2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, December 31, 2016

12/31 Links: Breaking Down the 'Israeli Occupation' Myth; Thomas Friedman, Anachronism

From Ian: Alan M. Dershowitz: Britain and Australia more supportive of Israel than Obama and Kerry When the British Prime minster and the Australians foreign minister both criticize the Obama administration for being unfair to Israel, you can be sure that something is very wrong with what President Obama and Secretary Kerry have been doing. This is what Theresa May said: "We do not believe that it is appropriate to attack the composition of the...

Haider Alwaty, a former dean at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman, responded to the stories of American Jews dancing with Bahraini officials with this tweet: I am afraid that the day will come when publicizing the crimes of the Zionists or supporting the Resistance (code name for Hamas or Hezbollah and the like) or condemning normalization (with Israel) will be considered...

Chanukah Night 8 - Shtar, Maoz Tzur

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12/30 Links Pt2: UN vote legitimizes Arab myth about Israel; Obama's 'Pro-Israel' Presidency Is Fake News

From Ian: Do Palestinians Want Peace? Here Are 5 Facts That Say No. In Secretary of State and Professional Asshat™ John Kerry’s execrable speech on the Arab-Israeli conflict on Wednesday, the man whose face is a living rockslide declared that the true obstacle to peace was Israel building bathrooms in Efrat and East Jerusalem. Kerry repeatedly maintained that Palestinians want peace with Israel. That’s eminently untrue, and it’s been untrue for...

Chanukah Night 7 - Atomik Toenailz - Proud Maccabee

This is a parody of "Black Beatles" but alas I am not familiar with the original even though it has 240 million views on YouTube. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today to help get the message out and to help defend Israe...

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Obama and Israel, strike and counter-strike UN Security Council Resolution 2334 was the first prong of outgoing President Barack Obama’s lame duck campaign against Israel. US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday was the second. On January 15, stage 3 will commence in Paris. At France’s lame duck President François Hollande’s international...

John Kerry's speech was widely criticized by Democrats and Republicans, and even the prime minister of the UK, for being one-sided and blaming only Israel for the problems in the region. But the only op-ed that it published on the speech as from Rashid Khalidi, who whines that Kerry wasn't anti-Israel enough. Also in today's paper, Peter Baker writes about how Israelis are...

A tweet the New York Times' outgoing Jerusalem bureau chief Peter Baker: By next year, there will be as many Palestinians living between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River as Jews. https://t.co/VAhFNfFnBh — Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 29, 2016 The link is to a Times of Israel piece whose headline is "6.58 million each: Palestinians claim they’ll...

MEMRI has translated the article that Egypt's Youm7 published a few days ago detailing the minutes of a secret meeting between top Palestinian officials and American officials including Secretary of State John Kerry and UN ambassador Susan Rice. The Youm7 article is long, detailed and includes facsimiles of the minutes of this meeting as well as details of other meetings...

Theresa May's rebuke of Kerry may mark the beginning of an era

This story fascinates me: Theresa May has attacked the current US administration over its condemnation of the Israeli government, in comments which appeared to align her with Donald Trump. The Prime Minister’s spokesman criticised John Kerry, the outgoing US Secretary of State, after he described the Israeli government as the “most Right-wing in history”. Mrs May does...

Chanukah Night 6: Night of Light, Ker a Velt

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From Ian: Prominent US National Security Journalist Explains Apology for Past Defense of Obama's Israel Record The anti-settlement UN Security Council resolution the Obama administration allowed to be approved last week will “haunt Israel for years to come,” a prominent US national security reporter told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Eli Lake — a Bloomberg View columnist —...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column I am writing on Wednesday, after the passage of UNSC resolution 2334 and John Kerry’s speech laying out his parameters for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And after that, there will or will not be another Security Council resolution, in which the so-called “international community” will continue on its path to making...

From Ian: Hillel Neuer: Joining the Jackals: An Open Letter to Amb. Samantha Power | The Case Against U.N. Resolution 2334 Dear Ambassador Power, I write in response to your abstention on Friday which allowed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel, and in response to the substantial explanation of vote that you delivered. With even further U.N. measures still...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, December 28 - The Roman general commanding the forces surrounding the Jewish capital sent messengers today to the leaders of the besieged stronghold urging them to comply with Security Council Resolution 2339, which declared that a Jewish...

Munir Aljagub, Fatah's media director who is quoted often as a Fatah spokesman, poses with one of his favorite cartoons. It shows Hamas and Fatah shaking hands to become a weapon to shoot Israel together with. So it indeed shows how much Fatah wants peace - with Hamas. And for only one purpose. John Kerry will quote members of Israel's coalition government, who are skeptical...

The original headline of this New York Times article about Kerry's speech read: Expiration Date for Israeli-Palestinian 2-State Solution May Be Jan. 20 Soon after, they changed the headline to: Two-State Plan Nears the End Of Its Shelf Life This was the headline in today's front page, but online it changed again to "In John Kerry’s Mideast Speech, a Clash of...

The US continues to award Palestinians for intransigence - 2 major changes in US policy today

John Kerry's speech on Wednesday gave Palestinians two more gifts from the US today - rewards for their adamant refusal to compromise. Kerry said that Israel must do more concrete moves for peace - stopping building, giving more power to the PA - in order to build confidence towards a two state solution. There were no such concrete demands on the Palestinian side, only...