Nikki Haley: Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself

Posted on October 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Haley: Sanders wants to give Israel’s money to terrorists
by Elad Benari
October 29, 2019

Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, on Monday fired back after Senator Bernie Sanders called the Israeli government “racist” and suggested that the US should redirect its aid to Israel and give it to Gaza instead. “Just when you thought Bernie Sanders couldn’t get any more radical, he outdid himself. He wants to take money we give to Israel to defend itself from terrorists, and give it to Gaza, which is run by terrorists?? Unreal. Why isn’t every other Dem pres candidate saying he’s wrong?” tweeted Haley…He also addressed the close friendship between US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and ridiculed the two, saying, “One is on the way to being ousted and the other may be sent to prison.” READ MORE

JNS Jonathan S. Tobin: Bernie’s Gaza aid farce exposes J Street’s false front In a competition to see which Democratic candidate can pander more to the far left by undermining Israel, the Vermont Socialist wins by a landslide…The Vermont Socialist has always used his Jewish identity and his stay on a kibbutz more than half a century ago as a license to attack Israel with impunity. 

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“Iran’s Islamic Penal Code allows girls as young as 9 and boys as young as 15 to be executed”

Posted on October 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
EU Supports Iran – World’s Leading Executioner of Children
by Majid Rafizadeh
October 28, 2019

…European leaders, of course, who seem never to tire of sanctimoniously posturing on behalf of human rights, are meanwhile pursuing appeasement policies with a government that is the world’s leading executioner and torturer of children — and others. Some of the children who have been executed are as young as 12. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, recently pointed to the alarming issue of executions of children and adolescents…Two 17-year-old boys, who apparently did not even did not even know about their death sentences, were flogged before being executed. READ MORE

NATIONAL INTEREST Ilan Berman: The New Faces Of Iranian Protest In the summer of 2009, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran and other major cities in what became months of sustained demonstrations against the Iranian regime…A decade later, that dissatisfaction runs deeper than ever. For nearly two years now, renewed grassroots protests have taken place throughout Iran. While more modest in size and scope than those that characterized the Green Movement, these demonstrations have proven to be more diverse and more enduring

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NYT’s Michelle Goldberg at J Street conference: “Some Democratic candidates are so pro-Israel as to be considered “far Right”

Posted on October 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Even J-Streeters realize that being pro-Israel nowadays is associated with the Right and Leftists are anti-Israel
October 27, 2019

J-Street likes to pretend that it is pro-Israel and that the people on the Right who claim to be pro-Israel are really anti-Israel by considering parts of the West Bank to be part of Israel in any final status agreement. But as this excerpt from the J-Street Conference indicates, Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times thinks that any Democratic candidates who are “too” pro-Israel are also “far-Right.”…Even subconsciously, she associates being pro-Israel with the political right and being anti-Israel with the political Left, at an unabashedly anti-Right conference that claims to be “pro-Israel.” READ MORE

TOWN HALL Ben Shapiro: The J Street Democrats This week, four of the top candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro and Bernie Sanders — gathered at the J Street Conference to explain why the United States ought to pressure the state of Israel to make concessions to terrorists, why the Obama administration was correct to appease the Iranian regime and why American Jews ought to value the opinions of Bernie Sanders over those of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the future of Jewish safety.

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Kidney donations are on the rise among Orthodox Israelis

Posted on October 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
To Save a Stranger’s Life
by Sara Toth Stub
October 28, 2019

…Koplovich is among the growing number of religiously observant Israelis who are volunteering to donate kidneys to people they have never met, ultimately doubling the number of kidney transplants taking place in the country each year. Officials credit the increase in living donors to improved surgical techniques, increased social welfare benefits, and the work of a nonprofit organization called Matnat Chaim, which raises awareness about and facilitates live kidney donations, especially among Orthodox Israelis…Rabbinic authorities, whose often stringent definitions of brain death have led to Israel’s relatively low rate of organ transplants from deceased people, are now actively encouraging live donations of kidneys…READ MORE

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“For us Israelis the threat from ISIS is secondary,” Amos Yadlin said. “We would like to see the US act in a similar way against Soleimani, and Nasrallah”

Posted on October 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Ex-intel chief praises Baghdadi hit, says Iran, Hezbollah should be next
by Herb Keinon
October 27, 2019

