Korin Elbaz Alush
December 27, 2022

Veterans of the War of Independence, who are currently in the tenth decade of their lives, have joined the furor surrounding the Jordanian film Farha, which depicts Israel Defense Forces soldiers executing Palestinian children and babies, demanding Netflix immediately remove it from their library. “We are Holocaust survivors who defended our country. Remove the defamatory film,” the five ex-soldiers called. The Israel Law Center has sent a warning letter to Netflix on their behalf concerning a potential breach of Israeli defamation laws…”Personally, I don’t watch television. But when we’re defamed like this, I can’t let it pass. The world doesn’t know what the IDF is, what a moral army we have. So they may think that the lies that the movie shows are the actual truth. READ MORE

FOX BUSINESS Netflix faces backlash, exodus of subscribers, over ‘antisemitic’ film Farha: ‘Stop this disgrace’ “Netflix, stop this disgrace and don’t give a platform to a film that defames Israel and presents the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) as baby killers!” a former IDF soldier wrote. “This is a blood libel that will certainly increase antisemitism and incitement against Israel,” Yoseph Haddad later tweeted.

Stop Netflix from promoting Anti-Semitic Fake news! Sign the petition to have Farha removed from Netflix Today the false Jordanian film “Farha” was aired on Netflix, which shows IDF soldiers committing atrocities in the War of Independence. The Jordanian director lyingly claims that the film is based on “true stories” with no factual evidence. The film shows IDF soldiers as murderers, who commit crimes against innocent families children and infants, these “True stories” have zero factual base and are indeed a false claim in order to promote antisemitism and to demonize Israeli soldiers based on false claims.

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Bibi: “The Abraham Accords put paid to the idea that peace with the Palestinians must come first before a wider regional peace with Arab states would be possible”

Posted on December 23, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Netanyahu offers to suspend annexation plans in exchange for peace with Riyadh
December 25, 2022

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu would suspend plans to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank in exchange for the normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia, according to a report over the weekend. Talks are underway between Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia to this end, Yediot Aharonot reported. Netanyahu said he hopes to welcome Saudi Arabia into the circle of countries that have joined the Abraham Accords. “I hope to bring about a full, formal peace as we’ve done with the other Gulf states like Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates,” he said during an interview with Jewish Insider on Dec. 23. READ MORE

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“Palti says Israel has the military capabilities to attack Iran’s nuclear plants: “I am not implying that Israel is capable, I am saying it is”

Posted on December 23, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Former Mossad intel chief says Israel must prepare for an imminent attack on Iran
Tal Schneider
December 25, 2022

Zohar Palti, the former head of the Defense Ministry’s political-military bureau and former intelligence director in the Mossad, says that Iran is days to weeks away from enriching uranium to the 90% military-grade level. Iran, he says “is at a more advanced level than I can ever remember when it comes to uranium enrichment,” Palti says. “They are days or weeks away from enriching uranium to 90%, which is military-grade.” Such a level “does not mean they can immediately build a nuclear weapon… but it’s very bad, and we’ve never been closer to it.”…“Our national security and our strategic relationship with the US are above all. Nothing can be done in Israel without the Americans.” READ MORE

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