“The American Left has appeased Russian autocrats”

Posted on February 4, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

TOWN HALL
Russian Appeasement Was a Left-Wing Monopoly
by Victor Davis Hanson
February 3, 2022

One way of understanding the 2009-2014 Obama Administration policy of “reset” with Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to recall two iconic incidents. The first was the 2009 “reset.” Newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she would pursue a “reset” detente with Russia. America would relax the prior Bush Administration’s mild ostracism of Russia after its 2008 invasion of Georgia and softly start anew. The second was President Barack Obama’s hot mic moment in March 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. Obama got caught asking Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to reassure Vladimir Putin. READ MORE

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Israel’s laser system going online this year will protect Israel from missiles, rockets, drones and other threats

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Laser defense system will be ready to intercept missiles in a year 
by Lahav Harkov
February 1, 2022

Israel will surround itself with a defensive “laser wall,” with new missile interception technology to be ready within a year, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies…The IDF will begin using the laser interception system in the next year, first experimentally and later operationally, starting in the South. “This will allow us, in the medium- to long-term, to surround Israel with a laser wall that will defend us from missiles, rockets, UAVs and other threats that will essentially take away the strongest card our enemies have against us,” Bennett said. The Defense Ministry successfully intercepted drones with the powerful airborne laser system installed on light aircraft in June. READ MORE

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Hatikvah greets President Herzog on UAE visit

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Israel supports UAE security needs, president says on first visit
January 30, 2022

Israel’s president, making his first visit on Sunday to the United Arab Emirates, said his country supports the Gulf state’s security needs and wants more countries in the region to join its new detente with the Arab world. The UAE, along with Bahrain, signed U.S.-brokered normalisation agreements with Israel, dubbed the “Abraham Accords”, in 2020. The two Gulf states and Israel share concerns about Iran and its regional allies…Sheikh Mohammed said Israel and the UAE share a “common view of the threats to regional stability and peace, particularly those posed by militias and terrorist forces”. READ MORE

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On Holocaust Remembrace Day, a conversation with a man who has paid a heavy personal price for working to eradicate Jew-hate and to promote peace between Muslims and Jews

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

HONESTLY WITH BARI WEISS
An Imam Blows the Whistle on Muslim Antisemitism
January 27, 2022

As a boy growing up in Turkey, Abdullah Antepli thought hating Jews was normal. He read Mein Kampf before he was 15. His parents gave him a children’s version of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He burned Israeli flags. Today, he is an imam, a professor at Duke University, and, as he puts it, a recovering antisemite. Imam Adbullah has been fearless about blowing the whistle about rising antisemitism in the Muslim community. In the wake of the recent hostage-taking at the synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, he tweeted: “Houston, we have a problem!” He wrote, “we need to honestly discuss the increasing anti-semitism within various Muslim communities.” HEAR SPOTIFY SEGMENT

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CAMERA: Amnesty International’s Big Lie About Israel

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
The ‘Apartheid’ Libel of Israel
by The Editorial Board
January 31, 2022

Perhaps you thought Israel had long ago established its right to exist as a Jewish state. Guess again. Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran want to eliminate Israel as we know it, but who would have thought they’d find allies in Amnesty International? Perhaps we should have known this given some of Amnesty’s sympathies with the global left. But the nonprofit advocate for political prisoners is going far beyond that with its 211-page report labeling Israel an “apartheid” state that deserves the world’s opprobrium and sanction. The report is embargoed until Tuesday, but we’ve obtained the draft from a source other than Amnesty. It deserves condemnation for its bias and lack of understanding about why Israel survives amid hostile neighbors. READ MORE

GATESTONE Colonel Richard Kemp: Amnesty International Wants to End the Jewish State Unfortunately for the inveterate peace-processors and their followers, the Arab world has moved on from their own opposition to Israel. They see the country for what it is: a source of stability and prosperity in the region. They understand the dangers of continuing Palestinian intransigence and animosity and have denied them a veto on progress — a veto that Amnesty and its fellow Israel rejectionists want to see reinstated.

JNS Israel defenders slam Amnesty International over ‘diplomatic lynch against the Jewish state’ Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.”

