October 6, 2019

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/sure-palestine-existed-it-became-israel.htmlOne of the dumber arguments that keep coming up is that British Mandate-era coins, stamps and posters that say Palestine is proof that there was an independent state of Palestine. What people don’t realize is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/1006-links-pmw-pa-capitulates-to.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: PA capitulates to Israel’s anti-“Pay-for-Slay” law After initially refusing to accept any tax revenues Israel collected and transfered to the Palestinian Authority because Israel implemented its anti-“Pay-for-Slay” law, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/arab-plumbers-in-haifa-refuse-to-charge.html Here is a nice story that was only in the Hebrew-language media a couple of weeks ago. Simon and Salim Matri, Arab citizens of Israel, came to Haifa to do plumbing work worth around […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/now-israel-is-blamed-for-environmental.html In the tradition of using any and every possible reason to condemn Israel, a meeting of Arab environmental ministers this weekend in Morocco claimed that Israel was polluting Jerusalem. The Eighth Islamic Conference of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/book-review-i-am-not-spy-adventures-of.html I met Michael Bassin this past week. He is a super-nice, friendly, outgoing guy, and he told me about a book he wrote about his adventures in the Arab world and later in the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-ruthless-ottoman-suppression-of.htmlImportant article in the Tel Aviv Review of Books by Shmuel Trigano pointing to the essential Islamic context behind the violent suppression by Ottoman sultans of the nascent nationalism of three dhimmi peoples – Greeks, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/1005-links-bari-weiss-revolutionary.htmlFrom Ian: Bari Weiss’ revolutionary anti-antisemitism action plan I am intellectually curious about Weiss’s thoughts on the fourth pillar of antisemitism that contaminates Western Europe: Guilt-defensiveness antisemitism. The Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex famously remarked, with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/10/brave-cowardly-jihadists.htmlIslamic Jihad held their 32nd anniversary celebration on Saturday. They spoke a lot about how they are frightening the Zionists. But they always seem to hide behind masks. So brave! We have lots of ideas, […]