“NYT exposé reveals extent of Netanyahu-Obama rift on stopping Iranian nukes; PM himself tells paper he’d ‘unequivocally’ have ordered strike in 2012 if cabinet had backed him”

Posted on September 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israel said again mulling raid on Iran; thinks Trump, unlike Obama, won’t oppose
by Michael Bachner
September 4, 2019

Israeli officials are currently considering the possibility of conducting a military strike on Iran, with or without the approval of the United States, The New York Times reported Wednesday. They believe US President Donald Trump could decide not to stand in the way of such an attack, unlike his predecessor Barack Obama, the paper reported Wednesday in an exposé that detailed the lows and highs of the Israel-US relationship in the face-off against the Islamic Republic over the past decade…“I think that it’s far more likely that Trump would give Netanyahu a green light to strike Iran than that Trump would strike himself,” the Obama administration’s ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro was quoted as saying. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Will Trump finally deliver?

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“Israel’s Home Front Command created web-based applications to manage all the layers of data for various forces that might be involved in responding during a conflict or civilian emergency”

Posted on September 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DEFENSE NEWS
How 250 Layers of Data Help Israel Prepare for War
by Seth Frantzman
August 26, 2019

…Various layers of the system look at water, electricity and communications on a national level. One layer shows all the hospitals in Israel and which have emergency beds ready to receive wounded. Another data layer shows all the sirens across Israel and which are functioning or need repairs. Earlier this year the IDF announced that Israel’s siren warning system now included 1,700 individual areas that could be individually warned in time of conflict or other emergencies. That is a major leap from 25 areas in 2006 during the last war with Hezbollah. This means that rather than sending hundreds of thousand of citizens to shelters due to a rocket over a city, individual neighborhoods can be warned. READ MORE

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UN report “marked the first time the panel had criticized Palestinian officials”

Posted on September 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In first, UN panel calls on Palestinians to halt hate speech against Israelis
by Staff
August 31, 2019

The United Nation’s anti-racism committee criticized Palestinian authorities in a Thursday report, calling on the “State of Palestine” to act against “racist hate speech and hate crimes,” including incitement to violence against Israelis and Jews. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in a report on the Palestinians said it was concerned about “hate speech in certain media outlets, especially those controlled by Hamas, social media, public officials’ statements and school curricula and textbooks, which fuels hatred and may incite violence, particularly hate speech against Israelis, which at times also fuels antisemitism.” READ MORE

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Palestinian Authority: “That Oslo deal? Yeah we don’t like that deal any more”

Posted on September 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
‘PA will build in Israeli-controlled parts of Area C’
by Daniel Siryoti
September 1, 2019

The Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday that it was unilaterally canceling the division of Judea and Samaria into Areas A, B, and C, which has been in effect since the Oslo Accords were signed. The PA’s local authorities minister, acting under instructions from PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, instructed heads of Palestinian local authorities in Judea and Samaria to prepare long-term development plans for their areas, regardless of whether the lands in question fall under Palestinian or Israeli civil and security control or whether they are open public lands or currently populated. READ MORE

REUTERS Netanyahu repeats pledge to annex Israeli settlements in occupied West Bank Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to annex all Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, he said on Sunday, reiterating an election promise made five months ago but again giving no timeframe.

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“It is a common canard among the educated cognoscenti that all cultures are equal”

Posted on September 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Daring to Suggest that All Cultures Aren’t Equal
by Professor Jason D. Hill
August 30, 2019

…Sudan, Nigeria, Mauritania, Libya and Algeria —all countries which still practice and/or tolerate chattel slavery by Arab and black Muslims against other Muslims and Christians—are not the moral, political or cultural equals of the United States, Israel, Great Britain and, say, France. Those countries are vastly superior to Saudi Arabia or Iran, or North Korea and Gaza, which do not permit religious reciprocity. Its political leaders permit the beheading of homosexuals in the streets, legalize torture, and have some of the most egregious records of gender inequality in the world… READ MORE

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BDS in America: “The Whitney, which has featured overtly anti-Semitic exhibits in the past, is now officially off limits to pro-Israel Jews”

