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https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/elections-silly-season/It is election season in Israel with all the attendant empty promises, scandals, and political jockeying. Bayit Yehudi head and Education Minister Naftali Bennett took his deputy, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, and left the party, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/iran-building-new-apartments-for.html The Hamas Ministry of Prisoners and Detainees in Gaza held a lottery to award 26 units in a newly constructed apartment tower in Gaza. Only former prisoners in Israeli prisons were eligible for the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/summing-up-womens-march-poster.htmlEven without talking about the antisemitism of the Women’s March leaders, the entire movement is hypocritical. It is a good thing that its sponsors are bailing as fast as they could. We have lots of […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-jewish-daily-forward-jdforward.htmlFrom The New York Post: The Forward is stopping — its print editions. The storied Jewish-American publication is suspending its print operations and plans to lay off about 40 percent of its editorial staff — […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2019/01/david-singer-trump-plan-for-israel.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: President Trump’s self-styled deal of the century aimed at resolving the 100 years-old Arab-Jewish conflict has […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0116-links-pt2-victor-davis-hanson-new.htmlFrom Ian: Victor Davis Hanson: The New, New Anti-Semitism Out on the barricades, some Democrats, feminists, and Muslim activists, such as the co-founders of the “Women’s March,” Tamika Mallory and the now familiar Sarsour, have […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/voting-in-israel-is-like-watching-cable.html I can never understand right-wing people who vote for Naftali Bennett. I mean, even if I could forgive him for joining forces with Yair Lapid that time, how can someone with a plan for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/christ-sues-christ-at-checkpoint-for.htmlOur weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.  Check out their Facebook page. Bethlehem, January 16 – The Prince of Peace, King of the Jews, Son of God, Jesus Christ filed a lawsuit today against an […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2019/01/0116-links-pt1-matti-friedman-there-is.htmlFrom Ian: Matti Friedman: There Is No ‘Israeli-Palestinian Conflict’ To someone here in Israel, there isn’t an Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the way that many outsiders seem to think. In the Israeli view, no peacemaker can […]