“It is unconscionable for Daniel Pearl’s murderers to go free”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
US Jewish Umbrella Group ‘Disgusted’ by Pakistan Court’s Release of Daniel Pearl’s Killers
by Staff
December 25, 2020

The main umbrella organization representing US Jewish groups has declared itself “disgusted” with the decision of a court in Pakistan to release four men accused of orchestrating the 2002 kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Wall Street Journal reporter’s gruesome death by beheading at the hands of Islamist terrorists was captured on video, and included Pearl saying the words, “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish,” moments before he was killed. In a statement on Thursday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) condemned the ruling of the High Court in Sindh, Pakistan. READ MORE

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“The left remains the only power that competes with the Likud for power. And if Likud and its coalition partners do not win 61 seats in the upcoming elections, the left will continue to control the national agenda regardless of what the public thinks”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The Israeli Left is Far from Dead
by Caroline Glick
December 25, 2020

…The left’s post-democratic strategy has two main components. The first is the so-called deep state. The deep state in Israel is an amalgam of senior government officials, the legal fraternity including the state prosecution, the attorney general’s office and the Supreme Court, and the media. Members of these groups are overwhelmingly associated with the left. They use their powers to advance the ideological and political goals of their camp while stymying the right’s efforts to implement its own policy and ideological agenda. This week we were witness to two spectacles of the deep state in action. READ MORE

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“Amid multiple reports of covert overtures between nations, some analysts see Ankara as seeking to start off relations with new, less friendly US administration on the right foot”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
After years of acrimony, Turkey’s Erdogan says he’d like better ties with Israel
by TOI staff
December 25, 2020

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wished to improve ties with Israel, after long years of making repeated bellicose comments toward the Jewish state. “Our relations with Israel on intelligence have not ceased anyway, they are still continuing,” Erdogan said during a press conference. “We have some difficulties with the people at the top.” He stressed that Ankara “cannot accept the attitude of Israel towards the Palestinian lands,” and that “we differ from Israel in terms of our understanding of both justice and the territorial integrity of countries.” But, he noted: “Otherwise, our heart desires that we can move our relations with them to a better point.” READ MORE

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“Christmas is an attractive time for jihadists for three unattractive reasons”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Jihad at Christmas: “Coldly Kill Them with Hate and Rage”
by Richard Kemp
December 24, 2020

This month, Islamic State terrorists released a “religious” song for Christmas, “Coldly Kill Them With Hate and Rage”. Taking the form of Islamic religious chant, the song, according to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute, exhorts jihadists everywhere to murder non-Muslims, “pagans, atheists and polytheists”, from “West Africa all the way to east Asia… through air, land and sea”. Published on Telegram, the post includes the hashtag #MerryChristmas and a photograph of a Christmas tree with dynamite attached. Christmas is an attractive time for jihadists for three unattractive reasons. First and foremost, they are fighting a religious war and by far their numerically greatest enemies are Christians whose most prominent festival is Christmas. READ MORE

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“The West’s predominant ideology of moral and cultural relativism has propelled the rise of paganism, as well as the veneration of the animal and natural world, at the expense of humanity”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The driving force behind the ban on kosher slaughtering
by Melanie Phillips
December 24, 2020

The European Union likes to pose as the avatar of tolerance, freedom and all civilized values. Now it has ripped off its own disguise to reveal something rather more ugly. Its highest judicial body, the European Court of Justice, has issued a ruling upholding the ban on kosher and halal ritual slaughter in two regions of Belgium. The ruling supports the requirement that animals being slaughtered should first be stunned, a practice forbidden in both Judaism and Islam. At present, European regulations ban slaughtering animals without pre-stunning, though exceptions to this have been permitted for religious slaughter. Some European countries, however, have forbidden such exceptions and thus banned kosher and halal slaughtering practices. These countries include Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Slovenia. READ MORE

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“The demand for “right of return” is the essence of the Palestinian movement”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ABU YEHUDA
The Biden Administration and the “War of Return”
by Victor Rosenthal
December 24, 2020

…Another phrase whose ambiguity has prevented agreement is “two-state solution.” Virtually every Israeli that favors this understands it as “two states for two peoples.” But the Palestinians want one totally Jew-free Palestinian state, and one state in which the right of return for Arab refugees has been implemented (and which theoretically might contain Jews, at least for a while). They have never accepted the idea of any Jewish sovereignty between the river and the sea, and hence reject the formulation “two states for two peoples.” Schwartz and Wilf explain that Western and Israeli negotiators have always assumed – perhaps because the demand is so extreme – that the right of return was a bargaining chip that the Palestinians would cash in for the currency of borders, the removal of settlements, or rights in Jerusalem. But they were wrong. READ MORE

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Martin Peretz: “The Biden administration is not in my view going to jerk Middle Eastern policy back to the Obama track”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Obama’s Failure, Biden’s New Team, and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Divide
by Martin Peretz
December 24, 2020

