7 Days in Entebbe: “From distorted portrayals of IDF soldiers to altering facts to turn “Zionism” into a derogatory term, this horrific film represents the zenith of Israel demonization” [VIDEO]

Posted on March 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
7 Days in Entebbe
by Jonathan Michanie
March 19, 2018

…Throughout the film, the PLO terrorists are humanized and shown as moral figures who are simply pursuing the cause of independence from a “Zionist, tyrannical regime.” While barely addressing the decision-making processes of the Israeli government or the military planning of the operation, the producers of this film have successfully revised one of the most prominent military rescues of modern history…This film is a disgrace, an affront to all Israelis and a transparent attempt to elevate the Palestinian cause high enough to pardon the hijacking of a commercial airliner. READ MORE

THE MAVEN ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Will Make You Mad as Hell

DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL BLOG 7 Days in Entebbe – Disgusting Palestinian Propaganda

ROTTEN TOMATOES 7 Days in Entebbe earns 23%

 

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Statistics give lie to ridiculous Palestinian “genocide” charge

Posted on March 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

WEEKLY STANDARD
Actually, Palestinians Are Doing Pretty Well Under Israeli Rule
by Jonah Cohen
March 20, 2018

Massive empirical data about life in Israel and the Palestinian territories has been compiled by distinguished Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini and his recently translated 2014 book Industry of Lies shows just how ludicrous the genocide charge is…At the end of the Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel took over the territories from Jordan, the average Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza expected to live just 49 years…Since 1984, Palestinians have lived an average of 75 years. That’s not only higher than the global average, but longer than the life expectancy in many Arab…countries…Israeli Arabs, meanwhile, have the highest life expectancy in the Muslim world. READ MORE

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“Shockingly, VOA’s Internet coverage headlined Iranian state media and their leaders while burying President Trump’s tweets supporting the protestors”

Posted on March 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY CALLER
Voice Of America In Iran Propagandizes For The Ayatollahs
by Ziva Dahl
March 22, 2018

Why do people in Iran call the U.S. Voice of America (VOA) the “Voice of Ayatollahs” Tragically, rather than promote our national interests, VOA regurgitates Iranian regime propaganda. Millions of Iranians hunger for freedom from their repressive, theocratic regime —as evidenced by the 2009 Green Movement uprising and the recent protests in December and January. As a totalitarian society, Tehran fears and restricts its citizens’ unfettered access to information, forcing upon them a diet of Iranian indoctrination. READ MORE

POLITICO U.S. busts ‘massive’ Iranian hacking scheme

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More double standards from the #NewYorkTimes: The soft bigotry of low expectations

Posted on March 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

CAMERA BLOG
NY Times Mum on Palestinian Leader’s “Son of a Dog” Slur
by Gilead Ini
March 21, 2018

On Monday, the Palestinian president called an American ambassador a “son of a dog.” On Tuesday, a handful of U.S. news outlets mentioned Mahmoud Abbas’s verbal attack on Ambassador David Friedman, the top U.S. diplomat in Israel. The New York Times was not among them. It is a striking omission from a paper that, at other times, seems fixated on events in that part of the Middle East. Indeed, the same newspaper that ignored Abbas’s slur, which the U.S. State Department slammed as “outrageous and unhelpful,” had in 2016 covered a much milder critique by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the previous American ambassador. READ MORE

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In Hollywood, “the City Where Myths Are Made, The Israeli And Palestinian Storyline Is Always In Rewrite” [VIDEO]

Posted on March 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MOMENT MAG
The Epic Battle In Hollywood Over The Holy Land
by Brian Schaefer
March 15, 2018

…And because Los Angeles is the ever-beating heart of the world’s entertainment industry, Hollywood has increasingly become a location where the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict play out in public view. Sometimes that takes the form of social media sniping, and sometimes it manifests in campaigns to persuade entertainers to distance themselves from Israel, a strategy of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The subsequent publicity from these actions helps activists share their message widely, which makes Hollywood a “high priority and rising” for BDS, according to BDS cofounder Omar Barghouti. READ MORE

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“By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit” [VIDEO]

Posted on March 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

STANDPOINT
The onslaught against the West’s moral codes
by Melanie Phillips
March 2018

It has become the orthodoxy in the West that freedom, human rights and reason all derive from secularism and that the greatest threat to all these good things is religion. I want to suggest that the opposite is true. In the service of this orthodoxy, the West is undermining and destroying the very values which it holds most dear as the defining characteristics of a civilised society. War is being waged against Western culture from within which is in essence a war against Christianity and its moral origins in the Hebrew Bible. READ MORE

 

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Ahed Tamimi AKA “Shirley Temper” sentenced

Posted on March 21, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Palestinian teen who slapped soldier sentenced to 8 months in prison
by TOI staff and Agencies
March 21, 2018

Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi was sentenced to eight months in prison after a military court on Wednesday approved a plea bargain in which she admitted to assaulting an IDF soldier and other charges. During the hearing at the Ofer military court, an unnamed Israeli supporter of Tamimi slapped the military prosecutor and was arrested for questioning, police said.  Tamimi, 17, was arrested four months ago after being filmed slapping and shoving IDF soldiers in her West Bank village of Nebi Saleh. Her sentence will include time served and a fine of 5,000 shekels ($1,430)…READ MORE

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“Taylor Force Act, targeting payouts to jailed terrorists, likely to pass this week”

Posted on March 21, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Sen Graham: Taylor Force Act now added to omnibus
By Jacob Kornbluh and JI Staff
March 21, 2018

The Senate is expected to pass the Taylor Force Act as part of the $1.3 trillion omnibus appropriations bill this week, according to Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who introduced the legislation last year. The bipartisan Taylor Force Act will cut off U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority until they cease payments to terrorists and their families. The omnibus faces a Friday midnight deadline in order to prevent a government shutdown…This was truly bipartisan, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer worked together. READ MORE

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“Israel admits bombing suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, warns Iran” [IDF VIDEOS]

Posted on March 21, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
IDF chief: 2007 reactor strike shows Israel will not tolerate threats to its existence
by Israel Hayom
March 21, 2018

The message from the strike on the Syrian nuclear reactor is clear: Israel will not tolerate existential threats, said Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot on Wednesday, after the Israeli military confirmed it carried out the 2007 airstrike that destroyed a nuclear reactor being built in eastern Syria. Although Israel was widely believed to have been behind the airstrike on the Deir ez-Zor facility on Sept. 6, 2007, it has never before commented publicly on it. Israel’s Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz suggested on Wednesday that the timing of the revelation meant to send a message to Iran. READ MORE

REUTERS Israel admits bombing suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, warns Iran

TIMES OF ISRAEL Ending a decade of silence, Israel confirms it blew up Assad’s nuclear reactor

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Dershowitz: “If you’re anti-Israel, [Sex and City’s] Cynthia Nixon is your candidate.”

Posted on March 20, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Dershowitz Slams Cynthia Nixon as ‘Anti-Israel’ Candidate in New York Governor’s Race
by David Rutz
March 20, 2018

Attorney and commentator Alan Dershowitz tore into actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon on Twitter as an anti-Israel bigot, before and after she officially launched her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York. Before Nixon made her long-rumored announcement, Dershowitz wrote, “Cynthia Nixon may run for Gov of NY. She has collaborated with Israel haters Jewish Voice for Peace and Vanessa Redgrave in boycotting Israel. Do not support her bigotry.” READ MORE

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