Hezbollah invasion that Israel foiled: “For the Israeli civilians who refuse to surrender, the Rawdan terrorist uttered one word about their fate: “Kill.”

Posted on December 2, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FOX NEWS DIGITAL
A look at Hezbollah’s plan to terrorize and invade northern Israel
Benjamin Weinthal
December 4, 2024

The Iran-backed terrorist movement Hezbollah laid the foundation to launch an Oct. 7-Hamas style invasion into Israel’s north, according to shocking new video footage and documents first viewed and obtained by Fox News Digital. “Hezbollah has been planning their own 10/7,” an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intelligence official told Fox News Digital…Fox News Digital secured a rare view into the inner workings of Hezbollah’s “Conquer the Galilee” plan – named after the region in northern Israel – via an IDF interrogation of a Hezbollah terrorist…After high-intensity warfare between Hezbollah and Israel erupted in September, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari described Hezbollah’s plan to “Conquer the Galilee” in a video presentation on Oct. 1. READ MORE

YOUTUBE Hezbollah tunnels exposed after Israeli raid Israel’s military spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed the IDF has carried out more than 70 raids on the Hezbollah tunnel network since the start of the war with Hamas last October.

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New details have emerged about the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE, indicating that the attackers intended to abduct him but murdered him when their plans went awry.

Posted on December 1, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
Failed kidnapping led to murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan
Tziki Brandwine
December 1, 2024

The Wall Street Journal has published new details of the investigation into the murder of Rabbi Zvi Kogan in the UAE. According to the report, he left home that morning for a dentists appointment before disappearing. His wife Rivky became worried upon receiving no response from him for some time, and involved the Jewish community, who in turn alerted the authorities. A source familiar with the investigation claimed that the assailants abducted Rabbi Kogan and began driving with him toward neighboring Oman, but something went wrong during the attempt, leading them to murder Rabbi Kogan near the border. READ MORE

JNS Dubai rabbi’s killers said to be planning attack in Thailand The terrorist enterprise responsible for the murder of Rabbi Tzvi Kogan in Dubai is planning fresh attacks in southeast Asia and especially Thailand, Israeli authorities warned on Saturday.

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High-ranking UAE official, flies to Israel to pay a Shiva visit to the family of murdered Chabad rabbi

Posted on November 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
UAE official pays respects at shiva of murdered Chabad emissary, vows commitment to coexistence
November 29, 2024

A high-ranking United Arab Emirates official visited during the shiva weeklong mourning period of murdered Chabad emissary Rabbi Zvi Kogan on Friday while emphasizing the nation’s commitment to coexistence and condemning the attack as an act of extremism…The UAE Interior Ministry identified three Uzbek nationals as suspects in Kogan’s murder. Olimpi Tohirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurrahim, and Azizi Kamilovich were arrested and are under investigation for their alleged involvement in what Emirati authorities have described as a potential “terrorist incident.” READ MORE

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“Reducing Israel to a binary stance is not just reductive; it is the intellectual equivalent of a fast-food meal: satisfying in the moment, but devoid of any real substance”

Posted on November 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Most Annoying ‘Pro-Israel’ People
Joshua Hoffman
November 28, 2024

…Being “pro-Israel only when it aligns with my politics” is akin to loving someone for their potential rather than their reality. It is disingenuous, performative, and reeks of a need to appear virtuous without grappling with the messy complexities of reality…If you find yourself “pro-Israel” only when it is convenient, then you are not “pro-Israel.” You are pro-virtue signaling. You are pro-political expediency. And worse, you are undermining not only Israel but the very idea of principled support. By all means, criticize Israel. Debate its policies. Philosophize about the ethical dilemmas it faces. But do not act like your approval is a gift to be doled out when Israel behaves like the idealized nation in your imagination. It is condescending and insulting. READ MORE

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Study on effects of DEI training finds “participants primed with DEI materials were more likely to perceive prejudice where none existed and were more willing to punish the perceived perpetrators”

