“The report added that Hamas handed over a list of hostages it would release in the deal, which included US citizens”

Posted on December 12, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Hamas agrees to yield to two of Israel’s ‘key’ demands in ceasefire deal
Staff
December 12, 2024

Hamas has agreed to yield to two of Israel’s “key demands” for a ceasefire deal in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, confirming a previous Jerusalem Post report, citing Arab mediators. In July, the Post reported that Hamas dropped two of its demands, including a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, including the Philadelphi Corridor. According to the WSJ report, Hamas told the mediators for the first time that it would agree to a deal allowing the IDF to remain in Gaza temporarily during the pause in fighting. It also added that Hamas handed over a list of hostages that included US citizens. The listed hostages would then reportedly be released under a “ceasefire pact.” READ MORE

FDD Hamas Yields on Key Israeli Demands, Hostage Deal Hopes Renewed “Hamas conceding that it is willing to allow Israel to keep troops in Gaza after the fighting is over is a positive sign toward a ceasefire deal. Moreover, reports that Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala went to Cairo to discuss the ceasefire adds to the optimism that Israel and Palestinian terrorist groups will succeed in working out a deal. Despite the progress, a crucial question remains: Who will rule the Gaza Strip after the fighting?”

JPOST Terror attack in Gush Etzion kills 12-year-old Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia, terrorist surrenders The terrorist who committed the shooting surrendered to security forces on Thursday morning, Israel’s military said.

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“Syrians are free from Assad in spite of the Biden administration, not because of it”

Posted on December 11, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
Assad’s Fall Has Humiliated Washington
Eli Lake
December 9, 2024

According to President Joe Biden, the end of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny in Syria was made possible by his administration’s foreign policy. Speaking from the White House on Sunday in a televised address, he said, “For years the main backers of Assad have been Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia, but over the last week their support collapsed, all three of them, because all three of them are far weaker today than they were when I took office.” Try not to laugh…This isn’t just a deceptive telling of recent history. Biden has it backward. While it’s true that Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia are weaker today than they were when Biden was inaugurated as president, it’s not because Biden had the foresight to unleash the Jewish state against America’s enemies in the Middle East. It’s because Israel defied Biden’s efforts to restrain it. READ MORE

FDD Clifford May: Assad exits and Khamenei’s strategy unravels Mr. Assad has reportedly fled to Moscow. You’ll note he did not choose to relocate to Tehran, where his wife, Asma, might have had to drape herself in a burqa…The defeat of the dynastic Syrian dictator, responsible for the slaughter of half a million of his countrymen and the displacement of millions more, deserves celebration, as does the cracking of Mr. Khamenei’s imperialist, settler-colonialist project. But in our world, there are no permanent victories. Remember the excitement over the Arab Spring? And who did not think that, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia would have decent governments?

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“Evidently, you don’t need to be Jewish or Israeli any longer to get your film attacked by Jew haters. If you dare make Israel look good, that’s enough to get you cancelled”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
French Transgender Film Gets Cancelled Because it Made Israel Look Good
David Suissa
December 6, 2024

…For this latest outrage in the global march to single out the Jewish state, we can thank the international film festival in Belgium. The festival, which has been held in Brussels for 30 years and shows films from Mediterranean, European, African, and Middle Eastern countries, announced last week that it was cancelling the screening of the documentary film, “The Belle from Gaza.” The French documentary follows a young Palestinian transgender woman who flees Gaza on foot after her life was threatened because of her gender identity and arrives in Tel Aviv to live freely and formulate her identity. READ MORE

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“Biden-Harris administration has renewed the Iran waiver repeatedly over the objections of congressional Republicans, who warned that the cash helped fuel terrorism”

Posted on December 10, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE BEACON
Days After Trump’s Victory, Biden-Harris Admin Granted Iran $10 Billion in Sanctions Relief, Congressional Notice Shows
Adam Kredo
December 10, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration waived sanctions on Iran three days after the November election, providing Tehran access upward of $10 billion in once-frozen funds, according to a copy of the non-public order transmitted to Congress and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined on November 8 that “it is in the national security interest of the United States” to waive mandatory economic sanctions that bar Iraq from transferring upward of $10 billion to Iran in electricity import payments…In one case, the administration signed off on the sanctions relief one month after [the Iran-financed] Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. READ MORE

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Trump: “Adam will work tirelessly to bring our Great American Citizens HOME”

Posted on December 7, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE HILL
Trump appoints former Middle East negotiator as hostage affairs envoy
Laura Kelly
December 4, 2024

President-elect Trump on Wednesday announced his selection of Adam Boehler to serve as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs in his second term. While the position holds the rank of an ambassador, it does not require Senate confirmation. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, credited Boehler as a lead negotiator on the Abraham Accords team, the 2020 agreement that established diplomatic relations between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates…Boehler took part in negotiations with the Taliban, with the first Trump administration inking a deal with the designated terrorist group that halted all attacks against U.S. troops in Afghanistan in exchange for a commitment to exit the country. READ MORE

JPOST Trump picks Jewish space adventurer Jared Isaacman to head NASA Isaacman, a high school dropout and billionaire, is Jewish but has not made that piece of his identity a major part of his public persona. Jared Isaacman, 41, is the founder and CEO of Shift4, a payment processing company. He is best known for his high-profile, private jaunts into space, most recently traveling on a rocket built by SpaceX, owned by Trump’s billionaire ally Elon Musk, to conduct the first private spacewalk ever in September.

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Retzlaff, the star quarterback at Brigham Young University, has nabbed a sponsorship deal with Manischewitz, the Jewish food company’s first-ever sports deal.

