General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0125-links-pt1-is-israels-inevitable.htmlFrom Ian: Ruthie Blum: Is Israel’s Inevitable War With Iran Already Underway? Meanwhile, the Iranian regime — weakened by restored US sanctions and the massive unrest of its subjugated populace — is boasting about its […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/soldiers-who-captured-temple-mount-in.html Fatah issued a statement yesterday, calling on Palestinian Arabs to defend the Al Aqsa Mosque and surrounding area against “attacks and the successive incursions, the latest of which was this morning with the Israeli […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/ireland-closer-to-bizarre-law-that.htmlFrom JTA: The lower house of Ireland’s Parliament approved a bill on Thursday that would ban the import or sale of goods originating in all “occupied territories,” with lawmakers’ discussions centered on eastern Jerusalem, the […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2019/01/25/good-news-friday-266/The days are getting longer and warmer after the very cold and stormy weather of the last few weeks, so it’s just the right mood for a Good News Friday post. Let’s start with some […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2019/01/fifty-years-since-baghdad-hangings-of.htmlThis Sunday, 27 January marks 50 years since the hangings in Baghdad of nine Jews on trumped-up spying charges. (Dozens more Jews disappeared without trace. ) The event will be marked with special commemorations in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-biggest-bdsfail-that-you-never.htmlIn 2015, the BDS Movement was ecstatic over some economic news: “BDS was a major factor behind the 46% drop in foreign direct investment in Israel in 2014, according to a UN report,” the BDS […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0124-links-pt2-dont-believe-ilhan-omar.htmlFrom Ian: Don’t Believe Ilhan Omar She “unknowingly” offended Jews by saying that Israel hypnotized the world not to see its evil? Nonsense. In the Greater Middle East, from which Omar’s family hails, conspiracy theory […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/matti-friedmans-lens-and-sisyphean-mud.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Matti Friedman explains what should be obvious when he says that there is no Israeli-Palestinian conflict: There isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think, and […]