2020

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/mother-of-soldiers-forest-rain.html It’s cold outside. The rain beats on the windows and thunder rumbles in the distance. Night is approaching and the warm bed beckons with the promise of a cozy embrace. The closeness of comfort […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/arab-bank-turning-away-palestinian.html Just yesterday I reviewed “Harpoon,” the account of how Israel was going after terrorists by going after their sources of money, and how lawsuits against banks that paid terrorists were a very effective method […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/0120-links-pt1-how-can-middle-east.htmlFrom Ian: How can the Middle East change? The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still widely supported by the international community, despite the fact that neither Israel nor the Palestinians are moving any […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/jordanian-mp-blames-gas-deal-on-jews.html Tarek Khoury, a member of Jordan’s parliament, wrote a Facebook post where he complained about how the US is stopping countries, including Jordan, from trading with Syria. Even countries that have trade agreements with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/finally-iran-finds-way-to-blame-israel.html Iran’s official PressTV scoured the depths of US conspiracy theory sites to find a way to possibly blame Israel for Iran’s shooting down the Ukraine Airlines Flight 752. A former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/martin-luther-king-and-edward-said.html Historian and scholar Martin Kramer writes in Times of Israel: Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/latest-apartheid-poster.htmlTime to get ready for this year’s months-long “Israel Apartheid Week” with some new examples of how Israel accepts people of all colors, faiths and backgrounds. Full story here. (h/t Irene) We have lots of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/0119-links-pa-daily-calls-for-murder-to.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: PA daily calls for murder to stop Holocaust ceremony in Jerusalem “One shot will disrupt the [Holocaust] ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony” – call for murder in op-ed […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-harpoon-inside-covert-war.html Harpoon: Inside the covert war against terrorism’s money masters by Shurat HaDin’s Nitsana Dershan-Leitner, published in 2017, is an important chronicle of how Israel, as well as the US, identified the importance of cutting […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/01/iranian-jews-overcame-threats-of.htmlSome 40 years ago, the Iran hostage crisis had an unintended impact on Jews seeking refuge in the US. Point of No Return heard the following anecdotes:  A mass demonstration in favour of Ayatollah Khomeini […]