Proposed peace plan stipulates either Saudis should be allowed to possess nuclear weapons — or Israel must give up theirs

Posted on November 14, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Saudi document lays out plans for peace with Israel
By Yasser Okbi
November 14, 2017

Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar exposed Tuesday morning “The secret document of the Saudi Foreign Ministry,” that it claims includes a road map towards rejuvenating the 2002 Saudi Peace Initiative and hints at meetings and understandings between Israeli and Saudi Arabia. The document, claims the paper, proves everything that has been leaked over the last few months since US President Donald Trump’s visit to the region in May. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Saudis told Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or resign — report

JERUSALEM CENTER FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS Back to Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations? – Some Basic Truths

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Is Lebanon’s Prime Minister a Saudi Hostage?

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“The Kurdish people, including virtually every single kurdish group, are heavily pro-American in sentiment”

Posted on November 14, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

EMET ONLINE
State Department Undermining Kurds, Our Long Time Allies
by Adam Turner
November 14, 2017

…The State Department seems to have two rules when it comes to territorial disputes in the Middle East: 1) Borders, however they were determined, are inviolate. If the British, French, Ottomans, etc. decided a century ago the lines needed to be where they were, regardless of what peoples live within those borders, then that is the way they should stay, for all time. 2) In contrast, the border of Israel is always negotiable, although it can never be allowed to expand in favor of the Israelis. The first of these rules is just foolish; the second may be a result of the State Department’s strange and disturbing obsession. Neither of these rules is a logical decision based on the U.S.’ national interest. The State Department’s position on the referendum in Kurdistan, more than anything else, clearly demonstrates this. READ MORE

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Karl Lagerfeld to Germany: “’You cannot kill millions of Jews, then take in millions of their worst enemies afterwards’”

Posted on November 13, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Citing Holocaust, Karl Lagerfeld says Germany is taking in Jews’ worst enemies
by Staff
November 14, 2017

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel evoked the Holocaust this week in criticizing Germany’s open borders policy toward Muslim refugees, saying Berlin was taking in Jews’ “worst enemies.” The Hamburg-born Lagerfeld sparked controversy when he lashed out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying, “You cannot kill millions of Jews and then take in millions of their worst enemies afterwards, even if there are decades [between the events],” according to a translation by the The Times. Lagerfeld, 84, made the comments during an appearance on a French talk show on Canal 8. READ MORE

AMERICAN THINKER Karl Lagerfeld wrecks Angela Merkel’s virtue-signaling narrative on migrants

ALGEMEINER Swedes ‘Shocked and Bewildered’ by Public TV’s Refusal to Air Major Antisemitism Documentary, Director Says

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Our Soldiers Speak, StandWithUs and CAMERA expose American students to Israeli soldiers “to put a human face on the Jewish state while countering misconceptions and anti-Israel activists”

Posted on November 13, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
‘Rock stars’ of the IDF: Israeli soldiers go on tour to educate the masses
by Cathryn J. Prince
November 12, 2017

The questions come fast and furious for Israel Defense Force reservists Keren and Haitham, who goes by the nickname Tom. “How do you show your support for Israel on campus?” “How does training and combat affect you?” “Do you have to live in Israel to show your love for it?”  About 40 students sit inside the book lined beit midrash, or study hall, of Hebrew High School of New England (HHNE). They have more questions than time allows. Still the pair does their best to answer each one clearly, concisely and completely. This is the second to last stop on a nearly three-week long Israeli Soldiers Tour, or IST, through New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut. READ MORE

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“Having Linda Sarsour and head of JVP at #NewSchool leading a panel on #antisemitism is like Oscar Meyer leading a panel on vegetarianism” [VIDEO]

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

LOUIS D. BRANDEIS CENTER
Public Interest Lawsuit Reveals Plot by BDS Activists to Take over Academic Associations
November 9, 2017

Leaders of the controversial Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement conducted a covert campaign to take over academic associations, without disclosing their political agenda, and then to use their influence to impose boycotts on the State of Israel, according to newly discovered documents. BDS activists were forced to reveal this secret agenda, as well as the unsavory means used to advance it, in the course of the cutting-edge anti-boycott litigation brought against the American Studies Association by Professors Simon Bronner, Michael Rockland, Michael Barton, and Charles Kupfer in 2016 (Bronner et al v. Duggan et al (1:16-cv-00740), District of Columbia District Court). The professors’ success in partially defeating the ASA’s motion to dismiss in April 2017 set the stage for the dramatic new revelations. READ MORE

