BBC portrays Erekat as “a frustrated ‘peacemaker’ by erasing the narrative-conflicting parts of the story”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
The BBC News website’s airbrushed portrait of Saeb Erekat
by Hadar Sela
November 11, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the BBC’s portrait of Saeb Erekat in the wake of the Palestinian official’s death airbrushes him as a “negotiator” committed to the “two-state solution.” The BBC doesn’t tell audiences that Erekat’s idea of the “two-state solution” was that of a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state in which Palestinian “refugees” were given a “right of return”–meaning, the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state. Nor does it mention that in three decades as a “key negotiator,” Erekat failed to achieve his ostensible goal. Of course audiences don’t hear about Erekat’s support of the pay-to-slay program that rewards the murder of Israeli civilians, nor his central role in promoting the myth of a “massacre” in Jenin in 2002 (a myth that remains in the BBC archive to this day). READ MORE

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“Post-election blowback from moderates against the radicals could complicate the left’s progress in moving the party away from a pro-Israel position”

Posted on November 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Can Democrats finally repudiate ‘The Squad’?
by Jonathan Tobin
November 12, 2020

…Even as they celebrated their apparent victory in the presidential election, some Democrats spent the days after the voting complaining about the role that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and their leftist allies played in reducing their party’s numbers in Congress. Moderates have made no secret about their resentment over the derailing of what many Democrats expected would be a “blue wave” in 2020. That raises questions about whether or not some of the party’s most popular figures will continue to be able to exercise influence that is way out of proportion with their numbers in Congress, as they have in the last two years. If so, and that is far from a certainty, it might also mean that pro-Israel Democrats will finally start standing up to and marginalizing these radicals, rather than appeasing them. READ MORE

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“The Moroccan Crown is liable to find that the underlying logic for a public entente with Israel, although complicated, is compelling”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

AL-HURRA DIGITAL
Morocco And The Normalization Question
by Ilan Berman
November 11, 2020

…Since the start of the “normalization” wave this summer, speculation has abounded as to whether other regional nations would follow the lead of the UAE and Bahrain (and now Sudan) and establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. President Trump has expressed confidence that quite a few countries will do so in coming weeks. The Kingdom of Morocco ranks prominently on the list of prospective peace partners. At first blush, the North African nation seems like a natural candidate for “normalization” with Israel. The two countries share major civilizational links – some 10 percent of Israel’s population of 9.1 million is estimated to be of Moroccan descent, and many travel back to the Kingdom regularly. READ MORE

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Abbas said Erekat’s death was a “great loss for Palestine and our people, and we feel deeply saddened by his loss, especially in light of these difficult circumstances facing the Palestinian cause”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Erekat, longtime spokesman for the Palestinians, dies at 65
by Joseph Krauss
November 10, 2020

Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavirus. He was 65…In the weeks leading up to his death in an Israeli hospital, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain had normalized ties with Israel, breaking with the long-held Arab position that a deal on Palestinian statehood must precede normalization. Abbas and members of his inner circle, including Erekat, found themselves internationally sidelined and deeply unpopular among Palestinians. READ MORE

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“Netanyahu has been lackadaisical about preparing for his trial – changing his main lawyer three times since May “

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Little chance Netanyahu will get plea deal to avoid trial
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
November 11, 2020

There is little chance Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a plea bargain deal that would allow him to avoid a public corruption trial, The Jerusalem Post has learned but if, however, Netanyahu asks for a deal, it seems quite likely that Mandelblit will only agree to one that includes jail time, despite pro forma denials of specific conditions. This was a break from what sources had told The Post in 2018 when claiming, at the time, that the Justice Ministry was prepared to cut a deal with Netanyahu that would have likely included a conviction on a lesser charge, retirement from politics and no jail time. READ MORE

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#YishaiFleisher: ‘Soon, #Hebron will have space for 30 new families to live and thrive in the City of Abraham”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
New housing permits in Hebron expected to bolster Jewish presence in city
by Israel Kasnett , JNS and ILH Staff
November 10, 2020

