Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/12/in-search-of-jewish-houses-in-basra.htmlCarol Isaacs, whose family originated in Iraq, has started an audio-visual project to record memories of Baghdad. Here is one of the posts from her website (with thanks: Michelle): On the Tube home the other […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1206-links-pt1-trump-to-recognize.htmlFrom Ian: Trump to recognize Jerusalem as capital, plan embassy move, White House confirms US President Donald Trump will announce in a speech on Wednesday that he is formally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, while […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/12/spanners-in-works.htmlBy Daphne Anson   The rather distinguished-looking gentleman pictured left is a former editor of the British Christian magazine Third Way, founded in 1977. As his choice of neckwear suggests, he is hardly a warm […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1205-links-pt1-trump-tells-abbas-jordan.htmlFrom Ian: Trump Delays Jerusalem Embassy Move Announcement President Donald Trump will not announce Monday evening whether he will move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. The president faced a deadline Monday for deciding […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/12/joe-we-cant-go-back-theyve-taken-it-all.htmlThe story of the dispossession of Joseph Smouha, who built Smouha City in Alexandria out of marshland, is a remarkable one. What is perhaps more remarkable, is that this article by Joseph Braude appeared in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1204-links-pt2-kontorovich-anti-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Seth Frantzman: Ben Rhodes just blamed Israel and Saudi for MidEast tensions, revealing former Obama admin bias The new Ben Rhodes tweet sheds light on the Obama administrations biases in the region. Obama […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/n-d3II30-lA/04-dec-17-after-thursday-nights-murder.html The murder victim, aged 19 A young Israeli man, barely out of high school and serving in his country’s military so so many of his peers, was murdered on Thursday night around 9:30 pm […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1204-links-pt1-method-to-trumps-madness.htmlFrom Ian: MEMRI: Emirati Writer Al-Habtoor: Now Is The Time To Make Peace With Israel, In Order To Resolve Palestinian Issue And Join Forces In Fighting Iran In an article in the English-language Saudi daily […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/12/civil-rights-campaigner-and-author.htmlAn authority on Arab culture and history and fervent critic of Israeli internal politics, Nissim Rejwan, who has died aged 93, was part of Baghdad’s political and cultural élite. He went to Israel in 1951 […]