A paper circulating in Israeli government offices calls for the total defeat of Hamas, initial Israeli control of the territory and an overhaul of the Palestinian education system — along with a path for Gazan self-rule

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JEWISH INSIDER
The day-after plan for Gaza on Israeli leaders’ desks
Lahav Harkov
June 26, 2024

With continuing pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to present a postwar plan for Gaza, a document has been circulating around the upper echelon of Israel’s government and security establishment. “From a murderous ideology to a moderate society: transforming and rebuilding Gaza after Hamas” is a 28-page paper, obtained by Jewish Insider, outlining four academics’ recommended dos and don’ts for ensuring Hamas and Gaza are no longer a threat to Israel…According to the document, “Israel’s ability to achieve its goals depends not only on the military and diplomatic campaign taking place these days, but also on its ability to rehabilitate and transform a nation that was led by a murderous ideology, to produce stable institutions and an Arabic culture that does not educate for jihad, a culture that accepts the existence of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.” READ MORE

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LA: I went to synagogue with my kids to learn a bit about real estate in Israel. Instead, we witnessed a street battle.

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FREE PRESS
The Pogrom on Pico Boulevard
Noah Pollak
June 25, 2024

On Sunday, a synagogue in the largest Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles hosted a small, privately advertised event for those interested in purchasing homes or second homes in Israel. “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” at Adas Torah synagogue wasn’t political and it had nothing to do with the Gaza war. But within moments of its noon start time, it became the backdrop to the worst antisemitic violence in Los Angeles since an attack on Jewish diners at a restaurant in 2021. Over the course of several hours, with dozens of LAPD officers decked out in riot gear largely staying out of the fray, around 100 pro-Hamas activists attacked, bear-sprayed, harassed, and brawled with Jews up and down Pico Boulevard. READ MORE

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VARIETY Hollywood Jews Slam Violence Outside L.A. Synagogue as ‘Horrifying,’ Vow to ‘Mobilize’ “I passed by like a group of like 10 to 15 Palestinian protestors, and they just jumped me,” says Sherman. “One guy punched me in the nose, and I was gushing blood. All the other ones were kicking me in the head. It was so scary. You’re getting jumped by a bunch of people, and the cops are just standing there and watching. They’re not interfering. The other Jewish people were the only ones to protect me.”

FRONT PAGE MAG Victor Davis Hanson: How California’s Paradise Became Our Purgatory California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly. How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism? The symptoms of the state’s suicide are indisputable.

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“One Squad member down, eight to go…Bowman was always an out-of-touch radical, but Oct. 7 exposed him as a bitter antisemite”

Posted on June 26, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK POST
Hopefully Jamaal Bowman’s defeat is the first against the radical left ‘Squad’
Editorial Board
June 25, 2024

…Vulgar junior fire marshal Jamaal Bowman lost his Democratic primary to George Latimer Tuesday night, bringing to an end one of the more embarrassing political tenures in New York history. He’s the first member of the Squad — the radical leftist caucus under Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez — to be shown the door. The liberal press is presenting this as a tragedy. A “heartbreaker” wrote Mich­elle Goldberg in The New York Times, saying it will “probably serve as a warning to other politicians about the cost of breaking with Washington’s pro-Israel political consensus.” If by consensus you mean the rational majority who reject Bowman’s belief that the rapes of Israelis by Hamas terrorists was “propaganda,” then, yes, reason prevails. READ MORE

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“Hamas and their jihadi allies, including Hezbollah and Iran, don’t have professional armies, are weak and cowardly and haven’t won a single battle”

Posted on June 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NAOMI RAGEN
Gaza War Diary
June 25, 2024

…And now, all the brilliant pundits are asking: Can Israel win this war? Excuse me? In case you haven’t noticed, we have taken over Gaza. It is rubble. Have the rockets stopped? Almost completely. When the war started eight months ago, thousands were fired all over the country. Now it’s close to zero. Has the southern border been secured? Absolutely. Gaza is split in two with the IDF deployed deep inside the country. That’s not a victory? But that’s not good enough for those asking the question. Because we haven’t destroyed the “idea” of Hamas. And I say, who cares? Our children weren’t killed by an “idea.” Our citizens weren’t kidnapped by an “idea.” The Allies didn’t destroy the idea of Nazism either. It still exists. But they destroyed the people in power who acted according to its philosophy. READ MORE

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“The antisemitism of the Palestinian cause is not a bug; it’s a feature of the new politics in America”

Posted on June 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS BLOG
Is anti-Zionism antisemitism?
June 19, 2024

Two days ago, a gripping debate took place in Toronto.  The latest in the Munk Debates on major policy issues run by a Canadian charitable foundation, Monday evening’s event advanced the motion “Anti-Zionism is antisemitism”. It was proposed by the writer Douglas Murray and international lawyer Natasha Hausdorff, and opposed by the Guardian journalist Mehdi Hasan and Israeli anti-Zionist Ha’aretz writer Gideon Levy. In an audience vote before the start of the debate, 61 per cent supported the proposition with 39 per cent opposed. In the final vote, the proposition had 66 per cent support with 34 per cent opposed. READ MORE

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TABLET MAG Hussein Aboubakr Mansour: Liberal Jews Deluded Themselves on Palestine As Obama’s Democratic Party transformed itself into a big tribal sectarian tent, traditionally Democratic American Jews found themselves under the same roof with elements that were antisemitic and anti-Zionist, but whose grievances had now been granted higher status. There were now exigencies that demanded flexibility—intersection, if you prefer. Everyone would now pretend that anti-liberal progressive dogmas being incubated on campuses were the natural evolution of the liberal causes that many American Jews had long supported by way of achieving greater equality and liberation from prejudice. Groups like the ADL and other American liberal Jewish institutions were often at the forefront of endorsing the same progressive ideas and intersectional jargon that are central to the current self-conception of the anti-Israel movement. READ MORE

