Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/an-algerian-jewish-fighter-during-ww2.htmlLittle over seventy-five years ago on 8 November 1942, the Allied forces launched Operation Torch in North Africa. The plan was to land in both Morocco and Algeria and defeat the Vichy regimes in  both […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/ISz165PSz0E/16-jan-18-in-gaza-another-invisible.html From the Deir al-Balah municipal website This happened on Monday according to a report published late Monday night: A rocket fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip struck a Palestinian home in Deir al-Balah […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0115-links-pt2-lefts-latest-bid-to.htmlFrom Ian: The left’s latest bid to delegitimize the Jewish state Jerusalem defied many in the media’s expectations that it would explode into violence after President Trump’s decision to recognize the city as Israel’s capital. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0115-links-pt1-kedar-speech-in-which.htmlFrom Ian: Dr. Mordechai Kedar: The speech in which Abbas dug his own grave Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has delivered a speech triggered by his rage at the President of the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-jewish-fighters-changed-course-of.htmlThis article in Haaretz describing the little-known exploits of a small band of Jewish resistance fighters, who paved the way for the Allied landing in Algiers in 1942 (Operation Torch), is a welcome effort to […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0114-links-thwarting-hamas-terror-one.htmlFrom Ian: Thwarting Hamas terror, one tunnel at a time This morning, the IDF completed the destruction of a Hamas terror tunnel that infiltrated Israeli territory. This operation, led by the Southern Command, was carried […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-linda-menuhin-lost-her-father-in.htmlIn this interview in the Dutch newspaper NRC-Handelsblad the Israeli journalist LindaMenuhin tells Floris van Straaten how she tried to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of her father in 1970s Iraq. A personal tragedy […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/01/david-singer-israel-jordan-negotiations.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) threat to refuse to negotiate with Israel unless President Trump withdraws […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/01/0113-links-is-it-time-for-hostile.htmlFrom Ian: Is it time for a hostile takeover of UNRWA? Israel’s position, that UNRWA should be dismantled and Palestinian refugees should be treated through the UNHCR along with the rest of the world’s refugees, […]