#Lapid: “The Poles wanted to mess with the content of the trips”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
Israel cancels youth trips to Poland over ‘educative manipulations’
June 15, 2022

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced at a briefing on Wednesday that youth trips to Poland were banned over attempts to manipulate educational content presented to Israeli delegations. Lapid said that Poles “can’t tell us what to teach Israeli children,” according to The Jerusalem Post. The official assured that Israel “will not allow this” to happen. “The Poles wanted to mess with the content of the trips and what can or can’t be said to Israeli children visiting,” the minister was quoted as saying. “That endangered the trips this summer,” he added. READ MORE

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Where is the outrage? Where are the “hashtags” in support of Christian Nigerians? Why don’t these black lives matter?

Posted on June 10, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Black Lives that Don’t Matter: 50 Christians Murdered in Their Church
Raymond Ibrahim
June 12, 2022

Last Sunday, June 5, 2022, Islamic terrorists stormed St. Francis Catholic Church in Ondo State, Nigeria, and massacred more than 50 Christians who were peacefully worshipping their God. Videos, according to one report, “showed church worshippers lying in pools of blood while people around them wailed.”…Ignoring the murder of Christians is, of course, only one piece of the puzzle; covering up the religious identity of their murderers is the other. In describing last Sunday’s massacre of more than 50 Christians, the words “Muslim,” “Islam,” or even “Islamist” never appeared in the AP report. Rather, we are told that “It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack on the church.” READ MORE

GATESTONE Pakistani High Court Upholds Death Sentence of Christian Brothers Charged with Blasphemy They were accused of posting blasphemous contents on the internet… Judge Javed Iqbal Bosal sentenced them to death, with a 100,000 rupee (USD $719) fine.

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Caterpillar, a Chicago area-based company with more than $50 billion in annual revenue, announced it will set up its new headquarters outside Dallas, saying the move is “in the best strategic interest of the company.”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Illinois Dem ‘Shocked’ After Another Manufacturer Leaves Democrat-Run State for Texas
Philip Caldwell
June 15, 2022

Democratic Illinois senator Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday said she was “shocked” after the world’s largest construction-equipment manufacturer announced it would move its headquarters out of her state to Texas. “I’m shocked and disappointed by Caterpillar’s decision to move its HQ from Illinois,” Duckworth said on Twitter...The manufacturer’s move marks the second time in recent weeks that a major corporation announced it would move its headquarters out of the Democrat-governed state. Last month, Boeing said it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, VA. READ MORE

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“If you’re going to die on the street, San Francisco is not a bad place to do it. The fog keeps things temperate. There’s nowhere in the world with more beautiful views”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ATLANTIC
How San Francisco became a failed city, and
how it could recover
Nellie Bowles
June 8, 2022

…During the first part of the pandemic, San Francisco County lost more than one in 20 residents—myself among them. Signs of the city’s pandemic decline are everywhere—the boarded-up stores, the ghostly downtown, the encampments. But walking these streets awakens me to how bad San Francisco had gotten even before the coronavirus hit—to how much suffering and squalor I’d come to think was normal. Stepping over people’s bodies, blurring my eyes to not see a dull needle jabbing and jabbing again between toes—it coarsened me. I’d gotten used to the idea that some people just want to live like that. READ MORE

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The poll of 519 respondents representing a statistical sample of the adult Israeli population and has a margin of error of 4.3%

Posted on June 9, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Public prefers an election over new, or same, government
Gil Hoffman
June 10, 2022

More Israelis prefer to have their fifth election in three and a half years, rather than the current government continuing, or the formation of a new government from within the current Knesset, according to a Panels Research poll taken Wednesday for the Maariv newspaper. Thirty-nine percent of respondents said they preferred to have a new election, 28% said they want the current government to continue, 19% want a new government in the current Knesset, and 14% said they do not know. Among those who would vote for parties in the opposition if an election would be held now, 68% prefer an election, 24% a new government without going to the polls, 1% the current government, and 7% do not know. READ MORE

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Iran enriching up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% of weapons-grade, claims its nuclear aims are “wholly peaceful”

Posted on June 8, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Iran expanding nuclear work, switching off cameras amid IAEA censure
Francois Murphy
June 8, 2022

Iran has begun further expanding its underground uranium enrichment and said on Wednesday it would switch off two of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s cameras, as the watchdog’s 35-nation board overwhelmingly passed a resolution criticising Tehran. Only Russia and China opposed the resolution submitted by the United States, Germany, France and Britain saying the Board of Governors “expresses profound concern” that uranium traces found at three undeclared sites remain unexplained due to insufficient cooperation by Iran. It also calls on Tehran to engage with the watchdog “without delay”. READ MORE

DAILY BEAST Playing with Fire: This Could Be the Next Big War That Grips the Entire World
The ongoing war between Israel and Iran across the Middle East came out of the shadows and into the open long ago. But now, on the back of several suspected Israeli attacks inside Iran itself, the deadly contest threatens to escalate—possibly beyond the region.

