Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: 2020

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Monday, August 14, 2023

Since 1948, in any given situation, there seem to always be exactly 420,000 Palestinians

Here's an interesting coincidence.The UN in 1994:An estimate made by Abu Lughod indicated that the average number of indigenous Palestinians was about 420,000 in the West Bank and about 80,000 in the Gaza Strip by the end of 1948. News wires, March 2004:Schools and virtually every shop were closed in this city {Gaza City], where 420,000 people live. Internal...

"Pro-Palestinians" justify their intransigence and hate in revealing response to my cartoon

Last week, Peter Beinart tweeted this:People in Jenin can't become citizens of the country in which they live. Can't vote for the govt that determines if they live or die. Can't return to the lands from which their families were expelled. This underlies everything happening now. The American press rarely mentions itBeinart complains that Palestinians do not have a state of...

Palestinians claim Israel will open a synagogue on the Temple Mount "Bab al Rahma" hall. (I wish!)

The Jerusalem Post reports:The controversy surrounding the Bab al-Rahma (Gate of Mercy or Golden Gate) prayer hall, located east of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount, resurfaced on Saturday after the Wakf claimed that Israel Police officers halted renovation work at the site.The site was closed by court order in 2003 after the police discovered that members of the Islamic...

Making up an Arab history of Jerusalem

In 2020, Arab News published an article titled "Arabs founded Jerusalem, says Jordan-based institute."Among the many references the document uses to make its point is the Amarna Correspondence, a series of diplomatic letters between Canaanite city-state kings and their Egyptian overlords during the 14th century B.C., which mention Jerusalem. The paper presents pictures of...

There are crypto-Jews, today - in Lebanon

The former Jewish quarter in TripoliFrom The Arab News in 2020:In 2014, when the Magen Abraham Synagogue reopened in Beirut, Lebanese politicians from across the spectrum were present, bathed in the glare of TV cameras. They all reiterated their support for a community they said they cherished as much as the other 17 sects that make up the Lebanese government. Former...

Neither The ICC Nor The US Responds When The PA Falsifies Documents Or Destroys Evidence (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosAbbas and the Palestinian Authority sometimes bend the truth.Take for instance in May 3, 2017, when Abbas came to the White House and told then-President Trump about their inculcation of peace:"Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our children and our grandchildren on a culture of peace."Palestinian Media Watch captures the moment in a video, along...

Amnesty International UK is “institutionally racist”, “colonialist” - and its antisemitism is closely linked to that

Amnesty UK has an annual meeting where they vote on resolutions about various worldwide political issues. Nearly all of them pass with a huge majority, since they don't ask for funding - just vague commitments to "lobby" for the issue. In 2015, one seemingly routine resolution was put up for vote to condemn antisemitism in the UK and lobby the British government to do...

The strange route of the first Royal Air Maroc flight from Casablanca to Tel Aviv

From AFP:Royal Air Maroc took off from Morocco’s economic capital Casablanca bound for Tel Aviv on Sunday, in the carrier’s first direct flight to the Jewish state since the two countries normalized ties in 2020.Aviation sources and local media sources said a Moroccan business delegation was on the inaugural flight, delayed by three months because of the COVID-19 pandemic.“Casablanca/Tel...