Emet News Service

The Genealogy of Ideas is the history of the evolution of thought around any particular subject.  It is part of the larger subfields of Cultural and Intellectual History. However, it touches upon every aspect of the field, such as Social History, Military History, Economic History, etc.. What   read more ...

Dear Friend of FLAME: Violent attacks by enemies against Israel exact a high price of blood and lives from the Jewish people. But enemy attacks in the media and by international organizations also exact a high price—in good will, and political and economic support among Israel’s friends and   read more ...

Summary ... The Jews are the only extant indigenous people of the land. Palestinian identity was invented in the 1960s in order to destroy the Jews’ claim to Israel and airbrush them out of their own history. [The use here of the word "Palestinian(s)" is the author's choice. There are no such   read more ...

Two weeks ago, a local New York City Councilman named Kalman Yeger noted on Twitter that "Palestine does not exist." That statement, controversial as it is, is grounded in fact — in the sense that the United Nations Security Council, the only UN body capable of establishing international law   read more ...

Summary ... Why does the Israeli government continue to give credence to the lie that there really is a "Palestinian" people and that "Palestine" was once an actual country? It certainly does not serve the needs of the nation of Israel, except to give weak-kneed politicians a reason for not   read more ...

Summary ... Chief 'Palestinian' negotiator Saeb Erekat, who this past week claimed Palestinian lineage to the Canaanites, is not the first Palestinian to reinvent history. A study of history shows that the roots of present-day Palestinians lie far from here. The noted scholar of nationalist   read more ...

Summary ... Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of [IBM and the Holocaust][1]. This article is based on research from [Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict][2] (Dialog Press). His latest book is [The Farhud: Roots of   read more ...

Summary ... For a devout Muslim, Muhammad was the ideal Muslim. All Muslims should act as he acted. Therefore, the way in which Muhammad acted towards the Jews is how all Muslims should act towards them. Despite most people wanting to believe otherwise, this is true source of the Arab-Israeli   read more ...

Summary ... The nation of Israel is the only sovereign nation-state that ever existed in the territory known by the geographical designation of "Palestine". Peoples of many origins came into the land at one time, and left it at other times, while nomads wandered in and out. The Jews did not take   read more ...

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 ...