“Diversity” should include Muslimas who rebel against the hijab

Posted on January 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Ten Truths About Hijab
by Danusha Goska
January 25, 2019

….In January, 2019, after Ilhan Omar was sworn in as a new congresswoman, my liberal Facebook friends celebrated her and Rashida Tlaib. They made three false claims: “First refugee elected to Congress! First Palestinian! We celebrate diversity!” No, Omar was not the first refugee elected to Congress. Jewish refugees, and refugees from Communism preceded her. No, Tlaib was not the first Palestinian. Justin Amash, a male, Christian Republican, was. Newly sworn-in Donna Shalala, like Tlaib, is an Arab. She is a Catholic who supports Israel. None of the memes celebrating Tlaib celebrated Shalala or Amash. READ MORE

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So where are the articles bemoaning “The incredible, thuggish stupidity of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez”?

Posted on January 27, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST
If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative
by Marc A. Thiessen
January 24, 2019

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is. She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on “Saturday Night Live” mocking her intelligence and fitness for office. Instead, SNL fawns over her, while CBS’s “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert — far from making jokes at her expense – eats ice cream with her and asks how many “f—s” she gives about her critics. READ MORE

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“Juan Carlos López’s children have all left Venezuela for Israel in the past few years, but he still lives in his home in Caracas”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Venezuela’s Jews describe chaos, uncertain future
by Shimon Yaish
January 25, 2019

Juan Guaidó has been sworn in as temporary president of Venezuela—two weeks after Nicolás Maduro, the president elected in a disputed vote last year took the oath of office—and Venezuela is in chaos. Venezuela is home to some 5,000 Jews. About 20,000 Jewish Venezuelans have left the country in the past decade because of economic conditions and in particular because of how the Jewish community has been treated since 2009…The prejudice peaked when then-President Hugo Chávez—known for his pro-Palestinian stance—demanded that the Israeli ambassador leave over the “Holocaust that Israel was perpetrating in Gaza,” as Chávez put it. READ MORE

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“Clinton, Bush, and Obama were all “Zoomed in” on Israel and the Palestinians, while not understanding the broader context. Although we haven’t heard Trump’s proposal yet, it will likely have the same defect”

Posted on January 26, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
Matti Friedman’s Lens and Sisyphean Mud
by Vic Rosenthal
January 24, 2019

…To really understand the conflicts surrounding Israel since its coming into being, one needs to zoom out even further than [Matti] Friedman does. One needs to take into account that not only Arabs and Muslims are viscerally opposed to the concept of Jewish sovereignty, many Europeans and even some circles in America are too. Although they might not go as far as to compare Israel to a malignant tumor, they are quite comfortable saying that the creation of Israel was a mistake. Friedman’s lens must be widened to include not just the greater Middle East, but much of the Western world. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ There isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think, and this perception gap is worth spelling out. It has nothing to do with being right-wing or left-wing in the American sense. To borrow a term from the world of photography, the problem is one of zoom. Simply put, outsiders are zoomed in, and people here in Israel are zoomed out. Understanding this will make events here easier to grasp.

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“Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran’s supreme leader was convinced West would renege on 2015 pact, so replacement tubes for nuclear reactor were secretly purchased”

Posted on January 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Iran’s nuclear chief: We bought spares for nuke equipment we agreed to destroy
by Stuart Winer
January 24, 2019

Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, has detailed how Iran quietly purchased replacement parts for its Arak nuclear reactor while it was conducting negotiations for an international agreement under which it knew it would be required to destroy the original components. In an interview broadcast on Iran’s Channel 4 TV on January 22, Salehi recalled that during talks for the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 2015 deal that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for it dismantling the weapons-capable parts of its nuclear program, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned his country’s negotiators that he expected Western parties to renege on the agreement. READ MORE

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Times have changed: Newly formed Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum has seven members, one of them being Israel

Posted on January 25, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

HELLENIC SHIPPING NEWS
Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum possible new OPEC: experts
January 23, 2019

The establishment of Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) in Cairo is likely to become a nucleus for founding a new entity for natural gas similar to Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), energy experts said. Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt agreed on Jan. 14, 2019 to set up a forum to create a regional gas market, cut infrastructure costs and offer competitive prices. “Establishing the forum is part of the Egyptian and the eastern Mediterranean countries’ strategy to boost their economies from the rich natural gas in the region,” said Gamal Qalyoubi, professor of oil and energy of the American University in Cairo. READ MORE

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“The ascendancy of the hard Left, which is Barack Obama’s lasting legacy, is transforming life in America for Jews”

Posted on January 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

AMERICAN GREATNESS
Leftist Jew Hatred Has Come to America
by Karin McQuillan
January 23rd, 2019

…Jews have suffered huge discrimination in America. They arrived penniless and made it in one or two generations, embracing America with love despite the discrimination they faced everywhere. Jews do not do grievance and envy and self-destructive addictions, it is just not in their Biblical culture. Shut out of corporate America, elite colleges, medical schools, law offices and banks, they created their own. As small and large independent businessmen, Jews made it in America. Jews are living proof  that nothing can stand in your way in America if you have good values like education and a strong family. The identity politics, blame-America crowd can’t stand the Jewish-American success story….READ MORE

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“By monitoring checkpoints and advocating for Palestinians in the Israeli court system, Blue and White Human Rights is trying to improve Arab-Israeli relations and prove that Zionist principles can inspire more humane treatment”

Posted on January 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Can Zionists Advocate for Palestinian Rights?
by Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
January 24, 2019

…“About 3,000 people use this crossing every morning between 5 and 7 a.m.,” Touboul, born in 1991 in France, tells me. “Men coming for work make up about 95 percent, the other 5 percent are women and others who come for education or medical reasons. Generally, the men crossing have work visas, and once through the security check (metal detectors) they are free to go beyond the crossing. When there are no issues, crossing can take 15 minutes but if there are, it can take an hour. We [Blue and White Human Rights], are here to try and make the process as smooth as possible.” READ MORE

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Boomerang’s Weekly Terror Report for the week of 17th-24th of January 2019: 46 terror attacks: 27 stone throwing, 18 Molotov cocktails 1 stabbing attempt

Posted on January 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

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“The ADL is becoming a threat to Jews”

Posted on January 24, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
The ADL’s Soros, Hamas and Hitler Anti-Israel Conference
by Daniel Greenfield
January 25, 2019

…The ADL had invited a radical [Jewish] bigot whose paper featured pieces with titles worthy of Stormfront such as, “3 Jewish Moguls Among Eight Who Own as Much as Half the Human Race” and  “Why We Should Applaud The Politician Who Said Jews Control The Weather” to discuss anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism, like Israel, was also a pro and con issue at the ADL. Also on the ADL’s list of speakers was Yehuda Webster, a black nationalist activist…Webster wasn’t the only ADL speaker with a history of accusing Jews of being white supremacists. Joining him was Yavillah McCoy who had declared, “When Jews accepted a white identity in America, they participated in sustaining white supremacy.” READ MORE

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