April 2018 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, April 30, 2018

04/30 Links Pt2: Netanyahu: Iran ‘brazenly lied’ about nuclear program; What’s wrong with American Jewish liberals; Something Is Rotten in Israel: It’s the New Israel Fund

From Ian: Netanyahu: Iran ‘brazenly lied’ about nuclear program, continued work after deal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of lying about its nuclear program in a speech broadcast live Monday, revealing information he said showed the Islamic Republic had for years worked on developing nuclear weapons, and continued to pursue such weapons even after signing the...

Elder of Lobby noticed this in the Ottoman Imperial Archives: Let's look at that caption a little closer, shall we? I guess this is when the Muslims that claim there was never a Jewish Temple on the site regroup and decide that Solomon was a Muslim. We have lots of ideas, but we need more resources to be even more effective. Please donate today...

The Western media has been downplaying the meaning of "return" in the weekly Gaza "Great Return March" riots. But to Palestinian Arabs, the meaning has always been clear. They intend to "return" to take over Jaffa, Haifa, Tiberias and Nazareth more than they want an independent state in the West Bank. Here is a poster that the PLO - the official representative of the Palestinians...

From Ian: Netanyahu to announce ‘significant’ new info on Iran’s nuclear program Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will announce a “significant development” regarding Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in a live speech at 8 p.m. Monday, his office said. Netanyahu will give the statement at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv. According to Hadashot news and Channel...

The price even a non-intentional embrace of anti-Israel propaganda places on the believer was brought home to me during a recent conversation with a good friend, whose opinion I respect on all matters, who was aghast at the bloodletting at the Gaza border over the last month. Interestingly, she was willing to accept that the thousands of rockets shot from Gaza...

Israeli reporter Barak Ravid writes in Axios: In a closed-door meeting with heads of Jewish organizations in New York on March 27th, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) gave harsh criticism of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), according to an Israeli foreign ministry cable sent by a diplomat from the Israeli consulate in New York, as well three...

From the New York Times: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came to Israel Sunday in the midst of the worst crisis in relations between Israelis and Palestinians in years, but he did not meet a single Palestinian representative and mentioned them publicly once. For decades, American diplomats saw themselves as brokers between the two sides, and secretaries of state...

US ambassador visits Arab high tech leaders in Nazareth

This is the sort of thing that US ambassadors have done in Israel for a long time, but since the world likes to label David Friedman as an anti-Arab settler or whatever, it is fun to show that he wholeheartedly supports Arabs in Israel . 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...

I received this email from J-Street: We need your help to fight this administration’s complacency on the dire situation in Gaza. Senator Bernie Sanders has drafted a letter, signed by several colleagues, urging the State Department to act now to stem the violence and help alleviate Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. The letter outlines specific steps the US government...

04/29 Link: After Hamas leader calls on crowd to become martyrs, hundreds surge Gaza-Israel border fence; Gaza protesters thank Natalie Portman; Arab-Israeli soccer fans boo drowning victims

From Ian: After Hamas leader calls on crowd to become martyrs, hundreds surge Gaza-Israel border fence Hamas seems to have found its sweet spot. Under cover of civilian protests, backed by clouds of smoke from burning tires, it sends operatives to try to breach the Israeli border fence. A fence breach would be used to surge hundreds or even thousands of people into Israeli giving Hamas a propaganda victory. Such a breach also would be used by Hamas...

Ma'an reports that Arabs have been heartened by the collapse of small sections of the security barrier from recent major rainfall. When nature intervenes and sections of the wall are torn apart by torrential rains on Thursday, near the Shu'fat refugee camp in occupied Jerusalem, the "force" of the occupier collapses.It is as if Mother Nature tells the occupier ......

From Al Jazeera: The legislative body of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is set to discuss suspending the recognition of Israel, in addition to several other critical issues of Palestinian politics. For the first time in nine years, the Palestinian National Council (PNC) is scheduled to convene in Ramallah on Monday, in a meeting that has Palestinians split...

