After the war, the United Nations broke the land into 2 states, Palestine and Israel [3]. Palestine opposed the resolution on the grounds that the land was originally theirs. In an effort to retake their land, Palestine rallied the support of its neighboring countries and the united forces ...
George Antonius once noted the difficulty posed for the resolution of the matter. “The passions aroused by Palestine,” he said, “have done so much to obscure the truth that the facts have become enveloped in a mist of sentiment, legend, and propaganda, which acts as a smoke-screen of ...
7th centuryce. Although the object of dispute during theCrusades, the region, then generally known as Palestine, remained under the sway of successive Islamicdynastiesuntil the collapse of theOttoman Empireat the end ofWorld War I, when it was placed under Britishmandatefrom theLeague of Nations...
A caption on another video of Putin, filmed in a different location, similarly reads: “I am warning america to stay Away from palestine israel war.” But the two clips long predate the latest Israel-Hamas war and make no mention of Israel at all. The first shows Putin at a meeting o...
“This is a misinformation war. Make no mistake about it. The propaganda is real,” wrote one Instagram user who shared the collage. “Ask yourself: why do they need? #Pallywood #Gaza #FreePalestine from #Hamas.” But not all of the photos in the montage show the same person. ...
Another reason for this new voice is that Palestinians have also changed. Long having favoured some version of a binational model as a solution to the Israel-Palestine impasse, younger Palestinians have shifted to a revolutionary Algerian model, one in which there is no ...
Here are the facts, and you can check them out. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are regular Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Egyptians, etc., who have all lived for hundreds of years under Turkish rule,...
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, Israel’s Arab citizens have never been nearly as deprived and marginalized as they are commonly represented. Rather, they have made astounding socioeconomic progress over the past decades, at a higher pace than their
“The work of archaeology in Palestine/Israel is a cardinal institutional location for the ongoing practice of colonial nationhood,” El-Haj writes with the politicized syntax of her ideological mentor, Columbia’s Edward Said, “producing facts through which historical-national claims, territorial ...
I respect a reader’s right to an opinion, but one reader missed some critical facts [“Disparate views on the war in Israel,” Letters, Oct. 11]. The reader argues, “The Israeli government has colonized Palestinian land, seen as an apartheid state by many” and that “the oppressed Pa...