General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/cartoon-of-day_1.htmlSince I’m going to Israel next week, I’m going to spread my newly captioned New Yorker cartoons to one a day. Some have been tweeted, some haven’t. We have lots of ideas, but we need […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/j-street-is-anti-peace.html J-Street styles itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” The first part is obviously not true, since J-Street’s political positions are consistently on the side of the Palestinian positions and against that of the elected Israeli government, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-untouchable-ilhan-omar.htmlJewish Insider reports that Ilhan Omar, Minnesota representative in Congress, said some more outrageous antisemitic stuff. First, the usual “Jews are attacking my antisemitic statements because I’m a Muslim and I’m only criticizing Israel:” Rep. […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/03/who-owns-west-bank-property-once-owned.htmlThe question of Jewish property and assets turned over to Arabs in the West Bank after the 1948 Jordanian occupation is a thorny one. The Israeli government has decided to leave this particular can of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0228-links-pt2-anti-israel-democrats.htmlFrom Ian: Anti-Israel Democrats Defend Past Comments At Anti-Israel Restaurant Freshman Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar (Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.) defended their comments on Israel and its influence in the United States on Wednesday night […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/hamas-islamic-jihad-defend-terrorists.html I mentioned on Sunday that four men were sentenced to prison in Libya for forming a Hamas cell there. The specific charges were that the four had acquired and shipped arms to Hamas from […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/strong-horses-and-strong-jews-vic.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse. – Osama bin Laden All courses of action are risky, so prudence […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/0228-links-pt1-palestinians-automatic.htmlFrom Ian: The Palestinians’ Automatic “No” to Peace The Palestinian issue—once at the heart of Arab political discourse in our region—has been pushed to the margins. Mahmoud Abbas might still be able to extract a […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/02/peter-beinarts-insulting-and-offensive.html In The Forward (where else?), Peter Beinart offers a defense of anti-Zionism, saying that it is wrong to associate it with antisemitism. “Anti-Zionism is not inherently anti-Semitic — and claiming it is uses Jewish […]