I thought the Zionists owned Hollywood. From the Kashmir Observer: Award winning American director, Oliver Stone has said the United States is a global "outlaw" that has made a mess of the Middle East.In a wide-ranging press conference held during his first visit to Iran, Oliver Stone expressed appreciation for Iran's extensive history and recent cinematic accomplishments,...

04/28 Links: The Media, Palestinian Nazi Flags, and Hamas Talking Points; Abbas advisor: Return Marches gamble with the lives of women and children

From Ian: Ben-Dror Yemini: As global press ignores swastika kites, Hamas is winning propaganda war The good news from the south is that the number of protestors in the “March of Return” is decreasing. Hamas is encouraging, calling, shouting, broadcasting, publishing—but the masses are staying away. From one Friday to the next, the numbers are dropping. Tens of thousands...

04/27 Links Pt2: The Myth of BDS Success; ADL Retracts Libel Against Canary Mission, SPLC: From Klan Hunters to Multimillion-dollar Smear Machine

From Ian: The Myth of BDS Success Anytime a student government votes to divest from Israel or a celebrity chooses not to perform in Israel a cry goes out throughout the Jewish world that Israel is in danger and the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign (BDS) is winning. It is not true. Take the example of celebrity boycotts. When Lorde cowardly gave in...

The New York Times has an article about the assassination of Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia, saying that it was a Mossad operation meant to hurt Hamas attempts at obtaining advanced weapons systems, especially drones. It also says that Batsh may have been working to obtain illegal weapons shipments from North Korea. I noticed the article says that Batsh used to say that...

Support for moving embassies to Jerusalem is happening slowly but surely

In a way, Guatemala's planned move of their embassy to Jerusalem is more important than Trump's decision to move the US embassy. Palestinians have expended a great deal of political capital to isolate the US after the embassy move was announced. They are threatening and cajoling other nations because as long as the US is considered an anomaly and Trump a crazy person, they can make that move look like a temporary move that will be reversed when...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Three islands of exceptionalism in west's darkest hour It is those liberal internationalists, after all, who are primarily responsible for the antisemitism and vilification of Israel now coursing through the Western intelligentsia. And these same British and American liberals are also busily vilifying Britain and America, trying to destroy and...

This happens pretty much daily. PA president Abbas' official spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said that any alternative peace plan to the minimum Palestinian demand for Jerusalem, 1967 lines, "right of return" and so forth is doomed to failure and will be rejected outright. But then he added the mob-style threat that every PLO and PA and Fatah leader always adds, saying...

From Haaretz: Anti-Semitic attacks occur every day in Germany, but since they aren’t filmed, they don’t go viral on Facebook and Twitter. Statistics published by the German government two months ago revealed that German police nationwide documented an average of four criminal incidents with an anti-Semitic motive every day last year, for a total of 1,453 incidents.Yet these...

Once again, Haaretz and Rogel Alpher are beyond despicable. On a day of immense tragedy in Israel, when ten of her best and brightest youths were killed in a flash flood, Haaretz' Alpher was complaining that there was too much television coverage of the event, saying that it was not a national disaster. Alpher is complaining that Israeli TV was spending so much...

04/26 Links Pt2: Debunking 25 left-wing and Arab myths; Bin Laden's bodyguard walks freely in Berlin, but Jews don't; The origins of Labour’s racism

From Ian: Fred Maroun: Debunking 25 left-wing and Arab myths from a left-wing Arab perspective Left-wing and Arab enemies of Israel make a number of accusations that they repeat as if they were facts. Here I take apart those myths from a left-wing Arab perspective. I summarize the facts, but I include many links to other articles that provide further background. Some of the...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column A hot potato today in Israel’s Knesset is the so-called chok hahitgabrut (literally, “the overriding law”) which would provide a way for the Knesset to pass a law over the objections of the Supreme Court. Various versions of such a law have been considered, which require larger or smaller majorities in the Knesset to...