March 2019 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, March 31, 2019

FDR's letter to the Palestine Pavilion at the World's Fair and the legality of Jewish settlements

In 1939, this letter by President Franklin Roosevelt was published by the organizers of the Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair: THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Out of the world War came a matter of great spiritual significance — the establishment of a Homeland for the Jewish people, recognized as such by the public law of the world. In the realization...

From Ian: Alan M. Dershowitz: Trump Is Right about the Golan Heights I had the opportunity to discuss this issue with U.S. President Donald J. Trump two weeks before he announced his decision. I provided him with the battleship analogy, which he seemed to appreciate. I told him that I thought the Sunni Arab world might complain, but that they really do not care about the Golan,...

Nathan Thrall has written a 11,000 word article in the New York Times magazine today that is essentially a huge rose bouquet to people who want to boycott the world's only Jewish state. The article is filled with slanted and often wrong reporting. Here's an example of an outright lie: Last October, nearly a year after the University of Michigan’s divestment vote, there...

From Times of Israel: Two minuscule 2,600-year-old inscriptions recently uncovered in the City of David’s Givati Parking Lot excavation are vastly enlarging the understanding of ancient Jerusalem in the late 8th century. The two inscriptions, in paleo-Hebrew writing, were found separately in a large First Temple structure within the span of a few weeks by long-term...

03/30 Links: Ben Rhodes Blames Jewish Donors for Obama Not Being More Anti-Israel; NYTs Anti-Israel Writer Works for Qatar Funded Group; The ‘Wag the Dog’ conspiracy that never happened

From Ian: Ben Rhodes Blames Jewish Donors for Obama Not Being More Anti-Israel Ben Rhodes, a former national security aide to President Barack Obama, told the New York Times this week that the “donor class” had prevented Obama from taking more anti-Israel steps than the administration had wanted to take. Rhodes spoke to author Nathan Thrall for a feature article titled,...

03/29 Links Pt2: The World Is Becoming More Like Israel; NYT: ‘Ostensibly Pro-Israel Right’ Is ‘Home’ to White Nationalists; Does Rashida Tlaib support terrorism?

From Ian: The World Is Becoming More Like Israel Later this year, the Trump administration will release its oft-delayed plan for Israeli–Palestinian peace — the latest in a quarter century of American attempts to resolve one of the Middle East’s most intractable disputes. At the heart of this effort — which has spanned five otherwise disparate post–Cold War presidencies —...

My top tweets of the week

Actually, Gaza has lots of shelters. They are bunkers and tunnels for terrorists, cross-crossing under every city and near borders.What you mean to say is "Hamas doesn't give a damn about Gaza civilians." https://t.co/16S07YSDlR — ElderOfZiyon (@elderofziyon) March 25, 2019 Brooklyn College rally to support Muslim victims of violence turns into public call for Muslim violence to kill Jews. @BklynCollege411 pic.twitter.com/18ZszuIU29 — ElderOfZiyon...

Here are some photos taken of toys in the rubble of Gaza after Israeli airstrikes over the years, many of which look to be posed. There were lots of similar photos from Lebanon in 2006. Well....they're BAAAACK. Here's a tweet from a propagandist "journalist" in Gaza 🇵🇸#Palestine || A Palestinian woman carries a teddy bear that find between the rubbles of her...

From Ian: Official: Obama White House Pushed Delay of Anti-Israel U.N. Resolution to Provide Cover for Clinton A former Obama administration official said the administration orchestrated the delaying of a controversial anti-Israel United Nations resolution until after the 2016 presidential election, knowing it would pass when the United States abstained. The official's claim...

Poll shows increasing numbers of Arabs want normalization with Israel (update)

Morocco's Hespress reports on a poll publicized by Israel's Foreign Ministry. I unfortunately couldn't find the original. According to the article, in a survey in late 2018 with seven Muslim countries who have no relationships with Israel, the percentage of citizens who support relations with Israel were: Iraq 43% UAE 42% Morocco 41% Iran 34% Tunisia 32% Saudi Arabia 23% Algeria 21% I'd like to know the details of the survey (if it was on the...

Yesterday, I responded to this tweet by BDS leader Yousef Munayyer that was mindlessly retweeted by hundreds of his dopey fans: When you hear people saying things like there is no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians, or some variation of this, what you are hearing is a celebration of ethnic cleansing and the continued denial of a peoples' rights. — (((YousefMunayyer)))...

The Hamas website now has a video showing how to donate to Hamas via Bitcoin - without being caught for supporting a terror group which is illegal in many countries. So for example they recommend telling a money changer the Hamas Bitcoin wallet address but emphasizing not to say "Hamas." Or to create a user's own wallet, they say to do it at a public Internet cafe where...

Remember this picture? It still pops up from time to time. In fact this picture was cropped from a photo of street theatre meant to vilify Israel, but with poorly dressed actors: Arabs like to stage these sorts of things = and then some take the video and pretend it is the real thing. Here's one I hadn't seen, being shared on Twitter as legitimate: #Palestinian...

03/28 Links Pt2: Collier: The Israeli – Arab conflict in context – how you have never seen it before; Ben Shapiro Speaks With Ted Cruz About His Anti-Semitism Resolution

From Ian: David Colier: The Israeli – Arab conflict in context – how you have never seen it before There have probably been more words written about the Israeli -Arab conflict than any other post WW2 military dispute. I have no way to highlight this in a graph, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the words written about the Israeli – Arab conflict didn’t outweigh the words written...

Continuing my series of prominent counter-examples to the lie that "Israel is an apartheid state"... Here's an example of her work and a brief bio: As the recipient of the 2018 Haim Shiff Prize for Figurative-Realist Art, a prestigious award given each year by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Samah Shihadi is headed toward the spotlight. In addition to the $10,000 prize,...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column Moshav Mishmeret is an agricultural community about 21 km. north and slightly east of Tel Aviv. It is about 125 km. north of Rafah, which is at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, on a line that passes almost directly over Tel Aviv. The moshav was founded in 1946 by demobilized British soldiers and workers from the Ashdod port. At...

From Ian: Israel’s Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights Is Legal and Justified The spoils of the aggressed against. There is no question that Syria attacked Israel in 1967 (and again in 1973). And there is no question that, by the end of both conflicts, Israel was firmly in control of the Golan Heights. In fact, following legendary tank battles on the Heights in ‘73 (which...