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anti-Zionism, antisemitism, BDS, Conflict history, Media Bias, The I/P conflictThe colourful Twitter history of PalestineSocial media sites such as Twitter portray a wonderful history of a state called Palestine – but first let us quickly remember the truth.The historical facts:For the Islamic world, the area of 19th century Southern Syria was a sparsely populated forgotten backwater with rival clans and nomadic tribes presenting a hazardous obstacle for every trip. The weakening of the occupying power (the Ottoman Empire) and growing global trade – resurrected European interest. It was Christian travellers recognising this area as their ‘Holy Land’ that put an...

Gordon: There was an incident at a Beersheba Hospital involving a Palestinian woman terrorist who had received skin transplant treatments authorized by you. Could you describe that incident and what it illustrates about Israeli humanitarianism versus fanatic Islamic Jihadism? Eldad: I was instrumental in establishing the Israeli National Skin Bank, which is the largest in the world. The National Skin Bank stores skin for every day needs as well as for war time or mass casualty situations. This skin bank is hosted at the Hadassah Ein Kerem University hospital in Jerusalem where I was the chairman of plastic surgery. This...

(IsraelNN.com) Jordan is in an uproar over the revival of the "Jordanian option" - the thesis that Jordan is the true home to the "Palestinians." Reports that a top advisor to US Presidential candidate John McCain is promoting this idea have led to a flurry of press reports in the Arab media, as well as a denial from Jordan's King Abdullah himself. Some officials in Israel and the United States, however, feel it's the only way to prevent the formation of a Palestinian state. The King responded defensively to the option, declaring in an interview with a Lebanese newspaper last...

A new word has recently crept into the lexicon of would-be Middle East peacemakers and those who comment about such issues. The word is "contiguous", as in "being in actual contact: touching along a boundary or at a point," according to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. It lately is being used to describe the final disposition of a second Palestinian-Arab state, which itself seems to have become a forgone conclusion right under our collective noses. Everyone is using the term these days, from American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to US President George Bush, to President of the European Union Jean-Claude...

There is little doubt that Jordan will become a full-fledged state of Arab-Muslim Palestinians in the not-too-distant future. As Yasser Arafat draws closer to his death bed from a series of maladies, it is highly likely that he will wish to complete what he attempted to do in Jordan until then-King Hussein ejected him in 1971. During those years, Arafat had concluded 26 separate agreements with King Hussein to maintain the peace if his Palestinians were allowed freedom of movement. Arafat broke every agreement, ending with his bloody expulsion during what the Palestinians call "Black September". After King Hussein learned...

King Abdullah slams PA Accuses its leadership of not carrying out real reform. Says it is responsible for situation in which 50% of territory offered today while 2 years ago 98% discussed.Marwan Athamna King Abdullah “The Palestinian Authority must carry out a real reform and tell the Arab world what it wants of it”, Abdullah King of Jordan told the Arab satellite network al-Arabiya on Tuesday. Abudllah harshly criticized the PA and said that because of the way it handled the situation, Israel today is offering it only 50% of territory that was conquered during the Six Day war, while...

The First Palestinian Stateby Emanuel A. WinstonDec 10, '03 / 15 Kislev 5764  E-mail This  Print  Homepage Oh. You didn’t know there was a First Palestinian State? It’s not necessary to go back to 1964 when, with Egypt’s help, the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) was formed - with the sole intent of engaging in terror for the purpose of conquering the Jewish State, with the assistance of all the Arab/Muslim nations. Those goals of the PLO have not changed.(1) Yasser Arafat was elected Chairman of the PLO in 1969. Arafat and his terrorists ended up in the Kingdom of Jordan after a...

Bush: Iran, Palestinian terrorists hinder freedom The fight against terrorism among Palestinians and against tyranny in Iran is part of the struggle for freedom in the Middle East, President Bush said. Bush on Tuesday ended a NATO summit in Istanbul by calling for greater democracy in the Middle East and comparing struggles against violence and terrorism in the region. “We see the struggle in Iran, where tired, discredited autocrats are trying to hold back the democratic will of a rising generation,” he said. “We see it in the Holy Land, where terrorist murderers are setting back the good cause of...

US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Sunday against instituting a Palestinian state that is smaller and weaker than envisaged by the Road Map peace process. Speaking to CNN, Powell said a unified Palestinian state should be created on the West Bank with connections to the Gaza Strip, rather than 'bantustans' - apartheid-like cordoned-off areas that were created in pre-1990 South Africa. "The West Bank should not be sliced off. This would be unacceptable," he said.

Agreement Between Emir Feisal and Dr. Weizmann 3 January, 1919 Introduction Following the First World War, Emir Feisal, son of Sherif Hussein (Husayn) of Mecca, and the leader of the Arab movement, met in Aqaba with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the head of the Zionist Commission to Palestine. Later, at the Paris Peace Conference, the two negotiated and signed the following agreement, which spoke of full cooperation in the development of the independent Arab state in present-day Syria and Iraq (as promised by the British to Feisal) and the Jewish home in Palestine (from the Balfour Declaration), and encouraging "the immigration...

