Joe Lieberman: “Bipartisan American support for Israel is not collapsing, but it’s changing and there are parts of the American political spectrum where support for Israel is dearly diminishing”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Joe Lieberman: I see storm clouds gathering on US support for Israel
by Rossella Tercatin
November 2, 2019

With Democratic presidential hopefuls including Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders threatening to withhold American aid to Israel, former US Senator and Democratic nominee for Vice President Joe Lieberman warned of the presence of “storm clouds gathering” on American support for Israel while speaking at the first Herzl Conference on Contemporary Zionism organized by the World Zionist Organization in Jerusalem on Wednesday. READ MORE

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Most Americans “fed up with the pandering to college students, Antifa mobs, and woke thinkers who are making conversation, debate, and free speech untenable in American life”

Posted on November 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
‘No Safe Spaces’ Review – How Far Will Political Correctness Take Us?
by Jacob Airey
November 1, 2019

PragerU founder Dennis Prager and comedian/podcast host Adam Corolla team up for “No Safe Spaces,” a documentary covering the hot topic of political correctness and how it has infected everything from politics to educational institutions, as well as the entertainment industry. From getting speakers banned to harassing public officials, this “woke” crowd is targeting anyone that disagrees with them, and this documentary highlights some of the most egregious examples of bad actors trying to stop free speech. READ MORE

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PA government declares Palestinians “fell victim to the greed of colonialism, expansion and ethnic cleansing” as a result of the Balfour Declaration”

Posted on November 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinians call on Britain to apologize for Balfour Declaration
by Khaled Abu Toameh
November 2, 2019

Palestinians on Saturday marked the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration by calling on Britain to apologize for the 1917 pledge supporting the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.”…The PA government in Ramallah called on Britain to “quickly remove the injustices of the ominous Balfour Declaration by correcting its historic mistake and recognizing the independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital.” READ MORE

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Biden’s “denunciation of threats to cut Israel aid was great, but it’s far from clear that the fading establishment champion can best his party’s increasingly dominant left wing”

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Can Joe Biden save the day for pro-Israel Democrats?
by Jonathan S. Tobin
November 1, 2019

After a week in which attacks on Israel by Democratic presidential candidates dominated discussion at the J Street conference, Joe Biden finally gave what’s left of the pro-Israel wing of the party a reason not to despair. After Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg had all endorsed cutting military aid to Israel, Biden finally weighed in on the subject. Speaking to a reporter from The Wall Street Journal, the former vice president said the notion of conditioning continued assistance to Israel was “absolutely outrageous,” and that such a policy would be a “gigantic mistake.” READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Top US Jewish Group Defends American Military Aid to Israel After Some Democrats Tout Potential Conditions  Arthur Stark, chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, executive Vice Chairman and CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said on Friday, “We are deeply troubled by recent statements that would place conditions, limitations, or restrictions on the US security assistance provided to Israel, so vital for the defense and security of the country, the protection of essential US interests, and stability in the region.”

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“Inconveniently, Michael Doran has proven to be right on very big questions on which nearly everyone else in Washington turned out to be wrong”

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
If Michael Doran were on Wall Street, he’d be a billionaire
by Liel Leibovitz
October 30, 2019

…While Americans fondly speak of “the Kurds,” Doran insisted, there was in fact no such unified entity: The Kurds in Iraq are different from the Kurds in Syria, who are aligned with the PKK, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that Doran described as “a Stalinist cult.” President Obama, he continued, aligned America with this sworn enemy of the Turks, who were a necessary if admittedly imperfect cornerstone of the NATO alliance. READ MORE

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“Netanyahu told cabinet members in a closed-door meeting that US President Donald Trump would not act against Iran until US general elections”

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu told ministers Trump can’t be counted on to act against Iran — report
by Staff
1 November 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of ministers recently that they should not expect the US to take serious action against Iran for at least the next year, according to a report Thursday. Netanyahu on Thursday hinted publicly for the first time at unease with Washington’s hesitancy to take action, echoing statements in recent weeks from officials speaking off the record about Iran’s growing boldness...Netanyahu told the ministers that in the interim Israel would have to deal with Iran on its own. READ MORE

REUTERS U.S. to renew waivers allowing non-proliferation work with Iran The United States plans to allow Russian, Chinese and European companies to continue work at Iranian nuclear facilities to make it harder for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, two sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The Trump administration, which last year pulled out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, will let the work go forward by issuing waivers to sanctions that bar non-U.S. firms from dealing with the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said the sources on condition of anonymity.

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Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe was gifted the musical menorah by Arthur Miller’s parents, following her marriage to the playwright and conversion to Judaism

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH NEWS
Marilyn Monroe’s menorah expected to fetch £100K at auction
by Francine Wolfisz
October 31, 2019

Marilyn Monroe’s personal menorah, which features a wind-up mechanism playing Israel’s national anthem, is expected to fetch up to $150,000 (£115,000) when it goes under the hammer in New York, next week. The Hollywood icon was gifted the musical menorah by the parents of Arthur Miller, after she decided to embrace Judaism following her marriage to the famous playwright in 1956. Monroe who had just turned 30, never had a real family of her own and was eager to join the family of her new husband by becoming Jewish. READ MORE

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The Islam Nation of Palestine won’t be what they’re telling us

Posted on November 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

QUILLETTE
Palestine Misunderstood
by Petra Marquardt-Bigman
October 31, 2019

…A Pew survey from 2013 of almost 40,000 Muslims in 39 countries found that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza were often among the Muslim populations with the most extreme views about the role of Islam in society: 89 percent of Palestinians said they wanted sharia law; 66 percent endorsed the death penalty for Muslims who convert to another religion; 76 percent supported mutilation as a punishment for theft, and a shocking 84 percent said they wanted adulterers stoned to death. READ MORE

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U of I “righteous gentile” student leader Jack Langen stands with Israel

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
University of Illinois Student Leader Hailed for ‘Courageous’ Stand With Jewish Community in Fight Against Anti-Israel Resolution
by Caleb Galaraga
October 31, 2019

As tensions soared Wednesday night during a student government meeting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where a controversial resolution denying any link between antisemitism and anti-Zionism was set to pass by a landslide, student-body vice president Jack Langen went against the tide. By the time he spoke, hundreds of Jewish students had already walked out of the meeting in protest of not being consulted on the content of the resolution. READ MORE

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Thanks to Jordan Peterson, “Clean Your Room” became a meme

Posted on October 31, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
An Introduction to Jordan Peterson
by Kyle Smith
October 30, 2019

Built around interviews with Peterson, his family, his friends, and his detractors (there is some overlap among these groups), the documentary The Rise of Jordan Peterson is a fair and even-tempered overview of how Peterson became perhaps the most popular professor in North America and the accidental leader of a movement, strongly identified with young men, built around taking responsibility for oneself and carving order out of chaos. But first Peterson became a scourge of those who wish to control other people’s words and maybe their thoughts, the “Professor Against Political Correctness” as he billed himself in his YouTube videos.  READ MORE


In this memorable interview–with over 18 million views–Jordan Peterson successfully challenges Cathy Newman on a number of matters including the “gender pay gap”

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