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...
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MoreIsraeli 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe United States and the Recognition of Israel: A Chronology...
Read MoreA 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...
Read MoreClick here to view Truman's letter to Ben Gurion, May 28, 1949. ...
Read MoreBelow 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...
Read MoreFor 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...
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