“The Iran deal was never meant to stop Iran from building a bomb—it was supposed to delay it until disaster happened on someone else’s watch”

Posted on January 13, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Trump’s Latest Plan for Iran: Regime Disruption
by Eli Lake
January 14, 2020

Since President Donald Trump ordered the drone strike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani earlier this month, his administration has argued the attack has two main benefits. Taking out Soleimani helped to prevent a series of attacks he was planning, officials say, and his death will deter Iran from further escalations against the U.S. in Iraq and the region. For a handful of Trump’s advisers, however, there is a third strategic benefit to killing Soleimani: Call it regime disruption. READ MORE

BRETBART Joel Pollak: NYT says Trump’s Economic Sanctions Have Destroyed Iran’s Will to Fight The New York Times noted Monday that one reason the United States successfully stared down the Iranian regime last week was that President Donald Trump’s renewed economic sanctions have made the cost of war too high for Iran to bear Read the full New York Times article here.

TABLET MAG Lee Smith: Obama Passed the Buck. Trump Refused to Play The Iran deal was never meant to stop Iran from building a bomb—it was supposed to delay it until disaster happened on someone else’s watch

JERUSALEM POST US maneuvers the EU back into its column against nuclear Iran
A titanic struggle and chess match has been running since May 2018 between the US and Iran over who the EU would support in the nuclear standoff. On Tuesday, it looks like the EU-3 of England, France and Germany finally switched its position to be much more decisively on the US side.

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Double Standards: ZOA condemns Representative Ilhan Omar for the hypocrisy of her respective stances on sanctions against Iran and sanctions against Israel

Posted on January 13, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA
ZOA Criticizes Rep. Omar Who Calls For Sanctions on Ally Israel, But Decries Sanctions on Enemies Iran, Cuba & Venezuela
January 13, 2020

...This week, at a press conference, Rep. Omar condemned the Trump Administration’s intended sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that President Trump had “announced crippling sanctions to starve the innocent people of Iran.” She also claimed that sanctions are “economic warfare” and that sanctions had “already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.” Yet, at the same time, Rep Omar and her Muslim female colleague, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D–MI), have both come out in support of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to economically harm the Jewish State of Israel with a path to its international ostracism and eventual elimination. READ MORE

And J Street president and founder Jeremy Ben-Ami attacks state and federal anti-BDS efforts as a “broader government control of public discourse, something that all Americans and especially American Jews should fear”

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“The U.S. Army is arming its AH-64 Apache attack helicopters with an Israeli missile that will enable Apaches to hit targets without a line of sight”

Posted on January 13, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL INTEREST
U.S. Apache Helicopters Will Use Israel’s Spike Missile
by Michael Peck
January 14, 2020

…The Spike NLOS (non-line-of-sight) missile will allow Apaches to remain safely behind cover – a hill or trees – while they guide the munition to the target. The Spike NLOS uses electro-optical guidance – basically a camera – with both day and night vision. With a range of 25 kilometers (15.5 miles), the missile uses a wireless data link to connect to the firing platform. “Spike NLOS provides the gunner with the unique ability to attack targets at stand-off range with no line of sight,” according to manufacturer Rafael’s product sheet. “The Spike NLOS weapon system can be operated in either direct attack or mid-course navigation based on target coordinates only…” READ MORE

ISRAEL AND STUFF US Army to buy Israeli-made Spike missiles over USA made Hellfire Forced to develop locally made missiles fired from Apache helicopters after Obama halted sales to Israel in 2014, Israel’s ‘Spike’ has over double the distance of American made ‘Hellfire’ and incorporates advanced technologies with smart target tracking designed with artificial intelligence features.

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Hillel Neuer: “These courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the U.S. and Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East”

Posted on January 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Iranian protesters refuse to walk on US, Israeli flags
by Tzvi Joffre
January 12, 2020

As anti-government protests swept Iran in the aftermath of the downing of a Ukrainian plane, students from Tehran avoided walking on massive American and Israel flags placed on the road in front of them. Videos circulated on social media showed Iranian students parting as they approached the large flags, taking pains to avoid stepping on them. A few people who did walk over the flags were booed by protesters in the area with chants of “Shame on you.” READ MORE

THE HILL Trump tells Iranian leaders: ‘DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS’ “To the leaders of Iran – DO NOT KILL YOUR PROTESTERS. Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you, and the World is watching. More importantly, the USA is watching. Turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free!” Trump tweeted.

