July 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, July 31, 2017

Have an easy fast

I will not be blogging until Tuesday afternoon (EDT) to mark Tisha B'Av. Have an easy and meaningful fast. 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: What victory looks like I once heard Bill Maher say that: “Israel has won every war she ever had to fight because she has to, she has no choice. If she loses she will be wiped off the map.” So true. In 2006, Israel was attacked by Hezbollah and was forced to go to war in Lebanon. The war had no frontline, it was Israelis in their home who were under attack by terrorists...

Hamrin News, a Saudi news outlet, describes a favorite topic: Jews. Here are some excerpts. The Jews believe that their Lord has created Gentiles to serve them. ..The world is divided into two groups: the Jews and the Goyim, and the creation of non-Jews is to serve Jews, enslave them, steal from them, but this is forbidden for them to do among themselves. The Gentiles...

The Washington Post’s pathetic whitewashing of a call to kill Jews (Petra Marquardt-Bigman)

By Petra Marquardt-Bigman It’s not going to be easy, but let’s imagine for a moment that Christians would firmly believe Jesus prophesized the rise of Islam and told his followers: “The last day will not come unless you fight the Muslims. A Muslim will hide himself behind stones and trees and stones and trees will say, ‘O servant of God, o Christian, there is a Muslim behind me, come and kill him.’” Let’s also imagine that recently, a Christian...

From Ian: Palestinian Authority now uses half of all foreign aid to reward terror Your tax dollars at work: The Palestinian Authority is now using half of its foreign aid to reward terrorism. The new PA budget boosts support to terrorists in prison by 13 percent and aid for the families of those killed “in the struggle against Zion” 4 percent, reports the Institute for Contemporary...

In April, Hamas released a music video - in Hebrew - implying that the two Israeli soldiers whose bodies they are holding are still alive and that Israel's claims to the contrary are lies. The video ghoulishly appeals to the families of Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul and Lt. Hadar Goldin to pressure Israel to do a prisoner swap by showing pictures of the dead soldiers juxtaposed...

An op-ed in the UK-based pan-Arab newspaper Al Quds al Arabi effusively praises the man who murdered Yosef, Chaya and Elad Salomon. The murder had already been praised by Hamas and by Fatah's military wing. In this article, Abdel Halim Qandil says that no Arab leader had done anything to fight against Israeli actions. Fatah and Hamas and Arab national leaders were all...

It's happened again. Ma'an reports today that Mossad Agent Eagle S99 has been shot down and killed from over the skies of Idlib, near the Turkish border, by the Free Syrian Army. The independent, supposedly professional newspaper says that the bird was carrying "Israeli spy equipment." Too bad they don't do the slightest amount of fact checking. Because this story was...

Muslim Sages meeting Monday in Abu Dhabi to discuss "Zionist violations against Al Aqsa"

From the Standard Republic: Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Sheikh arrived in Abu Dhabi where he is set to chair the emergency council meeting of the Muslim sages tomorrow. The meeting will discuss the Zionist violations against Al-Aqsa mosque. The Grand Imam was received by Minister of Higher Education Dr. Ahmed Bahloul Al-Falasi, General Secretary of the Council of Muslim...

Palestine Today reports that the UAE is sending a ship filled with natural gas to help run the Gaza power plant. According to the story, this ship will be moored off the coast of Gaza - and that Israel has no objection because it does not want a Gaza power crisis. This effort is reportedly another attempt by Mohammed Dahlan to assert his role in Gaza, cooperating...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Weakness and indifference over Temple Mount incitement Join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network why the Arab violence over Temple Mount is not the result of “clashes”, as the western media claim, but the incitement of emotionally overwrought and hysterical Arabs to murder and mayhem. David Collier: The hard-core antisemitism...

Some are fighting the anti-Israel narrative from Germany

The Jerusalem Post reported last week: The online editor-in-chief of the mass-circulation Bild published Sunday a column filled with blistering criticism over the anti-Israel media in Germany during the Temple Mount clashes. “No other country, which suffers under permanent terror, is reported on in Germany in the cynical, ice-cold and heartless manner like Israel is,” wrote Julian Reichelt. His commentary was at one point the second most read...

