“Over his decades in office, ‘Middle-Class Joe’s’ family fortunes have closely tracked his political career”

Posted on August 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

POLITICO
Biden Inc.
by Ben Schreckinger
August 2, 2019

The day the Bidens took over Paradigm Global Advisors was a memorable one. In the late summer of 2006 Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Joe’s younger brother, James, purchased the firm. On their first day on the job, they showed up with Joe’s other son, Beau, and two large men and ordered the hedge fund’s chief of compliance to fire its president, according to a Paradigm executive who was present. After the firing, the two large men escorted the fund’s president out of the firm’s midtown Manhattan office, and James Biden laid out his vision for the fund’s future. READ MORE

Posted in Politics | Tagged | Leave a comment

“Mamet’s exposure of the liberal-left doctrine as morally contradictory at its core has hit a nerve”

Posted on August 11, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY WIRE
Mamet Speaks Bitter Truth In New Play, And Leftist Critics Aren’t Happy About It
by Andrew Mahon
August 10, 2019

David Mamet’s latest play Bitter Wheat opened in London’s West End in June to largely negative reviews, which is somewhat surprising, because it’s terrific. Then again, maybe it’s not so surprising. Most theatre critics are bleeding-heart leftists, and following his embrace of a more conservative attitude, they simply regard David Mamet as a traitor. It’s petty, but it really is that simple. What Mamet has accomplished with this play — ostensibly a theatrical treatment of the birth of the #MeToo movement — is to present the liberal elite mindset for what it is: self-centred virtue signalling coupled with a complete abdication of personal responsibility. READ MORE

Posted in Politics | Tagged | Leave a comment

In IL3, Dem Congressman Dan Lipinski to be primaried by Rush Darwish a Palestinian who will “proudly champion BDS” in Congress, “much like Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar”

Posted on August 10, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN THINKER
Another radical Palestinian in Congress?
by Hesham Shehab
August 10, 2019

The first Palestinian Muslim American running for U.S. Congress in Illinois, Rush Darwish…formally announced June 15th he is running in Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, during a rally at Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois. The college lies within the largest Islamic community in Illinois, and the largest Palestinian community in the U.S. Additionally the Muslim community’s leadership in the area has historically leaned towards the radical. The 3rd district is home to the largest two mosques in the state, each led by imams with ties to Hamas terrorism funding, and who were identified as unindicted conspirators in federal terrorism cases. READ MORE

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , , | Comments Off on In IL3, Dem Congressman Dan Lipinski to be primaried by Rush Darwish a Palestinian who will “proudly champion BDS” in Congress, “much like Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar”

Palestinian man receives temporary visa to live and work in Israel after receiving death threats in his hometown near Hebron

Posted on August 9, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Palestinian who saved Jewish kids after terror attack gets Israeli residency
by Staff
August 7, 2019

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri on Tuesday awarded Israeli residency to a Palestinian man who saved the children of a West Bank rabbi in the aftermath of the deadly terror attack in which the father was killed. Rabbi Miki Mark was murdered in a July 1, 2016, shooting. His wife, Chava, was seriously injured, and their two teenage children were also hurt. The Palestinian rescuer and his wife, residents of the Hebron area, helped the surviving members of the Mark family escape their overturned vehicle and administered first aid until first responders arrived at the scene. READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East | Tagged , | Leave a comment

“While many details about the victim Dvir Sorek are still under gag order, his friends describe a sensitive, caring young man who was slain bearing gifts for his teachers”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Father of murdered teen: Dvir had a light in his eyes
by Jeremy Sharon
August 8, 2019

Yoav Sorek, father of the late 19-year-old Dvir Sorek, said that his son “had light in his eyes, and someone who had murderous eyes took him away” from us. Sorek, who was speaking on Israel Radio hours after the body of his murdered son was discovered near Efrat in Gush Etzion, described the 19 years he had with the young man as a “gift,” but said that “the pain will stay with us.” Dvir Sorek was murdered in a terror attack Wednesday night. The IDF and other security forces are still searching for the terrorist. READ MORE

FREE BEACON IfNotNow Suggests Israeli Teen Partly to Blame for Own Murder The far-left, anti-Israel organization IfNotNow blamed a slain Israeli teen for his own murder in the West Bank, saying it mourned that he was part of a controlling regime that makes everyone “less safe.”

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Yishai Fleisher: The Real Apartheid in Hebron

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East | Tagged | Leave a comment

California high school curriculum “fully embraces a course of study about Arabs that views the Palestinian war on Israel solely from the point of view of those who wish to destroy the Jewish state”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
California Curriculum Shows the Price of Complacency About BDS
by Jonathan S. Tobin
August 6, 2019

…While concern about right-wing hate is entirely appropriate, the notion that BDS poses no real menace to the Jewish community is utterly bogus. Proof of that comes from California where, as a JNS feature pointed out, an anti-Israel and antisemitic ethnic studies curriculum being promulgated by the state of California has illustrated just where complacency about BDS can lead us. The ethnic-studies model that has been proposed and is currently under review by the California Department of Education remains a watershed moment for the BDS movement. READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

“Jerusalem should not upset the applecart with regards to Ankara, and it should preserve the possibility of returning the relations to their previous state of a strong military alliance”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Turkey heading towards ‘Russian-Chinese axis’ after ejection from F-35 program
by Yaakov Lappin
August 8, 2019

The Trump administration’s decision to eject Turkey from the F-35 fighter-jet program in July has significant implications for NATO, Israel and the Middle East. Washington formally ended Turkey’s participation in the stealth-jet program after Ankara ignored American warnings and acquired the Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile systems. Turkey was supposed to receive its first two F-35 jets several months ago, but that transfer has been cancelled…As a result, Turkey was told it had to make a choice—either the F-35 and or the S-400—and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan chose the latter. READ MORE

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , | Leave a comment

“How did this noble idea of intersectionality become an instrument to isolate and vilify liberal Jews?”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
How Intersectionality Became a Sinister Threat to American Jewry
by Monica Osborne
August 7, 2019

Intersectionality didn’t originate as an anti-Jewish idea. Coined in 1989 by Columbia University law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in the context of critical race theory, and with the intention of clarifying the distinction between the overlapping nature of racial and sexual or gender discrimination in a legal context, intersectionality is a word with a noble beginning. The idea that people have various identities that characterize the way the world sees them is simple and reasonable, as liberals and conservatives generally agree. READ MORE

Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: “Put freshmen Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on no-fly list until they condemn Hamas terror”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Evangelical leader: Put Omar, Tlaib on no-fly list
by Staff
August 8, 2019

Evangelical leader Laurie Cardoza-Moore has called on the Department of Homeland Security to put freshmen Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib on the no-fly list until they publicly denounce and condemn Hamas terror…“Omar and Tlaib have fundraised for Hamas-affiliates, there is no reason to believe that they don’t share the same ideology, they are a threat to Israel and America’s security. They shouldn’t be able to board a plane to anywhere, especially Israel, unless they publicly condemn today’s murder of an innocent Israeli teenager, which was praised by their friends in Hamas,” said Cardoza-Moore, READ MORE

CBN 41 House Democrats Visit Israel Despite BDS Efforts By Omar, Tlaib A delegation of 41 Democrats from the US House of Representatives are in Israel this week to show their support for the Jewish state and to visit the Palestinian territories. “I am pleased to join so many House Democrats in traveling to Israel to reaffirm our support for a critical U.S. ally and to continue learning about the opportunities and the challenges facing Israel and the Middle East,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who is leading the delegation (D-MD).

Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment