Democracy dies in darkness when Dems suppress news: Politico confirms the NY Post story the Bidens never denied

Posted on September 24, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Vindication Over Hunter’s Emails
Editorial Board
September 24, 2021

The New York Post is claiming vindication over its scoop in October 2020 about Hunter Biden’s emails, and deservedly so. But that shouldn’t be the end of the story for everyone who attacked the Post or ignored the story to cover for Joe Biden. A writer for Politico has published a book about President Biden that confirms that some of the emails on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden are authentic. This is barely a scoop, since neither Hunter Biden nor Joe Biden’s campaign denied last year that the laptop provided to the Post by Rudy Giuliani was Hunter’s. Both men counted instead on the rest of the media to serve as a cordon sanitaire, and did they ever. Twitter barred the Post’s feed for a time lest Americans be able to read about the emails and their content. READ MORE

REASON Joe Manchin Is Forcing Congress To Think About the Deficit. Good. Among Americans who aren’t liberal pundits, the debt and deficit rank as major concerns. It’s about time Congress noticed.

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“Pro-Israel Democratic members introduce Iron Dome funding in a standalone bill on Thursday”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

POLITICO
House passes $1B for Israel’s Iron Dome after progressive dustup
by Andrew Desiderio
September 23, 2021

The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a bill to replenish Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, just two days after it was pulled from a government funding package over objections from progressive lawmakers. Moderate Democrats had pushed for a standalone vote on the Iron Dome funding, which totals $1 billion, amid an uproar over leadership’s decision to strip it from a stopgap spending bill aimed at averting a government shutdown at the end of the month. The bill passed by a vote of 420-9, with eight Democrats and one Republican voting against it, plus two Democrats voting present. READ MORE

GATESTONE Alan Dershowitz: The Squalid “Squad” Is Trying to Destroy Bipartisan Support for Israel The fact that the Squad picked on the Iron Dome to make its stand against Israel is significant. The Iron Dome is a system developed jointly by the United States and Israel that is purely defensive. It does not kill, injure, or threaten anyone. It only protects civilians against war crimes committed by terrorist groups that direct lethal rockets against innocent civilians.

JNS After rough few days, Iron Dome funding prevails, though not without partisan finger-pointing Nathan Diament, executive director for public policy at the Orthodox Union, was troubled that some Congress members had the “misguided view that a missile-defense system does anything other than defend innocent civilians from attacks launched by hostile terrorist groups.”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Editorial Board: Shooting Down Israel’s Iron Dome The De­mo­c­ra­tic Party still likes to say it sup­ports Is­rael. But on Tues­day House De­moc­rats stripped from their gov­ern­ment fund­ing bill the $1 bil­lion ear­marked for Is­rael’s Iron Dome mis­sile-de­fense sys­tem.

FOX NEWS 9 House members vote against Israel Iron Dome funding as Tlaib accused of anti-Semitism Nine House members, including eight Democrats, voted against funding for the Israel Iron Dome missile defense system on Thursday. The bill passed overwhelmingly 420-9. The “no” votes were Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-MN; Rashida Tlaib, D-MI; Ayanna Pressley, D-MA; Cori Bush, D-MO; André Carson, D-IN; Marie Newman, D-IL, Raúl Grijalva, D-AZ; Chuy Garcia, D-IL; and Thomas Massie, R-KY.

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#NewYorkTimes “lifted my reporting about the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist without any attribution”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

THE SPECTATOR
The New York Times Stole My Story
by Jake Wallis Simons
September 21, 2021

…Last February, I revealed top-secret details of the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in the pages of London’s Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper. Among the revelations — given to me by impeccable sources that I know well — were that the top Tehran official had been killed by Mossad using a remote-controlled gun that weighed one ton and had been smuggled into Iran piece by piece over several months. The reason, I disclosed, for such a complicated method of assassination was to achieve hyper-accuracy, since Fakhrizadeh was sitting in the car next to his wife, and she was not to be harmed. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killer Robot Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.

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“With trade surging between Israel and the United Arab Emirates following the Abraham Accords, Sisi may see a compelling case for thawing the cold peace that Israel and Egypt have maintained since 1979”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

AL ARABIYA
Egypt’s President Sisi is moving to thaw relations with Israel, reap economic rewards
by Hussain Abdul-Hussain
September 16, 2021

For the first time in a decade, an Israeli prime minister is visiting Egypt. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is hosting Naftali Bennett at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, at a time when Cairo has begun to play a more assertive regional role, especially in mediating between Israel and the Palestinians. More important than politics, however, is Cairo’s perception that better relations with Israel may boost the Egyptian economy at a time when austerity measures are weighing heavily on consumers. READ MORE

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Democrat-sponsored bill “would make it US policy to view “the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and Gaza, are occupied territories”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Congressman files two-states act that restricts Israeli use of US arms
by Tovah Lazaroff
September 23, 2021

