August 2019 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, August 31, 2019

08/31 Links: UN urges Palestinians to stop 'hate speech against Israelis that fuels antisemitism'; Iran Has Stopped Cooperating with Nuclear Weapons Inspections; RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan wounded in prison stabbing

From Ian: UN Watch: BREAKING UN urges Palestinians to stop 'hate speech against Israelis that fuels antisemitism' In a rare UN criticism of the Palestinians, the world body’s racism watchdog urged Ramallah to combat “hate speech and incitement to violence,” saying it was “concerned” about statements by Palestinian public figures, politicians and media officials, as well...

The most problematic part of this video is perhaps not the attack itself, but that UNIFIL kept it under wraps. Exclusive video obtained by Fox News shows a peacekeeping patrol under attack by the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah. An intelligence source confirmed to Fox News the Iranian proxy force was behind the attack.While the U.N. described the attack in...

08/30 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: Puncturing the big lie of Palestinian identity; No One Cares About Attacks Against The Orthodox Because You’ve Been Dehumanizing Us For Decades

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Puncturing the big lie of Palestinian identity Nazmi al Jubeh, an associate professor of history and archaeology at Birzeit University outside Ramallah, told a UN conference last June that there was no evidence linking the Jews to Jerusalem. Thus far, so predictably mendacious. But thanks to the Elder of Zion website, a piece has now surfaced written...

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This New York Times story from April 23, 1964 discusses an attack by black youths in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Jewish kids in a Lubavitcher yeshiva. There are some parallels with today's antisemitic attacks in Brooklyn against mostly elderly Jews, but today the media doesn't want to be accused of racism so hardly anyone is even mentioning the race of the attackers. In contrast,...

From Ian: The real waste and destructiveness of UNRWA As readers may be aware, an internal UN report has been leaked accusing the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN body that looks after Palestinian refugees, of corruption, sexual misconduct, nepotism, waste, and poor management among its leadership team. This comes on top of long-standing complaints about the agency,...

Seeing Palestinian flags at rallies for liberal causes like LGBTQ rights, women's rights and Black Lives Matter is always jarring, because Palestinians are among the least liberal people on Earth. But the sight of the flag associates the "pro-Palestinian" (really anti-Israel) cause with liberalism and that is something that happens subconsciously. If we are to fight the...

Palestinian Authority calls Honduras opening mission in Jerusalem "direct aggression against Palestinian people"

The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports on the usual over-the-top reaction to a diplomatic defeat: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned Honduras' decision to open a diplomatic mission in Jerusalem linked to its embassy in Tel Aviv, calling it a direct aggression against the Palestinian people and their rights and a flagrant violation of international law and international legitimacy and its resolutions. It decided to file a complaint...

Trump administration tacitly (if unofficially) supports Israel's strikes in Syria and Lebanon

Yesterday, the White House announced that it had issued sanctions on a number of Lebanese financial institutions and individuals that help fund Hezbollah and Hamas. The transcript of the press conference (the source seems bizarre but the transcript is accurate) is a pleasure to read, as it is so refreshing even three years after Obama to see a White House that is so clearly supportive of Israel's right to self defense and so against coddling...

08/29 Links Pt2: Evelyn Gordon: Israel can’t treat its own destruction as a legitimate aim; Isn’t security a Jewish value; NY county’s Republican ad warns of a Hasidic ‘takeover’

From Ian: Evelyn Gordon: Israel can’t treat its own destruction as a legitimate aim When Israel barred two US congresswomen from entering the country earlier this month, I initially thought it was a stupid decision. But after hearing the reactions from both American politicians and American Jews, I’ve started to think that it may have been necessary. This isn’t to deny the...

Gaza terror groups vow to start Gaza war if Israel-Hezbollah war breaks out

Palestine Today reports: A source in the Palestinian resistance said on Tuesday that the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip will enter the front line upon the outbreak of any war with Hezbollah on the northern front."If there is a battle with Hezbollah in the north, the resistance factions in Gaza will enter the confrontation line," the source said. What does Gaza have to do with Lebanon? Iran funds many Gaza groups and would instruct them...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Lebanese Baffled Why Israel So Bad At Apartheid Vs Palestinians When Lebanon Right There Showing Them How Beirut, August 29 - Residents of Israel's tiny northern neighbor voiced puzzlement today regarding the Jewish state's policy of segregation...

From Ian: Israel: Republic of Nauru recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital The Republic of Nauru has recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israel Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. "I commend @Republic_Nauru’s important decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. We will continue to strengthen Jerusalem and to bring about the recognition and opening...

Sean Durns noticed this gem in Benny Morris' book 1948: Someone should ask Bassem Tamimi and Rashid Khalidi about their illustrious family histories of helping Zionists build the land. Their reactions should be videoed. The next paragraph provides a very nice counterbalance to this one: A couple of months ago I wrote about the Palestinian Arab leaders' rejection of...

Insanity: A/HRC/41/G/17Annex to the letter dated 12 July 2019 from the representatives of Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, the Congo, Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon,...

A Canadian anti-Israel group, CJPME, proudly claimed that Hydro-Quebec caved to BDS demands to stop cooperating with Israel. Another BDS Win?! 👍👍‼️@hydroquebec Quebec chooses not to renew a cyber-security contract with Israeli company IEC. @BDS_Quebec has been working for years to pressure Hydro-Quebec to sever the partnership. Congratulations! https://t.co/cIAJTpQ2eA —...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column A Strategic Plan for PeaceI spent some time Tuesday at a kibbutz in the “Gaza envelope,” the area close to the Strip that absorbs the brunt of the rockets that are the usual expression of Palestinian Arab rage at my existence. The kibbutz was sprinkled with little concrete shelters, because the 15 seconds or less that would elapse between...

08/28 Links Pt2: Honduras recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; Al-Jazeera Network Praises Hamas Summer Camps And Its Efforts To 'Raise A Generation That Believes In The Duty Of Jihad'

From Ian: Honduras recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capitalHonduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Israel on Friday to inaugurate a “diplomatic office” in Jerusalem, recognizing the holy city as Israel’s capital. The diplomatic office in the city will be an extension of Honduras’s Tel Aviv-based embassy. “For me it’s the recognition that Jerusalem is the...