“Stupefyingly, it is simply impossible to change the wicked media narrative that Israel is starving Gazan civilians to death”

Posted on May 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza
Melanie Phillips
May 8, 2025

Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip. This claim, which has done so much to incite attacks on Jews, has been promulgated repeatedly by mainstream Western media during the past 18 months of war. It is a lie that distorts yet another lie. Time and again, U.N. agencies and NGOs have warned that famine and starvation are imminent. But this has never happened. More food has been admitted to Gaza than people need. The problem has been that Hamas took much of it to feed themselves and to sell it on the black market to finance their infrastructure of war. Nevertheless, the Gazans have overwhelmingly remained conspicuously well-fed, while the people who really have been starved are the Israeli hostages they hold captive. Yet the media has continued to insist that civilians in Gaza are being starved to death. READ MORE

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Chicago and NYC police suicide rates are a national tragedy; “Over the past decade, Chicago has become the anti-cop capital of America”

Posted on May 11, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
How Can You Be a Cop in a City That Hates You?
Olivia Reingold
May 7, 2025

“They treat cops like tissues. They just throw us away.” That is how Rick Nigro, a retired sergeant, describes Chicago after nearly three decades on its police force. “You ever hear about firemen killing themselves? No. They’re heroes. They’re idolized,” added Sergeant Nigro. “We’re the pariahs of the civil service.” In March 2021, after Officer James Daly, an acquaintance of Nigro, committed suicide, he wrote then-mayor Lori Lightfoot a letter “We are woefully unprepared to deal with the physical human stress that it takes upon us,” he wrote. A local TV station picked up news of his letter, and Lightfoot released a statement promising “to ensure that Chicago’s police officers feel supported and valued.” Later that week, another officer—Jeffrey Troglia, a father of three—fatally shot himself in his basement. By the end of the year, Nigro himself retired. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Police suicide epidemic continues to grip Long Island as cops confirm body found on Nassau beach If an autopsy confirms the self-inflicted killing, it would mark the seventh police officer to commit suicide in New York state this year. At its current pace, the state is on track to see more than 20 police suicides by the end of 2025 — far surpassing 2024’s total of 13.

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US Ambassador to Israel defends Trump Administration’s decision to reach a ceasefire agreement with the Houthis without involving Israel or an agreement by the Houthis to stop attacking Israel

Posted on May 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Huckabee: US doesn’t need “permission” from Israel to make deal with Houthis
May 8, 2025

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee defended the Trump Administration’s decision to reach an agreement with the Houthi rebel group that did not include Israeli involvement or an agreement by the Houthis to stop attacking Israel, saying that the US did not need Israel’s “permission” for such an agreement. “The United States isn’t required to get permission from Israel to make some type of arrangement that would get the Houthis from firing on our ships,” Huckabee told Israel’s Channel 12 News. He added, “Here’s what I can tell you, because I had a conversation with both the president and the vice president last night … There’s 700,000 Americans living in Israel. If the Houthis want to continue doing things to Israel and they hurt an American, then it becomes our business.” READ MORE

ASSOCIATED PRESS Israel says it has disabled Yemen’s main airport with airstrikes against rebels The Israeli military bombed the airport in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Tuesday, claiming to have disabled the airfield in an attack that left commercial aircraft burning on the tarmac as its fighter jets struck power plants and other targets. The rare daytime attack on Sanaa, held by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels since 2014, came as part of a second day of Israeli airstrikes in response to a Houthi ballistic missile striking the grounds of Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv. The Houthis described the Israeli attacks as killing at least seven people and wounding 74 others over two days.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Trump ditched Israel with surprise Houthi truce. That doesn’t bode well on Iran The Israeli Air Force struck Houthi-controlled infrastructure on Tuesday as its planes flattened the airport in Sanaa, a day after Israeli jets pounded the port city of Hodeida. Then, US President Donald Trump dropped his own bombshell. Without coordinating with Israel or other allies, he announced during a White House meeting that the Houthis had agreed to stop attacking shipping lanes in the Red Sea, and said that the US would halt its attacks on the Iran-backed group.

