“As millions of Jews fell under the Nazi yoke, Zionism’s foremost leader came to America with one goal. He didn’t achieve it”

Posted on January 22, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

MOSAIC
David Ben-Gurion’s 1940 Mission to Rouse the Fighting Spirit of American Jews
by Rick Richman
January 17, 2018

In 1940, as millions of Jews came under Nazi control in the countries conquered by Hitler, and as the route to safety in Palestine remained closed by the British Mandatory power, three of Zionism’s greatest leaders traveled to America. They came at different times, on separate missions, but all three—Chaim Weizmann, the president of the Zionist Organization, Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionist Zionist movement, and David Ben-Gurion, the Labor Zionist leader who headed the Jewish Agency in Palestine—shared a single goal: to win support in America for a Jewish army to fight the Nazis alongside the British. READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER 1940: American Inaction and the Tragedy of European Jewry

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“To give up on the “right of return…” is to give up on being Palestinian”

Posted on January 21, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ABU YEHUDA
Let Israel win
by Vic Rosenthal
January 21, 2018

Why can’t Israel and the Palestinians just get along? Daniel Pipes answers that wars end when one side or the other wins. And Israel, he says, is not trying to win. Please consider two sets of three dates. The first three are 1865, 1945, and 1975 – the end of the Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War. All of those were conclusively ended wars. They ended the fighting, nothing more followed. The South never rose again. The Germans didn’t try to conquer Europe again. And Americans didn’t return to Vietnam. Then, three other dates: 1918, 1953, and 1967 – the end of the First World War, the Korean War, and the Six-Day War. Those were inconclusive. The Germans did try again. Any day, the Korean War could restart. Hostilities did resume between the Arabs and Israel. READ MORE

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“Is it surprising that Russiagate would incorporate Jews into its narrative? No”

Posted on January 21, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Glenn Simpson, Conspiracy Theorist, Finds a place for the Jews in his Trump-Russia Fantasia
by Lee Smith
January 23, 2018

Glenn Simpson, founder of the D.C.-based news-for-hire firm Fusion GPS, is a conspiracy theorist. He says so himself. On page 126 of a transcript released last week from Simpson’s Nov. 14 testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, here’s how the ex-reporter describes his own state of mind: “As sort of cynical and conspiracy-minded as I am,” Simpson told committee members and staff investigating issues related to Russia and the 2016 elections, “I am still shocked by all kinds of things that have happened here.” READ MORE

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Iran caught spying on Jewish targets. This did not go well in Buenos Aires.

Posted on January 20, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
AJC calls for Berlin to expel Iranian ambassador for spying on Israel
by Benjamin Weinthal
January 17, 2018

The Berlin office of the American Jewish Committee urged Germany’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday to expel Iran’s ambassador because of his country’s alleged spying on Israel’s embassy and a Jewish kindergarten. “We expect clear political steps. Diplomatic dialogue alone is not enough here.  We need a clear public measure. The expulsion of the ambassador [Ali Majedi] would be an important first signal,” said Deidre Berger, the director of the Berlin AJC office. Berger responded to a Focus magazine online report on Tuesday that German authorities raided Iranian regime locations in the states of Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria and Berlin. READ MORE

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To Muslims, “Israel as the state of the Jewish people is a theological threat to Islam and only secondarily, a national, political, judicial or territorial threat”

Posted on January 20, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ALGEMEINER
Why Arabs and Muslims Will Not Accept Israel as the Jewish State
by Mordechai Kedar
January 19, 2018

Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital aroused massive outrage in the Arab and Islamic world. This was for two main reasons — one religious and one nationalist. The religious reason is rooted in Islam’s conception of itself as a faith whose mission is to bring both Judaism and Christianity to an end, and inherit all that was once Jewish or Christian: land, places of worship, and people. In Islam’s worldview, Palestine in its entirety belongs to Muslims alone, because both Jews and Christians betrayed Allah when they refused to become followers of the prophet Muhammad. Their punishment is to be expulsion from their lands and the forfeiture of all rights to them. READ MORE

