“Dani Pearl and Itai Moldavski were the first Israelis ever invited to take part in the five-day Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge”

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL 21C
In first, Israeli drivers participate in UAE off-road race
by Rebecca Stadlen Amir
April 5, 2018

While most of Israel was preparing for the Passover holiday, Israeli drivers Dani Pearl and Itai Moldavski landed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to participate in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge off-road race. The pair was the first team from Israel ever to compete in the race, one of the world’s most prestigious international cross-country rallies, March 24-29. Though Israel does not have open diplomatic relations with the UAE, ties between Israel and the Arab Gulf states have seemed to warm up in recent weeks. Several days before the race, a flight headed to Israel passed over Saudi airspace for the first time in history. READ MORE

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“No good deed extended to Palestinians goes unpunished” There’s surely a lesson here.

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE MAG
The Heavy Price of Israeli Generosity
by Mordechai Nisan
April 5, 2018

…The real story is clear but generally misreported or unreported by the fake news outlets: Israel’s wanton concessions, innumerable gestures of good-will, and wide range of assistance that have all failed since the 1993 Oslo Accord to bring peace with the Palestinians.  Israel withdrew from all of the Gaza Strip and parts of Judea and Samaria in the spirit of “territories for peace.” Facing Palestinians with their battery of terrorists and rock-throwing youth, knife-stabbers and arsonists, food-poisoners and maniacs crashing their vehicles into soldiers and pedestrians, Israel often showed undue indulgence where iron-clad firmness would have been expected and justified. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Why don’t the Palestinians march on Iran, Syria, Egypt and Jordan?

TIMES OF ISRAEL Gaza Hamas leader vows to ‘breach the borders and pray at Al-Aqsa’

FRONT PAGE MAG Bernie Sanders Mourns Hamas Terrorists Killed by Israel

NATIONAL POST No country would tolerate what Hamas is doing at Israel’s border

Watch Leftwing New York Jews Say Kaddish for Dead Hamas Terrorists

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Israel comments don’t sit well with Palestinians

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Palestinian terror groups seethe over Saudi crown prince’s pro-Israel comments
by Khaled Abu Toameh
April 4, 2018

Palestinian terror groups on Wednesday accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of paving the way for “normalization” between the Arab countries and Israel. Salman, in an interview published Monday, recognized Israel’s right to exist and extolled the prospect of future diplomatic relations between his kingdom and the Jewish state. His remarks, which have enraged many Palestinians and Arabs, were made during an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg….The Palestinian Authority chose to ignore Salman’s remarks in an apparent attempt to avoid triggering a crisis between Ramallah and Riyadh. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Former Qatari Prime Minister: Israelis Have a Right to Live in their Land. Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani joins an increasing number of Middle Eastern leaders expressing support for Israel’s right to exist.

TABLET MAG The Secret to Successful Arab Modernization is to Stop Hating Israel: Saudi Arabia’s main reason to normalize relations with the Jewish state is not strategic but sociological

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#Pakistani #Islamists continue their #genocide against #Christians, carrying out their sentence for #apostasy

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CLARION PROJECT
Christian Family Murdered in Easter Attack
by Elliot Friedland
April 4, 2018

Four Christians were murdered and a young girl injured in a terrorist attack in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday. Quetta is the capital of the Balochistan province in South Western Pakistan. The Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack. All four were members of the same family. They had been meeting relatives in a Christian area of the city. Traveling in a in a ricksha, they had just left the house where they were staying when armed men on a motorcycle drove past and opened fire. READ MORE

PEW RESEARCH CENTER Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy? “We found that laws restricting apostasy and blasphemy are most common in the Middle East and North Africa, where 18 of the region’s 20 countries (90%) criminalize blasphemy and 14 (70%) criminalize apostasy.”