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Taheri: “If Iran expects to be treated differently, it should become different, after which it could spend fortunes on enriching the uranium it has no use for”

Posted on May 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
US Sens. Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham Unveil New Resolution Demanding Iran ‘Dismantle’ Nuclear Program
Corey Walker
May 8, 2025

US Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (AK) and Lindsey Graham (SC) on Thursday unveiled a new resolution demanding Iran completely “dismantle” its nuclear program. The resolution was introduced as the Trump administration continued to engage in talks with Iran to negotiate a deal to curb the latter’s nuclear activity, which Western countries believe is ultimately geared to build nuclear weapons… “Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon; that’s off the table,” Graham said during a press conference on Thursday. The resolution calls on the White House to pursue the “complete dismantlement” of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, cautioning that Tehran would use a nuclear warhead to “carry out one of the most extreme religious ideas on the planet” — a reference to the Islamist ideology of Iran’s rulers. READ MORE

GATESTONE Amir Taheri: When Tehran Demands the Impossible What [John] Kerry, [French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël] Barrot and the retired Iranian diplomats ignore is the principle of sovereignty, under which no sitting administration or parliament could commit ad aeternam all future administrations and parliaments in a democracy to any agreement. An international contract or treaty isn’t the same as a private one concluded under the jurisdiction of a state, where courts could impose compliance through domestic jurisprudence. In other words, even if Trump gives the guarantee that Iran wants, and even if the US Congress passes it as a treaty, the principle known as rebus sic stantibus could always be applied “where there has been a fundamental change of circumstances, a party may withdraw from or terminate a treaty.”

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Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal’s South Asia bureau chief, was beheaded on camera by al-Qaeda affiliated Pakistani terrorists

Posted on May 8, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Indian forces kill terrorist involved in murder of Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl
Corinne Baum
May 8, 2025

The Indian government announced on Thursday that its military had killed an Islamist terrorist who was involved in the murder Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s governing party, said that the Indian army killed Pakistani terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar in “Operation Sindhoor.” A group of Islamist terrorists, including Azhar, kidnapped and murdered Pearl in 2002. The terrorist was affiliated with al-Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist terror group that aims to separate Kashmir from India and fully incorporate it into Pakistan. READ MORE

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Mo Khan went on antisemitic firebrand Stew Peters’ podcast after incident at Dave Portnoy’s Barstool bar

Posted on May 7, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD
Student suspended for ‘F— the Jews’ video defends himself on antisemitic podcast
Hannah Feuer
May 7, 2025

Mo Khan, the suspended Temple University student who posted video of a “F— the Jews” sign at a Philadelphia sports bar, could have gone on a free educational trip to Auschwitz — as Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy initially offered. Instead, the 21-year-old appeared on Holocaust denier Stew Peters’ podcast to tell his side of the story. Peters, a longtime promoter of antisemitic conspiracy theories, has called for the mass deportation of all Jews from the U.S., claimed that President Donald Trump’s support for Israel was driven by “Jewish paymasters,” and blamed the assassination of JFK on the Mossad. On Tuesday’s podcast, Khan said he “absolutely” agreed with Peters that people should “join forces” to fight “Jewish supremacy.” READ MORE

FORWARD Can a visit to Auschwitz really change an antisemite? When two customers at a Philadelphia sports bar asked waitresses to make a sign that said “F— the Jews,” they probably didn’t expect a free trip to Auschwitz. But that’s what Dave Portnoy, the controversial founder of Barstool Sports — and a proud Jew — initially offered. After firing the two employees involved in the incident, which also implicated a Temple University student, Portnoy said he’d pay for the customers to go on a tour of the Nazi death camp. By Monday, he had rescinded the offer to the student, accusing him of walking back his apology.

