Yom Hazikaron Israel’s Memorial Day 2019 “Today, Israel stands united with the memory of the 23,741 fallen soldiers”

Posted on May 8, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NAOMI RAGEN BLOG
Scenes from Israel Remembrance Day, 2019
by Naomi Ragen
May 8, 2019

…With haredim entering the IDF in ever greater numbers to fulfill their compulsory military service, things are changing. This year, for the first time, an official ceremony was held at Jerusalem’s Heichal Shlomo to honor fallen haredi soldiers like Yitzchak Tubal, who took time off yeshiva studies to join the army. On Yom Kippur, 1973, he was leading the prayers for his unit. A few hours later, Egyptian soldiers launched a murderous surprise attack. When a grenade landed at his feet, he didn’t hesitate, covering it with his body to absorb the entire impact and save the lives of his comrades.  READ MORE

This Yom Hazikaron, watch Jerusalem U’s award-winning documentary When The Smoke Clears in honor of the IDF soldiers protecting Israel. The film follows three former Israeli soldiers battling life-altering mental and physical scars as they return to civilian life. Showing what can be achieved when people come together, it’s a story of optimism, brotherhood and, ultimately, healing. Screening is free for Amazon Prime members, click here.

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Elan Carr: “Administration’s equating of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism “certainly breaks new ground””

Posted on May 7, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy
by Dan Williams
May 5, 2019

The United States may review its ties with countries it deems as being anti-Israel after what a U.S. envoy said on Sunday was a shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism – opposition to Israel’s existence as a homeland for the Jewish people – was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would “fight it relentlessly”. READ MORE

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“Because Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan was done through an executive order, a future president could undo the action. A bill passed into law would set the policy in stone”

Posted on May 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
AIPAC comes out in support of congressional bills recognizing Israeli control of Golan Heights
by Jackson Richman
May 6, 2019

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, has come out in support of companion congressional bills to enact into law U.S. President Donald Trump’s official recognition in March of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. “We are supporting these measures on Golan sovereignty,” AIPAC spokesperson Marshall Wittman told JNS. The statement by AIPAC came after two sources had told JNS that AIPAC had been opposed to the congressional legislation. READ MORE

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Eye-opening video on Gaza corruption; Israel is clearly not their big problem

Posted on May 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Corruption: A Major Cause of Palestinian Suffering
by Pierre Rehov
May 6, 2019

…But when you talk to Palestinians about the misappropriation of funds allocated by the international community, the first term they use is “corruption.” Indeed, a study by AMAN – a chapter of Transparency International co-founded by Jordan – shows that, according to several surveys of the Palestinian population, the corruption of their leaders is the second most popular cause of their misery. According to the same surveys, the first cause would be the inability of these same leaders to create a strong economy. The Israeli occupation comes in third place. READ MORE

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Snoop Dogg “ignoring Farrakhan’s history of antisemitism, rapper calls on fans to share videos by Nation of Islam leader, excoriates Facebook over ban”

Posted on May 6, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Rapper Snoop Dogg backs Farrakhan following Facebook ban
by David Rosenberg
May 6, 2019

Rapper Calvin Broadus, better known by his stage name ‘Snoop Dogg’, expressed support for Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Friday, and excoriated Facebook and Instagram for removing Farrakhan’s accounts …Following the ban, Snoop Dogg took to Instagram and Facebook to decry Farrakhan’s removal, questioning the basis of the ban and calling on his fans to share videos by the controversial Chicago-based minister. “I want to know for what? All that he ever do was tell the truth, for which y’all gonna ban him now.” READ MORE

BLOOMBERG Facebook Bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Other Far-Right Figures Facebook Inc. said it’s banning a number of controversial far-right figures, including Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos and Laura Loomer, for violating the social-media company’s policies on hate speech and promoting violence. The company is also blocking religious leader Louis Farrakhan, who is known for sharing anti-Semitic views; Paul Nehlen, a white nationalist who ran for Congress in 2018; and conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson.

