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Did Jamal Husseini say "The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East"?
On page 50 of his 2008 book 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War, Benny Morris wrote:
The Arab reaction was just as predictable: “The blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East,” ...
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Why did the British support Zionism during the mandate period?
The question is inspired by reading The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi. While the book provides many interesting insights, its arguments/findings essentially hinge on the claim that the British empire ...
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Did Palestinians form a distinct ethnically/culturally/linguistically homogeneous group in pre-Mandate period?
Note: this is not a question about whether a Palestinian state ought to be established. Yes or no to this question is not relevant to that one
Did Palestinians form a distinct ethnically/culturally/...
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"Israel created Hamas" - what's the timeline behind the historical facts of this claim?
A common claim across social media right now is "Israel created Hamas" - I've found it a little bit difficult to get an accurate timeline about Israel's actual involvement in Hamas.
This is ...
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When was the last direct conflict within Israel's boundaries?
With this recent attack by Hamas I looked up the incident on Wikipedia and it says:
"It is the first direct conflict within Israel's boundaries since the
1948 Arab–Israeli War."
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Is there evidence of a pagan temple on the site of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem that predated the Jewish Temple?
Is there any evidence of a pagan temple having preceded Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem on that same site? I have seen this argument made, but I wanted to know more about the reasons behind this ...
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What was meant by "Palestine is not Rhodesia"?
While reading about the Israel/Palestine conflict, I found this 1927 statement by Chaim Weizmann (emphasis mine):
Palestine must be built up without violating the legitimate interests of the Arabs ...
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Is there any transcript or recordings of Yasser Arafat's speech to Arab foreign ministers in 1996 (Stockholm)?
I am interested in a full transcript or original recording of a speech that Yasser Arafat delivered to 'Arab diplomats in Stockholm's [Grand Hotel in] January 1996'. The speech is referenced and is ...
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During the time of the British Mandate, who opposed the term "Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine" and who if any were OK with it being called that?
During the time of the British Mandate, who in the British Government opposed the term "Hashemite Kingdom Of Palestine"?
" the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. This was the name that ...
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What did Joe Slovo mean by 'collusion' in The War Against Aparthied?
Nadine Gordimer, in the foreword of the book, Ruth First & Joe Slovo in The War Against Aparthied by the oral historian, Alan Weider, quotes Joe Slovo when he visited Palestine in the early 1940s:...
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What is the diplomatic record on President Sadat's 1971 peace offer to Israel?
I have seen a lot of talk in the Israel-Palestine debate about the 1971 peace offer, but I can't find any original sources on it. Even Wikipedia's brief paragraph about it says "citation needed."
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Why does the Balfour declaration refer to Palestine, as opposed to the Land of Israel or the Holy Land? [closed]
The Balfour Declaration states that
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to ...
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Reference request - Books on Israel-Palestine conflict [closed]
I am searching for a good even-handed account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. I read James Gelvin's book which was ok but I found lacking in detail when it came to the situation in more recent times....
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Was there ever any co-existence (=2 states) solution to peace with Israel that the Arab Palestinian side proposed or said would accept? [closed]
Basically, I am trying to find if there was ever any effort from the Palestinian side to propose or counter offer a peaceful end to the conflict that they would accept.
There has been proposals for ...
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What specifically did Einstein have in mind when he called the Israeli Freedom Party fascistic?
In a blog published in the TLS, May 2016, Toby Lustig points out that Einstein in a letter to the New York Times, a few months after the declaration of Israeli idependence:
wrote to complain of '...
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