August 2018 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, August 31, 2018

08/31 Links Pt2: US announces it’s cutting all funding to UNRWA; Deborah Lipstadt: Jeremy Corbyn’s Ironically Ahistorical Anti-Semitism; Peres remembered as visionary who strived to unite nation

From Ian: US announces it’s cutting all funding to Palestinian refugee agency The Trump administration announced Friday it is cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, ending decades of support. The State Department announced in a written statement Friday that the United States “will no longer commit further funding to...

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians Step Up Verbal Attacks on U.S. and Israel Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Thursday stepped up their verbal attacks on the US administration and its representatives, and again vowed to thwart President Donald Trump’s yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East. The officials accused the US administration of meddling...

Labor Day weekend...EoZ day off

Due to travel, I don't think I will be able to blog at all today. (If I can, you'll be the first to know!) Have a great weeken...

08/30 Links Pt2: Ron Prosor: A Note to Jeremy Corbyn: You Can’t Fool Everyone All the Time; The sparkling waters of the West Bank; Israel renames nuclear facility after late Shimon Peres

From Ian: Ron Prosor: A Note to Jeremy Corbyn: You Can’t Fool Everyone All the Time When I woke up on Tuesday, I learned about a new chapter in my autobiography: It turns out that in addition to being Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom between 2007-2011, I was also chief speechwriter for senior members of the British Parliament. While this is very flattering, it is...

From Palestine Today: Dr. Khalil Hayya, deputy head of the political bureau of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, said on Thursday that the intransigence of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority and the Fatah movement led to the continuation of the suffocating siege on Gaza and the stalemate of the Palestinian reconciliation, pointing to the acceptance of his movement ...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column We do not have to account to anybody, we are not to sit for anybody's examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them and will leave after them. We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change, nor do we want to. – Ze’ev Jabotinsky Tzipi Livni, who recently accepted the...

From Ian: Haley: US to Work With UNRWA Again When Refugee Numbers are Corrected US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appeared to put into doubt the Palestinian claims of a “right of return” to land inside the State of Israel, agreeing that the issue should be “off the table.” Speaking at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank, she responded...

I found a mostly sympathetic paper about UNRWA called "UNRWA and the Palestinian refugees: a history within history" on the UNRWA website. It was written in 2010 by Riccardo Bocco for the Refugee Survey Quarterly. Here is an interesting section: In looking at who is a Palestinian refugee, there is no definitive response. The definition and the number of Palestinian...

MEMRI has a very revealing interview with a former Jordanian prime minister, who signed the Jordanian peace treaty with Israel. For most of the interview he is pragmatic and he even defends Israeli actions as the host tries to get him to say Israel is stealing water from Jordan: Former Jordanian Prime Minister Abdelsalam Al-Majali: My mentality is a mentality of peace....

From Times of Israel: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday said he believed a future Palestinian state should be demilitarized, offering rare backing for a key Israeli demand in any peace deal. Abbas told a group of visiting Israeli academics that he preferred devoting funds to education and institutions than to an army, the Kan public broadcaster reported. In...

08/29 Links Pt2: Palestinian Leaders Bet Future on Trump Impeachment; The TIPH of the iceberg: Foreign occupation of Israel; Guardian op-ed defends the view that Israel has no right to exist.

From Ian: Palestinian Leaders Bet Future on Trump Impeachment Palestinian leaders are betting their future on President Donald Trump being impeached by Democrats following the mid-term elections, according to Arabic language comments by a senior Palestinian government leader who praised Special Counsel Robert Mueller for targeting Trump and his top allies. Palestinian government...

Are Israeli settlements an obstacle to peace? Lots of people say so. Bulgaria’s Mladenov said it. The EU’s Mogherini said it. And the UN has said it again and again. By why would anyone think that Jews building homes stands in the way of a peace settlement? The homes of the 10,000 Jews the Israeli government expelled from Gaza in 2005 did not stand in the way of the...

From Dr. Taher Hamdy Kanaan in Jordan's Al Rai: Jews have a moral obligation to the Jews exclusively. As for the rest of the human race, the so-called "goyim" or "illiterate" in the language of the Torah, they have no moral responsibility for them, according to the teachings of the Talmud; In other words, the behavior of Jews toward others is dictated by selfish...

From Ian: Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Palestinian leaders are the worst enemy of ordinary Palestinians And the U.N. itself should stop funding schools where the core curriculum is focused on teaching Palestinian children hatred of Jews and their state – along with training in hand-to-hand combat, firing guns, kidnapping and sending kites and large balloons into Israel carrying bombs. With...

On Monday, the Gaza ministry of health warned that the hospitals and medical clinics in Gaza were in danger of closing because of lack of fuel. The spokesman for the ministry, Ashraf Kedra, didn't blame Israel for the shortage of fuel. He said that donors haven't come through to pay for fuel for these medical facilities. If they would have the money, they could pay...

Corbyn praises universities and institutions from 1945-48 Mandate Palestine - pretending they were Arab! (video)

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said, in the same speech where he said that British "Zionists" didn't understand irony or history: I was brought up at school being told, um, that Israel was founded on a piece of empty space, and that they managed to make the desert bloom, and they built things when there was nothing there before. Anybody that studies the history of the region would know, at the end of the Second World War – 1945 to 1948...

One of the more insidious ways that anti-Israel forces lie is to take an innocuous video or picture and make up an explanation to put Israel in a bad light. The latest example appears to be a viral video of an Arab girl in Hebron climbing a fence. One version on Twitter looks like this: Today a 12- year-old girl had to climb a fence to get in to her house because...

08/28 Links Pt2: Lord Sacks: Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-Semite; Corbyn claims Israel controls speeches made by British MPs; Roger Waters: Russia "has all rights" to Sevastopol

From Ian: Former UK chief rabbi Lord Sacks: Jeremy Corbyn is a dangerous anti-Semite Britain’s former chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, branded the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn a dangerous anti-Semite in an interview published Tuesday. In a devastating critique of the opposition leader, Sacks accused Corbyn of giving “support to racists, terrorists and dealers of hate,...