Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/07/biton-report-will-right-historic_42.htmlMore Mizrahi and Sephardi content in the schools and university curriculum. Annual school trips to Spain and Morocco. A TV show. No longer will education about Jews from Arab countries be Israel’s Cinderella.  What’s not […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/israel-is-accused-of-stealing-cattle.html From Al Araby: Proving yet again that it is the modern-day, heavily armed equivalent of a Wild West criminal gang, Israel has now expanded its activities from occupation and illegal settlement, into cattle rustling. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/0707-links-pt2-great-arab-implosion-and.htmlFrom Ian: The Great Arab Implosion and Its Consequences Who or what will replace a century of failed Sunni Arab dominance? What, if anything, can the West do to help shape the future?In 2007, in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/those-apartheid-beaches.htmlToday, at a beach in Bat Yam, I saw a bunch of giggling Muslim girls, fully covered, who were showering the sand off their hijabs after hanging at the beach for a while along with […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/whats-problem-with-reform-judaism-vic.html    Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Today I came across an article by Rabbi Baruch Efrati in which he opposes cooperation between Israelis and the Reform Movement. So what, you say. Another Orthodox attack on the heretical reformim. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/0707-links-pt1-pa-pays-140-mil-year-to.htmlFrom Ian: The End of Palestinian Nationalism When a movement devolves into a death cult, it’s time to rethink our assumptionsThe Palestinian genius for nay-saying is well-documented, but what’s at play here is something new, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/an-anecdote-from-iran-1979.htmlDuring my current trip to Israel I am getting the opportunity to speak with many fascinating people. Yesterday I spoke on the phone to an expert on Iran, and when I introduced myself as the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/eoztv-conversation-with-ben-dror-yemini.html Last week I had a wide-ranging conversation with famous Israeli columnist, author and lecturer Ben Dror Yemini at a Tel Aviv cafe. He wrote a book called The Industry of Lies about anti-Israeli incitement […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/07/yemen-releases-suspects-held-for.htmlThe Likud MK Ayoub Kara has revealed that those persons arrested for allegedly smuggling a Torah scroll out of Yemen have all been released. Arutz Sheva reports:  Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu reads from the Torah […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/07/iranians-trying-to-acquire-nuke-weapons.html We were assured, repeatedly, that if Iran would break the terms of the nuclear deal that the sanctions regime would automatically “snap-back.” Here’s how the New York Times described it: The so-called snapback mechanism […]