Mandel: “Gabbard’s isolationist leanings and Vance’s incoherent FDR-style cynicism toward allies are now the dominant ideological strands in Trump’s Cabinet, and the president nixed the strike plans”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
The Leak Was the Whole Point
Seth Mandel
April 17, 2025

…To understand why, it’s crucial to have a clear picture of the two factions within Trump’s national-security inner circle. There are the non-proliferationists, who prioritize stopping the spread of nuclear-weapons capability. The nonproliferationists’ internal rivals are those who believe in 20th-century types of spheres of influence with the goal of divesting America of its obligations. Divestors within the administration include Tulsi Gabbard, the pro-authoritarian former Democratic congresswoman who is now the director of national intelligence; JD Vance, the vice president; and Susie Wiles, the president’s chief of staff. Those naturally inclined toward nonproliferation include Mike Waltz, the national-security adviser; Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense; and Gen. Michael Kurilla, the head of U.S. Central Command. READ MORE

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“The administration isn’t abandoning the cause of human rights. A reorganization will stop bureaucratic ideologues from using the government to attack the Jewish state”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Rubio torpedoes the left’s anti-Israel stronghold inside the State Department
Jonathan Tobin
April 24, 2025

For decades, a group of so-called “human rights” organizations—in particular, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—have been waging war on the State of Israel. As NGO Monitor, the authoritative source on the subject, has documented, these groups have conducted a multifaceted campaign involving support for boycotts across the board, smearing it as an “apartheid” state, and promoting its isolation and prosecution on the international stage…Most Americans have been largely unaware that a band of activists with similar goals and beliefs to those at Human Rights Watch and Amnesty have been operating from a base inside the U.S. government. Thanks to a reorganization of the U.S. State Department, announced this week by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that may now be coming to an end. READ MORE

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“In the case of its client Badar Khan Suri, a Georgetown academic facing deportation following CAMERA’s exposé of his and his wife’s Hamas ties, the ACLU has resorted to specious accusations of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bigotry”

Posted on April 24, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
The ACLU’s Egregiously Dishonest Attack on CAMERA for Exposing Georgetown Academics
David M. Litman
April 23, 2025

…In February, CAMERA exposed that Saleh, the daughter of a senior Hamas official, had herself worked with entities directly tied to Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. Shortly after, another organization, Middle East Forum, exposed several reprehensible social media posts by her husband, Suri. In March, Suri, an Indian national, was detained by immigration authorities and now faces deportation. Further research by CAMERA uncovered evidence that Suri had participated in a 2010-2011 “convoy” organized by a terrorist organization, IHH[2], for the purpose of aiding Hamas. CAMERA also uncovered years of public statements by Saleh and Suri spreading hate-filled rhetoric and propaganda. READ MORE

COMMENTARY MAG Seth Mandel: Objectively Pro-Hamas To sum up: The “pro-Palestinian” protest groups are actually pro-Hamas. They are violent. They call for violence against Jews. They are anti-Semitic in its most base and undeniable form, which is enthusiastic support for the explicit racial purification-by-Arabization of the one Jewish state. I point all this out because there has been a feeble gaslighting attempt online that goes something like this: It is unfair to call these people pro-Hamas or to broadly paint them as anti-Semitic. It was worth refuting this whiny cowardice definitively. The mobs are objectively anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas.

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“PA Gov. Shapiro not talking about what happened because condemning antisemitism and support for terrorism within his own party is a career killer”

Posted on April 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Gov. Josh Shapiro Keeps Dodging Motive for Arson Attack
Daniel Greenfield
April 21, 2025

Even by the convoluted standards of politics, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Democrats are playing a strange game after the arson attack over Gaza on the governor’s mansion. Gov. Shapiro has refused to discuss the motive for the attack even while Democrats, including supporters of campus Hamas activists like Halie Soifer, who heads the Jewish Democratic Council of America, blame Trump for an attack by one of their own people. This bait and switch depends on Shapiro keeping his mouth shut even as Dems attack Trump for not saying enough about the attack by a terrorist supporter. What does Gov. Shapiro think about an attempt to kill his family over Gaza? Don’t ask him. Is it a hate crime? [He says] it would be inappropriate for him to comment on the matter… READ MORE

WLS RADIO Morton Klein to Newsmax: Shapiro Must Rescind $5M Mosque Grant Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro must rescind a $5 million grant awarded in March to the Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in Philadelphia, Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, tells Newsmax…Shapiro, who is Jewish, announced the grant while attending an iftar dinner, as people gathered to break their Ramadan fast. The money is targeted for the mosque’s community center and is reportedly the largest grant awarded to a Muslim organization. “This is really astonishing,” Klein said. “This is $5 million of taxpayers’ money… They’re a group that promotes hatred of America, not only Israel, Jews, and others. They are a threat to America, not just Israel.”

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Schanzer on Qatar: Why does everybody bow before this terror-supporting country?

Posted on April 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
Catering to Qatar
Jonathan Schanzer
May 2025

…The fawning treatment of Qatar did not begin with the new Trump administration. Rubio’s predecessor, Antony Blinken, did it too. On January 19, just before the Biden administration’s departure, Blinken “thanked the Prime Minister for his critical role in mediation efforts to reach a cease-fire that will end fighting in Gaza, bring the hostages home, and enable a surge in humanitarian assistance.” Set aside the undeniable fact that Qatar is a financial patron of both Hamas and the Taliban. Qatar is an autocratic, Islamist, terrorist-supporting, human rights–abusing regime that should not have any hand in U.S. foreign policy. Moreover, this tiny country of just 330,000 citizens represents roughly 0.00004 of the world’s population. Yet it somehow has gained immense influence in American politics. That must end. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM Qatar’s comeback Mossad Director David Barnea is set to meet with Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, amid ongoing efforts to broker a deal for the release of all hostages in exchange for a ceasefire. The visit is especially significant in light of Qatar’s recent shift regarding the demand for Hamas to disarm. The most significant development in recent days in the secret negotiations over a hostage deal and ceasefire in the Gaza Strip is Qatar’s agreement to the demand that Hamas disarm “the day after.”

