Hebron Mayor comments lead to unconfirmed scenes of ostensible violence against canines on social media; he later says he wasn’t being serious

Posted on November 4, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hebron mayor elicits outrage after offering $5 for anyone who kills a stray dog
Jack Mukand
November 5, 2022

The Palestinian mayor of Hebron, Tayseer Abu Sneineh, has sparked outrage after offering a bounty for the killing of stray dogs in his city. During an interview with a local radio station on Wednesday, Abu Sneineh announced, “Whoever kills a stray dog or delivers to us a stray dog that’s been killed, we are willing to reward him with 20 shekels ($5.6) for each dog delivered to us.” Abu Sneineh, who has lived much of his life outside of Hebron — in Jordan and in an Israeli prison, for his participation in a 1980 Hebron attack — went on to say in the interview that he had drawn inspiration from Jordan. READ MORE

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“Engaging the partisan brain shuts down conversation. It widens gulfs, rather than narrowing them. If solving problems is your goal, you’ll want to avoid creating more distance between you and your interlocutor”

Posted on November 4, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM
How to have political disagreements without ruining relationships
Julian Adorney
November 7, 2022

If you’ve lost a friend or a loved one to political disagreements, you’re not alone. A 2021 study by the American Enterprise Institute showed that a full 15% of adults have ended a friendship over politics. Many more Americans have friendships or relationships with loved ones that are on the ropes due to political disagreements. But there is a way to have political disagreements that build your relationships with your loved ones rather than erode them. It’s not always easy in practice, but it is simple in concept: First, state your values, but don’t attack the other person’s values. Second, reframe the discussion as a search for ways to fix societal problems. Let’s say that you’re a conservative, and your mother-in-law is a progressive who supports the application of critical race theory in schools and educational materials. She asks you, “How can you oppose teaching anti-racism in schools? I guess you just don’t care about ending racism.” READ MORE

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“The elections that have just taken place in Israel and the United States each boiled down to a contest between dragons and dragon-slayers”

Posted on November 4, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Dragons and dragon-slayers in Israel and America
Melanie Phillips
November 10, 2022

…In America, both the Democrat and Republican camps believe the other is the dragon to be slain. President Joe Biden says Republicans are “neo-fascists” and a threat to democracy. The Democrats smear all who oppose “progressive” shibboleths—critical race theory, LGBTQ rights, relaxation of immigration controls—in the same way. For their part, Republicans view the Democrats and their left-wing program of coercing conformity to anti-Western identity politics as an existential threat to America’s historic culture and core values. In this week’s midterms, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who won a landslide victory for the GOP in which even the hitherto Democratic bastion of Miami-Dade turned red, emerged as the Republican party’s chief dragon-slayer—and has possibly dealt a fatal blow to Donald Trump’s aim of securing the party’s next presidential nomination. READ MORE

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“With all the ballots tallied following Israel’s national election on Tuesday, Netanyahu will control not just the largest party in the Knesset, but is poised to return to power leading a 64-strong majority bloc of his religious and right-wing allies in the 120-member Knesset”

Posted on November 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Israel voted for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir. Let them govern
Editorial Board
November 3, 2022

Israel went to the polls on Tuesday and in rather uncharacteristic fashion rendered a clear decision: Benjamin Netanyahu. No hung jury this time, no tie, no waffling: The country wants Netanyahu back as the head of a very right-wing and religious government. The nation has spoken, and now it is time to honor its decision. What does that mean? It means letting Netanyahu form a right-wing, very religious coalition. That is what the people want, that is what they voted for…Netanyahu’s first order of business, as well as that of his potential partners, needs to be to recognize the fears and concerns among many of the country’s Arabs, women, members of the LGBTQ community and secular citizens, and to assuage those fears. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Daniel Greenfield: Right Wins, Left Loses in Israel As of now, with over 90% of the votes counted, Meretz and Balad aren’t making it into the Israel Knesset. Meretz, a radical leftist party, not even sitting in the Knesset is historic. Labor, the establishment leftist party, took another severe electoral beating. At 4 seats, it’s one of the smallest parties in the Knesset and barely made it past the electoral ‘threshold’.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Conceding defeat, Lapid wishes Netanyahu luck ‘for the sake of the Israeli people’ As the final thousands of votes were being tallied Thursday evening, Prime Minister Yair Lapid called opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu to concede the race and congratulate him on his election victory. “The State of Israel is above any political considerations,” Lapid said in a statement. “I wish Netanyahu good luck for the people of Israel and the State of Israel.” Lapid’s office said the outgoing prime minister told Netanyahu he has instructed all branches of his office to prepare for an orderly transfer of power.