Posted on November 29, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
DEI Training Material Increases Perception of Nonexistent Prejudice, Agreement with Hitler Rhetoric, Study Finds
Abigail Anthony
November 27, 2024

A new study found that diversity, equity, and inclusion materials have a wide range of negative consequences, including psychological harm, increased hostility, and greater agreement with extreme authoritarian rhetoric, such as adapted Adolf Hitler quotes. Both the New York Times and Bloomberg were preparing stories on the findings, but axed them just before publication citing editorial decisions. The Network Contagion Research Institute, or NCRI, and Rutgers University Social Perception Lab released the study “Instructing Animosity: How DEI Pedagogy Produces the Hostile Attribution Bias” on Monday. READ MORE

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IDF destroys underground missile manufacturing plant, staffed with Hezbollah agents and Iranians, constructed many years ago with the help of Iran

Posted on November 28, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH CHRONICLE
IDF says it destroyed Hezbollah’s largest missile production site hours before ceasefire
Imogen Garfinkel
November 28, 2024

Israeli fighter jets demolished Hezbollah’s largest and most strategic precision missile production site just hours before the truce with the terror group came into effect on early Wednesday, the Israel Defence Forces said in a statement. The site, very close to the Syrian border, was hidden 70 metres underground in a subterranean complex that stretched for 1.4 kilometres near the town of Janta in the east of Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley. Military footage from the night before the truce shows airstrikes pounding the strategic site. Fighter jets pummelled the location for over four hours, dealing “a blow to the Hezbollah terror organization’s ability to produce weapons,” said the IDF. READ MORE

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“The incoming administration gives every indication that, unlike the present feckless crew, it sees Iran clearly as an enemy”

Posted on November 27, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY
Swiss Cheese, the Sot, and the Ceasefire
John Podhoretz
November 26, 2024

The 60-day ceasefire to which Israel has agreed, thus pausing its efforts to degrade Hezbollah in Lebanon to such a degree that 60,000 Israelis can begin to return to their homes near the Lebanese border, may exist because of blackmail. Blackmail from the United States. Netanyahu told the Israeli cabinet that if they did not agree to the Biden terms, the administration would move against the Jewish state in the U.N. Security Council. This threat was a first of its kind for any president; even Barack Obama only allowed a hostile Security Council action to go through without a veto in his final act of aggression against Jerusalem in 2017. This time Biden was threatening to lead the U.N. against its only true ally in the Middle East. READ MORE

JEWISH INSIDER Lahav Harkov: Israel sees violations of cease-fire on Lebanese side within hours of deal taking effect Hours after Israel’s cease-fire agreement with Lebanon went into effect on Wednesday, the IDF shot at a vehicle believed to be violating the terms of the deal. The IDF fired warning shots at a vehicle carrying several people entering Kfar Kileh, near the Lebanon-Israel border, where the Iran-backed terrorist group was barred from entering under the terms of the cease-fire. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Hezbollah terrorists entered the village and that he “instructed the IDF to act aggressively and uncompromisingly against such phenomena and arrest anyone identified with Hezbollah who enters the no-go areas.”

ARUTZ SHEVA Lebanese Minister: We’ll be in dangerous territory if Hezbollah violates ceasefire Lebanon’s Economy Minister, Amin Salam, warned on Wednesday that failure by Hezbollah to adhere to the ceasefire agreement could push the country into “very dangerous territory.” Speaking to Sky News, Salam emphasized the fragile state of Lebanon in the aftermath of the recent conflict with Israel.

