History and Context Israel and Palestine
"Those who don't study history are condemned to repeat it". What are the roots of this problem? Is history repeating itself? What must be understood to understand the situation, draw valid conclusions, and make workable solutions?
Friday, August 29, 2003
Facts on Jerusalem from a Palestinian perspective
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1. Where is Palestine?
Palestine covers [covered] what we now call Israel, plus the Occupied Territories. It borders Lebanon in the North. Syria and Jordan in the West. Touches Saudia Arabia and Egypt in the South and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.
2. When was the Land of Palestine inhabited?
The city of Jericho was built by Arabs around 10,000 years ago. ..."
Facts On Palestine: "For facts on Masjid Al-Aqsa, Please Click Here
For facts on Jerusalem, Please Click Here
1. Where is Palestine?
Palestine covers [covered] what we now call Israel, plus the Occupied Territories. It borders Lebanon in the North. Syria and Jordan in the West. Touches Saudia Arabia and Egypt in the South and the Mediterranean Sea in the East.
2. When was the Land of Palestine inhabited?
The city of Jericho was built by Arabs around 10,000 years ago. ..."
Thursday, August 28, 2003
The Observer | Review | Two wronged peoples: "Two wronged peoples
David Astor
Sunday June 4, 1967
The Observer
This is the second week of the crisis of Israel. The threatened blockading of the Gulf; the assertion by Prince Nasser that, if Israel attacks, his objective will be 'the destruction of Israel'; ... By contrast, the status quo in the Middle East during the last 19 years has been exceedingly unstable. Israel's frontiers have not been formally recognised, guerilla warfare has been endemic; there has been a continuous state of semi-war.
Israel has maintained its existence only by watchfulness on all frontiers, reserves kept constantly at the ready, violations of the frontiers usually accepted with stoic calm, but sometimes answered by retaliation.
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the basic fact of Israel's situation is that this little State was created where Arabs had lived.
That the Jews were morally justified in seeking a territory of their own cannot be questioned. But that the Arabs of Palestine should be obliged to give up most of their homeland to accommodate them was, obviously enough, unjust. A conflict between two deeply injured people has grown up. It is not a clash between the right and the wrong claim (as was the European conflict of the thirties) but a conflict between two wronged peoples. Unless it is appreciated that the Arabs have seen the Zionist immigration as the solving of a Christian problem at their expense there is no chance of discovering a means of improving Israel's situation among the Arab states.
