Biden Administration sued for targeting Jews with the temerity to live in their ancestral homeland

Posted on August 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

WSJ
Biden’s Unconstitutional Sanctions on Supporters of Israel
Eugene Kontorovich
August 6, 2024

…The first part of Mr. Biden’s executive order permits the imposition of sanctions on anyone the administration regards as involved in undermining “peace” or “stability” in the West Bank—even if there is no allegation of criminal conduct or violence. This directive is far-reaching because the administration deems Jews merely living in the West Bank—and certainly building or buying homes there—as “obstacles to peace.” An internal administration memo described the sanctions as targeted at those who “disrupt or prevent efforts to achieve a two-state solution.” The administration also views Jews visiting their holy sites as “provocative.”READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Michael Oren: Washington’s wavering support for Israel Sharp shifts in American policy cast doubt over whether the US will have Israel’s back if it needs to preemptively strike Iran. Now, with war looming, Israel must determine to what degree America will have our back. We must know the extent to which the United States will help defend us irrespective of whether we retaliate against Iranian aggression or strike Iran preemptively.

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“Rather than resolve the refugee problem and disband, UNRWA perpetuated it and grew increasingly complicit in terror”

Posted on August 6, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

MIDDLE EAST FORUM OBSERVER
UNRWA Is Complicit in Terror; Disband It
Gregg Roman
August 6, 2024

The UN’s August 5 announcement that it fired additional employees from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for possible involvement in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks against Israel is meaningless propaganda. UNRWA has supported Palestinian terrorism for years before Oct. 7 by allowing Hamas to tunnel under its facilities, producing viciously antisemitic curricular material advocating violence against Jews, and supporting a workforce in which ten percent of employees have ties to terrorist groups, according to Israeli estimates. READ MORE

ARUTZ SHEVA Human Rights Expert: UNRWA probe ‘sad, pathetic testament to rot at UN’s core’ Professor Anne Bayefsky, the Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights tells Arutz Sheva the UN’s acknowledgement 9 UNRWA employees ‘may’ have participated in October 7 massacre proves UNRWA’s support must be immediately cut off.

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How the advocates of Palestine erased the sexual enslavement of the Yazidis in order to deny the rape of Jewish women

Posted on August 4, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TABLET MAG
The Sabaya
Yaniv Voller
August 2, 2024

This week marks a decade since one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century: the Yazidi genocide and the sexual enslavement of thousands of Yazidi women and girls by the Islamic State terrorist organization. A direct line connects this onslaught on Yazidi women and the Oct. 7 attack against Israel. In both events, the captors of Yazidi and Israeli women were documented referring to their captives as sabaya, an Arabic term that dates back to medieval times to describe the taking of occupied populations as spoils of war or, in a more contemporary context, slavery, including sexual slavery. READ MORE

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One anonymous employee said, “Every week, it gets a little harder being a Jew at the BBC”

Posted on August 4, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
BBC executive dismisses letter from Jewish staff highlighting systemic antisemitism
August 2, 2024

Over 200 BBC staff, contractors, suppliers, and contributors wrote to the board and Samir Shah, the BBC chairman, in July to demand “an urgent formal investigation” into what the letter described as “anti-Jewish racism” at the BBC, The Telegraph reported on Friday. The letter provided examples of inaccuracy and bias in the BBC’s coverage of the war in Gaza and provided testimony from Jewish employees.The signatories stated that “Jews don’t count” and declared that antisemitism is systematic at the BBC, according to The Telegraph. Shah dismissed the calls for an investigation, praised the BBC’s “inclusive” culture…READ MORE

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EVENT Israel Bonds Chicago with The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem

Posted on August 2, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

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The bomb which killed Haniyeh was hidden inside the guesthouse approximately two months before his visit

Posted on July 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
Hamas claims Israel eliminated leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran
July 31, 2024

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Iran, Hamas confirmed on Wednesday morning, while claiming Israel was behind the attack. In a statement, the Islamist terror group said they mourned the death of Haniyeh, who it claimed was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran.” Haniyeh, along with one of his guards, was reportedly killed at his Tehran residence, according to an IRGC statement…Hezbollah-affiliated news site Al Mayadeen claimed that Israel eliminated him. Israeli officials have yet to comment…Three of Haniyeh’s sons were killed in an airstrike in April. Despite this, Haniyeh refused to release the hostages and step down from power. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Hamas honcho Ismail Haniyeh was blown up by bomb smuggled into his Tehran guesthouse months ago Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated Wednesday by a bomb that was smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying two months before his arrival, according to a report. Haniyeh, who was initially thought to have been killed in an airstrike, died from a remotely detonated bomb inside the guesthouse, seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians and an American official, told the New York Times. 

