Israeli-Arabs, who undeniably enjoy greater rights and freedoms in Israel than in any of the surrounding states, are drifting away from their Israeli identity

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Israel must reclaim its Arab citizens
Mark Dubowitz and Jonathan Schanzer
November 18, 2022

The rise of right-leaning candidates in Israel’s November 1 election has been derided by a gaggle of breathless commentators, notably The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, lamenting the end of Israel as we once knew it. First, it should be noted that such prognostications are wildly premature; Israel’s government has yet to be formed. Moreover, it’s worth noting what these observers have until now ignored: the elections were heavily influenced by the 11-day war in May 2021, also known as Operation Guardian of the Walls. Amid heavy rocket fire by the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas, significant numbers of Arab-Israeli citizens staged a series of riots, attacking Israeli homes, schools, synagogues and hospitals. A little more than a year later, with troubling questions still lingering about coexistence, votes gravitated to the pugilistic law-and-order campaign of the Religious Zionist bloc led by Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir. READ MORE

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Today, 90% of Britain’s demographic growth comes from immigration. The same shift is taking place in Sweden.

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Is Multiculturalism Destroying Western National Identities?
by Giulio Meotti
November 20, 2022

…Multiculturalism is becoming a key tool in the dissolution of national identities and the label of “populism” serves to exorcise a rational reaction to the great fears that have besieged Western societies for several decades: the fear of people facing massive, unregulated immigration; the fear that Western culture will dissolve into a blob of relativism and parallel societies (even The Economist denounced it); the fear of countries without external borders or internal moral legitimacy. It is the fear of a cultural disintegration that has been insidiously validating the probability the sociological majority disappearing and, ultimately, society itself. READ MORE

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Bibi wants peace with Saudi Arabia. The Saudis probably want it, too. But the White House has other ideas.

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Biden Trashes the Abraham Accords
Tony Badran
November 21, 2022

…The reason for the administration’s hostility to the Abraham Accords goes beyond jealousy or the desire to deny credit to a hated predecessor. There are significant matters of substance and strategy at stake. The Abraham Accords framework is fundamentally opposed to the Obama-Biden vision for the region. Whereas the Abraham Accords framework draws a bright line separating the U.S.-allied camp from Iran and its camp, the Obama-Biden vision turns the very concept of friend and foe on its head, elevating Iran and downgrading allies under the pretext of creating “equilibrium” or “balance.” The problem the White House faces is that the accords are popular: The biblical name alone resonates with the American public..READ MORE

JNS Mike Pompeo: ‘Anti-Zionist bias runs very deep inside of the Biden administration’ Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo oversaw the foreign policy of the most pro-Israel administration in American history. His policy, which came to be known as the Pompeo Doctrine, reversed long-standing American wisdom that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were illegal.

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DeSantis: “I don’t care what the State Department says. They are not occupied territory, it is disputed territory. You gotta know the history”

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Florida’s DeSantis to GOP Jews: ‘Judea and Samaria is not occupied, but disputed’
Luke Tress
November 20, 2022

Addressing Jewish Republicans on Saturday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said the West Bank was “not occupied territory” but rather a disputed area that is a historical homeland to Jews, as he talked up his Israel bona fides amid mounting challenges to Donald Trump’s control of the party. DeSantis was a star attraction at this weekend’s Republican Jewish Coalition conference in Las Vegas, where he delivered a 25-minute speech on Saturday night while Trump was relegated to a less desirable timeslot and only appeared via video…DeSantis is seen as one of the leading challengers to Trump, aiming to take the reins of the party and make a run for the White House in 2024. READ MORE

JNS The RJC leadership meetings grabbed headlines, and gave its members much to chew on Republican contenders made their case to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, as the organization draws lessons from the midterms. A Fox News poll showed Republicans grabbed 33% of the Jewish vote in the midterms, and the RJC claimed 45% of Floridian Jews voted for the GOP. 

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Challenging Harvard Crimson’s hypocrisy and double standards

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
More than 1,000 Israeli students call on Harvard Crimson editorial board to evacuate its offices stolen from indigenous Indian tribes of Boston
November 19, 2022

More than 1,000 Israeli university students, writing on behalf of the “Students for Justice in America” (SJA) organization, have petitioned Jasper Goodman, Managing Editor of the Harvard Crimson, with a demand that the Crimson immediately evacuates its offices from “illegally occupied” Massachusetts Indian lands. The students allege that the Crimson‘s offices are located on territory which belonged to the Massachusetts Indian tribes. They call on the editorial board to uphold the very own ethical values they have preached to Israelis about on their editorial pages. In April this past year, the Harvard Crimson published an editorial titled “In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanctions and a Free Palestine“, condemning alleged Israeli “property and land confiscations, citizenship denials, movement restrictions, and unlawful killings that victimize Palestinians day in and day out” and calling to “free Palestine.”  READ MORE

