“It’s 2019, ten years later, and Iron Dome has given people more choices”

Posted on November 13, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Shelter, snacks and soldiers: War on the Gaza border
by Seth J. Frantzman
November 13, 2019

…If you’re in the Tel Aviv area you have more than minute to find shelter. So you can run if you like. Or you can shelter near the car on the ground. The real secret is that there probably isn’t a good way to do it if you’re closer to Gaza because you just don’t have time to safely pull over and leap out of the car. Back in 2009, when there was no Iron Dome and you just had to find shelter, we were taught that if you can’t get to a shelter you should shelter behind a wall or building between you and Gaza so that the trajectory of the rocket is less likely to hit you. READ MORE

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“Israel repeatedly urged Gaza’s rulers to stop Baha Abu al-Ata, but was ignored. Hamas was betting Israel wouldn’t dare eliminate him and risk a new conflict. It was wrong”

Posted on November 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hamas let PIJ terror chief act with impunity; now it needs to control the flames
by Avi Issacharoff
November 12, 2019

Responsibility for the IDF’s elimination of Baha Abu al-Ata, the commander of the Islamic Jihad terror group’s military wing, lies entirely with one group: Hamas. Gaza’s Hamas rulers were ostensibly completely uninvolved in the relentless confrontation mounted by Abu al-Ata and his colleagues against Israel. But its persistent refusal to intervene, its determined ignoring of Israel’s warnings regarding Abu al-Ata’s central role in firing rockets at Israel and planning terror attacks, eventually led to an inevitable outcome: The Gaza-based serial troublemaker was eliminated along with his wife at their home in Shejaiya in an Israeli strike early on Tuesday morning. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Yaakov Katz: The Gaza strike and what it means for Iran, Hamas and Gantz The early morning Israeli airstrike on Tuesday that killed a top Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip carried with it a number of messages addressed to Hamas, Iran and Syria. Just minutes after the Air Force bombed the home of Islamic Jihad’s Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza, killing him and his wife, another explosion took place in Damascus at the home of the deputy head of Islamic Jihad, whose headquarters are located in the Syrian city.  Israel did not take credit for the Damascus bombing, and it was unclear whether Akram al-Ajouri was killed or wounded in the strike.

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Trump’s “red carpet for Erdogan is unjustified until he ceases Turkey’s malign activities rather than covering them up”

Posted on November 12, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FDD POLICY BRIEF
Erdogan to visit White House after welcoming Iranian terrorist to Turkey
by Toby Dershowitz
November 12, 2019

President Donald Trump will host Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House tomorrow; the timing of Erdogan’s visit is awkward because his government just hosted an Iranian official implicated in a major terrorist attack. In the absence of concerted pressure from the United States, Erdogan has deepened his ties to a wide range of terrorists and extremists….While President Trump has a warm relationship with Erdogan, Erdogan’s toxicity may not be Teflon-coated – as evidenced by the recent across-the-board condemnation of the Turkish president by Trump supporters in Congress,  leading evangelicals, and supporters of Trump’s tough Iran policy. READ MORE

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Writings of prospective Boston University professor Sarah Ihmoud “not simply anti-Israeli, but blatantly anti-Semitic, unsupported by facts and don’t merit ‘academic scholarship’ status”

Posted on November 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Boston University considering hiring professor who accuses Israel of ‘rape,’ ‘systematic massacres’
by Jackson Richman
November 7, 2019

Boston University has been considering hiring an anti-Israel postdoctoral associate as a professor, reported Americans for Peace and Tolerance. While the school has yet to hire Sarah Ihmoud, the offer is “imminent,” according to APT. Ihmoud presented her paper, “Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism,” to the university. In it, she alleges that the “rape and killing of Palestinian women was a central aspect of Israeli troops’ systematic massacres and evictions during the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.” READ MORE

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“West Bank settlements are still seen by many as an obstacle to peace with Palestinians, but newcomers say they are motivated less by politics than by economics and lifestyle”

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘It’s So Easy to Live Here.’ Jewish Settlements Go Mainstream in Israel
by Felicia Schwartz
November 10, 2019