Posted on September 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH PRESS
BDS is Primarily an Assault on American Jews
by Caroline Glick
August 22, 2019

…But the truth is that BDS in America is directed primarily against American Jews. Its goal is to silence them as a political force in America. American Jews who support Israel are ostracized in universities, and even in high schools. They are subjected to abuse in every quarter. Examples abound. Last month, a Jewish patron of the arts, Warren Kanders was forced to resign his position as the vice chairman of the Whitney Museum’s board of trustees. Kanders was subjected to a massive, intense campaign of demonization by Palestinians and leftists for his “crime” of owning a security company that sells tear gas to Israel. READ MORE

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Another Palestinian honorkilling: “Gharib’s father, brothers, and brother-in-law followed her to the hospital and resumed the beating, telling hospital staff they were performing an exorcism on the victim whom they believed was possessed by a demon”

Posted on September 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

EGYPTIAN STREETS
Palestinian Woman Murdered in Honor Killing After Posting Instagram Video with Fiancé
by Niveen Ghoneim
August 31, 2019

A 21-year-old Palestinian woman died on Thursday in suspicious circumstances that have caused massive outrage among activists and social media users across the Middle East and North Africa. Israa Gharib, a makeup artist from Bethlehem, died in a coma due to head trauma, in what activists and sources close to the victim are saying was a brutal honor killing. The culprits are believed to be her father, her brother-in-law, Sheikh Mohamed El Safy, and her two brothers, Bahaa and Ihab, a resident of Canada. READ MORE

RED STATE Here’s What Rashida Tlaib Blamed a Palestinian Honor Killing On

TORONTO SUN Rejecting Hijab Dooms Woman to 24 years in Prison You may never have heard of Saba Kord-Afshari, but the 20-year-old Iranian woman was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Islamic Republic of Iran on Monday for the crime of defying the country’s ‘hijab law‘ that forbids all women in Iran from displaying their uncovered head in public.

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How many people today even know that Bobby Kennedy, a vocal supporter of Israel, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist?

Posted on September 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stable after prison stabbing
by Don Thompson
August 31, 2019

Sirhan Sirhan, imprisoned for more than 50 years for the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was hospitalized Friday after being stabbed by a fellow inmate at a San Diego prison…The stabbing occurred Friday afternoon at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego…Sirhan, 75, was convicted of shooting Kennedy shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, immediately after the New York senator had declared victory in the previous day’s California Democratic presidential primary. READ MORE

HAARETZ Bobby Kennedy’s Little-known Visit to the Holy Land That Made Him pro-Israel – and Got Him Killed In June 1948, a young Robert Kennedy had four articles printed in the Boston Post on the ‘Palestine situation.’ What he witnessed would eventually contribute to his assassination 20 years later

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“If we are going to be serious about squashing health-care costs and improving the quality of care, we need to foster intense competition among health-care providers”

Posted on September 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MARKET WATCH
The U.S. can slash health-care costs 75% with 2 fundamental changes — and without ‘Medicare for All’
by Sean Masaki Flynn
Aug 29, 2019

As the Democratic presidential candidates argue about “Medicare for All” versus a “public option,” two simple policy changes could slash U.S. health-care costs by 75% while increasing access and improving the quality of care. These policies have been proven to work by ingenious companies like Whole Foods and innovative governments like the state of Indiana and Singapore. If they were rolled out nationally, the United States would save $2.4 trillion per year across individuals, businesses, and the government. READ MORE

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Bibi unable to get hold of Trump to convince him not to meet with top Tehran diplomat Zarif at G7

Posted on August 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu said to have ‘frantically’ tried to reach Trump over Iran talks fears
by Staff
August 30, 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly urgently tried to dissuade US President Donald Trump from meeting with Iran’s foreign minister, who made a surprise visit to a summit of world leaders in France earlier this week. According to the report Thursday by Israel’s Channel 13 news, Netanyahu was unable to reach Trump to warn him off the meeting despite hours of “frantic” efforts, reflecting growing unease in Jerusalem with the prospects of direct talks between the US…Israeli authorities have reportedly expressed alarm after Trump said Monday he was open to meeting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani…READ MORE

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