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“Army allows reporters into destroyed Islamic Jihad tunnel, gives a peek at construction of underground barrier that will wall off the Strip by end of 2019”

Posted on January 20, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In the sand around Gaza, Israel and Hamas dig in a literal race to the bottom
by Judah Ari Gross
January 18, 2018

…On Thursday, the military allowed journalists to visit the tunnel, which was dug by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, as well as two construction sites where workers were drilling deep underground to create the reinforced, sensor-laden concrete walls of a massive underground barrier that is meant to surround the Gaza Strip and put an end to the subterranean terror threat once and for all. In the coming weeks and months, as construction progresses, the military expects to find and destroy several more attack tunnels that enter Israeli territory from Gaza. The subterranean wall it is building will deny Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other Gaza-based terrorist groups what is arguably the only strategic weapon they currently possess, a fact that he said is slowly dawning on them. READ MORE

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“Jordanian state media says Israel expressed “deep regrets and apologies” over death of Jordanians shot by Israeli embassy guard”

Posted on January 20, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL HAYOM
Jordan and Israel defuse crisis over deadly embassy shooting
by Staff
January 19, 2018

Jordan said on Thursday that Israel had formally apologized for the deaths of two of its citizens killed by an Israeli security guard last July in an incident that soured ties and led to the closure of the Israeli embassy in Amman. Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad Al Momani was quoted by state news agency Petra as saying the Israeli Foreign Ministry had sent a memorandum expressing “deep regrets and apologies” over the incident at the embassy, pledging to take legal action in the case and offering compensation to the families of the men killed by the guard…The Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday that the embassy in Amman will resume full operations immediately. READ MORE

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For new US embassy, “State Department has settled on plan to convert an existing consular building in West Jerusalem”

Posted on January 19, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
U.S. Presses to Relocate Embassy to Jerusalem by 2019
by Mark Landler
January 18, 2018

The Trump administration is moving faster than expected to transfer the American Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv by 2019, senior officials said Thursday, despite insisting last month that the move would not happen until the end of President Trump’s term. The administration’s plans, following Mr. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, suggest it no longer cares about cushioning the blow of the new policy, which has drawn angry protests from Palestinians and other Arabs and cast Mr. Trump’s peacemaking ambitions into doubt. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel first broached the prospect of a faster move on Wednesday, telling reporters that the embassy would be moved “in the course of the year.” READ MORE

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Classified State Department report could bust myth that millions of refugees need UNRWA

Posted on January 19, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
State Department Hiding ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of Palestinian Refugees
by Adam Kredo
January 18, 2018

The State Department is hiding a classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could be a game changer in how the United States approaches the situation and allocates millions in taxpayer funds to a key United Nations agency, according to multiple sources briefed on the situation. As the United States moves forward with a decision to slash funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency responsible for providing education and support to some five million Palestinian refugees, officials on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have been pressuring the State Department to declassify a report that is believed to show the actual number of refugees is far fewer than the U.N. claims. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA How many Arab refugees were there in 1948? Maybe 300,000 – or less: The inflated numbers of third generation refugees claimed by Arabs and the UN started with an inflated number in 1948

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“Committee overseeing Ken Marcus nomination ambivalent to anti-Israel groups attacking Trump nominee”

Posted on January 18, 2018 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Education Department nominee Ken Marcus: a case study of the new anti-Semitism
by Sarah N. Stern
January 16, 2018

…Recently, much of this anti-Semitic invective has been directed against a colleague of mine, Ken Marcus, who has been nominated to serve as assistant secretary of education for civil rights within the Department of Education. For reasons I will explain, Marcus has been the victim of an ugly and disgusting smear campaign. Marcus served in a similar capacity from 2004-2008 under President George W. Bush, as assistant secretary of education for civil rights and later as staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He monitored and investigated complaints against minority groups such as African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities. READ MORE

JNS We don’t care about anti-Semitism in this office,’ Senate aide allegedly says

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