February 2020 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, February 29, 2020

02/29 Links: US, Taliban sign historic deal aimed at ending war in Afghanistan; Israeli who recovered in Japan develops coronavirus again

From Ian: US, Taliban sign historic deal aimed at ending war in Afghanistan The United States signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing US troops to return home from America’s longest war. Under the agreement, the US would draw its forces down to 8,600 from 13,000 in the next 3-4...

IfNotNow tweeted: In a tweet that accused the Republican party of inciting white nationalist violence, the purportedly Jewish organization parroted neo-Nazi talking points of politicians "pandering" to all-powerful Jews to gain politically. Because, obviously, no sane Gentile would ever support a position most Jews support unless they are politically forced to. Usually...

02/28 Links Pt2: Melanie Phillips: The post-modern, anti-Jewish reconfiguration of the WestCaroline B. Glick: Gaza, elections and the Corbynization of the Democratic party

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: From Aalst to America: The post-modern, anti-Jewish reconfiguration of the West This eruption hasn’t been created by Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn; nor, as some believe, by the populism of Donald Trump or Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, Victor Orbán. Populism is not in itself an extremist movement (although some bits undoubtedly are). It...

In 1960, a devastating earthquake shook the city of Agadir in Morocco, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people. On the 60th anniversary of the event, Morocco held a ceremony today at the Ihasha cemetery in Agadir, where the victims (of all religions) were buried. Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders participated. On the stage of the event, a rabbi, a priest,...

From Ian: UNRWA’s Future Reconsidered The British Government has given more than £300million to a UN aid programme whose schools teach six and seven years olds the words for ‘martyr’ and ‘attack’, while the textbooks it uses glorify jihad and falsely teach of a Jewish plot to kill the Muslim prophet, Muhammed. UNRWA, the UN aid body established to support Palestinians, has...

From Arab News: PRAGUE: The former imam of Prague was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for helping his brother and sister-in-law join a terror group and for financing terrorism, a court spokeswoman said. The court in the Czech capital found Samer Shehadeh, a 36-year-old of Palestinian origin, guilty of helping them join the Al-Nusra front, Al-Qaeda’s sister...

This pro-Bernie Sanders tweeter struck a nerve when she expressed her fears that Bernie Sanders might contract the coronavirus while campaigning: I don't even want to say this out loud but my biggest fear right now is of Bernie getting coronavirus. The man is very old and shakes a lot of hands. — Arielle Angel (@ArielleLAngel) February 27, 2020 Responses show that...

PA trying to influence Israeli elections

From Al Monitor: The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently intensified its meetings with Israeli journalists, former lawmakers, political party members and academics in an attempt to gain their cooperation and to explain Palestinians' broad rejection of the US Mideast peace plan.... The PA’s intense surge toward Israeli society reflects President Mahmoud Abbas' vision of establishing his influence in Israel, to recruit Israeli voices and positions...

02/27 Links Pt2: David Collier: SOAS opens its doors to EUROPAL and neo-Nazi antisemitism; Condition of Monsey stabbing victim improves; Lessons from London: You can't fix jihad

From Ian: The 11% Majority Bernie didn’t just oppose America’s Cold War excesses. He was often on the other side. America’s actions in Vietnam, he told a classroom of impressionable youngsters in 1972, were “almost as bad as what Hitler did.” In 1980, when Americans were tying yellow ribbons to express solidarity with our diplomats held hostage in Iran, Sanders aligned himself...

Egyptian cinephile site "Eye on Cinema" doesn't like the Academy Award-winning Jojo Rabbit, calling it "the art of Jewish propaganda." The reviewer, Abdel Moneim Adeeb, dissects the movie to show how it represents Jews in a positive manner, which is of course unacceptable. The movie"Jojo Rabbit" is not a movie - it is propaganda like any advertisement for products...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Ramat Gan, February 27 - A resident who shared his numerous ideas with his wife about getting a jump on preparations for a Jewish festival that occurs in April this year has determined that if one positions himself just right on the living room sofa,...

From Ian: The UN, where rights abusers get to be on the human rights council The Trump administration withdrew from the UNHRC nearly two years ago, citing the parade of dictators that have turned the body into what Nikki Haley, then the U.S. ambassador to the UN, described as a “self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.” Haley also cited, not unreasonably,...

In an op-ed in Palestine Today, Dr. Walid Al-Qattati starts off with an anecdote that in many ways symbolizes the entire Palestinian experience. When he attended a school in the Sinai's El Arish (then under Israeli control) as a boy in the early 1970s, a teacher asked him, “Are you a citizen or a refugee?” Qattati didn't understand the question, so the teacher...

Reuters reports: Facing a huge public debt burden and an acute liquidity crisis, the Lebanese state on Tuesday appointed international investment and law firms as its financial and legal advisers on a widely expected restructuring of its sovereign debt. The government gave approval for U.S. asset management company Lazard to act as Lebanon’s financial adviser and law...

Vic Rosenthal's Weekly Column As Purim approaches, Bernie Sanders, the Jewish front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said: [Moving the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv is] something we would take into consideration …I am very proud of being Jewish. I actually lived in Israel for some months, but what I happen to believe is that right now,...

02/26 Links Pt2: Israel’s Rihanna Is Arab and Jewish; Sanders: I'd consider moving embassy back to Tel Aviv; Carnival float in Spain features Nazi uniforms and trains with crematoria

From Ian: Matti Friedman: Israel’s Rihanna Is Arab and Jewish In 2017, fresh off a gig opening for Radiohead in the U.S., the pop star sang at Israel’s official Independence Day celebration, an unusual gig for an Arab artist. The invitation came from the Likud culture minister, Miri Regev, a sharp-tongued hard-liner whose family roots are in North Africa, like those of many...

My grandson's second birthday party had to be canceled due to rocket fire. I had arranged to attend the festivities and had set the alarm clock to meet my ride at approximately dawn o’clock. But when I rolled out of bed in the near darkness, I had two messages. One from my ride, and one from my daughter in-law, both telling me that it just wasn’t happening today. Maybe...