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NY self-defense group: “Jews are the people of the book—and the sword”

Posted on January 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GOTHAMIST
Facing Unprecedented Anti-Semitic Attacks, New York Jews Are Learning To Fight Back—Literally
by Matt Katz
January 9, 2020

The wave of anti-Semitic violence in the New York region is prompting some Jews to take matters into their own fists. Legion, a New York-based nonprofit that trains Jews in self-defense, is growing in popularity and planning to expand in the wake of last month’s deadly shooting at the Jersey City kosher market and machete attack at a rabbi’s house in Monsey. Legion draws a range of Jews, of all ages and degrees of religiosity, who believe that Jews need to protect themselves—because no one else will. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Experts advise US synagogues on use of armed security personnel Security officials say Jewish centers should employ uniformed law enforcement officers rather than private guards or volunteers from community in wake of deadly attacks

NEW YORK POST Israeli military veterans give self-defense classes to Monsey residents after machete attack Congregants packed a synagogue Wednesday in the Rockland County community, where Israeli veterans who run Cherev Gidon, a Pennsylvania-based training academy, taught them how to use a variety of firearms. Yonatan Stern, the academy’s director, told The Post that he wants people to carry guns openly in shul, saying, “You as Jews have to start defending yourselves because others are not gonna do it for you.”

 

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“Before SSI came on campus, pro-Israel students never protested—their mindset was, ‘Let’s hide inside Hillel, lock the doors and wait for this to be over.’ But it doesn’t go away; it’s anti-Semitism”

Posted on January 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Pro-Israel students at conference gain knowledge, confidence in combating hate on campus
by Shiryn Ghermezian
January 10, 2020

Pro-Israel students from 30 university campuses across the United States and Canada gathered last week in New York City for a three-day conference to learn about defending Israel effectively, confidently and unapologetically at their schools.The conference was hosted by Student Supporting Israel, a nonpartisan, non-Jewish campus group, and took place at Columbia University, which has been called one of the most hostile colleges for pro-Israel students…Gathered at the conference were 90 Jewish and non-Jewish pro-students from a wide range of backgrounds, including South American, Bangladeshi and South Korean. READ MORE

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In 2020, another pogrom in Ukraine. “Witnesses say that the Ukrainians were running wildly through the street looking for Jews with knives and clubs in their hands”

Posted on January 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

YESHIVA WORLD
Pogrom in Umam over Shabbos: Ukrainian Thugs Attack Jews, 4 Evacuated To Hospitals
January 11, 2020

A group of about 30 Ukrainian thugs went on a rampage close to midnight on Friday night in Uman and mercilessly beat Jews outside the tzion of Rav Nachman…One Jew who spent Shabbos in Uman told Kikar Shabbos: “I returned from the kloiz and I see that they’re beating every Jew who ‘dared’ to look at them or say a word to them. It started with an insignificant dispute between one of the local Ukrainians and a Jew. The Ukrainian involved in the dispute called his anti-Semitic friends to come and beat up Jews.” READ MORE

Wikipedia: List of massacres in Ukraine, many Jewish and pre-Nazi era

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Yale professor of psychiatry: Since you disagree with me politically, you’re likely to be mentally ill

Posted on January 12, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Yale Psychiatrist Issues Diagnosis of “Psychotic” for Defending Constitutional Rights
by Alan M. Dershowitz
January 11, 2020

A Yale professor of forensic psychiatry has diagnosed guess who — yours truly — as suffering from “psychosis” for expressing legal views that happen to be on the Constitutional rights of President Donald Trump. Dr. Bandy Lee has never met me, never examined me, never seen my medical records, and never spoken to anyone close to me. Yet she is prepared to offer a diagnosis of “psychosis” which she attributes to my being one of President Trump’s “followers.” (I voted for Hillary Clinton and am a liberal Democrat.) READ MORE

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Posted on January 11, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

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“The more successful Trump’s reality-based policies towards Iran and Israel are, the harder it will be for the foreign policy establishment to restore their delusion-based policies when he leaves power”

Posted on January 10, 2020 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Donald Trump and the mythmakers
by Caroline Glick
January 10, 2020

For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump has rejected and disavowed them both. His opponents are apoplectic…If Trump’s reality-based policies succeed, he will dismantle their foreign policy legacy. All their protestations of wisdom, all their fancy resumes and titles as former senior officials will lose their allure and market value. READ MORE

NY SUN Editorial Board Trump on Iran: Appeasement Is Over What gets us about all this is the total unwillingness of the Democrats to take any responsibility for the catastrophe of the appeasement they pursued so ardently. On the contrary, with the stench of battle still over the bases in Iraq where Iran tried to rocket our GIs, Mr. Kerry issued an op-ed piece casting blame for any war that might result on — wait for it — the Americans.

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