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My thoughts, assertions and observations on issues important to me as a Jew, a Zionist, a Revenant in Yesha and as an inquisitive human being.

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Gaza: A Brief Modern History Outline

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Pre-1917 - Gaza part of the Ottoman Empire 1917 - Gaza conquered by British Army and subsequently becomes part of Mandate Palestine 1948 - G...
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To Be "Occupied Territory", It Must Have Been Part of a State

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Are the so-called "Palestinian territories", that is Judea and Samaria, "occupied"? Here is a section from  Principle...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Palmach and the Arabs Up Until November 1947

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I have in the past dealt with the issue of the presumed "better morality" of the Palmach pre-state defence units under the aegis o...
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Jabotinsky Providing his Testimony to the Peel Commission

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Found here : On the testimony , February 11, 1937. The photograph is also at the Jabotinsky Archives . ^
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Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Al-Aqsa as "exclusive property"

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In his UN General Assembly meeting address, Mahmoud Abbas said : Al-Aqsa Mosque and its surroundings, ladies and gentlemen, are the exclusiv...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Making a Correction

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Researching for an article on the "Saison", I checked the Hagana history volume and a footnote directed me to the Palestine Post a...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

High Commissioner Harold MacMichael and Southern Syria

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In mid-1944, Harold MacMichael, the High Commissioner for Palestine, was convinced that an Arab entity of "Palestine" was artifici...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Kalman Liebskind on the Media

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Excerpted in translation from Kalman Liebskind's column of September 6, 2024 entitled " Who Do You Hate More? Sinwar or Netanyhau? ...
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Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Let's Go Back A Year

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Using the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, which is part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Cente...
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Monday, September 02, 2024

'Palestine' as Southern Syria 1936-1939

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'Palestine', as a geo-political entity, did not exist as a defined country. It was a territory, a region. During Ottoman Empire rule...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Bella Hadid and a Map of Palestine

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I came across this picture of Bella Hadid displaying a map of Palestine:  As to the circumstances or the date of the map, I found this her...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

"Two Banks Has the Jordan" - From the Other Side

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One the main and principled political and ideological elements of the Revisionist Movement founded by Ze'ev Jabotinsky is the claim for...
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

The Status Quo and Two Nails

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From   a story of two nails: ^
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Thursday, August 08, 2024

There Was a "Third Palestine"?

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One could think that one 'Palestine' in more than enough. A new book has been published .  Written by scholar Walter D.Ward, it is n...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

When the CIA Said 'It Won't Work'

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In 1947, the UN would be voting on a plan of partition to solve the 'problem' of the Palestine Mandate. What did the CIA think? Here...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Islamic Conquest of Judea

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The Islamic conquest of Judea, how did it go? Here is Andrew Bostom : Relying upon the definitive study of this period, Moshe Gil's 1992...
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Monday, July 22, 2024

Jabotinsky on the Ethics and Morality of Zionism

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  Zionism and Ethics Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Di Tribune, Stockholm, May 10, 1916 There is an opinion that the Jewish people have no “moral right”...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

A 1921 Interview With Jabotinsky

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Here is Sophie Irene Loeb's interview with Ze'ev Jabotinsky published in The Evening News on, November, 17, 1921 . Jabotinsky was ...
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YMedad
Shiloh, Benjamin District, Samaria, Israel
American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.
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