A bill that affirms a two-state resolution at the pre-1967 lines and restricts Israeli use of arms, was filed to Congress Thursday by Representative Andy Levin (D-Michigan)…The bill is not expected to pass the House and the Senate. It rescinds a number of significant policies from the former Trump administration, including its declaration that West Bank settlement activity is not inconsistent with international law. According to a draft copy of the bill, seen by The Jerusalem Post, it would be American policy to view “the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and Gaza, are occupied territories” and that territory would be “referred to as such consistently in official US policies, communications, and documents.” READ MORE

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“All things considered, a review of the relationship between Washington and Islamabad seems long overdue”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (be agreement with JNS)
Unfriending Pakistan
by Clifford D. May
September 22, 2021

…We now know for certain that powerful elements within Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment helped create the Afghan Taliban in the early 1990s and continued to fund and train its fighters even after the US intervention in 2001. The Taliban’s close alliance with al Qaeda apparently troubled them not at all. Author Elliot Ackerman, who served as a Marine in Afghanistan, is hardly alone in believing that had Pakistani leaders ended that support and shut the border to the Taliban – whose leaders retreated to Pakistani bases every winter – the organization would have “collapsed” rather than soldiering on until American leaders grew tired and quit – the outcome the jihadis both expected and predicted. READ MORE

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Two thirds of polled Jewish students “experienced or were familiar with antisemitic incidents that occurred over the past 120 days”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Survey: Half of ‘Openly Jewish’ College Students Have Tried to Hide Identity on Campus
by Dion J. Pierre
September 20, 2021

A poll released Monday found that half of “openly Jewish” college students have at times attempted to conceal their religious identity on campus, and that they are more likely to do so the longer they’re enrolled. The study — conducted by the Cohen Research Group with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law — surveyed 1,027 members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity and Alpha Epsilon Phi (AEPhi) sorority during the COVID-19 pandemic. It found that fifty percent of students have masked their Jewish identity and that more than half have hidden their support of Israel…READ MORE

BARI WEISS SUBSTACK Everybody Hates the Jews A disturbing new study confirms what many Jewish Americans are feeling.

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“The end of the grand delusion of pan-Arab identity finally permits different Arab societies to explore their different identities rooted in reality and not mythic conceptions”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

EMET ONLINE
The Abraham Accords and the End of Arab Romanticism
by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
September 15, 2021

The signing of the Abraham Accords a year ago signified the end of an era of modern Middle Eastern history and the ushering in of a new, yet-to-be-grasped era. If the fall of the Berlin Wall was a watershed moment in European history, the fall of the Arab-Israeli cognitive wall will do the same for the region. The Abraham Accords are the first major step in burying an inauspicious era of Arab and Muslim romanticism and signal a defect from delusion to reality. From Arab nationalism, Arab socialism and postcolonialism to Sunni and Shia Islamism and destructive sectarianism, all modern Arab and Muslim political thinking revolved in the idealist orbit of mythical romanticism. READ MORE

JNS Blinken hosts livestream with Abraham Accord members to mark one-year milestones U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the Biden administration will continue to build on the Trump administration’s successful Abraham Accords between Israel and its Arab neighbors in a virtual event marking the accord’s one-year anniversary on Sept. 17.

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“A 700-page Polish novel is all the rage in Israel, but can it heal the rift between Poles and Jews?”

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
A Polish Christian Writes the Great Jewish Novel
by Shalom Goldman
September 23, 2021

Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature, published The Books of Jacob in 2014. The novel follows the messianic religious leader Jacob Frank as he travels through 18th-century Europe, attracting a fervent following and a list of avowed enemies….But in the remarkable case of the Frankists, a whole community of Jews apostatized…“The Frankists’ baptism was seen as a monumental event unique both in size and in its theological ramifications. Even the most zealous Catholic priests were well aware that the vast majority of the Jewish conversions throughout the ages did not stem from Jewish recognition of the truth of Christianity but rather from the desire for social advancement or to avoid persecution.” READ MORE

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How a group of Jewish physicists helped the United States beat Nazi Germany in the race for nuclear weapons

Posted on September 17, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC
The Jewish Nucleus of the Second World War’s Atomic Drama
by Alex Gordon
September 17, 2021

…Starting in 1943, the anti-fascist Bohr took part in the Manhattan nuclear project that led to the deaths of 120,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while the German patriot Heisenberg, who worked for the Nazi war machine, didn’t accomplish anything that would lead to the death of even one person. This says approximately nothing about the moral weight of either men. Heisenberg tried to make a bomb to use in a war of aggression and failed. As for Bohr and his colleagues on the Manhattan project, they were fighting for their lives. One of the creators of quantum mechanics, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born, a German Jew, later wrote: “Exiled physicists knew that there would be no escape if the Germans were the first to succeed in building the atomic bomb…READ MORE

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