Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

01/23 Links Pt2: Israeli Patriotism in Full Bloom; The UN is a morally decayed institution paving the way for another Holocaust; At Auschwitz With Elon Musk

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Israeli Patriotism in Full Bloom Why, besides for the rally-round-the-flag effect of the attacks and their response, has Hamas’s slaughter made those in the line of fire more eager to stay put? The answer is one the Jewish community already knows too well but the rest of the world struggles to understand. Ben-Haim told the Post that when he saw a Black...

In November, Human Rights Watch accused Israel of a war crime when it struck a car in Lebanon, killing a grandmother and three grandchildren: An unlawful Israeli strike on a family in a car on November 5, 2023, should be investigated as an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack killed three girls and their grandmother and wounded their mother.“This...

In 1982, US Secretary of State General Alexander Hague said, "Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security."I always thought that was hyperbole. But in fact, the annual cost of a US aircraft carrier is not much different than annual...

From Ian: 24 IDF soldiers killed in deadliest day since start of Gaza combat Twenty-four Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip on Monday, the deadliest single day for the Israeli military since the start of its ground operation against Hamas on Oct. 27. Twenty-one soldiers were killed in central Gaza when two buildings collapsed due to a blast, IDF...

There were hardly any Orthodox Jews in the college I went to after yeshiva high school. I hung out at the Hillel office and became friends with many non-religious Jews who also made that office their home base between classes, as well as with the Hillel directors.While one might think this was a huge culture shock for me, I found that I respected my new friends while strongly...

AFP has been keeping a tally of deaths in the mini-war between Hezbollah and Israel. According to its tally, the casualties on the Lebanese and Syrian side include:147 Hezbollah members in Lebanon16 Hezbollah members in Syria10 Hamas members in Lebanon10 Islamic Jihad members in Lebanon7 Hamas members in the Salah Arouri assassination assumed to be Israel1 Lebanese soldier26...

An op-ed in Qatari site Raya by Dr.. Ayman Al-Atoum:I participated in a conference in support of Gaza a few days ago in Istanbul, and I was invited to recite one of my poems on its sidelines in the presence of the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, and a large number of leaders of parties and union institutions from various parts of the world, including...

01/22 Links Pt2: Why Do We Let Our Detractors Speak For Us?; At This Point, a 2 State Solution Is Asking Israel to Commit Suicide; Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro tour Auschwitz

From Ian: Seth Mandel: Why Do We Let Our Detractors Speak For Us? Harvard alum Ira Stoll notes that Penslar last year signed a letter accusing Israel of apartheid and of seeking to “ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.” Just last month, he extolled the virtues of seeing Israel through the prism of “settler colonialism,” the...

From the EU External Action website:, press remarks by EU High Representative Josep Borrell:[W]e will have a discussion among us, among the ministers, and I will present - I have already presented - a comprehensive approach. A comprehensive approach to what? I think that we have to stop talking about the “peace” process, and start talking more concretely about the “two-state...

From Ian: A Second Exile For over a quarter-million Israelis, Oct. 7 didn’t only signal the start of a war. It was also the day they realized they’d have to leave their homes. Some of them had a sense of déjà vu. They had been exiled from their homes before. For Pnina Rogolsky, this evacuation brought back memories of the spring of 1982, when she lost her home in southern...

British R1 Shadow surveillance aircraftDeclassified UK, a British open source intelligence website that appears to be anti-Israel, reports that they have seen evidence of regular British flights over Gaza by planes whose job is to gather intel:The UK military has flown 50 surveillance missions over Gaza since December, it can be revealed.The flights have taken off from Britain’s...

Eugene Kontorovich writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:America Helps Make Gaza an Open-Air PrisonRefugees flee every other war, but Palestinians are kept prisoners of Hamas.Gaza is unique among modern war zones. Despite being the center of a conflict fought in dense urban areas, it hasn’t produced waves of refugees leaving for neutral countries. This has been deliberate,...

Hamas issued a document in English purporting to describe why it decided to attack Israel on October 7.The lies are transparent and disgusting.Video clips taken on that day – Oct. 7 – along with the testimonies by Israelis themselves that were released later showed that the Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters didn’t target civilians, and many Israelis were killed by the Israeli army...

Houthi blockade hurting Egypt, Europe - probably more than Israel

The Houthi piracy at the entrance to the Red Sea is affecting others more than it is affecting Israel.The main loser seems to be Egypt, which has seen traffic through the Suez Canal drop dramatically, by as much as 40%. Remittances for shipping brought over $8 billion to Egypt's economy for the fiscal year that ended last June, and Egypt has had other economic woes recently...

From Ian: NGO Monitor: Documenting the Enablers of Hamas War Crimes: UN Agencies, Government Aid Programs and NGOs EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: UN agencies, government aid programs and NGOs have consistently and willfully aided and abetted Hamas as it built its vast terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. They diverted aid money to Hamas to fund its terrorist activities, provided...