General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/remarkable-muslim-cleric-to-go-on-trial.htmlEgypt is hardly a paradigm of human rights, but human rights NGOs ignore some of the remarkable things that have been done under the current Egyptian leadership. From Al Ahram: A Cairo misdemeanor court has […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/good-news-friday-206/It’s been a busy week for me which explains the lack of posting since Sunday. However, it’s Friday again and time for a Good News Friday installment. Let’s start with a major hasbara victory for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/iranian-militia-leader-in-iraq.html From Arab News: A notorious sectarian leader in Iraq has claimed that the Shiite project of encircling and dominating the Middle Eastern states is on track.Delivering a speech in Arabic, at a graduation ceremony […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-palestinian-arab-tries-and-fails-to.htmlMany years ago, Dry Bones published this cartoon: Nada Elia at Middle East Eye claims to demolish this argument – and fails spectacularly. She believes that the questions themselves are illegitimate to begin with, but […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-mizrahi-israel-unnerves-us-jews.htmlIn his exploration of why American Jews are indifferent or even hostile to Israel, Daniel Gordis says they are unnerved by both the Judaism of the Mizrahim, and their unabashed nationalism. A must-read in Mosaic: […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-is-there-so-much-politics-in-arabic.htmlBy Daphne Anson   I’ve been browsing the Spring 2017 issue of the Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin.  It’s clear that along with all the other socio-political stances that comprise the often bizarre and contradictory (women’s […]

http://abuyehuda.com/2017/05/being-the-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people/In April of this year, the UN released the 2017 World Happiness Report. Using polling data collected by the Gallup organization, it ranked 156 countries in the world in order of how happy with their […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/0511-links-pt2-phillips-change.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: Change the narrative, Mr. President Trump is the ultimate big picture man.He thinks with his gut. He doesn’t do detail.So he should be told this simple fact: that the reason the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/05/aliyah-idf-style-part-2-ziesel-r.html A few months ago I asked a friend of mine whose daughter had just made Aliyah right out of high school if she would be interested in writing about her experiences. This is part […]