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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/prepping-for-terror-hanging-tough.html “I’ve been meaning to discuss this with you,” began my husband as he turned from Route 60 onto el-Amal St. We often turn off here to avoid the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem highway, which is invariably […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-whole-airbnb-fiasco-is-good-pretext.htmlOur weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.  Check out their Facebook page. The Whole AirBnB Fiasco Is A Good Pretext For Not Cleaning My House By Yaakov Cohen, Gush Etzion resident Efrata, December 19 – […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/1219-links-pt1-netanyahu-calls.htmlFrom Ian: Ahead of UN meet, Netanyahu calls Hezbollah tunnel-digging ‘act of war’ Ahead of a United Nations Security Council meeting on the attack tunnels Hezbollah dug across the Lebanese-Israeli border, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/jordanian-minister-reassures-his-people.html Last week I reported that a major Netflix movie, The Old Story, was being filmed in Jordan as a stand-in for Israel, and filming was stopped when angry residents complained that Jews would be […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-poll-shows-palestinians-support.html A new poll from the Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research shows that Palestinians are once again supporting terror over peace. A plurality of 44% say “armed struggle” is the most effective means […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-are-egypts-motives-for-restoring.htmlWhy is Egyptian president al-Sisi spending millions on restoring Jewish sites? The government has allocated 71 million dollars  for restoration, but the government has since insisted that this sum is for restoring Coptic and Muslim […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/why-is-eu-so-scared-of-peace-plan.html From The Jerusalem Post: Any  Israeli-Palestinian peace plan not based on the pre-1967 lines will fail, eight European Union member states warned US President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening. “We, the European Union members […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/12/1218-links-pt2-terror-liability-for.htmlFrom Ian: A Terror Liability for the Times If Nasser was a Times staff photographer, the proscriptions on public statements and conduct of a political nature would prevent him from posting incitement to murder on […]