Defense Minister Benny Gantz said due to what he called “limitations” and “a variety of operational considerations,” Israel will not deliver any weapon systems to Ukraine.

Posted on October 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israel won’t give Ukraine weapons, will help make missile warning system – Gantz
Anna Ahronheim
October 19, 2022

Israel has offered to help Ukraine in developing an early-warning system but will not provide weapon systems, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Wednesday. “Our policy vis-a-vis Ukraine will not change – we will continue to support and stand with the West, we will not provide weapon systems. We have asked the Ukrainians to share information regarding their needs, and offered to assist in developing a life-saving early-warning system,” he said…Israel has refused to provide any military platforms to Ukraine due to concerns it might negatively affect the deconfliction mechanism that Israel and Russia have over Syria in order to avoid any unwanted conflict. READ MORE

ASSOCIATED PRESS Russia’s Iranian drones complicate Israel’s balancing act Israel has stayed largely on the sidelines since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February so as not to damage its strategic relationship with the Kremlin. Although Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Ukraine, it has refused Kyiv’s frequent requests to send air defense systems and other military equipment and refrained from enforcing strict economic sanctions on Russia and the many Russian-Jewish oligarchs who have second homes in Israel.

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Oops, Israel forgot to ask Australia’s permission to make Jerusalem its capital

Posted on October 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIALINE
Australia’s Decision To Stop Recognizing West Jerusalem as Israeli Capital Won’t Impact Relations, Expert Says
Mohammad Al-Kassim
October 18, 2022

Israel blasted Australia for reversing its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, with Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday sharply condemning the decision. “Jerusalem is the eternal and united capital of Israel, and nothing will ever change that,” the prime minister said in a statement released by his office. Australia said it would no longer recognize west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, reversing a decision taken by the previous conservative government of former Prime Minister Scott Morrison in 2018…[Foreign Minister Penny] Wong reiterated that Australia’s embassy would remain in Tel Aviv and that Canberra was committed to a two-state solution “in which Israel and a future Palestinian state coexist, in peace and security, within internationally recognized borders.” READ MORE

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“Indictment alleges the trio, 2 of whom worked for Cellcom, provided terror group with large volume of information in order to carry out cyberattack on crucial infrastructure”

Posted on October 18, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
3 Israelis charged in Hamas plot to sabotage telecom networks used by IDF during war
Emanuel Fabian and Michael Bachner
October 20, 2022

Three men from northern Israel were indicted on Thursday for allegedly sending a large volume of sensitive information to the Hamas terror group in Turkey, and for plans to sabotage Israel’s cellular network in a future war. According to the charge sheet, the trio were accused of committing “grave security offenses” and rendering the infrastructure of one of the country’s largest telecommunications companies vulnerable to a potential cyberattack. One of the accused — identified only by the Hebrew initials of his first and last names, Resh Ayin — had worked for cellular giant Cellcom since 2004 as a software engineer, the indictment said. READ MORE

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“UN document alleges IDF rights abuses during Operation Guardian of the Walls, but completely fails to mention Hamas or the over 4,000 rockets it launched into Israel during the conflict”

Posted on October 17, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Zero mentions of Hamas: Israel slams ‘biased’ UN report on May 2021 fighting
Tamir Morag
October 21, 2022

Israel blasted Thursday a report by the United Nations’ ongoing Commission of Inquiry into last year’s 11-day fighting with Hamas that alleged IDF rights abuses. The 28-page document, which is the second one published by the probe, mentions Israel 277 times but fails to mention Hamas. Israel slammed it as biased and dismissive of the terror group’s wrongdoings, as during the conflict, Hamas launched over 4,000 rockets into Israel, sending tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Israelis to shelters. The report also calls on the Security Council to end Israel’s supposed occupation of the West Bank and on individual UN member states to prosecute Israeli officials. READ MORE

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“Israel’s surrender to Hezbollah demands over the Karish gas field and failure to respond effectively to Palestinian terror are making Israel look like a “loser” to others in the Middle East”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The Israeli government’s weakness and fear will cause its enemies to up the ante
Harold Rhode
October 16, 2022

In recent days, my colleagues and I have been closely monitoring the fallout from two major events: 1)Israel’s surrender to demands made by Hezbollah, Lebanon and, ultimately, Iran regarding the Israel-Lebanon maritime border and the right to extract natural gas from the Karish gas field. 2)Israel’s weak and fearful response to the many terrorist attacks in Jerusalem and Samaria (a.k.a. the northern part of the “West Bank”). In the Middle East, when one party to a dispute caves to the other’s demands, the winner ups the ante. No one respects those who meekly submit to their opponents. Instead, people mock, shame and often attack the loser. READ MORE

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“The wealthiest musician in the world appears to hold deeply conspiratorial views about Jews informed by the antisemite Louis Farrakhan and a hate cult called the Black Hebrew Israelites”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

