‘I wanted to believe it was all a bad dream,’ says Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, describing the explosion that targeted him and his children as they hiked to a spring in the West Bank

Posted on August 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Rina saved us all, she absorbed it all’: Dad recalls blast that killed daughter
by Staff
August 23, 2019

“I wanted to believe it was just a dream,” said Rabbi Eitan Shnerb on Friday, recounting the deadly explosion that killed his daughter Rina and wounded him and his son Dvir as they were hiking down to a popular West Bank spring. “We started going down toward the spring, [and] as we came close to the spring there was a roadside bomb. I have experienced several bombs in my life and been saved, thank God, but this one got us,” Shnerb told reporters from his hospital bed…Shnerb spoke hours after his daughter was buried in their hometown of Lod. He was unable to attend the funeral because of his wounds. READ MORE

JNS Hamas praises ‘heroic’ bombers who killed Israeli teenager near hiking spot Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh praised the “heroic” perpetrators of the bombing that killed an Israeli teenage girl, while seriously injuring her father and brother in the West Bank on Friday. At his weekly Friday sermon, Haniyeh said the attack is “proof of the vitality and bravery of the Palestinian people, and of the fact that it will not surrender to the crimes and terrorism of the occupation.”

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So how did Yasiel Puig, Cleveland Indians outfielder and a Cuba native, get involved with a Jewish organization?

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

MLB
Puig spends day off at camp for kids with cancer
by Mandy Bell
August 20, 2019

The Indians outfielder took advantage of his first free day in three weeks to rent a helicopter that would fly him to visit Camp Simcha in New York’s Catskill Mountains. It is the only kosher overnight summer camp for children and teens with cancer, and it hosts children battling other diseases, most of which are terminal.“It’s a little bit sad to see young kids that have been sick from a young age, like 7-14 years old,” Puig said. “But when you see them smile and them hanging out and jumping to the music, you forget and everyone forgets that the kids are sick. READ MORE

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Who wants to give Ms Tlaib a history lesson ?

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH POLICY CENTER
At The Risk Of Further Upsetting Ms. Tlaib
by Shoshana Bryen
August 21, 2019

…Is it insensitive to point out that international Arab wars in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, terror wars (so-called intifadas) in 1989 and 2001, and rocket wars in 2006, 2009, and 2014 have all been started by Arab states or Palestinian leaders against the state of Israel with the intention of destroying it? It is, perhaps, rude to point out that in the 1949 war of annihilation he declared on Israel, the King of Jordan scooped up the territory that had been allocated for a Palestinian-Arab state. It’s probably uncharitable to mention that he annexed the Palestinian-allotted territory in a move recognized only by Great Britain and Pakistan, but no one was moved to do anything about it. And pitiless to mention that Tlaib’s grandmother was thus illegally occupied from 1949 – 1967. By Jordan. READ MORE

BREITBART Blood Libel: Group Behind Omar-Tlaib Trip Accused Israel of Harvesting Organs from Haiti Earthquake Victims Miftah, a radical Palestinian organization that co-sponsored and organized the rejected trip to Israel by Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, published an antisemitic screed on its website outlandishly accusing Israel of stealing organs from Ukrainian children and earthquake victims in Haiti.

ISRAEL HAYOM Tlaib’s Palestinian village is thriving, but she is in denial Even the World Bank said in 2014 that Tlaib’s village is one of the richest in the Palestinian Authority. But she insists things are terrible there.

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PA chairman claims ‘Palestinians’ are the Canaanites who lived in Palestine for 5,000 years

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Abbas: ‘We’ll enter Jerusalem as millions of fighters’
by Mordechai Sones
August 22, 2019

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in an address at the Jalazun Refugee Camp near Ramallah that the “Palestinians” cannot be removed from their homeland and that every building built by the Zionist occupation will be destroyed and thrown in the garbage bin of history, reports the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)…Abbas continued, saying that the entire Palestinian nation will enter Jerusalem as millions of fighters, along with the Arab, Islamic, and Christian nations, and he said that he rejects the designation of “Palestinian” martyrs as terrorists. READ MORE

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90 years ago this week–20 years before the founding of Israel– “a bloodthirsty Arab mob in Hebron raped, tortured, stabbed, hanged, burned and sexually mutilated 67 of their Jewish neighbors.” Little has changed.

