“When Cohen met Pompeo in March 2018, the CIA director was wowed by the Mossad’s mythic achievement”

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Yossi Cohen: The Mossad spy chief who stole Iran’s secret nuclear archives
by Yonah Jeremy Bob
September 29, 2019

It was not the first time Mossad director Yossi Cohen took the elevator up to the CIA director’s office on the seventh floor of the building known as Langley. But this meeting in March 2018 was different. This was not a regular courtesy call. Cohen was about to update one of his closest allies – CIA director Mike Pompeo – with information that had the potential to change the world and the course of history. In his three-and-a-half years as the Mossad’s spy chief, Cohen, 58, has transformed the organization into a hard-hitting, risk-taking, history-altering machine. READ MORE

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UN report recognizes for the first time that “the objectives, activities, and effects of the BDS movement are fundamentally anti-Semitic”

Posted on October 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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BDS is the new face of the old antisemitism: What will we do to stop it?
October 2, 2019

…After more than a decade of deception, new evidence is being presented by a range of governments, international organizations, and media outlets to show that BDS is nothing but a front for anti-Semitic hate groups and terrorists that seek nothing less than the destruction of the State of Israel. It is the new face of the old antisemitism. The world is just waking up to this horrifying truth, which sheds light on what America can do to address this growing hatred around the world. On September 24, 2019, the United Nations — a body with no love for Israel and a well-documented history of bias against the Jewish State — released an unprecedented report on the worldwide spread of anti-Semitism. READ MORE

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“In his new book, ‘We Stand Divided,’ Daniel Gordis examines the deep roots of the growing rift between American and Israeli Jews”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAGAZINE
Between Two Promised Lands
by Ari Blaff
September 24, 2019

…In the book [We Stand Divided]’s most stimulating and provocative chapter, Gordis presents American and Israeli conceptions of democracy as being fundamentally at odds.  In the U.S., politics have been organized around the right to free and equal exchange in the public square, Gordis argues, and American Jews acculturated into this system have come to idealize a form of “naked” democracy, utterly stripped of all cultural symbols. Such “hypercivility,” as Gordis describes it, is incompatible with the Jewish particularism that is a founding mission of Israel, a nation created, after all, not to enshrine universal values but to ensure the survival of a single people. READ MORE

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One Family along with Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari sing together “World Champion” in moving clip

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

Terror Victim Families recorded a chilling and emotional version of his famous song “Aluf, Ha-Olam, World Champion” with Hanan Ben Ari. The moving performance is a part of the World- Wide Crowdfunding Campaign for One Family to continue its financial, emotional and social support for terror victims and their families.

 

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“Palestinian wanted to behead refugee because he “insulted his religious feelings,” also planned campaign of bloody revenge on Germans and Christians”

Posted on October 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Palestinian Islamist convicted of attempted murder of German officials
by Benjamin Weinthal
September 29. 2019

A German court in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday sentenced a radical Islamist Palestinian asylum seeker to a 10 year prison term for attempting to murder judges and prosectors. Haidar A, the extremist Palestinian, had previously been sentenced in 2017 for attempting to behead a refugee. “It’s amazing how a young man can be so caught up in hate, anger and blind rage,” said presiding judge Sandra Mayer, ” reported the local paper Augsburger Allgemeine. She added that “Haidar A. is caught in almost medieval ways of thinking and the court has little hope that he will develop for the better.” READ MORE

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Actor Ben Kinsgley, one of Algemeiners “Top 100 People Influencing Jewish Life,” honored at gala

Posted on September 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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Real-Life ‘Schindler’s List’ Holocaust Survivor Introduces Algemeiner Honoree Sir Ben Kingsley at ‘J100’ Gala
by Staff
September 27, 2019

Famed British actor Sir Ben Kingsley was honored with the prestigious “Warrior for Truth” award on Thursday at the 6th annual Algemeiner ‘J100’ gala in New York City. Kingsley, whose most prominent Jewish role was as Itzhak Stern in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List,” was introduced by Holocaust survivor Halina Silber — who was No. 16 on the real-life list compiled by German industrialist Oskar Schindler. In his subsequent remarks, Kingsley remembered, “When I met with the great Steven Spielberg to discuss playing Itzhak Stern, I asked him, ‘What is my narrative function in this role?’ and he said, ‘Conscience. Witness.’  READ MORE

ALGEMEINER The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life, 2019

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“Lenin always insisted on the most violent solutions”

Posted on September 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW CRITERION
Leninthink
by Gary Saul Morson
October 2019

…As we approach the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth, understanding him grows ever more important. Despite the fall of the Soviet Union, Leninist ways of thinking continue to spread, especially among Western radicals who have never read a word of Lenin…Those who do not understand him mistake his ideas for those of radicals like the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, who argued that violence was permitted when necessary. That squishy formulation suggests that other solutions would be preferable. But for Lenin maximal violence was the default position. He was constantly rebuking subordinates for not using enough force, for restraining mobs from lynchings, and for hesitating to shoot randomly chosen hostages.READ MORE

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“Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 hijackers of 9/11, is desperate to see America take up its cause by attacking Iran”

Posted on September 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Keep It Steady and Cool with Iran, America
by Victor Davis Hanson
October 1, 2019

Expect more desperate Iranian efforts to prompt a U.S. military response in the Persian Gulf. Trump’s sanctions have cut off 90 percent of Iran’s oil revenues. Soon Tehran’s shattered economy will be followed by more pent-up domestic unrest of the sort that Barack Obama ignored in 2009, when he felt that the continued viability of the murderous theocracy fed his bizarre dreams of enhancing a new Shiite, Persian hegemony to counterbalance the Sunni Arabs. In contrast, America’s newfound role as the largest gas and oil producer in the world has not only lessened the importance of imported oil, whether from enemies such as Iran and Venezuela, or purported friends like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies. READ MORE

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If and when Bibi returns mandate, “Gantz would then have 28 days to build a coalition”

Posted on September 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu likely to return mandate to Rivlin
by Gil Hoffman
September 28, 2019

Barring unforeseen flexibility by Blue and White in coalition talks with Likud on Sunday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will already return his mandate to form a government to President Reuven Rivlin before Rosh Hashanah begins Sunday evening, Likud sources said Saturday. Sources close to Rivlin said he was prepared to receive the mandate back from Netanyahu and that there was no meeting or formal procedure required. If the mandate is returned, Rivlin may hold additional consultations but would formally task Blue and White leader Benny Gantz with forming a government by Thursday, the day when the new Knesset will be sworn in. READ  MORE

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New York area Hezbollah cells “gather intelligence, provide logistical support, and carry out operations, although only Tehran decides if and when to strike U.S. targets”

Posted on September 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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New Indictment Adds to Evidence of Hezbollah Terrorist Activities in the U.S.
by Emanuele Ottolenghi
September 25, 2019

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the indictment last week of U.S. citizen Ali Hassan Saab, a resident of Morristown, New Jersey, and suspected Hezbollah agent. The indictment provides mounting evidence that Hezbollah has patiently and quietly built up its terrorist infrastructure on U.S. soil. Hezbollah-planted sleeper cells are critical to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s strategy of asymmetric warfare, especially as tensions escalate between Tehran and Washington. Iran views terrorist operations as a legitimate policy option but recognizes the advantage of plausible deniability. READ MORE

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