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Herzl is especially interested in the inhabitants of Palestine and the prospects for colonizing it.
Ari Shavit • My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
“I’m pro-Israel AND pro-Palestine. I’m anti-Hamas AND anti-Netanyahu. I’m pro-peace AND anti-terrorism. I support a ceasefire AND releasing all the hostages.”
Palestinian-Arab-Muslim population that had lived in villages and worked the land for centuries, only to be displaced by the Zionist invaders, is simply inconsistent with the recorded demographic data gathered not by the Jews or Zionists but rather by the local authorities themselves. J.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
Hadar was originally founded on the radical notion that a service that is egalitarian could run as fast as a nonegalitarian service.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Israel, on the other hand, was prepared to extend full citizenship to whatever number of Arabs remained in the Jewish state. Although many Jews surely preferred a smaller, rather than a larger, Arab minority, the official Jewish organizations took no steps to assure a reduction in the Arab population in general, although Israeli military commanders
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Using this alternate route, the Harel Brigade (under the command of Yitzhak Rabin, then twenty-six years old) succeeded in resupplying and defending the western parts of the city—but they were still unable to recapture the Old City.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
On Marc Ellis, Exile and the Prophetic (or Welcome to the New Diaspora Rabbi Rosen!)
Rabbi Brant Rosenrabbibrant.com
Advocates often play games with the demographics in order to support their agenda-driven conclusions. In estimating the Arab population of Palestine at the time of the U.N. partition of 1947, advocates of the Arab cause sometimes include the population of what is now Jordan, as well as what is now the West Bank and Gaza. In assessing the fairness o
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Sharon’s successor, Ehud Olmert, the former mayor of Jerusalem, declared his intention to hand over the majority of Palestinian territories in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority. Unlike some of his predecessors, Olmert was asserting that a Palestinian state could be established before many of the thorniest issues in the negotiations would b
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