January 19, 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/0119-links-pt2-is-judith-butler-new.htmlFrom Ian: Is Judith Butler the New Edward Said? Of all the non-Middle East specialists writing on the Middle East, few have been as prolific or as indecipherable as Judith Butler. More than an academic, […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/obamas-last-day-as-president-and-his-last-act-of-spite/The day we have all been praying for for the last 8 years has come: Barack Obama is leaving the White House today, and not a day too soon! But before Donald Trump can get […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/leftover-photos-from-israel.htmlI was just looking through some photos I took in Israel last summer of scenes I found amusing or interesting. Here is a bunch of lottery tickets, just as shlocky as anywhere else, but many […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/dumping-classic-abuser-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column On Tuesday, President Obama selected his aide Ben Rhodes for the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Ben Rhodes wrote the section of the 2006 Iran Study Group report that advised sacrificing Israel to help […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/background-on-bedouin-localities-of-umm.html Here is Israel’s backgrounder on the Negev Hiran community – because the media won’t bother to report it. Background on the Bedouin Localities of Hiran in Southern Israel The Bedouins were a nomadic ethnic […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/01/outspoken-myth-buster-steve-plaut-dies.htmlPoint of No Return has learned of the untimely passing on 18 January  of Professor Steve Plaut, aged 65. A merciless satirist of the politically correct,  the US-born Plaut moved to Israel in 1981 and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/time-to-think-strategically-some.html The right-wing of the pro-Israel community is quite happy with most (not all) of the news stories about the impending Donald Trump presidency. This happiness should be tempered. This is not the time to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/fatahs-latest-campaign-to-stop.htmlMahmoud Abbas’ Fatah is frustrated that its campaign to stop the US from moving its embassy to Jerusalem is not hitting any chord with its own people, let alone the Arab world outside some official […]