Posted on December 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JTA
BYU’s star Jewish quarterback Jake Retzlaff scores sponsorship deal with Manischewitz
Jacob Gurvis
December 4, 2024

After a historic football season at BYU, Jake Retzlaff’s latest honor places him in the company of Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali: having his face grace an iconic box of food…Retzlaff, 21, who grew up attending a Reform synagogue in Pomona, California, is BYU’s first Jewish starting quarterback and one of only three Jewish students at the Mormon flagship in Utah. His story has resonated with fans, Jewish and not, both because of his athletic prowess — he threw 20 touchdowns as he led BYU to a 10-2 record in the Big-12 Conference and a top-25 national ranking — and because of his public embrace of his Jewish identity. Retzlaff wears a Star of David necklace around campus and has taken on the nickname “BY-Jew.” READ MORE

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Shootings of two California kindergarteners a “necessitated response to America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians”

Posted on December 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Two California boys shot at Christian school in revenge for Gaza ‘genocide’
Michael Starr
December 6, 2024

Two kindergarten-age boys were shot at a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian school in California on Wednesday by a man with a lengthy criminal and mental health history claiming to be taking revenge of American involvement with a supposed Gaza “genocide” and attacks on Yemen, according to a Thursday Butte County Sherriff’s office briefing. Roman Mendez, 6, and Elias Wolford, 5, were in critical but stable condition following the attack on the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists in Palermo by gunman Glenn Litton.  The 56-year-old assailant, who was found at the school by first responders with a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound, had left a statement justifying the shooting as revenge for the ongoing Israeli military operation against Hamas in Gaza and operations to counter Ansar Allah’s maritime terrorism and missile attacks. READ MORE

WASHINGTON EXAMINER Jewish medical professionals face ‘alarmingly high’ exposure to antisemitism A new study revealed “alarmingly high” exposure to antisemitism among Jewish medical professionals, resulting in over a quarter of them reportedly feeling “unsafe or threatened” in the workplace. Led by StandWithUs’s data and analytics department, the Journal of General Internal Medicine study published Wednesday found that 39.2% of Jewish medical professionals, mostly physicians, reported “direct exposure” to antisemitism in their professional or academic settings, with 26.4% feeling unsafe due to the prevalence of antisemitic incidents.

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“The man President-elect Donald Trump picked as the new border czar appeared in Chicago Monday night—and made a bold promise”

Posted on December 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CBS NEWS
Tom Homan, President-elect Trump’s border czar, says deportation plan will start in Chicago
Elyssa Kaufman
December 11, 2024

…“Chicago’s in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks,” said Homan. Homan’s opening line did not seem to open the door to collaboration. But minutes later, Homan Asked both Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker to come to the table to help with the biggest deportation operation in U.S. history. “We’re going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. If your Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside,” Homan told the crowd. “But if he impedes us—if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien—I will prosecute him.” Homan vowed agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be in Chicago when President-elect Trump takes office. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST The NY Times finally tells the truth about Biden’s border failures — AFTER the election With the election safely over, the Times has finally informed its readers that, wouldn’t you know it, “the immigration surge of the past few years has been the largest in US history”, and “the Biden administration’s policy appears to have been the biggest factor.” Well, knock me over with a feather.

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“The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria goes back thousands of years,” Cotton said. “The U.S. should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel”

Posted on December 5, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Cotton introduces bill to ban federal use of the term ‘West Bank’
December 5, 2024

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced legislation on Thursday that would ban the federal government from using the term “West Bank” and instead use Judea and Samaria, the terminology preferred by Israel. Formally titled the “Retiring the Egregious Confusion Over the Genuine Name of Israel’s Zone of Influence by Necessitating Government-use of Judea and Samaria (RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria) Act,” the bill would prohibit government funds from being used to describe “the land annexed by Israel from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War” as the “West Bank,” except in international treaties and agreements. READ MORE

JNS Jonathan Tobin: Biden’s reading doesn’t matter, but a false Palestinian narrative does Biden stirred up controversy this past week when—only two days before he gave his son Hunter a blanket pardon for all offenses committed since 2014—he was photographed leaving a bookstore in Nantucket, Mass., with Hunter and other members of his family. Sharp-eyed observers zeroed in on the hardcover tucked under his arm: Rashid Khalidi’s 2020 book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017. 

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Bibi reacts after Trump warns of ‘hell to pay’ if Hamas doesn’t free hostages

Posted on December 3, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Netanyahu praises Trump for aiming hostage demands at Hamas; repeats prewar reality in north won’t resume
Lazar Berman
December 3, 2024

At a special cabinet meeting in the northern coastal city of Nahariya, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanks US President-elect Donald Trump for writing on social media that “there will be all hell to pay” if hostages held by terrorists in Gaza aren’t released by his inauguration on January 20 “It is a very strong statement,” says Netanyahu at the opening of the meeting, “which makes it clear that there is one party responsible for this situation — and that is Hamas. Hamas must release the hostages.”Trump, continues Netanyahu, “put the emphasis in the right place — on Hamas, and not on the Israeli government, as is customary in some places.” READ MORE

FDD All Hell to Pay’: President-elect Trump issues strident demand to release hostages in Gaza Statement Follows Hamas’s Release of Propaganda Video: Trump’s message came after news that American lone soldier Capt. Omer Neutra was killed in Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack. It also followed Hamas’s release of a propaganda video on November 30 showing New Jersey native Edan Alexander pleading with Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a deal with Hamas to save the hostages’ lives. Hamas still holds seven American hostages, three of whom are believed to still be alive.

FDD Benjamin Anthony, CEO of The MirYam Institute, joins FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer to talk about Anthony’s recent IDF service inside The Gaza Strip, the pitfalls of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire and the implications of President Trump’s recent hostage-focused tweet. Click here for video.

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