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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/not-newsworthy-4-killed-in-clashes.html Israel gets blamed for any force it uses in searching for terrorists, but here’s something that you won’t hear about often: Two members of the Palestinian security forces were killed on Thursday, and two […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/jibril-rajoub-again-using-sports-to.html Jibril Rajoub, head of the head of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs as well as the president of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestinian Olympic Committee, has seized on another […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2016/08/seeing-wood-from-trees-on-tu-beav.html Today is Tu ‘Be Av, the Jewish Valentine’s Day. In searching for a description of how Jews in Arab lands celebrate this day, I came across an alternative explanation from Shlomo on the Tunisian-Jewish  blog […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/macmillan-geography-textbook-filled.html Here are the first paragraphs of a section on terrorism written in the textbook  World Regional Geography (with Subregions), 4th edition by Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher, Alex Pulsipher, and Conrad M. Goodwin, published by Macmillan: […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0818-links-pt2-facebook-is-for.htmlFrom Ian: Israeli Ambassador to Ireland: Outsiders Fuelling Propaganda War Against Israel Are Not Helping to Bring Peace Sir, – As someone who worked closely with the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin during the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/arab-analyst-humiliating-gaza.html We have mentioned before how the Arab world, as a whole, looks upon every event as a win or a loss, as part of a zero-sum game, and how the honor/shame system feeds into […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/seven-things-israel-doesnt-need-vic.html   Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Seven things Israel doesn’t need A popular idea in the West is that you solve conflicts by satisfying people’s needs. Just figure out how to meet everyone’s needs, and the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2016/08/0818-links-pt1-pa-tv-song-palestinians.htmlFrom Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: “No Room for the Zionist Entity in the Region” “The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Wakf throughout the generations and until […]