“While her cameras and political views initially spook Tekoa residents, in ‘Unsettling,’ Iris Zaki manages to get locals talking about their lives beyond the Green Line”

Posted on June 3, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In new film, Tel Aviv leftist picks up and moves to a West Bank settlement
by Jacob Magid
May 22, 2018

In one of the first scenes in Iris Zaki’s new documentary, “Unsettling,” the Tel Aviv film director taps into a unique dissonance being lived out by residents of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa. Sitting at a small circular table she sets up outside the town’s minimarket, Zaki explains to her new friend Matanya that the reluctance of many locals to engage with her stems from their discomfort with addressing the political reality in which they are living. READ MORE

NPR Fauda: From Israel, A Hit TV Thriller Of War’s Chaos — And Its Domestic Cost  Most of the terrorists that I saw on TV shows and movies are just the bad guys. Nothing — they didn’t have kids, they didn’t have families, they didn’t have love, they didn’t have anything. And we wanted to show that: We wanted to show that the Israelis, they are not just the soldiers — the brutal, bad soldiers. And this is why people feel compassion for both sides.

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“What Samantha Bee did to Ivanka Trump is exactly the sort of behavior that the #metoo movement is supposedly trying to stop”

Posted on June 3, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
Blue State Blues: Samantha Bee Abuses Woman, Wins #MeToo Award
by Joel Pollak
June 1, 2018

…Bee denigrated and sexualized Ms. Trump, using her femininity as a way to humiliate and bully her. There are men in Hollywood who have been excommunicated over the past few months for doing that to female colleagues and employees…All of this occurred literally hours after Roseanne Barr lost her show, and likely her career, for a racist remark that was made in jest and for which she apologized contritely…The double standard is clear: if you are on the left, you can get away with almost anything — and if you are on the right, you can be abused by everyone. The #metoo movement does not apply to conservative women: they are not, in fact, to be considered women. READ MORE

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“Jens Stoltenberg tells Der Spiegel that while Israel is a partner, it is not a member and therefore NATO’s ‘security guarantee’ doesn’t apply to it”

Posted on June 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

YNET NEWS
NATO chief: We won’t aid Israel if Iran attacks
Associated Press
June 2, 2018

NATO’s secretary-general said Saturday the alliance wouldn’t come to Israel’s defense in case of attack by arch enemy Iran. Jens Stoltenberg told the magazine Der Spiegel that Israel is a partner, but not a member and that NATO’s “security guarantee” doesn’t apply to Israel…Stoltenberg’s comments in the wake of recent clashes between Israel and Iran in the Golan Heights, and amid Israeli efforts to remove the Iranians and their Shiite allies, including Hezbollah, from the Israel-Syria border area. READ MORE

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The Jews get their own Nakba Day: Remembering the movement to exterminate the Jews of the Middle East [VIDEO]

Posted on June 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented Palestinian History
by Edwin Black
June 1, 2018

When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely establish a commemoration of the ghastly 1941 Arab-Nazi pogrom in Baghdad that killed and injured hundreds of Iraqi Jews. Farhud means violent dispossession. The Farhud was but the first bloody step along the tormented path to the ultimate expulsion of some 850,000 Jews from across the Arab world. That systematic expulsion ended centuries of Jewish existence and stature in those lands. READ MORE

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Western liberals, including Black Lives Matter, know “images of Palestinian hardship will be shared widely, wept over, and held up as proof of the allegedly uniquely barbarous nature of the Jewish State”

Posted on June 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

SPIKED
The Ugly Trade in Palestinian Pain
by Brendan O’Neill, Editor
May 21, 2018

…This should be the central lesson of the terrible events at the Gaza-Israel border last week: that much of what happens in the Israel-Palestine conflict is now largely a performance, a piece of bloody theatre, staged for the benefit of outsiders, especially for myopically anti-Israel Western activists and observers. It is becoming increasingly clear that Hamas pushes Gaza’s people into harm’s way because it knows their suffering will strike a chord across the West…READ MORE

COMMENTARY My ‘Black Lives Matter’ Problem The leaders of Black Lives Matter have written a profoundly anti-Israel (and anti-American) manifesto in which they accuse Israel of “genocide” and “apartheid.” The manifesto endorses the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” (BDS) movement and takes the view that the United States justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliances with Israel.

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“Hamas and Israel remain bitter enemies, but neither wants an all-out war, and so both sought to prevent a day’s escalation from turning into something far more devastating” [VIDEO]

Posted on June 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
The curious common interest behind the rapid Gaza-Israel flare-up and flare-down
by Avi Issacharoff
May 30, 2018

With the tailing off of the Gaza conflict, and the end to the barrages into Israel and the IDF’s counterstrikes, it’s plain that the shared desire of both Hamas and Israel for a return to “normality,” and the avoidance of war, prevailed. Proof of this is that the status quo ante has been restored, with no change to the previous understandings between the sides. Israel and Hamas recommitted to their familiar formula: quiet will be met with quiet. Neither side wants an escalation. To use a boxing analogy, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and then Israel, put on the gloves for 24 hours, but heeded the bell and retired to their corners at the end of the round. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER UN ‘Hopelessly Biased Against Israel’ Says Haley, as US Vetoes Security Council Resolution on Gaza Violence  The majority of the 15 states on the UN Security Council were “willing to blame Israel, but unwilling to blame Hamas, for violence in Gaza,” the American  Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, said on Friday after the US vetoed a Kuwait-sponsored resolution that urged the deployment of an international force to the West Bank and Gaza.

