“Men used to fight wars and build things. Now they sob on podcasts and have meltdowns online”

Posted on July 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
When Did Men Become Drama Queens?
Liel Leibovitz
July 22, 2025

…In his seminal work, Manhood in the Making, the anthropologist David Gilmore showed that disparate societies that have almost nothing in common and whose cultures vary wildly still maintain an almost universal notion of masculinity; they teach it to young boys by requiring them to demonstrate both their ability to unleash their aggression (in hunting, say, or fighting enemies) and their capacity for stoicism in the face of great danger and pain. Our therapeutic age seems to have dissolved this timeless tradition, turning men in particular not only into emotional wrecks but also into campy figures who believe that the only way to signal their worth is by having some sort of very public and very emotional meltdown for others to admire. Instead of engaging in battle—of ideas if not of fists—they demand the other side be silenced. Instead of taking pride in remaining rational, calm, and ready, they pursue the theatrics of emotionalism, knowing well that no other currency matters. READ MORE

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The Israeli strikes followed appeals from Druze leaders who accused the regime of waging “a war of extermination”

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Netanyahu Defines Israel’s Policy in Syria as Demilitarization, Druze Protection
Ailin Vilches Arguello
July 17, 2025

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday outlined Israel’s two primary strategic goals in Syria as ensuring southern Syria is demilitarized and protecting the Druze religious minority in the same area. “We have set forth a clear policy: demilitarization of the region to south of Damascus, from the Golan Heights and to the Druze Mountain area. That’s rule number one. Rule number two is protecting the brothers of our brothers, the Druze at the Druze Mountain,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “Both those rules were broken by the regime in Damascus,” the Israeli premier continued. “The [Syrian] regime sent troops south of Damascus, into the region that has to be demilitarized, and began slaughtering the Druze. That we could not accept in any way, and I therefore directed the IDF to take action — and take powerful action. The Air Force attacked both the gangs of murderers and the armored vehicles. I added another target, to also attack the Ministry of Defense in Damascus.” READ MORE

JTA Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s father expresses frustration with Netanyahu as latest truce talks falter sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should not take credit for the return of hostages murdered while in Gaza, the father of one of the most prominent in the group said on Sunday. Jon Polin, the father of murdered Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, called on Netanyahu’s office to stop claiming that “military and diplomatic pressure” had caused the release of 205 hostages, from a total of 255 held on Oct. 7, 2023. “This insensitive claim whitewashes the lives of the 20% of the 205 who were taken into Gaza alive, survived a period of torture, and were then killed in captivity, including my son Hersh,”…

ALGEMEINER Support for Israel Holding Strong Among US Public, Growing Among Young Voters, Poll Finds American support for Israel in its war against Hamas has reached its highest level since the conflict began and includes a surprising surge of support among younger voters in Gen Z, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll. The poll, conducted from July 6–8, found that 77 percent of registered voters say they support Israel in the ongoing war in Gaza, while just 23 percent back Hamas. That marks a continued trend of stability in pro-Israel sentiment across the US public. In June, the poll revealed that 75 percent of the US public supported Israel over Hamas.

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When reports of violence at and around aid sites began to surface, US media outlets, social media influencers and nonprofits published articles blaming the IDF

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NY POST
Non-profit feeding millions of Gazans caught in storm of Hamas propaganda, ‘falsely smeared’ by UN
Isabel Vincent
July 15, 2025

Hamas and international aid groups, including the United Nations, have ganged up against a US-backed non-profit, reframing its record-breaking delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza as providing “nothing but starvation and gunfire,” according to a bombshell new report. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — a US State Department-backed initiative conceived under the Biden administration but only implemented in the last few months — has handed out more than 75 million meals in the Gaza Strip, where a little over two million people live, since late May, according to its organizers. But its work was “rapidly reframed in public discourse as a source of chaos, deception and complicity in violence,” says a report from the Network Contagion Research Institute, a non-partisan think tank that analyzes extremism online. READ MORE

FDD Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Blames Hamas Affiliates for Stampede and Stabbing at Aid Site “The acts of violence at GHF aid sites bear the hallmarks of a Hamas operation. The Islamist group learned much from embedding its operatives with civilians during protests and riots at the Gaza border between 2018 and 2023. Hamas is now using the same tactics against the GHF that it employed against the IDF during those years: armed operatives in civilian clothing, grenade attacks, and the exploitation of civilians to incite unrest.”

