“Israel is bracing itself for war with Iranian proxies, as Tehran escalates its provocations. But what will the United States do if conflict comes?”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE ATLANTIC
The Coming Middle East Conflagration
by Michael Oren
November 4, 2019

The senior ministers of the Israeli government met twice last week to discuss the possibility of open war with Iran. They were mindful of the Iranian plan for a drone attack from Syria in August, aborted at the last minute by an Israeli air strike, as well as Iran’s need to deflect attention from the mass protests against Hezbollah’s rule in Lebanon. The ministers also reviewed the recent attack by Iranian drones and cruise missiles on two Saudi oil installations, reportedly concluding that a similar assault could be mounted against Israel from Iraq. READ MORE

NY POST Iran admits case of Robert Levinson, ex-FBI agent missing since 2007, is ‘ongoing’ A former FBI agent who many had given up for dead may in fact still be alive. Robert A. Levinson’s case is currently “ongoing,” Iran admitted in a United Nations filing, The Associated Press reported on Saturday. It is the first time the country has acknowledged the existence of a legal case in its Revolutionary Court surrounding Levinson, who vanished in 2007 after being apprehended on Iran’s Kish Island, the wire service reported.

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“Conference of Presidents ‘deeply troubled’ by statements from Warren, Sanders, Buttigieg that aid could be cut to force policy changes on Palestinians, settlements”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Jewish umbrella group condemns candidates’ calls to put conditions on Israel aid
by Marcy Oster
November 5, 2019

An umbrella group of more than 50 Jewish organizations from across the ideological spectrum condemned calls by Democratic presidential candidates to condition military aid to Israel on its approach to making peace with the Palestinians. “We are deeply troubled by recent statements that would place conditions, limitations, or restrictions on the U.S. security assistance provided to Israel, so vital for the defense and security of the country, the protection of essential U.S. interests, and stability in the region,” READ MORE

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FDR manipulated Rabbi Stephen Wise to “keep the Jews quiet”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Historian: New evidence shows FDR’s bigotry derailed many Holocaust rescue plans
by Matt Lebovic
November 4, 2019

Not only was US president Franklin Roosevelt perfunctory about rescuing Jews from the Nazis, but he obstructed rescue opportunities that would have cost him little or nothing, according to Holocaust historian Rafael Medoff. FDR’s role in preventing the rescue of European Jewry is detailed in a new book called, “The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust.” Published in September through The Jewish Publication Society, Medoff’s book includes new archival materials about the relationship between Roosevelt and Rabbi Stephen Wise, who the author sees as a sycophantic Jewish leader used by Roosevelt to “keep the Jews quiet.” READ MORE

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Trump Republican challenger Joe Walsh: “I would push for a one-state solution from Jordan to the Mediterranean. The two-state solution is a fallacy. It’s a pipe dream”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
GOP presidential primary challenger Joe Walsh vows to be ‘more pro-Israel’ than Trump
by Jackson Richman
November 8, 2019

Once a staunch pro-Israel Illinois congressman between 2011 and 2013, Joe Walsh launched this past summer a long-shot Republican primary challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, whom many have deemed to be the most pro-Israel figure ever in the White House…”I can tell you what a Joe Walsh peace plan initiative is: I’m not sitting down with the Palestinians until the Palestinians acknowledge that Israel has a right to exist. I’m not talking to the Palestinians until the Palestinians stop teaching children to hate Israel.” READ MORE

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“Israel’s F-35I Adir—or “Mighty Ones”—will be the only F-35 variant to enter service heavily tailored to a foreign country’s specifications”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE NATIONAL INTEREST
Israel’s F-35 Stealth Fighters Can Strike Iran At Any Moment
by Sebastien Roblin
November 9, 2019

…Lockheed-Martin has mostly refused to allow major country-specific modifications to the F-35, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars foreign F-35 operators contributed to the aircraft’s development…Israel, however, managed to carve out an exception. Though not an investor in the F-35’s development, Tel Aviv was nonetheless quick to sign on to the program with an initial order of fifty. It also negotiated a favorable deal in which billions of dollars worth of F-35 wings and sophisticated helmet sets would be manufactured in Israel, paid for with U.S. military aid. Furthermore, depot-level maintenance will occur in a facility operated by Israeli Aeronautics Industries rather than at a Lockheed facility abroad. READ MORE

