To start, the key to understanding Zionism is in its name. The easternmost of the two hills of ancient Jerusalem during the tenth century B.C.E. was called Zion. The religious and emotional qualities of the name arise from the importance of Jerusalem as the Royal City and the City of the Temple.
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Read More +Today I received two conflicting posts from the same person, “Sergei Haim”, email: sergei@gmail.com, both originating from IP: 216.6.1.86, which is an address originating out of Syria. Here’s what Sergei wrote in the first post: we are here to state that we jews have the complete right to exist in this world, and have our legitimate and sovereign country, which we are the only democratic and free country in the whole region. we like to live in peace if ever our neighbors want to have peace, How nice, I thought. But that’s not the first time I’ve been wrong. Here’s
Read More +An Israeli plan to construct 30 new homes in Maskiot in the Jordan Valley for families evacuated from uprooted Gaza Strip settlements has been questioned by the U.S. State Department. But David Siegel, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, said “the settlement is not a new one.” It was legally established in 1982, housed an army unit and a school, and has had civilians living there for several years. The plan is to build within the confines of the existing settlement, he said. Aha. “Settlements”. A buzzword and part of the Palestinian terminology manufactured by the PLO to make
Read More +In case you didn’t see this historically significant article published earlier this week, this article is a critical addition to your talking points. Please take note: PA Daily: Arab leaders caused the refugee problem PA columnist: Arab leaders initiated departure and made false promises of a speedy return by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook- Dec. 17, 2006 PMW has documented yet another corroboration in the official Palestinian Authority (PA) paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that it was Arab leaders who were responsible for the flight of Arabs from the new State of Israel in 1948. A backbone of PA ideology, and indeed
Read More +Words That Can Kill, from Jeff Jacoby: Today Simon Bikindi is being tried by the international tribunal created to bring Rwanda’s accused war criminals to justice. The central charge against him is that he incited genocide with his songs. Words can be deadly, opening the door to murder on a vast scale. That is why the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide unambiguously makes it as much of a crime to incite acts of genocide as to physically commit them. If Simon Bikindi has been charged with incitement to commit genocide, why hasn’t Mahmoud
Read More +A high arch which had been part of the skyline of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City in Jerusalem since the Six Day War has recently disappeared. It belonged to the Hurva Synagogue, Israel’s grandest, most important synagogue until the War of Independence. The arch, a remnant of the synagogue bombed by the Jordanians in 1948, was removed due to the renovation and reconstruction of the synagogue now in progress. Excavations at the site, directed by archaeologists Hillel Geva and Oren Gutfeld, have exposed findings from various periods of the synagogue’s history. The most significant is an entire arch
Read More +Finally. An Arab dares to admit the truth. Please circulate this very important and significant article, from PA Daily: Arab Leaders Caused Palestinian Refugee Problem: A backbone of PA ideology is the myth that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Arabs from Israel and created the Palestinian “refugee” situation. However, on Dec. 13, Mahmud al-Habbash wrote in the official PA paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that in 1948 the Arabs left their homes willingly under the instruction of their own Arab leaders. He states that the Arabs who left their homes and became refugees did so believing their leaders’ deceptive promises. He
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