CAMERA Amnesty International’s Big Lie About Israel Amnesty International has a long history of leveling maliciously false charges against Israel (eg  here, here, here, and here), and its leader Agnès Callamard had to apologize after her bizarre anti-Israel tweets were publicized. So it’s only fitting that in its latest report alleging Israel is an apartheid and illegitimate state, the very first line is a blatant and malicious lie, a quotation from Benjamin Netanyahu mangled so that it seems to support such charges.

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#Whoopi and the #Holocaust: She’s only regurgitating “twisted attitudes held by an alarming number of people, but which are generally glossed over because these people are black”

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race
by Melanie Phillips
February 3, 2022

…Racism, under this dogma, is defined not as bigotry by one group against another but as bigotry with power. Therefore, black people can never be racists. And because this viewpoint also holds that the Jews control white society, they are seen as powerful and therefore white, even when they are dark-skinned. So under this pernicious theory, Jews can never be victims. The West is currently consumed by epidemic anti-Semitism because of the rise of radical politics in three areas: the Muslim world, the left and the black community. Radical Islamism has fused Nazi and Soviet anti-Semitism with theological Islamic Jew-hatred. READ MORE

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New Twist in Chicago area Dem Rep’s Bribery Scandal: Negotiating Anti-Israel Positions

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Pro-Palestinian influence at center of congressional bribery allegations
by Ron Kampeas
February 3, 2022

An alleged bid to get a freshman congresswoman to adopt pro-Palestinian stances is at the center of a bribery scandal dating back to 2018. Rep. Marie Newman, a Chicago-area Democrat, is under investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics for allegedly promising Iymen Chehade, a Palestinian-American academic, a job on her congressional staff if he agreed not to run against her in a primary. The Daily Beast on Thursday reported on an email from Chehade in which he outlines his conditions for assuming a role on her staff, should she be elected in 2020. READ MORE

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Kuwaiti editor urges “all Gulf states to normalize relations with Israel due to the fact that peace with this most advanced country is the right thing to do”

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIA LINE
Kuwaiti Daily ‘Arab Times’ Calls for Normalization With Israel
by Steven Ganot
January 30, 2022

An editorial published in the Kuwaiti daily Arab Times this weekend to a somewhat surprising position when it called for the Gulf states to normalize relations with Israel while describing the Palestinians as “insulters” who “curse the Gulf leaders and people” and “use all of the defamatory and abusive words in their dictionary against us.” The editorial, penned by Arab Times Editor-in-Chief Ahmed al-Jarallah, lamented that despite being the targets of Palestinian “insults and curses,” the Gulf countries “overlook all that by sending them aid.” Al-Jarallah also slammed the Palestinian leadership for supporting authoritarian leaders such as the late Saddam Hussein, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Moammar Gadhafi, as well as Iran’s Revolutionary commander Qasem Soleimani… READ MORE

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#BretStephens: “Israel’s defenders seem intent on fighting their battles in the settings where they are most likely to lose: elite universities, prestige media outlets, and other venues where opinions tend to range from the left to the far left”

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

SAPIR
Israel Wins the War of Ideas
by Bret Stephens
Winter 2022

…Each of these arguments may be right on the merits, yet they rarely do more than preach to the converted. As for the unconverted, the best argument is that Israel is under no obligation to justify its existence to anybody, least of all those who despise it; that, like any democratic and sovereign nation, it has every right to do what it must to safeguard its vital interests and security; that it isn’t interested in winning popularity contests; and that sincere and constructive criticism is always welcome, but its policies won’t be swayed by those who fundamentally wish it ill. READ MORE

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“Rather than educating anyone about the threat of antisemitism, #ADL’s new Director of Jewish Outreach tells Jews they’re racists”

Posted on January 28, 2022 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
ADL, Founded To Combat Anti-Semitism, Goes Woke, Changes Definition Of Racism
by Hank Berrien
January 30, 2022

The Anti-Defamation League, an international Jewish organization that is now headed by Jonathan Greenblatt, a former Obama administration official, has changed the definition of racism on its website to read, “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” As The Blaze reported, the definition previously stated, “Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.” READ MORE

FRONT PAGE Daniel Greenfield: ADL Hires Director for Jewish Outreach Who Hates Jews “Jews have to be ok with Palestinians explaining why some turn to terrorism.”

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