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Next up on Netflix, “this Swiss movie seems to deride both Judaism and women in equal measure”

Posted on November 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

HEY ALMA
Netflix’s ‘The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch’ is a Misogynistic Dumpster Fire
by Lior Zaltzman
November 5, 2019

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch, Switzerland’s submission to the Academy awards and the Jewiest movie to hit Netflix in a long while, has a lot going for it. It has a superb cast of actors, led by Jewish cutie Joel Basman. It has great cinematography and that 4th-wall-breaking narration all the cool Netflix kids love. Unfortunately, at the end of the day, there’s no other way to say this — Motti is another trash film that aggrandizes men and their romantic pursuit at the expense of Jewish women. This dumpster fire of a movie offers us only 2D caricatures of women in this year of our lord *checks notes* 5780, I mean 2019. READ MORE

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A cautionary tale: Jews and Arabs lived together under a single administration in Mandatory Palestine for 28 years and it was a catastrophe.

Posted on November 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
The Delusional One-State Solution
by Matthew Mainen
November 4, 2019

As widespread protests plunge Lebanon into political crisis mode once again, we are reminded that multi-ethnic democracies in the Middle East aren’t exactly a model of good governance. Those looking for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should take note, and this should give pause to advocates of the one-state solution. As the name implies, the one-state solution centers on creating a harmonious binational state, with an almost certain Palestinian majority, between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River. It is supported by prominent Palestinian-Americans like Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour and Electronic Intifada head Ali Abunimah. READ MORE

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Professor Jason Hill: A gay man’s moral defense of heterosexuality

Posted on November 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
In Praise of Traditional Gender Identity
by Professor Jason D Hill
Wed Nov 6, 2019

We are witnessing a moment in Western civilization when heterosexuality is under assault. It is being reconstructed and used as a scapegoat for every neurosis one twists in agony over on a psychologist’s couch, and every setback one experiences in the name of some vague concept called “intersectionality.” We are living in a precarious moment when masculinity is denounced as toxic and rapacious, a moment when people are forgetting that it was mostly men who risked their lives to create Western civilization…One of the most annoying questions I am often asked is: How can you be gay and be a supporter of traditional gender roles and identities, and believe that heterosexuality and masculinity in the civilized Western democracies are becoming endangered phenomena?  READ MORE

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Chicago area Jews and Jewish facilities surveilled by Iranian regime; indictment doesn’t identify targets

Posted on November 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
2 Iranians accused of spying on Jewish, Israeli targets in US plead guilty
by Staff
November 6, 2019

Two Iranians who were charged with collecting information on Israeli and Jewish targets in the US and on opponents of the Iranian regime have pleaded guilty to acting on behalf of Tehran, the US Justice Department announced Tuesday. Ahmadreza Mohammadi-Doostdar, 39, a dual US-Iranian citizen, and Majid Ghorbani, 60, an Iranian citizen and resident of California, were arrested last year… The indictment states that on or about July 21, 2017, Doostdar carried out surveillance and took photos at several Jewish centers in Chicago, including the Hillel Center and the Rohr Chabad House, where he is accused of taking detailed pictures of the security measures, and the Hillel Center. READ MORE

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“The BDS movement was established in part by major Palestinian terrorist organizations as a “non-military” way to eradicate Israel”

Posted on November 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Israel’s top court upholds deportation of Human Rights Watch official
November 5, 2019

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a government decision not to renew the work visa of a Human Rights Watch official and he will have to leave the country within 20 days or face deportation, his lawyer said. The unanimous three-judge decision supporting the Israeli government’s move against Omar Shakir, a U.S. citizen who represents HRW in Israel and the Palestinian territories, was published on the court’s website. Shakir had contested the government’s argument that his past pro-Palestinian statements constituted current backing for anti-Israel boycotts. Israel says that Shakir supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER Adam Milstein: How BDS Mainstreamed Antisemitism on the American Campus — and Beyond Antisemitism did not die with the fall of Nazi Germany and its mass murder of six million Jews. The ancient hatred of the Jewish people has mutated like a deadly virus and now infected many college campuses across the US as a mainstream movement — and was embraced at a national conference at the University of Minnesota last weekend. The conference was held by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which has been one of the main drivers of the antisemitic and anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement on American college campuses.

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