September 2017 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, September 30, 2017

09/30 Links: Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur; Crowder Infiltrates Antifa At Shapiro Event

From Ian: Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur Israel shut shut down on Friday for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. All flights in and out of Ben Gurion airport ceased at 1:35 p.m., while public transport gradually halted with buses and trains stopping their routes until after the fast day. As sundown approached all local...

G'mar Chatima Tova 5778 -- גמר חתימה טובה

This is an update my Yom Kippur message of previous years.I unconditionally forgive anyone who may have wronged me during this year, and I ask forgiveness for anyone I may have wronged as well.Specifically (as enumerated in previous years, based on the list from The Muqata a few years back): -If you sent me email and I didn't reply, or didn't get back to you...

09/29 Links Pt2: Phillips: Antisemitism engulfs Britain's Labour party; Welcome to Pallywood!

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Antisemitism engulfs the British Labor party The tragic fact is that there’s no disorder quite so pathological as when a Jew turns against his or her own identity. Jews are a unique people; the hatred directed at them is a unique hatred; and when Jews turn on their own people, they behave in a uniquely terrible way. Israeli Jewish intellectuals are even more afflicted by this pathology. The Israeli novelist Aharon Megged...

09/29 Links Pt1: How the IDF turned the Yom Kippur War around; Leftists called slain officer 'a disgrace' before attack

From Ian: Reversal of fortune: How the IDF turned the Yom Kippur War around Egypt was controlling the battlefield. The Israelis had not attempted to advance since Gen. Ariel Sharon’s unauthorized attacks on Tuesday while the Egyptians were making small-scale pushes eastward every day, with some success, as the Israelis sought to avoid escalation. SAM batteries were being sent across the bridges at night to extend the missile umbrella toward the...

What leftist rabbinic groups ask for forgiveness for on Yom Kippur

From the Yom Kippur article at "Rabbis for Human Rights:" As we approach this holiest of days in the Hebrew calendar it is appropriate that we of Rabbis For Human Rights also take the time to consider where we have sinned and gone astray and how we can reconnect to G-d in our work, and through that to our basic humanity. It is this connection to the Divine that is the root of our commitment to pursue justice for all, the rule of law and the pursuit...

Waqf warns of a "religious war" if Jews keep wanting to visit Temple Mount

From Elmwatin, an Egyptian news site: The Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem said on Thursday that 120 Jewish settlers were able to break into the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday morning through the Mughrabi Gate, amid tight security guard by the Israeli police. According to the report, the raid was led by a number of Jewish rabbis, in the framework of what Israel calls "tours." For their part, the representatives of the Islamic Waqf in Jerusalem...

Last month, famed author Michael Chabon - who writes on Jewish themes and more recently edited a book about how horrible Israel is - wrote an "Open Letter to our Fellow Jews" together with his wife telling them all that Donald Trump is a Nazi sympathizer, a white supremacist and an antisemite, and insisted that every Jew in his administration resign immediately or be branded...

09/28 Links Pt2: Collier: Raw antisemitism at the Labour Party Conference; 120 years since First Zionist Congress

From Ian: Bret Stephens: I Believe Some of Your Best Friends Are Jewish I believe the thesis of “The Israel Lobby,” the 2007 book by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, is a sound one. The idea that a small group of (largely) Jewish-Americans manipulates Congress, the media and other levers of power and influence for the benefit of a malign Jewish state has no connection to...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column So we’ve had another murderous terror attack. It happened when Border Police officer Solomon Gavriya (20), private security guards Youssef Ottman (25) and Or Arish (25), and community security team leader Amit Steinhart were opening the back gate of Har Adar, near Jerusalem. A Palestinian Arab approached them, pulled out a pistol...

From Ian: Watch: 'Son of Hamas' stuns PA delegation at UNHCR Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, stunned the Palestinian delegation to the UN Human Rights Council when he called out the PA's human rights abuses of their own people. The PA delegation reacts with shock as Hassan Yousef calls the PA the “greatest enemy of the Palestinian people,”...

Some Iraqis calling for closer relations with Israel

Al-Monitor reports: Some Iraqis are calling for closer relations with Israel, feeling a common bond of past persecution and a desire for peace and stability. Many people might find two factors cited in this change quite surprising: Iraqis' guilt, and some resentment of Palestinians. "There is a dramatic shift that has changed [Iraqi] public opinion [toward Israel] as a result of the Palestinians' involvement in supporting the [late Iraqi] dictator...

On Twitter, Palestinian American journalist Daoud Kuttab accused UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nicolay Mladenov of not knowing international law when he implied that the Har Adar attack was terrorism: Attack against soldiers in occupied territories next to illegal settlement is not "terror' @nmladenov check the UN charter re terminology — Daoud...

Haaretz has an op-ed by an anonymous young man in Gaza whose story is tragic - but not for the reasons he, or Haaretz, thinks. In Gaza, we also fall in love. She was just 17 years old when she came to the educational center where I was volunteering as an English teacher. The head teacher asked her mother to choose the teacher who would instruct her daughter. But her daughter...

09/27 Links Pt2: Phillips: UK Labour Party – a safe space for hate; Kurds and Palestinians? There’s no comparison

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Labour Party – a safe space for hate Today, the party passed the rule change making antisemitic abuse and harassment by Labour members a punishable offence. The Guardian reported: “The rule change proposed by the Jewish Labour Movement, which has been backed by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn and the party’s national executive committee, will tighten explicitly the party’s stance towards members who are antisemitic...

When I first heard about Mudar Zahran, I thought it was too good to be true, that people are way too gullible. I shook my head. How could it be that an Arab would take our side in this way? I asked this not just as a rhetorical question, but to people in the blogging world, people on my same side, the right side of Israeli politics. I was referred to the Jordan...