Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have been testing nuclear ballistic missiles for months, violating UN Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action back in 2015

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Iran tests nuclear-capable missiles, Israeli ambassador reveals
by Ariel Kahana, Damian Pachter and Erez Linn
April 9, 2021

As world powers are stepping up efforts to return to a nuclear deal with Iran, the Islamic Republic is testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles in violation of the agreement, Israel revealed this week.  Israeli Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations Gilad Erdan has sent a letter to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, revealing information about Iran’s illegal missile activities, which violate Resolution 2231 that endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action back in 2015. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps has been testing missiles for several months, including nuclear ones, Erdan wrote in his letter. He called on UNSC members to condemn Tehran’s actions. READ MORE

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“According to report, if Netanyahu would let Bennett go first in a rotation, it would be on the condition that Netanyahu serve as alternate prime minister and remain in the Prime Minister’s Residence”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu denies rumors he will give job to Bennett
by Gil Hoffman
April 10, 2021

A report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will offer his job to Yamina leader Naftali Bennett first in a rotation or hold a primary to elect his replacement in Likud if no other solution is found soon was denied on Saturday night by Netanyahu’s spokesman. In what was seen as a trial balloon, Israel Hayom, which is considered close to Netanyahu, reported on Friday that Netanyahu’s associates are already saying that if his mandate goes down to the wire without success in building a coalition, those two possibilities would be considered. READ MORE

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Prince Philip came under attack in the 1960s for speaking to pro-Israel groups, and, famously impervious to criticism, ignored the attacks

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Prince Philip, who opposed Nazis and was first British royal to visit Israel, dies at 99
by Cnaan Lipshiz and Ron Kampeas
April 9, 2021

Prince Philip, perhaps the closest member of the British royal family to Jews and Jewish causes, has died at 99….Also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, Philip’s support for Jewish and pro-Israel causes ran deep. His mother, Princess Alice of Greece, sheltered a Jewish family during the Holocaust and is recognized as one of fewer than 30,000 “righteous among the nations” by Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum. Philip’s four sisters each married German nobles, at least three of whom became Nazis. But Philip, educated in Britain, joined the allied war effort. As an adult, he showed little patience for Nazi collaborators…READ MORE

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“There are two sources for Israel’s claim to the West Bank. The first, and the most important, is the Mandate for Palestine, set up by the League of Nations in 1922, for the sole purpose of creating the Jewish National Home”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Israel’s Claim Under International Law to the ‘Occupied Territories’
by Hugh Fitzgerald
April 8, 2021

The Biden Administration seems to think that the way to bring peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to push Israel back within what it describes as the “1967 lines,” which is a more acceptable way of saying “the 1949 armistice lines.” Those lines were not recognized borders; they merely reflected where the respective armies, of Israel and its Arab enemies, when the shooting stopped n 1949. Let’s give the misinformed Biden Administration the necessary Short Course it clearly needs about Israel’s claim under international law to the West Bank, about the misnomer “occupied territories, ” and about the Palestinian Arabs and a “two-state solution.” READ MORE

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“Four factors have gradually legitimized honest regional discussion of the Holocaust and made traditional statements of denial and distortion less acceptable”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
The Crumbling Walls of Arab Holocaust Denial
by Robert Satloff
April 8, 2021

Nearly 20 years ago, I moved with my family to live in Rabat, Morocco, and set out on a journey to find a way to talk with Arabs about the Holocaust—seriously, maturely and constructively. There is still a long way to go, but two decades later, I can report that this conversation is now flourishing, as discussion of the Holocaust in Arab societies has become increasingly vibrant, mainstream, and legitimate. Traditionally, Western scholars and institutions enervated by the Holocaust denial and distortion regrettably common in Arab societies had two strategies to talk with Arabs about the Holocaust. One was to recount the faraway horror of the attempt by European fascists to exterminate European Jewry and expect Arabs to express compassion. READ MORE

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“Muslim Children the World Over Indoctrinated in Hate”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Indoctrinated in Hate: ‘This Is the Start of the New Caliphate’
by Raymond Ibrahim
April 6, 2021

Hate-filled indoctrination and training in violence is not limited to the “schools” of ISIS or Boko Haram. Public schools all around the Muslim world share elements of this indoctrination. Most recently, a March 2021 study exposed how the school curriculum of Turkey — for decades one of the Muslim world’s most secular nations — is also increasingly full of jihadi propaganda. Some of the report’s “main findings” follow: “The Turkish curriculum has been significantly radicalized in recent years. Jihad war is introduced as a central value; martyrdom in battle is glorified. Islam is depicted as political, using science and technology to advance its goals. READ MORE

