“From Israel’s perspective, this is currently the preferred solution, because nobody wants Hamas or the P.A.”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hamas leaders rattled by emergence of clans against them in Gaza
Yaakov Lappin
July 17, 2025

Israel is reportedly actively arming and supporting multiple local, anti-Hamas clans and militias in the Gaza Strip as part of a broader effort to cultivate a new source of local power for the “day after” the war.  According to assessments in Israel, Hamas has been significantly shaken by these efforts. Recent reports indicate this policy, which includes Israeli support for a militia led by Yasser Abu Shabab in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, is expanding. According to a July 3 report by Ynet news, Israel is arming and coordinating with two additional clans: the Khalas clan, operating in Gaza City’s Shejaiya neighborhood, and a faction led by Yasser Khanidak in Khan Yunis…A key tool for empowering these new groups, he suggested, will be the massive reconstruction effort Gaza will require. By giving these new clan leaders control over local construction companies, labor recruitment, and security for building sites, Israel and its international partners could help create a new, organic power base…READ MORE

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Greenfield: “This is the Islamic norm. And anywhere they take power, this is what will happen to non-Muslims. Let’s not let it happen to us”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
World Condemns Israel for Preventing Al Qaeda Genocide of Druze
Daniel Greenfield
July 23, 2025

Recently Al Qaeda/ISIS took over Syria. This development was greeted with cheers from world leaders who had been working toward this very goal from the Arab Spring days. Now, they assured us, Syria would become a democratic paradise full of human rights. Al-Jolani, the former Jihadist leader, made his world tour while Jihadis in Syria began massacring the Druze population. The Druze are a minority group considered illegitimate by Islamists. Israel has a large Druze population which protested in the streets. And Israeli planes struck Al Qaeda government targets in Syria. And the world condemned Israel. There’s been an official ‘ceasefire’ with the Al Qaeda regime in Damascus and videos still keep coming out of Jihadist massacres of Druze. READ MORE

FDD Hussain Abdul-Hussain: Why No States for the Druze or the Kurds?  Self-determination in the Middle East is inconsistent. For Muslim Palestinians, statehood is seen as an unfulfilled destiny. Yet for religious minorities like the Druze or ethnic groups like the Kurds, pursuing sovereignty is branded as betrayal or capitulation to imperialism. There’s no clear logic to why Israel should be divided into two states while Syria must remain whole. Recent attacks by Islamist jihadist groups on the Druze in southern Syria highlight why non-Arab and non-Muslim minorities need their own sovereign states, independent of the Muslim Arab majority that often claims exclusive rights to sovereignty. Across the Middle East, except in Israel, non-Muslim and non-Arab minorities are steadily shrinking, some disappearing entirely.

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Now they found their man — an Israeli! a Jew! — to give NY Times readers exactly what they want to hear: that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, no matter how remotely untrue and unverified this is.

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

URBAN WARFARE
I’m a War Scholar. There Is No Genocide in Gaza
John Spencer
July 23, 2025

…Bartov cites death tolls from Hamas health authorities without question. He says 58,000 have been killed, including 17,000 children. But these numbers come from a terrorist organization. They mix civilians and fighters and count anyone under 18 as a child, even though Hamas uses teenagers and younger children as combatants. The figures are not independently verified and have been shown to contain false details, including names, ages, and sex. Civilian deaths are tragic, but in Gaza, they are also part of Hamas’s strategy. No military operation is judged solely by body counts or destruction figures. If we used Bartov’s logic, every major war would be called genocide. Two million civilians died in the Korean War, an average of 54,000 per month. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars killed hundreds of thousands. The fight against ISIS leveled multiple cities and killed tens of thousands. None of those wars were considered genocidal. Gaza is not either. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: The New York Times is lying to you about genocide An op-ed published last week, titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It” was written by Omer Bartov, an Israeli-American historian and the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. In this op-ed, Bartov accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, cloaking his arguments in the moral authority of his academic title and the historical weight of the word “genocide.” The Times amplified his claim without hesitation, feeding the narrative that Israel, a nation born in the ashes of an actual genocide, is now guilty of the very crime that defined Jews in the 20th century. This is not journalism; it is propaganda dressed as moral scholarship. And it is not new. The Times has a long and troubling record of shaping reality rather than reporting it.

