Kamala Harris: “She wears her careerism too transparently and her ideological flexibility will seem calculating and disingenuous rather than wise”

Posted on February 28, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

SPECTATOR
If you miss Hillary Clinton, you’re going to love Kamala Harris
by Christopher Buskirk
February 28, 2019

…On the flipside, when questioned about the killing of Kate Steinle by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, she took the opportunity to praise sanctuary laws. And though a longtime foe of prostitution as a prosecutor, Harris reversed her position in preparation for her presidential run because a large part of the liberal base considers what they call ‘sex work as a dignified, even empowering, career choice for women’. The point is that real liberals realize that Harris is an opportunist. Yet, there are many Democrats who like Harris because they think that with her they get the only thing better than Barack Obama, which is the female version of Barack Obama. READ MORE

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Dershowitz: “A decision to indict PM Netanyahu on corruption charges in Case 2,000 would “endanger democracy and freedom of the press” urges Israeli AG to “consider the dangerous implications”

Posted on February 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Dershowitz: Indicting PM would open Pandora’s box
by Yehuda Shlezinger and Israel Hayom Staff
February 27, 2019

A decision to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges in Case 2,000 would “endanger democracy and freedom of the press,” Professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in an open letter to Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit on Tuesday. Dershowitz, one of the most prominent Jewish lawyers in the United States and in the world, posted the letter on his Twitter page. “Such charges would open up a Pandora’s box out of which would flow a parade of horribles: Every government official – legislators, judges, prosecutors, police offices, administrators – who sought positive coverage in the media, and then did anything that helped the media, would have to be investigated,” Dershowitz wrote. READ MORE

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Argentina’s chief rabbi and wife attacked in home invasion: “They broke nine of his ribs, affecting a lung, and left him disfigured”

Posted on February 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

BUENOS AIRES TIMES
Argentina’s chief rabbi Gabriel Davidovich injured in attack at home
February 26, 2019

Argentina’s chief rabbi was beaten and seriously injured by assailants who broke into his home, in an attack later condemned by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of an anti-Semitic wave of incidents across the world. It comes just days after tombs at a Jewish cemetery were vandalised in San Luis province. Jorge Knoblovits, the president of Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA) Jewish grouping, said seven men were involved in the assault  on Gabriel Davidovich, 56, which took place Monday in the Once neighbourhood. Netanyahu said Davidovich and his wife were “viciously assaulted.” READ MORE

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“Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the “moderate” face of the Islamic regime who was instrumental in forging the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, resigned unexpectedly Monday night”

Posted on February 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

THE MEDIALINE
Iranian Foreign Minister Tenders Surprise Resignation; Nuke Deal Hangs In Balance
by Charles Bybelezer
February 26, 2019

…No immediate reason was provided for the [resignation]—which needs to be accepted by President Hassan Rouhani—thereby fueling speculation of internal fighting in Tehran possibly over whether to nix the atomic accord and jump-start nuclear-related activities. The move comes on the backdrop of an Israeli intelligence assessment that Iran is “making preparations” for a dash to the bomb and has renewed production of centrifuges on an “industrial” scale while taking steps to accelerate uranium enrichment.  In response to the news, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to Zarif and Rouhani as “front men for a corrupt religious mafia…” READ MORE

BLOOMBERG Eli Lake: Iran’s Charmer-in-Chief Resigns Zarif’s resignation means very little for Iran’s relationship with the West. Indeed, it may provide Europe with a clarifying moment. This is because Zarif’s main job was to persuade his interlocutors that Iran was a normal nation-state and not a predatory rogue.

JERUSALEM POST MI-6 chief in Israel to meet with Mossad about possible Iran nuclear race British intelligence MI6’s chief Alex Younger met recently with Mossad director Yossi Cohen in Israel to coordinate intelligence efforts over concerns that Iran may be gearing up to race toward developing a nuclear weapon…The UK and the EU’s viewing of Iran’s secret nuclear files to make five nuclear weapons – shown to them after the files were obtained by a Mossad operation in January 2018 which Cohen directly presided over – is believed to have set off red flags.

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“A terrorist threw a grenade at our jeep. As soon as he realized he had been seen, he grabbed a child and held on to him tightly, so we wouldn’t fire at him”

Posted on February 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
IDF soldiers’ accounts of Hamas war crimes to be submitted to ICC
by Hanan Greenwood, Daniel Siryoti and Nikki Guttman
February 21, 2019

Thirty-three testimonies of IDF combat soldiers were set to be submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday as proof that Hamas terrorists carry out war crimes and use Palestinian civilians as human shields. For months, members of the My Truth organization have collected testimonies from Israeli combat soldiers that paint a shocking picture of Hamas’ activities in the Gaza Strip spanning from 2014 – the year when the Palestinian Authority became a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute treaty – to 2018, when thousands of Gazans took part in the violent Hamas-organized “marches of return” on the border with Israel. READ MORE

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Corbyn aide “Seumas has been supporting groups that deny Israel’s right to exist for many years”

Posted on February 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
UK Newspaper Investigation Uncovers Links Between Top Corbyn Aide and Anti-Israel Terror Groups
by Benjamin Kerstein
February 24, 2019

