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Khirbet Khizeh, “The Price of Return”
Noah Efron writes on Khirbet Khizeh: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Noah-Efron-Haaretz-2008.pdf
Plan Dalet (Plan D)
‘Plan Dalet’ or ‘Plan D’ was the name given by the Zionist High Command to the general plan for military operations within the framework of which the Zionists launched successive offensives in April and early May 1948 in various parts of Palestine. These offensives, which entailed the destruction of the Palestinian Arab community and the expulsion and pauperization of the bulk of Palestine Arabs, were calculated to achieve the military fait accompli upon which the State of Israel was to be based.”
Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yizhar
Khirbet Khizeh, by S. Yizhar, Ibis Editions, Jerusalem, 2008, translated by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck, originally published in Hebrew in 1949. This is the first English edition. Read excerpts: 30 (from “Our man…
Towards Return of Palestinian Refugees: Practices, Strategies and Visions
I hope that today we may begin a discussion of the actual return of the Palestinian refugees. It’s a little like beginning to learn to walk, like a baby who begins talking without really having a command of language, so she tries, and fails, and stumbles. We’re here today to begin to stumble over our words, in order to create a language that will allow civil discourse about the return of the Palestinian refugees.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols
The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid…
Israeli Land Acquisition Law: 1953
Israeli Land Acquisition Law (1953): The passage of this law by the Knesset “was the final step completing the process of formal transfer of ownership of expropriated lands from their Arab owners to various Israeli…
U.S. confident Israel has no expansion plans
The U.S. State Department, in this June 22, 1949 document, reports that the Ambassador to Tel Aviv “states that, although some extremists in the Israeli army and legislature advocate expansion by the use or threat…
U.S. Administration on the Partition of Palestine: Timeline of Events
The United States and the Recognition of Israel: A Chronology
On Testimony: A compilation by Zochrot
A compilation by Zochrot of brief reflections on the concept of testimony from Levinas, Lyotard, Dan Erev and David Gurevitch: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Zochrot-Testimony-Readings.pdf
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