http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-diplomacy-of-fear-us-embassy-and.html Over ten years ago I wrote an article called “The Diplomacy of Fear“: For decades, the Arab world specifically and the Muslim world in general has used threats as its main leverage to get […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/it-was-really-bad-weekend-for-academic.html At the same time that Israel-haters were decisively defeated at the Modern Language Association convention in Philadelphia, they also lost an attempt to bypass their defeat last year at the American Historical Association meeting […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/r5o0WjdtX0s/08-jan-17-pakistanis-working-for-iran.html From news coverage of the suspect’s earlier arrest last summer [Image Source] A brief report put out by Kuwait’s official newsagency caught our eye last week: BERLIN (January 3, KUNA): The office of the German […]

http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/2017/01/context-is-key-to-arab-jewish-relations.htmlImportant article by Gregg Roman in The Hill: the way to understand the Israeli Palestinian conflict is to restore the historical context of  Arab/Muslim colonisation and imperialism imposed on  indigenous peoples. If one people violently conquered […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/01/david-singer-congress-rebuffs-obama-and.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Here, hot on the heels of his previous must-read article (see previous post), is Sydney lawyer and international affairs analyst David Singer’s latest incisive contribution. He writes: The US Congress has […]

https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/good-news-to-start-the-week-3/To make up for the lack of a Good News Friday post yesterday, here is some good news to start the week (despite tomorrow being a fast day).  (My apologies for yesterday’s last-minute crisis posting. […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/01/bahrain-house-of-representatives-and.htmlThe backlash from the videos of Jewish Americans dancing in Bahrain keeps snowballing. A dozen “civil society” institutions condemned the dancing, saying: The visit of this delegation was provocative and the accompanying dances to the […]