COMMON SENSE
Kanye West’s Dark, Twisted Fantasy. And Jewish reality.
Bari Weiss
October 17, 2022

Yesterday was any given Sunday in America, which meant that most Jews were not at all astonished when we looked down at our phones and discovered a former president was calling us ingrates and one of the most famous artists in the world was doing Louis Farrakhan one better. We are long past astonishment. For those who don’t have an anxious Jewish mother or an internet connection, here’s a glimpse of this past weekend’s bile, starting with Kanye West. “On TMZ I just saw yesterday it said, ’Pete Davidson and Kim have sex by the fireplace to honor their grandmother.’ It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life. That’s telling this Christian woman that has four black children to put that out as a message,” he said on a podcast, in which he went unchallenged by the hosts. READ MORE

THE SUN Kanye West Offers To Buy Conservative Social Media Platform Parler The musician was locked out of Twitter and Instagram a week ago over antisemitic posts that the social networks said violated their policies.

JNS Kanye West: I’m targeted by ‘Jewish media mafia’ After sparking outrage following multiple anti-Semitic outbursts, Kanye West clashed with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo when the musician continued to double down on his comments. In an interview Monday, West, who now goes by “Ye,” claimed that a “Jewish underground media mafia” is targeting him, that he doesn’t believe in the term “anti-Semitic,” and that today’s music industry is akin to “modern-day slavery.”

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“The distinction such people draw between anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism enables them to drape themselves in the mantle of victimhood that connects them to the Holocaust, medieval blood-libels and the endemic anti-Semitism in English literature”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing
Melanie Phillips
October 20, 2022

Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes are the modern iteration of anti-Semitism. It’s claimed instead that Israel’s defenders are trying to silence criticism of what Israel does, just like any other country would be criticized. But Israel isn’t criticized like any other country. It is instead subjected to obsessive libels, double standards and scapegoating for crimes of which it is not only innocent but is in fact the victim—all unique characteristics of anti-Semitism. READ MORE

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Israel’s guilt is a given: Only those who have openly declared Israel guilty of “systematic oppression of Palestinians” will be featured on panel

Posted on October 14, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
Mainstreaming the Apartheid Lie in the Heart of the NY Glitterati
David Littman
October 14, 2022

On October 22nd, the American Branch of the International Law Association (ABILA) – a prominent organization of legal scholars and practitioners – will work to help normalize the antisemitic “apartheid” libel against the Jewish state. It will do so in the presence of high powered attorneys and with the sponsorship of powerful law firms, including White & Case LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. The ABILA annual conference, held in New York, will feature a panel entitled “Racism and the Crime of Apartheid in International Law,” during which three known anti-Israel ideologues will be given over an hour to promote the apartheid canard without challenge. The panelists include: Omar Shakir, the “Israel and Palestine” director for Human Rights Watch (HRW); Victor Kattan, an academic; and E. Tendayi Achiume, a United Nations “expert.” READ MORE

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A bad new Illinois law has put the state on a path to further breakdown of public order.

Posted on October 14, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Illinois’ UN-SAFE-T Act
Paul Mauro
October 17, 2022

After the 2020 death of George Floyd, jurisdictions across the United States enacted changes to their criminal-justice systems—slates of reforms generally described under the catchall term “bail reform.” One such effort is an 800-page Illinois bill signed into law by Governor J. B. Pritzker: the SAFE-T Act (the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act). The law represents yet another slapdash effort to inject “equity” into the criminal-justice system and will likely produce the usual result: more repeat offenders on the street and rising crime numbers, especially in the very communities that the bill seeks to protect. READ MORE

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“Yair Lapid trades Mediterranean gas fields claimed by Israel to Hezbollah in exchange for a line of rusting buoys”

Posted on October 13, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Israel-Lebanon deal brought the US back to the region
Oded Granot
October 13, 2022

No sooner had the announcement of the maritime deal with Lebanon than the politicians started squabbling over it, with both vile criticism and heavy praise exchanged over the ether. But the truth is that both sides are just divorced from reality. They are all true to one thing: There are elections coming up in two weeks’ time. Those who have called the deal historic because it could pave the way to normalizing relations are wrong; and those who say that it is a humiliating instrument of surrender to Hezbollah that would deny Israel billions of dollars in gas revenue that will now go to terrorism, are also very wrong. The truth of the matter – and Lebanon will concede as much – is that this is a worthy agreement that serves both sides. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Tony Badran: Yeah, Buoy!!  In pushing the deal on the Israelis, the U.S. administration saw an opportunity to obtain major concessions from a weak caretaker government that might in turn help to advance the Biden team’s wobbly regional agenda of realigning the United States with Iran. How far the administration pushed, and how much the Lapid government was willing to bend, became clearer as details about the deal were leaked to the Lebanese media.

WALL STREET JOURNAL Israel Falls for Lebanon’s Treaty Bait-and-Switch Jerusalem gave away almost everything in maritime talks after Beirut demanded even more.

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