“It is not racist for Israelis not to want Hamas supporters and champions of terrorist murderers in the Israeli government”

Posted on September 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CAROLINEGLICK.COM
A note on Tuesday’s elections
September 19, 2019

The US media coverage of the Israeli election has misrepresented the results of Tuesday’s vote…This week the Washington Post slandered Netanyahu — and Israeli society. The editorial board falsely claimed that the public’s aversion to including the Arab parties in a government is a product of racism. This is a lie. Israelis don’t want to share power with the Arab parties because there is not one Arab party that accepts Israel’s right to exist. READ MORE

JNS Alex Traiman: The political downfall of Israel’s right-wing The deadlock now increases the likelihood of a national unity government comprised of both Likud, and Blue and White. But Gantz has said that he refuses to sit in any government led by Netanyahu, and Netanyahu is thus far unwilling to yield the prime minister’s chair to his challenger or to another member of the Likud Party.

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“US ambassador to UN expresses support for Israel. Israeli ambassador Danon: We welcome your presence here”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
‘Israel will have no better friend than Kelly Craft’
by Elad Benari
September 19, 2019

…In her remarks, Ambassador Craft used the opportunity to express her support for Israel. “The United States has always supported Israel in the past. The United States supports Israel today. The United States will always support Israel moving forward. Israel will have no better friend than Kelly Craft,” she said…The Senate approved Craft to be ambassador to the UN last month. She previously served as US ambassador to Canada. During her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Craft promised to follow in the footsteps of her predecessor, Nikki Haley, in defending Israel. READ MORE

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Latest Women’s March board member canned. “She called Zionism ‘racism’ and said ‘blaming Hamas for firing rockets at Israel is like blaming a woman for punching her rapist'”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
Women’s March vote off new board member Zahra Billoo over tweets about Israel and Zionism
by Daniel Sugarman
September 19, 2019

A newly appointed board member of the Women’s March has been voted off it just days after her new role was announced, after tweets promoting extreme anti-Zionism and conspiracy theories were revealed. Zahra Billoo, a lawyer and executive director of CAIR.. in San Francisco, tweets included: “Zionism is the violent ideology responsible for the genocide and displacement of indigenous Palestinians and the destruction of Palestinian land.” She described Zionism as “racism”, and wrote in 2015: “I’m more afraid of racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel than of the mentally Ill young people the #FBI recruits to join ISIS.” READ MORE

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A brave pro-Israel Muslim woman, attacked again

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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“Macron has done as much or more than any other European country to favor the Iranian regime”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
France: Macron Sides with Iran’s Mullahs
by Guy Millière
September 19, 2019

…The French officials act and speak as if the Iranian regime was totally honorable, and as if they did not discern the obvious: that the Iranian regime has destructive goals. The nuclear deal did not divert the regime from its goal of building nuclear weapons. The deal, in fact, floated the regime toward precisely that end. The American strategy of applying maximum pressure through economic sanctions seems the only non-military way to pressure this regime to change course.In light of France’s history of appeasing hostile regimes, France’s attitude toward the Iranian regime is not really surprising. READ MORE

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Mayor of Champaign, IL appoints an antisemite to an anti-racism commission

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST FORUM
Tell the City of Champaign to Fire its Antisemitic Commissioner
by Sam Westrop
September 9, 2019

In July, we wrote about the city of Champaign, Illinois, where Mayor Deb Feinen decided to appoint a violently-minded antisemitic Islamist activist to the city’s Human Relations Commission, which advises on minority rights and serves as “a hearing board for complaints” about minority rights…Ahmed Taha has promoted calls for the killing of Jews, republishing text that stated: “There is a Jew behind me, come kill him.” He also spreads antisemitic conspiracy theories about Egypt’s President Sisi, and even Joe Biden. He is a prominent advocate for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most dangerous theocratic Islamist movements in the Middle East. READ MORE

