General News

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/mattifriedman-is-right-and-lisang-is.htmlMatti Friedman in his New York Times op-ed talks about Hamas’ ability to use the media to tell an anti-Israel story: Most Western viewers experienced these events through a visual storytelling tool: a split screen. […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/chag-shavuot-sameach-8/The festival of Shavuot (“Feast of Weeks” or Pentecost), beginning on Motzei Shabbat (Saturday night), is the culmination of the 7 weeks (hence the name) of counting the Omer – Sefirat Ha’Omer. We are instructed […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0517-links-pt2-new-video-shows-unrwa.htmlFrom Ian: New video purportedly shows UN influence in Gaza clashes A video taken by the Center for Near East Policy Research at an UNRWA school and refugee camp in the Gaza Strip allegedly shows […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/good-news-before-shavuot/It’s not quite Friday as I write (though it may well be so by the time I post), but with the upcoming Shavuot festival starting straight after Shabbat, and after this week’s upsetting news, I […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/nyt-latest-to-ignore-goal-of-riots-to.htmlThe New York Times has a backgrounder on the Gaza protests and the fence, which it claims is the source of the unrest. The article briefly touches on the word “return” but downplays that as […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-secret-is-zionism-vic-rosenthal.html  Vic Rosenthal’s Weekly Column I attended a lecture on Monday by Moti Toledo, who participated in Operation Solomon, the 36-hour airlift of about 15,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel while Ethiopia was in the throes […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/0517-links-pt1-i-was-at-gaza-border-we.htmlFrom Ian: Matti Friedman (NYTs): Falling for Hamas’s Split-Screen Fallacy The press coverage on Monday was a major Hamas success in a war whose battlefield isn’t really Gaza, but the brains of foreign audiences. Israeli […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/05/hamas-refuses-medical-supplies-from.html On Tuesday, COGAT reported: Earlier today, Kerem Shalom Crossing was opened and COGAT coordinated the entry of humanitarian aid, despite the recent riots by the security fence. The aid included:4 trucks carrying medical supplies […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/05/17/more-on-anti-israel-media-bias-re-gaza-plus-a-mea-culpa/This is the gift that keeps on giving, the subject that never dies away. As I have written previously, and especially in this latest round of clashes in Gaza, the automatic bias in international forums […]