Why are the 250,000 Arab Israelis living in the Triangle area strongly opposed to the idea of becoming part of a Palestinian state?

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Real Reason Arabs in Israel Do Not Want to Live in ‘Palestine’
by Khaled Abu Toameh
February 4, 2020

Arab citizens of Israel, who number nearly two million, are up in arms about US President Donald Trump’s plan for Middle East peace, which proposes including some of their communities in a future Palestinian state. Since the unveiling of the plan, thousands of Arabs have been demonstrating to express their rejection of the idea of placing them under the sovereignty of a Palestinian state…Many Arab citizens of Israel see how Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are subject to human rights violations on a daily basis. READ MORE

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“The antisemitic regime of Kuwait owns Kuwait Airways… and can change this situation with one phone call”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
German lawyer sues Expedia for denying service to Israeli
by Benjamin Weinthal
February 3, 2020

A prominent German attorney has filed a lawsuit against online travel agency Expedia for denying service to an Israeli passenger who wanted to fly on a Kuwait Airways plane. A court hearing will take place on Wednesday, attorney Nathan Gelbart told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday. “Kuwait Airways denies transportation of Israeli passengers because of a racist boycott law against the Jewish state, claiming it must not let Israeli passengers on board,” he said. “The truth is: Kuwait Airways does not want to transport Israeli passengers…READ MORE

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Sudan leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan holds talks with Israeli PM in Uganda, marking dramatic turnaround; Israeli flights may soon be allowed over Sudan, cutting hours off route to South America

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu meets leader of Sudan; former foes to move toward normalization
by Raphael Ahren
February 4, 2020

Dramatically improving ties with a former bitter foe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday met with the transitional leader of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, during a whirlwind visit to Uganda. Netanyahu and Burhan met secretly in Entebbe at the residence of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and agreed to gradually normalize relations, a senior Israeli official told The Times of Israel, speaking on condition of anonymity. The meeting marks a sharp turnaround for the two countries, once sworn enemies and still technically at war. Sudan — a Muslim-Arab country in northeastern Africa — has recently moved away from Iran’s influence...READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Uganda president says he is ‘studying’ opening embassy in Jerusalem Netanyahu tells Museveni that he hopes the the 2 countries will open embassies in each other’s capitals ‘in the near future’

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Illinois Congressman Lipinski’s support for Israel “was never a contention point until his opponent, Marie Newman, turned it into one last cycle by reaching out to the large Arab community in the district and weaponizing the topic against him”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
How an Illinois congressional race has become a circular firing squad with Israel in the center
by Ian Deitch
February 4, 2020

Illinois’ 3rd congressional district is a grouping of predominantly Catholic neighborhoods in Chicago’s west and southwest suburbs, where this spring’s primary elections are widely seen as a referendum on affordable health care and women’s reproductive rights. And yet, Israel has become a campaign issue in the district’s Democratic primary. In recent months, challengers to Rep. Dan Lipinski — including Marie Newman, who lost to Lipinski by a razor-thin margin in 2018 — have gone after the eight-term congressman for his support of the Jewish state. Lipinski and Newman, joined by two newcomers, will face off again in the state’s March 17 primary. The winner will potentially go up against Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi party. READ MORE

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“President Trump is telling them to suck it up or lose because the Israelis are going to get what they need to survive”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
The Palestinians’ bluff has been called
by Melanie Phillips
January 31, 2020

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East “deal of the century” offers the Palestinians a state. They have rejected it and threatened instead to ramp up violence against Israel. No one can be surprised. They have rejected every offer of a state previously made to them in 1937, 1947, 2000, 2008 and 2014. So is this latest deal anything more than Groundhog Day for the Middle East all over again? Yes, because this isn’t a deal. It’s an ultimatum. Israel intends to enact its part in the plan unilaterally by declaring sovereignty over the Israeli settlement blocs and the Jordan Valley. READ MORE

PUNDICITY Ilan Berman: Trump’s Plan Forces Palestinian Choices At Tuesday’s [White House] press conference, the ambassadors of Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates were prominently on display – a sure sign of their governments’ backing of the U.S. proposal. Since then, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Morocco have all publicly signaled their support of the American plan as well. In the process, they’ve made clear that the Palestinians won’t automatically be able to rely on Arab support if they decline to engage constructively.

