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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/09/pro-palestinian-jews-inadvertently-make.html The “Jews for Justice for Palestinians” website reproduces an article from Middle East Quarterly that calls into question the traditional holiness of the Western Wall. Middle East Quarterly’s article is entitled “Is the Western […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/09/israel-is-only-state-to-support-kurdish.html  Kurds wave an Israeli flag at a pro-independence demonstration in Erbil (Photo: Ivor Pricket, New York Times)Today, Iraqi Kurds vote in a non-binding referendum on whether the region should declare independence from Iraq. Saladin, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/09/norway-deports-iranian-asylum-seeker.html This is horrific – and not surprising at all: The Iranian asylum seeker Leila Bayat, who was deported from Norway on 8 March 2017, has received 80 lashes in Tehran. During the investigation of […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/iran-and-north-korea-provoke-israel-and-the-west/We were offline for 3 days and we seem to have missed a possible outbreak of WW3! This Ongoing War reports that on Tuesday the Iranians sent a drone over Israel which Israel successfully shot […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/09/iran-tells-un-israel-has-waged-15-wars.html Iran responded to Netanyahu’s speech at the UN last week with some brand new lies I’d never heard of before (video here): The representative of Iran, speaking in exercise of the right of reply, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/09/from-exodus-to-munich-response-to.html Forest Rain has written a smart piece published in Israellycool entitled, From Exodus to Munich: How Did We Get Here? This is an interesting bit of cultural inquiry that wonders how the Jewish people in Israel went – […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/09/jordans-royal-family-doesnt-quite.html From Jordan’s Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II’s speech at the UN General Assembly last week: My country–a resource-poor nation in a conflict-rich region–is host to 1.3 million Syrian refugees. Add to that millions […]