Map of Palestine.(From a Passover Haggadah printed at Amsterdam, 1695.) The northern part of the coastal plain, called the plain of Sharon in the Old Testament, extends from the Nahr Rubin to Mount Carmel and is much more level than the southern part. It has few considerable elevations,...
before both territories were occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. Since then there have been proposals to establish a Palestinian state. In 1969, for example, the PLO proposed the establishment of a binational state over the whole of the former British Mandate territory. This proposal ...
The point where the Turks attempted to cross the Canal | The Illustrated War News, March 3, 1915 Map of Sinai Peninsula On 31 January, the 25th Division, positioned as the central column, alongside the right and left wing columns, reached their assembly points ten kilometers to the east ...
one has to start when they are very young. Education is the key. It's where you instill the values that you want the next generation to live with. For example, after the fall of Nazi Germany it was imperative the next generation was ...
Well, it was very angry — but also a bit of a let down, this long-awaited and much-touted speech by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the UN General Assembly, just before 7 pm in Ramallah or Jerusalem [but still part of the “morning” at the UN HQ/NY this Friday]. ...
I know of several instances where Israel haters have made unprovoked attacks on Israel supporters and have been the victim of two of them. I have never heard or seen any of your fellow haters arrested before today. So you cast allegations of “violent thugs,” maybe you want to be well ...
With this map the Gaza Strip and West Bank came into the existence, West Bank lies west to the Jordan river that’s why the name comes to be west bank. With formation of Israel, war broke out with five Arab states, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt invading Israel the very next...
Map of World War I. The Allies are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey. All very simple, right? No. The above world map is ofJuly 1914, at the beginning of World War I. The Paris Peace Conference begins inJanuary 1919. When the some 25 na...
and circumstances have combined to mitigate the possibility of Palestine reemerging as a meaningful national and political entity” (Kamrava, op.cit., p.1). The war that broke out after October 7 will continue the process of politicide with ethnic cleansing.Even without the war Israel’s ...
Local farmers lived and worked here since the eighteenth century but today there are only 75 inhabitants left after Yanoun was nearly wiped off the face of the map in 2002. Israeli settlers invaded the village and forced everybody from their homes. According to Mayor Rashed Murrar “They ...