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A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s beheading by an Islamist radical apologised to his family in a French court on Tuesday

Posted on November 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FRENCH 24
Teen who lied about beheaded French teacher’s class says ‘sorry’
AFP
November 25, 2024

A teenager whose lies about her teacher are accused of contributing to the educator’s murder by an Islamist radical apologised to his family in a French court on Tuesday. Eight people have been on trial since early November, charged with contributing to the climate of hatred that led to an 18-year-old of Chechen origin beheading teacher Samuel Paty outside Paris in 2020…Then aged 13, the adolescent falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed. She was not in the classroom at the time. READ MORE

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Dershowitz: “We’ll argue that ICC has no jurisdiction against Israel, not only because it isn’t a member, but also because the treaty that established that court precludes it from considering cases against any country with a valid judicial system”

Posted on November 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
I’m Putting Together a Legal Dream Team to Defend Israel
Alan M. Dershowitz
November 24, 2024

The International Criminal Court, of which neither Israel nor the U.S. is a member, has issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister as well as a Hamas terrorist commander who is probably dead. Although Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant can’t be arrested in the U.S. or Israel, several European countries have already indicated they would arrest them, if they are found within their territory…We will also demonstrate that Israel’s actions in Gaza don’t violate any international law or laws of war over which the ICC has jurisdiction. Even if the inflated numbers of casualties provided by the Hamas Health Services were accurate, the proportion of civilians to combatants killed by the Israel Defense Forces would be lower than in any comparable war anywhere in the world. READ MORE

FRONT PAGE Jason Hill: The Folly of the ICC’s Arrest Warrants…The motives here are obvious. It is to equate a lawful right of defense held by Israel, with the savage and criminal behavior of an outlaw and rogue region (Gaza) and its political leaders (Hamas). Since as far as the ICC is concerned, the right to defend oneself is as equally wrong as an unprovoked attack by a foreign entity, all objective standards of appraisal are eroded. All that is left are baseless accusations of genocide, unlawful retribution, and deliberate starvation on the part of Israel.

JEWISH PRESS WSJ: UN Special Advisor Ousted for Refusing to Blame Israel for ‘Genocide’ Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres, is apparently being forced out of office after refusing to categorize Israel’s counterterrorism campaign in the Gaza Strip as genocide. Nderitu, a Kenyan national serving as the Special Adviser since November 2020, was notified by the UN that her contract will not be renewed, seemingly following her refusal to classify the IDF’s maneuvers in Gaza as genocide, the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal charged.

TIMES OF ISRAEL France says Netanyahu, Gallant have immunity from ICC charges, won’t arrest them Paris says that while it respects the international justice system, Israel’s leaders cannot be held accountable by The Hague as the country is not an ICC member

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The meeting held in 2017 showed UNRWA’s Pierre Krahenbuhl cordially meeting up with leaders in different Palestinian terror organizations, asking them to keep the meeting secret.

Posted on November 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
UNRWA officials tell Hamas, PIJ ‘we are one’ in secret Lebanon meeting
Ohad Merlin
November 23, 2024

Former UNRWA commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl met with leaders of designated Palestinian terrorist organizations during his term, assuring them that “we are one” and “no one can separate us,” as published in a UN Watch exposé on Thursday. According to the exposé, the meeting took place in Beirut in February 2017, with other participants including UNRWA Chief in Lebanon Hakam Shawan, Ali Baraka from Hamas, Abu Imad Al-Rifai from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and Salah Al-Youssef from the PFLP, as well as other representatives from different Palestinian factions such as the DFLP, the PFLP–Central Command, and Fatah Al-Intifada. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Anti-Israel UN rapporteur: Israel didn’t have the right to wage a war after October 7 UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, notorious for her anti-Israel rhetoric, tells Piers Morgan: The fact that we call October 7 terrorism doesn’t justify what Israel has done since.

YOUTUBE Piers Morgan: “SHAME On You!” ICC Arrest Warrants Debate With Alan Dershowtiz and Francesca Albanese”

DAILY WIRE Former Human Rights Watch Exec Dismisses Hostages Of Hamas As ‘Utter Irrelevancies’ A former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW) described dozens of hostages held by Hamas as “utter irrelevancies” on Wednesday…International Legal Forum CEO Arsen Ostrovsky called Roth “an absolute heartless monster.”

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