Omega Letter Christian Intelligence Digest Signs, Signs, Everywhere Are Signs. . . Commentary on the NewsThursday, May 13, 2004 - Omega Letter Editor Last week, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that says the Palestinians "have the right to self-determination and to sovereignty over their territory." By a margin of 140 to 6, the non-binding resolution granting the Palestinians self-determination and sovereignty over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and eastern Jerusalem was approved. The resolution was cosponsored by 27 Arab, Muslim and non-aligned nations. Not only does the resolution decree that Palestinians have a right to...

The Jerusalem Times (independent Palestinian weekly) 26 February 2004 www.jerusalem-times.net/article/news/details/detail.asp?id=4844 Amman - Minister for Civil Affairs, Jameel Tarifi, announced Monday that Jordan has changed its decision to strip the Jordanian citizenship from Palestinians living in the Palestinian Areas and holding a job at the Palestinian National Authority or holding a dual citizenship. Tariffi comments came at the end of his meeting in Amman with the Jordanian Interior Minister Sameer Habashneh. The Jordanian decision could have affected more that 250,000 Palestinians, mostly working in the Gulf states. West Bank Palestinians were considered until 1986, Jordanian citizens but the late King of...

Benny Morris' transformation highlights chilling truths about the conflict http://www.jewishworldreview.com | If war is the "continuation of politics ... by other means," as German strategist Karl von Clausewitz famously wrote, then it must be said with equal certainty that the study of history in our day has become another form of warfare. No conflict better exemplifies this maxim than that between Arabs and Israelis. For the last 55 years and more, Zionist and anti-Zionist historians have waged war in the pages of their books. Pro-Israel writers look to the past to justify by legal, historic and moral grounds the rebirth...

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan on Monday rejected calls by some hard-line Israeli politicians to make the kingdom a homeland for West Bank Palestinians. Prime Minister Faisal al-Fayez told two visiting Members of Knesset that Jordan "rejects any Israeli schemes which seek to expel Palestinians (from the West Bank) or to return to statements that Jordan is a substitute homeland (for Palestinians)," the official Petra news agency said. "Jordan's position is clear and there's no room for bargaining," al-Fayez reportedly told Mohammed Barakeh and Issam Makhoul of Hadash, also known as the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality. Hard-line Israeli politicians,...

Peace. It is a grand concept and one that every person, organization and nation should strive to achieve. It can only be achieved through mutual respect and the respect for another’s beliefs, even if they are beliefs that one party cannot embrace. It is a simple concept partially based on the phrase, “live and let live.” While the phrase may be dripping in common sense it has consistently been one of the most difficult concepts to place into the realm of reality. Proof of this is in the Middle East situation and especially displayed in the caustic relations between Israel...

Jerusalem (jnewwire.com) - The Middle East News Line (MENL) reported Sunday Israel has acceded to a Bush administration demand that an interim Palestinian state be established in the entire Gaza Strip and most of Judea and Samaria during 2004. This state will come into being whether or not Palestinian terrorism continues and whether or not the Palestinian Authority cracks down on the terror groups, according to the MENL. It is believed that the establishment of Palestine will have a powerfully positive effect on President George W. Bush's aspirations for re-election later in the year. US proposal The US proposal for...

The incalculable cost - revisited By Stan Goodenough Jerusalem - December 10, 2003 A few weeks ago, I penned an article I called, "The incalculable cost of Palestine." [below] Spelling out the de facto price that would be paid for the creation of a Palestinian state on the biblical heartland of Israel, I said that among other things, its birth would: ** Mark the beginning of the end of the Jews as a nation. ** Lead to the eventual extinction of Bible-believing Christianity. Creating Palestine in the biblical heartland of Israel, I wrote, would "sever the bonds holding the Jews...

WASHINGTON (AP)--President Bush warned Israel anew on Friday not to take actions that would make it harder to create a Palestinian state. ``It's in Israel's interest there be a Palestinian state,'' Bush told reporters at the White House. ``It's in the poor suffering Palestinian people's interest there be a Palestinian state.'' Also Friday, Israel Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said after a meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell that he and Powell agree that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians should begin immediately without preconditions. Shalom added that he hoped Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed...

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LANDJordanian sermon calls for Israel's defeat Official broadcast apparent breach of kingdom's 1994 peace treaty Posted: December 10, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Shortly before King Abdullah of Jordan was commended in Washington for his contribution to peace, an officially sanctioned sermon on national TV called for Israel's defeat. Amman's Television Channel 1 in Arabic, the official station of Jordan, carried Sheik Muhammad Kheir al-Isa's sermon live Nov. 28 from Martyrs Mosque in the capital, according to Israel-based Independent Media Review Analysis, or IMRA. Al-Isa devoted his sermon to "the greatness" of Islam's holy book, the Quran,...

E-Interview with Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Director of the Cultural Institute of the Italian Islamic Community. IsraPundit: Professor Palazzi, from reading the web, IsraPundit readers are familiar with your biography, your writings and some of your views. We are, therefore, aware that you oppose terrorism, that you consider the Islamists' terrorism to be an aberration of Islam, and that you support Israel and her claim to Judea, Samaria and Gaza and Jerusalem. Similarly, Your pronouncements against the Oslo Accords are well-known, and I assume that you also oppose the "Roadmap", which is even worse. However, I have been unable...