The images and testimonies that emerged from Hamas’ October 7th attacks bear a chilling resemblance to the 1929 massacre in Hebron, one of the world’s most ancient Jewish communities

Posted on October 21, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
The Massacre That Ignited the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Yardena Schwartz
October 16, 2024

…Ninety-five years ago, 3,000 Muslim men marched through the Jewish Quarter of Hebron: burial place of Abraham, forefather of the Jewish and Arab nations. Enflamed by a campaign of disinformation launched by the British-appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the mob went from house to house, stabbing, torturing, raping, and in some cases castrating and burning their Jewish neighbors. Over the course of two hours that morning, nearly 70 unarmed Jewish men, women and children were slaughtered. “The horror of it is beyond words,” wrote John Chancellor, the British High Commissioner of Palestine, in his diary on October 8th, 1929, after visiting Hebron, where the walls and floors of Jewish homes were still stained with blood. “I do not think history records many worse horrors in the last few hundred years.” READ MORE

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Konstantin Kisin: “Why I’m off the fence about Israel’s war”

Posted on October 20, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

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5 IDF soldiers killed, 3 soldiers seriously injured in single incident in Lebanon, 9 soldiers seriously injured in Lebanon and Gaza in total

Posted on October 17, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ARUTZ SHEVA
5 Golani soldiers killed in battle in Lebanon on Sukkot
Uzi Baruch
October 17, 2024

Five IDF soldiers, Major Ofek Bachar, Captain Elad Siman Tov, Staff Sergeant Elyashiv Eitan Wieder, Staff Sergeant Yakov Hillel, and Staff Sergeant Yehudah Dror Yahalom, fell in battle in southern Lebanon on the first day of the Sukkot holiday, it was cleared for publication on Thursday evening. The IDF stated that in the incident in which the five soldiers were killed, an officer and two additional soldiers from the Golani Reconnaissance Unit were severely injured. The soldiers were evacuated to a hospital and their families have been notified. In the Gaza Strip, a soldier from the 450th (Squad-Commander Training) Battalion, Bislach Brigade, was severely injured yesterday (Wednesday) during combat in southern Gaza. READ MORE

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Sinwar confirmed dead. He orchestrated the October 7 Massacre, which led to the deaths of over 1,200 people and the taking of over 250 hostages.

Posted on October 17, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar killed in Rafah, Gaza Strip
Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jacob Laznik, Maya Gur Arieh
October 17, 2024

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by the IDF in Tel Sultan in Rafah on Wednesday in an unplanned operation, sources close to the matter confirmed to The Jerusalem Post Thursday evening, several hours after rumors arose that he had been killed earlier Thursday. Shortly after, around 7:45 p.m., confirmations came out from the IDF, Shin Bet, Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz, and others, that Sinwar was in fact dead. Evidence that Sinwar is dead included matching both his dental records and fingerprint records which Israel had from the period when he was in Israeli prisons until 2011. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL IDF recovered Sinwar’s DNA in tunnel complex where 6 hostages were executed The IDF found Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s DNA some weeks ago in a Rafah tunnel which was in the same complex as — but a few hundred meters from — a separate tunnel where six Israeli hostages were murdered in late August.

YNET Sinwar hid in Rafah tunnel alongside six hostages executed by Hamas Hamas leader reportedly hid in same tunnel as hostages Hirsch Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Almog Sarusi, Carmel Gat and Alex Lobanov before they were killed by captors in August; IDF investigating whether hostages murdered during Sinwar’s escape.

JNS President Biden’s statement on the death of Yahya Sinwar “Early this morning, Israeli authorities informed my national security team that a mission they conducted in Gaza likely killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. DNA tests have now confirmed that Sinwar is dead. This is a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world.”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Netanyahu in English statement: ‘War can end tomorrow’ if Hamas lays down arms, returns hostages In an English-language statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar “the beginning of the end” of the war in Gaza. “To the people of Gaza, I have a simple message,” he continues. “This war can end tomorrow. It can end if Hamas lays down its arms and returns our hostages.”

ARUTZ SHEVA Wounded and alone: Drone footage of Sinwar’s final moments IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari published drone footage showing mass murderer Yahya Sinwar moments before his elimination. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

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Glick: “The Biden administration’s determination to see Hamas survive and so win the war is driven by its top officials’ desire to “balance Israel” with Iran”

Posted on October 17, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Netanyahu’s ‘day after’ plan
Caroline B. Glick
October 13, 2024

…As for Lebanon, far from supporting Israel’s efforts to devastate Hezbollah, Iran’s largest and most deadly terror army, the [Biden-Harris] administration has spent the past year trying to block Israel from going on the offense against Hezbollah. Although Biden was publicly supportive of Israel’s decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership, including Hassan Nasrallah, the administration was reportedly enraged that Israel assassinated Nasrallah. On Oct. 10, Harris repeated, yet again, that the administration seeks an immediate ceasefire and de-escalation in both Lebanon and Gaza. The implication, again, is that Harris and Biden want to protect Hezbollah—like Hamas—from defeat because they seek to revert to the Oct. 6, 2023, strategic balance which left Iran in place as a rising regional hegemon just a few steps from a nuclear arsenal. READ MORE

CAROLINE GLICK IN-FOCUS PODCAST Understanding Israel’s Next Moves: Will Jerusalem bend or will Netanyahu push forward towards victory against Iran and its proxies?

