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October 16, 2023
All eyes on Gaza. We can’t look away now.
Israeli officials are openly planning to open “the gates of hell” on Gaza.
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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
Truman letter to Ben Gurion: May 28, 1949
Click here to view Truman’s letter to Ben Gurion, May 28, 1949.
Lausanne Protocol, May 12, 1949
Below is the text of the Protocol signed by the Conciliation Commission and the Chairman of the Israeli delegation; an identical Protocol was signed on the same day by the Arab delegation. The “working document”…
U.S. Policy and the Palestinian Refugees
For more than a year, between 1948 and 1949, Israel, an emergent country of less than a million people, and powerful America actively struggled over the future of the refugees. The United States believed substantial numbers of them should be repatriated to their homes, which had been taken over by Israel
What is the Palestinian Right of Return Anyway?
Hussein Ibish, a senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine, explains the basics of the Right of Return to Justin Elliott (May 28, 2011) here.
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