The Trump Plan: “The U.S. will tell the Palestinians to take it or leave it”

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Trump’s New Deal for the Middle East
by Zev Chafets
June 25, 2018

During Jared Kushner’s recent round of Middle East diplomacy, he refrained from spelling out the details of the Trump plan for an Israeli-Palestinian deal…“The world has moved forward while you have been left behind,” he said to his Palestinian readers. “Don’t allow your grandfather’s conflict to determine your children’s future.”  In other words: The war against the Jewish state is over. You lost. Now, get over it. Kushner dismissed the traditional Palestinian core issues (the return of refugees, a fully sovereign state including East Jerusalem and the end of Jewish settlement in the West Bank) as “talking points,” in an endless quarrel.  READ MORE

JNS Trump’s Middle East envoys return from region with low expectations of peace plan

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Washington Post “Portraying Palestinian terrorists as protesters is emblematic of The Post’s tendency to minimize the threats faced by the Jewish state”

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
For The Washington Post, Jewish Blood Isn’t Cheap — It’s Just Not Worth the Ink
by Sean Durns
June 25, 2018

…Media coverage of the Hamas-led operation, however, was uniformly awful — as CAMERA has documented. And The Washington Post was among the worst. The Post regurgitated casualty claims by Gaza’s “Health Ministry,” but failed to inform readers that the ministry is a Hamas entity that shares the group’s goals of delegitimizing and destroying Israel. The “ministry” is not, as The Post would have readers believe, a credible source. Worse still, the paper failed to fully detail Hamas’ role and objectives at the border…READ MORE

YNET NEWS Fatah warns Hamas of making deals with Israel on Gaza port Amid reports Israel is examining possibility of building sea port for the strip in Cyprus, Hamas, Islamic Jihad officials say they’ve yet to see any concrete plans, while PA official asserts Trump using Gaza crisis as excuse to reach ‘deal of the century.’…The proposal is believed to have been discussed in meetings between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and senior White adviser Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt…

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“June 20th 2018 will be remembered as the day free speech died in South Africa”

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

HUFF POST
‘Dear Shashi Naidoo: Like You, I Too Share The Desire For Peace’
by Vijeta Uniyal
June 26, 2018

…But I was certainly dismayed seeing you share the stage with anti-Israel boycott group BDS South Africa, a group that publicly campaigns for the economic and cultural boycott of Israel and covertly works to destroy the Jewish state…Needless to say, the incident gives antisemites yet another opportunity to defame and demonise Israel, a country that many of us in India and the diaspora have come to hold in great esteem. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL The day the Little Mermaid died Shashi Naidoo is a beautiful South African model. She is known to be of kind heart and of sensitive disposition. She is a socialite and TV personality who is loved and revered. Or was until she made the error of defending Israel on social media. In a series of Facebook posts, Naidoo questioned the behavior of Hamas and dared to suggest that the responsibility was not that of Israel alone. Big mistake.

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Now “defanged” Polish law had “driven a wedge between Israel and Poland, setting back years of hard work to repair bitter feelings”

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Poland’s Holocaust Law Weakened After ‘Storm and Consternation’
by Marc Santora
June 27, 2018

Just a few months after making it illegal to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in the Holocaust, Poland backpedaled on Wednesday, moving to defang the controversial law by eliminating criminal penalties for violators. The United States and other traditional allies had excoriated the Polish government over the law, passed in February, condemning it as largely unenforceable, a threat to free speech, and an act of historical revisionism…Many Polish citizens have long objected to the use of the phrase “Polish death camps” to refer to the concentration camps installed and controlled by Nazi Germany. READ MORE

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#WalkAway This video explains why I left the Democratic Party

Posted on June 29, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

PJ MEDIA
#WalkAway Campaign Urges Fed-Up Democrats to Leave the Party
by Debra Heine
June 24, 2018

A new grassroots movement is urging Democrats who are fed up with the ugly direction the party has taken in recent years — especially since President Trump was elected — to “walk away.” The #WalkAway campaign is “dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become,” the group’s Facebook page states. READ MORE

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NY 14th District Dems: Meet who will likely be your new far left, anti-Israel Congresswoman

Posted on June 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

HAARETZ
Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary
by Allison Kaplan Sommer
June 27, 2018