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“As a Nova survivor, it’s devastating to watch the world pick and choose whose lives matter. We were attacked while dancing for peace, just like people dancing at Coachella”

Posted on April 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Irish band Kneecap tells crowd ‘f–k Israel, free Palestine’ in antisemitic Coachella show: ‘Hijacked by extremists’
Doree Lewak
April 21, 2025

Kneecap spewed anti-Israel rhetoric on stage at Coachella Saturday — with a “f–k Israel, free Palestine” display and one member of the Irish rap group going on a tirade about the Jewish state’s “genocide” in Gaza. The group — which openly supported the “Palestinian struggle” a day after the October 7, 2023 massacre at the Nova music festival and posted a book celebrating Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah — performed in front of a backdrop that read, “F–k Israel Free Palestine.”…Nova [Festival massacre] survivors shared their grief – and outrage – over the “antisemitism” on display. READ MORE

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (again) signals his contempt for Israel and the Jewish community

Posted on April 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
‘Outrageous’ says Chicago Jewish Alliance of city’s mayor wearing keffiyeh
April 24, 2025

The Chicago Jewish Alliance denounced Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Wednesday after the local chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations posted a photo of him wearing a keffiyeh to celebrate Arab Heritage Month. “This is outrageous,” the alliance wrote. “For the mayor of Chicago to stand there—cloaked in a symbol now synonymous with Jewish bloodshed, flanked by an organization that justifies it—is more than tone-deaf. It’s a betrayal.” “It tells Jewish Chicagoans: Your pain doesn’t matter. Your dead don’t count. Your safety is negotiable,” it continued, adding that the garment is “not neutral. It’s a flag of war.” READ MORE

FREE BEACON A Top Architectural Journal Planned To Center Its Latest Issue on Israeli ‘Settler-Colonial Apartheid and Genocide.’ When Its Publisher Said No, the Whole Board Resigned Last year, the journal landed on a different topic for its fall 2025 issue: The “ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.” The journal’s “call for papers”—a prompt for essay submissions—was littered with anti-Semitic rhetoric. It lauded “siege and prison breaks” as methods of “anti-colonial life- and land-protection” and justified Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack as “the rupture of settler containment.” The fall issue, the journal said, would center on “resistance to the Zionist, militarist, carceral, and capitalist regime of Israeli settler colonialism.”

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“While the Anthonys get to go home to their ankle-braceleted son, the Metcalf family is mourning the loss of their beloved son and brother”

Posted on April 18, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FEDERALIST
Some Parents Get Charged For Their Kids’ Violence. Karmelo Anthony’s Got More Than $445K
Jordan Boyd
April 16, 2025

There once was a time when bringing a deadly weapon to a school-sanctioned event would get a kid and maybe even his parents charged and convicted for failing to prevent or stop such recklessness. The parents of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, who brought a knife to a multi-school track meet in Frisco, Texas, and allegedly used it to fatally stab another student, however, aren’t on the hook for his actions. Far from it. Instead, Anthony’s family successfully fundraised hundreds of thousands of dollars off of his alleged crime and the claim that “the narrative being spread is false, unjust, and harmful.” READ MORE

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“After Iran demonstrated willingness to negotiate, Trump decided not to support military action – for now”

Posted on April 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

i24 NEWS
Israel planned to strike Iran, but was held back by Trump
April 17, 2025

As Israel geared up for possible military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities, the plan was thwarted in recent weeks by US President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported early Thursday. The obstruction came against the backdrop of contacts between Washington and Tehran on reaching a nuclear agreement, with a new round of talks expected for Saturday in Oman. According to the report, Trump made a decision on whether to support the offensive Israeli approach or to pursue diplomacy after long months of discussions. Among senior US officials, there was a significant debate as to whether military action would destroy Iran’s nuclear capabilities and prevent a larger war. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Netanyahu: ‘Israel will not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons’ Israel will ensure Iran does not attain a nuclear weapon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Thursday, following a report that President Donald Trump blocked an Israeli plan to strike the Islamic Republic in May.

JNS Yaakov Lappin:‘Israel must put its own military option on the table’ vis à vis Iran Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman, vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told JNS in recent days that in his assessment, “at least in Trump’s mind and in [special United States Middle Envoy Steve] Witkoff’s mandate, it is clear that the move [negotiations] must block Iran’s path to nuclear weapons so that the North Korean nightmare is not repeated.”

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Terror group near bankruptcy, anti-Hamas protests erupt again, call for end to war

Posted on April 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

YNET
Hamas nears bankruptcy in Gaza: Halts salaries and has difficulty recruiting new fighters
April 17, 2025

Hamas is facing a severe financial crisis in the Gaza Strip, unable to pay salaries to its fighters and government workers as targeted Israeli strikes and a halt in humanitarian aid have drained its resources, according to officials and analysts. The terror group has been left nearly bankrupt following a series of Israeli assassinations of key political, military and administrative figures, as well as the suspension of aid deliveries that officials say Hamas had diverted and resold for profit. The crisis has disrupted the group’s operations and exposed growing dysfunction, with intelligence officials telling The Wall Street Journal that salary payments to many government employees have stopped. Even senior Hamas officials began receiving only half of their salaries during the holy month of Ramadan.  READ MORE

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