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UN Watch: “Architects of the U.N.’s anti-Israel inquisition are fleeing the ship”

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Entire UN commission resigns, long seen as anti-Israel
Mike Wagenheim
July 15, 2025

Just days after Washington sanctioned Francesca Albanese, an “independent adviser” to the United Nations with a long history of Jew-hatred, three U.N. officials, who have also been long accused of antisemitism, resigned from the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Navi Pillay, 83, of South Africa, who chaired the commission, cited her “age, medical issues and the weight of several other commitments” in her July 8 resignation letter, which she said would take effect on Nov. 3…“Now the dominoes are falling. Frightened of also being sanctioned, architects of the U.N.’s anti-Israel inquisition are fleeing the ship,” stated Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, which first brought the resignations to light. “The tide is turning.” READ MORE

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“Following the confrontation on Friday, settlers allegedly blocked an ambulance and paramedics from reaching Musallet for three hours”

Posted on July 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Huckabee: Probe ‘terrorist’ killing of Palestinian American in West Bank
Grace Gilson
July 15, 2025

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee called on Israel to “aggressively investigate” the killing of Saif Musallet, a 20-year-old Palestinian-American man, whose family alleges was beaten to death on Friday by Israeli settlers in the West Bank…“This is an unimaginable nightmare and injustice that no family should ever have to face,” the family of Sayafollah Musallet, also known as Saif, said in a statement. “We demand the US State Department lead an immediate investigation and hold the Israeli settlers who killed Saif accountable for their crimes.” According to his family and the Palestinian Health Ministry, Musallet had come from his home in Florida to the town of al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya to visit relatives and was severely beaten while protecting his family’s land in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah. Another man, Hussein al-Shalabi, 23, was fatally shot in the chest. READ MORE

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The ADL has, especially in the past decade, bent over backwards to accommodate the sensibilities of the progressive left, but today that’s not enough.

Posted on July 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
Why America’s Largest Teachers Union Turned Against the ADL
Seth Mandel
July 9, 2025

The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, has voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL has played a significant role in public education over the years because of the growth of Holocaust studies, becoming a trusted partner of the unions in the process. That relationship might soon be over. The reason the NEA is seeking to sever ties with the ADL is because the unions are more broadly expanding their dissemination of baldly anti-Semitic “classroom materials” and don’t want the ADL—or anyone—standing in their way. Which means the rationale behind the decision is potentially even more transformative than the decision itself. READ MORE

MAJOR TRUTHACHE When Terrorists Write the Curriculum When the National Education Association—a fading union now more fluent in TikTok trends than phonics—cuts ties with the Anti-Defamation League, it barely causes a ripple. A teachers’ union breaking up with a Jewish civil rights group in 2024? Please. We’ve seen this movie before. And the sequel? Worse. Louder. And more dangerous.

JNS Why are America’s teachers’ unions at war with Israel? The NEA’s decision to cut ties with the ADL illustrates how progressives who think Jews and the Jewish state are “white” oppressors have captured the education establishment.

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On Mandy Patinkin, selective conscience, omission, and dangerous opportunism

Posted on July 16, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

MORNING MUSINGS
Oh Mandy… (Patinkin)
Peter Himmelman
July 16, 2025

…Patinkin has always traded in his Jewishness. It’s been central to his appeal, his artistry, and his image. But in this moment, that identity may need to be reframed: not erased, but softened for progressive sensibilities. Not forgoing Yiddish (that wouldn’t be right), but publicly accusing Israel of genocide. Who can be sure about his motivations—or anyone else’s? Maybe Patinkin meant every word. Maybe it was heartfelt. Or maybe it was also a way to re-enter the cultural conversation with the right emphasis, at the right time. It’s been a while since anyone had been talking about him. In the video, Patinkin delivers a sweeping moral indictment—not of Hamas, not of terror, not of the massacre—but of Israel. “To watch what is happening… for the Jewish people to allow this to happen to children and civilians of all ages in Gaza… is unconscionable and unthinkable.” READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Mandy Patinkin draws fire for saying Israel doing to Gaza what was once done to Jews Jewish-American actor tells NYT of getting bad ‘vibe’ from Netanyahu in chance 1980s meeting; wife Kathryn Grody says antisemitism claims being used to silence criticism of Israel

