2017

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/05/yemenite-babies-may-have-been-sold-tv.htmlIn the early years of the state around one in eight Yemenite babies, many of them sick, disappeared and it is alleged that some were ‘sold’ to US families for adoption by WIZO, the  US […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/0505-links-pt2-phillips-melanie-at.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: Melanie at Berkeley Third fact. There was never a Palestinian nation or a Palestinian people. No Arabs ever considered themselves to be Palestinians. They thought of themselves as part of an […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-most-intolerant-wins-or-why-west-is.htmlI was forwarded this fantastic and lengthy essay by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It is way too long to reproduce here but I will try to shorten it to make the point: Read the whole thing. […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/good-news-friday-205/Friday has come round once again, and this week and since we are still in Yom Ha’atzmaut mode, there is plenty of good news for a Good News Friday post. Considering where Israel was a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/introducing-aqsamobile.html A Jordanian of Palestinian descent in Turkey with way too much time on his hands created a replica of the “Al Aqsa Mosque” on a truck chassis. Majed Abu Namous, 37, spent months putting […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/israel-at-its-own-expense-is-paying-for.html One week ago, the Palestinian Authority stopped paying Israel for supplying electricity to Gaza. There were many news stories about this attempt by the PA to pressure Hamas to give up power in the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/gaza-exports-are-steadily-increasing-no.htmlI found this chart in a weekly report by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Gaza exported about $10 million worth of goods so far this year, mostly to the West Bank […]