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH
The PA connection to the 1929 murder of 130 Jews 
by Maurice Hirsch, Adv.
August 23, 2019

Today marks 90 years since the Hebron Massacre of 67 Jews. Rampaging Arabs also murdered Jews in Jerusalem and Tzefat. In total, in the course of just one week, Arabs murdered 130 Jews. While the massacre took place in 1929, over 60 years before its creation, the Palestinian Authority has wholeheartedly adopted the event, glorifying three of its participants and perpetuating the spark that ignited the massacre. In the aftermath of the massacres, British mandate forces arrested and prosecuted dozens of Arabs. While most of the death sentences handed down were commuted to life imprisonment, three Arabs who, according to a report by the British government to the League of Nations, “committed particularly brutal murders at Safad and Hebron” were put to death on June 17, 1930.  READ MORE

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“Just because Trump said it doesn’t mean it’s not true: The Democratic Party is becoming unsalvageable”

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Ignore it at your peril
by Liel Leibovitz
August 22, 2019

…Shortly after Trump was elected, the left moved into resistance mode. The feelings here were entirely understandable—I myself found Trump’s election deeply worrisome. But, very quickly, the energy began to be channeled into causes and outfits with deep and clear anti-Semitic associations—including, most prominently, the Women’s March. Over the course of two years, the leaders of this organization sang hosannas to Louis Farrakahn, flagrantly used Nation of Islam as security, and used their influence to reframe Israel as the world’s biggest state criminal—quite a feat when you have such a calamity happening next door. READ MORE

GATESTONE Iran’s Mullahs: Loving the Democrats’ Presidential Debates The ruling mullahs of Iran, whose undue influence and bullying in the region have been significantly restrained by America in times past, have, as expected, been championing hate and dissent against Washington. They have been monitoring events in the United States with keen attention; a vivid example is the massive interest the Democratic Party’s presidential campaign is receiving from the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mullahs seem to enjoy a cordial relationship with the Democratic Party — why not? The former administration of President Barack Obama was most generous and sympathetic to their cause: being able to create a nuclear-weapons capability.

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Jews around the world went “into a calculated frenzy” after Trump referenced their “disloyalty,” which some Jews interpret differently than others

Posted on August 22, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Right From Wrong: What Trump doesn’t understand about Jews
by Ruthie Blum
August 23, 2019

…THOUGH TRUMP’S disillusionment may be understandable, it indicates that he doesn’t know much about Jews. This is peculiar, considering the massive amount of time he has spent around them throughout his life as a New York real estate guy and Hollywood reality TV star. Here is what he doesn’t grasp: Only a handful of non-Orthodox Jews vote Republican; the rest pray at the altar of the Democratic Party, no matter what, even when the party turns against Israel. This apparent oddity spurred my father, Norman Podhoretz – a lifelong liberal Democrat who became a conservative Republican – to write an entire book examining the phenomenon. READ MORE

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Pollak: “I don’t agree that Jews who vote Democratic are ignorant or disloyal. Some have been conned by the same media who will try to convince them Trump said something antisemitic today”

Posted on August 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Trump Just Told Liberal Jews What They’ve Been Telling Conservative Jews for Years About Disloyalty
by Joel B. Pollak
August 21, 2019

…So when President Trump criticized Omar and Tlaib for their hostility toward Israel, and asked how Democrats could consider cutting aid to Israel because of “two people that hate Israel and hate Jewish people,” adding, “I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat, I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” most Jewish conservatives knew exactly where he was coming from, even if we may not have chosen those words. Trump meant “disloyalty” to the Jewish people, not to America. Leftists and mainstream media pundits (but I repeat myself) are trying to twist his words, saying that he was questioning Jews’ “loyalty to the United States.” READ MORE

JNS Trump clarifies: Voting Democrat is being ‘disloyal to Jewish people’ and ‘very disloyal to Israel’ His comments evoked immediate opposition from Jewish and pro-Israel groups; the Republican Jewish Coalition defended the president.

JNS Following Trump remark, Rivlin tells Pelosi US-Israel alliance ‘not dependent on one particular party’ “We must keep the State of Israel above political disputes and make every effort to ensure that support for Israel does not become a political issue,” said Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.

What Trump actually said:

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E.U. countries continue to do business with China, Iran, and Turkey despite blatant, glaring human rights violations and occupations in Tibet, Syria, and Northern Cyprus. But it’s only with Israel they draw the line.

Posted on August 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
Singling Out Israel
by Janet Levy
August 16, 2019

The European Union has just announced a proposal that all Israeli products made in contested areas — Samaria, Judea, and other Israeli settlements — would be required to carry consumer warning labels specifying their origin.  This action comes only a few months after Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry uncovered evidence that the E.U. was funding more than a dozen NGOs, including some linked to militant groups that promote the Hamas-inspired Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. The E.U.’s “official” position is that it does not support or fund BDS. READ MORE

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Rashida, we can’t hear you…Police threaten to arrest members of al-Qaws, Palestinian LGBT group

Posted on August 19, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
PA police ban Palestinian LGBT group from holding activities in West Bank
by Adam Rasgon
August 19, 2019

Palestinian Authority police have banned a Palestinian LGBT rights group from organizing any activities in the West Bank and threatened to arrest them…In a statement Saturday, police spokesman Louay Arzeikat said events such as those organized by the group al-Qaws “go against and infringe upon the higher principles and values of Palestinian society.”…“The Palestinian police’s statement regarding the barring of the gathering of ‘gays’ and activists from the al-Qaws organization and threatening to pursue them and asking citizens to secretly inform on ‘suspects’ is very bad…” READ MORE

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