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Greenfield: “Fighting antisemitism or “anti-antisemitism” had become one of the few remaining Jewish reasons for the existence of a liberal Jewish establishment. Now that’s gone”

Posted on May 5, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Fighting antisemitism has become politically incorrect
Daniel Greenfield
May 5, 2025

Over the past few weeks, attacks by terrorist mobs on synagogues were met with condemnations of Jewish community members for defending their institutions. And efforts to crack down on campus antisemitism were met with a united front in defense of the antisemites not only by the Left, but by the Jewish liberal establishment. “I’m appreciative of President Biden’s historic initiative on antisemitism and thankful to President Trump’s strong condemnation of antisemitism and his promise to bring back consequences to antisemitic behavior,” said Abe Foxman, the former longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, to a crowd at at an event commemorating the Holocaust. “But as a survivor, my antenna quivered when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see the government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.” READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Abe Foxman criticizes Trump administration in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech The former ADL director said he is ‘troubled’ by the ‘demonizing’ of immigrants and attacks on universities

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Houthis fire on Ben Gurion airport; IDF says it failed to intercept ballistic missile after several attempts; airport reopens after an hour, but most foreign airlines suspend flights 

Posted on May 4, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Houthis working to impose ‘comprehensive air blockade’ on Israel by targeting country’s airports
May 5, 2025

The Houthi terrorist organization said on Sunday night that they are working on imposing a “comprehensive air blockade” on Israel by repeatedly targeting the country’s airports. Three people were mildly wounded earlier that morning as a result of a missile fired by the Yemen-based terror group that crashed in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport’s Terminal 3. The IDF’s failure to intercept the missile was due to a technical error, Israeli military sources told The Jerusalem Post. Houthi military spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yahya Saree posted on Telegram that the missile strike was in response to expand its operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The decision to expand operations was agreed upon by the Israeli security cabinet on Friday night. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Most foreign airlines halt flights to Tel Aviv after Houthi missile hits airport Lufthansa group, Air India, Wizz Air suspend service to Israel until May 6, and United until May 8; others, including Air France and Delta, cancel Sunday flights

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Houthis tested new missile in Ben-Gurion Airport attack According to Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen, the Yemeni terrorist organization is continuing to develop new types of missiles and UAVs despite US operations.

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“The Druze are the most loyal minority in the Middle East, and Israel is the country that protects them”

Posted on May 4, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
They chose Israel over the Arab world. Israel chose them back.
Joshua Hoffman
May 4, 2025

In a region often defined by sectarian strife, the relationship between the State of Israel and the Druze community stands as a profound and enduring exception — a brotherhood forged not by convenience, but by loyalty, shared destiny, and mutual respect. The Druze religious community began in the 10th century as an offshoot of Ismaili Shiite Islam but quickly developed into a unique, secretive ethno-religious group with its own theology and culture. One of its core tenets is loyalty to the country of residence, a survival strategy that made the Druze adept at balancing identity and citizenship across changing empires. Leading up to the State of Israel’s founding in 1948, the Arab world was mobilizing for war against the nascent Jewish state. The prevailing expectation among Arab leaders, Arab citizens of Mandatory Palestine, and even many Jewish officials was that the Druze, as Arabic-speaking villagers located primarily in the Galilee and Carmel, would join their Muslim and Christian neighbors in opposing Israel’s creation. READ MORE

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Washington Post: “Inside Waltz’s ouster: Before Signalgate, talks with Israel angered Trump”

Posted on May 3, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Waltz, Netanyahu held Iran strike discussions behind Trump’s back
May 3, 2025

Part of the reason why US President Donald Trump dismissed National Security Adviser Michael Waltz was due to behind-the-scenes coordination with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on possible military action against Iran, without the president’s full knowledge or approval, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. According to the report, which cited multiple senior administration officials, tensions between Waltz and Trump had been mounting for weeks. Waltz allegedly worked closely with Netanyahu to prepare military options in advance of a February Oval Office meeting — a move he reportedly made without informing the president. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Trump sidelines Netanyahu in Middle East policy as relations deteriorate Sources close to US President Donald Trump report that he is disappointed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Relations between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the US president have reached a low point with mutual disappointment on both sides…Earlier this week, we reported that Netanyahu was frustrated with Trump. Now it appears the American president has also lost patience with his Israeli counterpart. 

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