October 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, October 31, 2016

10/31 Links Pt2: #IAmBalfour – Declaring 100 Years of Britain’s Support for Israel; UK's despicable liberals owe Israel an apology

From Ian: #IAmBalfour – Declaring 100 Years of Britain’s Support for Israel The Balfour Declaration, published on 2 November 1917, was a letter addressed by Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour that proclaimed Britain would support the establishment of “a national home for the Jewish people”. This declaration paved the way for Israel to be reborn as a nation. In September...

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has a remarkable monograph published two years ago called "The Future of Christians in the Middle East" written by Rev. David Neuhaus. Remarkably, the document tries to downplay the dangers of radical Islam to Christians, by pointing out that they are not the only targets: Fear is linked to a term on the lips of many who observe...

by Petra Marquardt-Bigman About a week ago, popular anti-Israel activist Rania Khalek arrived for a visit in her ancestral Lebanon and was immediately disappointed. As she announced to her almost 100,000 Twitter followers: “I’m back in Lebanon for the 1st time in 9 years and struck by how few ppl care about Palestine & Israel. Ppl are consumed by Syria & ISIS.”...

From Ian: Palestinian cop shoots, injures 3 IDF soldiers Three Israeli soldiers were wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack by a Palestinian police officer at a checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday, according to officials. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the gunmen approached the Focus checkpoint, near the Jewish settlement of Beit El,...

The Fatah Facebook page is filled with posts about Yasir Arafat as the 12th anniversary of his death is coming up. Literally two out of every three posts is dedicated to Arafat. During the rest of the year, the ratio is about one in three posts on Arafat, a tacit admission that the current Palestinian leadership has not ignited any passion in the ensuring 12 years. This one...

Things are starting to fall apart in both the PA and Hamas-controlled territories. In Gaza, Hamas quietly arrested and reportedly tortured one of its own senior leaders, Mushr al-Masri, on alleged charges of embezzlement and treason. Reports say that he was briefly transferred to a hospital because of the beatings he endured, only to return to the prison. News reports...

I glanced at the most recently released John Podesta emails on Wikileaks to see what might not have been reported yet. Podesta seems to have subscribed to daily blogposts from the ultra-left Tikkun magazine. For example, one day during the 2014 Gaza war he received an article that started off with For decades, Israel has slaughtered Palestinians with impunity, always...

John Adams on Jews and Zionism

A Jerusalem Post story about the second president of the United States, John Adams, prompted me to look up the fuller context of two major quotes from him. Adams, who was born on October 30, 1735, in Braintree, Massachusetts, grew up in a household based on Puritan values. The Puritans believed themselves to be like the Israelite's fleeing Egypt, wandering into...

From Middle East Eye: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has failed to resolve his stand-off with Egypt or Hamas, according to senior officials who spoke to Middle East Eye. The officials told MEE the recent meeting between Abbas and top Hamas leaders in Doha made no progress toward ending the long-running split between the two camps. Dr Khalil al-Hayeh,...

10/30 Links: Palestinians funded UK Labour leader’s 2009 trip to meet Assad; Is There An Occupation?

From Ian: Palestinians funded UK Labour leader’s 2009 trip to meet Assad The leader of the UK’s Labour party visited Syria in 2009 on a trip paid for by a Palestinian rights group and met with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Jeremy Corbyn made the trip along with other members of parliament from all three of Britain’s major political parties, the Daily Mail reported on Saturday. A far-left politician who in 2009 called Hezbollah and Hamas his “friends”...

A Symbol of the Pro-Palestinian Movement As the progressive-left and Democratic Party fling around charges of racism like confetti, perhaps it is time to remind people of the forms of western-left racism. Why, after all, should Republicans and independents get all the fun? There are charges of racism to be flung with wild abandon on all sides! The...

From Ma'an: Israeli settlers on Saturday morning cut down 18 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian family in the village of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Journalist Hani Fanun, whose family owns the trees, said his family went to harvest olives on their land in the Wadi al-Hariq area of Nahalin, and found that settlers from the...

The headline in Haaretz says "Papyrus With Earliest Hebrew Mention of Jerusalem Likely Fake, Experts Say." The article itself shows that this is a lie. It quotes two experts, neither of whom say that it is "likely" to be fake. The first one, is Professor Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University: Maeir said there were too many unanswered questions about the papyrus. “How...

Israel-haters claim PayPal discriminating against Palestinians

The "US Campaign for Palestinian Rights" and other anti-Israel activist groups are now going after PayPal for not supporting payments to Arabs under PA or Hamas rule. It is true - PayPal doesn't support payments to PA- and Hamas-controlled territories. But it isn't because of "discrimination," as the haters pretend. PayPal also doesn't support payments to Lebanon,...