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: ‘Black people have to know that when they mouth antisemitism, they are using the exact same kind of reasoning that white supremacists use against blacks’

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

DOC EMET PRODUCTIONS
Staying or Leaving: It is a Matter of Life and Death
Phyllis Chesler
October 30, 2022

…We have seen a quantum leap in antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the 21st century, both in the Islamic world and in the West. There are too many examples to cite. However, the difference between today and 80 years ago is that we now have a Jewish state where we are welcome. This is a huge and miraculous game-changer. We must ask, however, since Israel is such an important refuge, why do so many educated and assimilated American Jews savagely criticize it? Do they feel that such virtue signaling will “save” them? Or redeem an imperfect Judaism? Is it psychologically safer to target Israel than to take on the antisemites? READ MORE

COMMON SENSE Bari Weiss: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Kanye, Kyrie, and Antisemitism
‘Black people have to know that when they mouth antisemitism, they are using the exact same kind of reasoning that white supremacists use against blacks.’

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“The Republican Party has a historic opportunity to revive the old Reagan coalition. The person standing in the way is the 45th president, writes the former attorney general”

Posted on November 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

COMMON SENSE
Trump Will Burn Down the GOP. Time for New Leadership
Bill Barr
November 21, 2022

During the Republican primaries in 2016, I supported, in succession, every alternative to Donald Trump. I did not see him as our party’s standard-bearer. He was not my idea of a president. I could see that he was grossly self-centered, lacked self-control, and almost always took his natural pugnacity too far. While he could be compelling, I found myself cringing at his frequently juvenile, bombastic, and petulant style. I also saw Trump’s strengths. I liked the clear and direct way he staked out a position and his willingness to state unpleasant truths that many were afraid to say. I appreciated that he was willing to confront head-on difficult issues—like unfair trade deals, or our allies’ paltry defense spending—that other politicians dodged. Above all, Trump had accurately diagnosed, and given voice to, the deep frustration of many middle-class and working-class Americans who were fed up with the excesses of progressive Democrats; the shameless partisanship of the mainstream media; and the smug condescension of elites who had mismanaged the country, sold them out, and appeared content to preside over the decline of America. READ MORE

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“Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Tuesday called the US Justice Ministry’s decision to investigate Abu Akleh’s death “a serious mistake,” adding that Israel would not cooperate with it”

Posted on November 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
FBI investigation of IDF ‘undermines the Pentagon’s own conclusions’
Yaakov Lappin
November 17, 2022

A decision by the FBI to investigate the Israel Defense Forces over the May 11 death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin undermines the official positions of the Pentagon and the United States State Department, both of which welcomed the IDF’s own investigation into the matter, an Israeli expert on US-Israeli relations told JNS. Professor Eytan Gilboa of Bar-Ilan University described the decision to launch the investigation as scandalous. “Not only is it a vote of no confidence in the IDF’s investigation, but also in the Pentagon, since the US Coordinator for Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Lt. Gen. Michael R. Fenzel, himself welcomed the IDF’s investigation. So, this activity by the FBI is undercutting the US’s own position,” he said. READ MORE

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Ukraine continues pressing for Israeli air defense systems

Posted on November 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Zelensky says Netanyahu to consider air defense systems for Ukraine
November 16, 2022

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday asked prime minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu for air defense systems, according to multiple Ukrainian media outlets. Zelensky also said that Netanyahu will consider the request and will “deal with this issue as soon as possible,” according to Ukrainian media. Zelensky clarified that Ukraine is not asking for “weapons that can attack” but only asking for defense systems to protect Ukrainians. This isn’t the first time the Ukrainian government has asked for Israeli defense systems.  On October 18, The Ukrainian government sent an official letter to Israel, requesting air defense systems. READ MORE

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“For decades, left-wingers have been falsely claiming that Israel’s governments didn’t want peace and that the decisions of Israel’s voters should be either ignored or overridden by American governments that took up the cause of “saving Israel from itself.””

Posted on November 11, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Don’t apologize for Ben-Gvir or anything else about Israel
Jonathan Tobin
November 11, 2022

…As the leader of the Conservative movement of Judaism in Israel put it in Haaretz, having Smotrich and Ben-Gvir around the cabinet table won’t just impact life in Israel. It will also hurt Jews elsewhere. Citing a much-discussed New York Times column by Thomas Friedman, Yizhar Hess claimed that a right-wing government will mean that Jewish students, already under siege by anti-Zionists, will no longer be able to credibly speak up on behalf of the Jewish state. That’s because the presence of these so-called “fascists” in Netanyahu’s cabinet will, in this telling, mean that the “good Israel,” that nice Jews feel comfortable about defending, is now either gone or about to be legislated out of existence. In its place will be a different country, run by extremists and horrible people who oppose peace and want to oppress minorities. Even if the people in this new bad Israel will be Jews, they will be the sort of Jews no self-respecting American Jew will want to be associated with. READ MORE

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