April 2025 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Hezbollah commanders moving to South America?

From Israel Hayom:Approximately 400 Hezbollah field commanders are slated to leave Lebanon for various South American countries, including Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, according to a report on Wednesday by a Latin American diplomatic source to the Saudi news outlet Al Hadath.The report comes amid growing discourse in Lebanon surrounding the possible disarmament...

Are Jewish ethics just a component of Jewish law, or are they overlapping but distinguishable concepts?At first blush, it appears that from the perspective of Judaism, Jewish ethics is identical to halacha (Jewish law.) Halacha includes lots of ethical imperatives like charity, kindness to strangers, visiting the sick and honoring one's parents. Legal questions...

The Wall Street Journal reports:Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file.Israel last month cut off supplies of humanitarian goods to the enclave, some of which Hamas had been seizing and selling to raise funds, according to Arab, Israeli and Western officials. Its renewed offensive has targeted and killed Hamas officials...

Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades posted on Telegram:#Photos of a mass march in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, in support of the resistance and in rejection of the occupation's demands to disarm the resistance.It looks like maybe 20 people showed up at this "mass march," of whom many were curious teenage boys.Maybe Gazans want to see Hamas disarmed.... Buy EoZ's books ...

04/16 Links Pt2: Josh Hammer: A renewed Jewish-Christian alliance for Western civilization; What the Oct. 7 Survivors Are Going Through

From Ian: JPost Editorial: Trump's plan provides needed solution to combat campus antisemitism It is worth recalling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enforced not just with words, but with funding. Institutions that refused to desegregate lost access to federal support. Today’s crisis demands the same moral clarity. When Jewish students are being intimidated in classrooms...

From Ian: Arsonist Targeted Josh Shapiro's Home Over Governor's Support for Israel, Police Say The suspect in the Sunday arson attack on Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro's (D.) residence said he set fire to the home because Shapiro is Jewish and supports Israel, according to a newly unsealed warrant. According to the warrant, Cody Balmer, 38, targeted Shapiro's home on...

AI didn't understand that the onion is mixed into the fried matzo batter, otherwise this photo comes pretty close to the real deal“I should be home in like an hour, is there something to eat?” wrote my baby, really an adult now at the age of 24. The whatsapp message had come out of nowhere, at 7:30pm. We hadn’t been expecting him to be with us for Pesach. Between his duties...

During the Enlightenment, some of the most famous Western philosophers were inspired by physics. The simple beauty of Newtonian equations, like F = ma, caused many to think that if physical laws could be described so elegantly, then human ethics can similarly be reduced to a small set of universal laws.Immanuel Kant said "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at...

The German–Israeli Society, Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft, is alarmed:In a fatwa, the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) declared armed struggle against Israel an individual duty (farḍ al-ʿayn) for every Muslim. The publication of this fatwa in early April has immediate implications for the security situation in Germany: It obligates every...

Harvard University is defiantly rejecting Trump administration demands that it address antisemitism on campus as a condition for continued federal funding.The government demands are far reaching and a good case can be made that they go beyond Title VI requirements. They don't just say to comply with the law but they mandate how. For example, they demand changes in Harvard's...

I saw in Arabic sites that the Waqf said that 1,732 Jews has ascended to the Temple Mount on Tuesday. When I Googled "1,732 Temple Mount," Google AI rephrased a Hamas news site, Palestine Information Center, saying that "approximately 1,732 Jewish settlers defiled the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Occupied Jerusalem during the third day of the Passover holiday. These...

04/15 Links Pt2: Agam Berger: I Kept My Freedom in Hamas's Captivity; From Gaza to the Ivory Tower: The War on Israel; Trump freezes $2.2 bil in grants to Harvard

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Whose Freedom? The defenders of these institutions are merely demanding that Trump let them go back to the status quo of having academic freedom for some but not for others. If these groups would as emphatically demand the protection of Jewish academic freedom, we’d know they were sincere. As of now, there are zero such groups. Same goes for free speech...

From Ian: Why Israel should embrace its role as a regional power Iran remains the primary long-term challenge. Regime change should be policy, but regime containment must be first. This includes: Bolstering internal opposition through digital and humanitarian channels; Continuing cyber deterrence; Disrupting regional supply lines and proxy funding; Keeping...