Ohana: “On the 7th of October, not only Israeli citizens were murdered but also the idea that was mistakenly called ‘the two-state solution'”

Posted on February 23, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Ohana: Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria ‘only way’ to peace
Akivsa Van Koningsveld
February 23, 2025

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana on Sunday backed calls for Jerusalem to extend its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, saying full control over the territory was the “one and only way” to achieve peace in the region. “These biblical, original parts of our land, which in the Bible tells the story of our people, are intended for us, for the people of Israel, need to be in the territory of the State of Israel, under the ownership of Israel, under full Israeli sovereignty,” said Ohana, a lawmaker for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, during a visit to northern Samaria. “Today, this thing is clearer than ever,” he added. READ MORE

ALGEMEINER GOP Lawmakers Urge Trump to Recognize Israeli Sovereignty Over West Bank A group of Republican lawmakers is urging US President Donald Trump to formally recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the West Bank, citing the territory’s historical ties and importance to the Jewish people. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), one of the most strident pro-Israel voices in Congress, spearheaded a letter to Trump, calling on the president to endorse an Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Other signatories to the letter include Mary Miller (R-IL), Barry Moore (R-AL), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Randy Weber (R-TX), and Andy Harris (R-MD). 

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“Two Israeli Jews are accomplices to attempted mass murder. Their betrayal of Israel and its people demands the harshest punishment available under the law”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Israel must exact a heavy price for the attempted bombing attacks
Editorial Board
February 23, 2025

On Thursday night, Israel narrowly avoided a massacre. Explosives planted on buses in Bat Yam, intended to detonate during the Friday morning rush hour, could have killed or maimed hundreds of innocent civilians. That did not happen – not because of a change in our enemies’ intentions, but due to a technical failure on their part…What makes this incident all the more appalling is the revelation that two Israeli Jews facilitated the terrorists’ actions, driving them to the attack sites…As The Jerusalem Post reported, “The initial assessment from the security establishment is that the plan for the attack came from Iran, and was carried out by Hamas terrorists from the West Bank.”
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Senator Fetterman: “Hamas’ hostage transfer ceremony indicative of the level of support the terror group has among the Palestinian people”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
Fetterman: Palestinian support of Hamas comes with ‘accountability’
Emily Jacobs
February 21, 2025

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) condemned the scenes in Gaza on Thursday, where Hamas paraded the coffins containing what were believed to have been the remains of four Israeli hostages down the streets of Khan Younis to cheers from Palestinian locals…The Pennsylvania senator said Hamas’ hostage transfer ceremony that took place earlier in the day was indicative of the level of support the terror group has among the Palestinian people. Fetterman argued that such support came with “accountability” attached to it. “I think it just really reflects just how much of a lot of the population in Gaza supports Hamas and the kind of terrible things that they do. READ MORE

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“Criminals who target people for being Jewish must be stopped—with force, if necessary”

Posted on February 22, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

CITY JOURNAL
Why Won’t Cities Like New York Punish Anti-Semitic Rioters?
Hannah E. Meyers
February 21, 2025

…Meanwhile, on Wednesday, a group of “protesters,” their faces wrapped in keffiyeh scarves to mimic Hamas militants, descended on New York’s predominantly Jewish Borough Park neighborhood to scream at Jews. “How many kids did you kill today?,” they chanted—with no sense of irony. This outrage—culminating in a brawl that police had to break up—reflects the growing normalization of masked rioters invading predominantly Jewish spaces to intimidate residents. Like Biblical villains, these agitators thirst for power. Like Hamas, they don’t care if they hurt the innocent, so long as they hurt Jews. The pro-Hamas mob pushed past police barricades and officers and approached nearby Jews, where fighting ensued. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Anti-Israel protest erupts into mayhem in Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in NYC as agitators chant ‘Zionists go to hell’ An anti-Israel protest erupted into violence and mayhem as a swarm of demonstrators flooded a primarily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

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IDF says forensic experts can find no match for fourth body handed over by Hamas, slams terror group for ‘very serious violation’ of hostage-ceasefire deal

Posted on February 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Remains ID’d of Oded Lifshitz, Ariel and Kfir Bibas, but other body isn’t the boys’ mom Shiri
Lazar Berman, Noam Lehmann and Emanuel Fabian
February 21, 2025

Slain hostages Oded Lifshitz and brothers Ariel and Kfir Bibas were identified after their remains were returned to Israel by Hamas on Thursday, but the military said another body sent by the terror group was not the young boys’ mother Shiri Silberman Bibas. Specialists at Abu Kabir Forensic Institute were not able to identify the fourth body, the Israel Defense Forces announced early Friday morning. The shocking statement came after the return of the remains, in a propaganda-filled ceremony, had already sparked anger and mourning across Israel. Hostages’ families demanded the freeing of all the captives, alive and dead, still held by terror groups in Gaza, and leaders vowed to destroy Hamas. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Argentina’s Milei declares 2 days of national mourning for Ariel and Kfir Bibas Argentine President Javier Milei declares two days of national mourning in Argentina for Ariel and Kfir Bibas — who held Argentine citizenship — following the confirmation of their deaths in Hamas captivity. In a post on X, Milei released a statement where he strongly condemns the terror group Hamas. “According to the National Center of Forensic Medicine, the children were brutally assassinated in captivity by Hamas terrorists in November 2023. It is monstrous that these events happen in this century, and that their death is due to a single motivation: to be Jews.”

