“If the U.S. president doesn’t do anything more than declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the embassy, the Israelis would deem it sufficient”

Posted on March 15, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS.ORG
Understanding Israel’s love affair with Trump
by Evelyn Gordon
March 14, 2018

Bipartisanship was the watchword at last week’s AIPAC conference, but it’s no secret that pro-Israel Democrats have trouble swallowing Israelis’ enthusiasm for President Donald Trump, whose approval rating in Israel hit 67 percent even before he decided to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…The explanation is simple, but unfortunately, Democrats won’t like it: Barack Obama set the bar for U.S-Israeli relations so low that there’s literally no Israel-related issue on which Trump has been worse than his predecessor. And there are many on which he’s been not just modestly better, but spectacularly so. READ MORE

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Are its leaders finally acknowledging what Europeans have known for years? [VIDEO]

Posted on March 15, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
The High Price of Denial
by Douglas Murray
March 15, 2018

Is it possible that mainstream politicians and the mainstream media are finally recognising what the European public can see with their own eyes?…On Monday February 26, Merkel gave an interview to the German broadcaster N-TV. In it she finally admitted that there are “no-go areas” in her country: “that is, areas where nobody dares to go.” She continued: “There are such areas and one has to call them by their name and do something about them.” The Chancellor claimed that she favoured a “zero tolerance” attitude towards such places…READ MORE

GATESTONE EU: More Censorship to “Protect” You

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Gallup: Americans who sympathize with the Israelis over the Palestinians, 64%

Posted on March 13, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GALLUP
Americans Remain Staunchly in Israel’s Corner
by Lydia Saad
March 13, 2018

As the Trump administration prepares to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and is reportedly finalizing its broader Middle East peace plan, Americans’ stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as strongly pro-Israel as at any time in Gallup’s three-decade trend. Sixty-four percent say their sympathies in the dispute lie more with the Israelis, tying the high previously recorded in 2013 and 1991. Just 19% of Americans today sympathize more with the Palestinians than with the Israelis, slightly higher than the 15% in Gallup’s initial 1988 measurement…READ MORE

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Fatah says Hamas is behind assassination attempt, “further escalating tensions between the rival factions”

Posted on March 13, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM
Palestinian PM escapes assassination attempt in Gaza
by News Agencies
March 13, 2018

An explosion struck the convoy of the Palestinian prime minister Tuesday as he was making a rare visit to Gaza, in what his Fatah party called an assassination attempt it blamed on Gaza terrorists. The explosion went off shortly after the convoy entered Gaza through the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. Gaza’s Hamas-run interior ministry said the explosion hit as the prime minister’s convoy passed near the northern town of Beit Hanoun. No one was injured, and security services have launched an investigation…READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Free Gaza spox admits activist initiated fatal 2010 violence aboard Mavi Marmara

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#IranDeal: “The secretary of state’s would-be replacement, Mike Pompeo, is an ardent hawk who says the agreement is ‘disastrous’”

Posted on March 12, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

POLITICO
Tillerson’s Ouster Could Kill the Iran Nuclear Deal
by Michael Crowley
March 13, 2018

The Iran nuclear deal might have died Tuesday. That, at least, is one potential upshot of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s ouster and likely replacement by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Friends and foes alike of the nuclear deal say the switch might clear the path for President Donald Trump to act on his oft-expressed desire to abandon the July 2015 nuclear agreement with Tehran, a signature achievement of President Barack Obama that Trump has called “the worst deal ever.” When Trump spoke about Tillerson at the White House on Tuesday, he mentioned only one specific point of contention with his deposed diplomat. READ MORE

FREE BEACON Tillerson Fired Over Rogue Bid to Save Iran Nuke Deal

TIMES OF ISRAEL In Mike Pompeo, Trump taps an Iran hawk whose views dovetail with his own

JNS.ORG Trump cites Iran-deal wrangles in Tillerson firing, Iran hawk Pompeo in at State

FORWARD 5 Reasons Rex Tillerson’s Firing Matters To Israel

COMMENTARY How the Embassy Move Signals Big Changes to the Iran Deal

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#Iran let the superpowers do their work for them, destroying Iran’s enemies

Posted on March 12, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

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Getting out of the Iranian check
by Michael Oren
March 11, 2018

While Israel is mired in domestic scandals and coalition crises, the greatest threat the country has known since the eve of the Yom Kippur War – perhaps since the War for Independence – is steadily taking shape. This menace, posed of course by Iran, essentially consists of a wide range of growing threats closing in on us. The Iranians, who invented the game of chess, are exceedingly adept at playing several boards simultaneously, with the winner’s prize no less than control of the entire Middle East and beyond. READ MORE

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“It is time to end the deadly charade of calling the displaced Palestinians “refugees”

Posted on March 12, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
What Is a “Refugee”? The Jews from Morocco versus the Palestinians from Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
March 10, 2018

…The Arab exodus from Israel in 1948 was the direct result of a genocidal war declared against the newly established Jewish state by all of its Arab neighbors, including the Arabs of Israel. If they had accepted the UN peace plan — two states for two people — there would be no Palestinian refugees. In the course of Israel’s fierce battle for its survival — a battle in which it lost one percent of its population, including many Holocaust survivors and civilians — approximately 700,000 local Arabs were displaced. Many left voluntarily, having been promised a glorious return after the inevitable Arab victory. Others were forced out. READ MORE

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“The New Yorker even published a column asserting how the #Parkland survivors started the “#NeverAgain” movement”

Posted on March 11, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

THE REBEL
Memo to gun control activists: #NeverAgain means one thing only
by Tiffany Gabbay
March 13, 2018

I don’t believe in “oppression Olympics.” Human beings the world over who are persecuted, subjugated, ethnically cleansed, left behind, or targeted for violence in any way — be they innocent children gunned down at an American school or a minority community trampled under the jackboot of a totalitarian regime — deserve our attention, compassion, and aid. We should be able to recognize the legitimate suffering of others without qualifiers or caveats or above all, feeling the need to displace one victim to make room for another. Which is why I am so disturbed by the coopting of the phrase “Never Again.” READ MORE

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“The year 1968 marked a turning point in Western civilization. It was a year of seismic social and political change from which it has not recovered”

Posted on March 11, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Western collapse began in 1968
by Giulio Meotti
March 11, 2018

…1968 is the year when the abominations of the post-civilization in which we live started to manifest themselves, from placid hedonism to radical demographic decline. Welcome to the contemporary Western nightmare. 1968 also marked a turning point in the American political culture with internal divisions threatening to tear apart a nation. In 1968 the children of the richest society in history began to bite the culture in which they were raised. 1968 eroded, most insidiously, the foundations of Western culture. In 1968, the West sunk into a kind of malaise. READ MORE

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“Presbyterian Church USA continues a practice of Jew-baiting that the denomination’s peace activists and leaders have been perfecting for more than a decade”

Posted on March 10, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
A dying church takes time to give Israel a kick
by Dexter Van Zile
March 9, 2018

You have to hand it to the Presbyterian Church USA. Its leaders can’t figure out how to recruit new members or stop churches from leaving the denomination in droves, but they sure do know how to run a propaganda war against Israel and its Jewish supporters in the United States. Like the Palestinians for whom the church advocates so irresponsibly, officials and activists in the PCUSA are more intent on attacking Israel and its supporters in the United States than promoting the welfare of the community they lead. READ MORE

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