December 2023 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Let's talk about "destroying cultural heritage" in Gaza

Israel has been accused of destroying Gaza's cultural heritage with various attacks. But Gaza's best known mosque is a site where Jewish cultural heritage was quite literally erased.One of the accusations is that Israel destroyed the Great Omari Mosque of Gaza:The Omari Mosque, Gaza's most iconic landmark and oldest mosque stretching back centuries, has been largely destroyed...

From Ian: ‘Nothing prepares you for it’ “We’d walk into a room full of blood and see no sign of shooting or bombing. There, Hamas terrorists didn’t use a gun to kill their victims, they used an axe to chop them into pieces,” said Simcha Greiniman, a 47-year-old veteran ZAKA. Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre of 1,200 people in Israel, 800 ZAKA volunteers have worked around...

By Daled AmosI had the opportunity to talk with Dr. Harold Rhode.Dr. Harold Rhode has a Ph.D. in Islamic history and lived for years in the Muslim world. He served as an advisor on the Islamic world to the Department of Defense for 28 years.Dr. Harold RhodeDo all of the signatories to the Abraham Accords, Arabs and Israelis, see the Abraham Accords the same way? We Jews...

Thomas Friedman, in the New York Times, wrote:Gazans know the truth. Fresh polling data reported by AFP indicates that on the eve of Oct. 7, “many Gazans were hostile to Hamas ahead of the group’s brutal Oct. 7 attack on Israel, with some describing its rule as a second occupation.” The AFP article says:Amaney Jamal "We find in our surveys that 67 percent of Palestinians...

Back in 2018, I introduced the Intersectionality Victimhood Calculator. And it has remained quite accurate five years later.To recap, the calculator is meant to determine who is the "winner" in any conflict in this new woke world. The actual facts in any conflict are utterly irrelevant - only the victimhood score, which is the sum of all victimhood or oppressor values...

12/30 Links: Kids in Israel Feel Connected to Their Country; Douglas Murray, Col. Richard Kemp explain uphill battle for Israel; How Hamas weaponises victimhood

From Ian: Kids in Israel Feel Connected to Their Country On Wednesday, Sammy Jackman, an immigrant from Britain, eulogized his beloved son, Efraim, who was killed in battle in Gaza. He described his ambition and drive, his love for family, his high standards and unwillingness to compromise, and the way he gave his all for the army, his country and his people. He said: "Only...

12/29 Links Pt2: On the Hatred of Jews; The unholy alliance between wokeism and barbarism; Fetterman’s Clear Thinking and Clean Conscience

From Ian: Rabbi David J. Wolpe: On the Hatred of Jews Israel is the only country in the world that is routinely and widely targeted for eradication. So is anti-Zionism synonymous with antisemitism? There are exceptions, but the overlap is striking. I have never heard of activists who are angry with China targeting Chinese restaurants in Paris, but when Hamas terrorists were...

The media often quotes the "Gaza Government Media Office." It has been the source for the recent charge that Israel is harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, for many sketchy casualty allegations, that Israel is is guilty of hundreds of "field executions" of civilians, that Israel destroyed over 200 archaeological sites, and so on. It is a non-stop factory manufacturing...

From Ian: NYTs: ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 Free Link At first, she was known simply as “the woman in the black dress.” In a grainy video, you can see her, lying on her back, dress torn, legs spread, vagina exposed. Her face is burned beyond recognition and her right hand covers her eyes. The video was shot in the early hours...

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics issued a report showing the economic costs to Palestinians of the Gaza war, in both Gaza and the West Bank, through the end of November.During the war, Israel has not allowed Palestinian workers into Israel. It has also not allowed Israeli Arabs to go to the PA-controlled areas of the West Bank, where they would often shop...

Djibouti's real estate is incredibly valuable from a geopolitical perspective.It lies on the African side of the Bab al-Mandab Strait that overlooks all maritime traffic to the Red Sea - the strait that the Houthis have been threatening.Djibouti is a poor country, and gets a great deal of income from traffic that goes through those straits.Even so, Djibouti supports the...

The New York Times reports:The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had caused “unintended harm” to “uninvolved civilians” in two strikes this week on a densely packed Gaza Strip neighborhood, where, the local health authorities said, dozens were killed.It was a rare admission of fault by the military over its conduct of the war. The military said it was targeting Hamas...