http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1211-links-pt2-100-years-later-allenby.htmlFrom Ian: 100 years later, Allenby returns to Jerusalem British conquest was hailed by Jews as a Hanukkah miracleThe Old City’s Tower of David Museum launches an exhibit in honor of the centennial of the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/an-age-old-palestinian-craft-that-goes.htmlOne of the examples given of Palestinian crafts is the creation of hand-made ceramic tiles. If you look at Shop Palestine, you can see the description of the handmade ceramics they sell. But something about […]

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/jNPo/~3/G2-QJBhLLEg/11-dec-17-sundays-jerusalem-stabbing.html The victim, Asher Elmaliach The Sunday knifing attack on a private security guard at the busy entrance to Jerusalem’s Central Bus Station [“10-Dec-17: A stabbing attack on a security guard shuts down Jerusalem’s main […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/seven-decades-of-fake-nyt-news-about.htmlBy Petra Marquardt-Bigman A few weeks ago, the NYT published a widely criticized articleby Thomas L. Friedman, who excitedly reported that the “most significant reform process underway anywhere in the Middle East today is in Saudi […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/1211-links-pt1-murray-president-trump.htmlFrom Ian: Explosion Rocks Major Manhattan Transport Hub, One Suspect in Custody An explosion rocked New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal, one of the city’s busiest commuter hubs, on Monday morning and police said one […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/pantograph-divest-this.html The pantograph (shown above) is a centuries old mechanical device used to create enlarged images.  When an artist uses a pen attached to one end of the pantograph to draw a sketch or illustration, the […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/whenever-there-is-tempest-in-teapot.htmlWhen things get stirred up in the Middle East, the (sometimes) latent antisemitism shows its ugly head. Three examples, all prompted by the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Egypt’s Al Masry al Youm […]

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2017/12/jerusalem-views-from-far-north.htmlBy Daphne Anson   Image credit: Reuters What an utter disastrous mess is Sweden, whose repellent foreign minister,  Margot Wallström,  recently declared:  “It is deeply regrettable that the United States will stop people from Iran, […]

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/12/palestinian-authority-instructs-schools.html From Times of Israel: A delegation of religious figures from the Gulf kingdom of Bahrain arrived in Israel this week “in order to send a message of peace,” in an extremely rare instance of […]