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http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/major-egyptian-news-site-asks-how-do.htmlYoum7, a major Egyptian newspaper, has a column that asks “How do the Jews think … and how do they achieve their goals?” The article is helpfully illustrated with a picture of a Jewish family […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/operation-thunderbolt-yom-hazikaron.html I did not watch “Seven Days in Entebbe” and I don’t intend to. When the trailer came out my first reaction was excitement. This story is one of the best, breathtaking, exciting, moving, against-all-odds, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/0417-links-pt1-israel-sent-clear.htmlFrom Ian: BESA: Hamas’ Dirty War Against Israel Throughout all the military confrontations Hamas initiated against Israel in 2008-09, 2012, and 2014, as well as in the recent “March of Return,” it has systematically disseminated […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/to-nytimes-hamas-isnt-terrorist-it-is.html Pragmatic: relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic.Merriam-Webster To be a pragmatist is to be a realist, someone […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/eu-high-representative-mogherini-says.html “As Europeans and Arabs we share in particular an interest in preserving the unique status of our common Holy City, Jerusalem.” Those were the words of EU High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini during the opening session […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/watch-j-street-audience-cheer.html When Husam Zomlot gave his speech at J-Street, he described every single thing that Palestinians will never accept. Most of these were things that any Israeli government, from right to left, would insist on […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2018/04/jewish-refugees-from-arab-lands-get-new.htmlThe issue of Jewish refugees from Arab countries has gained unprecedented prominence in the latest issue of  Congressional Quarterly Researcher (13 April 2018). Sarah Glazer tells the story of Syrian-born Joseph Esses and interviews Lyn […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/j-street-falsely-calls-plo-delegate-to.htmlHusam Zomlot, the PLO representative in the US, was called an “Ambassador” by J-Street in their conference today. He isn’t an ambassador. That title is reserved to representatives from a nation, and the US does […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2018/04/0416-links-pt2-evelyn-gordon-israel.htmlFrom Ian: Evelyn Gordon: Israel proves exceptional, once again In January 2017, the Ipsos Mori research company published a shocking poll headlined “Six in ten around the world think their society is ‘broken.’ ” Out […]