Israeli Military: “There is a “high probability” that the shot that killed the Palestinian journalist was fired by an Israeli soldier returning fire”

Posted on September 8, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Shireen Abu Akleh likely killed by IDF gunfire in Jenin, Israel admits
Anna Ahronheim, Tovah Lazaroff, Lahav Harkov
September 5, 2022

An IDF investigation found that an Israeli soldier was likely to have accidentally shot Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a gunfight in Jenin in May, and dismissed the need for a criminal probe. “There is a high possibility that Shireen was accidentally hit by IDF gunfire that was fired toward suspects identified as armed Palestinian gunmen, during an exchange of fire in which life-risking, widespread and indiscriminate shots were fired toward IDF soldiers,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said on Monday. It was the strongest IDF statement to date with respect to its possible culpability in Abu Akleh’s death. However, it came alongside army clarification that no such statement of guilt was possible given the impossibility of determining with certainty who shot the fatal bullet. READ MORE

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#IranDeal is off; message conveyed to PM Lapid in recent conversations with Biden and other US officials; Iranian demands to halt IAEA probes appear to have derailed talks

Posted on September 7, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Nuclear deal with Iran off the table for time being, US has indicated to Israel
Shalom Yerushalmi
September 7, 2022

A new nuclear deal between Iran and world powers is off the table and will not be signed in the foreseeable future, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew sister site Zman Yisrael has learned. This is the message that was conveyed to Prime Minister Yair Lapid in his recent conversations with US President Joe Biden and other administration officials…The potential new nuclear deal was at the center of Israel’s diplomatic and security consultations over the past year, with a concerned Jerusalem tracking the negotiations between Iran and representatives of the world powers in Vienna, as well as the exchange of draft agreements between the sides in recent weeks. READ MORE

TABLET MAG Tony Badran: America’s Regional Integration Scheme Benefits Iran The Obama-Biden doctrine means that our Mideast allies don’t have to like the Iran deal. They just have to pay for it.

REUTERS Iran has enough uranium near weapons-grade for a bomb, IAEA report shows Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60%, close to weapons-grade, has grown to enough, if enriched further, for a nuclear bomb, a report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog showed on Wednesday.

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“While torture is generally condemned, it is allowed in Israel in the limited situation of a ticking bomb. So why was it used in this case to solve a crime?”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Green-lighting torture in Israel: A tragic, unifying court decision
Ari Zivotofsky
September 5, 2022

In this contentious election season, it might seem a reason to celebrate that something unites people from across the political spectrum, from the far Left to the Right. Yet the Supreme Court decision from last Thursday in the case of Amiram Ben-Uliel, while indeed eliciting a unified response, a loud condemnation is anything but a cause to celebrate. The question in the appeal was simple: is a confession given 36 hours following seven hours of torture, which is admissible in an Israeli court? In Israeli law, a confession must be given freely and of the person’s own volition, and the appellant argued that a post-torture confession is coerced. To the shock and horror of most people, the court upheld the lower court’s decision to accept the confession. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Dozens protest in Jerusalem: Free Amiram Ben Uliel Dozens demonstrate at Chords Bridge after Supreme Court rejects appeal of Jew convicted murdering members of the Dawabshe family.

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Moscow reportedly wishes to avoid the #Iranian militias in #Syria being targeted by #Israel

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Russia demands Iranian militias withdraw from Syrian province
September 4, 2022

Russia has demanded that Iranian militias withdraw from military positions west of the Syrian province of Hama and from other positions in central and western Syria to prevent them from being targeted by Israel, Asharq al-Awsat reported on Friday. Three Russian officers and their Iranian counterparts made the demand at the Hama Military Airport in central Syria on Aug. 31, according to the London-based Arabic daily…Iranian missile and rocket components arrive regularly via the nearby Syrian seaport of Tartus and are stored in vast underground bunkers at this installation, according to the report. READ MORE

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“In Elul, our biggest concerns should be goiing back to school, menus and guest lists, not fear and hiding a Star of David necklace”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
I’m afraid to walk to shul in NYC
Cindy Grosz
September 5, 2022

I get some interesting requests. Several weeks ago, I received a phone call from a friend’s acquaintance who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a neighborhood of many liberal successful Jews, many religious. The conversation was very cordial, brief and to the point. Can I help this family find a rental outside of Manhattan for the end of September and through the Jewish holidays concluding when Simchat Torah ends. And, if so, if I find that rental, they have friends who are looking too. Jews in Manhattan are afraid to walk on streets to shul, eat in Sukkahs and wear yarmulkes as they watch fellow Jews get beaten up, robbed and mobbed simply because they are Jewish. Rosh Hashanah is a festive time, not a time to hide. READ MORE