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR PA threatens to cut security ties with Israel if Gaza blockade lifted The Palestinian Authority (PA) has threatened to sever security cooperation with Israel if the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted, according to the Palestine Information Centre. Quoting Hebrew media sources, the news site reported that the PA intelligence chief Majed Faraj sent a letter to his Israeli counterpart Nadav Argaman warning him against any action that would help alleviate the suffering of the population in Gaza.

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gaza terror rocket hits Strip’s own power lines, leaves Palestinians in dark Damage will take days to fix; minister delays repairs until it is safe for workers

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“Netanyahu’s popularity has surged in recent polls, overshadowing the graft probes that have already produced police recommendations to indict him in two cases”

Posted on June 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

BLOOMBERG
Wooing Trump Pays Off for Netanyahu as His Popularity Soars
by David Wainer
May 31, 2018

Yoaz Hendel, a former adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu, has become one of his fiercest right-wing critics, denouncing his policies in columns and talk shows, and leading a rally against the corruption that’s allegedly permeated his government. Now, even Hendel is reconsidering his views of the Israeli prime minister, impressed by his role in the transfer of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the unraveling of the Iran nuclear deal, and Israel’s strikes against Iranian military forces in Syria. He’s not alone. READ MORE

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Twitter “activist” (with 45,000 followers) posts hit list of famous #French Jews. Her Twitter account is still active

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY
French-Muslim website posts ‘hit list’ of famous Jews
May 31, 2018

A French-Muslim news outlet and a prominent anti-colonialism activist published on Twitter alleged hit lists featuring Jewish groups and individuals. The activist, Sihame Assbague, posted the first list of eight items last week. It included the CRIF umbrella group of French Jewish communities; the Socialist Jewish politician Julien Dray; former Prime Minister Manuel Valls — a supporter of Israel whose ex-wife and children are Jewish; and the radical left-wing politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, who is not Jewish. The list was accompanied by a picture of a character from the series “Game of Thrones” from a scene in which she lists the people she intends to kill. READ MORE

PJ MEDIA David Goldman: The Safest Country for European Jews? Try Hungary One of the few European countries where a Jew can watch safely with a kippah

JNS Melanie Phillips: Europe makes an about-face on Israel What was striking was that the Israel-averse European Union, United Nations, France, Italy, Germany and Ireland criticized the Gaza attackers and expressed support for Israel. France declared that its commitment to Israel’s security was “unwavering.” Germany said the targeting of Israeli civilians was “malicious,” and that it was “Israel’s right to preserve its security, defend its borders and respond proportionately to attacks.”

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These Jews “have traded a proud legacy for the vagaries of self-loathing, and compromising the safety of their brothers and sisters as well as the Jewish State”

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
When Jews Turn On Each Other
by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein
May 30, 2018

…Traditionally, summer camps have provided our kids with exposure to Jewish values – and many other things that inspired Jewish novelists and filmmakers. Many camps have strong ideological bents that differed entirely from the next one down the rural road. That was part of the “differences-within-the-family”. But no one – until recently – trained​ young Jews to work for the weakening and possible destruction of the Jewish State. But it’s happening now, at one of the most storied Jewish camps over the past half-century. Ramah of the Rockies is hosting counselors from around the country to teach the occupation and Palestinian narratives. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Sowing the seeds of Israel-hatred at summer camp Parents, your long list of worries over sending your kids to summer camp has expanded in unexpected ways. This season, at least some counselors will be working Jewish campgrounds with the insidious mission of grooming your children to become anti-Israel ambassadors.

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CNN’s Brooke Baldwin rips Samantha Bee and Keith Olbermann [VIDEO]

Posted on May 31, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin slams Samantha Bee’s Ivanka comments: She’s ‘part of the problem’
by Mandy Mayfield
May 31, 2018

CNN host Brooke Baldwin on Thursday backed conservatives who are pointing to a double standard in regard to rhetoric used by Samantha Bee to describe Ivanka Trump. “The same rules apply no matter which political side you call home,” Baldwin said on CNN. “Conservatives have been pointing to a double standard on how liberal stars who say these offensive things are treated, versus their conservative counterparts, and in many cases, rightfully so.” Baldwin went on to show clips of Keith Olbermann, who is known for his provocative condemnations, and was recently re-hired by ESPN for the sixth time. READ MORE

DAILY WIRE Ben Shapiro: Many In Hollywood, Media Defend Bee’s Vile Comments About Ivanka Trump

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