“Why Germany seeks to increase trade with a murderous theocracy bent on Israel’s destruction”

Posted on September 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Angela Merkel’s Ugly Romance With the Iranian Regime
by Benjamin Weinthal
September 25, 2018

…The moral and economic danger represented by Merkel’s emergence as Iran’s major champion in Europe has been a kind of secret that dare not speak its name in the media and among the chattering classes in the Federal Republic. A rare exception in a country that does not have the Anglo-American tradition of aggressive investigative reporting was the BILD newspaper’s exposé on a German company that sold material to merchants based in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. The components were later found in Iranian-produced rockets that contained chemicals used to gas Syrian civilians in January and February of 2018. READ MORE

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#EuropeanUnion concludes #Palestinian textbooks “contain, across all subjects, numerous examples of violent depictions, hate speech – in particular against Israel – and glorifications of jihad and martyrdom”

Posted on September 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
European Parliament Committee Votes to Freeze €15M to PA over
Inciting Textbooks
by Lahav Harkov
September 27, 2018

The European Parliament’s budgetary committee voted to freeze more than 15 million euros from the Palestinian Authority if they do not remove incitement from their textbooks. “The reserve will be released,” the bill reads, “when the Palestinian Authority has committed to reform its school curriculum and textbooks to bring them in line with UNESCO standards for peace and tolerance in school education.” The bill, an amendment to the EU’s draft budget proposed by Budgetary Control Committee chairwoman MEP Dr. Ingeborg Grässle, is expected to go to a plenary vote on October 24. READ MORE

PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH PA and Fatah still don’t recognize Israel For more than two decades, Palestinian Media Watch has documented that neither the PA nor Fatah recognize Israel when addressing their own people. In fact, the opposite is true. Both do their utmost to convince Palestinians that all of Israel was, is, and will remain “Palestine.” 

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“The Handmaid’s Tale appropriates the suffering of women in Muslim countries and uses it to nurture the inflated sense of victimhood of American feminists without ever acknowledging the source”

Posted on September 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Hating Men in a Real Life Handmaid’s Tale
by Daniel Greenfield
September 27, 2018

…The Handmaid’s Tale is to postmodern feminists what Birth of a Nation was to white nationalists. Both are fantasies by which the powerful justify their oppression by imagining themselves to be powerless…Margaret Atwood, its author, drew inspiration from the events of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, but she projected the treatment of women in Muslim countries on to “fundamentalist Christians” in America instead. The Hulu show picks up on the abuses inflicted by the Islamic State on women in Iraq and Syria, and once again projects the abuses of Islamic theocracies on to Trump, Republicans and Americans. READ MORE

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A thought exercise: “Is there any damaging allegation against Kavanaugh, of any nature and from any source, which the left would not automatically believe?”

Posted on September 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
This Revolution, Too, Will Eat Its Children
by Bret Stephens
September 27, 2018

It wasn’t long ago that Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court hinged, as it must, on his qualifications as a judge. Then, necessarily, it became a question of his fitness as a man. Now it’s turned into an exhumation of his antics — real, alleged, rumored or merely insinuated — as a high school and college student. However this ends for him, it may not end up too well for the rest of us. In the last few days, reporters have pored over Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook and calendar, searching for evidence of his attitudes toward women and of his whereabouts in the summer of 1982. READ MORE

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White House declines to elaborate on Trump’s two-state solution comment

Posted on September 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Trump backs two-state solution: ‘I think that’s what works best’
by Michael Wilner
September 26, 2018

Donald Trump backed a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the first time as president on Wednesday, announcing his position at the beginning of a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York. “I think that’s what works best,” Trump told the prime minister, reiterating his support several times. The president up until now had equivocated on the two states, which has long been Washington’s preferred solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the beginning of his administration, Trump said he was open to an alternative solution. READ MORE

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Antisemite Linda Sarsour: ADL“has been a purveyor of Islamophobia against our community”

Posted on September 25, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Linda Sarsour’s Blood Libel
by Steven Emerson
September 26, 2018

When police officers in America shoot unarmed black people, Jewish hands lurk in the background — so says Linda Sarsour, perhaps the most visible Muslim political advocate in the United States. She was a co-chair of the national Women’s March, and is a campaign surrogate for politicians, including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  A program sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that takes American police officials to Israel for a week-long seminar is fueling police brutality, Sarsour said earlier this month at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)’s annual convention. READ MORE

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“Remarkably, no European company in the Global 500 plans to defy #Iran sanctions”

Posted on September 25, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR WORLD
Europe’s Leading Companies Are Bowing to U.S. Sanctions
By David Adesnik & Saeed Ghasseminejad
September 19, 2018

Corporate Europe is bowing to the pressure of Washington’s unilateral sanctions on Iran. The continent’s leading multinational firms, such as Airbus, Maersk, Peugeot, Total, and Siemens, are leaving a market many of them entered with enthusiasm after the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. The trickle of departures since Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal has made it difficult to appreciate just how dramatic the European divestment has been. To address that oversight, we have released a report that catalogs the efforts of 136 European companies to conduct business with Iran, including 38 firms whose annual revenues have earned them a place in the Fortune Global 500 rankings. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Bolton warns Iran of ‘hell to pay’ in impassioned NY speech Using unusually harsh language even for Trump administration, US national security adviser tells Tehran: ‘We are watching, and we will come after you’

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U. Mich Prof Cheney-Lippold “wears his loyalty to BDS as a badge of honor, an academic in favor of shutting down academic choices”

Posted on September 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

DETROIT FREE PRESS
Michigan professor let politics dictate student’s education
by Mitch Albom
September 23, 2018

The request was simple. Happens all the time. A University of Michigan student who planned to study a semester abroad asked one of her professors for a recommendation letter. He was willing to do it. And then he changed his mind. Not because she wasn’t a good student. Not because of what she wanted to study. But because of where she wanted to study: Israel.  “As you may know, many university departments have pledged an academic boycott against Israel in support of Palestinians living in Palestine,” wrote John Cheney-Lippold…“for reasons of these politics, I must rescind my offer to write your letter.” READ MORE

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“Today’s liberal Judaism may or may not have struck the right balance between tradition and change; but that’s a conversation worth having”

Posted on September 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC MAG
Jack Wertheimer’s Critique of American Synagogues is On-Target—and Woefully Off
by Elliot Cosgrove
September 17, 2018

…Wertheimer is right in his warning that if a synagogue seeks always to “meet people where they are” and “be all things to all people,” then at a certain point that synagogue will cease to stand for anything. Not every choice can or should find sanction within the Jewish community; not every liberal value is a Jewish value; and no synagogue, especially in New York where there are so many to choose from, should seek to accommodate everybody. A good synagogue—and there are many good synagogues—must define its mission, which means setting boundaries, which by definition means it cannot be all things to all people…READ MORE

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: What is Radical Dawa?

Posted on September 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

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