June 2017

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/0608-links-pt1-50-years-of-palestinian.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: 50 Years of Palestinian Rejection In other words, there’s one very simple reason why Israel still controls the West Bank: The Palestinians have consistently refused repeated offers to give it to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/nikki-haleys-speech-at-graduate.html This is worth reading. Remarks at the Graduate Institute of Geneva on “A Place for Conscience: the Future of the United States in the Human Rights Council” Ambassador Nikki HaleyU.S. Permanent Representative to the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/more-photos-of-muslim-neglect-of-their.htmlThe Washington Post has a story about a young American reporter in Jerusalem who witnessed Israel’s capture of the Temple Mount. The photos accompanying the article are striking. The first one shows, as we have […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/06/a-wee-dropping-from-foreign-office.htmlBy Daphne Anson   From 1969 until his death in April 1974 at the age of 61, Welsh-born Trefor Ellis Evans held the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Professorship of International Politics at the University of Wales, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/add-two-more-to-ever-growing-list-of.html Haaretz details two American initiatives to forge a peace plan under the Obama administration. Once again, it shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong: the Likud government that is routinely described as “the most right […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/what-on-earth-happened-between-qatar-and-the-arab-states/The news out of Qatar and the Gulf had us all (well, me at least) scratching our heads in mystification. What suddenly triggered the break between Saudi Arabia and Qatar? Did they only NOW discover […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-jews-of-aden-were-rescued-in-1967.htmlThe 50th anniversary of the Six Day War is being commemorated with articles and TV programmes. But the impact on the remaining Jewish communities of the furious Arab reaction to their defeat has been almost […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/0607-links-pt2-dershowitz-new-tolerance.htmlFrom Ian: Alan M. Dershowitz: A New Tolerance for Anti-Semitism In the United States, although there has been hard-right anti-Semitism for decades, the bigotry of the hard-left is far more prevalent and influential on many […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/06/ayelet-shaked-takes-on-dean-issacharoff.html “You’re a liar,” just doesn’t have the same punch as the Hebrew “Atah shakran.” The latter is like a dare, a pointing finger, as opposed to the former, which is simply a statement of […]