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“Rabbi Slifkin has put together an emporium that will educate, enthrall, enchant, and enthuse visitors of all ages”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Getting to Know the Land and Animals of Israel
by Pini Dunner
April, 9, 2021

Last July, after dropping off my son Meir at the IDF draft office in Tiberias, and before I went to Ben Gurion Airport to catch my flight back to Los Angeles, I visited the Biblical Museum of Natural History at its new state-of-the-art site on the outskirts of Beit Shemesh. At the time, Israel was still deep in coronavirus lockdown, so I had the museum all to myself as I embarked on a private tour led by the museum’s founder and devoted director, the indefatigable Rabbi Dr. Natan Slifkin — who, besides being a rabbi, is also a zoologist and an authority on all living things, particularly from the perspective of traditional Judaism and Jewish history. READ MORE

 

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Google scrubs a video of Florida Gov. DeSantis’s policy roundtable with physicians and scientists

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
YouTube’s Assault on Covid Accountability
Editorial Board
April 8, 2021

To hold elected rep­re­sen­ta­tives re­spon­si­ble for de­ci­sions they make, Amer­i­cans need to know what those of­fi­cials and their ad­vis­ers are say­ing. That’s an es­sen­tial de­mo­c­ra­tic prin­ci­ple, and it’s as true for coro­n­avirus re­sponse as any other pol­icy chal­lenge. So it’s chill­ing that Google’s You­Tube, through its “med­ical mis­in­for­ma-tion pol­icy,” ap­pears to be sys­tem­at­i­cally un­der­min­ing the abil­ity to ac­cess ma­te­r­ial in the pub­lic in­ter­est. Last Sep­tember, You­Tube scrubbed a Hoover In­sti­tu­tion in­ter­view with Scott At­las, then one of Pres­i­dent Trump’s coro­n­avirus ad­vis­ers. In Jan­uary it cen­sored a U.S. Sen­ate com­mit­tee hear­ing on un­ap­proved coro­n­avirus treat­ments. Now it has taken down a video of Flor­ida Gov. Ron De­San­tis hold­ing a pol­icy dis­cus­sion with Dr. At­las and the three cre­ators of the Great Bar­ring­ton Decla­ration, a group of physi­cians and sci­en­tists crit­i­cal of strict lock­downs to fight the coro­n­avirus. READ MORE

COMMON SENSE What Should Be Done to Curb Big Tech? – Common Sense with Bari Weiss I don’t think there is a group left in America who is happy about the power that companies like Facebook and Twitter and Google have arrogated to themselves. According to a recent poll from Vox and Data for Progress, 59% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans think Big Tech’s economic power is a problem. It’s hard to think of another issue with that kind of bipartisan consensus.

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“CBS certainly knew it was a big lie, but that was their goal, just simply to try to smear Florida, smear me”

Posted on April 8, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

US SPECTATOR
The relentless campaign to smear Ron DeSantis
by Grace Curley
April 8, 2021

For over a year now, the activists who play journalists on TV have been hell-bent on destroying Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. The press is trying, with all their might, to turn him into the second most evil man in America. The latest hit job, by 60 Minutes’s Sharyn Alfonsi, was particularly egregious because of CBS’s incredibly sloppy execution. At a press conference, Alfonsi asked DeSantis about a scandal she was desperately trying to gin up. Her spiel was this — Publix received exclusive rights to the vaccination distribution from the DeSantis administration because the grocery chain had contributed $100,000 to the governor’s PAC. Keep in mind that the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Jared Moskowitz, had already discredited this fake news more than a month earlier. READ MORE

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“Sources admitted that Bennett does not believe Netanyahu will be able to form a government”

Posted on April 4, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Bennett’s strategy: Make Smotrich fall guy for Netanyahu losing power
by Gil Hoffman
April 7, 2021

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will host Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich followed by political kingmaker Naftali Bennett at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday evening, in meetings that could determine whether he has any chance of forming a government. Sources close to Bennett said he will tell the prime minister he has his full support to form a government and is willing to compromise to make it happen. He will tell him that his plans to form a government in which he would rotate as prime minister with Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid are currently off the table. “There are no contacts and no talks [with Lapid],” a source close to Bennett said. READ MORE

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