“Beyond advocating for Palestinian justice, Oz blamed Israel’s government for not making Palestinian statehood a reality”

Posted on January 4, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
Amos Oz’s fiction is forever, while reality left his politics behind
by Thane Rosenbaum
December 31, 2018

...The founder of Peace Now, who never gave up on the dream, gazed at Gaza not with the romanticism of a novelist but through the eyes of a protective father. And to the surprise of many, despite the civilian dead, he acknowledged Israel’s true moral dilemma and the tragic dimensions of this theater of war. An insistence on peace — that it must come “Now”! — is not a sustainable political strategy when peacemakers are nowhere to be found and martyrs are aplenty. READ MORE

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#BDS “Anti-Israel divestment resolutions are just a charade, a put-on used to generate hostility toward the Jewish state and its supporters in the US”

Posted on January 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
BDS Charade: United Church of Christ’s ‘Divestment’ from Israel
by Dexter Van Zile
January 3, 2019

It was a charade — nearly every last word of it. A few years ago, the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant denomination in the US that regularly condemns Israel while remaining virtually silent about jihadist violence against Christians in places like Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and Nigeria, said it was going to put its money where its mouth was by divesting from Israel. But it hasn’t happened. Four calendar years after enacting a divestment resolution that called on church entities to refrain from owning stock in companies that do business with Israel’s defense establishment, the denomination’s pension fund is still invested in blacklisted stocks. READ MORE

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“U.S. commanders planning the Syria withdrawal are recommending that YPG fighters battling Islamic State be allowed to keep U.S.-supplied weapons…likely to anger Turkey”

Posted on January 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Trump gives no timetable for Syria exit; wants to protect Kurds
by Jeff Mason
January 2, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States would get out of Syria slowly “over a period of time” and would protect the U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in the country as Washington draws down troops. Trump did not provide a timetable for the planned military exit from Syria, which he announced last month against the advice of top national security aides and without consulting lawmakers or U.S. allies participating in anti-Islamic State operations. The decision prompted Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to resign. Trump said on Wednesday he had essentially fired Mattis…READ MORE

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UNESCO: “Israel has been infuriated by repeated resolutions that ignore and diminish its historical connection to the Holy Land and that have named ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites”

Posted on January 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
US, Israel exit UN cultural agency, claiming bias
January 1, 2019

The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency at the stroke of midnight, the culmination of a process triggered more than a year ago amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias. The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the U.S. after World War II to foster peace. The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed suit. READ MORE

FOX NEWS Nikki Haley slams UNESCO as ‘corrupt and politically biased’ as US, Israel officially quit UN agency Nikki Haley, the exiting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, issued a harsh assessment of UNESCO on Tuesday, one day after the United States and Israel officially quit the U.N. agency, alleging an anti-Israel bias. “UNESCO is among the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies,” Haley wrote in a Twitter message. “Today the U.S. withdrawal from this cesspool became official.”

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New study concludes 15,000 Jews were murdered daily during Hitler’s “extreme phase of hyperintense killing”

Posted on January 3, 2019 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Israeli study: 1/4 of Jews killed in Holocaust murdered in 100 days in 1942
by Michael Bachner
January 3, 2019

A new Israeli study claims that almost a quarter of the Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed during 100 days in 1942, making it the period with the highest killing rate in the 20th century. The killings between August and October 1942 included Jews murdered in the Auschwitz extermination camp, in Ukraine and as part of the infamous Operation Reinhard — an intense mass-slaughter campaign carried out by Nazi Germany between March 1942 and November 1943 in death camps Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor (that operation alone eventually killed some 1.7 million Polish Jews). READ MORE

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“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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