#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

Posted in Islam, Jewish, Politics | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Israel & Middle East | Tagged | Leave a comment

“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

Posted in Israel & Middle East | Tagged | Leave a comment

“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

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , | Leave a comment

“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

Posted in Jewish, Politics | Tagged , | Leave a comment

“Meeting the party’s leader, Likud’s Ayoub Kara asserts that unlike the Joint List, Ra’am ‘doesn’t deny Israel’s existence’”

Posted on March 25, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
With Netanyahu lacking majority, Likud MK gives Islamist Ra’am a kosher stamp
by Staff
March 27, 2021

A Knesset member in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party met Saturday with Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas, whose Islamist faction has emerged as a potential kingmaker after the fourth inconclusive elections in two years. Netanyahu repeatedly ruled out relying on Ra’am to form a government in the run-up to the March 23 elections, calling the party anti-Zionist. However, some Likud lawmakers have entertained partnering with Ra’am following this week’s elections, which saw the premier and his right-wing religious allies again fall short of a majority. READ MORE

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

“Israel could have taken the easy way out and attacked without phone calls or warning strikes. But it didn’t. The IDF officers and soldiers in the command center knew what they had to do”

Posted on March 25, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
How the IDF invented ‘Roof Knocking’, the tactic that saves lives in Gaza
by Yaakov Katz
March 25, 2021

December 2008 was the turning point. After a year of incessant rocket fire, the Israeli government decided enough was enough. It was time to go back into the Gaza Strip and do everything possible to take down Hamas. While a ceasefire had been in effect for six months, sporadic rocket fire – Kassams and mortars – continued to rain down on Israel. Nevertheless, the government had initially preferred quiet. The situation was tenuous but the residents of the South were, for the first time in years, able to leave their homes with some measure of safety. The government wasn’t going to put that at risk so quickly. READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Former AIPAC director Kessler’s “new initiative is not the first aimed at reversing progressive disillusionment with Israel”

Posted on March 25, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CURRENTS
Former AIPAC Senior Operative Launches Group to Cultivate Democratic Support for Israel
by Alex Kane
March 18, 2021

IIn a sign of Israel advocates’ growing anxiety over progressive opposition to Israeli policies, AIPAC’s Director of Strategic Initiatives, Jonathan Kessler, is leaving his job at the flagship Israeli-government-aligned lobby to start a new advocacy group that he hopes will appeal to Democratic Party activists. According to an email sent from Kessler’s AIPAC email address and obtained by Jewish Currents, Kessler’s new organization, called Heart of a Nation, will publish an online journal highlighting progressive activism in Israel and the US. Kessler wrote that the journal will “be distributed to hundreds of Democrat Party leaders through a network of key contacts.” READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

“Israel-US dialogue is necessary about Iran’s nuclear program, since a good agreement with Iran is a clear Israeli interest. But Israel must be prepared with a military option against Iran, as a last resort”

Posted on March 25, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY
No Agreement is Better than Another Bad Agreement with Iran
by Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror
March 17, 2021

A few days ago, a journalist said to me that “Israel must realize that ultimately a P5+1 agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear program is good for Israel too, especially given that the alternative is a complex and dangerous Israeli attack.” I replied with the following remarks: “All these years, Israel indeed hoped for an agreement with Iran. That is what we told our American interlocutors time and time again. Moreover, Israel helped quite a bit in bringing Iran to the negotiating table, as well as with the process itself. At the same time, we always made it clear that no agreement with Iran is better than a bad agreement.” In my estimation, President Obama and the P5+1 concluded the JCPOA (the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran) behind Israel’s back because they knew that it was bound to be a bad agreement. Indeed, in retrospect it has turned out to be very bad agreement. READ MORE

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

In an exclusive interview with Israel Hayom, Jonathan Pollard describes the decision to hand over classified information to Israel, the brutal expulsion from the Israeli Embassy, the war for survival in prison, the love story with Esther, and the moment he arrived back home, in Israel

Posted on March 25, 2021 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Exclusive interview with Jonathan Pollard
by Boaz Bismuth, Caroline B. Glick and Ariel Kahana
March 26, 2021

On Nov. 21, 1985, at 10 a.m., Jonathan Pollard and his then-wife arrive at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He still recalls what happened in those moments, second by second, as if they had happened only yesterday. He describes FBI surveillance, including agents with rifles and a helicopter. He says he got to the embassy and flashed the car’s lights at the guard, and the gate opened, saying, “They knew who we were.” He went in, and the gate closed behind him, leaving his FBI tail outside. He got out of the car and asked, “Is this it? Am I home? This is sovereign Israeli territory.” And he was told: “Everything is fine. You’re home.” READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics | Tagged | Leave a comment