“The ICC prosecutor’s blood libel is part of the pincer movement for Israel’s destruction”

Posted on May 21, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

MELANIE PHILLIPS SUBSTACK
Courting infamy
May 21, 2024

The decision by the International Criminal Court prosecutor, the British lawyer Karim Khan KC, to request arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and its minister of defence, Yoav Gallant, is a wickedly perverse and deeply troubling move. He has also requested arrest warrants for Yahya Sinwar, head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Mohammed Deif, commander-in-chief of Hamas’s military wing and Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’s political bureau. He has accused the Hamas leaders of murder, extermination, torture and rape which are crimes against humanity, and of taking Israelis hostage which are war crimes. Khan presents this as a display of even-handedness. This itself is morally bankrupt. There can be no equivalence between a genocidal attempt at extermination and a country’s defence against it. READ MORE

NEW YORK POST Mrs George Clooney helped convince ICC prosecutors to issue arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas leaders Clooney announced on the Clooney Foundation for Justice website Monday that she was asked by the ICC to join a panel of international legal experts to evaluate evidence of suspected war crimes. Clooney, 46, an accomplished Lebanese British human rights lawyer, co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice with her husband, Academy Award winner George Clooney..

JEWISH PRESS Israeli Emigrant to the US and George Clooney’s Lebanese Wife Urged Khan to Prosecute Netanyahu Ms. Clooney is on the record as saying the advisory panel of experts agreed unanimously that there was a reasonable basis to assume that the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, including starvation as a method of warfare, murder, persecution, and extermination.

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“Spencer argues that, by taking this approach, the US is inadvertently paving the way for a Hamas victory.”

Posted on May 20, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

CNN
A military expert on why the US view on Israel’s fight against Hamas is a turning point for the world
Hilary Krieger
May 17, 2024

Since Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on October 7, military expert John Spencer has been carefully observing the Israel Defense Forces’ war against the terror organization, including on two trips he made to the Gaza Strip as an embed with the IDF over the winter. Spencer tells CNN Opinion that he sees a military with the capability to rapidly eviscerate Hamas’ army being held back by the international community. He feels that the US bears some of the responsibility for the devastation in Gaza because of how it’s slowed down and limited Israel’s ability to win the war. It’s a restraint that he says the US hasn’t imposed on its own military campaigns, and it has the effect of increasing Palestinian casualties and suffering by dragging out the fighting. READ MORE

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“More than a thousand Islamic extremists recently marched through the streets of Hamburg demanding that Germany be reconstituted as an Islamic state governed by sharia”

Posted on May 19, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

NATIONAL REVIEW
Germany’s Woke Government Wavers as Islamists Declare Holy War
Soeren Kern
May 19, 2024

…The demonstration, organized by a fast-growing Islamist group called Muslim Interaktiv, was allowed to proceed after left-wing parties in Hamburg’s legislature rejected a petition by right-wing parties to prohibit the event. During the April 27 march in Hamburg’s multicultural Sankt Georg district, the Islamists — mostly young men, but also women in chadors, hijabs, niqabs, and jilbabs — complained about an alleged surge in “Islamophobia” in Germany since October 7, when Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than 1,000 Israelis. Amid shouts of “Allahu Akbar” and “There is no God but Allah,” the protesters reminded German authorities of their constitutional obligation to ensure justice for everyone. READ MORE

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“I used to hate Jews. Hopefully my story can help people acknowledge profusely misguided errors of the antisemitic way”

Posted on May 18, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

FUTURE OF JEWISH
Confessions of a Former Antisemite
Amir Pars
May 4, 2024

…One thing was consistent, regardless of where I went: We all hated Jews. In the cultures we grew up in — even when there was very little else in common (Shia versus Sunni, Arab versus Persian, Religious versus Atheist, Theocrat versus Monarchist, et cetera) — Jew-hatred is omnipresent. We were born with it, we grew up with it, we were indoctrinated in it. It is in our bone marrow. In my late teens I, like so many other teenagers, was infatuated with Marxism, which only served to fuel my antisemitism. I suddenly belonged to two tribes hating the most persecuted people in history, and where my fellow “svartskallar” only expressed a visceral, sadistic hatred of Jews, my comrades took a more diplomatic approach. READ MORE

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Yishai Fleisher destroys Israel-hater Norman Finkelstein on Piers Morgan Uncensored

Posted on May 18, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

Yishai debates Norman Finkelstein on Piers Morgan’s “Uncensored” program on the subject of the Gaza War and Israel’s response to Hamas’ October 7th terror massacre of Israeli civilians. Yishai lays out a vision for winning the war in Gaza, stabilizing the region, and achieving prosperity for Jews and Arabs in the Abrahamic Region.

The Norman Finkelstein-Yishai Fleisher debate begins at the 15:30 mark.

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Highland Park City Hall Shakespeare

Posted on May 18, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

With a comprehensive total of 1,491 pages of FOIA documents spanning from January 1 to April 30, the day of Jeff Hoobler’s resignation, the latter half displayed in this video reveals merely two sources of opposition. Calling out Mayor Nancy Rotering and City Councilmen Kim Stone and Tony Blumberg for their supporting roles in this embarrassing affair.

Discord in Highland Park: The Battle of Ravinia and the Politics of Power

Highland Park, once a beacon of beauty and prosperity, was highly coveted for its vibrant community and picturesque charm. However, it has recently encountered a phase of stagnation, a result of actions and policies reminiscent of much larger political landscapes such as Chicago, implemented by local governance. Click here for more information.

