Aftermath of the Deir Yassin massacre, April 9, 1948.
THE ISRAELI ELECTION on April 9, 2019 will coincide with the anniversary of the massacre of the Arab village of Deir Yassin, a turning point in the mass flight of Palestinians during the 1948 war (the Nakba, or catastrophe). According to (...)
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians is at a standstill. Gilbert Achcar in an interview with L’Orient-Le Jour gave some clues to understanding the turn of events since the Oslo agreements.
25 years after the Oslo Accords, the peace process between (...)
The bloody events in Gaza, between Palestinian protesters and Israeli soldiers, are based on the vision of the history of the two peoples.
When is the Nakba from 1948? In the past, as most Israelis implicitly think? or in the future, as implicitly thought by many Palestinians and Arabs? The (...)
Ethan Ackelsberg makes the case, using historical and contemporary evidence, that Israel is an apartheid society, existing in defiance of international law.
THE ETHNIC cleansing of Palestine’s indigenous Arab population is well established, thanks to the work of Palestinian scholars such as (...)
For seventy years, Israeli violence has permeated every aspect of Palestinians’ lives. Once again, Palestinians are resisting.
On May 14,1948, seventy years ago, Israel issued its “declaration of independence.” Since then, every May 15 has been Nakba Day, when Palestinians mark the ethnic (...)
Israelis considered George Habash a cruel airline hijacker, but Eli Galia’s new Hebrew-language book shows that the PFLP chief’s views would have been better for the Palestinians than Arafat’s compromises
George Habash was Israel’s absolute enemy for decades, the embodiment of evil, the devil (...)
Poster of Lenin celebrating The Decree on Peace
November 2017 marked the centenary of two of the most decisive events in the twentieth century: the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia and the Balfour Declaration in Britain. The Russian Revolution was executed by the Bolsheviks in the name of (...)
Review of Enclosure: Palestinian Landscapes in a Historical Mirror by Gary Fields. University of California Press, 404 pp., $29.95 (paper).
Between 1922 and 1925 my great-uncle, the journalist Najib Nassar, rode on horseback throughout Mandate Palestine and the newly created country of (...)
A complementarity between the anti-semitic desire to get rid of the Jews and the Zionist project of sending all Jews to Palestine seems ignored, for example, by Theresa May.
Close to a year ago, on 12 December of last year, PM Theresa May addressed the Annual Business Lunch of the Conservative (...)
A complementarity between the anti-semitic desire to get rid of the Jews and the Zionist project of sending all Jews to Palestine seems ignored, for example, by Theresa May.
Close to a year ago, on 12 December of last year, PM Theresa May addressed the Annual Business Lunch of the Conservative (...)
ON NOVEMBER 2, 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour writes to Lord Walter Rothschild, who was a major figure in the Zionist movement:
"Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy (...)
DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH to the regional potentates and dictators assembled for the occasion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was generally acclaimed as eminently presidential, and rightly so. That is to say, it was firmly in the tradition of U.S. presidential addresses on Middle East policy: utterly (...)
June 5, 2017 is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which culminated in the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, among other transformations of regional politics. The post-1967 occupation and its consequences (...)
On the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War Moshé Machover looks at the background and consequences.
Much has been written about the sequence of events leading to the June 1967 Six-Day War: the series of missteps through which Egypt’s president Gamal Abdel Nasser stumbled into the fatal trap of a (...)
After the “The McMahon-Hussein correspondence: phase one of the partition process” and “The Sykes-Picot agreements – phase two of the partition process”, this article is the sequel of the roundup, presenting The Balfour Declaration, in context and detail. ’His Majesty’s Government view with favour (...)
End of an era as the last significant figure of Israel’s founding fathers dies after suffering a massive stroke.
The death of Shimon Peres at the age of 93 marks the departure of the last major figure in Israel’s founding generation.
He died on Wednesday in a hospital after suffering a major (...)
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