The Editor of “Falastin” Deaf, Falastin, July 16, 1936.
REDIRECT The Editor of “Falastin” Deaf (cartoon), Falastin, July 16, 1936.
Archive for March, 2008
Pushing for peace, Financial Times, Apr. 11, 2005.
Ariel Sharon’s last visit to the US, a year ago, was an enormous success for Israel. The prime minister returned home with unprecedented American concessions designed to reward him for his planned evacuation of the 7,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. President George W. Bush told Mr Sharon that he could expect to keep […]
August 1967, Financial Times, November 29-30 2003.
When the Arab leaders convened in Khartoum in August, the first item on their agenda was the resumption of war, and their final communiqué incorporated three No’s- no peace, no negotiations with Israel, and no recognition. In Israel, meanwhile, the electorate grew to like the fact that the new borders placed their cities beyond the […]
Excerpt from Anglo-Arab Relations and The Question of Palestine, 1914-1921, A. L. Tibawi, Luzac & Company LTD, London, 1978.
British diplomacy had long secured the integrity of the Ottoman Empire against the ambitions of France and Russia. But since the British occupation of Egypt in 1882 British influence began to decline and that of Germany to rise at Constantinople, for a variety of reasons. By the autumn of 1914 German influence was overwhelming, and […]
Italy and the Jews
Overview Overview- Italy in the Early Modern Period Overview- Jews of Italy in the Early Modern Period Primary sources and presentations Samuel Aboab, Sefer Zikhronot,Bernard Cooperman, University of Maryland, USA. Taverns and Public Drinking in Florence, Stefanie Siegmund, University of Michigan, USA. The City as a Place of Regulation, Border and Exclusion- Case of Livorno, […]
Revolts against the British Mandate
Haj Amin to the Peel Commission in Palestine, Nov./Dec. 1936. Tiberias Massacre, Alec Seath Kirkbride, A Crackle of Thorns- Experiences in the Middle East, John Murray Ltd, Great Britain, 1956. To the British Soldier in Palestine, Irgun Poster. Five Britons Are Killed in Palestine, Associated Press, […]
Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth, Lawrence Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991,p.98-19.
REDIRECT Sectarianism in the Second Commonwealth, Lawrence Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991.
Meroth Amulet, 5th century CE
REDIRECT Meroth Amulet, 4th-5th century CE
Meroth Synagogue, 5th century CE
REDIRECT Meroth Synagogue, 4th-5th century CE
The Zionist Lobby in London and the Reversal of the 1930 White Paper, Shira Klein, COJS.
On 20 October 1930, three days after the publication of the Passfield White Paper, Chaim Weizmann called a press conference of some 70 journalists and announced his resignation from the presidency of the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization. He stated that the Government had displayed a complete misunderstanding of the purpose and meaning […]