Articles by Ian

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-idf-soldier-from-casablanca.html Fascinating article in Ynet News about a Jewish IDF soldier whose family still lives in Casablanca. The Moroccans he grew up with and the Arabs he is fighting are not the same, he says.   Suddenly […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/06/david-singer-un-security-council-must.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer.  He writes: President Obama’s continuing refusal to co-sponsor a Security Council Resolution with Russia authorising the use of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/in-jordan-even-cuisine-is-used-to.html A bizarre story has been popping up in Arabic news sites today about the origins of a Jordanian dish called mansaf. Mansaf is lamb cooked in a sauce of fermented dried yogurt and served […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-analogies-and-bad-politics-vic.html    Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Analogical reasoning is basic to human survival. If you can eat a peach, it’s probably safe to eat an apricot. Those of us who favor profiling for security believe […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/0616-links-pt1-pa-minister-of-education.htmlFrom Ian: PMW: PA Minister of Education honors terrorist who murdered 19-year-old policewoman The Palestinian Authority Minister of Education visited a school this week in order to “honor the souls” of three terrorist “Martyrs” who […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/mahmoud-abbas-fatah-long-live-jihad.htmlThe Fatah Facebook page looks back nostalgically at some older PLO posters with identical themes of a rifle emerging from the Dome of the Rock that is covered in a keffiyeh: The caption for this 1979 […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2016/06/when-someone-says-they-are-not-anti.htmlBy Daphne Anson   BDS Norfolk is a genteel and bourgeois-looking collection of dedicated Israel-bashers in and around the English cathedral (and now university) city of Norwich (yes, where the blood libel and cult of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-independent-falsely-claims-israel.htmlThe headline and photo in The Independent: The first paragraphs of the article by Peter Yeung: Israel has cut off the water supply to large areas of the West Bank, Palestinian authorities have claimed. Tens […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-deceptions-of-ben-ehrenreich.html Influential website Politico has an anti-Israel story by Ben Ehrenreich that is literally filled with lies that for some reason were not considered worth checking. The centerpiece is an interview with a former Israeli […]