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Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace

… in Israel with their own fantasy of settlement in Palestine.   More than 200,000 Israeli settlers currently … territory.   The Israelis have created a unique map for Palestine that is unlike the design of any independent state … Palestine …
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Palestine and Israel: A Case of Incomplete Decolonization

… South Africa. Zionists insist on Israel’s historic right to Palestine, but in fact only Europe’s imperial power made … the British promoted the settlement of European Jews in Palestine much as European colonial states encouraged settlers to migrate to Africa. If we think of Palestine as a settler state similar to the European settler …
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Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II

… on its head, focusing on Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and the late 1950s. Based … Breyfogle   Welcome to Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II, brought to you by … on its head, focusing on Jewish out-migration from Palestine and Israel between 1945 and the late 1950s. Based …

A New View of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: From Needs and Narratives to Negotiation

… had been immigrating steadily albeit in small numbers to Palestine for a couple decades before this time—mostly to … systematic programs for Jewish immigration to Palestine began in earnest following the first Zionist … Jewish immigrants and the Arab populations in and around Palestine were generally strained and sometimes violent. In …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… secular and religious groups on the Arab side, such as the Palestine Liberation Organization , Hezbollah , and Hamas . … Conflict Most historians date the origins of the Israel-Palestine controversy to the era preceding World War I. It … of the depth and passion of the crisis in Mandate Palestine. We will focus here on just one aspect of this …
Cover of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris.

The Battle For 1948

Review of 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, by Benny Morris (Yale University Press, 2008)
… We live in the Diaspora and want only to immigrate [to Palestine] and gain possession of [ lirkosh ] from them." 1 … Arabs has fueled the decades-long conflict over the land of Palestine. It has also generated a historical debate between … supported the idea of clearing the Arab population of Palestine to open more land to Jewish settlement. During the …
The Olympic flag flies at half-staff during a memorial service to the slain Israeli athletes, September 6, 1972.

The Munich Olympic Massacre

… signed Black September.   The post-war UN partition plan of Palestine envisioned both an Arab and a Jewish state, but … was born in 1964 with the goal of self-determination for Palestine. In 1970, Jordan’s King Hussein ruled more … methods. A PLO organ wrote, “It was like painting the name ‘Palestine’ on a mountaintop visible from all corners of the …
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)

The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War

… forced to flee across the international borders of historic Palestine. Map of Israeli movement into the Jordan salient … on such matters as the actual borders between Israel and Palestine, the property rights of Palestinian refugees, and … Palestine …