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Dem Senator Fetterman: “I didn’t support withholding any of those large bombs because they have to fight an enemy that hides in tunnels…I trust Israel’s judgment”

Posted on June 25, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Recognizing Palestinian state rewards Hamas, Fetterman says in Israel: ‘What’s wrong with you?’
Alex Traiman
June 27, 2024

A two-state solution is something for which Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) hopes in theory, “but certainly not at this—not right now,” he told reporters in an intimate gathering in Jerusalem on Thursday. “I was appalled when our allies, whether it’s Ireland or Spain or others, were calling for recognizing that—that’s outrageous,” he said of some countries opting to recognize an independent Palestinian state. “Why would you give Hamas that kind of a reward when you have Israeli citizens still held hostage, and you’re in the middle of a war?”…Asked what he thought of reports that the White House has been slow-tracking weapons shipments to the Jewish state, Fetterman said that he disagrees on the matter with U.S. President Joe Biden. READ MORE

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#BringThemHome #ReleaseTheHostages Images – extracted from a Hamas video found by Israel – are being released for the first time tonight by the families of the three hostages

Posted on June 24, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

i24NEWS
Hostage families publish video of Hamas kidnapping Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Or Levy and Eliya Cohen
June 24, 2024

On Monday evening, the Hostage Families Forum Headquarters released new footage documenting the kidnapping of Eliya Cohen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and Or Levy on October 7. The release was made at the request of the families of Cohen, Goldberg-Polin, and Levy. The video comprises three parts, with the first two having been previously published, while the third part has recently been cleared for publication by the IDF. In the first segment, Hamas terrorists are seen attacking the site where the hostages were hiding after the assault on the Nova music festival, a location now referred to as the ‘Death Shelter’ due to the numerous casualties there. The footage shows a terrorist repeatedly firing into the shelter with a rifle. READ MORE

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Chicago truck driver raises awareness for childhood friend held hostage in Gaza  The box truck was parked beside a quiet sidewalk in Chicago’s West Loop. A few people stopped, glancing curiously at the image flashing on its rear door: a young man, his expression resolute but tinged with sadness. Below his figure was a message in bold letters: “Chicagoan kidnapped by Hamas.” “He’s always up there,” said the truck’s driver, Jeremiah Smith, 27, as he stared at the image. “I always know that.” Twelve hours a day, six days a week, Smith drives the truck through the Chicago area, raising awareness for the scores of Israeli hostages held captive by Hamas. But the man on the screen, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, is more than a distant figure. To Smith, he’s like a brother. When Smith was 6 years old, he met Hersh’s grandmother [Chicagoan Marcy Goldberg], a tutor at his elementary school, and was taken under her wing. 

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The act of misogyny is a grotesque means for men to remind women of their physical power. It’s also an act of dehumanization, like it was on Oct. 7

Posted on June 21, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
A rape in Paris
Ben Cohen
June 21, 2024

Antisemitic violence is horrifying wherever it takes place, but in France, as we’ve learned time and again over the last two decades, a disturbing intimacy defines many of the worst incidents in that the victims were known to the perpetrators, and in some cases, even socialized with them. In 2003, for example, a young Jewish DJ named Sebastien Salem was murdered by Adel Amastaibou, a Muslim neighbor with whom he’d been friends since childhood. The murder itself was shocking in its brutality, as Salem’s body was found with multiple stab wounds caused by knives and forks. After Amastaibou was arrested by police shortly after the murder, he told them: “I’m happy if he died, that bastard, if he’s dead, I’m too happy, this f**king Jew, dirty Jew.” READ MORE

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“Downplaying the Lebanese terrorist group puts Israel in peril”

Posted on June 20, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

THE DISPATCH
The Hezbollah Time Bomb Is Ticking
David Daoud and Jonathan Schanzer
June 20, 2024

Let’s not mince words: The Middle East is on the precipice of the most destructive war of the region’s modern history. This war did not begin on October 7. It actually began one day later, when Hezbollah, the most powerful proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, began attacking Israel. The Israelis, already on their back foot from the Hamas assault in the south of their country, struggled to gain equilibrium. The Israeli Defense Forces began with proportional responses to Hezbollah’s unprovoked attacks. But when that failed to deter the Lebanese terror group, the IDF steadily stepped up its retaliatory strikes. This, too, has done little. READ MORE

JPOST Strikes on Haifa and Tel Aviv: Hezbollah’s plan of attack if war erupts with Israel After the IDF announced that it had approved operational plans for an attack on Lebanon, Hezbollah quickly clarified that the Shi’ite terrorist organization is also preparing for the possibility that Israel will declare war on the Cedar State, as reported on Thursday by Lebanese newspaper Elnashra. According to the report, Hezbollah plans to attack Haifa if Israel expands the fighting and, in the next stage, additional cities, including Tel Aviv.

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“Hamas battalions in Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis were told not to participate in fighting”

Posted on June 19, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

JNS
Hamas to preserve two battalions for use after war, according to report
June 18, 2024

Hamas is attempting to counter Israel’s war goal of wiping it out as a military and governing force in Gaza by instructing two battalions to stay out of the fighting, Kan News reported on Tuesday. Sources in the Strip told the Israeli public broadcaster that the terror group was strategizing for its own “day after” scenario that would see these forces pave the path towards re-establishing control over the coastal enclave. One battalion in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza and another one in Khan Yunis in the south were reportedly given orders not to participate in fighting as much as possible during the war, which entered its 256th day on Tuesday. Per the report, the Khan Yunis battalion moved south to Rafah under civilian cover during the Israeli incursion there with terror operatives assimilating into the local populace. READ MORE

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