January 2018

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0116-links-pt2-us-withholds-65-million.htmlFrom Ian: US withholds $65 million from UN agency for Palestinians The United States sent $60 million to keep the UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in operation but withheld a further $65 million while […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/guardian-writer-admits-that-really-no.html In the preface to the book, Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017, Guardian writer Ian Black notes: Language Matters A Note on Terminology and Transliteration  The terminology used in this […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/halo-effect-divest-this.html Every now and then, it’s nice to pull back from the combat zone to take a look at some of the tools and weapons used in our battles with Israel’s enemies.  And, given that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0116-links-pt1-melanie-phillips-abbas.htmlFrom Ian: Israeli security forces find cell phone bomb in Joseph’s Tomb Israeli security forces removed a bomb on Monday from Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus in the West Bank, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/dan-shapiro-implies-bibi-is-as-bad-as.htmlHaaretz has an article by former US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, where he tears apart Abbas’ nonsensical and hateful speech: His bizarre description of Israel as colonial creation of European powers, his canard that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/just-attempt-to-massacre-scores-of.html From Times of Israel: Army sappers detonated a cellphone-operated explosive device that was apparently planted by Palestinians at the entrance to the Joseph’s Tomb holy site in the city of Nablus early Tuesday morning, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/many-goods-are-shipped-to-arab-states.html YNet reports: Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s ambitious plan to connect extend the railroad tracks from Beit She’an East to the Sheikh Hussein crossing at the Jordanian border was allocated NIS 15 million in the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/rabbi-yehuda-bohrer-zl.html From Arutz-7: Advanced in years, Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Bohrer, of blessed memory, passed away on Shabbat. He and his wife Helen were among the original founders of the town Bet El, living in an […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/an-algerian-jewish-fighter-during-ww2.htmlLittle over seventy-five years ago on 8 November 1942, the Allied forces launched Operation Torch in North Africa. The plan was to land in both Morocco and Algeria and defeat the Vichy regimes in  both […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/ISz165PSz0E/16-jan-18-in-gaza-another-invisible.html From the Deir al-Balah municipal website This happened on Monday according to a report published late Monday night: A rocket fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip struck a Palestinian home in Deir al-Balah […]