“If the White House plays its cards right, Iran could be backing itself into a corner”

Posted on June 21, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

USA TODAY
How to turn Iran’s tanker mischief against the Islamic republic
by Ilan Berman
June 19, 2019

…The White House can use Iran’s latest provocation (and widespread fears of additional ones to come) to erect a multilateral security architecture to police the strait and ensure that the free flow of global energy commerce continues. Such a structure — involving regional oil exporters like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as European and Asian energy clients — would effectively internationalize security in the strait, thereby robbing the Iranian regime of one of its most important assets: its ability to manipulate global oil traffic (and therefore world energy prices). READ MORE

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IAEA recognizes Palestine: “This act is seen by Israel as a push by the PA for international recognition, similar to when the PA joined UNESCO in 2011”

Posted on June 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
International Atomic Energy Agency recognizes Palestine as a state
by Yossi Melman, Staff
June 19, 2019

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed an agreement to recognize Palestine, as a state as it joined the international body as a observer on Tuesday. While it is not a member, it can attend meetings as an observer, an IAEA spokesperson said.  The agreement, which was signed by the agency’s director general Yukiya Amano and the Palestinian Ambassador in Vienna Salah Abdul Shafi, gives the IAEA inspectors the ability to check the safety of radioactive materials and fissile nuclear materials, such as uranium. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that the agreement was a “violation of international conventions.” READ MORE

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Poland to AOC: Come check out what a concentration camp actually looks like

Posted on June 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Ocasio-Cortez invited by Polish parliament member to tour concentration camps
June 20, 2019

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has been invited by a member of the Polish parliament to visit concentration camps in Poland that were used during World War II and the Holocaust. This comes after the congresswoman saying in an Instagram video on Monday that the United States is “running concentration camps on our southern border,” in reference to the Trump administration’s policies regarding illegal immigrants…[Tarcynski] Dominik offered Ocasio-Cortez the chance to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Majdanek. READ MORE

THE HILL Ilhan Omar: ‘People are being put in camps’ at southern border Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) showed support Friday for fellow freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) assessment of the Trump administration’s migrant detention facilities.

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd rips AOC for her “concentration camp” comments but faces backlash from the left after calling out AOC’s concentration camps comments

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“The FATF must make good on its threats and finally — after three years of waiting — declare that Iran is a toxic entity in the global financial system and re-impose countermeasures”

Posted on June 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ORLANDO SENTINEL
Failing to blacklist Iranian banks could have bigger consequences
by Jeb Bush, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mark Wallace
June 19, 2019

Iran, the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism, has lied to global financial policymakers for three years about its intention to prevent its banks from laundering money and financing terror organizations. And for three years, the same policymakers at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) have done nothing while Iran dragged its feet. This must change. The FATF is meeting in Orlando this week, and it must vote to blacklist Iranian banks — as it has repeatedly promised but failed to do — or risk acquiring a reputation as a toothless tiger. READ MORE

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“American Jews who do not feel a real connection to the Jewish collective are going to see that connection as an increasingly troublesome burden which they will try to make less visible as long as they can safely integrate totally into the surrounding society”

Posted on June 20, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
No more the safe haven, no more the Promised Land
by Dr. Mordechai Kedar
June 17, 2019

…It is imperative to mention the involvement of Jewish organizations In fanning the flames of this criticism [of Jews] as well as hatred for Israel: Jewish Voice for Peace, Peace Now, J Street, each it its own way and with its own methods. Activists in these organizations think that if only Israel would “act nicely” – according to their definitions of what that entails – to its neighbors, they – that is, the Jewish liberals  and progressives – would be accepted more easily by American society. They do not realize the simple fact that Jew-hatred has nothing to do with Israel, was not born in 1948 but is deeply rooted in western culture, just as it is in Islamic culture. READ MORE

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John Cusack: “I thought I was endorsing a pro Palestinian justice retweet”

Posted on June 18, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
John Cusack deletes tweet after being accused of anti-Semitism
by Zack Budryk
June 17, 2019

Actor John Cusack deleted a tweet containing an anti-Semitic image Monday, blaming the initial post on a “bot.” The image Cusack posted depicted a giant hand bearing a Star of David enveloping a group of people, accompanied by the words “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize,” which it attributed to Voltaire, with Cusack adding, “Follow the money.” The quote, frequently misattributed to the French satirist, was in fact said by American white nationalist Kevin Alfred Strom. READ MORE

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Berlin’s “Jewish” Museum: “Under these circumstances, one has to consider whether the name ‘Jewish’ is still appropriate”

Posted on June 17, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Berlin Jewish Museum Director Quits Over BDS Tweet
June 14, 2019

