Midweek linksFrom Ian:
After 40 years, State Archives releases Munich papers
45 documents chronicling 1972 Munich massacre, in which 11 Israeli Olympians were killed, made public for first time; then Mossad chief Zamir complained that …Read More
Islamic rules for wife-beating (video)From MEMRI:
Following are excerpts from a lecture delivered by Egyptian cleric Abd Al-Rahman Mansour, which aired on Al-Nas TV on August 17-18, 2012.
Abd Al-Rahman Mansour: Islam instructs a man to beat his wife as a last…Read More
Corrie roundupCiFWatch points out that the ISM is responsible for Rachel Corrie's death - but no one is blaming them for their cavalir attitude towards the deaths of "activists:"
In a 2002 article, ISM co-founders Adam Shapiro and Huwaid…Read More
Baaaaaaah.From the Times of Israel Hebrew press roundup yesterday:
Yedioth reports that the slopes of the northern mountain have become inundated with sheep, disturbing soldiers trying to operate there and turning Israel’s toughest Ra…Read More
UNRWA isn’t just bureaucracy—it’s survival for 5+ million refugees. Tear it down without a plan, and you punish civilians, not terrorists. If any UNRWA staff...
I would be interested in Beinart’s response to this question. “If under a settler-colonial critique, Native American activists starting murdering university...
Agreed but there is also a fundamental difference between the Saudis and the so-called Palestinians. Saudi Arabia is a Muslim country and so it excludes...
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Wriggly words from BBC Complaints
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Last month we documented a BBC News website report by Hugo Bachega and Emma
Rossiter which opened by telling BBC audiences that: “An Israeli...
The post ...
Wriggly words from BBC Complaints
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Last month we documented a BBC News website report by Hugo Bachega and Emma
Rossiter which opened by telling BBC audiences that: “An Israeli...
The post ...
Starvation in Gaza?: The Truth Behind the Headlines
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“Gaza edges closer to famine as Israel’s total blockade nears its third
month” (CNN, May 1, 2025). “Starvation looms as Israel’s total blockade on
Gaza ent...
Emigration to Mandate Palestine from the Hauran
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A report on the present conditions in the Hauran was published in the
Journal of The Royal Central Asian Society in 1936.
One of the topics was the emigr...
One Choice: Fight to Win
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Yesterday Israel preempted a potentially disastrous attack by Hezbollah on
the center of the country. Thirty minutes before launch time, our aircraft
destr...
Closing Jews Down Under Website
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With a heavyish heart I am closing down the website after ten years.
It is and it isn’t an easy decision after 10 years of constant work. The
past...
‘Test & Trace’ is a mirage
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Lockdown II thoughts: Day 1 Opposition politicians have been banging on
about the need for a ‘working’ Test & Trace system even more loudly than
the govern...
Monday, June 07, 2021
Elder of Ziyon
