February 2024 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, February 29, 2024

02/29 Links Pt2: Bari Weiss: What It Means to Choose Freedom; If Berkeley Wants to Protect Free Speech It Will Expel Its Rioters; The “Occupation” Dodge

From Ian: Lipstadt urges US Jews not to ‘go underground’ amid surging antisemitism She told the congregation that bad actors, particularly autocratic regimes, are fanning the flames of antisemitism to undermine faith in democracies, and that “all government leaders” agree with that assessment, as do members of the US intelligence community. When members of the public buy...

Two months ago, the World Health Organization condemned the "effective destruction" of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.It was bulldozed! Burying Palestinians alive! Yesterday, Al Jazeera filed a video report from that same hospital, claiming that babies are starving from malnutrition there.But the video shows the electricity is on, the incubators and equipment is...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory.Check out their Facebook page.Washington, February 29 - Heads of nations who for years have blamed Binyamin Netanyahu for stifling prospects for a peaceful, long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continued this week to speak and act in ways that all but guarantee the embattled prime minister...

From Ian: Peace can be achieved only through decisive victory That is why Israel must destroy Hamas to ensure that, despite the terrorist group’s promises to repeat those atrocities over and over, they will never happen again. Israel must execute this war and save the hostages on its own terms and timetable, as well as implement strategies, protocols, and tactics that will...

Jordan has been proud of its role in airdropping aid to people in north Gaza. But its air force is having problems hitting...Gaza.On Monday, one of the drops landed in the Mediterranean, and some reports say in southern Gaza, not the north where it was intended.Today, another one landed in Israel instead of Gaza.Arab caricaturists are making fun of the mistakes.There...

Israel National News reports:The IDF on Thursday reported that as aid trucks were brought into northern Gaza on Thursday morning, Gazan residents gathered around the trucks, acting violently and looting the supplies."Early this morning, during the entry of humanitarian aid trucks into the northern Gaza Strip, Gazan residents surrounded the trucks, and looted the supplies being...

Jordan's Foreign Minister called out Israel as the only guilty party on October 7.Adopting Hamas talking points, Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi justified what he called the “Al-Aqsa Flood” massacre on October 7th, saying it must be looked upon in "context" of Israeli actions against Palestinians. This came during a press conference with his Austrian counterpart, Alexander...

02/28 Links Pt2: A never again moment — again; Israel, Indonesia were on track to normalize ties before Oct. 7; The Jews of West Point

From Ian: What Jews Mean to America Taking a long view of Jewish history, Meir Soloveichik observes that there is nothing especially surprising about the surge of anti-Semitism in the U.S. since October 7. What is surprising, he writes, are the “stalwart, public defenses of Jews” from public figures. Soloveichik believes such attitudes have deep roots in the American founding,...

Disclaimer: the views expressed here are solely those of the author, weekly Judean Rose columnist Varda Meyers Epstein. Contrary to popular antisemitic belief, Jews are not “white Europeans” who so rudely colonized land where “Palestinian” Arabs had lived for thousands of years. First of all, Jews are neither European nor white. Secondly, one cannot colonize one’s own land....

SpyTalk writes:What has made the war in Gaza so much deadlier and destructive than Israel’s previous operations against Hamas is the combination of its use of artificial intelligence, which generates more targets than ever before, and the IDF’s relaxation of rules limiting strikes against non-military targets and civilians, according to little noticed statements by current...

From Ian: The General Who Believes in Winning Wars Hacohen is not a believer in peace with the Palestinians, but he does not think violence alone can solve Israel’s strategic dilemmas. Two days before I met him, the MEF group had been in the north of Israel, looking through binoculars into the dread stillness of communities that had been ghost towns since early October. The...

On Monday, Joe Biden said - while eating ice cream - that he was hopeful for a "ceasefire" by next week."We're close," President Biden told reporters. "We're not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we'll have a ceasefire."It was a very stupid thing to say.Once Biden said that he thought a deal was close, that made Hamas far less likely to agree to a deal. Everyone in...

It has been 144 days.Not one human rights organization, not one major media outlet, not one world government, not one UN agency has publicly called on Arab countries to open their borders for Gazans in a war zone to flee.This is unlike every other war in modern history. Millions of Ukrainians, Syrians, Somalians, Sudanese and other refugees flee war zones all the time and...

One year ago, UN Women reported that "Nearly one-third of Ukraine’s population have been forced to flee their homes. Around 60 per cent of the 7.7 million internally displaced adults are women while 90 per cent of the 5.6 million refugees who fled Ukraine are women and children, making it one of the most gendered displacement crises of our times."The men stayed to fight and...