06/26 Links Pt2: As Europe slides into a Dark Age, Jews must review their...
From Ian:Isi Leibler: As Europe slides into a Dark Age, Jews must review their futureRecent developments signal that the prospect of Europe sliding into a new Dark Age is now a horrifying reality. It...
View ArticleThe Kurds and Israel continue to strengthen their relationship
From i24News:As the Iraqi state takes what appears to be its last breath, Iraq’s Kurds continue to gain momentum. Taking over oil-rich Kirkuk a few weeks ago symbolized the beginning of a new era for...
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Hamas'"Kidnappers Handbook"
The Israeli Embassy of New Zealand issued this press release:Hamas has published three versions of a kidnapper's handbook, guides that provide practical and doctrinal information for carrying out...
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Sectarianism in Syria. Lebanon and Palestine in 1876: "All despise the Jews"
There are a number of interesting passages in "The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal, Volume 1" by Lady Isabel Burton, who was the wife of explorer Richard...
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What does Quneitra have in common with UNRWA camps?
Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of Israel agreeing to give the village of Quneitra to Syria in the cease fire negotiations following the Yom Kippur War. Syria is celebrating:The 26th of June, 1974...
View Article06/27 Links Pt1: Ari Lesser - Bring Back Our Boys; Netanyahu: Break up unity...
From Ian:A mother’s plea for ‘prayer, positive energy, whatever it takes’ to find kidnapped teensThe Times of Israel interviewed Rachelle Fraenkel on Thursday afternoon, in a quiet garden near the...
View ArticleNewest conspiracy theory from Iran
Perhaps the "*-washing" meme has hit its limit:Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami underlined that the US and Israel have created and supported the terrorist...
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Dress Codes: Revealing the Jewish Wardrobe at the Israel Museum
From Irene, since I cannot appreciate this as much as she does:Imagine wearing a wedding dress made of velvet so fine and fabulously embroidered, that when you die, it will be unstitched and reworked...
View Article06/27 Links Pt2: Pollard’s release is a matter of justice; Obama seeks $500M...
From Ian:Alan Dershowitz, Irwin Cotler: Pollard’s release is a matter of justiceUS President Barack Obama’s response to President Shimon Peres’s request for executive clemency for Jonathan Pollard was...
View Article06/28 Links: Gaza Rocket hits Sderot factory; Peace Process Gets a Boost:...
From Ian:Rocket fired from Gaza slams into Sderot factoryA rocket fired from the Gaza Strip slammed into a factory in the southern city of Sderot on Saturday evening, setting the building...
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Cleric accuses Israel of using jinn demons to spy on Iran
An Iranian cleric has accused Israel of using "jinn" to spy on Iran and its allies.Iranian TV has broadcast a segment where Waliullah Naqi Borfer, an expert in the supernatural jinn of Arab mythology,...
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"Progressive" rabbis freaking out over PCUSA's anti-Zionism and antisemitism
I received a very interesting email from a staunchly Zionist Reform rabbi:I'm living in the twilight zone. Arik Ascherman of "Rabbis for Human Rights" is having issues with Presbyterian Church USA's...
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IDF reportedly handing out anti-Hamas lollipops
From Ma'an:Israel has dropped hundreds of anti-Hamas lollipops in two of the West Bank's largest cities, in a renewed attempt to incite Palestinian popular opinion against the Islamist political...
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In Praise of The Progressive-Zionist (RIP) (Michael Lumish)
Michael Lumish, of the Israel Thrives blog as well as a regular blogger at Times of Israel and Jews Down Under, continues his weekly column here at EoZ.I have tended to be rather tough on my...
View Article06/29 Links: After rocket fire, Israeli jets strike 12 locations in Gaza;...
From Ian:After rocket fire, Israeli jets strike 12 locations in GazaThe Israel Air Force struck twelve separate sites in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in an ongoing air offensive against continued rocket...
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Egyptian army to delay rollout of "AIDS cure" by six months
Aw, and I was so looking forward to this.From Al Arabiya:Egypt’s army on Saturday said it would delay for six months the public use of a device previously announced as being able to treat and cure...
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PRC celebrates the 2006 kidnap and murder of a Jewish teen
The Popular Resistance Committees have taken responsibility for the recent rocket attacks from Gaza.Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, on Sunday...
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Only Muslims are allowed to attack on Ramadan
Some Arabic media are outraged that Israeli jets hit terrorist targets on the first day of Ramadan. Attacking during holy days must be an unconscionable act.Of course, they weren't too concerned about...
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NYT again implies moral equivalence between terror victims and active fighters
More lazy moral equivalence from Jodi Rudoren in The New York Times, in a story headlined "After West Bank Kidnapping, 2 Mothers Embody a Divide" (originally the headline seems to have been "2 Mothers...
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Jordan distancing itself from plan to employ 1500 Jordanians in Eilat
AFP reports:The Israeli government Sunday authorized 1,500 more Jordanians to come and work in its Red Sea resort of Eilat to combat a labor shortage, the tourism ministry saidIt said the decision was...
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