May 12 Trump decision on Iran Deal will impact Iran’s plans for Israel

Posted on March 4, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FOREIGN POLICY
Trump Should Block Iran’s Air Corridor to Syria
by Emanuele Ottolenghi
March 2, 2018

…Tehran’s brazen provocation may have been surprising, yet is a natural extension of Iranian efforts to transform Syria into a forward base for aggression against Israel….Assessments of Iran’s objectives in Syria often include the establishment of a land bridge — a continuous, unimpeded route over land from Tehran to the Mediterranean. This bridge would bind Syria and Lebanon to the regime in Tehran, ensuring their availability to serve as launching points for a war against Israel. Yet Iran does not need a land bridge: It already has an air corridor. READ MORE

THE TOWER Iran to Host “Hourglass Festival” in Anticipation of Israel’s Destruction within 25 Years

TEHRAN TIMES ‘Iran can resume nuclear enrichment to 20% purity in 2 days’

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AIPAC and the Taylor Force Act, A nasty hit piece on AIPAC in the Washington Post, videos from 2018 policy conference

Posted on March 4, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Why Isn’t AIPAC Lobbying for Taylor Force Act?
by Shmuley Boteach
March 6, 20188

Eighteen thousand people are here in the nation’s capitol to advocate for Israel. On Tuesday, they will fill the halls of Congress to lobby for important pro-Israel legislation, including legislation on BDS, which would punish countries and corporations who boycott Israel. That’s all highly admirable. But why did AIPAC, which supports the Taylor Force Act, choose not to lobby for Senate and Congressional passage of the act? READ MORE

WASHINGTON POST A nasty hit piece on AIPAC and Israel. Read this through and count the lies. Has the feel of Der Stürmer with all the coded words. The dark roots of AIPAC, ‘America’s Pro-Israel Lobby’: The group was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities. Shame on The Washington Post.

CLARION PROJECT West Point Grads Lobby Senate to End ‘Pay for Slay’

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Overt #racism in the #Evanston public schools led by administration. They call it ‘racial awakening’

Posted on March 4, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Segregated Staff Meetings at a Public Middle School
by Eli Steele and Beth Huestis Feeley
March 7, 2018

For the second time in recent months, principal Adrian Harries of Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Ill., instructed his staff to segregate themselves by race. His emails directed the “white” staff to room 126 and the “staff of color” to room 226. The basis for these segregated staff meetings was a racial-equity agenda calling for “courageous conversations” in which staff members could discuss their “racial awakening[s].” There was no mention of any educational innovations aimed at closing the profound achievement gap between white and black students. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher NYT op-ed raised issues “that shouldn’t even be debated”

Posted on March 3, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Article by Israeli Prompted ‘Big Argument’ Inside New York Times, Editor Says
by Ira Stoll
February 28, 2018

A New York Times op-ed piece by a spokesman for the Jewish community of Hebron [Yishai Fleisher] was published over the objections of some Times staffers who thought it qualified as “hate speech” for “denying personhood to the Palestinians.”…It’s kind of funny that while the Times has published eight — eight! — op-ed pieces by Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister of the terror-sponsoring, Holocaust denying, political-prisoner executing, Jew-killing, woman-oppressing government of Iran, the piece that really prompts a “big argument” inside the Times about whether it is beyond the pale is the one from some Israeli living in Hebron…READ MORE

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Forthwith Virgin Atlantic shall refer to this course as “Couscous salad” not “Palestinian couscous salad”

Posted on March 3, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ELDER OF ZIYON
In search of “Palestinian couscous”
March 2, 2018

“Palestine’s diplomatic corps and the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign have intervened in the row over Virgin Atlantic’s decision to remove the word “Palestinian” from a dish on its in-flight menu. The Palestinian ambassador to the UK accused the British-based airline of lacking “ethical integrity” after it changed the description of a maftoul and couscous salad in response to Israel-favouring complainants”…The idea that taking away the word “Palestinian” from a dish no one heard of a decade ago  is “ethnic cleansing” is another example of hysterical anti-Israel propaganda. READ MORE

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“There’s no doubt that Donald Trump’s election initiated a major disruption at the State Department”

