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Friday, September 22, 2023

09/22 Links Pt2: Yom Kippur War: A bleak moment but pivotal turning point; Penn Jewish Center Vandalized Ahead of Uni Conference Featuring Anti-Semites

From Ian: Mark Regev: Yom Kippur War: A bleak moment but pivotal turning point Yet, if the Yom Kippur War was a turning point, it wasn’t as bleak as it appeared at the time. The war ended with direct Egypt-Israel military-to-military talks. These were the harbinger of a dialogue that led to disengagement agreements and ultimately to the 1979 peace treaty – Israel’s first...

75 years ago: Jordan maliciously destroys the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem

Hurva synagogue in 1864The Palestine Post, May 28, 1948, reported on the gleeful and deliberate destruction of the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem.The secondary story on the right column describes the many times that this synagogue had been destroyed by Muslims, or attempted to be destroyed, and how it had always been rebuilt.Israel complained to the world about...

Palestinian media calls "Am Yisrael Chai" a "racist slogan calling for killing of Arabs"

Several Palestinian websites report about arson and graffiti that apparently was done by Jews in Sinjil, near Shilo.While destroying cars and defacing property for no reason is not acceptable, the sites are reporting that the "settlers wrote racist slogans calling for the killing of Arabs."The message on the graffiti?"Am Yisrael Chai" - "The Nation of Israel Lives."Nothing...

Jordanian Royal Committee says rebuilding a synagogue (destroyed by Jordan) is a racist Jewish crime

Tiferes Yisrael on the left, Hurva on the right, ;ate 1930sThe Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs of Jordan was created by the late King Hussein in 1971 and reconstituted in 1994. Its mission:The Royal Committee for Jerusalem Affairs is working to raise awareness of the importance of the issue of Jerusalem and not to separate it from its Arab and Islamic dimension, expose...

A 1976 book documents the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Jerusalem in 1948 with stunning photographs

Richard Pollack writes in JNS: I recently stumbled upon a photography book shot by the acclaimed Life magazine wartime photographer John Phillips. The large, innocuous-looking book was simply titled, A Will to Survive. After flipping through the pages, I realized I entered a time capsule that memorializes the Arab destruction of Jerusalem’s ancient Jewish Quarter in 1948.Not...