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The amazing is becoming commonplace: Israeli defense contractor to open locations in an Arab countrynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Jun 04:45 AM T Like   Tweet   The amazing is becoming commonplace: Israeli defense contractor to open locations in an Arab country noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 19 Jun 04:45 AM The Abraham Accords continue to amaze. From Morocco World News, June 9: Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense technology company, has announced plans to open two sites in Morocco, Shai Cohen, head of Israel's liaison office in Rabat, said during a press conference this week. Elbit Systems is renowned for its expertise in developing and implementing advanced defense solutions. The opening of the new sites is considered as a strategic move for Elbit Systems as it aligns with the company's commitment to expanding its global footprint and leveraging Morocco's strategic position as a gateway to the African market. While specific details regarding the locations and operations of the two sites are yet to be disclosed, Cohen confirmed that one of the facilities will be located in the Casablanca region. The move comes as a result of the renewed diplomatic and economic relations between Morocco and Israel. The two countries reinstated diplomatic relations in December 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accords. Since then, the two countries have been forging closer ties, fostering collaborations across various sectors, including defense. According to the...Read More Old anti-Zionist organizations don't die...they just fade away, slowly noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jun 02:30 PM Have you ever heard of the American Council for Judaism? We've discussed it before. It was the IfNotNow of the 1940s and 1950s, holding an anti-Zionist position that it pretended was Jewish. The ACJ pretended to be loyal to "classical Reform Judaism," and insisted that Jews were a religion but not a people and that to be Zionist was to be anti-American. In 1957 the Union for Reform Judaism emphatically rejected the ACJ as having nothing to do with the Reform stance towards Zionism. Because it had the name "Judaism" in its name, the media loved to quote it even though it represented only a fringe of a fringe of American Jewry. Just like "Jewish Voice for Peace" today, the early head of ACJ - Elmer Berger - managed to grab headlines and make it appear that ACJ was a major player in American Judaism. So whatever happened to the ACJ? It is still around, and even more irrelevant. It has a website, and apparently it still has some assets, but not much income. The website shows that there is a quarterly journal, "Issues of the American Council of Judaism." Nearly every article for the past twelve years is written by the same person, Allan C. Brownfeld...Read More 06/18 Links: Collier: The Spectator falls down an antisemitic conspiracy rabbit hole; Netanyahu: New nuclear agreement won't stop Iranian bomb; New Iran deal meant to stop Israeli attack noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 18 Jun 12:00 PM From Ian: David Collier: The Spectator falls down an antisemitic conspiracy rabbit hole The Jews were persecuted, dispossessed, and forced out of Iraq. Most turned up as penniless refugees in Israel. This is fact, not opinion – and there is overwhelming evidence to prove that this is true. Yet Spectator Magazine has just published an article that gives legitimacy to a disgraceful antisemitic conspiracy theory – one which claims that it was the result of a Zionist plot. The article by Justin Marozzi The title of the article by Justin Marozzi is 'the shocking truth behind the Baghdad bombings of 1950 and 1951'. It is a review of a book by the anti-Zionist writer Avi Shlaim called 'Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew'. The review is gushing in clear admiration. Marozzi calls the book 'beautifully written' and says it 'carefully blends the personal with the political'. To reinforce the narrative the journalist calls Shlaim a 'powerful and humane voice'. Marozzi also focuses on a key claim that Shlaim has long pushed – that a series of bombings against Jewish targets which took place in Baghdad in 1950 and 1951, were set by 'Zionist agents' in order to 'force them to flee Iraq'. The article also pushes Shlaim's other anti-Zionist lies, such as the idea that the Jews in Arab lands were 'compatriots' of their Muslim overlords – and it was Zionism (rather than rising Arab antisemitism and religious nationalisms) which dealt their...Read More Palestinian media today celebrating the murderous 1929 Arab pogroms against Jews noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jun 10:04 AM Palestinian media are celebrating the murderous pogroms that targeted unarmed and innocent Jews in Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and elsewhere in 1929. June 17th was the anniversary of the 1930 British execution of three Arabs who were convicted of murdering Jewish civilians during the pogroms. Originally, the British court found 25 Arabs guilty and deserving of the death penalty; 22 of them had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment. The three who remained were clearly found guilty of multiple murders and premeditation, two of them in Hebron and one in Safed. The three murderers are being hailed as heroes in Palestinian media, in print and on video, and the murders of Jews are being called the beginning of the "Al Buraq Revolution." The Palestine Bulletin in 1930...Read More Iraqi Jews left because of Iraq's antisemitic policies, not because of bombings (update) noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jun 07:03 AM The Spectator writes: Avi Shlaim's family led the good life in Baghdad. Prosperous and distinguished members of Iraq's Jewish minority, a community which could trace its presence in Babylon back more than 2,500 years, they had a large house with servants and nannies, went to the best schools, rubbed shoulders with the great and the good and sashayed elegantly from one glittering party to the next. Shlaim's father was a successful businessman who counted ministers as friends. His much younger mother was a socially ambitious beauty who attracted admirers, from Egypt's King Farouk to a Mossad recruiter. For this privileged section of Iraqi society, it was a rich, cosmopolitan and generally harmonious milieu. And for the young Shlaim, born in Baghdad in 1945, these were halcyon days. They were not to last. In 1950, during a series of bombings targeting the Jewish population in the Iraqi capital, he and his family fled their ancient homeland to begin new lives in the fledgling state of Israel. His father, by then in his fifties, could not speak Hebrew and was completely undone by the move. After a couple of failed attempts to start a business, he never worked again. Shlaim's vivacious mother was forced to take up the slack, exchanging the gilded life of a society hostess in Baghdad for a mundane job as a telephonist in Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, where they lived in...Read More    ©2023 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company