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“It’s reached a point where the Central Jewish Council of Greece issued a public warning last month, saying Jewish tourists were being ‘attacked and described as murderers,’ simply because of their identity”

Posted on July 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Israelis attacked in Rhodes amid Greek protests
Joshua Marks
July 23, 2025

A group of Israeli teenagers was attacked early on Wednesday on the Greek island of Rhodes by dozens of pro-Palestinian assailants, some reportedly armed with knives. The incident occurred shortly after Israeli cruise ship passengers were barred on Tuesday afternoon from disembarking on another Greek island—Syros—because of pro-Palestinian protests at Ermoupoli Port, where demonstrators accused the Jewish state of “genocide” in its war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip… “In the last two months alone, a Holocaust memorial in Larissa was defaced, Jewish cemeteries in Volos and Thessaloniki were desecrated, and earlier this month, men in black shirts bearing Palestinian flags were seen patrolling tourist areas in Athens like Monastiraki and the Plaka, threatening Israeli and Jewish visitors,” he said. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER French Jewish Students Forcibly Removed From Spanish Plane After Singing in Hebrew, Camp Director Arrested A group of 50 French Jewish students was forcibly removed from a plane in Valencia, Spain on Wednesday evening — reportedly for singing in Hebrew — in an incident that led to the arrest of their summer camp director. The children, aged 10 to 15, are members of the Kineret Club — a summer camp for Jewish families run by the Matana charitable association — which had just concluded their trip in the coastal resort town of Sant Carles de la Ràpita, between Valencia and Barcelona. According to local reports, the children were singing in Hebrew while boarding the plane to return home, which prompted a hostile response from the crew. As the incident quickly escalated, the camp director was arrested after refusing to hand over the children’s cell phones when requested by staff. VIEW VIDEO OF CAMP DIRECTOR BEING MANHANDLED BY SECURITY

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Initial proposal approved by NEA’s delegates offer striking example of growing shift away from the ADL by progressives, many of whom now demonize Israel

Posted on July 21, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
NEA board rejects members’ proposal to sever ties with ADL
Grace Gilson
July 21, 2025

The board of directors for the National Education Association, the United States’ largest teachers union, has rejected a proposal by its delegates to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The rejection on Friday night comes after the delegates’ proposal earlier this month to bar the union from using, endorsing or publicizing any materials from the ADL drew condemnation from prominent Jewish organizations across the country. In a statement announcing the board’s rejection of the proposal Friday, Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, emphasized that the decision was not a statement of support for the ADL. She also called on the Jewish civil rights watchdog to “support the free speech” of students and educators, in an apparent allusion to criticism of the ADL for opposing some forms of pro-Palestinian advocacy in schools. READ MORE

FREE BEACON Largest Teachers’ Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust The NEA described the Holocaust as having ’12 million victims’ from ‘different faiths’ without mentioning the attempted extermination of the Jewish people.

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Mayer: If current trends continue, and if voting patterns start to reflect the shifting views of the electorate, we may find ourselves in uncharted territory.

Posted on July 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
America’s relationship with Israel is fading.
Avi Mayer
July 19, 2025

…But perhaps most shocking has been the realization that, far from rendering him unelectable, Mamdani’s stances against the Jewish state may now be a political asset: A plurality of young voters in New York say that his support for BDS and his refusal to disavow the chant “Globalize the Intifada” (which, respondents were told, “some interpret as a call to violence against Jews”) make them “much more likely” to vote for him. What once seemed unthinkable now appears increasingly plausible: a post-Zionist America. To be sure, we aren’t anywhere near there, at least not yet. Critiques of Israeli policy, no matter how strident or widespread, do not automatically lead to the wholesale rejection of Israel or the negation of Jewish self-determination. READ MORE

JNS Dan Diker: Lessons in populist propaganda and totalitarian takeover Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign for New York City mayor, framed as a progressive crusade for economic justice, bears conspicuous similarities to Hamas’s 2006 electoral campaign in the Palestinian legislative and presidential elections. Both Mamdani and Hamas’s campaigns leverage populist economic grievances to mask radical ideological agendas, blending reformist rhetoric with revolutionary objectives.