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Naftali Bennett denies Epstein-Mossad connection

Posted on July 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapiro spar over Epstein theories, DOJ response
Ashleigh Fields
July 14, 2025

Commentators Megyn Kelly and Ben Shapiro sparred on Monday over Jeffrey Epstein’s files and theories regarding his death. Kelly said sources have confirmed to her that Epstein did not kill himself but was targeted while working as an “agent” for the Israeli government, while Shapiro said unnamed whistleblowers were unreliable. “I can claim that he was working for a cadre of space aliens who are blackmailing high-profile Americans in order to protect from a future invasion. And there’s just about as much evidence for that as many of the claims that were being made on the other side,” Shapiro said during a Monday appearance on the “Megyn Kelly Show.” READ MORE

JPOST ‘Categorically false’: Bennett decries Carlson’s allegation Epstein worked for Israel’s Mossad Former prime minister Naftali Bennett confronted conservative pundit Tucker Carlson on Monday following his claim that Jeffrey Epstein worked for Israeli intelligence services. “As a former Israeli prime minister, for whom the Mossad directly reported to me, I say to you with 100% certainty: The accusation that Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false,” Bennett wrote on X/Twitter.

FRONT PAGE MAG New York Jews Support Trump More Than Any Other Group What a new poll’s stunning numbers reveal about Jewish support for Trump. In New York State, Jews have the highest favorable opinion of President Trump. Jews support Trump more than any other religious group, more than Catholics and Protestants, upstate voters, and more than white voters in general. Jews are the only identity group in the state with whom Trump isn’t underwater even at the same time as Sen. Schumer polls worse among Jews than among Catholics or Protestants. At 61%, Jews provide the highest rate of approval for Trump’s deportation of migrants compared to 42% among protestants, 49% among Catholics and 48% among white voters.

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“Muslims should applaud, not condemn, Muslim leaders who reach out to Israel and Jews and speak out against Islamist terror groups”

Posted on July 15, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Muslim Leaders Who Oppose Terrorism: The New Heroes
Khaled Abu Toameh
July 10, 2025

A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of “treason” and promoting “normalization” with Israel. The Muslim leaders did not come to Israel to stand against Muslims or the Palestinians. Rather, they came with a message of peace, coexistence and tolerance…These Islamic leaders are heroes because they chose to visit Israel at a time when many Muslims, especially those living in Europe, are waging a massive smear campaign against Israel because of its war against the Iran-backed Hamas Islamist terror group in the Gaza Strip. Muslims who care about their religion should stand up against Islamist terrorists who have hijacked their religion and are committing atrocities in the name of Islam. READ MORE

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To fully embody Rabbi Mo’s transformation from spiritual guide to protector, Feuerstein even trained in firearms with Magen Am, a Jewish volunteer security organization in Los Angeles.

Posted on July 14, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEW IN THE CITY
Guns & Moses: The Jewish Representation We Need
Talya Goldman
July 17, 2025

..,But in his latest project, Guns and Moses, Mark Feuerstein takes on a role unlike anything audiences have seen from him before: a Chabad rabbi turned reluctant action hero. Opening in 78 theaters across 27 cities on July 18, 2025, Guns and Moses—written and directed by Sal Litvak—follows Rabbi Mo Zaltzman, a devoted husband, father, and community leader whose quiet life in a high-desert Jewish enclave is shattered when violence threatens his family and congregation. What begins as pastoral calm evolves into a gripping thriller as Rabbi Mo discovers just how far he’s willing to go to protect the people he loves…“It was an instant connection because it’s about a Jewish community,” he recalls. “But this character of Rabbi Mo… he’s charming and funny, dramatic, and then suddenly he’s an action star.” READ MORE

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