March 2014 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, March 31, 2014

Jordan hedging its bets with Iran?

I noted in February that only ten nations sent their congratulations to Iran on the anniversary of its revolution. April 1 is the anniversary of the actual establishment of the Islamic Republic in Iran. (No fooling.) And so far, only one nation seems to have congratulated Iran on this occasion - Jordan: King Abdullah II sent two cables to Iranian Supreme Leaders Ayatollah...

03/31 Links Pt2: Why are Feminists not Standing up for Israel?; Apartheid, Palestinian-style

From Ian: Peres: Israel a living monument to the six million The State of Israel is a living memorial to the lives of six million Jewish men, women and children who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, President Shimon Peres said Sunday during a ceremony in the Austrian capital. “The Judenplatz was at the heart of a vibrant, thriving Jewish community, [but] from the 176,000 Jews of Vienna, only 5000 remained after the dark chapter of the...

Egyptian businessmen frustrated at anti-Israel sentiment

An interesting and seemingly accurate look at how Egyptians look at the peace treaty 35 years after Camp David: An independent economic source, who asked to remain anonymous, told Ahram Online this week that as part of a plan to deal with severe energy shortages, “which might lead to electricity cuts of over five hours a day across the nation during the summer,” the authorities are considering all options, not excluding the import of natural gas...

Israel's News1 reports that the grand Tiferet Yisrael synagogue (also known as the Nissan Beck shul), one of the two most prominent domed synagogues in Jerusalem before Jordan destroyed them all in 1948, has been approved for rebuilding, in a plan that was first mentioned in 2012. Only the west and south facades remain from the original building. Here's a postcard showing...

03/31 Links Pt1: Different Standards For Different Rocket Attacks; PA books rife with incitement

From Ian: Different Standards For Different Rocket Attacks Terror supporting, genocidal regime launches rockets at the territory of a liberal democracy. Sound familiar? In this case, however, South Korea “returns fire” when attacked by its neighbor according to the above headline in The Guardian. It is clear that South Korea is responding to an act of aggression. But what happens when Israel returns fire in response to Palestinian rockets from Gaza? Why...

From Israel Defense: Lebanese news agency reported a military robot moving along the barbed wire fence of Kfar Kila, along with combat aircraft. This is the first time that the IDF operates an Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle (UGCV) along the fence on the northern border. According to the report, this is an Unmanned Ground Combat Vehicle which operates as well on the Gaza...

The Huffington Post published one of those ubiquitous "cute animals of the week" stories. But in the middle of all the cute dogs and tigers one can find this: Israeli Bedouins walk next to their sheep near rally commemorating Land Day on March 30, 2014 in the Abu Quedar village, currently unrecognized by Israeli authorities, near the southern city of Beersheva. The annual...

I recently published a Twitter conversation with someone named Gary Spedding, an anti-Israel ideologue (and, as we will see, an aspiring politician.). He started off the conversation complaining that I was right-wing and intellectually dishonest; by the end of the post I had proven that not only was he the intellectually dishonest one but that he had attempted to scrub his...

British architects' anti-Israel "You Gotta Start Somewhere" Syndrome

Last week we saw the latest example of YGSSS, or "You Gotta Start Somewhere Syndrome", where organizations claim that they are against all forms of injustice, yet they invariably choose Israel to be the first and sole target of their new-found fake morality. We saw it with ASA (whose president coined the idiotic phrase "one has to start somewhere") and with the AAAS,...

Jodi Rudoren's latest dispatch in the New York Times painstakingly attempts to give equal weight to a terrorist murderer and the the Holocaust survivor victim's family. Well, not really. The terrorist gets about 25 paragraphs and the victims less than half that. Muqdad Salah is a man in a hurry. He inhales food, and bristles at lateness. His wife, Kefaya, said he...

Gaza worker packaging cherry tomatoes, 2006 Islamic Jihad mouthpiece Palestine Today has an interesting short article: "Israeli" dealers said that prices of tomatoes in "Israel" rose this morning in the wholesale markets, bringing the price per kilo to between 8 to 9 shekels. Just last week, the price was only 5 and a half shekels, and according to "Israelis" traders...

03/30 Links: PA wants 1,000 terrorist prisoners freed to continue talks; Sderot snaps back

From Ian: Galloway: Zionists Sent Gunmen to Ukraine to Force Ukrainian Jews to Move to Palestine The accusation that Israel is somehow supporting the Svoboda and Right Sektor parties in Ukraine will remind readers of when Galloway claimed that Al-Qaeda was being supplied with chemical weapons in Syria by Israel. He then lied to the British Parliament, claiming he had said "no such thing". Last week, Breitbart London reported another blatant Galloway...

Israeli mother invents life-changing device for kids with cerebral palsy

From The Daily Mail: A mother's invention that gave her wheelchair-bound son the chance to walk has been launched onto the worldwide market. A Northern Ireland company has turned Debby Elnatan's idea for a walking harness into a product that could transform the lives of countless disabled children. Mrs Elnatan, a music therapist, came up with the concept to help her young son Rotem, who has cerebral palsy. She designed a support harness that...

A couple of weeks ago commenter "Bob Knot" put together an incredible piece of investigative journalism exposing the lies of the anti-Israel writers who claimed that Israel deliberately shot the feet of innocent Palestinian Arab football players. One of those writers was Dave Zirin of The Nation. Even though he, and The Nation, were repeatedly contacted about the overwhelming...

Al Quds University distances itself from student Holocaust trip

Haaretz reported: A group of 30 Palestinian students arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Thursday, in what is believed to be the first organized visit by Palestinian students to a Nazi death camp. The students are spending several days in Kraków and Oświęcim guided by two Jewish Holocaust survivors. A news blackout on the trip was requested by the organizers. The presence of the Palestinian group at Auschwitz-Birkenau is being reported here for...

A fun Twitter conversation with a terror apologist/anti-Israel leftist (updated)

Usually I don't get into Twitter arguments, because they are a waste of time, but CiFWatch pointed out a conversation where I was being insulted by someone called Gary Spedding. I tried to make my position clear, but his responses and backtracking become hilarious. It started when journalist Yair Rosenberg asked NYT reporter Jodi Rudoren if she can follow up on a post I did...