A young progressive Democrat who has sharply criticized Israel, including calling the killing of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border in May a “massacre,” celebrated an upset victory over a leading House Democrat in a congressional primary race in New York City on Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, scored a decisive win over powerful congressman Rep. Joe Crowley, 56. Riding a wave of strong anti-Trump “resistance” sentiment in her New York district, Ocasio-Cortez – who belongs to the Democratic Socialists of America and is a supporter of Bernie Sanders – ran on a far-left platform. Her agenda included Medicare-for-all and clamping down on Wall Street. READ MORE

BREITBART Joel Pollak: New Democrat Heroine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is an Anti-Israel Radical The Jewish radicals of J Street will, no doubt, be thrilled to have another member of Congress who supports Hamas over Israel, and will rush to her defense. But for the few Democrats who still support Israel, her victory is worrying.

FORWARD Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is A Strong Critic Of Israel Ocasio-Cortez said she feels as strongly about the killings in Gaza as she would if the slain protesters were in Ferguson, Missouri or in Puerto Rico, where her family has roots. “Especially in New York people say this is political suicide,” Ocasio-Cortez told Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept, referring to her criticism of Israel. “But I had a lot of my constituents thanking me for taking that position. I had a lot of Jewish Americans who thanked me.”

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Prince William’s official itinerary: “His scheduled visit to the Old City on Thursday is part his trip in “occupied Palestinian territories”

Posted on June 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Prince William said to refuse to meet with Mayor Barkat in Jerusalem
by Staff
June 27, 2018

Prince William reportedly refused a request for a meeting in the capital with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat. According to a Hadashot TV news report Wednesday, Barkat requested a meeting in the city with the royal visitor, who has been staying at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel…However, British Embassy officials reportedly told Barkat the prince would be pleased meet the mayor at a reception held Tuesday at the British ambassador’s residence in Ramat Gan, but that the prince would not meet with him in Jerusalem. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Prince William’s Israel visit begins at Holocaust memorial Prince William began his visit to Israel on Tuesday with an emotional visit to Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and a meeting with two survivors who escaped Nazi Germany for the safety of Britain

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Iranian protesters call out their government’s support for Palestinians and terror causes

Posted on June 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Iranian Protestors Swarm Streets Chanting, ‘Death to Palestine’
by Adam Kredo
June 25, 2018

Iranian civilian protestors, in a surprising turn of events in the country, are taking to the streets to express opposition to the hardline ruling regime by chanting, “Death to Palestine” and “Leave Syria, think of us,” according to an independent translation of videos showing the protests. The protests, just the latest in social unrest gripping the country, began over the weekend and have spilled into Monday, as anti-regime protestors express frustration over the plunging value of Iran’s currency, the rial, and Iranian leadership’s continued funding of regional terror groups and military operations in Syria on behalf of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. READ MORE

JNS Iranians take to the streets amid currency collapse, some shouting ‘death to Palestine’ In the last several years, Iran has spent billions on foreign interventions around the Middle East, including the civil wars in Syria and Yemen, while propping up terror groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and ignoring the needs of the Iranian people.

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Taylor Force Act kicks in with US aid to Palestinians frozen

Posted on June 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

I24 NEWS
US freezes Palestinian aid budget
by Eylon Aslan-Levy
June 25, 2018

The United States has quietly frozen its aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) pending review, i24NEWS has learned. The move comes two months after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which aimed to force the PA to terminate its “pay-for-slay” policies of paying stipends to convicted terrorists in Israeli jails and to the families of dead terrorists…The United States was, until now, the world’s largest financial backer of the PA READ MORE

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“The Saudi regime still gets to decide which rights women should be afforded”

Posted on June 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

AL JAZEERA
Why did Saudi Arabia lift the driving ban on women only now?
by Hana Al-Khamri
June 24, 2018

Starting today, women in Saudi Arabia are finally able to drive legally after a long-standing ban was lifted by a royal decree. The unexpected decision to finally allow women to drive has been welcomed and praised by human rights campaigners across the world since it was first announced in September last year. But there is still one question on many people’s mind: Why did King Salman agree to do this, and why now? READ MORE

TIMES OF INDIA Ten things Saudi women still cannot do 2. They can’t socialise with males outside their immediate family and can be imprisoned for such an ‘offence’…
8. They can’t get a fair hearing in court, where ‘the testimony of one man equals that of two women.’ The legal position in Saudi Arabia of a woman is equal to that of a minor, and therefore she has little authority over her own life.

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