Turning a blind eye to violence in Miami Beach, the New York Times previews its post-Floyd-trial coverage.

Posted on April 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Mostly Peaceful Mayhem
by Heather Mac Donald
March 31, 2021

….In the unlikely event that [Derek] Chauvin is acquitted, however, the New York Times recently provided a preview of how it and the rest of the mainstream media will cover the ensuing riots. Earlier this month, Miami Beach endured anarchic behavior from an influx of spring break tourists. Shootings and street brawls triggered stampedes. People hit one another with bar glasses and chairs. More than 100 guns have been confiscated. Officers trying to disperse large, illegally gathering crowds were assaulted with rocks and bottles. Commercial property was destroyed…It is a virtually inviolate rule that if police crack down on disorder involving black people, the New York Times will accuse the police of racism. This rule held regarding the Miami Beach festivities. READ MORE

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“Disastrously, these assaults on all aspects of Jewish life and identity by the woke left are happening as many American Jews are abandoning their Judaism because they see little reason to remain actively Jewish”

Posted on April 1, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The threats American Jewry refuses to face
by Caroline B. Glick
April 2, 2021

…More than 70% of non-Orthodox Jews who get married, marry non-Jews. Even more startling, only half of non-Orthodox American Jews of marriage age (25-54) are married at all. Of those who are married, only 15% are raising children as Jews. Non-Orthodox Jewish women have the lowest fertility rates in the US. Given the data, it makes sense that 65-75% of American Jews remain in a political and ideological home that is hostile to Jews. It’s a matter of priorities. It also explains why much of the communal response to both rising anti-Semitism and rising assimilation has been ineffective and even counterproductive. READ MORE

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Bibi: Gridlock must be broken by forming “stable right-wing government” according to the will of the voters

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘Come back home,’ Netanyahu tells right-wing leaders
by ILH Staff and Reuters
March 31, 2021

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed on Wednesday to two right-wing rivals to “come back home” and align themselves with him again to break a deadlock following Israel’s inconclusive election last week. The final tally in politically polarised Israel’s fourth election in two years gave Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party and kindred factions 52 seats in the 120-member Knesset. The potential opposition bloc also was short of a governing majority, with 57 seats. For the first time since Israel’s founding in 1948, an Arab party, which took four seats in the legislature, has emerged as a potential kingmaker. Its leader, Mansour Abbas, has said he is open to offers that would benefit Israel’s Arab minority. READ MORE

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The China-Iran Deal: “The notional agreement was a sprawling 25-year strategic accord valued at a staggering $400 billion, encompassing everything from Chinese involvement in Iran’s telecom sector to closer collaboration between the militaries of the two countries”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

AL-HURRA DIGITAL
China Chooses Sides In The Middle East
by Ilan Berman
March 29, 2021

China’s geopolitical ambitions in the Middle East took a giant leap forward over the weekend, when Chinese and Iranian officials convened in Tehran to formally sign a massive new cooperation agreement. The summit, which took place during a state visit to the Islamic Republic by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, codifies a trend that has been in the works for some time: a major strategic alignment between Beijing and Tehran. The broad contours of the arrangement have been known for months. Last summer, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif revealed publicly that the country’s parliament (or majles) was in the final stages of drafting a plan for long-term cooperation with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Iran plays the China card while Biden fumbles An agreement with Beijing may alter the global strategic equation and facilitate Tehran’s nuclear quest. A new administration that is signaling its openness to appeasement cannot meekly accept it.

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Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz: “The four countries that signed peace agreements with us within the framework of the ‘Abraham Accords’ suffer from water shortages like us”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Israel and Bahrain Sign $3 Million ‘First-of-Its-Kind’ Deal to Share Knowledge on Water Technology
by Sharon Wrobel
March 31, 2021

Israel’s state-owned water company Mekorot has inked a $3 million deal to provide Bahrain’s Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) with consulting services on water projects and to share knowledge on technologies, in what marks the first “significant” agreement between the Jewish state and the Gulf emirate since the Abraham Accords. The agreement comes after Bahrain and United Arab Emirates agreed to formalize their diplomatic ties with Israel with the support of the US in October last year. The Jewish state has struck similar deals with Sudan and Morocco in recent months…Israel has over the years built a well-known industry and developed technologies in fields like wastewater reuse, water security and desalination. READ MORE

