By giving the prize to the World Health Organization, the Nobel committee kicked the can down the road. Maybe President Donald Trump will be defeated next week. Maybe Netanyahu will be ousted from power.

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The real Netanyahu (and Trump) dilemma
by Caroline B. Glick
October 30, 2020

he Nobel Peace Prize Committee’s decision to award the prize to the World Food Program this year assuaged the fears of elitists from New York to Paris and Berlin. The Abraham Accords, which include bilateral peace treaties between the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and most recently Sudan, and Israel have fundamentally changed the Middle East. They have upended fifty years of failed peace processing on the part of Western foreign policy elites who seem to fall into deeper and deeper funks with word of each new peace deal. Newsweek’s cover story on Oct. 2 nicely encapsulated the distress. The cover featured a leering black and white photo of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a red and white headline, The Netanyahu Dilemma: Can The Nobel Prize Say No to Bibi? READ MORE

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Always known as a left-winger, Greenwald “also emerged as a vocal critic of the mainstream media, accusing it of quashing alternative views when it comes to coverage of certain news stories'”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept
by Joe Concha
October 29, 2020

Journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from The Intercept, seven years after co-founding the online publication, citing censorship by his own editors over an article concerning former Vice President Joe Biden. The 53-year-old shared his resignation letter in a tweet to his more than 1.5 million followers on Thursday afternoon, in which he accused editors of refusing to publish an article he wrote unless he removed “all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.” READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Glenn Greenwald says mainstream media is ‘desperate to see’ Trump lose Most of the mainstream news media has been “concocting excuses” to ignore The Post’s exposé about Hunter Biden’s emails — which actually justify hard questions for Joe Biden, according to award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald.

JNS Jonathan Tobin: A conformist media is no friend to freedom Glenn Greenwald viciously attacked Israel. Now he finds himself on the same side as some old foes because he dissents from liberal orthodoxy on Russia and Trump.

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During a Senate hearing, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey said Ayatollah’s tweets do not represent a threat of ‘immediate harm’ to Israel or its citizens. Yeah, right.

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Twitter CEO dismisses Ayatollah’s threats to Israel as ‘saber-rattling’
by Marc Rod
October 29, 2020

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sparred with Republican lawmakers over his company’s decision to permit tweets from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for the destruction of Israel and denying the Holocaust at a raucous Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. During the Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee hearing, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) pressed Dorsey on why Twitter had not taken action against tweets from Khamenei threatening Israel. The Twitter founder responded that the company does not see the tweets as an immediate threat to Israel or its citizens’ safety. “We did not find those to violate our terms of service because we considered them saber-rattling…” READ MORE

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Jeremy Corbyn suspended: “It is a day of shame for the Labour Party. We have failed Jewish people”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Britain’s Labour Party will struggle to erase its moral stain
by Melanie Phillips
October 30, 2020

The report of an 18-month inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party has now been published. Almost instantly, it produced a dramatic and unexpected result. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which conducted the inquiry, has thrown the book at Labour over its handling of the anti-Jewish bigotry in its ranks under its previous hard-left leader, Jeremy Corbyn. It has found that the party illegally harassed and discriminated against Jews, breaking equality laws. It identifies a culture within the party “which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it.” READ MORE

REUTERS UK Labour suspends ex-leader Corbyn on anti-Semitism ‘day of shame’ Britain’s Labour opposition suspended its former leader Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday after he downplayed a report that detailed serious failings in the party’s handling of persistent anti-Semitism complaints during his 2015-2019 leadership. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it had found evidence of failure to adequately train people investigating alleged anti-Semitism, political interference in the processing of complaints, and harassment of individuals.