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“For many of the young writers and editors entering the trade, journalism is exactly about creating the world idealized on college campuses, a world of radical egalitarianism, subjectivity, multiplicity, hybridity…”

Posted on April 5, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
The Battle of Woke Island: The New York Times, Kevin Williamson, and the politics of the campus
by Matthew Continetti
April 6, 2018

…It cannot be an accident, for example, that the fiercest battles of the “woke civil war” have been waged over the center-right Times columnists Bret Stephens and Bari Weiss, who have voiced opinions contrary to the hegemonic discourses of the bien pensants relating to climate, Israel, and sex. Their heresies have made Stephens and Weiss the most controversial and criticized employees of the paper. The great desire of their most radical opponents is for them to lose their columns—to be “de-platformed” and therefore rendered politically harmless. READ MORE

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Another kind of collusion: Clinton and Obama both tried to have Netanyahu defeated in elections

Posted on April 4, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

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Bill Clinton Admits Campaign Against Netanyahu During 1996 election
by Alex Traiman
April 4, 2018

In an interview, former U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted that he tried to help then-Israeli P.M. Shimon Peres defeat Benjamin Netanyahu during Israel’s elections in 1996, just a year after the assassination of Israeli P.M. Yitzhak Rabin. Clinton stated in an interview on Israel’s Channel 10 News Program that it “would be fair to say” that he assisted in the process to elect Shimon Peres…Clinton has been similarly accused of more successfully aiding Ehud Barak defeat Netanyahu during the 1999 election. Former President Barack Obama similarly tried to have Netanyahu defeated in the most recent 2015 elections [with US taxpayer funds no less]. READ MORE

WASHINGTON POST NGO connected to Obama’s 2008 campaign used U.S. tax dollars trying to oust Netanyahu

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Bibi: Immigrant deal canceled

Posted on April 4, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Netanyahu completes about-face on migrants, says UNHCR deal is cancelled
by Herb Keinon
April 3, 2018

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu completed an about-face on Tuesday, announcing that he was cancelling the agreement he dramatically announced and advocated less than 24 hours before regarding the African migrants in Israel. Netanyahu’s announcement came at the beginning of a meeting in his office with residents of south Tel Aviv neighborhoods opposed to the policy which would allow some 16,000 of the African migrants to remain in the country, while another 16,000 would – under an agreement reached with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) – be absorbed by other western countries. READ MORE

ISRAEL HAYOM PM blames failure of migrant compromise on New Israel Fund

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C-SPAN conference speakers diss AIPAC, Christian Zionists and CAMERA

Posted on April 3, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
C-SPAN Airs Pro-Palestinian Propagandists Slamming Supporters of Israel
by Myron Kaplan
March 31, 2018

Potentially Millions of C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) viewers were subjected to a live broadcast of a one-day conference titled, “The Israel Lobby and American Policy,” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Ostensibly aiming to analyze the role that the “Israel lobby” plays in the U.S.-Israel relationship and determine if it is positive or negative for both countries, the conference provided only anti-Israel speakers who slammed Israel and its supporters particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and Christian Zionists. Included was a swipe at Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA). READ MORE

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“I wouldn’t be a good Muslim if I didn’t champion Jewish life in my home city, Berlin”

Posted on April 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WASHINGTON POST
Nazis destroyed this Berlin synagogue. A Muslim politician and a Jewish leader want to rebuild it.
by Luisa Beck
April 1, 2018

Along a narrow canal in one of Berlin’s largest Turkish and Muslim neighborhoods sits a synagogue’s ghost — the site of a worship hall that was largely destroyed by the Nazis on the November night in 1938 known as Kristallnacht. Eighty years later, a Palestinian-born German politician and the leader of Berlin’s Jewish community stood together on a recent morning outside the vanished building’s single remaining wing and outlined a plan to give the ghost new life. If they can raise the funds, the two hope to completely rebuild the Fraenkelufer synagogue as a house of worship and neighborhood meeting place for people of all faiths and none. READ MORE

NEW YORK TIMES Jews Are Being Murdered in Paris. Again. Jews represent less than 1 percent of the population in France, yet in 2014, 51 percent of all racist attacks were carried out against them, according to the French Interior Ministry.

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“Tragically, Christians living in lands formerly under the control of the “Caliphate” have been betrayed by many actors in the West”

Posted on April 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Iraq’s Christians: Eighty Percent Have “Disappeared”
by Giulio Meotti
April 1, 2018

Persecution of Christians is worse today “than at any time in history”, a recent report by the organization Aid to the Church in Need revealed. Iraq happens to be “ground zero” for the “elimination” of Christians from the pages of history. Iraqi Christian clergymen recently wore a black sign as a symbol of national mourning for the last victims of the anti-Christian violence: a young worker and a whole family of three. “This means that there is no place for Christians,” said Father Biyos Qasha of the Church of Maryos in Baghdad. “We are seen as a lamb to be killed at any time”. READ MORE

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