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“Arab leaders–unlike Trump–understand that Israeli-Palestinian peace is nowhere on the horizon…unlike the Palestinians, Arab states have abandoned the fantasy of an Israeli retreat to the 1949 armistice lines”

Posted on May 17, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

COMMENTARY Arab-Israeli Ties: Hostage No More? by Evelyn Gordon May 17, 2017 …But the WSJ story revealed something important about long-term trends in the Middle East–and for once, it’s unabashedly good news. Major Arab states have grown tired of having … Continue reading →

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Obama-era Career Officers made “Western-wall-is-not-in-Israel” comments; Trump officials can’t seem to coordinate Western Wall messaging

Posted on May 16, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

BREITBART Trump ‘Delegation Members’ Who Made Western Wall Anti-Israel Comments Exposed as Career Officers Who Served During Obama Admin by Aaron Klein May 16, 2017 For the past twenty-four hours, the Israeli news media have been hyping a story that … Continue reading →

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Evolution of the Left observed by a Former Member of the Left: “When you believe you are morally superior, when you have dehumanized those you disagree with, you can justify almost anything”

Posted on May 16, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

MEDIUM On Leaving the SJW Cult and Finding Myself by Keri Smith May 13, 2017 …I see increasing numbers of so-called liberals cheering censorship and defending violence as a response to speech. I see seemingly reasonable people wishing death on others … Continue reading →

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“The question, at bottom, is whether Donald Trump has demonstrated, in his first four months, that he is unfit for the presidency—wholly unsuited in terms of judgment, knowledge, mental capacity, personal stability”

Posted on May 16, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

WALL STREET JOURNAL Democracy Is Not Your Plaything by Peggy Noonan May 18, 2017 …Here’s an idea. It would be good if top Hill Republicans went en masse to the president and said: “Stop it. Clean up your act. Shut … Continue reading →

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Bibi: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem “would not harm the peace process” and, “on the contrary, would advance it by correcting a historic injustice”

Posted on May 15, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

NEW YORK SUN Tillerson on Jerusalem Editorial May 14, 2017 It is discouraging that at this stage of the game Secretary of State Tillerson is equivocating in respect of whether to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. It … Continue reading →

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What does it even mean if Abbas “makes a deal” with Israel?

Posted on May 12, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

JERUSALEM POST ‘Abbas has decided to sign peace deal with Israel’ by Yaakov Katz May 12, 2017 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has crossed the Rubicon and voiced “unprecedented” readiness to reach a peace deal with Israel, sources close to … Continue reading →

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“Dangling reminiscent wisps of the invalidated Palestinian narrative will only encumber the moral clarity and credibility required to unwind the impossibly tangled diplomatic failure of the Iran nuclear deal”

Posted on May 11, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

THE FEDERALIST James Mattis Should Focus On Islamic Terror Instead Of Palestinian Grievances by Andrew Lappin May 9, 2017 …During his visit, journalist Tal Shalev asked [James] Mattis if he stands by his comments from 2013, when he stated Israeli … Continue reading →

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“Every one of the pro-terrorist policies Arafat carried out following the Oslo Accords was supported and facilitated by his number two man, Mahmoud Abbas”

Posted on May 10, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

JNS Trump’s Arafat problem by Stephen M. Flatow May 10, 2017 White House officials say they foiled a plan by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to have President Donald Trump walk near the tomb of Yasser Arafat when Trump visits Israel … Continue reading →

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Forward breathlessly reports on Abbas-Trump meeting: “the two struck up a kind of “chemistry” that could lead to a peace breakthrough”

Posted on May 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

FORWARD Did Right Wingers Ruin Ron Lauder’s Dinner With Mahmoud Abbas? by Naomi Zeveloff May 9, 2017 Ron Lauder, cosmetics heir and president of the World Jewish Congress, prepped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for his meeting with President Trump last … Continue reading →

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“Republican and Democratic partisans often resort to the criminal law as a way of demonizing their political enemies”

Posted on May 9, 2017 by ArchitectGuy

GATESTONE President Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice by Alan M. Dershowitz May 11, 2017 An absurd argument is now being put forward by some Democratic ideologues: namely that President Trump engaged in the crime of obstructing justice by firing FBI … Continue reading →

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