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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/0418-links-pt1-dore-gold-israel-at-70.htmlFrom Ian: Dore Gold: Israel at 70: Flourishing against All Odds The rebirth of Israel is nothing short of a miracle. It involved dedication and commitment of a national movement that began with the establishment […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/somehow-chinese-tourists-manage-to.htmlBreaking Israel News reports on  a post at the StandwithUs Facebook page (I couldn’t find the original.) Yosef Rabin writes, “An Israeli Flag has not flown on the Temple Mount since the 1967 War. Today […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/yom-hazikaron-5778-israels-memorial-day-2018/Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, began last night at sundown with the sound of the siren, as Israelis commemorated their fallen. Israelis commemorated the country’s 26,780 fallen soldiers […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-world-moves-on-but-palestinian-arab.htmlAs the Palestinians continue to insist on no compromise in their demand for a state, let’s look at what progress has been seen in the world since 2000, when they rejected the chance for statehood […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2018/04/menaced-in-merkeland.htmlBy Daphne Anson   The screengrab at left is from a video that the Vlad Tepes blog uploaded on Youtube some hours ago. To quote Vlad himself:“Youtube pulled this video and gave me a “community […]

http://david-collier.com/choose-battles-corbyn/ It is seventy years since the ‘Jewish People’s Council’ gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and approved the proclamation declaring the establishment of the State of Israel. For six months, Jews had been engaged […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/j-street-members-applaud-taking-in.html Yesterday I showed how enthusiastic J-Street members were in applauding Palestinian intransigence.  Compare that to this speech by Hawaii senator Brian Schatz, where the applause for pro-Israel positions like supporting Israel’s right to exist […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/04/ive-been-cut-off-from-my-baghdad-soul.html A young Israeli living in Berlin, Orit Arfa, asks why the Jewish world hardly ever talks about her Iraqi grandmother’s heritage. Why are there no serious attempts to recover Jewish property there, to open Jewish […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/0417-links-pt2-israel-prepares-to.htmlFrom Ian: IDF Blog: What is Yom HaZikaron and how does Israel observe it? Yom HaZikaron is the day of national remembrance in Israel to commemorate all the soldiers and people who lost their lives […]