The purported US killing of shadowy Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is an “impressive” US intelligence and operational feat, but it is important to remember that Iran – not ISIS – is the main threat in the Middle East, a top Israeli security analyst said on Sunday. Amos Yadlin, a former head of military intelligence who today heads the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, wrote in a Twitter thread that ISIS ceased being a territorial entity two years ago when it lost Mosul and Raqqa. “For us Israelis, the threat from ISIS is secondary,” he said…READ MORE

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“Although Israel has no formal relations with Saudi Arabia, ties are gradually warming up, in part due to shared concerns over Iran’s growing influence in the region”

Posted on October 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Mysterious Private Jet Flight From Israel to Saudi Arabia Has Media Guessing
by Alisa Odenheimer
October 24, 2019

A private jet took off from Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening, landed for a few minutes in Amman, then proceeded to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, leaving Israeli media guessing who was on the plane. Yossi Melman, who writes for the Maariv daily, tweeted that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Mossad spy chief Yossi Cohen may have been on board the flight to the Arab kingdom, which has no diplomatic ties with Israel, possibly to discuss the situation in Syria. READ MORE

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“Democratic presidential hopeful, Elizabeth Warren, has suggested that she would consider cutting military aid to Israel to force it to halt construction of settlements in the disputed territories”

Posted on October 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Warren, Palestinian Jew-hatred and the destruction of the West’s moral compass
by Melanie Phillips
October 24, 2019

…Nevertheless, opposing Israeli settlements and taking the side of the Palestinian Arabs is unlikely to damage [Elizabeth] Warren’s prospects in broader progressive circles because these are views that they generally share. This is not merely a divisive policy stance. It also displays a fundamental misconception about the Arab war against Israel that is shared widely within the Jewish as well as non-Jewish world. At the most obvious level, bashing the settlements is historically and legally wrong. Israel is entitled to retain and settle these territories twice over. READ MORE

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Virgin Atlantic plans to “take advantage of demand for cross-Atlantic travel by connecting passengers between Israel and the United States”

Posted on October 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Sir Richard Branson: Israel is a country of great entrepreneurs
by Eytan Halon
October 24, 2019

British billionaire businessman and Virgin Atlantic chairman Sir Richard Branson paid tribute to Israel’s entrepreneurial spirit on Wednesday, shortly after landing in Tel Aviv to inaugurate the airline’s new route from London Heathrow to Ben-Gurion Airport. Voicing his opposition to boycotts as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Branson told reporters that Israel is a country of “great entrepreneurs doing incredible things,” and that the Virgin Group would likely increase its investments in the region following the launch of flights on September 25. READ MORE

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“Sadly, for the foreseeable future at the United Nations, the inmates will be running the asylum”

Posted on October 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Another UN blow to human rights
by Hillel Neuer
October 18, 2019

In 1946, in the aftermath of the horrors of World War II, Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Commission on Human Rights, to reaffirm the principles of human dignity. That her dream has turned into a recurring nightmare was confirmed on Thursday when some of the world’s worst regimes were once again elected to the 47-nation UN body, renamed in 2006 under a failed bid at reform, as the Human Rights Council. READ MORE

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University of Illinois Student Government betrays its Jewish students

Posted on October 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

STANDWITHUS
StandWithUs Condemns Embarrassing Display of Ignorance by Illinois Student Government
October 23, 2019

StandWithUs condemns the University of Illinois (UIUC) Student Government (ISG) for passing a disingenuous resolution about antisemitism without consulting the Jewish community or securing their consent. The resolution denies that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, erasing the experiences of Jewish students who have repeatedly experienced antisemitic forms of anti-Zionism on campus. It passed with a vote of 29 in favor, 2 against, and 2 abstaining. READ MORE

JNS SJP-sponsored resolution passes University of Illinois student government, hundreds protest A resolution introduced by Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Illinois passed the school’s student government (ISG) on Wednesday night, accusing the university’s chancellor for condemning a recent streak of anti-Semitic incidents, including a swastika being found on one of its buildings and an anti-Semitic presentation at a mandatory meeting for the school’s residential living team.

ALGEMEINER Hundreds of Jewish Students Walk Out in Protest as University of Illinois Student Senate Passes Resolution Denying Link Between Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism More than 400 Jewish students from fraternities, sororities, Chabad, Hillel and other organizations walked out in protest earlier this week during a student government meeting at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) at which a motion was approved denying any link between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

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