November 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Mahmoud Abbas pays tribute to terrorists by name in Fatah speech

Mahmoud Abbas gave a three-hour long speech the the seventh Fatah conference in Ramallah on Wednesday. Although he mentioned many times that he only supports "peaceful and popular resistance" he did say "at this stage," meaning that he has no moral qualms with terrorism, but only tactical issues with it at this time. And he proved that he is not against terrorism by...

From Ian: JCPA: The War of a Million Cuts: The Struggle Against the Delegitimization of Israel and the Jews, and the Growth of New Anti-Semitism (free book) The War of a Million Cuts explains how the delegitimization of Israel and anti-Semitism can be fought. The book describes the hateful messages of those who defame Israel and the Jews, details why anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism...

It is a terrible time in Israel. Arabs are setting fire to our land, our forests, our homes. This cruel occupier of Jewish land plagues us much as God plagued the Egyptians. But instead of hail; locusts; water turned to blood (and etc.), there are rocks; firebombs; missiles; shootings; knives; car rammings; suicide bus bombers; just plain people blowing themselves up...

The story is from October: The niece of a top official in the Palestinian Fatah party and a close confidant of the late leader Yasser Arafat says she loves the State of Israel so much, she had the word “Israel” in Hebrew tattooed across her shoulder blades. Sandra Solomon, 38, was born a Muslim in Ramallah under a different name, but grew up in Saudi Arabia before moving...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Baghdad, November 30 - Community elders throughout the Muslim Middle East voiced wistfulness today at the realization that present and future generations in their countries will never know the pleasure of kicking Jews out, since almost none remain anymore. Once-thriving...

11/30 Links Pt1: Where Talking to Israelis is Taboo; Glick: Castro's Greatest Victory

From Ian: America’s Middle East Policy, From Eisenhower to Trump Few American presidents have done so much to shape U.S. relations with the Arab world as Dwight D. Eisenhower, who, like many of his successors, believed that the Arab-Israeli conflict was central to the region and that he could win the respect of Arab leaders by demonstrating “daylight” between Washington and Jerusalem. But unlike subsequent presidents, he eventually learned that...

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of Israel's War of Independence. Because in the hours immediately following the UN partition vote, Palestinian Arabs started attacking Jews wherever they could find them. Here are articles from the Palestine Post the next day: The descendants of these people are now pretending at the UN that they deserve a state based...

Rabbis for Human Rights' Amy Klein wrote a commentary on last week's Torah portion, Chayei Sarah, which she felt was very important because it describes how Abraham bought the Tomb of the Patriarchs and RHR wants to ensure that Jews have no rights to the place that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives are buried. I was struck by this part of Klein's description of the story...

We have heard about tensions between Jordan and the Palestinian Authority before, but this is stunning: The Nov. 24 report in the Gaza-based Donia al-Watan website caught some by surprise. It stated that Jordan’s 26 delegates to Fatah’s seventh congress due to open Nov. 29 are no longer attending the congress due to “technical, logistical and security reasons.” The exclusive...

Major UN official praises boycotts of Israel, Arab refusal to make peace, and Palestinian "resistance"

We all know that the UN is biased against Israel. All you have to do is look at one of UN Watch's many articles. One egregious example from Tuesday: The U.N. General Assembly adopted 10 resolutions singling out Israel today, with only 4 expected to be adopted later this week for the entire rest of the world combined, with one each on Syria, Iran, North Korea and Crimea....

From Ian: Time to scrutinise foreign aid From The Australian, 29 Nov 2016: If the Israelis are right, the Australian taxpayer has been one of the biggest (unwitting) funders of the terror group Hamas in Gaza. The claim is that money given to World Vision for farms and other economic projects has been diverted to build a military base, tunnels and weapons for Hamas. The head...

Recently, there was (if I understand the articles correctly) a tribute at a Paris theatre to the songs of Umm Kulthum, the famous late Egyptian singer who was considered the greatest Arabic singer of all time. Muslims who attended were shocked to see that over 50 Jews, of Moroccan descent, attended the performance. From the Arab perspective, Umm Kulthum was a big...

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Netanyahu’s vision If the Trump administration implements this policy change, Netanyahu would come under tremendous political pressure from within the Likud and from his right-wing coalition members to advance settlement building not only inside established blocs but also in more isolated areas, something the prime minister has opposed until now. Netanyahu...

The beginning of the Times of London's coverage of the proposed Israeli law to limit the volume on the Muslim call to prayer shows nothing but anti-Jewish bias: Ear-splitting loudspeakers are now considered a "call to prayer that has echoed for centuries"? The rest of the article is nearly as bad: The Knesset will vote this week on a bill to restrict the use of loudspeakers...

Israel's Tax Authority announced that some of the major fires that swept through Israel last week were set deliberately. Here's their list so far, with dates and times of the fires: Tal-El, 20.11, 02:00 Zikhron Ya'akov, 22.11, 11:30 Dolev, 22.11, 20:30 Gilon, 23.11, 00:00 Talmon, 23.11, 21:00 Haifa, 24.11, 10:00 Nirit, 24.11, 15:00 Nataf, 25.11, 15:00 Halamish,...

Jimmy Carter wrote yet another tendentious op-ed for, who else, the New York Times. The first paragraphs show yet again that he is simply a liar. We do not yet know the policy of the next administration toward Israel and Palestine, but we do know the policy of this administration. It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end to the conflict based on two...

Arab cartoon calls for more torchings in Israel (update)

Unfortunately I don't know what the source is; this came from a Twitter account that translates Arabic news into Hebrew. (h/t Yenta) UPDATE: It was drawn by Jew-hating Omayya Joha, whom I have discussed before (h/t Bob Knot) It's Giving Tuesday! Please help support EoZ! We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even...

From Ian: Seth Frantzman: International NGOs: The new feudalism Recently a man named Sherzad Mosa walked into a bar in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region of Iraq, and was surprised to overhear a woman describe it as an “NGO bar.” Mosa wondered on Facebook why hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in the Kurdish region, and “kids and women” are suffering while...