General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/while-denying-shooting-rockets-hamas.html A new video by Hamas threatens Israel with more rockets, warning Israel not to make any “mistakes”: Meanwhile, apparently some Hamas official said that the Palestinian Authority might have shot the rockets in order […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/10/19/good-news-friday-257/It seems weird writing a Good News Friday post immediately after writing about the missile attacks on Beer Sheva. But for the moment things are quiet (not necessarily a good thing if it means the […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/10/uprooted-corrective-to-one-sided.html ‘Uprooted’ by Lyn Julius is a welcome corrective to the one-sidedness prevalent in public discourse regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, writes Brandon Marlon in his Jerusalem Report review: The British-born daughter of Mizrahi Jewish refugees from […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/1018-links-pt2-phillips-corbyn-is-not.htmlFrom Ian: Melanie Phillips: Jeremy Corbyn is not the cause of left-wing Jew hate, he’s the result of it There are two two principal reasons why the left is institutionally antisemitic. The first is that […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/more-about-mother-who-saved-her-kids.htmlA short Twitter thread from Lenny Ben David, slightly edited: ________________ Beer Sheva mother’s called national hero. She woke to sirens in middle of night, ran upstairs to grab 3 sleeping kids from 3 bedrooms, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-one-speech-rick-jacobs-will-never.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism in the US recently published an op-ed in Ha’aretz entitled “The One Speech Netanyahu Will Never Make to Diaspora Jews,” […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/1018-links-pt1-in-blow-to-palestinians.htmlFrom Ian: In blow to Palestinians, US places Jerusalem consulate under embassy The State Department announced Thursday that it would bring its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians under the auspices of the US Embassy […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/hashomer-hachadash-love-story-forest.html HaShomer HaChadash: This is a love story between a land and her people, a people and their land There are some people who don’t hear when others speak the word, “impossible.” Instead they hear, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/10/abbas-wont-meet-with-israelis-or.htmlPLO leader Mahmoud Abbas met with J-Street leader Jeremy Ben-Ami and a J-Street delegation today at Abbas’ presidential palace in Ramallah. Abbas refuses to meet with the Israeli president or with US peace negotiators or […]