May 2018

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/05/another-mizrahi-eurovision-winner-netta.html Mabrouk to Netta Barzilai, Israel’s winning contestant in the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest. From her surname, Netta is of Mizrahi origin. She is the latest of a string of Mizrahi entrants.  In 1978, Israel won  with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0512-links-us-ambassador-friedman-this.htmlFrom Ian: Winning big with both Trump and Putin, Netanyahu had a royal flush of a week On Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu began his week by meeting his Cypriot and Greek counterparts to finalize the commercial […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/netta-wins-eurovision-for-israel-and.htmlFrom Times of Israel: Israel won the Eurovision song contest for the first time in two decades Saturday as singer Netta Barzilai clucked and bucked her way to the top of the international song contest […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/05/in-london-tonge-lashing-for-pro-israel.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Outside the Israeli Embassy in London on 11 May, an anti-Israel “Solidarity With Gaza” rally staged by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign is challenged by vociferous pro-Israel counter-demonstrators. At 8:50 on the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/thousands-of-generations-i-dreamt-of.html As Israel prepares for Yom Yerusahalyim, Jerusalem Day, celebrating the victory of the Six Day War that freed East Jerusalem from Jordanian occupation and returned Jewish sovereignty over the Temple Mount I keep hearing […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0511-links-pt1-quds-forces-bravest-runs.htmlFrom Ian: Jason Greenblatt: U.S. envoy Greenblatt says Hamas has taken Gaza back to the Stone Age The Israelis have indicated that they want to do more to help the people of Gaza, if they […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/good-news-friday-238/We’ve already had a surfeit of good news this week, from Donald Trump’s announcement of the withdrawal from the JCPOA to the widespread international support for Israel in its defensive actions against Iranian aggression. Tomorrow […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/syrias-argument-against-partition-1947.html In my last post I invited readers to look at the arguments that Arabs advanced against the UN partition plan that would have granted Jews a tiny, impossible to defend state. The Syrian ambassador […]