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 […]

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 […]