Actuality HISTORY

Never Again, for Now / Moshe Kantor

The evil that perpetrated the Holocaust still lives among us.
Jan 1 2012
In 1961, Swedish filmmaker Erwin Leise coined the phrase "Never again!" in his documentary "Mein Kampf." Over the years this slogan has been repeated many times. However, to return to its true meaning, the term has to lose its solely commemorative application and become an active part of the global psyche to understand and face evil.

The EU Is an Obstacle to Peace / DR.Emmanuel Navon

Jan.29 2012
The claim that Israeli “settlements” constitute “an obstacle to peace” has become a self-evident European dogma. The truth, of course, is that there was no peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors when none of those “settlements” existed (between 1949 and 1967); that the Palestinian leadership rejected twice Israel’s offer to dismantle most of its settlements (by Ehud Barak in July 2000 and by Ehud Olmert in September 2008); and that when Israel unilaterally dismantled all its settlements in Gaza in 2005, it was “rewarded” by thousands of rockets.

Fact -Checking Newt Gingrich / Prof.B.Rubin

Fact-Checking Newt Gingrich and the Fact-Checkers on the Middle East
December 11, 2011
ABC News “fact-checked” Newt Gingrich’s Middle East statements and some readers asked me to fact-check ABC, so here is my view:

Gingrich said Palestinians are an “invented” people. ABC says: Not true.

I think Gingrich was basically correct, but that point isn’t so significant. There is a strong tendency of contemporary experts to argue that pretty much every nationality is invented including the French, British, Italian, Polish, and German.

Response to Gingrich Statement that Paleainians are an invented nationality / Eli E.Hertz

Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality
December 11, 2011
In an interview with Republican Presidential Primary front-runner and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a former Professor and Historian, he explains his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict and states that the Palestinians are "an invented Palestinian people, who are in fact Arabs."

It is time to tell the truth that is based on facts:

Palestinian Authority Attacks the Balfur Declaration / Itamar Marcus & N.J.Zilberdix

PA attacks the Balfour Declaration which expressed support for Jewish homeland in Palestine
Nov. 27, 2011
"The greatest crime"
"A sin"
"The cursed promise"
"A mark of shame upon humanity"
"An ominous sign, [bringing] disasters upon the Palestinians, the Arabs, and the nations of the region and the world."
"Historical injustice"
"Balfour will continue to turn in his grave"

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

The Karsh Chronicle :Justice for Palestine / Prof.Efraim Karsh

Aug 16, 2010 at
Still actual today
"To a man with a hammer," Mark Twain famously quipped, "everything looks like a nail." To a propagandist, everything looks like a poll.

No sooner had my latest New York Times op-ed piece, The Palestinians, Alone, been published than my mailbox was swamped with polls of all hues aimed at proving the depth of Arab compassion for the Palestinians.

Where Is the Palestinian Ben Gurion / Prof.Efraim Karsh

Sixty-four years after partitioning Palestine into two independent states – one Jewish, the other Arab – the UN General Assembly is set again to vote on the same issue. While this time around Palestinian leaders appear to be preaching compromise, closer scrutiny reveals this to be a tactical rather than a strategic change of heart, stemming from the different circumstances of the two votes and aimed at disguising their lingering unwillingness (or perhaps inability) to live with a two-state solution.

History and the Palestinian "Right of Return":Rights and Wrongs / Prof.Efraim Karsh

A survey of the history of the Palestinian claim to the right of return to the current borders of the state of Israel.

BY THE early 1990s, most Israelis, on both sides of the political spectrum, had come to embrace a two-state solution to their decades-long conflict with the Palestinian Arabs, a solution based on the idea of trading "land for peace." For these Israelis, and especially for the doves among them, the twilight hours of Ehud Barak’s short-lived government came as a terrible shock.

The "Nakba Day" of the Jews from Arab States / Ada Aharoni

October 12, 2011
Aharoni seeks PM approval for 'Jewish Nakba' Day
No doubt you've heard of Palestinian Nakba Day? Now let's have a day to mark the uprooting of Jewish communities from Arab countries. Most would agree that it's a great idea, and long overdue - the only problem being: what do we call it? Any suggestions welcome.

The suggestion comes from Ada Aharoni (pictured) in a letter she wrote on the eve of Rosh Hashana (the Jewish New Year) to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Egyptian-born Mrs Aharoni is a professor at Haifa university and peace campaigner.

A Palestinan high official says: the goal is to eliminate Israel

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=RyhuqthF2UM&feature=share

Please, listen to what Palestinian would not tell the Western world, but only in Arabic.

The final goal is to eliminate the Jewish state.

The real issue is that the Arabs want a middle east without any minority:pure Arabic- Muslim.

The hatred towards non- Muslims is taught in the schools and the media.

Arabs use the Palestinian issue as means to eliminate the Jewish state rather than forming a Palestinian state.

