January 2024 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

01/31 Links Pt2: Bibi: UNRWA gave ICJ false information against Israel; BMG dumps anti-Israel musician Roger Waters; Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk Discuss DEI, Anti-Semitism

From Ian: Netanyahu: UNRWA gave ICJ false information against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of providing false information against Israel to the International Court of Justice at The Hague during a conversation he held with a delegation of visiting ambassadors on Wednesday night. “Many of the charges, false and...

It is truly a remarkable coincidence that every party fighting Israel and the West in the MIddle East nowadays - Hamas, Hezbollah, Syrian armed groups, Iraqi armed groups, Houthis - are all allied with, funded by, and armed by Iran.Iran avoids being attacked by using these groups as proxies, knowing that most nations are reluctant to widen the conflict by attacking Iran itself,...

Last week, Gulf CSR screenshotI reported that Independent Arabia, the Arabic version of the British Independent, published an article with the headline "Jewish pressure groups and their influence on global decision-making." It included a large excerpt of a study by the Arab Gulf Center for Studies and Research, "The hidden Jewish empire and the plan to control the...

From Ian: Bret Stephens NYTs: Abolish the UN's Palestinian Refugee Agency UNRWA employees were involved in the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7 and Israeli intelligence estimates that 1,200 of UNRWA's 12,000 employees in Gaza have links to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad. But the fundamental problem isn't that UNRWA is infested with terrorists and their sympathizers. It's that...

Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony about how UNRWA is part of the problem in the Middle East, not the solution. Experts testified about UNRWA teachers' support for terror and how UNRWA's entire mission is to prolong misery of millions of Palestinians, not alleviate it.The entire session can be seen here.As the world learns about UNRWA staff's complicity...

Rafah smuggling tunnel, 2010The Palestine Press Agency, a pro-Fatah news site that no longer exists, reported in March 2008: A reliable source revealed to the Palestine Press News Agency, “The outlaw Hamas movement is digging tunnels under the densely populated western camp, specifically in the Qatatuta camp area in the city of Khan Yunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.”The...

Israel's Channel 12 reported about antisemitism a Egypt's Al Azhar University, the most important educational institution in the Sunni Muslim world. The report said “the educational curricula in its schools incite hatred.” According to the report, 1.8 million students are being taught to hate Jews in the Al-Azhar educational system.Al-Azhar University denied the...

01/30 Links Pt2: Israel is the true victim of genocidal intent; Israeli ‘public relations’ will not solve the problem of the world’s moral bankruptcy

From Ian: The Briton who joined the IDF: ‘My family died in the Holocaust – I had to defend Jewish people’ It was hearing one of my comrades praying as we crossed the border into Gaza in October 2023 that brought home what we were about to do. Just a few hours earlier, I had been in Tel Aviv with my girlfriend, when I was sent a codeword on my phone which meant we were going...

Haaretz writes about the current fighting in Khan Younis. The article makes several important points:The Israel Defense Forces has recently changed its orders to soldiers in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip and its special units have begun fighting inside the city's tunnels and engaging Hamas fighters in close combat.The reason for the change stems from the army's...

Before the Holocaust, there was plenty of overt antisemitism in America. Newspaper ads would seek to rent spaces for "gentiles only." Hotels attempted to restrict their clientele to non-Jews. Henry Ford could freely publish antisemitic libels in The Dearborn Independent, and fully a quarter of all Americans listened to Dr. Charles Coughlin broadcast his antisemitic opinions...

From Ian: Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack Israel says it has documented deepening ties between Unrwa and Hamas since the militant group cemented its hold on Gaza in 2007. Unrwa has admitted to finding Hamas weapons stored in schools and Israel has repeatedly said Hamas tunnels run under and through Unrwa buildings as well as other...

John Spencer is recognized as one of the world's leading experts on urban warfare. One of his books, "Understanding Urban Warfare," is considered a leading source on the topic. He is the chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Modern War Institute, United States Military Academy. He served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army as an infantry soldier and is a highly decorated...

In December, Marc Rowan, a major donor to the University of Pennsylvania and chairman of the Board of Advisors of Penn's Wharton School, sent a letter to the trustees of the university, framed as a series of questions. The questions are all reasonable. Here are major excerpts:What is the University’s mission? What is the process for evaluating whether the University’s actions...