JNS Want to beat BDS? Stop propping up a failed peace process

TABLET MAG The New School Invites Linda Sarsour to Lead Panel on Anti-Semitism

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Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot reportedly threatened to pull out over Ratner’s alleged sexual harassment

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

DAILY MAIL
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot threatens to pull out of sequel unless accused sexual harasser Brett Ratner is completely removed from the project
by Keith Griffin and Jessica Finn
November 12, 2017

Wonder Woman star Gal Godot has reportedly refused to sign on for a sequel unless accused sexual harasser Brett Ratner is removed from the franchise. Ratner, who has been accused of sexual harassment by six women in recent days, helped finance the summer blockbuster, and took home a sizable stake of the $412 million box office gross. Ratner’s production company Rat-Pac Dune co-financed the hit movie in an agreement with Warner Bros., and now Godot is insisting that the studio buy out his stake, Page Six reports.  ‘She’s tough and stands by her principles. She also knows the best way to hit people like Brett Ratner is in the wallet,’ a Warner Bros. insider told the outlet. READ MORE

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Two opinions from the UK on Israel: One blames the Jews, the other acknowledges Jordan as the future Palestinian state

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
UK backs Israel and Jordan solution
by David Singer
November 11, 2017

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has acknowledged that Jordan and Israel represent the only viable “two state solution” that can end the Arab-Jewish conflict. Writing in the Daily Telegraph on 29 October – ahead of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration on 2 November – the Foreign Secretary stated: “I have no doubt that the only viable solution to the conflict resembles the one first set down on paper by another Briton, Lord Peel, in the report of the Royal Commission on Palestine in 1937, and that is the vision of two states for two peoples.” READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Revealed 1986 letter by Prince Charles blames ‘foreign Jews’ for Mideast troubles. Prince Charles also suggested in the letter that American leaders needed the “courage” to “stand up” to the “Jewish lobby”

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“‘Saturday Night Live’ Trolls Democrats As Pack Of Out Of Touch, Elderly Losers” [VIDEO]

Posted on November 12, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST How the ex-DNC chair ruined Clinton’s chance at 2020: Who’s afraid of the Clintons? Not Donna Brazile.

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“American and Israeli lawmakers will jointly push for a new paradigm for the peace process conjured up by the Israel Victory Project”

Posted on November 10, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST FORUM
The Knesset Israel Victory Caucus
A briefing by Oded Forer
November 8, 2017

Ze’ev Jabotinsky, author, soldier, and Zionist leader, introduced his Iron Wall doctrine in a 1923 essay, which maintained that Arab acquiescence in the Jewish right to statehood would only follow upon the establishment of an unassailable Jewish power base – military, political, and diplomatic. This logic informs today’s Israel Victory Project, namely that only a decisive Israeli victory will drive the Palestinians to accept Israel as the state of the Jewish People, with Jerusalem as its capital, as the realization of the Jews’ historic right to national revival in their ancestral homeland. The reentry of the Iron Wall doctrine into the Israeli political discourse is a corollary of the collapse of the Oslo process, which enabled Yasser Arafat to win Israeli concessions while sustaining his violent drive for Israel’s destruction in line with the PLO’s 1974 Phased Strategy. READ MORE

JERUSALEM POST Israeli, American Lawmakers to Push ‘Victory over Palestinians’ Paradigm in US Events

JERUSALEM JOURNAL Dexter Van Zile: It is Time to Bring Temple Mount’s Islamic Waqf to Judgment

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The 5′-6″ orphaned Wisconsin Jew who took on the Nazis

Posted on November 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK TIMES
Irv Refkin, Brash Accidental Spy in World War II, Dies at 96
by Sam Roberts
November 7, 2017

Irv Refkin, an impromptu but daring spy who served the United States and Britain as a saboteur, assassin and courier behind enemy lines in Europe during World War II, died on Thursday at his home in San Diego…Dispatched from England, Mr. Refkin, a scrappy 5-foot-6 Wisconsin native, was said to have smuggled explosives to the French Resistance in Paris, infiltrated Nazi Germany to kill specific targets integral to the Nazi war machine, and sabotaged train tracks to slow the deployment of German tanks to Normandy before the Allied invasion on D-Day. On his clandestine missions inside Germany, he would disguise himself in a Wehrmacht corporal’s uniform. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Grandson of famous Jewish WWII partisans makes resistance meaningful today: ‘My Grandmother would say “He Killed a Lot of Nazis”

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