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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/hilton-hotel-in-turkey-hosts-yom.html Translated from the Turkish “Shalom” Jewish newspaper: Israel’s 69th Independence Day was celebrated with a reception and award ceremony held by the Consulate-General of Israel in Istanbul. Speaking at the reception at the Hilton […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/lies-damned-lies-and-palestinian.html The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics issued a document for “Nakba Day” that proves, if anything, that Palestinian statisticians lie just as much as their politicians do. The document starts off with “Ms. Ola […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/turkish-incitement-and-jordanian-chutzpah/We Jews are losing our ownership of the term “chutzpah”. Where the Jews used it as a survival mechanism or in a humorous way in order to relieve their  bleak oppression in the Diaspora, the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/05/christians-are-leaving-and-not-coming.htmlIt’s not often that the oppression and flight of Christian minorities from the Middle East is mentioned in the same breath as the flight of the Jews. This article by Maria Abi-Habib in the Wall […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/0513-links-pierre-rehovthe-uns.htmlFrom Ian: Pierre Rehov: The UN’s Obsession against Israel The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) met once again on March 20 to debate “Agenda Item 7,” a mandatory subject of debate since June 2006, […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/L4Db4wtGq7U/13-may-17-in-jerusalems-old-city.html Lions’ Gate [Wikipedia] There has been an early-afternoon Arab-on-Israeli knifing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City today (Saturday) close to what Israelis call Lions’ Gate, also known as St. Stephen’s Gate or Sheep Gate and […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/are-biblical-scholars-that-ignorant-or.htmlFrom Haaretz: Can We Eat Bacon Now? Leviticus Was Written for Priests, Not You, Say Scholars The Book of Leviticus, the third book in the Old Testament, is considered something of an anomaly by some […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/0512-links-pt2-people-vs-haaretz-comedy.htmlFrom Ian: The People vs. Haaretz Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper. Admired by many foreigners and few Israelis, loathed by many, mostly Israelis. Read by few, denounced by many, it is a highly ideological, high-quality […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/palestinian-lie-of-day-longest-serving.html One of the more prominent (alleged)  hunger strikers is Karim Younis, 59, a terrorist who murdered Avraham Bromberg in 1980. He was originally sentenced in 1983 to life in prison but Shimon Peres commuted the […]