Hebron’s Jewish residential section may finally witness new construction underway for more housing units. Pending a decision by the Jerusalem District Court, two areas of Hebron – the Hizkiyahu neighborhood on the site of the old central bus station and the site of the marketplace – are slated to undergo a facelift to make room for young couples. Predictably, there are those who don’t want to see a growing Jewish presence in Hebron and have made an effort to prevent the project from progressing. Yishai Fleisher, the international spokesman for the Jewish community of Hebron, said, “Finally, the Israeli government has recognized the Jewish rights in the rest of the property, and we thank them…READ MORE

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“Democrats expected Jewish voters to help them flip Georgia and Florida. Instead, Jewish voters flipped them off”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Democrats’ anti-Semitism cost them in Florida and Georgia
by Daniel Greenfield
November 8, 2020

Before the election, Brandeis University’s Steinhardt Social Research Institute marked Georgia, along with Florida, as one of the states where the Jewish vote could help decide the election. Georgia has 103,000 Jewish voters and Democrats had been counting on them to flip the state. With a Senate election and special election, two Senate seats were up for grabs, and Democrats threw money at former Al Jazeera collaborator Jon Ossoff and activist Raphael Warnock… Georgia Democrats had backed a candidate who had ties to a notorious anti-Semitic figure and who had signed a letter accusing Israel of apartheid and segregation, and Trump took home half the Jewish vote. READ MORE

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“The message Arabs are sending to the new US administration is: Do not repeat the mistakes of former President Barack Obama”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Why the Muslim Brotherhood Came Out of Its Hole
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 11, 2020

Will a new US administration possibly under Joe Biden help revive the Muslim Brotherhood, which is considered a terrorist organization by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Syria? Why is the Muslim Brotherhood rejoicing over the “victory” of Biden? Some Arabs say they are worried when they see the Muslim Brotherhood celebrating the results of the US presidential election. These Arabs fear that the Muslim Brotherhood, backed by Qatar and Turkey, is preparing to make a comeback under a potential Biden administration… The Arabs also want to remind a potentially new US administration that the Islamists and their supporters are inveterate liars who care only about their own interests READ MORE

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#TheyWillPayForTheirCrimes: “The idea of punishing people who have supported Trump also surfaced among media types including Jake Tapper of CNN and Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST
Totalitarian Left Promises Purges And Punishment For All Trump Voters
by Carina Benton
November 10, 2020

If 2020 didn’t already feel enough of a Kafkaesque nightmare, the latest bit of depravity from the “hate has no home here” totalitarian left is a ghoulish scheme announced by three former Barack Obama and Pete Buttigieg staffers on Twitter last week called “The Trump Accountability Project.” Aspiring apparatchiks Emily Abrams, Michael Simon, and Hari Sevugan lauded the website whose stated mission is to “never forget those who furthered the Trump agenda.” According to the now privatized site, whose internet archives were captured, anyone associated with the Trump administration, including those who elected him, staffed his government, funded him, endorsed him, worked in law firms for him, and who supported him in general, should be “held accountable.” READ MORE

LEGAL INSURRECTION Lincoln Project Latest Campaign Targets Trump’s Law Firm, Lawyers, and Clients of the Firm This isn’t about President Donald Trump or fighting to uphold a “fair and free” election. This is all about control and shutting down opponents. Grifters have to grift. I guess The Lincoln Project (LP) realized the grift was over after the media announced Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Trump is their cash cow. Without him who would they go after for the dough? The LP turned its eyes to Jones Day, the law firm filing election lawsuits on behalf of Trump.

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Biden-Harris will restore economic aid to Palestinians, meaning US taxpayers will once again fund their pay-for-slay program, “contributing directly to the murder of Israel civilians: men, women, children, and rabbis”

Posted on November 8, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

PJ MEDIA
How Joe Biden Will Turn the Clock Back and Fan the Flames of Conflict in the Middle East
by Philip Carl Salzman
November 10, 2020

…For seventy years American foreign policy has focused on satisfying the Palestinians as the key to resolving conflict in the region. The State Department apparently never noticed the historical and current conflicts between Sunnis and Shias, Arabs and Persians, Turks and Arabs, Turks and Persians, Kurds and Arabs, Kurds and Turks, and Kurds and Persians. No, everything in the entire Middle East was, in the view of the State Department, the result of the Arab-Israel conflict, of which the Palestinians were the critical party. Thus American foreign policy aimed to roll back Israel to satisfy the “moderate” goals of the Palestinians: “Palestine from the river to the sea.” There was never much love for Jews in the State Department. READ MORE

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