Articles by Ian

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0105-links-pt1-ruthie-blum-mahmoud.htmlFrom Ian: Ruthie Blum: Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz must have known that hosting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin would arouse […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0104-links-pt2-anti-zionist-jews-are.htmlFrom Ian: When They Start Talking About ‘Anti-Zionism,’ Natan Sharansky Knows What They Really Mean Listen to my interview with the former Soviet refusenik on how to spot antisemitism. Also, fixing the sometimes fraught relationship […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0104-links-pt1-eli-lake-what-biden-can.htmlFrom Ian: Eli Lake: What Biden Can Learn From Trump’s Iran Policy Faced with these escalations, the Biden administration has tried to walk a tightrope on Iran. On the one hand, it has continued to […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0103-links-pt2-palestine-action-how-and.htmlFrom Ian: Palestine Action: How and why they have crossed the line into antisemitism. Finally — the blood libel, “Israel’s love for blood”This is the clincher, which makes it pretty clear that this is no […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0103-links-pt1-betraying-memory-of.htmlFrom Ian: Abbas meets Gantz one day and bashes Israel the next Abbas has been around quite a while and obviously knew that his meeting with Gantz would trigger furious responses on the Palestinian street. […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0102-links-col-kemp-is-bidens-legacy.htmlFrom Ian: Dore Gold: The UN’s Reinvention of Jerusalem’s Past The UN is at it again. On November 26, 2021, the General Assembly adopted a resolution referring to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where the […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/01/0101-links-middle-east-year-in-review.htmlFrom Ian: Seth Frantzman: The Middle East: A year in review In contrast to this threat, Israel increased its joint training with the US and other partners and allies. It hosted an exercise with the […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/12/1231-links-pt2-18-noteworthy-jews-who.htmlFrom Ian: 18 noteworthy Jews who died in 2021 Every year brings the deaths of Jewish icons who leave behind outsized legacies, from the realms of art and culture, government, business, philanthropy and beyond. Here […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/12/1231-links-pt1-un-where-anti-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Mark Regev: The UN – where anti-Israel prejudice remains supreme There are clear signs that Arab hostility towards the Jewish state is on the wane. The Abraham Accords normalized Israel’s relations with the […]

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/12/1230-links-pt2-remembering-heroes.htmlFrom Ian: Keep calm and call someone, it’s urgent When the BBC – one of the world’s most revered and esteemed news institutions – insists that something is so and stands by it so rigidly […]