“Sunni eyes are opening to the fact that Israel poses no threat, but that Shi’a Iran…aspires to dominate far beyond its borders”

Posted on February 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Syria is now ‘a Shi’a colony of Iran,’ Damascus-born professor tells Israeli conference
by Yaakov Lappin
February 28, 2018

After years of bloody warfare, Syria has become a “Shi’a colony of Iran,” a Syrian professor who lives in Germany told an Israeli conference in recent days. Addressing the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Bassam Tibi, professor emeritus of international relations at Georg-August University of Gottingen, said: “They have killed our clans. They have killed our family. The Alawites of the Assad regime have killed our Sunni identity of Damascus.”…Since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iran has been filling the vacuum “created by the removal of [former Iraqi leader] Saddam Hussein. READ MORE

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Reversing flow of that Egypt-Israel pipeline “to import gas into Egypt instead of having the country export gas to Israel”

Posted on February 28, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MADA MASR
Companions to the Israeli gas deal: Noble and Delek in talks to acquire East Mediterranean Gas pipeline
by Asmahan Soliman, Translated by Salma Khalifa
February 28, 2018

Sources close to the gas deal signed between Dolphinus Holdings, which is partly owned by Egyptian businessman Alaa Arafa, and Delek and Noble Energy, the lead partners managing Israel’s largest gas fields, say the latter companies are in talks with East Mediterranean Gas company (EMG) shareholders over acquisition of the company. The deal would give Delek and Noble a controlling share of EMG, the company that owns the natural gas pipeline running from Egypt to Israel, and would facilitate the use of the pipeline to transport the gas allocated for export in the deal signed last week. READ MORE

BLOOMBERG Israel-Egypt $15 Billion Gas Deal Boosts Energy Hub Prospects

TIMES OF ISRAEL Israel aims to eliminate use of coal, gasoline and diesel by 2030

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#BDSFail #PayPal assist on fighting #BDS

Posted on February 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
PayPal closes second illegal French BDS account
by Benjamin Weinthal
February 26, 2018

For the second time in 30 days, the US-based online payment service giant PayPal shut down the account of a French organization advocating for the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel. The Jerusalem Post verified on Monday that the PayPal account of the BDS organization Jewish French Union for Peace (UJFP) was no longer permitting financial donations…PayPal closed the account of the France-Palestine Solidarity Association in late January in response to an ongoing Post investigative series into funding streams for BDS organizations targeting Israel, France has a tough anti-BDS law, the Lellouche Law, which bans discrimination based on national origin. READ MORE

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Islamization of Western Europe: A Norwegian walks through Prague and sees what might have been

Posted on February 27, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FRONT PAGE
Glimpsing the “New Europe” in Prague
by Bruce Bawer
February 27, 2018

…In the morning, I take yet another long walk, and pass families who I realize are heading home from shul. There are several synagogues in the neighborhood. One Jewish toddler runs gleefully down the sidewalk, and his father chases him and sweeps him up in his arms. He catches me smiling and smiles back. There is no sign of the fear that increasingly causes Jews in Western European cities to keep a low profile, to forego their yarmulkes, to move to the U.S. or Israel. Jews are safe here. READ MORE

MIDA The Women of South Tel Aviv Speakout: “The Infiltrators have Destroyed our Lives”: Residents of the south Tel Aviv neighborhoods talk about life in the shadow of the illegal migrants, the fear on the streets and the hope that the situation will improve. “We live in hell”.

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Bibi’s long run as PM is the consequence of Palestinian terror

Posted on February 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Don’t Count Bibi Out — Yet
by Bret Stephens
February 23, 2018

…It should go without saying that a Palestinian state is a terrific idea in principle — assuming, that is, that it resembles the United Arab Emirates. But Israelis have no reason to believe that it will look like anything except the way Gaza does today: militant, despotic, desperate and aggressive. Netanyahu’s foreign critics are demanding that he replicate on a large scale what has failed catastrophically on a smaller scale…Israel’s political left was not destroyed by Netanyahu. It was obliterated one Palestinian suicide bombing, rocket salvo, tunnel attack and rejected statehood offer at a time. READ MORE

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“What is really bothering the Palestinians is that Israel, with Jews, exists, period”

Posted on February 26, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Palestinians: Israel is One Big Settlement
by Bassam Tawil
February 26, 2018

…Let us be clear about this: When Palestinians — and some of their supporters in the international community, including Europe — say that they want an end to the “occupation,” they mean they want to see an end to Israel’s existence, full stop. They do not want to throw the Jews out of their homes in the settlements; rather, they want Jews to be expelled from the whole country…The conflict, as far as the Palestinians are concerned, did not begin in 1967, when east Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip came under Israeli control. In the eyes of the Palestinians, all Jews are “settlers” and “colonialists.” READ MORE

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“When mass shootings take place in the U.S., commentators routinely raise Israel as a case study to prove that guns in the hands of citizens save lives”

Posted on February 25, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART
What America Can Learn from Israeli Gun Laws
by Caroline Glick
February 26, 2018

…The widespread conception in the U.S. in particular is that Israeli gun laws are liberal. This is incorrect. Israel has strict gun laws. But at the same time, it has mandatory conscription in the military. Active duty combat soldiers on leave are often required to take their weapons home with them. Soldiers who do not own gun safes large enough to store their assault rifles are required to take them everywhere they go…Israel’s gun laws are the nightmare of Second Amendment champions. To be eligible for a gun license in Israel you must be 21 years old and a military veteran, or 27 years old.READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Incompetence Wasn’t the Problem in Broward County

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Polish Justice minister:”Controversial legislation won’t be implemented at this stage”

Posted on February 24, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Poland freezes Holocaust law, is sending team to Israel to reword it
by Agencies and Raphael Ahren
February 24, 2018

Poland will not implement its controversial new Holocaust law for the time being, and an official Polish government delegation will fly to Israel in the next few days to try to agree on a mutually acceptable amended version of the legislation, an Israeli television report said Saturday night. Hadashot news said that, in the wake of pressure and protests from Israel over the legislation, Poland’s Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro had stated that the law will not be implemented “at this stage.” READ MORE

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Abbas in Baltimore

Posted on February 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Mahmoud Abbas spotted in Baltimore
by Jacob Kornbkuh and Staff
February 22, 2018

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was sighted on Wednesday in Baltimore, Maryland. According to a source, Abbas is receiving medical treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital. An impressive motorcade of Secret Service vehicles were seen parked outside the Four Seasons Hotel in the Harbor East neighborhood of Baltimore. Abbas’ Boeing 737 landed at Baltimore–Washington International Airport at 3:00 PM EST after a short flight from White Plains, New York. READ MORE

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US State moving faster on #Jerusalem embassy than expected

Posted on February 23, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

US DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Opening of U.S. Embassy Jerusalem
Heather Nauert, Dept Spokesman
February 23, 2018

In May, the United States plans to open a new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. The opening will coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary. The Embassy will initially be located in the Arnona neighborhood, in a modern building that now houses consular operations of U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem. Those consular operations, including American citizen and visa services, will continue at the Arnona facility without interruption, as part of the Embassy…In parallel, we have started the search for a site for our permanent Embassy to Israel, the planning and construction of which will be a longer-term undertaking. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Palestinians say embassy move ‘provocative’ as US announces May date

JTA Sheldon Adelson reportedly offering to fund US Embassy move to Jerusalem (what an awful idea)

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