JNS Biden reaffirms support for Israeli self-defense against Iran in call with Netanyahu U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday and “reaffirmed” American support for the Jewish state’s security, after Hezbollah rained rockets on northern Israel and Iran vowed it would avenge assassinated Hamas leadership. Biden told Netanyahu that the United States supports Israel “against all threats from Iran, including its proxy terrorist groups Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis,” per a White House readout, which noted that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was also on the call.

YNET US deploys at least 12 warships to Middle East amid soaring tensions, report say The U.S. has deployed at least 12 warships to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, amphibious assault teams and over 4,000 Marines and sailors, in response to escalating tensions in the region following the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing a Pentagon official.

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Israeli airstrike targeted Fuad Shukr, head of Hezbollah precision missile project wanted by US for role in ’83 bombing of US Marines barracks in Beirut

Posted on July 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

REUTERS
Killing Hezbollah commander in Beirut was biggest loss for group since 2008
August 1, 2024

Fuad Shukr, the top Hezbollah commander killed by Israel on Tuesday, was a founding member of the Iran-backed group who helped oversee its expansion from a shadowy Lebanese civil war militia to a major force in the Middle East. His killing was the heaviest blow to Hezbollah’s command since the 2008 assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, underlining the gravity of this week’s escalation in the conflict, which has been rumbling across region since the Gaza war erupted. While the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran marked a major political setback to the Palestinian Islamist group and its Iran-backed allies, Shukr’s killing has stripped their camp of one of its top military leaders. READ MORE

I24NEWS Mohammed Deif confirmed dead after Israeli airstrike The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that the military and Shin Bet security agency had confirmed that Hamas commander Mohammed Deif had been killed in an airstrike in July. Fighter jets struck the site in Khan Yunis to eliminate the senior leader. After an intelligence assessment, his death was confirmed. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant praised the announcement, calling him the “Bin Laden of Gaza” in an X post. 

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“Druze are outspoken advocates of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and proud Israeli citizens, boasting high rates of volunteering by men to serve in the IDF”

Posted on July 30, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Anger and grief mix as Majdal Shams buries 10 children killed in rocket strike
Canaa Lidor
July 28, 2024

Seething anger and profound grief were on display at this Druze town on the Golan Heights, where thousands gathered for the funerals of 10 of the 12 children who are believed to have been killed when a rocket from Lebanon hit a soccer field. An 11th victim was buried in the nearby town of Ein Keinya, while a 12th, a teenage boy, is missing and is presumed to have died in the attack. Black flags flew on the lampposts of Majdal Shams and the surrounding Druze villages – Buq’ata and Masa’ada – and all the local businesses were shuttered on Sunday during the funerals. Thousands of locals and visitors from beyond the Golan, most wearing black, filled the town center as the victims’ white coffins were being prepared to be taken to the cemetery overlooking the center…“Lebanon should burn for this,” shouted Samir Halabi, a 52-year-old radio host from Majdal Shams. READ MORE

JNS IDF on deadly Golan attack: Terrain, trajectory to blame for lack of interception
The Hezbollah missile that killed 12 and wounded more than 30 in the northern Golan Heights on Saturday was not intercepted due to the local terrain and the missile’s low-altitude trajectory, according to the Israeli military’s initial investigation into the incident. The probe also found that contrary to claims in the Israeli media, air-raid sirens sounded for 20 seconds prior to the impact and the alert system did not malfunction.

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United and Delta Airlines suspending Israel flights due to escalating security tensions in the region

Posted on July 29, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
US airlines cancel flights to Israel
August 1, 2024

United and Delta Airlines announced on Wednesday the suspension of flights to Tel Aviv due to escalating security tensions in the Middle East. The decision by the two American legacy carriers follows the back-to -back assassinations of a top Hezbollah leader in Lebanon and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, and again leaves Israel’s flagship carrier El Al as the only airline offering direct service to and from the United States…At least five other carriers—Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Air India and FlyDubai—also canceled flights to the Jewish state. READ MORE

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Pick of the day…Pipes: “This abnormal conflict cannot be ended through compromise. One side must win, the other must lose”

Posted on July 28, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JPOST
The uniqueness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Daniel Pipes
July 16, 2024

…Palestinians can damage Israel through acts of violence and by spreading an anti-Zionist message, but they cannot prevent the Jewish state from ascending from one success to the next. Israel can punish Palestinians for their aggression, but it cannot quench the rejectionist spirit and its ever-more depraved expressions. That rejectionism is not temporary, does not bend to the pressure of carrots and sticks, and does not moderate over time explains the general inability to understand it or formulate a response to it. The mentality bewilders contemporaries as something hitherto unknown, a new phenomenon that prior experience cannot explain, like the French Revolution or Soviet Russia. READ MORE

QUIILLETTE Gadi Taub: “This war is just the first chapter of what will be a very long war”

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