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Shana tova u'metuka 5783noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Sep 03:00 PM Here is a Rosh Hashana greeting card asking that the New Year be a year of "l Like   Tweet   Shana tova u'metuka 5783 noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Sep 03:00 PM Here is a Rosh Hashana greeting card asking that the New Year be a year of "liberation of holy places." According to one page of the National Library of Israel website, this card was created in 1967. Yet the Hebrew year on this card is 5700, which would make this card from 1939. That adds a real poignancy to this. Jews were always praying for the liberation of holy places in Jerusalem and elsewhere, but if Israel had existed in 1939, there would be millions more Jews alive today. May you have a sweet, wonderful New Year! I will not be posting from sunset tonight in whatever time zone I'm in until late Tuesday or Wednesday. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 09/25 Links: Welcoming the year of 5783; Glick: Booking.com and the Anti-Semitic Zeitgeist; Polish venue cancels Roger Waters gigs after Ukraine comments noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 25 Sep 12:00 PM From Ian: JPost Editorial: Welcoming the year of 5783 Rosh Hashanah 5783 begins at sundown this evening, September 25, and ends at nightfall on Tuesday, September 27. The holiday celebrates not only the Jewish New Year, but also the birth of the universe and the beginning of the Days of Awe – 10 days of repentance and renewal that culminate in Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The past year, 5782, has been a difficult one for Israel and the world. Although we appear to be emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been some disturbing global developments – from Russia's invasion of Ukraine seven months ago to the Vienna negotiations on a new Iran nuclear deal. Historically, this period will be remembered for the death of Queen Elizabeth II after an almost-record sovereign reign of 70 years (Louis XIV of France reigned almost two years longer) and the beginning of a new era under her son, King Charles III. In Israel, we are witnessing a turbulent period as the country braces for its fifth election in less than four years (the first was on April 9, 2019). Security has been tightened ahead of Rosh Hashanah as the country also faces a resurgence of Palestinian terrorism. Are there any good news for a change? On the positive side, the Israeli economy is showing signs of bouncing back. The Central Bureau of Statistics reported, for example, that the employment rate rose in August to the highest level...Read More The Abraham Accords are no myth (Daled Amos) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Sep 10:00 AM By Daled Amos There are not that many arguments out there against the Abraham Accords. After all, how do you argue against peace between Jews and Arabs? How can you find fault in a coalition that opposes the leading state sponsor of terrorism? What is wrong with the prosperity created by trade between the countries involved? Now a different kind of argument is being made: the Abraham Accords are based on a myth. Writing in Haaretz, Seraj Assi explains Why Jews and Arabs Are Not Long Lost Cousins While Arab and Israeli leaders are celebrating the second anniversary of the Abraham Accords with language and iconography leaning heavily on a return to ancient and ancestral kinship, history itself begs to differ. The Abraham Accords, which turn two years old this month, are founded on a historical myth long cherished by Middle East peacemakers: that Arabs and Jews are descendants of one great forefather, Abraham, and hence are both symbolic and ethnic cousins, the Arabs being descendants of his son Ishmael. Assi goes into a detailed overview of the development of the idea that Arabs are Ishmaelites, descendants of Ishmael, and therefore brothers with the common father, Abraham. And what is his point? For many disenchanted Arabs and Palestinians, however, the Abraham Accords are illusory, a branding...Read More Let's list the lies in Abbas' UN speech (part 3) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Sep 07:30 AM Continuing on listing Mahmoud Abbas' lies at the UN on Friday. Since its inception, Israel has committed brutal crimes against our people, when it destroyed 529 Palestinian villages, expelled their residents from them during and after the 1948 war, and expelled 950,000 Palestinians, more than half of the Palestinian people at the time, from their homes, according to the records of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). and committed more than fifty massacres since 1948 to this day, which claimed the lives of tens of thousands of children, women, the elderly and innocent people, and everyone remembers the massacre of children in the war on Gaza last year, which killed 67 children. Every single one of these numbers is a lie. Some of the supposed villages listed in one database had zero population - and zero area - in 1948, but somehow magically they have "refugee" descendants! Most historians (Morris, Khalidi) estimate far fewer depopulated villages and towns. Most Palestinian Arabs were not expelled in 1948, they left on their own out of fear. UNRWA doesn't claim 950,000 refugees - it said there were 725,000. Even that is an exaggeration. 50 massacres by Israel? Only 15...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company