How many Palestinians left Mandatory Palestine between 1948 and 1949? How many Auschwitz camps were there? How many feet did the Comstock Lode mines go down? How big are the statues on Easter Island? How many died in the Siege of Jerusalem?
Most serious students of the history of Palestine would accept that the number of Arab refugees from Israel during and after 1948 claimed by Arab and UN sources—some 600,000 to 750,000—was exaggerated. It is very easy to refute that estimate and many have already done it. – Yehoshua Po...
“The Palestinian people have gone through hell. Too many innocent people have died. Too many communities have been destroyed. With this deal, the people of Gaza can finally recover and rebuild.” It didn’t take long for President-elect Donald Trumpto post on Truth Social: “We have a de...
’ after whom the military arm of Hamas is named – was actually born in Jableh – a town in Syria – arriving as an immigrant to British Palestine in about 1920. Today ‘human rights’ organisations such as Amnesty and HRW outrageously claim that his descendants have been living in ‘Pale...
Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks and more than 6,000 were injured—there were no survivors on any of the hijacked planes. Two planes struck the towers of The World Trade Center, one crashed into the Pentagon, and another crashed in a Pennsylvania field. The attacks launched the ...
ProPublica reported that a crowd of Iraqis gathered around the statue when American forces rode into the city center and asked the soldiers to borrow a sledgehammer and rope to pull down the statue. The statue happened to be in front of the Palestine Hotel, where dozens of international journa...
In December of that year, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, publicly relinquished violence, inspiring the U.S. to initiate the conversation with the Palestine Liberation Organization. [Pictured: On April 14, 1988, Marines inspect an Iranian Sassan oil platform during ...
The situation in Palestine is highly emotive and complex. The scale of suffering and destruction ongoing in Gaza is massive and the death toll continues to rise. Around1.5 million people have been displacedto refugee camps in neighboring countries but also to the West Bank, a Palestinian territory...
The captivating part of the story is the United Arab List of Mansour Abbas, which is rightlyperceivedto have betrayed its Arab base in Israel and its own Palestinian people everywhere else. As the Israeli army is cracking down on Palestinian communities throughout historic Palestine, including Al...
“This is the refugee ship, Exodus 1947. Before dawn today we were attacked by five British destroyers and one cruiser at a distance of 17 miles from the shores of Palestine, in international waters. The assailants immediately opened fire, threw gas bombs, and rammed our ship from three dir...