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“We American Jews experienced an intelligence meltdown in the wake of the massacre—our failure to predict the eruption of hostility after Oct. 7th”

Posted on October 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH JOURNAL
The American Jewish Community’s Grand Intelligence Failure
David Bernstein
October 5, 2024

…Just a few weeks after the massacre in Israel, Politico reported that mostly women IDF soldiers stationed on tatzpitaniyot or look-out posts warned that Hamas training camps were likely preparing for an attack against Israel. “A month and a half before the war, we saw that in one of the Hamas training camps they had built an exact, scaled model of an observer’s position, like the one we operate. They started training there with drones to hit the [machine gun] shooter,” a female soldier said. Their warnings went largely unheeded because the intelligence community had embraced a “Conceptzia”: a widely held conception that Hamas was adapting to the duties of governance and had no incentive to confront Israel. Of course, the Oct. 7th Conceptzia turned out to be illusory, the outgrowth of groupthink that filtered out any contradictory evidence, one that ultimately rendered Israelis along the border sitting ducks. READ MORE

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Samidoun, which promotes anti-Israel sentiment on elite campuses, linked to major terrorist group by US and Canada

Posted on October 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
U.S. and Canada Label Terror Fundraiser a ‘Sham Charity’
Eli Lake and Danielle Shapiro
October 15, 2024

Since the October 7 massacre, a small “charity” based in Canada has been ubiquitous on elite college campuses, celebrating the bloodbath at public rallies and seminars. The group is called Samidoun, and it claims to be an NGO advocating on behalf of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. On Tuesday, the U.S. and Canadian governments put an end to that charade. Samidoun is not a charity at all. Rather, it’s a group “that serves as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization,” according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Treasury Department. The government describes it as a “sham.” READ MORE

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“Rather than admitting their own role in igniting the Middle East, Biden and Harris now blame the victims of their own incendiary foreign policy”

Posted on October 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Biden and Harris, own up: your foolish Iran overtures ignited its war against Israel
Victor Davis Hanson
October 13, 2024

Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Netanyahu] should remember that.” Yet the thin-skinned and triggered Biden’s prickliness poorly hid — or perhaps revealed — the truth: This current administration knows that it is responsible for the current explosion of the Middle East and the particular dilemmas of Israel…Recently, Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris refused to say whether the Netanyahu administration is even an ally of the United States. READ MORE

GATESTONE Bassem Tawil: The Biden-Harris Administration’s Misguided Policy On The Palestinians What is most disturbing about Harris’s advocacy for the establishment of an Iranian-controlled Palestinian state is that it is seen by many Palestinians as a reward for the October 7 atrocities…. So, when Harris talks about the need to establish a Palestinian state, she is sending a message to Hamas and other Palestinians that terrorism against Israel pays….

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Gordis at Yom Kippur in Israel: “There was not a person, whether we were singing or silent, who was not wondering— “What is going to be here? What is going to happen to us?”

Posted on October 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ISRAEL FROM THE INSIDE
“We sought healing, we sought mercy, we sought repentance, we demanded redemption— and there is none”
Daniel Gordis
October 13, 2024

…The next day, when we got to U-netaneh Tokef (“Who shall live, who shall die …”) the person leading was singing, and people were singing along, when again, suddenly—silence. Nothing. Again, just tears. No words, no melody. And then, finally, the words at which they’d stopped. “Who by sword…” Indeed, who by sword? It was the question on everyone’s mind, looking back on a year that was unbearable, and a year just beginning that may well not be any better. You could see fathers hug their army- or reserve-age sons closer. You could see the dread on everyone’s face. READ MORE

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On April 29, 1492, the same day Columbus received authorization to equip his fleet, the Edict of Expulsion was publicly announced in several major Spanish cities. This edict forced Jews to either convert to Christianity or leave Spain, leading to a mass exodus of the Jewish population.

Posted on October 13, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds
October 13, 2024

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Several countries have argued over the origins and the final burial place of the divisive figure who led Spanish-funded expeditions from the 1490s onward, opening the way for the European conquest of the Americas…“We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. We have DNA from Hernando Colón, his son,” Lorente said in the programme. “And both in the Y chromosome (male) and in the mitochondrial DNA (transmitted by the mother) of Hernando there are traits compatible with Jewish origin.” READ MORE

ISRAEL 365 NEWS Christopher Columbus: A Sephardic Jew from Western Europe ? Columbus’s own writings provide tantalizing clues to his possible Jewish heritage. In his letters, he made frequent references to the Hebrew Bible and figures such as Moses, David, Abraham, Isaac, and Sarah. He even computed the age of the world according to the Jewish calendar, writing, “…and from the destruction: the Second Temple according to the Jews to the present day, being the year of the birth of Our Lord 1481, are 1413 years…”

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