 

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“The prospect of not only a victory for Netanyahu and Likud, but the formation of a government with a prominent role for the Religious Zionist Party and one of its controversial leaders, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is enough to set the hair of Democrats and the foreign-policy establishment on fire’

Posted on November 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Biden shouldn’t try to ‘save’ Israeli democracy
Jonathan S. Tobin
November 3, 2022

…But the rise of Smotrich and Ben-Gvir is a natural consequence of the failure of the current government to adequately address the rise in Palestinian terrorism. It also reflects the growth of the religious population and the collapse of credibility of those parties that championed outreach to the Palestinians over the course of the last two decades as the Oslo peace process proved to be a disaster. In contrast to the overwhelmingly liberal bent of American Jewry, Israeli Jews are more likely to be proudly nationalist and have fewer illusions about the Palestinian desire for peace. They are sympathetic to leaders who are unashamed about their desire for Israel to be a Jewish state rather than a non-sectarian nation in which Jewish peoplehood and religion are downplayed. READ MORE

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“20 Democrats, including Rashida Tlaib, urge US to exclude Israel from Visa Waiver Program”

Posted on November 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
20 Democrats say keep Israel out of Visa Waiver Program
November 3, 2022

As the United States appears to be close to adding Israel to the list of countries in the Visa Waiver Program, 20 progressive Democrats in Congress are trying to prevent it. The group, led by Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Oct. 27 that said that Israel should be kept out of the program because of “ethnic-based discrimination” and racial profiling. The letter, which was leaked to Jewish Insider, argued that Israel does not meet the criteria of the program because of “discriminatory restrictions” for entry into Judea and Samaria. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Antisemitism watchdog: AOC’s ‘obsession’ with Israel is ‘shameful’ A nonpartisan antisemitism watchdog group has condemned Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for criticizing the top pro-Israel lobbying group for opposing a progressive congressional candidate in Pennsylvania. “AOC’s ongoing obsession with both AIPAC and the Jewish state is shameful,” Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, told the New York Post on Tuesday.

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“Through terror proxies in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, the Palestinian territories, and beyond, Iran is behind almost every war and ongoing military conflict in the Middle East”

Posted on October 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

NEWSWEEK
America and the World Must Stand with Iran’s Freedom Revolution
Caroline Glick
October 25, 2022

What is happening in Iran is a revolution, not a protest movement. If the Iranian people overthrow the theocratic regime that has ruled their country since 1979, their achievement will be the single most significant event in the Middle East in generations. Consider the stakes. The ayatollahs’ regime is the world’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism. The regime funds, arms, trains, and directs terrorist organizations and cells in nearly every country in the world. Iran apparently passed the nuclear threshold this year, which means the ayatollahs are now capable of developing nuclear weapons at will. READ MORE

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“Israel did not fight its many wars out of allegiance to the microchip. Judaism is the basis for the past, present and future Jewish state”

Posted on October 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Israel isn’t the Start-Up Nation. It’s the Jewish state
Benjamin Anthony
November 2, 2022

…Contrary to the beliefs of many, Israel was not founded in response to the Holocaust. Its existence surely serves as a bulwark against another Holocaust but the Holocaust is not the reason for Israel’s existence. Opening the door to such a narrative is an error. The forebears of today’s Israeli soldiers yearned for Zion centuries before the names Auschwitz, Goebbels, Goring or Adolf Hitler were etched into infamy. Tragically, with the passage of time and the passing of survivors, there will soon rise a generation of society with a vastly reduced memory of the Holocaust. Predicating Israel’s existence upon a phenomenon so fleeting within the memory of mankind would be misguided, therefore. Neither Israel’s past nor future can be reduced down to the horrific actions of another people. READ MORE

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UN Human Rights Council “Commission of Inquiry” is funded “for the express purpose of demonizing and delegitimizing Israel in perpetuity”

Posted on October 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
United Nations goes DEFCON 3 on Israel
Clifford D. May
October 25, 2022

…The so-called U.N. Human Rights Council’s…Commission of Inquiry (COI) is going on offense against the Middle East’s only surviving and thriving Jewish community…On Thursday, the COI released its second report — one was not enough! — assigning culpability for last year’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood faction that holds power in Gaza and is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and other nations. The report urges U.N. members to prosecute Israeli officials for alleged violations of “international humanitarian law.” What does the report say about Hamas and the more than 4,000 rockets it fired at Israelis, its routine use of Palestinian civilians as “human shields,” and the support it receives from Tehran? Not a word. READ MORE

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“A comparison to coverage at other media outlets exposes CNN’s strenuous efforts to create the false impression that raging Israeli soldiers are killing peaceful Palestinian civilians”

Posted on October 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
CNN protects the Lion’s Den
Tamar Sternthal
October 28, 2022

CNN is highly diligent when it comes to tracking the Palestinians’ most deadly days. Last month’s headline was “At least 4 Palestinians killed, dozens wounded in one of year’s deadliest Israeli West Bank raids.” On Wednesday, CNN conscientiously kept up the count, with the headline “Six killed by Israeli forces in the deadliest day for Palestinians this year.” It’s dramatic and newsworthy information. And it’s also highly misleading if certain contextual information – such as the fact that those killed were terrorists – is ignored or downplayed. Indeed, when it comes to the identity of the Palestinian casualties, the news network’s reporting is suddenly not so fastidious. To the contrary, the same journalists who so carefully report the numbers of Palestinian casualties also bury their violent activity. READ MORE

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