Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0929-links-pt1-abraham-accords-trumps.htmlFrom Ian: The Abraham Accords trumps the Oslo Accords The signing of the Abraham Accords is an incredible achievement for the Trump administration. For the last three and a half years President Trump disregarded all […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/09/arabic-music-goes-from-ghetto-to.htmlIsrael has overcome its ‘complex’ regarding Arabic music, and today this genre is mainstream in Israeli culture, argues Linda Menuhin in this article for the Tel Aviv Review of Books. (Menuhin surveys the current Arabic […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0929-links-pt2-netanyahu-at-un-reveals.htmlFrom Ian: Netanyahu at UN reveals Hezbollah arms depot in Beirut, warns of fresh ‘tragedy’ Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday revealed a secret arms depot belonging to the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0929-links-pt1-mordechai-kedar-do-arab.htmlFrom Ian: Mordechai Kedar: Do Arab States Really Support the Palestinians? On a political level, the Palestinians have managed to arouse the hatred of many of their Arab brethren. In 1990, Arafat supported Saddam Hussein’s […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/09/tehran-is-latest-mossad-drama-to-wow.htmlTehran, launched on Apple TV in the US this week, is the latest of Israel’s popular spy dramas to hit TV screens  across the world. It has already been bootlegged and illegally streamed across the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0928-links-yisrael-medad-call-to-revolt.htmlFrom Ian: Yisrael Medad: A call to revolt, 90 years on Yom Kippur 5691 fell on a Thursday – October 2, 1930. The next day’s edition of The Palestine Bulletin, the forerunner of this newspaper, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0927-links-uae-minister-irans.htmlFrom Ian: UAE minister: Iran’s aggression made Arab world look at Israel ‘with fresh eyes’ The United Arab Emirates didn’t need peace with Israel to counter Iran, a top UAE official said Friday, but he […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2020/09/break-yom-kippur-fast-with-these-two.htmlIt is customary to fast on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Different communities have their own specific traditional foods for breaking the fast.  Here are two – one from Morocco and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/09/0925-links-pt2-judea-pearl-ruth-bader.htmlFrom Ian: Judea Pearl: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on ‘Being Jewish’ In 2003, when my wife, Ruth, and I were editing the book I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl […]