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https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/the-netanyahu-government-talks-out-of-both-sides-of-its-mouth/I was so happy when Binyamin Netanyahu was first elected Prime Minister over a decade ago. “Finally we’ll have a strong but skillful politician heading our governemnt” I thought. I must give Netanyahu credit for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/leftist-israeli-leader-talk-to-arabs.htmlAvner Inbar is the Co-Chair and Co-Founder of Molad, a Jerusalem-based progressive think tank. Of course he wants peace with Palestinians. He supports Israel negotiating with Palestinians, Jews talking with Arabs, Israel embracing the Arab Peace […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/deport-israels-illegal-immigrants-vic.html The attitude of Israelis to African “infiltrators” or “asylum seekers” or “refugees” – what you call them is indicative of how you feel about them – is a manifestation of a broad cultural divide […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/0831-links-pt1-israel-and-us-threaten.htmlFrom Ian: Eugene Kontorovich: Symposium on Occupation Law: The Necessary Non-Normativity and Temporal Indeterminacy of Occupation Law Certainly some prolonged occupations are the result of colonialist or annexationist aims. But this is not inevitably the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/before-1967-american-anti-zionists.htmlHere is a letter to the editor in the New York Times from June 24, 1960, by the head of American Friends of the Middle East, Harold Minor: His points are:– Any Arab intransigence is […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-palestinian-textbooks-used-by.htmlDavid Bedein, who has done more than almost anyone to expose the hate taught in UNRWA schools, has looked at the latest crop of textbooks published under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority in 2017. […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/08/recalling-baghdadi-music-of-india.htmlIn the cosmopolitan culture of the 1930s, the Baghdadi Jews of India had  their own record labels: Iraqi-Jewish songs played by the oud player  Isaac David even found their way into Bollywood musicals.  In 2009, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/0830-links-pt2-j-street-rewrites.htmlFrom Ian: J Street Rewrites History to Create ‘Palestine’ The US government’s reluctance to demand the immediate creation of a Palestinian state has sent J Street into a panic. With its candidates having been defeated […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/08/newsweek-defeating-arab-dream-judean.html “Has Israel finally won the war and defeated the Palestinian dream? Read our cover story,” said the tweet with a gif of an Arab child in an empty doorframe looking like Jesus on the […]