August 2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/peace-for-peace-or-sovereignty-for.html Sovereignty, or the application of civil law to Judea and Samaria, has been hereby suspended, in favor of a peace accord with the UAE. How long that suspension will last is anyone’s guess. Some […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/saeb-erekat-tells-palestinians-not-to.html   A most interesting tweet from PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat: <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>We should respect the national symbols of the UAE. The UAE flag is a national symbol that must be respected and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0819-links-pt1-uae-agreement.htmlFrom Ian: David Singer: Saying no one time too many : The PLO sidelined Trump’s Vision offered the PLO Gaza and possibly 70% of Judea and Samaria for a second Arab State in former Palestine […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/during-1834-peasants-revolt-in.htmlThe Peasants’ Revolt was an 1834 rebellion against Egyptian conscription and taxation of Arabs in Palestine. Egyptian general Ibrahim Pasha attempted to take over all of Palestine, but at one point he went to Jaffa […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/last-year-tunisias-president-said.html   Last October, during a debate, Tunisian presidential candidate Qais Said said, “Normalization [with Israel] is high treason, and those who are dealing with an entity that have displaced and annihilated an entire people […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/08/syrian-hebrew-bibles-to-stay-in-israels.htmlA tug-of-war between the Syrian Jewish communities and the Israeli government has long been waged over the the precious medieval bibles or Codices rescued from  Aleppo and Damascus. According to the Jerusalem Post, an Israeli […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/muslim-clerics-have-always-used.htmlYesterday I reported that the Mufti of Jerusalem issued a fatwa saying that UAE residents are “forbidden by law” to visit Al Aqsa. Now a major Islamic scholar, former deputy at Al Azhar University, says […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/an-antisemitic-plo-poster-circa-1970.htmlHere is a photo of Yasir Arafat together with Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader, Nayef Hawatmeh and Palestinian writer Kamal Nasser at press conference in Amman in 1970.   Notice the poster […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2020/08/19/the-israel-uae-treaty-is-it-good-for-israel-or-bad/I have been very much in two minds about the Israel-Emirates peace treaty which was announced last week. On the one hand it is indeed a very good thing, one less enemy in the Arab […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/08/0818-links-pt2-meir-y-soloveichik-1620.htmlFrom Ian: Meir Y. Soloveichik: The 1620 Project Four hundred years ago this month, the Mayflower set sail for the New World. On board was William Bradford, who would serve for decades as governor of […]