| Quick comparison of Israel and Hamas' goodwill gesturesnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 05 Sep 04:45 AM Here is a summary of what Israel and Hamas hav | | Here is a summary of what Israel and Hamas have done over the past week: Israel Hamas - Expanding the Gaza Strip's fishing zone to 15 nautical miles — the most since 2007 - Additional goods and construction materials imported into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing - An additional 5 million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) of water allowed into Gaza. - 5000 more workers will also be allowed into Israel from Gaza - Working on getting cash from Qatar to Gazans - More incendiary balloons - Rockets - Violent riots at the fence - Threats of escalation People who say Israeli actions are what leads to Hamas terrorism have been proven wrong yet again. But they will keep on spouting their lies. Israel Hamas - Expanding the Gaza Strip's fishing zone to 15 nautical miles — the most since 2007. - Additional goods and construction materials imported into Gaza via the Kerem Shalom Crossing. - An additional 5 million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) of water allowed into Gaza. - 5000 more workers will also be allowed into Israel from Gaza - Working on getting cash from Qatar to Gazans - More incendiary balloons - Rockets - Violent riots at the fence - Threats * * * * * *
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From Ian: Israel: Still the 'Strong Horse' Israel -- no longer diplomatically isolated -- appears to be assuming a more prominent political and military role in the Middle East. Following Israel's generous peace terms with its Arab neighbors, states such as Egypt and Jordan decided decades ago to establish diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. More recently, Islamic countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan also decided to normalize ties with Israel. Presently, these strong new ties appear to be leading to cooperation on an ever-deeper strategic level, especially regarding the destabilizing threat to the area posed by an increasingly aggressive and hegemonic Iran. Currently -- excluding its ventures into South America from where it can more easily threaten North America -- Iran, sometimes via proxies such as the Houthis, Hamas or Hezbollah -- has successfully inserted itself into Yemen, in a seeming bid to overthrow and supplant Saudi Arabia, as well as in Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Iran's increasingly aggressive policies toward these regional states has accelerated the cooperation between primarily Sunni Muslim Arab Gulf states and Israel. The Sunni-Shia theological civil war within Islam still appears to be fueling the destabilization of the Middle East -- especially with the recently renewed courtship by the US administration of the...Read More |
From Ian: Should've Kept Those Jews The results, though, were arguably much worse for the expellers than the expelled. The journalist Lucette Lagnado, who herself fled with her family from Egypt, described what happened as a "cultural Holocaust." The Jews were often multilingual business owners, with ties to Western countries and economies. The Jews had made Arab societies more open, and their departures brought with them significant losses in human capital and connectivity to the rest of the world, with damaging consequences for Arab economic development. Another nation that lost out because of how it treated its Jews was the Soviet Union. The Communist regime mistreated, discriminated against, and imprisoned its Jews, leading them to clamor for expatriation. The era of glasnost and the fall of the USSR led more than 1 million Jews to leave in the late 1980s and 1990s for Israel, where they have helped create Israel's "Startup Nation" economic miracle. Israeli tech leaders with Soviet origins include Demisto's Slavik Markovich, Twistlock's Dima Stopel, Luminate Security's Leonid Belkind, Guardicore's Pavel Gurvich, and Lightricks's Zeev Farbman. Another Soviet Jew, Sergey Brin, came to America and cofounded Google. Even North America, for all the benefits it has provided its Jews, is not immune to this negative development. In the 1970s, Canadian Jews, wary of the Québécois movement and its...Read More |
I have subscribed to Newspapers.com to have access to hundreds of newspaper archives. Lately I have been looking for articles about Jews from the earliest newspapers they cover, which are British newspapers from 1700. Reporting in those days was spotty, relying on letters received from distant lands, so it is hard to verify the stories, especially when they weren't considered important enough for the history books. Still, life for the Jews was pretty bad then. For example, this article from The Newcastle Weekly Courant, June 26, 1717: Or the same newspaper in 1716: Or this story of Jews in Genoa forced to wear a yellow ribbon in 1724: But this one really struck me, because it was a literal blood libel that time forgot, and several Jews were murdered because of it - just a tiny story in the Caledonian Mercury in 1726: * * * * * *
