The Case for Israel
As I explained in chapter six, 700,000 to 750,000 Arabs were displaced by the War of Independence and were put in refugee camps under UNRWA control. Since UNRWA has enabled refugee status to be inherited, there are now 5.6 million registered Palestinian “refugees.” To be clear, we are now discussing the “rights” of 5.6 million people to return not
... See moreNoa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Israelis saw the unraveling of the Arab states created by Westerners and wondered why the West would want to make another artificial state run by a corrupt, nonelected regime. They watched Mahmoud Abbas name public squares after suicide bombers and extol the murderers of innocent Israelis. Americans traumatized by the jihadist bombers who killed fo
... See moreMichael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Some settlements, I admitted, were of questionable strategic and diplomatic value, but they were not the cause of the conflict. The Arabs fought Zionism for fifty years before the first Israeli settlers even broke ground. Hatred of Israel held the Arab states together between the 1948 and 1967 wars, both of which they launched to annihilate Israel.
... See moreMichael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