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“The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
Their Time is Up
Liel Leibovitz
February 20, 2025

…Such gleeful cruelty has no parallel in the civilized world. Sure, war is hell, and combat rarely concludes without a handful of shocking aberrations. A soldier may crack and do the unthinkable. A rocket might miss its mark, snuffing out innocent lives. That is all too regrettable, and all but unavoidable. But that is not what is happening in Gaza. The footage of a dead Jewish baby returning home to Israel for burial compels us to tell the truth: The assertion that most, or even many, Gazans are innocents hijacked by their tyrannical leaders is a polite fiction. There are certainly some somewhere in the strip, the very young and the very frail included, who neither partook in nor condone the atrocities of the past 18 months, but they should no more redeem Gaza’s genocidal enterprise than the hypothetical ten good men of Sodom and Gomorrah could the cities of the plain. READ MORE

FUTURE OF JEWISH Our enemy kidnaps babies. And their support grows still. There are losses so cruel, so unbearable, that they defy all sense of reason. The deaths of Shiri Bibas and her two precious sons, Ariel and Kfir, are not just a personal tragedy, not just a moment of grief for their husband and father, Yarden, and those who knew them, or people like us who feel like we knew them; they are a wound in the heart of our people. A wound in Israel. A wound that should be felt by all sensible humans.

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CPAC Conference passes resolution saying “the United States should recognize Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria”

Posted on February 20, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
History in Washington – A giant step toward sovereignty
February 21, 2025

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference, considered one of the most prominent political events in American politics, opened in Washington on Wednesday night. At one of the conference sessions, a dramatic resolution was passed to support Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria…The CPAC resolution carries considerable weight with respect to American support for the extension of Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria and grants legitimacy to this sovereignty among Trump supporters…Yesha Council Chair Israel Ganz, who has been working with senior CPAC members to help consolidate the resolution, welcomed this important step and thanked US leaders. “Your declaration is akin to the Balfour Declaration. You are granting political validity to biblical values and to justice.” READ MORE

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Toameh: “Any deal that allows Hamas to remain in power would be disastrous for Israel, the Palestinians, and Arab states threatened by the Iran”

Posted on February 19, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE
Why Trump Must Insist on Removing Hamas From Power
Khaled Abu Toameh
February 19, 2025

…No Arab country will agree to play any role in the administration of the Gaza Strip as long as Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups continue to maintain an armed presence there. The same applies to the PA, which was expelled from the Gaza Strip by Hamas in 2007. That year, Hamas staged a violent and brutal coup during which dozens of PA loyalists were killed…Similarly, Hamas’s longtime patrons and funders in Qatar will do their utmost to ensure that the terrorist group remains in power. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher: Giving away your own land is dumb and it does not work out well.

Posted on February 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL’S DEFENSE AND SECURITY FORUM
Yishai Fleisher exposes Palestinian Authority
February 19, 2025

In today’s briefing, Yishai Fleisher, international spokesperson for the Jewish Community of Hebron, exposed the true nature of Palestinian Authority. While some believe that the PA can be a viable alternative to Hamas in Gaza, Yishai explained how the PA are in fact sponsors of terror, and must be viewed as the enemies of the Jewish State. He reviewed their record as a governing entity in Judea and Samaria and then discussed the extent to which Israel itself is challenged to achieve victory in this war. VIEW THE VIDEO INTERVIEW

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Are US Jews finally getting a grip: “The signatories, especially the Jewish Democrats among them, have done their community a great act of service by insisting that being Jewish does not chain one to either party”

Posted on February 17, 2025 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY MAG
A Watershed Moment in American Jewish History
Seth Mandel
February 17, 2025

Jon Ossoff is Georgia’s first Jewish senator. And the Jews of the Peach State are doing something remarkable: refusing to be taken for granted. Though this drama is playing out behind the scenes, it represents a watershed in American Jewish politics. The New York Times has obtained a letter sent privately in December to Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, urging him to run for Senate against Ossoff. The twist: The signatories of the letter included prominent Jewish Democrats…What’s their beef with Ossoff? The senator’s vote to withhold U.S. weapons transfers to Israel seems to have been the trigger. This was made worse by watching Ossoff preen on the Senate floor in an eight-minute rekindling of ugly Hamas propaganda in support of withholding those weapons. READ MORE

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