Posted on March 2, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MODERN DIPLOMACY
A New Era at the State Department?
by A.J. Caschetta
February 25, 2018

…Ever since the partition of UN Mandate Palestine and the creation of Israel, the State Department has promoted a grievance-based approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict.  It views Palestinian deprivation (of statehood, dreams, etc.) as the chief obstacle to peace.  U.S. diplomatic efforts, therefore, have focused on appeasing those grievances.  One year into the Trump administration, there are signs that this is changing…The peace processors have always been driven by the theory that the right combination of Israeli concessions (land, water, money) will end Palestinian hostilities.  They continue to downplay Palestinian rejectionism while emphasizing Palestinian cooperation. READ MORE

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California Democrats at annual convention: We don’t oppose #BDS [VIDEO]

Posted on March 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
California Democrats reject anti-BDS legislation
March 1, 2018

California Democrats have rejected proposed legislation targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a further sign of a growing partisan divide in the US over Israel. The developments were welcomed in a 28 February press release by the Progressive, Arab American and Veterans Caucuses of the California Democratic Party…California Democrats approved a set of positions on pending legislation that includes opposition to the Israel Anti-Boycott Act…[they]  also backed a platform that excised a section from an earlier draft that would have had them “join the national Democratic Party in opposing any effort to delegitimise Israel…READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA California Dems endorse grandson of architect of 1972 Munich Massacre in which 11 Israelis were murdered, for a congressional seat

CONSERVATIVE REVIEW Keith Ellison, Deputy Chairman of DNC, keynotes CAIR gala in NYC. CAIR supports Hamas, sworn to Israel’s destruction. Nice.

DAILY CALLER Farrakhan Blames ‘The Jews’ For Keith Ellison Not Staying In Nation Of Islam

JNS Why left-wing anti-Semitism matters

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Would Poland arrest me for posting this story?

Posted on March 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
1946 U.S. document reveals Poles treated Jews as badly as Germans did
by Tamara Zieve
March 1, 2018

A declassified US State Department report from 1946 documented the abhorrent treatment of Poland’s Jews before, during and after World War II. The report equated Polish and Nazi treatment of the Jewish population and said many Jews preferred to flee, even to Germany, after the war. The document, titled “The Jews in Poland Since the Liberation,” was obtained by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and shown exclusively to The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday, the same day a Polish governmental delegation arrived in Israel to discuss Warsaw’s contentious “Holocaust law,” which has caused a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. READ MORE

JTA Polish group sues newspaper in Argentina under controversial new Holocaust law

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If Saudi Arabia grants El Al airspace this would be huge

Posted on March 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Israel’s El Al seeks international help to access Saudi airspace
by Tova Cohen and Ari Rabinovitch
March 1, 2018

Israel’s flag carrier El Al has asked an airline industry lobby group to help it access Saudi Arabian airspace, so it can compete with Air India’s planned route between India and Israel.  The request came in a letter on Wednesday from El Al’s chief executive to the International Air Transport Association, in which he said he has also approached Israel’s prime minister. Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel though there has been a thawing of the relationship between the U.S. allies, with a shared concern over Iranian influence in the region. READ MORE

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Parkland: Guns were the tools, but progressive politics were the cause of Broward County slaughter

Posted on March 1, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
Behind Cruz’s Rampage: Obama’s School-Leniency Policy
by Paul Sperry
February 28, 2018

Despite committing a string of arrestable offenses on campus before the Florida school shooting, Nikolas Cruz was able to escape the attention of law enforcement, pass a background check and purchase the weapon he used to slaughter three staff members and 14 fellow students because of Obama administration efforts to make school discipline more lenient…Broward County was in the vanguard of a strategy, adopted by more than 50 other major school districts nationwide, allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence. The aim was to slow the “school-to-prison pipeline.” READ MORE

JEWISH JOURNAL Ben Sharpiro: The Parkland Dilemma

BREITBART The School to Mass Murder Pipeline

AMERICAN THINKER There Is Only One Sure Way to Stop School Shootings: Why do we in America value our air travelers, our congresspeople, celebrities, the employees and contents of all public buildings, museums, etc. more than we treasure our schoolchildren?

DAILY WIRE What A Hurricane Taught Me About The 2nd Amendment

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