Author Archives: Elder of Ziyon

Israel Matzav does a great and thorough job discussing the history and importance of the Balfour Declaration from November 2, 1917. The Palestine Post had this to say at the 25th anniversary, during the depths of the Holocaust: Notice how … Continue reading →

Radical left publication Tikkun, a heavy critic of Israel and America, prints a review by Stephen Zunes that finds “The Israel Lobby” to be complete garbage. Zunes’ argument is that America’s policies are so reprehensible in total that blaming the … Continue reading →

Fatah has a real good racket going on – they do the Mafia-style “threats” and no one calls them on it: The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer … Continue reading →

A modern Orthodox rabbi from Los Angeles has published an essay in the Jewish Journal saying his reasons why Jerusalem should be negotiated. In order not to take any of his comments out of context I will print the entire … Continue reading →

As we mentioned last month, the Waqf is systematically destroying priceless Jewish artifacts on the Temple Mount, with the permission of the Olmert government. The Israeli Antiquities Authority does have some archaeologists on site to watch the destruction being done … Continue reading →

Another Palestinian Arab terrorist momentarily forgets the fiction that he is only supposed to hate Zionists, not Jews: Prominent leader of the Popular Resistance Committees Abu Al-Sa’id on Wednesday called on the de facto Palestinian government to hasten disbanding the … Continue reading →

Palestinian Arabs aren’t the only ones who are treated like dirt by the Arab world. There is also a large population known as Bidoon, short for Bidun jinsiya which means “without nationality” in Arabic. Most are Arab. There are between … Continue reading →

Readers of my blog know that I have been keeping a count of all Palestinian Arabs violently killed by each other. So far this year I have counted 556 deaths, including  33 women and 40 children. The past few days … Continue reading →

Even though I have been busy with other stuff, I continue to research for the next installment of my Psychological History of Palestinian Arabs series. In August I found a fantastic article by Martha Gellhorn written in 1961 where she … Continue reading →

The recent deal between Israel and Hezbollah and statements by both Olmert and Nasrallah seem to strongly indicate that any prisoner swap will include Samir Kuntar, one of the most loathsome terrorists in history (despite Israeli denials.) Kuntar, it will … Continue reading →

From AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza said Monday it was “time for the establishment of a Palestinian state,” and described Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts as the most serious in years. Let’s see. In the seven years since the last great lame-duck … Continue reading →

Steven Edwards in the National Post writes an opinion piece saying that sometimes it is best to ignore racist and bigoted acts because publicizing them plays into the hands of the haters. The example that he brings, of a Jewish/Israeli … Continue reading →

The Ann Coulter/Donnie Deutsch kerfuffle has elicited a lot of comment in the JBlogosphere, with the battle lines seeming to mostly depend on the political leanings of the specific blogger. Right-leaning Jews tended to defend her, saying that her comments … Continue reading →

From JPost, on a W/M talk at MIT: “A critically important issue when talking about America’s terrorism problem is the matter of how US support for Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinians relates to what happened on September 11,” said … Continue reading →

From Ma’an: Gaza – Ma’an – A tunnel collapsed in the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday, injuring a number of people. The casualties are believed to have suffocated in the incident, according to Mu’awiya Hassanain, … Continue reading →