“Pompeo told Netanyahu that the pullout of US military forces from Syria “in no way changes anything this administration is working on alongside Israel””

Posted on January 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Report: Israel Got ‘Almost Everything It Wanted’ From Netanyahu-Pompeo Meeting
by Staff
January 2, 2019

Jerusalem got “almost everything it wanted” from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in Brazil on Tuesday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an unnamed senior Israeli diplomatic official was quoted as saying on Wednesday. “Israel had 8 requests — 7 of which were accepted,” the official revealed...A focus of Tuesday’s sit-down between Netanyahu and Pompeo in Brasilia ahead of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s inauguration was President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement last month of the withdrawal of American troops from Syria. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Liberman revealed Trump peace plan details to Palestinian officials — report Sources quoted by London-based paper claim ex-defense minister said plan will include Palestinian state in Gaza, limited autonomy in West Bank; Liberman says report ‘incorrect’

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NYT continues with their narrative: Israelis are the source of Gaza misery

Posted on January 2, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
‘New York Times’ ends the year with an epic Israel smear
by Andrea Levin
January 1, 2019

The New York Times’ 4700-word story (A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?) on the death of a young Gazan woman in June 2018 during border riots is a powerful reminder of the depth and breadth of bias at the paper. The hagiographic December 30th account spans a remarkable three and a half full pages of the paper, tracing Rouzan al-Najjar’s personal life and sad end. Yet it manages, in all the words and images (and online videos), not to report the nature of the violence in which she was entangled nor the murderous and implacable hatred of Israel fueling it. READ MORE

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“PA’s religious council issued fatwa that Palestinians selling property to non-Muslims considered act of “high treason,” and “a great betrayal of religion, the homeland, and morals”

Posted on January 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

PJ MEDIA
Palestinian Authority Sentences U.S. Citizen to Life in Prison for Selling Jerusalem Apartment to Jews
by Patrick Poole
December 31, 2018

A Palestinian Authority (PA) court in Ramallah has sentenced a U.S. citizen to life in prison with hard labor today for the crime of selling property to Jews, a capital offense in the PA. Issam Akel, 53, a U.S. citizen and a holder of an Israeli national identity card, was abducted by PA intelligence on October 11 in Ramallah. According to Reuters, the PA court’s media office said Akel was convicted of “attempting to sever parts of Palestinian land and annex it to a foreign state,” namely Israel. READ MORE

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Cleveland Clinic resident doc tweeted she’d purposely give Jews “the wrong meds”

Posted on January 1, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
Cleveland Clinic, resident part ways over anti-Semitic remarks
by Alyssa Schmitt
December 31, 2018

A spokesperson for Cleveland Clinic confirmed Dec. 31 that a resident is no longer employed there after information began circulating online that she had posted anti-Semitic comments on social media. The resident was identified as Lara Kollab, who started her residency in July 2018. The spokesperson told the Cleveland Jewish News the hospital became aware of Kollab’s sentiments during her residency…READ MORE

DAILY WIRE Famed Clinic Fires Anti-Semitic Doctor Who Said She’d Give Wrong Medicine To Jews Although Kollab’s social media accounts have since been deactivated, a record of them has been preserved by Canary Mission here. As Canary Mission wrote, “Lara Kollab has called for violence against Jews, spread anti-Semitism, trivialized the Holocaust, defended the terror organization Hamas and supported terrorists on Twitter. She has also compared Israel to Nazi Germany, spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and hatred of Israel, and accused Israel of exploiting the Holocaust.