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Two new bios document “Ben Hecht’s vital role in challenging America to recognize the Holocaust, and Jews’ right to a state of their own”

Posted on May 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Ben Hecht: Hero of Israel and the Holocaust
by Harold Brackman
May 3, 2019

…Hecht joked that he “became a Jew” only in 1939. This was just around the time he met Peter Bergson, the alias of Hillel Kook, a leader of the Irgun Zvai Leumi underground militia in Palestine, which politically adhered to Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s Revisionist Zionism. From 1937 to 1940, the Irgun organized unauthorized immigration to Palestine, then shifted to creating a Jewish Brigade to fight Hitler. In 1942, they changed emphasis to an all-out campaign to save European Jewry. READ MORE

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“My grief with the Pittsburgh and Poway shootings deepened because the congregants were unarmed. If there had been armed security in place, it could have saved lives”

Posted on May 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Why I always bring my Glock to Shabbat
by Doree Lewak
May 4, 2019

As an Orthodox Jew, every Shabbat morning it’s the same routine: wake up at 8 a.m., get dressed in my suit and tie, and head out the door with my wife and three children for our 10-minute walk to synagogue. But not before I open my safe and strap on my Glock, which I’ve been carrying to shul for the past year. When I was growing up, synagogue was always a fun, carefree place to go. It was social, it was sacred, but it was never scary. READ MORE

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“The attacks on Mr. Barr are first and foremost an effort to force him out, to prevent this information from coming to light until Democrats can retake the White House in 2020”

Posted on May 5, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
AG Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people
by Kimberly Strassel
May 3, 2019

…Do not underestimate how many powerful people in Washington have something to lose from Mr. Barr’s probe. Among them: Former and current leaders of the law-enforcement and intelligence communities. The Democratic Party pooh-bahs who paid a foreign national (Mr. Steele) to collect information from Russians and deliver it to the FBI. The government officials who misused their positions to target a presidential campaign. The leakers. The media. More than reputations are at risk. Revelations could lead to lawsuits, formal disciplinary actions, lost jobs, even criminal prosecution. READ MORE SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT

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“Since around 10 a.m. on Saturday, around 300 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza”

Posted on May 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
1 killed as 300 rockets slam southern Israel
by Tzvi Joffre
May 5, 2019

One man has died and 83 people have been injured, since terror groups in Gaza began firing rockets into Israel around 10 a.m. on Saturday. Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, a rocket hit a building in Ashkelon, critically injuring a 60 year-old man. The man died on his way to the hospital, marking the first death since the fighting began on Saturday. Shortly before the rocket hit Ashkelon, another rocket hit a building in Sderot, lightly injuring 3 people. Between 10 a.m. Saturday and 4:30 a.m. Sunday, 83 people were injured,..READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Avi Issacharoff: Why the Gaza rocket fire? Because Hamas thinks Israel is vulnerable to extortion Ahead of Independence Day and the Eurovision Song Contest, Gaza’s terrorist rulers see a rare opportunity to pressure Israel, which it knows is desperate for calm

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“The Palestinians are right to believe that the Arab world no longer cares about them and their problems”

Posted on May 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Palestinian Leaders and Inconvenient Truths
by Khaled Abu Toameh
May 4, 2019

…The Arab betrayal of the Palestinians is not new. Instead of supporting their Palestinian brothers, the Arab states have been cutting aid to them. According to one report, Arab financial aid to the Palestinians has dramatically dropped in the past two decades. Another report revealed that donations from the Arab world to the Palestinians has been slashed over the past few years by 50%. A mere quarter of the PA’s 2017 budget of approximately $3.7 billion has come from Arab states, the report said. READ MORE

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH PA misrepresents photos of Holocaust victims as Arabs killed by Jews – again! Official PA TV last month deceitfully broadcast pictures of bodies of Holocaust victims in a Nazi concentration camp presenting them as pictures of Arab victims killed by Jews in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948. Two other pictures, which PA TV also claimed were of Arabs killed in 1948 by Jews, were actually pictures from the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinians by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon in 1982. 

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