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Without leverage and punitive action, this UN Security Council meeting will sadly accomplish zero

Posted on May 18, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
In first, UN Security Council holds meeting solely focused on hostages held by Hamas
May 16, 2024

…The US centered the meeting — the first held at the UN solely focused on the hostages captured by Hamas — on “condemning hostage-taking in Israel on October 7 as a psychological tool of terrorism.” Ayelet Samerano, whose son was killed on October 7 and his body taken by Hamas, and Gili Roman, whose sister was taken hostage and released in November as part of a week-long truce deal, also addressed the gathering…In three resolutions, the UN Security Council has called for the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the meeting in a UN conference room that the demand of the United States, its 25 co-sponsors, all Israelis, and many others is simple: bring the hostages who come from 20 countries home. READ MORE

Watch the video: South Korea’s deputy ambassador Sangjin Kim choked up and was unable to continue while speaking of hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who appeared in a video recently released by Hamas.

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Five Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in Jabalia, northern Gaza on Wednesday

Posted on May 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

TIMES OF ISRAEL
Diverse backgrounds give way to shared fate as Gaza friendly-fire victims eulogized
Canaan Lidor
May 16, 2024

The deaths of five soldiers in a Gaza friendly fire incident affected diverse communities from Tel Aviv to a Haredi community in Tiberias to two West Bank settlements and the Jewish community of Argentina. Four of the five fatalities – all men in their twenties who were killed in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday when an Israel Defense Forces tank mistook them for terrorists – were buried Thursday afternoon. The funeral of the fifth fatality, Sgt. Ilan Cohen, is scheduled to take place in the coming days, once his parents arrive in Israel from his native Argentina, the Ynet site said. Seven additional soldiers were hurt in the friendly fire incident in Jabaliya Wednesday, three of them seriously. READ MORE

JNS Five IDF soldiers mistakenly killed by tank fire in Jabalia  The casualties were identified by the IDF on Thursday morning as Capt. Roy Beit Ya’akov, 22, from Eli; Staff Sgt. Gilad Arye Boim, 22, from Karnei Shomron in Samaria; Sgt. Daniel Chemu, 20, from Tiberias; Sgt. Ilan Cohen, 20, from Carmiel; and Staff Sgt. Betzalel David Shashuah, 21, from Tel Aviv. The incident brings the Gaza death toll since the start of the ground invasion on Oct. 27 to 273 and to 621 on all fronts since the start of the war on Oct. 7.

JPOST Yonah Jeremy Bob: Israel is winning the war if you ignore original unrealistic goals set by the gov’t Israel is indeed winning the war – just not the way you might think. In October, the government set unrealistic goals. It would have been wiser to be more modest with those military objectives. But the fact remains that if the government had set more reasonable goals, and if one were to ask if these goals were desirable and achievable, Jerusalem would have quite a few triumphs to date. With or without Rafah, the IDF has taken apart 19 out of the 24 existing Hamas battalions, killed around 14,000 terrorists, wounded potentially close to a similar number, and arrested thousands more.

JNS Yaakov Lappin: IDF gradually tightens grip on Hamas’s last bastion in Gaza Developments in Rafah signify that the Israeli military is implementing a gradual expansion of its operation in Hamas’s last fortress.The Israel Defense Forces is engaged in intensive operations in central and northern Gaza as well, where on Thursday, a tragic friendly-fire incident involving the Paratroopers’ 202 Battalion led to five IDF casualties.

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President Herzog declares ‘a year of national mourning’

Posted on May 16, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

ALL ISRAEL NEWS
Israel salutes its fallen on first Memorial Day since Oct. 7 tragedy
May 12, 2024

Israel’s Memorial Day, commemorating the soldiers who fell in the nation’s wars and victims of terrorist attacks, began at 8 p.m. on Sunday with a nationwide siren for a minute of silence. On this year’s particularly mournful Memorial Day, the people of Israel remembered 1,600 soldiers and civilians who perished – either in combat or due to an act of terrorism – over the past year, the deadliest year for the Jewish state in over 50 years. As in every year, the siren marked the start of ceremonies being held in towns and communities across the country, at cemeteries, community centers and schools. On Monday, a second siren will sound at 11 a.m. Israeli media outlets displayed images of IDF soldiers in Rafah and the northern Gaza Strip, with some standing at attention on their tanks while marking Memorial Day in the shadow of ongoing fighting. The start of the central state ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall Plaza was accompanied by red alert rocket alarms in the Gaza Envelope, including Sderot, Nahal Oz, and Shaar HaNegev. READ MORE

JNS Jewish Voice for Peace mocked widely for claim Israeli holidays meant to overshadow ‘Nakba Day’ Jewish Voice for Peace is being criticized and ridiculed widely on social media after the anti-Israel, far-left group claimed that Israel scheduled the holidays Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha’atzmaut to eclipse “Nakba Day.”

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The UN, in reports released on May 6 and 8, seemingly halved its previous estimates based on info provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health

Posted on May 15, 2024 by ArchitectGuy

I24NEWS
UN data suggests large revision in Gaza war casualty figures
May 12, 2024

Recent data published by the United Nations indicates a significant revision in the estimated number of women and children killed during the conflict in Gaza. The UN, in reports released on May 6 and 8, seemingly halved its previous estimates based on information provided by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, the Government Media Office in Gaza, and Israeli authorities. On May 6, the UN disclosed that 34,735 individuals had reportedly lost their lives in Gaza, with over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children among the reported casualties. However, just two days later, on May 8, revised figures showed a total of 34,844 fatalities, including 4,959 women and 7,797 children. READ MORE

JPOST 40% of total Gazan deaths based on unverified data After a drastic reduction in the reported death toll of in Gaza, scrutiny regarding method used to calculate the victims reveals that 10% are reported via Google Forms and and 30% via reliable media.

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