Articles by Ian

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0126-links-pt2-pres-rivlin-israel-not.htmlFrom Ian: President Rivlin to foreign envoys: Israel ‘not compensation for Holocaust’ President Reuven Rivlin is not a lone voice in the wilderness when he insists the creation of the State of Israel was not […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0126-links-pt1-amb-haley-hate-filled.htmlFrom Ian: Amb. Haley Says Hate-Filled Speech by Abbas Shows He’s Not Ready to Make Peace Referring to a recent “hate-filled” speech given by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which he declared the Oslo […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/remembering-baghdad-hangings-49-years.htmlWith thanks: Rick  Tomorrow is Holocaust Memorial Day. Although the event is not remotely comparable to the mass extermination of six million Jews,   it is also 49 years since the Ba’ath party regime hanged […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0125-links-pt2-ben-shapiro-partisan.htmlFrom Ian: Ben Shapiro: Partisan Divide over Israel That deeper element is worldview, exposed by 9/11 and exacerbated over time by increasing partisan bickering over Islamic terrorism. From 1978 through the Oslo Accord, support for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0125-links-pt1-trump-no-more-aid-unless.htmlFrom Ian: Trump: No more aid unless Palestinians accept that Jerusalem is ‘off the table’ In a freewheeling press availability on Thursday, US President Donald Trump said the US would no longer transfer monetary aid […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/tunisian-court-seeks-arrest-of-djerba.html It looks like the authorities are determined to take seriously anti-Jewish incidents on the island of Djerba, in which petrol bombs were thrown at a synagogue and school during three nights of rioting.  Damage at […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0124-links-pt2-how-arafat-eluded.htmlFrom Ian: NYTs: How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine The choice facing Ivry on that day in October 1982 was only one example of a dilemma that has confronted many Israeli authorities over the course […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0124-links-pt1-note-who-curses-america.htmlFrom Ian: Trump in the Middle East: Note Who Curses America, and Who Blesses It President Donald Trump has promised that in the Middle East under his presidency, “there are many things that can happen […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/bbc-hypes-up-discrimination-against.htmlTimed to coincide with Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to India,  an article written by the BBC Hindi journalist Zubair Ahmed was published on the BBC News website’s ‘India’ and ‘Middle East’ pages under the title “Israel’s […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-green-tickled-pink.htmlBy Daphne Anson   The zany Medea Benjamin co-founder in 2002 of the infamous Code Pink organisation recently wrote an as-a-Jew pro-BDS piece in The Guardian that has been replicated elsewhere.Here, for instance, with Ms […]