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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/pNHSd3LCsyg/03-dec-17-understanding-jordans.html Yesterday in Jordan [Screen grab] Regular readers know we pay more than the usual amount of attention to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It’s where our daughter Malki’s murderer lives free as a bird. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1202-links-next-week-in-jerusalem.htmlFrom Ian: White House Notifies US Embassies Around the World of Plan to Recognize Jerusalem as Capital of Israel The Trump administration has notified U.S. embassies around the world that it plans to formally recognize […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-cynical-palestinian-lighting-of.html Today was the annual Palestinian Christmas tree lighting ceremony, with plenty of prominent Palestinians attending. This is always a cynical exercise. As happens every year, it is a ceremony meant to back Israel, and […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-cry-of-wolf-against-eddie-maguire.htmlBy Daphne Anson   A few years ago a terrible insult to an Aboriginal footballer, Adam Goodes, quite rightly landed Aussie media mega-star Eddie McGuire in hot water. Now, in a ridiculous beat-up abetted by […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1201-links-pt2-trump-will-recognize.htmlFrom Ian: Trump will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in Wednesday speech — report Defying longstanding American policy, US President Donald Trump will give a speech Wednesday recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to an […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1201-links-pt1-un-condemns-israel-6.htmlFrom Ian: Man stabbed to death in apparent terror attack named as IDF soldier The 19-year-old Israeli stabbed to death at a bus station in an apparent terror attack in the southern city of Arad […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/kuwaiti-converts-to-judaism-arab-social.htmlI couldn’t find the original tweet in English that started this, but this photo has been boomeranging around Arabic social media: Bir Zeit University put it on Facebook: The Jewish rabbi announced on his Twitter […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/us-jewish-leaders-like-jeremy-ben-ami.htmlThe primary goal of every true refugee organization is to repatriate the refugees to their homes. If that is not possible, the refugees should go where they are most likely to thrive, preferably a place […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/jordan-again-denies-rumor-that-jews-are.html This rumor appears every few years. Arab media were reporting that Jews going through European or Israeli Arab intermediaries, were buying land in an area being developed in Jordan called “New Amman.” The government […]