Palestinians were chanting slogans against Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt during protests

This video was taken during the Jerusalem protests last week: According to this tweet from Al Jazeera's Line Alsaffin, the people are chanting "Down with Al Saud"; and "Son of Hussein [King Abdullah] you coward" and [Egyptian president] Sisi son of a dog." From Jerusalem today. Chants of "Down with Al Saud" and "Son of Hussein [King Abdullah] you coward" & "Sisi son of a dog". I love my people. https://t.co/GRibDEJC0I — لينة (@LinahAlsaafin)...

UAE newspaper Al Khaleej has an op-ed by Hayat al Haweeq Attiya talking about the dangers of a comprehensive peace with Israel. The author opens with a story where she and a group of students in Lebanon met with an Israeli peacenik in the 1970s. The man, supposedly a rabbi named Marr Berger, was against war. The reasons he was against war is what the author is upset...

07/29 Links: Jordan’s king says he is preventing ‘judaization’ of Jerusalem; Balfour’s Shadow

From Ian: Jordan’s king says Amman preventing ‘judaization’ of holy sites in Jerusalem Jordan’s King Abdullah II praised on Saturday his country’s handling of the Temple Mount crisis in Jerusalem in recent weeks and said Jordan would continue to fulfill its “historic role” of protecting “Islamic and Christian holy sites” in the Israeli capital and preventing their “Judaization” while ensuring the maintenance of the status quo at the sensitive compound. Speaking...

07/28 Links Pt2: A tale of 2 Israeli heroes; What kind of society has the PA created?

From Ian: Ruthie Blum: A tale of 2 Israeli heroes Last Friday night, an Israeli soldier on leave for the weekend acted coolly and courageously, ‎rushing to the rescue of neighbors he heard screaming. "Sgt. O.," whose full name cannot be ‎disclosed due to the sensitive nature of the elite IDF special forces unit in which he serves, ran to ‎the home of the nearby Salomon family to investigate. When he saw through their window that ‎they were being...

You learn interesting Jewish history from Arab websites

Here's what I learned today: Jerusalem among the Jews is the capital of the Messiah of salvation coming from the descendants of David. In the Talmudic textbook, "The Jews will come to Jerusalem and take it, and its borders will be filled with wealth." In the interpretation of the Kabbalah, it was portrayed as a place that would flow from the sky and spread to the rest of the world. The demolition of Al-Aqsa Mosque is an integral part of Zionist...

Another Hamas "martyr" has ascended to Paradise. Omar Abu Nimah was electrocuted while working in a terror tunnel in southern Gaza. He was such a happy terrorist, too. Here is the uncorrected, autotranslated eulogy from the Hamas Al Qassam website. "We ask Allah to accept him and to make him live in peace, to make his struggle pure for his holy face, to persevere...

07/28 Links Pt1: The ‘Al-Aqsa libel’ lives on; The Palestinian plot to end-run Trump at the UN

From Ian: Ben-Dror Yemin: The ‘Al-Aqsa libel’ lives on As the years went by, the format of “an external enemy with self-killing” exacerbated, and not just among the Palestinians. The Muslims are regularly furious with the West. In the past few decades, the “forces of progress” have been adding fuel to the fire. Thousands of academics, journalists and human rights activists are pointing an accusing finger at the West, at the United States, as the...

While Mahmoud Abbas' media is praising him for his "victory" over Israel, others are claiming that they are the ones who were instrumental in Israel's decision to take down the metal detectors outside the Temple Mount. One of them is King Salman of Saudi Arabia, who took credit for the decision in a press release: PROTESTS and pressure from world leaders, led by Custodian...

Amnesty International continued its anti-Israel bias, contradicting every non-Arab eyewitness account on the events on Thursday: Israeli forces attacked peaceful crowds of Palestinians as they gathered at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem this afternoon for the first time since Israel lifted recent security measures imposed at the site, according to Amnesty International...