August 2016

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/palestinian-activist-struggles-to.html We’ve been mentioning how the Arab world seems sick of the Palestinian issue. Now that fatigue, which had been confined to behind-the-scenes decisions on funding, is starting to spill over into popular media. From […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/08/sasson-heskels-house-of-dreams-pulled.html  With thanks: Tsionit Reports that the home of Sir Sasson Heskel, Iraq’s first Finance Minister and a Jew, has been demolished have been circulating amongst Iraqis on Facebook.  If true, the demolition shows a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/icrc-to-close-office-in-jerusalem-after.html Every once in a while, Palestinian protesters attack the offices of the ICRC in Jerusalem, mostly to complain about not seeing their terrorist relatives in prison often enough. A few weeks ago the Red […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0804-links-pt2-clinton-and-trump-must.htmlFrom Ian: David Singer: Israel – Clinton And Trump Must Honour Bush-Congress Commitments Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have yet to signal their readiness to honour the commitments made by President Bush in his letter […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/eoztv-harold-rhode-how-islam-can-reform.htmlIt won’t be easy, and it may need a catastrophic event to trigger the change, but it is possible. And Egypt’s president wants to see it happen. We have lots of ideas, but we need […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-zionism-left-them-behind-vic.html    Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Hasia Diner and Marjorie N. Feld, two academics, intellectuals and Jews, recently published a manifesto of sorts, entitled “We’re American Jewish historians. This is why we’ve left Zionism behind.”  […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0804-links-pt1-hamas-infiltrated-intl.htmlFrom Ian: Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas Over the course of several years, the Hamas terrorist organization siphoned off “tens of millions of dollars” from the US-based […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/palestinians-proud-of-sewer-covers-that.htmlThis has been going around social media for at least six months: People on Facebook and Twitter are saying that this is proof that “Palestine is for the people of Palestine, no matter what they […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/shin-bet-says-tens-of-millions-of.html From JPost: Hamas infiltrated a large international aid organization operating in Gaza and redirected tens of millions of dollars – 60 percent – of the organization’s budget to its military wing, the Shin Bet […]