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September 3, 2024
Every life is precious.
Every single death, all of the destruction, was preventable. All life is precious — and we need an arms embargo now to end this loss of life.
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Israel’s Declaration of Independence
May 14, 1948: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Declaration-of-Independence-Israel.pdf
Israel Upholds Citizenship Bar for Palestinian Spouses
For full BBC news story (January, 2012), click here.
Acquisition of Israeli Nationality
Document from Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on how to become an Israeli citizen: Full text of information sheet on how to acquire Israeli nationality
Memory of the Cactus: Film
A 42 minute documentary film that combines the cactus and the memories it stands for. The film addresses the story of the destruction of the Palestinian villages of Latroun in the Occupied West Bank and…
The Peel Commission Report Summary: July 1937
The Commission was formed in response to the breakout of hostilities between Arabs and Jews in Mandate Palestine in April 1936. The Commission concluded that only partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews offered the…
Going back to Lifta, a Palestinian exile returns: Video
Yacoub Odeh, a Palestinian who fled from Lifta, west Jerusalem in 1948, shows film-maker Mat Heywood around his deserted home village, now under threat from Israeli plans to build a luxury resort. Click here to…
1979 speech by Vice President Mondale: International responses to refugee crises from Nazi Europe to the Vietnam War
In this speech to a U.N. conference in 1979, U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale cites the Evian conference’s refugee decisions in making a case for expanding immigration quotas for refugees from Southeast Asia. This helps…
We put the Arabs on buses
In May 1948, the 13th battalion conquered Beit She’an (Bisan), one of the 17 largest Arab towns in Palestine. In fact, it was not a conquest, but rather occupation in the wake of surrender. In his book, Zamir writes that the battalion commander, Avraham Yoffe, convinced the mayor of the town to surrender, after promising that nothing bad would happen to him or his 7,000 residents.
Absentees’ Property Law
This law defines absentees, vests absentees’ property rights in care of “the Custodian,” and grants to the Custodian “every right an absentee had in any property,” so that the “status of the Custodian shall be…
Survival of the Fittest?: An Interview with Benny Morris by Ari Shavit
Historian Benny Morris, who opened the Pandora’s box of Zionism, has found a new way to deal with the demons he unleashed. He justifies the expulsion of the Arabs in 1948, bemoans the fact that…
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