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From Ian: 6 wounded in Islamist stabbing at New Zealand supermarket New Zealand authorities said Friday they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack. She said the man was a Sri Lankan national who was inspired by the Islamic State group. She said he was well-known to the nation's security agencies and was being monitored around the clock. She said that by law, the man was not allowed to be kept in prison. Ardern said that three of those who had been stabbed were seriously injured. "This was a violent attack. It was senseless," Ardern said. "And I am so sorry that it happened." The attack unfolded at about 2:40 p.m. at a Countdown supermarket in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks about a stabbing attack during a press conference, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021 Ardern said that because the man was under constant monitoring, a police surveillance team and a special tactics group were able to shoot and kill him within 60 seconds of the attack starting. Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said they had concerns about the man's ideology and kept very close tabs on him. Coster said they followed him from his home to the supermarket on Friday. Caroline Glick...Read More |
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of "Evening Service of Rosh Hashanah" by Isaac Pinto. Pinto immigrated to the American colonies in 1740 and became involved in politics along with his trade. He recognized that American Jews generally could not read Hebrew so he wrote his own English translation of the important parts of the Rosh Hashanah service, and later expanded it with an English-language siddur and Yom Kippur machzor published in 1766 - or, as the book notes, 5526. I cannot find a copy of the original 1761 work, but this is from the 1766 expanded edition. The siddur and machzor are highly abridged, with only the highlights translated in its 189 pages. There were weekly advertisements for this siddur in the Independent Gazetteer of Philadelphia in 1786. As far as I can tell, this was the first mention of Rosh Hashanah in any American newspaper. Pinto distinguished himself in other ways. In 1781, the Continental Congress established a Department of Foreign Affairs that was later to become the State Department. The new department needed translators, and Pinto was one of the first three people hired for that job. * * * * * *
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Shana tova!
noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Sep 08:26 AM I would like to wish you a very happy, prosperous new year. 5781 was a difficult year for many. While Israel has continued to remain strong, its enemies have been getting bolder. To my mind, the biggest news wasn't the Gaza war or the new Israeli government. It was that Israel haters can now call Israel an "apartheid state" with impunity - because Human Rights Watch has made that lie mainstream. EoZ has been fighting that lie, with videos, posters, and reports that don't only thoroughly debunk the slander, but that also prove that Human Rights Watch and its leader Ken Roth are systemically anti-Israel and even antisemitic, holding the Jewish state to standards that no one else is held to and creating a unique definition of "apartheid" tailored to fit Israel. That's just one of the many campaigns EoZ has done this year. But it is also a place to find news you will not see anywhere else, scoops that are picked up much later in other media, and forgotten history of Israel and Jews. EoZ has gained popularity on social media. We now have over 37,000 Twitter followers, and tweets often get amplified hundreds of times. My regular columnists (Judean Rose, Vic Rosenthal, Daled Amos, PreOccupied Territory) add new dimensions to the blog, and Ian continues to do an amazing job collecting the links to every single important article published elsewhere. EoZ is really a one stop shop for all Israel news. All of this takes a great deal of time and money. Please donate to EoZ so we...Read More |
When it comes to antisemitism in the West, there is a Muslim exception. Imam Abdul Alim Musa (born Clarence Reams) has been making outrageous antisemitic statements for decades. In 2007 he said, "Who ran the slave trade ... who funded [it]? You'll study and you will find out: the Jews ... It was the Jewish bankers ... in Vienna, with pockets full of money, funding and insuring, that's who did it ... you can't tell us about no holocaust. Between the African Americans and the Native Americans, everybody else's stuff was small potatoes." At the University of Washington in the 1990s he told students that "Yahuds are the enemy of humanity." Yet he remains the Director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C. His mosque brags that "For several years, we have maintained our principles of self-determination, moral and spiritual development, establishment of healthy family life, and uncompromising outspokenness against the injustices perpetrated locally and globally by Zionists and imperialistic governments." The people who claim to be against antisemitism from the Left have nothing bad to say about Alim Musa's antisemitism - or the fact that he has a pulpit in the nation's capital. The media doesn't condemn him. He's a black Muslim and therefore he is untouchable. In a recent rant, Musa said...Read More |
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