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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Why doesn't the US tell Libya (and other Arab nations) to stop acting like children when Israel is discussed?

The story about the meeting between Israel's Foreign Minister Eli Cohen with his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, and the angry reactions from Libya, have dominated the news cycle.Looking at Libyan newspapers, people are falling over themselves to distance themselves from any possibility that they support talking to Israelis. Besides the opposition political parties...

What does Israel gain from a Saudi normalization deal?

The US negotiations with Saudi Arabia over recognizing Israel looks more and more like using Israel as a pawn for a US-Saudi deal than anything that will have huge benefits for Israel.The Saudis want from Washington a NATO-style defense pact and a civilian nuclear program. The Saudis want from Israel access to intelligence (which they probably already have indirectly), access...

A Lebanese SWAT team shows their skills confiscating Israeli kitchen towels! (video)

The Jerusalem Post reports:Lebanon’s National Security Ministry confiscated Israeli goods from store shelves around the country, its National Security Ministry announced, according to Lebanese media reports on Tuesday.It is unknown how the Israeli goods ended up in commercial centers in Lebanon, as the two countries do not have diplomatic relations and do not engage in trade. According...

Yes, there was a Saudi consulate in Jerusalem before 1948

Haaretz reports:Saudi Arabia’s appointment of its first ambassador to the Palestinian Authority, who will also serve as consul general to Jerusalem, was not coordinated with Israel, and Israeli diplomatic figures are struggling to gauge its implications for the efforts to normalize relations with the kingdom.Senior Israeli officials said Sunday that Riyadh’s weekend announcement...

A surprising number of Arab youth in the UAE, Egypt and even Algeria(!) support normalization with Israel

From reading the media, the impression one gets is that while Arab governments are considering the benefits of closer relations with Israel, the populations are completely against it.It turns out that this is not exactly true.The 2023 Arab Youth Survey mentions that nearly 17% of Gulf citizens and 11% of North African youth now see Israel as a strong ally or somewhat...

RFK Jr.’s Antisemitism: A Legacy from Grandpa Joe? (Judean Rose)

RFK Jr. got into hot water on July 15, when the New York Post aired footage of a press event during which he said (emphasis added): “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and...

Antisemites rooting for a Jewish civil war. (Then again, anyone rooting for a civil war is pretty much an antisemite.)

Palestinian news site Amad as well as other sites have an opinion piece by Jordanian Ibrahim Abu Atila that asks Arabs to stop being coy and admit that their enemy is Jews, not "Zionists."Those of us who speak simply and who do not know theorizing and embellishment of speech and those who are not affected by what the media promotes say that those who are hostile to us are...

75 years ago: Another Egyptian air raid on Tel Aviv kills 18

From the Palestine Post, July 14, 1948:By the next day, the death toll reached 18:This attack is not even mentioned in Wikipedia's list of major attacks on civilians during the war.Egypt had been bombing civilian areas in Tel Aviv nearly continuously since Israel declared independence on May 14, and the total casualties of innocent Jews was much higher than I had realized....

Man plans to burn Jewish holy books in Sweden outside Israel embassy - proving anti-Zionism is antisemitism

From Times of Israel:Outrage mounted in Israel on Friday after Swedish police accepted a request to allow the burning of a Bible outside of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, just weeks after Quran burnings took place in the city.Local police confirmed two weeks ago to Sweden’s national public broadcaster that it had received an application from an individual in...

What are Israel's options on Hezbollah's clear aggression on Israeli territory?

From The Cradle:Washington is urging the Lebanese government to pressure Hezbollah into removing an outpost erected in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Israeli media reported on 29 June.Walla news outlet cited anonymous Israeli and US officials as saying that the outpost represents a “miscalculation on Hezbollah’s part, which does not take into account the potential Israeli response....

The Saudis describe their vision of the Middle East's future, and where Israel fits in

Several weeks ago I wrote about how Saudi Arabia is positioning itself as the leader of the Middle East, and what it wants to accomplish.Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud, at the Aspen Ideas Festival this past weekend, described the vision in more detail - including where Israel fits in.“We want to see a thriving Israel,” she said. “We want to...

This week's EoZ memes and posters - and they are good

I am particularly proud of most of the memes I made this week. Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! &nbs...

The Saudis are emerging as the new superpower of the Middle East

The United States has left a leadership vacuum in the Middle east - and the Saudis filling it.For decades, there has been jockeying on who would be the leader of the Muslim world. Egypt filled the role under Nasser but since then it has been a free for all. Iran tried to position itself as that leader in the 2000s, but it could not overcome the antipathy from the Sunni...

For Once, the EU is Correct - Zionists Did Make the Desert Bloom (Tomer Ilan)

Guest post by Tomer Ilan:___________________________________________________How Zionists made the land bloom by eradicating malaria European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has come under attack from Israel-haters for saying the truth that Israel “literally made the desert bloom.” The Palestinian foreign ministry condemned her, calling her statement a “racist...