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…et, dimunitive 25-year-old named Yisrael Mendel Brog — my father. Known as Srulik, his Yiddish nickname, he had come to Palestine five years earlier. He was an ordinary kibbutz worker. He drove a tractor. My father’s initial impulse in coming to Palestine was more personal than...

…iyeh finds his popularity having soared. Forty-eight percent of Palestinians say that they would rather pick Hantyeh as Palestine’s next president instead of Abbas, who has struggled to secure the freedom of movement and self-determination that so many Palestinians once expected...

…an Dickey Center for International Understanding. Article 7. Foreign Policy in Focus (FPIF) The Depths of Malaise in Palestine Daniel DePetris February 12, 2013 -- When talking about peace in Israel-Palestine, it is easy to narrow the conversation to the leaders who are resp...

…otten my presence,” Toynbee wrote, “and began to think aloud. ‘Mesopotamia…yes…oil…irrigation…we must have Mesopotamia; Palestine…yes… the Holy Land… Zionism… we must have Palestine…; Syria… h’m… what is there in Syria? Let the French have that.” 246 This sort of charmless arroga...

…et, dimunitive 25-year-old named Yisrael Mendel Brog — my father. Known as Srulik, his Yiddish nickname, he had come to Palestine five years earlier. He was an ordinary kibbutz worker. He drove a tractor. My father’s initial impulse in coming to Palestine was more personal than...

…“Shimon’s poodle’. And he deeply distrusted Arafat. The PLO had been founded with the aim of “liberating” every inch of Palestine. The fact that Arafat had agreed to the Bush Administration’s demand to accept the principle of land-for-peace struck Rabin as mere sleight-of-hand....

…to enter secondary education, he decided against going on with his religious education. Meir was preparing to leave for Palestine, so my father enrolled in the Hebrew-language, Zionist high school. When he graduated, one of the many Brog relatives who were by now living in the Un...

…warrior-turned-politician who uncultivated area of the eastern agreed to make peace with Arafat, Mediterranean known as Palestine, a man most Israelis, as one Israeli the long-running conflict between character in the play remarks, saw as the Israelis and the Palestinians is no b...

Did the British promise the Arabs independence in Palestine? In July 1915, Hussein ibn ‘Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, sent a letter to Sir Henry MacMahon, the High Commissioner for Egypt, informing him of the terms for Arab participation in the war against the Turks. The letters be...

…p of Khalid Meshal, adding that Hamas is a resistance movement that believes that resistance is the means of liberating Palestine, especially after it has became clear to everybody that "it would be a terrible gamble to bet on these futile negotiations." HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023538

…some delegates drawing a parallel “between Nazi policies against the Jews and Israeli brutalities against the people of Palestine.” When the General Assembly itself finally addressed the Cambodian genocide in a resolution, it did so in tepid terms compared to its treatment of Is...

…some. Arens was also a lifelong Jabotinsky Zionist. He had been in the Betar youth movement in America, before going to Palestine in 1948 and joining the Irgun. In fact, it was with Misha’s personal backing that one of my former Sayeret Matkal officers — the son of a Jabotinsky a...

…to the United States. Jets belonging to TWA, Pan Am and Swissair were seized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The group also attempted to hijack a jet over London belonging to the Israeli airline El Al but was thwarted by security guards on board. The Pan Am...

…Centers in the cities of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Asmara (Eritrea), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Kigali (Rwanda) and Nablus (Palestine) where youth are being trained to run childbased programs in health, nutrition, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Sports and Arts. In 20...

…s footing two thirds of the nearly $1 billion project bill, she said. "This is the biggest investment in the history of Palestine," she explained as we stepped over a fake valley in the next room, walking past a mock-up of a stunning hilltop view contained inside a mock-up of a f...