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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FDD’s Mark Dubowitz: “There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about the Iranian foreign minister, who is now threatening our think tank”

Posted on August 30, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Stop Indulging Javad Zarif
by Mark Dubowitz and Reuel Marc Gerecht
Aug. 29, 2019

…The Islamic Republic isn’t the first dictatorship to try to intimidate think tanks and scholars. And Mr. Zarif is hardly an all-powerful figure at home. We suspect his decision to threaten FDD was to show some revolutionary rectitude to those in the ruling elite who aren’t enamored of him. Many are angered by his failure to understand the American political system, which knocked down President Obama’s nuclear deal. Mr. Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani had sold that accord as a victory: In exchange for short-term, limited nuclear constraints, the West would lift sanctions and Tehran would gain immediate access to tens of billions of dollars in hard currency and longer-term access to global markets worth hundreds of billions. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

THE ATLANTIC Iran’s Enemy du Jour: A Guy Who Runs a Think Tank The Islamic Republic has focused its ire on a D.C. research outfit that employs a few dozen people. How did the Foundation for Defense of Democracies get so famous in Tehran?

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Why are non-Orthodox Jews ignoring the increasing violence against Orthodox Jews?

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
No One Cares About Attacks Against The Orthodox Because You’ve Been Dehumanizing Us For Decades
by Eli Steinberg
August 29, 2019

You’ve all heard the story: A Haredi Jew violently assaulted in broad daylight somewhere in New York City. It happens so often now, with what is almost a chilling regularity, it’s virtually impossible to miss. According to the NYPD, anti-Semitic hate crimes have skyrocketed in the past year; the 145 complaints so far in 2019 alone are sharply up from 88 in that same time frame a year earlier — a year which itself saw a 22% increase from 2017. As Tablet Magazine’s Armin Rosen put it so pithily, “Everyone Knows.” And yet, as Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt pointed out yesterday, nobody cares. READ MORE

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“With the title “Our Boys” many people were teased into thinking that this would be the story of three innocent Israeli victims”

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AISH
“Our Boys”: The HBO Series Uses a Jewish Tragedy to Condemn Israeli Society
by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
August 27, 2019
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Whoever had any part in producing the new HBO 10 part series teasingly titled “Our Boys” should be profoundly ashamed – and whoever is misled into believing that they will have an opportunity to see a fair re-creation of the events in 2014 that began with the kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teenagers leading up to the Gaza war of that horrible summer deserves a fair warning: This is perhaps one of the most outrageous and deceitful distortions of a historically significant moment in the story of Israel’s struggle with barbaric acts of terrorism. READ MORE

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IfNotNow activist asks Democrat Congressman Brad Schneider (IL-10) how his Israel positions differ from Trump’s

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
IfNotNow activist hurls dual-loyalty charge at Democratic Jewish congressman
August 28, 2019

An activist with the anti-Israel group IfNotNow accused Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) of dual loyalty during a town hall last week with constituents. The organization posted on Twitter a video of an audience member named Nathan, according to the video’s subtitles, telling the Jewish congressman, “I have family in Israel, as I’m sure that you do, so your Israel policy is of particular concern to me. When Donald Trump opposed BDS, moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, signed the Taylor Force Act into law, withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, and recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, you celebrated every single one of these moves.” READ MORE

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PBS lies to further its Palestinians-as-peaceful-protesters-Israelis-as-brutal-oppressors narrative

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
‪PBS NewsHour Propaganda Piece Attacks Israel with Bogus Exploding Bullets Charge
by Ricki Hollander
August 29, 2019

PBS Newshour has once again grossly deceived its audience, with a propaganda piece that could have come directly from Hamas’ playbook. Coming more than a year after the start of the terror organization’s “Great March of Return,” the report twists those violent riots into an indictment of Israel’s military response. The Aug. 20th special report by special correspondent Jane Ferguson, entitled “Gazans suffer life-shattering injuries when border protests turn violent,” focuses on Palestinian rioters who were injured or lost limbs during the riots, amplifying Hamas propaganda claims about criminal Israeli soldiers targeting innocent, peaceful Palestinian youth and – its central claim – using exploding bullets to maximize the damage inflicted upon their Palestinian victims. READ MORE

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“Bret Stephens, it seems, was offended by my lack of decorum online”

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ESQUIRE
I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug. Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech. What a Day.
by David Karpf
August 27, 2019

Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy. He knows this. I know this. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the New York Times. I am just some professor. I’ve written two books, but unless you are professionally involved with digital politics, you probably have never heard of me. So I was surprised to receive an email from Bret Stephens last night. The subject line read “From Bret Stephens, New York Times.”…Stephens had found a tweet that I had written earlier that afternoon. READ MORE

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“The Palestinian-Israeli conflict will end only when Palestinians realize they cannot achieve their goal of eliminating the Jewish state of Israel”

Posted on August 29, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
To European Leaders: Jewish Flesh Is Cheap
by Guy Millière
August 30, 2019

…In 1967, a change of strategy took place. No one, the PLO decided, would speak of a “war for the destruction of Israel”. Instead, they would call it a “war of national liberation”. From then on, the PLO was presented as a “liberation movement”. Arabs who had left Israel in 1948-49 and remained in refugee camps were defined as the “Palestinian people”, and so the Palestinian people were invented. As PLO Executive Council member Zuheir Mohsen said in 1977: “The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. READ MORE

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