A different history of displacement and loss

On May 15, many in the Arab world and elsewhere mark the Nakba, or the “Catastrophe,” mourning the displacement of the Palestinian Arabs during the 1948 war with Israel. This year, as always, the commemoration will obscure the collapse at the same time of a differen …

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Lies, damned lies and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its annual "nakba" report where it tries to twist numbers to make Israel look as bad as possible. Just a quick glance through it shows a number of lies as well as more evidence that the PA has no real interest in peace …

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PA Prisoners Promise Riots Unless They Get Demands

Arab security prisoners in Israeli jails say they will stop drinking water unless Israel capitulates to their demands Terrorists and security prisoners being held in Israeli jails will riot unless their demands are met immediately, MK Jamal Zahalka threatened Saturday night. S …

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Peacemaking mythologies from Taba to Olmert

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was interviewed last Friday by CNN’s Christiana Ammanpour and sought to give his audience the impression that he had been on the verge of a historical peace agreement with Mahmoud Abbas in 2008, and only because of the interference of ind …

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Ha'aretz, Lost in Translation

There’s Ha’aretz in Hebrew and then there’s Ha’aretz in English, and it’s not just language or circulation which sets them apart. (The Hebrew edition of Ha’aretz has a very low circulation in comparison to other Israeli newspapers; its influe …

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Hitler's Long Shadow over Israel

Why do so many Arabs sound like Nazis when they talk about Jews? The answer lay buried for decades in the archives of the Third Reich. Then a generation of younger German scholars expanded their attention beyond the death camps of Europe to Hitler's activities in the Middle Eas …

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Arab Ambush of Children's Bus in Jerusalem

A bus filled with children ages 3 to 13 was suddenly pelted with rocks and concrete cinder blocks hurled by Arab teens in Jerusalem's mixed Jewish-Arab neighborhood of Abu Tur.

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Video: Mudar Zahran tells Michael Coren 'Jordan is Palestine'

Here's a Jordanian exile, who lives as a political refugee in England, telling Michael Coren the truth: Jordan is 'Palestine.' In most countries with a record of human rights violations, vulnerable minorities are the typical victims. This has not been the case in Jordan where  …

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"The occupation of Jerusalem" (Burak Bekdil, Hurriyet)

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