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History of Early Palestine December 18, 2024

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the Ancient Civilizations continues with an episode on history of Early Palestine....

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ History of Injustice is Unjust November 29, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Coates has been making the rounds in a variety of outlets to promote his latest book, The Message. His stated aim in writing it was to explain the role that stories play in shaping a society’s consciousness surrounding identity and struggle...

Israel's History of Assassinations August 06, 2024

The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is the latest in a long line of covert assassinations by an Israeli government skilled at making geopolitical waves, even if the long-term impact is less certain...

Ireland Nods to its Own History by Recognizing Palestine May 23, 2024

Simon Harris, Ireland’s prime minister, invoked his nation’s struggle for independence from Britain and its decades of violent sectarian conflict....

What Is the Palestinian Nakba and Why Does It Matter? May 15, 2024

On May 15, Palestinians around the world will commemorate 76 years of having lost their homeland. What is the Nakba, and how does it tie into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?...

A History Lesson for the Hillel-Haters May 07, 2024

Students for Justice in Palestine sparked a debate over the weekend when one of its chapters called for the University of California at Santa Cruz to “cut ties” with Hillel, the university Jewish center. The pretense for this straightforwardly anti-S...

Hamas Hasn't Read the Quran March 02, 2024

The God of the Quran in revealing to his Prophet Muhammad Surah 5, Al-Ma’idah, ratified the covenants which 1) Yahweh of the Hebrew Scriptures had made with Abraham that his descendants by his son Isaac would be a great people and 2) through his chos...

Britain Relied on Bible for This WW I Victory February 23, 2023

And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven. – 1 Samuel 13:5 (ESV)The Bib...

Arab Regret Over Rejecting Partition Plan November 29, 2022

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution stipulating that Palestine should be divided between Jewish and Arab Palestinian inhabitants. This resolution was ratified by a majority of 33 members, while 13 members objected and 10...

Burnham Brought Geopolitics to Conservatives November 21, 2022

In his authoritative history of the conservative intellectual movement in the United States, George Nash identified three main schools of post-World War II conservative thought: market-based economics, social traditions and values, and anti-communism...

Oldest Sentence in First Alphabet About Lice November 11, 2022

The oldest sentence written in the world's first alphabet describes a problem that still plagues humans today: head lice. Carved into a tiny ivory comb, the words read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.” The writing was insc...

U.S. Policy on Israeli-Palestinian Conflict September 13, 2022

IntroductionIsraelis and Palestinians have clashed over claims to the Holy Land for decades, a conflict that has long been one of the world’s most intractable. Although the United States is a strong supporter of Israel, it has traditionally tried to ...

Why Partition of Palestine Wasn't Executed November 29, 2021

Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday joined a growing chorus warning that the so-called two-state solution, which he called “the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians,” could be on the verge of permanent...

Israel Must Defend Balfour's Legacy November 02, 2021

Recent years have seen an intensified effort by Israelâ??s foes to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. From organizing flotillas to Gaza to pushing for boycotts and sanctions, these misguided militants have sought to rebrand Israel as a belli...

German Fear Allowed Palestinian Terrorism October 29, 2021

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1970, an El Al flight took off from Israel, headed for London. The plane was carrying 52 passengers and 11 crew members. Passengers included actress Hannah Meron and actor Assi Dayan, the son of then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan....

Oslo Accords Were Just the Start September 13, 2021

On September 13 1993, on the lawn of the White House, Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel and Yasser Arafat, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) shook hands, symbolically sealing the Oslo I agreement between Israel and the PLO...

Love Him or Hate Him? Arafat's Legacy Complex January 20, 2021

RAMALLAH, West Bank – On the 14th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, the iconic Palestinian leader’s legacy remains riddled with controversy.Arafat died on 11 November 2004 in disputed circumstances, after embodying the Palestinian struggle for se...

'Operation Cast Lead' More Like a Massacre December 29, 2020

Ten years ago today, on December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead against the Gaza Strip — a twenty-two-day affair that ultimately dispensed with some 1,400 Palestinian lives, among them more than three hundred children.The name of the o...

How Jerusalem Was Won December 09, 2020

Reproduced below is General Sir Edmund Allenby's account of events which led to the fall of Jerusalem into Allied hands on 9 December 1917. Allenby recounts how he formally entered the historic city two days following its fall and noted that "the pop...

Intifadas: What They Are and What They Mean For Israel, Palestine December 09, 2020

What is an intifada?In English, the word intifada is often translated as a "rebellion" or "uprising," but the original meaning in Arabic is closer to "shaking off" or "getting rid of" someone or something. When intifada is used in the context of the ...

New Take on Churchill, Chamberlain November 04, 2020

“In one phase men seem to have been right, in another they seem to have been wrong. … History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes.” Those were Winston Churchill’s words in one of the greates...

In the End, the Radical Kahane Won November 04, 2020

The Israeli public's disregard for the freeze in negotiations with the Palestinians stems from a perception of reality opposite the one in 1993, when the Oslo Accords were signed. The willingness for compromise and dividing the land has been replaced...

Palestine in 10 Maps November 02, 2020

German Commando's Mogadishu Rescue October 12, 2020

On on the early hours of this day in 1977, members of the Grenshutzgruppe 9 (GSG-9) storm Lufthansa 737 jetliner Flight 181 Landshut in the Somali capital of Mogadishu and freed 86 hostages. Three of the hijackers were killed during the assault; the ...