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Whose Land – examines the claims to the Land of Israel
Whose Land is a documentary, produced and directed by Hugh Kitson and narrated by Colonel Richard Kemp, which examines the claims to the Land of Israel, through the eyes of historians and international lawyers. Episode 1 – The Jewish Presence in Jerusalem from Antiquity Episode 2 – Ottoman Turkish rule over Palestine Episode…
WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?
The video dispels certain myths concerning the origin of the name ‘Palestine’ and of the ‘Arab Palestinians.’ It documents that the ‘Arab Palestinians’ are in fact mostly from other places, and migrated to what is now Israel at the same time as the Zionist Jews, many of them because of the economic boom that the…
- Israel | Palestine | Middle East | Politics
Who Were the 1948 Arab Refugees?
by Yoram Ettinger, June 6, 2016 3:50 am Contrary to conventional “wisdom,” most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine — and most of the 320,000 1948 Arab refugees — were migrant workers and descendants of the 1831-1947 Muslim immigrants from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, North Africa, Bosnia, India, Afghanistan, etc. Britain enticed Arab…
Who is Supporting and Funding Hamas?
Anti-Semitic slogans and symbols have been reported at pro-Palestine rallies in New York and Sydney. A handful of Democratic senators have also refused to condemn the Hamas attack and asked the US to stop helping Israel. What explains this support for Hamas? Where does the group get its political and financial support? Palki Sharma tells…
Preaching the gospel of liberalism to the Jordanian street
By Philippe Assouline, 31 December 2012 Mudar Zahran, one of the leaders of his country’s burgeoning Dignity Revolution, says spring is in the air. And, he claims, a post-Hashemite Jordan will have huge implications for the Palestinians, who may be forced to choose — Western-style secular democracy or a government led by the likes of…