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“Tel Aviv is, from the Muslim perspective, as much a “settlement” as any of the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Jews cannot be legitimate sovereigns over either”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Understanding the ‘deal of the century’ from a Muslim perspective
by Harold Rhode
February 2, 2020

Unsurprisingly, the Palestinian answer to the Trump administration’s historic “deal of the century” peace plan—as it would have been to any plan—was a resounding “no.” The ultimate source of Palestinian rejectionism comes from the deeply rooted belief that according to Islamic law, any territory that ever comes under Muslim rule must remain Muslim forever. All of Israel and the West Bank were captured by the Muslims in 637-638 C.E. That means that from a Muslim perspective, it is Muslim territory, forever. (According to this view, Spain, too, which Muslims ruled from 712 to 1492 C.E., still belongs to the Muslims.) READ MORE

JEWISH JOURNAL Micha Danzig: Bogus Maps to Back a Bogus Cause and Continued Rejection of Peace In his kleptocratic hands, Abbas held up one of the many iterations of the most popular memes of the hate-Israel crowd. The “Disappearing Palestine” or “Palestine Loss of Land” maps. These maps are such a ubiquitous part of the “Palestinian narrative” that a Google Image search under “Palestinian land” results in the first 23, and 59 of the first 70, images being some variation of these duplicitous maps. The most common version of these maps is the below version, which has been promoted by numerous haters of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel…

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EVENT StandWithUs sponsors screening of Shepherd, The Story of a Jewish Dog

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival presents
Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog
Sponsored by StandWithUs

Sun, March 8 | 2:45pm
Century 12 Evanston/CineArts 6
1715 Maple Avenue, Evanston IL

Based on the award-winning and bestselling Israeli novel, “The Jewish Dog,” by Asher Kravitz. Kaleb, a beloved German Shepherd, is separated from his Jewish family and adopted by an SS Officer who trains him to attack and round up Jews at a concentration camp. Kaleb is well cared for and good at his job until one day when he is distracted by a familiar scent. His original master, a young boy named Joshua, has arrived as a prisoner of the camp. Click here to buy tickets to screening. Continue the Conversation – Q&A with Lynn Roth, Director, and August Maturo, Young Lead Actor.

 

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Liberal Jewish seminaries that become woker-than-thou workshops risk losing their defining missions tomorrow – and will continue alienating Jews-in-the-pews today

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Are rabbinical schools becoming anti-Israel pulpits?
by Gil Troy
February 5, 2020

In 2011, when Rabbi Daniel Gordis highlighted “how lonely it can be for an unapologetically pro-Israel student at some of today’s rabbinical schools,” his Conservative and Reform colleagues excoriated him for exaggerating. Today, his criticisms seem mild; things are far worse. Every year, I hear from non-Orthodox rabbinical students that, in their programs, the once-marginal anti-Israel voices, while not the majority, have gone aggressively mainstream – often bullying Zionist students and speakers…The debate about how to teach Israel, how to foster Jewish patriotism, how to develop a big tent, left-to-right American Zionism, and how much anti-Zionism to tolerate in rabbinical seminaries is complicated. READ MORE

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Hey Sweden, spare us lectures about how the #hijab “empowers” women: “The Iranian authorities are employing the full machinery of the state to crush opposition to forced hijab, but with more than half the population against it, the tide is increasingly against them”

Posted on February 2, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Sweden: Hijab is ‘Look of the Year’
by Judith Bergman
February 1, 2020

…For years, women in Iran have been arrested and imprisoned for refusing to wear the mandatory headscarf and even for protesting its use…As women in Iran protested the regime and the mandatory hijab, women in Sweden — who are represented by “the first feminist government in the world” — were championing the hijab on several recent occasions, illustrating the curious cultural transformations there. In January, readers of the Swedish edition of Elle magazine picked Imane Asry, a hijab-wearing social media influencer with 150,000 Instagram followers, as winner of its “Look of the Year” competition. READ MORE

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“Abbas confirmed that he refused to accept phone calls and letters from Trump before the announcement of the plan”

Posted on January 30, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Abbas: Palestinians will cut all ties with Israel, US
by Khaled Abu Toameh
February 1, 2020

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday that he has decided to severe all relations with Israel and the US in protest against President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled plan for Mideast peace. “We have informed the Israelis and Americans of this decision through two letters,” Abbas said in a speech at an emergency meeting of Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo. The first letter, he said, was delivered to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while the second one was handed to the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE MAG Why the Palestinians Rejected Trump’s Peace Plan The refusal of analysts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to face the role of Islamic theology in the conflict is astonishingly naïve and ethnocentric. The Palestinians and their supporters will never accept the Trump peace plan because of Islamic imperatives that mandate that Islam must dominate and not be dominated, and that any land that once was ruled by Islamic law must be ruled by Islamic law forever. Unless and until these facts are taken into account, every peace plan is foredoomed.

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