Unsettling Thoughts on Israel's 'Occupation'

How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?

2004-08-30 - Posted in Palestine

Summary ... There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem: the myth that this was Arab land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine [sic] from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised read more ...

Unsettling Thoughts on Israel's 'Occupation'

2004-08-14 - Posted in Arab-Israeli Conflict

Some 30 years ago Abba Eban, Israel's foreign minister, commenting on the heavy bias the Arabs enjoy in the UN General Assembly, declared that if the Arabs were to propose to the UN a resolution that the earth was flat, it would be passed by an overwhelming majority. Nothing has changed since then read more ...