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Munich 1972: “With hand grenades and bullets the terrorists butchered the remaining nine athletes in the helicopters that brought them there, as well as a German policeman”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
‘There We Will Strike Them’: The Munich Massacre and Its Aftermath
by Richard Kemp
September 4, 2022

Fifty years ago this week, 5th and 6th September 1972, the world watched in horror as Jews were again brutally murdered on German soil, at the Olympics in Munich. Eight Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists, using the cover name “Black September,” tortured and murdered 11 Israeli athletes, emasculating one of them as he lay dying in front of his team-mates. They stormed the athletes’ accommodation, killed two immediately and held the remainder hostage, demanding the release of 234 terrorist prisoners held by Israel. Prime Minister Golda Meir — who had been a signatory to Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948 — refused to bargain with them, branding it blackmail. READ MORE

ELDER OF ZIYON Seven inconvenient and under-reported facts about the Munich Olympics massacre One is that the terror attack was financed by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority. The mastermind of the Munich attack, Mohammed Daoud Oudeh (Abu Daoud), says that both Yasir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas wished him luck and kissed him.

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“In the 14-minute film was a three-minute section of their visit to Kurtz’s grandfather’s home village of #Nasielsk, #Poland, a town whose Jewish community would be decimated by the #Holocaust not long after”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary
Stephen Silver
August 26, 2022

In 2009, writer Glenn Kurtz was working on a novel about “someone who discovers an old piece of home movie footage in a flea market and becomes obsessed with identifying the people [in it],” he said in an interview earlier this year. As he started researching what happens to old film, he remembered that his family happened to possess some home movies and wondered what became of them. This led him to a closet in his parents’ house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, where he unearthed a film of his grandparents’ vacation to Europe in 1938, on the eve of World War II. READ MORE

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“Just as words like apartheid and genocide have actual definitions, so does “occupation” have strict definition under international law and precedent”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
How to defeat the Israel ‘occupation’ myth with facts
James Sinkinson
September 6, 2022

…Most anti-Israel attacks in the media take the form of lies – from apartheid to ethnic genocide to the slaughter of Palestinian children. These “big lies” have sharp edges. The words have a powerful emotional impact…which makes them sting when they land. But because these words – apartheid, genocide, slaughter – have common specific meanings, they are also relatively easy to refute. Indeed, by no rational stretch of these words’ meanings can Israel be guilty of such slanders. No separation of or discrimination against citizens by race or ethnicity – no apartheid. No methodical mass murder of people because of race or ethnicity – no genocide. No targeted, purposeful killing of innocent children – no slaughter. But one libelous accusation persists – largely because the lie is so plain-sounding and its meaning so vague and diffuse: occupation. READ MORE

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“Biden’s Democrats seek a one-party state. Trump’s followers want freedom from government power”

Posted on September 2, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Biden’s Speech Had It All Backward
Lance Morrow
Sept. 4, 2022

The Democrats have the “fascist” business wrong. Donald Trump isn’t a fascist, or even a semi-fascist, in President Biden’s term. Mr. Trump is an opportunist. His ideology is coextensive with his temperament: In both, he is an anarcho- narcissist. He is Elmer Gantry, or the Music Man, if Harold Hill had been trained in the black arts by Roy Cohn. He is what you might get by crossing the Wizard of Oz with Willie Sutton, who explained that he robbed banks because “that’s where the money is.” READ MORE

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Boeing KC-46’s to arrive in 2025 at the earliest; deal to cost Israel nearly $1 billion, with funds coming from military aid Washington provides to Jerusalem

Posted on September 1, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
US inks deal to sell Israel 4 refueling planes needed for potential Iran strike
Emanuel Fabian
September 1, 2022

Aircraft manufacturer Boeing signed a contract with the US Department of Defense on Thursday to supply Israel with four KC-46 refueling planes, the company said in a statement. The multi-role aircraft makes mid-air refueling possible for fighter jets and other aircraft, but can also be used for military transport. For Israel, the aircraft are seen as necessary to conduct potential major strikes against targets in Iran, some 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from Israel and far outside the normal flight range of Israeli jets. The KC-45 aircraft are to replace the Israeli Air Force’s current fleet of aging refueling planes, which includes KC-130 Hercules and converted Boeing 707s. READ MORE

JNS What should Israel’s strategy be for the day after a nuke deal with Iran? While Israel has urged the United States not to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, recent signs point to a revived agreement. This has shifted discussion in Israel from how to prevent a deal to what strategy to adopt the day after one is signed.

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