January 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, January 31, 2020

01/31 Links Pt2: Senators Seek Answers to Davos Press Credentials Given to Antisemitic Broadcaster; Palestinian Authority Schools Are Teaching Anti-Israel Violence Is Honorable

From Ian: FDD: Occupied Elsewhere Setting policies toward territories involved in protracted conflicts poses an ongoing challenge for governments, companies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Since there are multiple zones of disputed territories and occupation around the globe, setting policy toward one conflict raises the question of whether similar policies will...

A tweet I saw was funny but ultimately horrifying: Since it’s Year of the Rat, I just wanted to pay my respects to rat girl, the girl who every Muslim kid growing up was told had turned into a rat because she threw out the Quran. My scripture teacher told us about it and literally no adult questioned this. Thanks rat girl pic.twitter.com/BmEnPbkVi2 — putting the pal in...

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The Palestinians' bluff has been called Perhaps the Trump plan's most important achievement is to put on record the truth about the Jews' unique rights to the land of Israel. As it states, the areas that Israel is being asked to yield to the Palestinians nevertheless constitute "territory to which Israel has asserted valid legal and historical claims,...

The Moroccan army has received 3 Israeli-made reconnaissance planes, according to French intelligence website Intelligence Online as quoted by Ma'an. The news, which was also reported by Moroccan media, confirms that the size of the deal amounted to $48 million. The drones are the Israeli Heron. In 2014, there were reports of another 3 Herons that ended up in Morocco...

One of the biggest complaints by the anti-Israel crowd against the Trump plan is the supposed "bantustans" of Palestinian territory only connected by roads, bridges or tunnels. This is said to be intolerable for a sovereign nation Yet if you look at Wikipedia, you can see that there are literally hundreds of examples where the territory or territories of one state is fully...

A tweet from Alice Rothchild, a long time anti-Israel activist, author, filmmaker, physician and member of Jewish Voice for Peace who says she has written for the Seattle Times and Boston Globe. Her Mondoweiss link fills in the details of the lie: An Israeli army statement said the three teenagers had crossed some 400 metres into Israel and were hiding in a thicket when...

Tunisian president calls for investigation on how an Israeli junior tennis player competed in Tunis

Al Jazeera reports: Tunisian President Qais Saeed called for an investigation into the participation of a tennis player with Israeli citizenship in an international tournament in Tunisia. A presidential statement said today that President Saeed asked the Minister of Youth and Sports Sunni Sheikh "to open an investigation in the purpose to determine responsibilities",...

From Ian: PMW: PMW exclusive: PA gave 517.4 million shekels to terrorists as salaries in 2019 As US President Trump demanded “halting the financial compensation to terrorists” PA documents just publicized show the PA admits to paying 517.4 million shekels in salaries to terrorists in 2019, a rise of 15 million shekels compared to 2018. Israeli government stipulated that the...

Peter Beinart has recently joined Jewish Currents as a columnist and "editor at large," leaving The Forward. Jewish Currents was a Communist publication from decades ago that has been reborn recently as an equally leftist publication. (Apparently, the Forward was too right-leaning for Beinart.) His tweets have been becoming more and more unhinged. It feels like he is following...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, January 30 - Israel's embattled prime minister promised his citizens today that he will not allow the historic moment facing the country to disrupt his administration's horse-trading, bickering, and cynical manipulation of the public and...

From Ian: Breaking the 'everybody knows paradigm' In the immediate and intermediate future, the detailed plan and map put forward by President Trump will be rejected out of hand by the Palestinian leadership. For them it is indeed "dead on arrival." Both Fatah and Hamas joined the choir of condemnation. Some violence may ensue, although Mahmud 'Abbas speaks of "popular" rather...

Author of Arabic translation of the "Protocols," left, with a smiling customer The annual Cairo International Book Fair is in full swing, and as we've reported in previous years, it is featuring antisemitic books. The Dar Al Kitab Al Arabi Publishing Company again has an exhibit there where you can see their antisemitic book collection. Here are the covers of: Arabic...

A tweet from Carl Bildt, Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations: He's referring to the peace plan's tripling the size of Gaza to add agricultural and industrial areas as well as more residential areas: Of course, there are Israeli communities dotting the Negev, including near the Egyptian border. A quick look at Google Maps identifies Naveh,...

When Palestinians say that they cannot possibly have a state without their preconditions, which include: * "Right of return" (to Israel, not to their own state!) * Jerusalem as their capital * Israels' release of terrorist prisoners * 1967 lines They are lying. None of those are prerequisites for a state. They are completely separate demands. When Palestinians insist...

The Deal (Vic Rosenthal)

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column First, divest yourself from the idea that this plan is just a trick to divert attention from Trump’s impeachment or Bibi’s indictment. The document describing it is 181 pages long. It is not a diversion. I am not interested in the question of whether its release now will help Trump (I suspect it won’t matter) or Bibi (it’s...