ISRAELLY COOL Antisemitic Doctor Lara Kollab Learns Hard Way That Jew Hatred Comes At a Price View screenshots from her now-deleted Twitter account

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“Jewish self-hatred did not begin with the BDS movement. Isaiah 49:17 says, “Your destroyers and devastators will depart from you””

Posted on December 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Are we going to allow the Jewish people to be divided and conquered from within ?
by Adam Milstein
December 26, 2018

The enemies of the Jewish people don’t only physically attack us from the outside. They have also long worked to divide the Jewish people by turning our own against us. For example, a number of Jewish individuals and organizations have become leaders within the BDS movement, which seeks to destroy the Jewish state…History is replete with examples of Jews who hated the Jewish people so vehemently that they dedicated their entire lives to its destruction. READ MORE

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“Leaving Jewish Home, Netanyahu’s former aides Bennett and Shaked hope to challenge the PM by reaching new audiences, particularly those who won’t abandon them under pressure”

Posted on December 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Burned by religious Zionist old guard, Bennett seeks a new kind of right-winger
by Raoul Wootliff
December 30, 2018

Announcing that they would be leaving the Jewish Home party to forge a “true partnership between secular and religious,” Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked on Saturday lamented they had lost their influence over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and claimed they needed a new political platform to have a real impact. Since first taking control of Jewish Home in 2012, Bennett has always pitched himself as the right-wing force keeping a flaky Netanyahu from drifting leftward. “We need a strong Jewish Home to keep the government on the right path,” he argued during both the 2013 and 2015 election campaigns. READ MORE

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“In April 2017, the European Parliament called for a formal suspension of Turkey’s EU membership bid”

Posted on December 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Turkey and EU: Can this Marriage be Saved?
by Burak Bekdil
December 27, 2018

When Turkey first applied for full membership in the European Union in 1987, the world was an entirely different place…Today, 31 years after the first date, the alliance seems to be broken, with no signs in the foreseeable future of a marriage between two perfectly unsuitable adults. Knowing that, both sides in the past decade have played an unpleasant diplomatic game of pretension: not be the one that throws away the ring. This boring opera buffa is no longer sustainable. Turkey’s democratic deficit has grown just too bitterly huge to make it compatible with Europe’s democratic culture. READ MORE

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“Democrats are now defined by Trump the way that antimatter is defined by matter, with each particle of matter corresponding to an antiparticle”

Posted on December 30, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Donald Trump is completely transforming the Democrats
by Jonathan Turley
December 29, 2018

In this age of rage, voters seem to have no patience, let alone need, for leaders speaking of abstract principles. They want immediate unequivocal action in supporting or opposing President Trump. For Democrats, that all consuming purpose has led to the abandonment of core unifying values, including many that first drew me to the Democratic Party. While they would vehemently deny it, Trump is remaking the party in his inverse image. This past month shows how far that transformation has gone. READ MORE

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Leaders of Brazil and Israel attend shabbat eve services at Rio synagogue

Posted on December 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Hailing ‘brotherhood,’ Brazil’s president-elect says he’ll visit Israel by March
by Staff
December 29, 2018

Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he expects to visit Israel by March 2019, after accepting an invitation by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is currently on a state trip to Brazil….Netanyahu arrived in Brazil on Friday, accompanied by his wife Sarah and son Yair, and the family is set to stay on through Tuesday to join other foreign dignitaries at the inauguration in Brasilia of Bolsonaro…Bolsonaro, sometimes called the “Trump of the tropics” for a similar style to US President Donald Trump and rejection of multilateral diplomacy, emphasized the bond he wants to build with Netanyahu, a firm US ally. READ MORE

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“SJP and the other drivers of the economic attack on Israel have sought to broaden their ranks by invoking their brand of intersectionality”

Posted on December 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The Other Intersectionality: Victims of Islamism
by Kenneth Levin
December 28, 2018

…Similarly censored from today’s campuses is discussion of another, in various respects competing, intersectionality: That of the shared, intersecting, predicaments of today’s victims of Islamist aggression, including terrorism. Those victims are mainly people of color — black Africans, Arabs, Kurds, Pakistanis, Afghans and east Asians — but also many whites. They are mainly Muslims, but also include Christians, Jews, Yazidis, Druze and people professing no religion. READ MORE

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