Instead, the Allied forces divided up the former Ottoman Empire into new and invented states based on colonial interests rather than natural borders, tribal affiliation, family connections, or a desire for self-determination. A gentlemanly move, indeed. The Al Saud family got Saudi Arabia (no one knew there was that much oil there at the time). Fra

Creating agreements and joint ventures in various fields is crucial to help cultivate personal relationships between people, which will eventually grow to better understanding, empathy, and love and can only help establish a foundation for peace. But BDS doesn’t care about all this. “Don’t talk to them!” they yell at their brothers struggling on th

The word Zionism comes from one of the seventy biblical words used to describe Jerusalem—Zion. In fact, Jerusalem is the city’s first name; Zion is her second.

On the other hand, an Arab state, as granted by the UN, was not created, by choice of the Arabs, not the Jews. As

These were the lands that would have made up the independent State of Palestine had the Palestinians agreed to them. But they didn’t, so they never formally “belonged” to them. After the establishment of the State of Israel and the subsequent 1948 war, Jordan took the West Bank, but there was no international recognition of these lands as officiall

As the newly coined “Israelis” took to the streets to celebrate, the armies of Syria, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq, with the help of Saudi Arabia and Sudan, prepared to invade the freshly baked state.

And after one too many terrorists walked freely across the unfenced mountain terrain from Ramallah to Tel Aviv, covered in bombs and ready to explode themselves among the civilian population inside Israel, the separation wall around the West Bank was erected, cutting up Palestinian land and forcing millions of Palestinians to live under oppressive

After the Six Day War, Israel, having been under attack for forever, realized that this was an opportunity to once and for all create defensible borders. In other words, it decided to add strategic padding by building on the land it had recently acquired from Jordan and Egypt.

The Jews did not “take Palestine.” There was no Palestine for the taking.