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“Many of the Jews who fled Sudan as second- or third-generation natives often get sentimental about their former home”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Exiled Jews would ‘love’ to see Sudan again, if given chance via new Israel ties
by Yaakov Schwartz
October 31, 2020

Shortly after receiving her master’s degree in ancient history from King’s College in London, Daisy Abboudi found herself listening to yet another dinner table conversation about her relatives’ early life in Sudan. Sudan’s Jewish community, founded at the turn of the 20th century and numbering roughly 250 families at its zenith, was one of the smallest — and shortest-lived — in the Middle East. And while its members enjoyed warm relations with their Muslim neighbors for decades, Israel’s declaration of independence in 1948 and the subsequent wars unleashed by its Arab neighbors brought a flood of anti-Semitism that eventually forced the community to flee, most of them arriving in Israel or Switzerland as stateless refugees. READ MORE

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France under siege: Video shows police outside of French church where woman was decapitated as knife-wielding man kills three

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Woman decapitated as knife-wielding man kills three in suspected terror attack
by Yaron Steinbuch
October 29, 2020

A woman was decapitated and two other people were killed by a knife-wielding “terrorist” who shouted “Allahu akbar!” at a church in the French city of Nice — one of three [Islamic terror] attacks targeting the country on Thursday. Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the attack occurred at the Notre Dame Basilica in the Mediterranean city and that police had detained the assailant…Two people were killed inside the church, the elderly woman who was beheaded and a man whose throat was cut, according to the BBC. A wounded woman managed to flee to a nearby later cafe died of her injuries later, a police source told AFP. READ MORE

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“Biden, in a video message to Emgage and its supporters, said he was honored to receive the endorsement and inspired by the group’s “one million Muslim voters” campaign, a nod to Farrakhan’s 1995 Million Man March on Washington, DC”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Biden Touts Endorsement From Leading Anti-Semites
by Adam Kredo
October 28, 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden touted an endorsement from a group of leading Muslim officials who have accused Jews of dual loyalty to America and praised anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. A group of nearly 50 Muslim elected officials across the country expressed support for Biden in a late-July letter sponsored by Emgage, an anti-Israel Muslim-American group funded by liberal billionaire George Soros. Emgage has drawn scrutiny in recent years for defending terrorist groups and collaborating with Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated organizations….Biden also said he wished “we taught more in our schools about the Islamic faith” during his video message. READ MORE

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“The Washington Post is exactly right when it says, ‘Democracy dies in darkness.’ It is ironic, then, that the Post is part of the problem, not the solution”

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

THE SPECTATOR
The American media is failing you
by Professor Charles Lipson
October 30, 2020

American journalism has lost its bearings, and we are all paying the price. For the past four years, egged on by President Trump, mainstream news swiftly descended past the first circle of hell — subtle partisanship — and reached a far darker, hotter one: blatant favoritism, stories killed for purely partisan reasons and occasional propaganda masquerading as solid news. Journalism’s decline mirrors that of other American institutions, but it has compounded the social damage. A thriving democracy depends on free and open debate and informed debate depends on trustworthy news. For most Americans, that trust has evaporated. READ MORE

WALL STREET JOURNAL Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman: Trump’s Already Won Win or lose, Amer­i­ca’s 45th pres­i­dent de­serves credit for a more com­pet­i­tive econ­omy, a na­tion at peace and a se­cure rule of law. Don­ald Trump doesn’t tram­ple Amer­i­cans’ rights. He doesn’t start wars; he ends them. And he makes com­ments that of­fend peo­ple. The cost of sup­port­ing Mr. Trump is en­dur­ing awk­ward mo­ments when he says things that pres­i­dents shouldn’t say. The ben­e­fit is that he cham­pi­ons U.S. lib­erty and pros­per­ity, and a thriv­ing Amer­ica is a ben­e­fit to the world.

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EVENT LAST CALL StandWithUs Midwest 9th Annual Campus Champions Virtual Gala Sunday November 1, 2020

Posted on October 29, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

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“Under the new US policy, individuals will be able to choose whether to have “Jerusalem, Israel,” or just “Jerusalem” on their passports”

Posted on October 26, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
US citizens born in Jerusalem to have ‘Israel’ on their passports
by Lahov Harkov
October 28, 2020

The Trump administration plans to reverse a longstanding US policy that passports of citizens born in Jerusalem may not say they were born in Israel. The change in policy is expected to take place in the coming days, less than a week before the US election…The State Department’s current, official policy as listed on its website “recognizes that Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are territories whose final status must be determined by negotiations.” As such, anyone who was born in Jerusalem’s municipal borders after Israel’s establishment is listed as being born in Jerusalem [not Israel]. READ MORE

JNS Alex Traiman: With bilateral agreements, Trump administration reverses Carter, Obama settlement policies Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the signing “an important victory against all those who seek to delegitimize everything Israeli beyond the 1967 lines.”

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