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#BoulderMassacre: “Other than a synagogue what better place to go full-jihad than in a market with a wide array of kosher food, favored by local Jews, less than a week before Passover?”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
The Truth About the Boulder Massacre
by Don Feder
March 29, 2021

In coverage of the March 22 Boulder, CO. supermarket massacre, The New York Times was true to form (All the News That’s Fit to Spin), reporting that “investigators were trying to determine what motivated a 21-year-old man” charged with 10 murders. Whenever the establishment media tell you that the authorities are diligently searching for a motive in a mass shooting, it means there’s no shortage of clues that they don’t want to follow, to keep you from jumping to any logical conclusions. In typical New York Times fashion, the newspaper devoted two paragraphs to the murder weapon (a “Ruger AR-556 semiautomatic pistol”), while avoiding any mention of Islam or jihad. READ MORE

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Naama initiative builds on Israel’s overall historic success as a center in drone innovation

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL INTEREST
Israel Wants to Create a National Drone Network: A Game Changer?
by Seth Frantzman
March 22, 2021

Soon skies could be filled with drones, like highways in the air, with the machines delivering essential items on predefined routes. While rumors of drones delivering pizza or products have circulated for years, often without much success, Israel is embarking on an initiative called the Naama Project that aims to create a national drone network for commercial delivery, medical transport and urban air mobility… The concept is to have up to twenty drones flying simultaneously and hundreds scheduled in a path over several weeks. “This is the first such demonstration in Israel out of a series of eight planned to take place over the next two years. This is a significant global breakthrough in the ability to manage drone operations at scale, which will lay the foundation for future national drone operations in many areas. READ MORE

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“Buyers from mainland China have been active in the Israeli market for more than a decade, but we have never seen such a sudden and meteoric increase in activity”

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
Mainland property buyers eye Tel Aviv amid Israel’s flourishing trade ties with China and Gulf peace deals
by Cheryl Arcibal
March 30, 2021

China’s growing investment and trade ties with Israel is spurring demand for real estate in Tel Aviv, with inquiries from mainland buyers for homes in the city rising significantly, property agents said. Inquiries from China increased from nine in the fourth quarter of 2019 to 160 in the same period last year, according to the UK-based Beauchamp Estates, which has a presence in the Middle Eastern country. Most of these inquiries were for ultra prime property markets in Tel Aviv’s popular districts and affluent beachfront neighbourhoods like Herzliya Pituach, the agency said, adding that there was also interest in commercial property and land for property development. READ MORE

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“The Israeli flag gives me a feeling of excitement, belonging and love,” enthuses Muslim IDF Captain Ella Waweya

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

UNITED WITH ISRAEL
Female Arab IDF Soldier Says: ‘I am 100 percent Israeli. And very proud of it.’
by Yakir Benzion
March 29, 2021

To millions of social media surfers around the world, the face and voice of the Israel Defense Forces is a Muslim woman. Captain Ella Waweya hails from the Israeli Arab town of Qalansawe in the center of the country, only a few miles east of the city of Netanya. Although she could have used the standard exemption, Waweya, or Captain Ella, as she is known on Twitter and Facebook, chose to volunteer for the IDF and is an officer in the IDF Spokesperson’s Office, Israel’s Channel 12 news reported on the weekend…For the first 18 months, Waweya hid her army service from her family, but during home leave on a weekend her mother came into her room without knocking and found her daughter with an IDF uniform. READ MORE

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“Mighty Ira” documentary about former Executive Director Ira Glasser explains how the once-storied civil liberties organization came to embrace the ideology it was built to fight

Posted on March 28, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Disintegration of the ACLU
by James Kirchick
March 30, 2021

Think of the American Civil Liberties Union during the last two decades of the 20th century, and a certain type of person invariably comes to mind: shrewd, thick-skinned, and possessed of an unwavering—some might say irritating—commitment to principle. The men and women of the ACLU were liberals in the most honorable, but increasingly obsolescent, meaning of the term. They understood that the measure of democracy lies in the impartial application of its laws, and were prepared to defend anyone whose constitutional rights were trampled upon, irrespective of their political views or the repercussions that mounting such a defense might entail. The archetypical ACLU figure was also often Jewish, as immortalized in the 2003 Onion story, “ACLU Defends Nazis’ Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters.” READ MORE

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