“Broadcasting the Fatah-Hamas ‘unity’ event on official TV, the PA president made plain his strategic choice: Israel, and any prospect of reconciliation, out; Hamas, in”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
The day Abbas moved from rebuffing Trump to joining forces with terrorists
by David Horovitz
July 3, 2020

At a joint press conference on Thursday, Fatah’s Jibril Rajoub and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri vowed to work together to resist unilateral Israeli annexation moves and “topple” the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal…Here, after all, was one of Abbas’s most senior colleagues, a former PA preventive security chief and potential successor who once worked in close coordination with Israeli security forces, grandly declaring that Fatah was henceforth partnering with Hamas…An Islamist terror organization, moreover, that 13 years ago brutally forced Abbas’s Fatah out of the Gaza Strip, and would have long since finished him off in the West Bank too were he not protected by Israel’s ongoing overall security presence there. READ MORE

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“Israel is getting closer and closer to the Arab Gulf nations, as they realize that the Palestinian cause is a self-created dead end”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Israel is doing better than ever. Idiots tying up traffic can’t hurt it.
July 3, 2020

It’s easy to see the sheer volume of anti-Israel material online and in social media and feel like we are losing. But when you step back, you can see that the reality is that Israel is winning in every conceivable field. While the haters scream about “occupation” and “annexation,” Israel continues to grow, get stronger and become more indispensable to the region and the world. Israel is strong militarily, economically and in innovation. Both Western and third-world nations want to be like Israel. They want to learn from Israel. It really is a “light unto nations.” READ MORE

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“Kuwaiti newspaper cites unnamed senior source as saying Jerusalem behind recent incidents in Iran, following an alleged attempt by Tehran to hack Israel’s water infrastructure”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Report: Israeli cyberattack caused Iran nuclear site fire, F35s hit missile base
by Judah Ari Gross
July 3, 2020

Israel was responsible for two blasts at Iranian facilities — one related to uranium enrichment, the other for missile production — over the past week, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Friday. The Al-Jareeda daily cited an unnamed senior source as saying that an Israeli cyberattack caused a fire and explosion at the largely underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility in the predawn hours of Thursday morning. According to the source, this was expected to set back Iran’s nuclear enrichment program by approximately two months. The newspaper also reported that last Friday Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jets bombed a site located in the area of Parchin, which is believed to house a missile production complex…READ MORE

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“What Netanyahu does over the next few weeks will determine if he goes down in history as one of the greatest Jewish leaders of all time, or if he is remembered as a disappointment of Sabbatean proportions”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Trump and Netanyahu face their rendezvous with destiny
by Caroline B. Glick
July 3, 2020

…Netanyahu’s sovereignty plan is predicated on Israel asserting and the US recognizing Israel’s rights to Judea and Samaria on the one hand, and Israel securing in perpetuity its vital security interests. Here too, in the face of Trump’s hesitation and his coalition partners’ efforts to subvert him, Netanyahu is wavering. He missed the July 1 target date he had declared for implementing his plan. Now there is talk of him putting it off until some later date, which of course, will never arrive. If Netanyahu stays the course and implements his plan now, he will secure his political power now. More importantly, he will be remembered in the annals of Jewish history as a leader of historic proportions. READ MORE

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View the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra gala that was hacked

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hackers disrupt Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s online gala fundraiser
July 2, 2020

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s virtual gala on Sunday was disrupted by what is now confirmed to be a cyber attack. Hackers crashed the websites of the IPO and its partner, Medici.TV, for the duration of the one-hour gala, which sought to fundraise to make up the losses incurred by the orchestra due to the coronavirus pandemic. The June 28 live virtual gala had more than 13,000 registrants from around the world at the time of the planned broadcast on Sunday. Despite the disruption, the program now has a combined total of more than 300,000 views on Medici. READ MORE

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“Anti-Israel demonstrators teamed up with Black Lives Matter on Wednesday, part of a series of anti-Israel demonstrations in a series of American cities over the next several days”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Black Lives Matter Joins Anti-Israel Demonstrators in ‘Day of Rage’
by Joel Pollak
July 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter protests joined anti-Israel demonstrators in a nationwide “Day of Rage” on Wednesday that included calls for Israel’s destruction and claims that Israel murders children, an allusion to medieval antisemitic blood libels. The Jewish News Service reported that antisemitic and anti-Israel groups organized the “Day of Rage” on July 1, the first day that Israel’s government said it could extend its law to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”). READ MORE