The director of Berlin’s showcase Jewish Museum resigned from his post on Friday following outrage over a tweet by the museum’s team earlier this week that was supportive of the anti-Zionist boycott campaign targeting Israel. In a statement sent to The Associated Press, museum chief Peter Schaefer said he was quitting to prevent further damage to the museum. Germany’s Central Council of Jews led the chorus of criticism after the museum’s Twitter account on Tuesday posted a link to an article about Jewish academics rejecting a German parliament resolution that denounced the BDS campaign as antisemitic, tagging it “#mustread.” READ MORE

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“Yossi Klein Halevi wrote a book of ‘Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.’ Here’s what happened when Mohammed Dajani, a hardliner who later took his students to Auschwitz, wrote back”

Posted on June 16, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
When an ex-Fatah Palestinian ‘neighbor’ took up a Zionist author’s challenge
by David Horovitz
June 12, 2019

…Now, a year later, the paperback edition of “Letters” is being published and, lo and behold, it includes an epilogue — more than 50 pages of Palestinian responses to the original text. Thoughtful, proud, fierce, pained and gracious in turn, Klein Halevi’s Palestinian interlocutors accepted his challenge, most strikingly, with empathy. And none more so than a Palestinian academic named Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, whose name may ring a bell with some readers. For it was Dajani, five years ago, who led a group of 27 Palestinian students on an unprecedented visit to Auschwitz — with all manner of abiding, shattering consequences. READ MORE

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“Their billionaire descendants, who control Krispy Kreme, Stumptown and other brands, are grappling with the exposure of an unspeakable secret”

Posted on June 16, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Nazis Killed Her Father. Then She Fell in Love With One.
by Katrin Bennhold
June 14, 2019

Emilie Landecker was 19 when she went to work for Benckiser, a German company that made industrial cleaning products and also took pride in cleansing its staff of non-Aryan elements. It was 1941. Ms. Landecker was half Jewish and terrified of deportation. Her new boss, Albert Reimann Jr., was an early disciple of Adolf Hitler and described himself as an “unconditional follower” of Nazi race theory. Somehow, inexplicably, they fell in love. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES What Is JAB? Owner of Panera, Snapple and Krispy Kreme Faces Its Nazi Past The average person probably hasn’t heard of JAB Holding. The same can’t be said for the vast empire of brands — a stable that includes Keurig coffee pods, Dr Pepper, Snapple, Einstein Bros. Bagels and Krispy Kreme doughnuts — it amassed in years of deal-making. Here’s how the conglomerate, whose controlling family is now grappling with its Nazi past, flourished.

BEGIN SADAT CENTER Did Dutch Jews Go Like Lambs to the Gas Chambers? Retired Dutch general Toine Beukering – a candidate for chairman of the Senate – said earlier this month that the Jews were “chased like docile lambs into the gas chambers.” This remark, for which he later apologized, once again raised the issue of the huge historical distortion of the Dutch role during WWII. The Dutch, who collaborated massively with the German occupiers, now exaggerate Dutch wartime resistance and underemphasize the disproportionately large role of Jews in it.

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“It is unbelievable that in our capital city an anti-Semitic film has an easier time finding a venue than a movie talking about Islamic fundamentalism in Europe that is forcing Jews to leave”

Posted on June 16, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Despite pressure, film about rising anti-Semitism in Europe gets Jerusalem screening
June 13, 2019

After several venues canceled screenings at the last minute, a controversial documentary film directed by U.K. right-wing media figure Katie Hopkins was shown in Jerusalem Tuesday evening…The film warns of the rising tide of anti-Semitism across Western Europe, attributed primarily to waves of Muslim immigration that the film notes “are changing the face of Europe.” The film details the “silent exodus” of Jews and Christians that no longer feel safe in their homes and draws comparisons between contemporary Europe and pre-World War II Germany. READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Raymond Ibrahim: The 630 Year-Old Reason Eastern Europeans Dislike Islam Why Eastern Europeans are much more reluctant to accept Muslim migrants than their Western counterparts can be traced back to circumstances surrounding a pivotal battle, that of Kosovo, which took place today, June 15, exactly 630 years ago today in 1389. It pitted Muslim invaders against Eastern European defenders, or the ancestors of those many Eastern Europeans today who are resistant to Islam.

JTA Germany is accused of downplaying anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims In a 2016 survey of hundreds of German Jews who had experienced anti-Semitic incidents, 41 percent said the perpetrator was “someone with a Muslim extremist view” and another 16 percent said it was someone from the far left. Only 20 percent identified their aggressors as belonging to the far-right.

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