Posted on 07/25/2011 2:03:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon reacted Monday (July 25) to condemnation by the Palestinian Authority over his video titled 'The Truth About the West Bank'.
The PA put out an official press release claiming that the video was a "cynical and falsified account of history and international law". Chief Palestinian negotiator Dr. Saeb Erakat demanded an official explanation for the video.
Deputy Minister Ayalon said that the video is clearly worrying the Palestinians as it challenges their narrative.
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Good.
What an excellent video. Too often the truth has been supplanted by mendacity, and soundbites substituted for facts. I applaud the Israeli’s for making this video.
We need more like this. A video a week, perhaps.
Also, there are important books that are only available in Hebrew, such as President Yitzchak Ben Tzvi’s Hayishuv Hayehudi Bizman Haotoman (Jewish settlement in the time of the Ottoman Empire), which uses English, Turkish and Arabic sources to give an accurate demographic picture, or Arucha Haderech Lecherut by Yaakov Meridor, about his experiences in British prison and subsequent escape from exile in Khartoum. I’m in the process of reading both, slowly, my modern Hebrew being just adequate. I also saw in the library a history of those hung fighting the Mandate, with an introduction by Rabbi Aryeh Levine (ZT”L). When Joan Peters shook the world in 1984, they attacked everything they could, which meant they had no answer for her facts. But as a result, her book From Time Immemorial was successfully ignored. Ben Tzvi has been ignored because he writes in Hebrew. But if his study were available in English, Joan Peters would no longer stand alone.
We need more like this. A video a week, perhaps.
Also, there are important books that are only available in Hebrew, such as President Yitzchak Ben Tzvi’s Hayishuv Hayehudi Bizman Haotoman (Jewish settlement in the time of the Ottoman Empire), which uses English, Turkish and Arabic sources to give an accurate demographic picture, or Arucha Haderech Lecherut by Yaakov Meridor, about his experiences in British prison and subsequent escape from exile in Khartoum. I’m in the process of reading both, slowly, my modern Hebrew being just adequate. I also saw in the library a history of those hung fighting the Mandate, with an introduction by Rabbi Aryeh Levine (ZT”L). When Joan Peters shook the world in 1984, they attacked everything they could, which meant they had no answer for her facts. But as a result, her book From Time Immemorial was successfully ignored. Ben Tzvi has been ignored because he writes in Hebrew. But if his study were available in English, Joan Peters would no longer stand alone.
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