JTA Black Lives Matter demonstrators in DC chant ‘Israel, we know you, you murder children, too’ The march, from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building, was led by a Harvard student, Christian Tabash, who read a poem about Israel’s crimes against Palestinian Muslims, according to the Examiner. The poem referred to Israel as “puppet master of continents,” an age-old conspiracy theory that Jews run the world.

IPT News “Death to America,” Love for North Korea and Hate for Israel at Brooklyn Rally A chant of “death to Israel” and “death to America” triggered an enthusiastic response Wednesday during an anti-Israel protest in Brooklyn.

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“It is difficult to imagine a more condescending view of a group than to argue that standards must be lowered for them to succeed”

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN GREATNESS
The Present Moment Has Set Blacks Back a Half-Century
by Dennis Prager
July 2, 2020

According to the make-believe world of the Left, we are experiencing a great moment in American racial history. For the first time, the story goes, more whites than ever are coming to realize how racist America is, how racist cops are and how systemically racist everything in America is. Only now do many Americans understand just how racist Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, Ulysses Grant, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, “whitening” agents, meritocracy, Western culture, Christianity, jailing blacks and the NFL are. The bestselling book in America is about alleged “white fragility”—the term for any rational response to the irrational charge that all whites are racist. READ MORE

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What does Michael Moore have in common with these two?

Posted on July 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
A Winning Trifecta for Climate Science and Rationality
by Charles Battig
June 30, 2020

First there was Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans, then came Bjorn Lomborg’s False Alarm, and now Michael Shellenberger’s Apocalypse Never.  All three authors sound the common theme that the  hyper-green environmental activists who have captured, politicized, and monetized  the concern for the environment have, as Lomborg explains, created  a false climate  alarm  which has “costs us trillions, hurts the poor, and fails to fix the planet.”  To varying degrees, all three authors come from a strong environmental activist background, which observation makes their public revelations even more noteworthy. READ MORE

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“Israel’s sovereignty over the Jordan Valley must be decoupled from the Trump plan”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Israel Should Apply Sovereignty — and Reject the Trump Peace Plan
by Benjamin Anthony and David Benger
July 1, 2020

Regardless of how far-reaching or limited, and immediate or gradual, the process may actually be, Israel should apply sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, but it must not do so under the framework of the Trump peace plan. That plan, if implemented, exacerbates all of Israel’s present security concerns and leaves it with no discernible advantages…The extension of Israeli sovereignty is a policy consonant with the principled, decades-long held view of Israeli leaders that Israel must retain security control over the Jordan Valley. READ MORE

JTA Rabbi Uri Pilichowski: I’m an Israeli settler. American Jews are debating my future, but here’s what they don’t understand. It’s been surreal watching from Israel as Americans discuss my future…I’ve also noticed that many of these panels don’t include any speakers who are Jewish settlers or Palestinian residents of the area, which made it feel like I was watching an all-male panel discuss women’s issues or three white people discuss Black Lives Matter. When I challenged one think tank about its 20-person panel that did not include a single Palestinian or Jewish settler, I was told that the discussions centered around security issues and a resident’s perspective wouldn’t be valuable.

The Miryam Institute debate on whether Israel should apply sovereignty to the Jordan Valley: “Israel Must Apply Sovereignty Over the Jordan Valley Now” For or Against ?

 

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Iran: “While clearly leery himself about getting the United States into another military conflict in the Middle East, Trump would likely be sympathetic to Israel taking matters into its own hands”

Posted on June 28, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
The Clock Is Ticking on the Next Iran Nuclear Crisis
by John Hannah
June 29, 2020

In early June, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released two reports on the Iranian nuclear program. They make for worrisome reading. A year into its decision to start breaching the constraints imposed by the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran has begun crossing some important thresholds that dangerously reduce its breakout time for developing a nuclear weapon. As it does so, the specter of a possible military strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear project will inevitably reemerge. READ MORE

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