When the Jewish settlers who founded this town scouted the land in 1978, they chose a rocky outcrop where Palestinian villagers warned nothing would grow. It was called the Mountain of Death. “They thought we were crazy,” said Dorith Nachman, 70 years old, recalling the reaction when she, her husband and other Jewish Israelis erected tents on the hillside. Ariel’s founders used to administer a psychological questionnaire to incoming families to ensure they could tough it out. It wasn’t just the natural environment that was harsh. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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“The hostility of the American Left to Israel goes back to Soviet policy during the Cold War years”

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN GREATNESS
Warren Promises to Divide Jerusalem, Fund Terrorists
by Karin McQuillan
November 10, 2019

Democrat presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were the star speakers at the national conference of J Street, a woke anti-Israel (verging on anti-Semitic) group, which met last week in Washington, D.C. Our two socialist candidates, sharing the podium with terrorists, are competing to see who can top the other in betraying our ally, Israel, and promoting Palestinian terrorism. Warren addressed the audience by a video, in which she promised to divide Jerusalem. “Both parties should be able to have their capitals in Jerusalem,” she declared. READ MORE

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“To defeat the Islamist, Communist and Socialist threats to the United States, we must adopt the Cold War model, according to which war is a marathon, not a sprint”

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (be agreement with JNS)
The ‘endless war’ is inevitable – and winnable
by Ken Abramowitz
November 7, 2019

People and organizations within and beyond Washington, DC, public policy circles, including US President Donald Trump, have expressed grave concern at the possibility that the United States is engaged in “endless wars.” Practically since the birth of the United States of America, various ideologies have waged war against us. For the Islamists (Muslim supremacists), this was but a continuation of their – at that time – uninterrupted 1,200-year war against non-Muslims everywhere, and Muslims whose version of the faith they didn’t agree with. It wasn’t until President Thomas Jefferson decided to stand up to the endless, unprovoked, savage assaults against US trade vessels by the Barbary pirates that violent jihadist acts against us stopped – for a while. READ MORE

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EVENT Tuvia Tenenbom, author of “I Sleep in Hitler’s Room” and “Catch the Jew!” to speak in Chicago and Deerfield

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DePaul University College of Law and
Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies
presents
Antisemitism Uncovered Here and Abroad — Motives, Biases and Manipulations
featuring
Tuvia Tenenbom

Thursday, November 21
11:45am – 1:30pm
DePaul University
College of Law
Room 346
25 East Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604

7:30pm – 9:30pm
BJBE Congregation
1201 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL 60015

To register for these events email Steve Resnicoff sresnicoff@gmail.com

 

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EVENT Ember Foundation Lectures in Glencoe and Chicago

Posted on November 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE EMBER FOUNDATION presents
Charlie Harary, Esq

Tuesday December 10, 2019
Am Shalom
6:00pm to 8:00pm
840 Vernon Avenue
Glencoe IL 60022
Click here to register

Wednesday December 11, 2019
12 noon to 1:30pm
Reed Smith LLP
10 S Wacker Dr, 40th floor, Chicago, IL 60606
Click here to register

The Ember Foundation is a charitable organization focused on funding, creating and expanding Jewish outreach and Torah education programs in our schools, businesses and homes — sharing this knowledge with others and leaving an intellectual legacy that passes on the gift of Judaism to every member of our community. For more information about this event torahub@theemberfoundation.org or call 773.583.4567

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“One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial, and worth every nickel”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH POLICY CENTER
U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation Is A Win-Win
by Shoshana Bryen
November 6, 2019

…Israel’s missile defense capabilities — developed and produced in conjunction with American industry — not only protect Israel from Hamas and Hezbollah missiles, but protect the United States from emerging threats from North Korea and Iran. Various branches of the U.S. military have purchased a variety of Israeli-developed systems and participated in joint development of anti-tunnel defenses, the Arrow Missile Program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Plane, THEL Laser Program, the Advanced Urban Combat Training Facility, as well as Iron Dome. READ MORE

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