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“What makes Trudeau’s blackface scandalous is not that it is bigoted, but that it directly contradicts his carefully curated brand as a racially enlightened progressive”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
The Left Tore Megyn Kelly Apart Just For Talking About Blackface. Justin Trudeau Deserves The Same Treatment.
by Matt Walsh
September 19, 2019

I am told that the revealed blackface photos of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are “shocking.” I can think of several different words to describe them — “hilarious” certainly being one — but I would not personally call them shocking. Anyone who has been paying attention cannot be shocked that the wokest white boy this side of the Atlantic has this sort of thing in his past…Consider what happened to Megyn Kelly when she merely talked about blackface on her NBC show.  All she did was argue that sometimes blackface isn’t racist — sometimes it’s meant as a tribute, not an insult — and for that, she was pilloried, attacked, and eventually fired. READ MORE

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“Multiple cities in Illinois are forced to cut police, fire departments and other city services to fund pension plans”

Posted on September 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MISH TALK
Bankrupt Illinois Cities Forced To Cut Services To Fund Pensions
by Mish
September 19, 2019

Municipal leaders across Illinois need to demand the following if they want their cities to survive Illinois’ collective crisis: 1) An amendment to the constitution’s pension protection clause so pensions can be reformed and workers’ retirement security saved; 2) The ability to convert pensions to defined contribution plans for workers going forward; 3)A freeze on retirees’ cost-of-living adjustments until pension plans return to health; 4) Public sector collective bargaining reforms so officials can hold the line on new labor contracts,..The troubles brewing in Illinois are all happening during one of the longest economic expansions ever. When the economy and the stock markets inevitably correct, things will only get worse. READ MORE

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Take 2: “This time, #Netanyahu’s tactics regarding Arab turnout have failed him”

Posted on September 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu cannibalized his own, vilified Israeli Arabs – and fell short
by Tovah Lazaroff
September 19, 2019

In a down and dirty campaign, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cannibalized the Right, declared that Israeli-Arabs are the enemy of the state – and came up short at the ballot box. In 2015 he had a bloc of 48 right-wing politicians that, combined with 13 seats from the ultra-Orthodox parties, gave Netanyahu the required majority. That bloc fell to 44 right-wing politicians, plus 16 ultra-Orthodox parties in April – just one seat short of a majority in the 120-member Knesset. Now that many of the ballots have been counted, it seems as if he has fared even worse, with a right-wing bloc of 39 right-wing politicians and 17 ultra-Orthodox, for a bloc of 56. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL With 95% of vote counted, Blue and White leads Likud 33-32, deadlock persists In near-final tally from Tuesday’s elections, rival blocs no closer to receiving 61 seats needed for Knesset majority without secularist Liberman

AMERICAN SPECTATOR Dov Fischer: Israeli Election Makes As Much Sense As the Prior and Next So Gantz’s only play would be to get Likud to agree to join in a “national unity” Government under his leadership. But Gantz, Ashkenazi, Ya’alon, and Lapid have one thing in common that led them to create their party: They all hate Netanyahu. So they never would sit with Bibi; rather, they would have to convince the other leaders of Bibi’s Likud Party to stab Netanyahu in the back and to dump him.

JERUSALEMU Brilliantly Unpacks: Why are Israelis Heading to the Polls Again?

 

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“Did Iran’s rulers figure that with the administration’s leading hawk out of the picture, now would be the perfect time to flex their muscles and do some damage to an American strategic partner and the global economy?”

Posted on September 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON TIMES
If John Bolton still had the president’s ear, he’d counsel against appeasing Iran
by Clifford D. May
September 17, 2019

John Bolton’s sudden departure from the White House last week cheered progressives who believe America has no enemies, just friends whose grievances we’ve failed to address, as well as those conservatives who believe if we leave our enemies alone, they’ll return the favor. And you thought there was no common ground between left and right! Count me among those not cheered. READ MORE

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