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If you read the Wikipedia entry on the First Arab-Israel War, besides finding out it has a new name - the 1947-1949 Palestine War - (Wikipe...

I have a newspaper clipping in this 2012 post of mine on the legality of Britaisn creating Jordan in 1946. In essence, the claim was that a...

Writing about the illegal immigrant ship Patria that arrived at Mandate Palestine shores in November 1941 in " Josiah Wedgwood and Pale...

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The Arabs have alays maintained that a "Palestine" was included in the British pledge made during the McMahon-Hussein talks. I ...

I found this book : Pan-Islam was authored by George Wyman Bury (1874‒1920) who was a British naturalist and explorer who spent 2...

Ever heard of a Mahmal? I read here about the Mahmal: It denotes the closed rectangular pyramidal canopy which so resembled a catafalq...

Every Arab and pro-Palestinian will quote Herodotus to "prove" that the "original" name of this country called Eretz-Yis...

I chanced upon this article, The Private Archives of the Sursuq, A Beirut Family of Christian Notables , published in 2009. They were one of...

We continue our first year of our Aliyah to Israel, fifty years ago. First installment is here . First of all, my wife has a post up, here...

If you drop by Hezkiyahu Hamelech Street in Katamon, Number 15, you can see the location of the  Mayanot   educational institution . But b...

Here is Foreign Mnister Abba Eban meeting Pope Paul VI  in 1969: It was 1969 in the Vatican. The Pope has his cross prominently dis...

On Saturday night, September 5, the 5th of Ellul, after Shabbat was out, my wife and I, together with over 429 other Olim (see newspaper cli...