and the creation of two independent states on its territory—one Arab and the other Jewish—economically tied to each other. Jerusalem was designated an independent administrative unit with a special international government under UN direction. In view of the realities of the situation, the Soviet ...
“end the Palestinian national cause and liquidate the legitimate national rights of our people, in determining fate, establishing the independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds (East Jerusalem) as its capital, and ensuring the right of return for the refugees of our people to their hom...
Thus the formation of a great Palestinian polity was rendered impossible by its situation, which, on the other hand, offered all the advantages of close contact with the two great civilizations of ancient times. Palestine was traversed by the highways of antiquity, the great military and ...
A royal commission of inquiry presided over by Lord Robert Peel, which was sent to investigate the volatile situation, reported in July 1937 that the revolt was caused by Arab desire for independence and fear of the Jewish national home. ThePeel Commissiondeclared themandateunworkable and Britain’...
However, control over this region is a complex and evolving situation. There is no international consensus concerning the borders—28 United Nations member countries currently do not recognize Israel at all—and many areas claimed by the Palestinian Territories are also claimed by Israel. More than...
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"It's terrible what's happening... unfortunately, I don't think anyone would pretend to have an idea of how to improve the situation right now." The film is both a love story based on real events and a story of political radicalisation. ...
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The situation pertaining in Israel/Palestine is nothing if not a colonial occupation of the worst kind short of genocide (and at times, such as the ‘ethnic cleansing’ whereby three quarters of the population of what was formerly Palestine and became Israel was pushed out in 1948, or the fu...
Netanyahu said that Israel will not, under any condition or agreement, give up ‘security control’ of the area ‘west of the Jordan river’ (i.e., the West Bank). He warned that relinquishing this control would create another front of war, a situation of ‘twenty Gazas’ and ‘thousan...