A top aide to controversial UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has long-standing ties to anti-Israel terrorist groups and would likely be denied a security clearance as a result, a new report has revealed. Seumas Milne, Labour’s head of strategy and communications, is considered so influential that he has been referred to as “Corbyn’s brain,” and Corbyn, who is considered antisemitic by the vast majority of British Jews, reportedly relies upon him completely. According to a weekend exposé by The Mail on Sunday, Milne’s links with terrorist groups dedicated to destroying the Jewish state are decades old. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Outlaw Hezbollah: What took so long? Good news out of England – Parliament is expected to approve a motion to ban Hezbollah as a terrorist group. This refers to the whole of Hezbollah, its so-called “military wing” and also now its so-called “political wing.” What took so long? It is hard to believe that until now, England and the European Union only classified the “military wing” as a terrorist entity, 

REAL CLEAR WORLD U.S. Law Targets Hezbollah in Europe However, bipartisan legislation signed into law by the Trump administration may force the EU to act against Hezbollah

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The Otzma Drama: “Two-State-Solutionists plan to kick Jews out of their homes in the newly minted State of Palestine, as they have done before in the Gaza Strip. Isn’t this a form of ethnic cleansing?”

Posted on February 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
The Left’s Hypocritical Rage Against ‘Jewish Power’
by Yishai Fleisher
February 21, 2019

Wednesday’s report that, at the urging of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Kahane-legacy Otzma party would be included in his coalition unleashed a furor on the center and the left both in Israel and in the U.S…But the left’s outrage at Otzma being included in the government is mystifying for another reason, too. Otzma’s opponents call out Meir Kahana’s desire to see Israel rid of Arabs. Yet the left itself calls for a Two-State Solution to the conflict, a solution which proposes to put “West Bank” Arabs behind a border wall, never to be seen again in the Jewish State. Don’t they, too, wish to separate Jews and Arabs? READ MORE

ABU YEHUDA Victor Rosenthal: AIPAC criticizes Netanyahu Binyamin Netanyahu incurred the wrath of numerous diaspora Jewish organizations last week, including AIPAC, which almost never criticizes an Israeli PM.

ZOA AIPAC, ADL, AJC Ignore Merger of Left-wing Anti-Israel Israeli-Arab Parties – But Condemn Merger of Right-wing Pro-Israel Parties It is also mystifying that these Jewish-American groups condemned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for encouraging small right-wing Israeli parties to merge, so that Israeli voters on the right are not disenfranchised (meaning votes for those groups would be wasted if they didn’t reach the threshold), while these Jewish-American groups said nothing about Palestinian Authority (PA) dictator Mahmoud Abbas brokering the merger of anti-Jewish, anti-Israel Arab parties running for the Knesset.

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New US envoy campaigns to end distinction between anti-Zionism and antisemitism

Posted on February 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
New US envoy on anti-Semitism: No distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism
February 22, 2019

Elan Carr, the United States’ new envoy to combat anti-Semitism, told American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem that he will work to end the “attempted distinction” between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, while praising U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to combat the “scourge.” “I will work to eradicate the attempted distinction between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. There is no distinction,” he told U.S. Jewish leaders gathered at Jerusalem’s Inbal Hotel as part of the annual Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations summit. READ MORE

FRANCE24 Macron announces measures to combat anti-Semitism in France French President Emmanuel Macron announced measures to combat the rise of anti-Semitism at the annual dinner of the Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France or Crif)…France will additionally take steps to define “anti-Zionism as a modern-day form of anti-Semitism”, Macron told the French Jewish groups gathered on Wednesday. The definition is in line with that advocated by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Macron said.

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Now on Amazon: The Fight of Our Lives – Defeating the Ideological War Against the West

Posted on February 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

Gloria Greenfield’s documentary “The Fight of Our Lives” is now available for viewing on Amazon, free on Prime. This hard-hitting documentary examines the internal and external threats facing the West. The distinguished cast of scholars and experts trace the penetration of anti-Western ideas and movements into academia, politics and society. Features Niall Ferguson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali,  Melanie Phillips, Victor Davis Hanson, Alan Dershowitz, Ruth Wisse and many others.

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AIPAC, home of the big tent, opines on Israeli political party that doesn’t “reflect the core values that are the very foundation of the State of Israel”

Posted on February 23, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Netanyahu: Criticism of Deal With Kahanist Party ‘Hypocrisy and Double Standards’
by Benjamin Kerstein
February 23, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday struck out at critics of a deal he brokered with far-right Kahanist party Otzma Yehudit, accusing them of “hypocrisy and double standards.” Netanyahu has faced mounting criticism after he helped negotiate a merger between the Jewish Home and Otzma Yehudit parties, including by promising the unified party two ministries in the next government. The criticism has extended to the US, with the American Jewish Committee and pro-Israel lobby AIPAC slamming the deal. According to Yediot Aharonot, the prime minister blasted the left for attacking him “while they worked to bring Islamist radicals into the Knesset.” READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST AIPAC, AJC issue rare rebuke of Netanyahu for drawing in extremists America’s largest Israel advocacy organizations issued an extraordinary rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on Friday, responding to his move to ally with an extremist party under intense political pressure ahead of April’s elections.

ARUTZ SHEVA Otzma Yehudit: AIPAC should come home Otzma Yehudit party says AIPAC members should immigrate to Israel before involving themselves in internal Israeli issues like elections.

JNS Gantz and Lapid appeal for ‘unity,’ Netanyahu touts ‘strong leadership’ The leaders of the new Blue and White Party–Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid—held their first political rally on Thursday night after the two candidates shook up the Israeli political scene earlier in the day. In a joint appearance, the two men sought to promote themselves as centrist politicians seeking unite the country after nearly a decade of under the right-wing leadership of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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