Egypt and Jordan ruled the Western Bank and Gaza from 1948 to 1967:

Answer to Dana Goldstein's article on TIME WORLD / DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak

Sept.30 2011
Dana Goldstein published an article on Time World Sept.29 2011:
"Why Fewer Young American Jews Share Their Parents View of Israel."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2095505,00.html
I am an Israeli. I was born in Israel. My parents came to the country at the beginning of the 20th the century as pioneers because they were Zionists. I am a Zionist.

I belong to the center- left. I have always supported a 2 national states solution and never supported the Likud or settlements.

Most Palestinians Live Under Palestinian Governments / DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak

Most Palestinians live under Hamas government in Gaza and under the Palestinian Authority government – not under Israeli occupation – on the Western Bank.

The Oslo Agreement in 1993 between Israel and the PLO changed the situation in Gaza and the Western Bank.

Even the B'tselem organization who is a Pro- Palestinian organization, admits that the vast majority of the Palestinian population lives since 1993 in areas under direct Palestinian control .

The PA has full civil control of the Palestinian towns, the rural area between the towns and about 26% of the rest of the rural area.

The Genocide of the Jewish People by the Roman Empire / DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak

June 21 2011
The Roman Empire committed a genocide of the Jewish People under its Occupation of the Land Of Israel.
From about 3,000,000 Jews in the First century CE, about 200,000 survived until the 7th century, most of them killed or enslaved.

The Roman occupation (63 BCE – 324 CE) proved a calamity for the Jewish people. The Romans destroyed Jewish independence and canceled its population majority in Israel.

A Brief Guide to Why 1948 Was a Palestinian-Arab and Arab Disaster / Prof.B.Rubin

16 May 2011
In 1947 the UN voted to partition the British mandate of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The Jews accepted partition into two states; the Arabs rejected it.

How the European Union's Attitude Towards Israel Evolved / Efraim Halevy

"For a very long time the Europeans' weakness has been that so often somebody else has to solve their problems. Frequently the United States has had to do so. Yugoslavia and Iraq have been cases in point. It is possible that this will now change as European nations make major contributions to the multinational force that is being deployed on the southern borders of Lebanon after the Second Lebanon War of summer 2006."

A Moderate Muslim Shows the Strength and Weaknesses of that Approach / Prof.B.Rubin

Here’s a really interesting op-ed piece on al-Jazeera by a moderate Muslim with some useful ideas. But it also shows the weaknesses of that standpoint.

How Has U.S, Policy Towards Hamas and Gaza Strip Turned Around 360 Degrees / Prof.B.Rubin

A reader asks what I meant when I wrote:
"Should I mention the total reversal of U.S. policy on Hamas from trying to undermine that radical Islamist group's rule in the Gaza Strip to believing Hamas will fall if Gaza becomes prosperous?"

Here's my answer:

From the time Hamas seized the Gaza Strip until last summer, the U.S. government supported a strategy of trying to bring down the Hamas government. It did this by both political isolation and supporting embargos to minimize Gaza's imports and exports. The idea was that weakening Gaza's economy would weaken Hamas's rule.

Present Day Anti - Semitism in Turkey / Rifat N.Bali

Turkish intellectuals have always taken a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli stance. Islamists associate the "Palestine question" with alleged Jewish involvement in the rise of Turkish secularism. Leftists see Israel as an imperialist state and an extension of American hegemony in the Middle East. Comparable themes are found among nationalist intellectuals.

The Palestinian Leader el Husseini Planed with Hitler "The Final Solution" of the Jews of Palestine / DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak

The Palestinian Leader el Husseini Planed with Hitler "The Final Solution" of the Jews of Palestine, 1942 – 1944/ DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak
Introduction
The Palestinians keep comperinig Israel and Nazi Germany.In fact, Arabs and Muslims not only supported the Nazi ideology, many of them volunteered to serve in the Nazi army.

The Mufti of Jeruslem:Haj Amin el- Husseini and National - Socialism, by Jennie Lebel / Review by Wolfgang G.Schwanitz

The Mufti of Jerusalem:Haj-Amin el-Husseini and National-Socialism, by Jennie Lebel, translated by Paul Münch from Serbian, Belgrade: Čigoja štampa, 2007, 374 pp.
Reviewed by Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

A Lethal Obsession:Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad,by Robert.S.Wistrich / Reviewed by Winston Pickett

Anti-Semitism has become such a pervasive and dominant feature in the mainstream discourse that it poses a particular challenge when addressing it in the public space. Calling something anti-Semitic, while it may be "objectively" accurate, can be counterproductive simply because the vast majority of the public, including writers, opinion-formers, and journalists, badly misunderstand this particular form of group hatred.

Arab- Muslim Waves of Immigration to Palestine (the Land of Israel )/ DR.Rivka Shpak Lissak

Palestinians are not the Indigenous people of the Holy Land

The Palestinian narrative, which is now widely accepted as a fact of history around the world, is the result of a systematic indoctrination through propaganda.
The Palestinians are neither the "Indians" nor the "Africans" of the Holy Land.
Most Palestinians immigrated to the Holy Land between the 19th and 20th centuries, during the Ottoman rule (1516 – 1918) and the British Mandate rule (1918 – 1948).

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