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Chariots of Fire brought the Israeli military to a new standard, as troops practiced responding to emergency events

Posted on June 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
The IDF drills for a devastating war on home soil and away
Anna Ahronheim
June 4, 2022

It was a drill on a level that the IDF had never carried out before. Thousands of troops, and hundreds of aircraft and navy vessels all trained together in going to war against Israel’s enemies, on all fronts and in all dimensions, including a strike in Iran. Chariots of Fire brought the Israeli military to a new standard, as troops practiced responding to emergency events in multiple theaters simultaneously while under heavy rocket fire from all borders – especially from the North. The Israeli army expects the home front to be bombarded with 1,500 rockets a day until the last day of the war. The attacks would wreck the country, with dozens of buildings and sites destroyed and hundreds killed and wounded. READ MORE

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Israeli relations improving with Greece, Saudi Arabia and….Pakistan ?

Posted on June 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
In Second Visit to Israel, Greek Military Chief Touts Strong Bonds
June 8, 2022

Israel welcomed the chief of Greece’s armed forces with an honor guard on Wednesday, amid increasingly close ties between the Mediterranean nations. Gen. Konstantinos Floros, head of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, was greeted by IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, ahead of discussions regarding the situation in Ukraine and security developments in the eastern Mediterranean. Floros also visited to the IDF’s Intelligence Corps’ Unit 9900, which is responsible for aerial and satellite imagery. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Saudi Arabia moves closer to forging ties with Israel The Wall Street Journal claims Riyadh is engaging in “serious talks” with Jerusalem about establishing business ties, and bolstering security coordination.

HAARETZ Thanks to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan’s Recognition of Israel Is Now Inevitable Pakistan can’t afford to remain the last Sunni Islamist bastion resisting Saudi normalization with Israel. But the country’s rulers, both political and military, want safeguards against a frenzied domestic backlash

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“The real crime, one that represents a serious breach of the long-standing intelligence-sharing arrangements between the US and Israel, is that one of President Biden’s senior officials has been willing to betray the trust of such a close ally”

Posted on June 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Biden Is No Friend of Israel
Con Coughlin
June 3, 2022

Nothing better illustrates the Biden administration’s deep-seated antipathy towards the State of Israel than the leaking of highly classified material about the alleged role Israeli intelligence played in the assassination of a top-ranking Iranian terrorist. For decades, Israel and the US have enjoyed a unique intelligence-sharing relationship whereby the two countries share the most sensitive material on their respective intelligence, security and military operations. But the deep-seated bond of trust that forms the bedrock of this vital relationship has been seriously compromised as a result of the Biden administration’s egregious decision to leak details of Israel’s alleged involvement in the killing of Colonel Sayad Khodayee, a senior commander in the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Melanie Phillips: Why the US won’t stop appeasing the Palestinians There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades

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“With its elisions, manipulations, and tendentiousness, Rep. Tlaib’s House resolution reads as if it was written by a Palestinian propagandist from the 1950s or 1960s”

Posted on June 3, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
Democrats go to war against Israel
Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky
June 2, 2022

…The Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] believed Democrat Jamal Bowman’s increasingly heated attacks on Israel were not extreme enough to make him a good socialist. A staffer wrote of the list of “demands” the DSA had presented Bowman with and explained that the congressman was complying, first by opposing a resolution supporting peace between Israel and its neighbors and then promising that “the next time we have something like a standalone Iron Dome vote” on funding for Israel’s ability to defend its civilians from air attacks, “you will see Rep. Bowman vote no.” READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Tlaib, Ocasio-Cortez, McCollum target Israeli eligibility for Visa Waiver Program Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is soliciting signatures from House colleagues on a letter arguing against Israel’s inclusion in the Visa Waiver Program. In the letter, which was obtained by JI, the Michigan congresswoman pushes back on ongoing talks between Israel and the Biden administration over the program, which allows foreign citizens to enter the U.S. for 90 days without applying for a visa.                  

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