March 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, March 31, 2017

03/31 Links Pt2: Telling the Truth Doesn’t Make Us ‘Right Wing’; The Muslim Brotherhood: Peddling Sharia as Social Justice

From Ian: Convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh’s status as leftist icon untarnished by plea deal She’s a convicted terrorist preparing to be deported for entering the United States illegally, but Rasmea Yousef Odeh has seen her status as a leftist celebrity remain intact. The Palestinian and feminist activist is scheduled to speak this weekend at the Jewish Voice for Peace conference...

Infected Mushroom April 6 Jean-Michel Jarre April 6 Lost Frequencies April 11 Justin Bieber May 3 Aerosmith May 17 Rod Stewart June 14 Jim Gaffigan (comedian) June 30 Britney Spears July 3 Tears for Fears July 5 Guns N' Roses July 15 Radiohead July 19 Pixies July 25 Amon Amarth July 27 Also, Foreigner is performing December 2. And rumors of Duran Duran in June. While...

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel’s silenced majority The Israeli public today recognizes that there is no deal to be had. The Palestinians will never make peace with Israel, because they remain committed to its destruction. It doesn’t matter how effective the Americans are at negotiations. It doesn’t matter how many concessions they are able to extract from Israel in their...

Secret negotiations in London?

From the Hamas-linked Palestine Information Center site: Secret talks are being held in London between prominent Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders and Israelis, London Evening Standard military correspondent Robert Fox reported Thursday. The background and contents of this first round of talks were revealed to the Standard on Thursday by British Israeli think tank BICOM. The delegates, senior and recently retired academics and politicians from...

If you look at the video of the swearing-in ceremony of US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, you will notice that he slightly changed the words he was repeating from Vice President Mike Pence. As Pence asked him, “Please raise your right hand and repeat after me. 'I, David Friedman, do solemnly swear..” Friedman said, "I, David Friedman, do solemnly affirm..." This...

Luc Descheemaeker (aka O-Sekoer) has been named the "cultural ambassador par excellence" for the city of Torhout, Belgium. Belgian news site Nieuwsblad says he deserves the award because his cartoons have been shown worldwide. This is true. He was a winner of Iran's Holocaust Cartoon contest with this entry. The town of Torhout is quite aware of this because there...

NYT again shows that "truth" is a slogan, not a reality, in its reporting on Nikki Haley

The New York Times has an article on Ambassador Nikki Haley's speech to the Council on Foreign Affairs that is a textbook example of media bias. Every quote that the article by Somini Sengupta uses is followed by a claim by the reporter that Haley is lying. It is written like a fact check more than a news article. As a result it fails at both. The American envoy...

From Ian: Col Kemp: 'The Palestinians want to destroy Israel' Retired British Army Colonel Richard Kemp: 'PA leadership talks about peace at the UN, but it educates its children to hate Israel.' Colonel Richard Camp, who commanded the British forces in Afghanistan from 2003 until 2006, spoke with Channel 20 about the Arab-Israeli conflict. "Israel, for many years now, has...

UN Secretary General praises Quran's treatment of refugees, ignoring the preceding verse to kill non-believers

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres' speech at the Arab Summit was not nearly as bad as the one by Federica Mogherini that was the subject of the previous post. Unlike Mogherini, Guterres put the Palestinian issue in context of the much larger problems in the region. To be sure he did spend a bit of time on it and toed the official UN line that settlements are the major obstacle to peace and that Palestinian Arab "humiliation"...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column So we are sitting around the Seder table with our American Uncle Max and he says, [I] remain convinced that a two-state solution is the only outcome that would quell ongoing incidents of violence, maintain Israel as a secure, Jewish and democratic state, and provide a just and stable future for the Palestinians. Having had the...

03/30 Links Pt1: Nikki Haley Slams BDS Movement at UN; UN body behind ‘apartheid’ report to compare Israel to US slavery;

From Ian: Nikki Haley Slams BDS Movement at UN: It Is Rooted in ‘Ancient Hatred,’ Has No Connection to ‘Justice’ Haley, who was the first governor to sign legislation to combat the BDS movement, has been an outspoken supporter of Israel in her brief time as ambassador to the U.N. and was a crowd favorite Monday when she spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference. "The days of Israel bashing [at the U.N.] are...

Read what EU High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini said during her speech to the Arab League summit, and see where Israel fits in her vision: No regional or global power, alone, holds the key to stabilising the Middle East or North Africa. Peace in our region - and I stress our region - requires everyone’s constructive contribution. It requires cooperation...

Here's the best way for BDSers to alienate their biggest supporters. British comedian Eddie Izzard tweets: Arrived for my gig tonight in Tel Aviv https://t.co/C6oSpxWCgM and then run the Palestine Marathon on Friday … https://t.co/6GMDntcrOQ — Eddie Izzard (@eddieizzard) March 30, 2017 But according to BDS leaders, he will not be running in the marathon tomorrow: Artists...

Israel's National Library has unearthed a telegram from Hitler's deputy Heinrich Himmler to the Mufti of Jerusalem. Believed to have been sent in 1943, it contains a promise by Hitler’s deputy to Haj Amin al-Husseini that the German Reich will stand behind the Arabs of Palestine and support their struggle against “Jewish intruders.” Published on the library website on Wednesday,...

Mahmoud Abbas is now 82 years old

Mahmoud Abbas' 82nd birthday was March 26. We hear often that Israel has to make peace with Abbas because he is the most moderate leader the Palestinians ever had. Even if that is true, what do these people anticipate will happen when Abbas is dead? That the Islamists who replace him would keep whatever agreement he supposedly would make? Peace cannot be made...

(This post will be pinned to the top of the webpage for the day.) As my readers know, I (and my writers) try to cut through the bull and get to the facts, wherever they may lead. The truth is paramount and interpreting the facts accurately is a skill set that most people don't have. That is doubly true for most of the people who get paid to interpret the facts....

03/29 Links Pt2: Teen terror victim to European Parliament: Stop funding war; How Blind College Liberals Help Foster Antisemitism

From Ian: Teen terror victim to European Parliament: Stop funding war The Friends of Judea and Samaria, a European Parliament caucus that aims to halt European Union funding of Palestinian terrorism and abolish EU trade barriers placed on Jewish goods from Judea and Samaria hosted its first ever conference in Brussels on Tuesday. One of the speakers at the conference, named "Israel and the West Bank -- Facts and Myths," was Ayala Shapira, whose emotional...

UN Ambassador Nikki Haley is flavor of the month with the Jews, and to a large degree, the warmth with which she has been received is warranted. One could argue that her support of the two-state solution proves her less than a friend to Israel. Haley may be carrying water for the White House with that stance. Otherwise, we’d need to conclude that she is unable to see...