Articles by Eldad Tzioni

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/hamas-wanting-to-stay-alive-is-evidence.htmlHamas is showing this dashcam video of Israelis running away from the shooting attack in Petah Tikvah last week as evidence of Jewish cowardice. Astal with Hamas leader Haniyeh At the Qassam Brigades website, this […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/kuwait-seeks-to-expel-israel-from-inter.html The Inter Parliamentary Union has been around since 1889. It has 170 members of nations that have parliaments. Judging from its Twitter feed, the IPU seems to spend a lot of time concentrating on […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-art-of-deal-tzipi-livni-to-become.html Haaretz has a fascinating story: Israeli lawmaker Tzipi Livni may soon be appointed to a senior role in the United Nations. Over the weekend, Livni (Hatnua-Zionist Union) received a phone call from UN Chief […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/sudanese-cleric-says-it-is-not-against.html From MEMRI: In a conference titled “On [Religious] Awakening and Dialogue,” held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on February 6, 2017, Sudanese oppositionist and cleric Yousuf Al-Koda, a former member of the Sudan […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/a-quick-tu-bshvat-review-of-how-arabs.htmlTomorrow is Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees. From reading the media one would think that Arabs are the ones who venerate trees and Jews are the ones who uproot them. But as […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/trump-backs-further-away-from-embassy.html Trump with interviewer Boaz Bismuth Israel Hayom published a brief section from an exclusive interview with President Trump today. The full interview will be published Sunday. When asked about the embassy move to Jerusalem, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-importance-of-honot-in-arab-world.html From Al Jazeera on February 4: Jordan said late on Saturday that its warplanes bombed positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in southern Syria, two years after […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/meditations-on-todays-news-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column I opened my newspaper this morning (Wednesday) and was greeted with the headline: the White House has no comment on the regularization law that was passed yesterday, and will talk […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-plo-is-not-happy-that-palestinian.html On February 25, there will be a “Conference for Palestinians Abroad” in Istanbul. It is mean to attract Palestinians outside the Arab world. The goals are: Affirming our right of liberation and self determination […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/02/palestine-refugees-arent-refugees-and.html As a followup to my post about UNRWA and defining refugees, it looks like the reality is a bit simpler than I thought. I asked an international legal scholar about UNRWA’s definition of refugees, […]