…In 2016, John Kerry said to a Brookings audience, “I’ve talked to leaders in the Arab community. There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that. That is a hard reality.” How many statements have been proven so breathtakingly, so completely, so comprehensively wrong in so little time? The fact is that much of the Arab world was looking for a way out of the conflict with Israel, which was simply not productive in any way and certainly not for the Palestinians. Thanks to the fact that the Democratic victor was Biden, American policy will most likely accede to this trend of increasingly cooperative ties between Israel and Arab states in the next four years. READ MORE

John Kerry’s 2016 “breathtakingly” wrong assessment:

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Dalton School teacher’s demands include “hiring 12 full-time diversity officers, and multiple psychologists to support students “coping with race-based traumatic stress”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

HOT AIR
Guess what happened after a pricey NYC private school issued an “antiracism manifesto”
by Jazz Shaw
December 21, 2020

Our story takes place at The Dalton School, an expensive private academy on Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side. The school counts many celebrities and other famous folks among its almuni, including Anderson Cooper and Christian Slater. Parents who manage to land their children in the college prep academy shell out more than $50K per year for the honor. But now they’re running into a bit of a problem. The school is experiencing what the New York Post describes as an “uproar” after a number of faculty members signed off on an antiracism manifesto” that includes a list of demands for the school to meet so they can combat systemic racism or whatever else they’re complaining about. And many of the parents aren’t having it. READ MORE

BREITBART Website Invites Parents to Track ‘Woke’ Curriculum in Schools A new website is tracking woke curriculum and liberal indoctrination in schools and invites parents to submit examples from their children’s schools. The website, titled “What Are They Learning?,” describes itself as a “crowd-sourced site created by Luke Rosiak, an investigative journalist and data analyst.

NEW DISCOURSES The University as the Woke Mission Field: A Dissident Women’s Studies Ph.D. Speaks Out I have a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, but I’m not woke anymore. I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone who critiques the axioms of a field of study feels compelled to write under an assumed name tells you everything you need to know about the authoritarianism underpinning this ideology.

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Israel’s fourth-election-in-two-years : Bibi “facing for the first time two strong adversaries to his right”

Posted on December 20, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Buckle up for the ugliest election Israel has ever known
by Yaakov Katz
December 22, 2020

Here is one thing that should be immediately clear: The next three months are going to be some of the ugliest in Israel’s history. It is true that the last two years were no picnic. Israel went through three election campaigns and two years of mudslinging and fighting between political parties that constantly failed to find a way to work together for the benefit of the true sovereign power in this country – the Israeli people. It is also true that Israel is divided like never before in recent history. The old Sephardi-Ashkenazi ethnicity card is thrown around once again, the Right continues to look down on the Left, and the Left continues to mock the Right. READ MORE

AL JAZEERA Israel to hold snap election in March, fourth in two years Israel’s parliament was dissolved on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fractured ruling coalition failed to pass a budget, triggering the country’s fourth election in two years amid public anger over Netanyahu’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Netanyahu and his former election rival, Defence Minister Benny Gantz, established a unity government in May in the wake of three inconclusive elections held since April 2019, but the coalition had been inching towards collapse for weeks, undermined by mutual acrimony and mistrust.

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“It is appalling that even before Biden takes office, Congress has passed a bill that found a way to indirectly but effectively assist the PA”

Posted on December 20, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
ZOA Appalled: Covid Relief Bill’s Fungible $250 Million for Palestinians May Benefit Terrorism, Anti-Israel Propaganda and Anti-Israel NGO’s
December 22, 2020

The long-awaited, massive $900 billion coronavirus relief bill, passed last night without giving Congress time to read all the provisions snuck into the bill’s thousands of pages, contained a dangerous, poison provision: Namely, $250 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars will be diverted from much-needed COVID relief to establish a so-called “People-to-People Partnership for Peace Fund” for Palestinian Arab investments and supposed peace programs. Rather than peace, this so-called “Peace Fund” is far more likely to abet anti-Jewish terror attacks, boycotts and propaganda. Because money is fungible, the new so-called “Peace Fund” will save the Palestinian Authority (PA) from having to spend money on projects for its people. The savings to the PA will enable, and in effect, help finance the PA’s heinous, continuing, hundreds of millions of dollars of annual “pay-to-slay” payments to Arab terrorists to murder Jews. READ MORE

JNS In COVID-aid bill scrum, Israel becomes a familiar scapegoat But somehow in the middle of all this naked power politics—and shameless lobbying and trading of favors for special interests—some activists found the time to single out Israel as the cause of the problem. Those who did so were either guilty of the most appalling ignorance of how the budget process works, as well as what aid to Israel entails in terms of benefits to the United States and its economy. Or call it outright simple bias. But no matter what the motive, they demonstrated anew just how irresistible a target the Jewish state is for those who always want to blame it and the Jews for the world’s woes.

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