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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/0815-links-pt1-laws-of-armed-conflict.htmlFrom Ian: Israel’s Top Military Strategist Talks War and Peace In all likelihood the next Israeli-Iranian confrontation will be a clash with Amidror’s half-threat: the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Iran’s most effective proxy in […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-first-political-leader-in-palestine.html Sometimes we see photos of coins or stamps or currency of British Mandate Palestine being reproduced as “proof” that there was a Palestinian state. If that is true, and British Mandate Palestine is proof […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/550-million-budgeted-for-joint-us.html I received this email from NORPAC, a pro-Israel lobby group: President Trump signed into law [Monday]  the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, the U.S. defense budget bill for […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/palestinian-op-ed-accurately-explains.html Ma’an published an op-ed by Ali Hweidi, a writer and researcher on Palestinian affairs from Lebanon, about the threat of closing down UNRWA. He starts off saying the truth that UNRWA’s supporters in the […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/08/david-singer-jordan-israel-negotiations.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here’s the latest article by Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer. He writes: Jordan-Israel negotiations based on President Trump’s long-awaited peace plan seem increasingly likely to happen – following […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/08/mizrahiisraels-critiics-did-not.htmlRevealing article by Uri Klein in Haaretz about the late Moshe Mizrahi, the only Israeli film director to win an Oscar. The Israeli establishment excluded Mizrahi’s films from Israeli cinema, and its output of 1960s […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/08/israel-has-been-made-alibi-for-new.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Time to re-read the late lamented Professor Norman Geras’s post here on “Alibi Antisemitism”. Here’s the merest taster: “In Marx’s essay On the Jewish Question, written in 1844, there are two […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/08/0814-links-pt2-sohrab-ahmari-never.htmlFrom Ian: Sohrab Ahmari: Never Corbyn An appeal to sanity. His Labour handlers claimed Corbyn was there to commemorate some four-dozen Palestinian militants killed in an Israeli air strike against a Tunisian PLO base. But […]