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With Tucker’s use of Epstein as a proxy for Jews, he cunningly changed the subject from his Iran doomsday embarrassment

Posted on July 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Can It Happen Here? Ask Tucker Carlson
Joel Engel
July 18, 2025

…Popular culture was once awash with books and movies about the Central Intelligence Agency’s omnipotence and omniscience. Those fantasies are now about the Mossad—which delivers in ways even fiction writers hadn’t imagined: exploding Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies, Iranian politicians and scientists wiped out with little harm to civilians. Whatever else you think of those ops, the Epstein theory—that Mossad would choose as an American asset a man who’d been convicted of pimping an underage girl and was supposedly pimping many more underage girls to powerful men to make them susceptible to blackmail—requires a preposterous belief in some of history’s oldest antisemitic tropes about the deviously clever puppet-master Jew. READ MORE

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“Men used to fight wars and build things. Now they sob on podcasts and have meltdowns online”

Posted on July 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
When Did Men Become Drama Queens?
Liel Leibovitz
July 22, 2025

…In his seminal work, Manhood in the Making, the anthropologist David Gilmore showed that disparate societies that have almost nothing in common and whose cultures vary wildly still maintain an almost universal notion of masculinity; they teach it to young boys by requiring them to demonstrate both their ability to unleash their aggression (in hunting, say, or fighting enemies) and their capacity for stoicism in the face of great danger and pain. Our therapeutic age seems to have dissolved this timeless tradition, turning men in particular not only into emotional wrecks but also into campy figures who believe that the only way to signal their worth is by having some sort of very public and very emotional meltdown for others to admire. Instead of engaging in battle—of ideas if not of fists—they demand the other side be silenced. Instead of taking pride in remaining rational, calm, and ready, they pursue the theatrics of emotionalism, knowing well that no other currency matters. READ MORE

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The Israeli strikes followed appeals from Druze leaders who accused the regime of waging “a war of extermination”

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Netanyahu Defines Israel’s Policy in Syria as Demilitarization, Druze Protection
Ailin Vilches Arguello
July 17, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday outlined Israel’s two primary strategic goals in Syria as ensuring southern Syria is demilitarized and protecting the Druze religious minority in the same area. “We have set forth a clear policy: demilitarization of the region to south of Damascus, from the Golan Heights and to the Druze Mountain area. That’s rule number one. Rule number two is protecting the brothers of our brothers, the Druze at the Druze Mountain,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “Both those rules were broken by the regime in Damascus,” the Israeli premier continued. “The [Syrian] regime sent troops south of Damascus, into the region that has to be demilitarized, and began slaughtering the Druze. That we could not accept in any way, and I therefore directed the IDF to take action — and take powerful action. The Air Force attacked both the gangs of murderers and the armored vehicles. I added another target, to also attack the Ministry of Defense in Damascus.” READ MORE

JTA Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s father expresses frustration with Netanyahu as latest truce talks falter sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not take credit for the return of hostages murdered while in Gaza, the father of one of the most prominent in the group said on Sunday. Jon Polin, the father of murdered Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, called on Netanyahu’s office to stop claiming that “military and diplomatic pressure” had caused the release of 205 hostages, from a total of 255 held on Oct. 7, 2023. “This insensitive claim whitewashes the lives of the 20% of the 205 who were taken into Gaza alive, survived a period of torture, and were then killed in captivity, including my son Hersh,”…

ALGEMEINER Support for Israel Holding Strong Among US Public, Growing Among Young Voters, Poll Finds American support for Israel in its war against Hamas has reached its highest level since the conflict began and includes a surprising surge of support among younger voters in Gen Z, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. The poll, conducted from July 6–8, found that 77 percent of registered voters say they support Israel in the ongoing war in Gaza, while just 23 percent back Hamas. That marks a continued trend of stability in pro-Israel sentiment across the US public. In June, the poll revealed that 75 percent of the US public supported Israel over Hamas.

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When reports of violence at and around aid sites began to surface, US media outlets, social media influencers and nonprofits published articles blaming the IDF

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NY POST
Non-profit feeding millions of Gazans caught in storm of Hamas propaganda, ‘falsely smeared’ by UN
Isabel Vincent
July 15, 2025

Hamas and international aid groups, including the United Nations, have ganged up against a US-backed non-profit, reframing its record-breaking delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza as providing “nothing but starvation and gunfire,” according to a bombshell new report. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — a US State Department-backed initiative conceived under the Biden administration but only implemented in the last few months — has handed out more than 75 million meals in the Gaza Strip, where a little over two million people live, since late May, according to its organizers. But its work was “rapidly reframed in public discourse as a source of chaos, deception and complicity in violence,” says a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, a non-partisan think tank that analyzes extremism online. READ MORE

FDD Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Blames Hamas Affiliates for Stampede and Stabbing at Aid Site “The acts of violence at GHF aid sites bear the hallmarks of a Hamas operation. The Islamist group learned much from embedding its operatives with civilians during protests and riots at the Gaza border between 2018 and 2023. Hamas is now using the same tactics against the GHF that it employed against the IDF during those years: armed operatives in civilian clothing, grenade attacks, and the exploitation of civilians to incite unrest.”

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