History of Israel, from
1850-present
Here are some essays on
the history of
the Land of Israel, "Eretz
Yisroel".
Essays in italics are
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Political Mythology
The History
and Meaning of the words "Palestine" and "Palestinians", which
means
"Sea Invader"
Politically
motivated mythology of "Palestine"
Myths of
the Middle East
More
Myths of the Middle East
A
Photographic Tour of the Holy Land 1831-1910
Biblical History
4th-7th centuries,
The Jewish
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
7th Century, The
rise of the
faith of Islam
8th-13th centuries,
The Jewish
Kingdom of Khazaria
8th-16th centuries,
Islamic
conquest and expansion
14th-19th Jewish
Semi-Autonomy,
Migration and Expulsions
1850-1920
Restoration of the
Jewish Homeland and Arab-Jewish cooperation
- Descriptive
Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine, 1850
- Ottoman
Rule Map (Eve of W.W.I), 1516 to 1917
- British
Mandate Map 1920-1946
- British
Administrative Division Map 1922 - 1946
- Palestine
was inhabited by a mixed population
- Palestine,
a land virtually laid waste with little population
- Bareness
and oppression of Palestine due to feudal system of taxes by absentee
Arab
Landowners
- Joint
Arab-Jewish agreement on Jewish Homeland, between Emir Feisal Husseini
and Dr. Weizmann, January 3, 1918
- Jewish
proposal for Jewish Homeland, presented to the Paris Peace Conference,
1919
- Feisal-Frankfurter
Correspondence, further to Arab proposal for Jewish Homeland, March 3,
1919
1920-1948 The
British Mandate
for Palestine
1948 Arab and Jewish
refugees
1948-1967 Early
Israeli History
1967-1984 Later
Israeli History
1984-2000 The Olso
Years and
the rise of Arabic-Islamic Nationalism
- The
First Oslo Agreements, 1993-1995
- U.S.
House of Representatives: Task Force on Terrorism, 1996
- Al Aksa
Tunnel Riots of 1996
- Corruption
within the Palestinian Authority, 1997; PLO has $10b in assets
- U.S. House
of Representatives: The Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Challenge -
Myths
and Reality, 1998
- Peace
with Jordan
- The
Wye Agreement - November 1998
- Sharm
Agreement, 50% Withdrawal, 1999
- Israeli
Withdrawal from Lebanon, May 2000
- Proposed
80% Withdrawal, May 2000
- Proposed
95% Withdrawal, July 2000
- Israel's
Compromise on it's "Red Lines", Camp David II
- Proposal
for dividing Jerusalem, Camp David II, Taba
- Relative
sizes of areas in Middle East
- Israel
size comparison maps
- Graphs of
Increase in Terror and Crime since Oslo
- Arafat’s
Strategy: Lebanonization and Entanglement
- The
rise of Israel's Oriental Jews (Sefardim), Israel's shift away from
secularism
Arabic settlement
policy in
the West Bank and Gaza
2000-present The
Multi-Media
War
Muftism, Nazism,
Communism and
Traditional Anti-Semitism give birth to Islamism, 1917-present
- The
new Arab "identity" derives from the impact of the West in the last
fifty
years
- Wahhabism,
the Saudi Arabia-based puritanical heresy at the base of Islamism
- Haj
Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem
- Muftism
and Nazism: World War II Collaboration Documents
- Bosnian
Moslems recruited the Nazi SS by Yasser Arafat's 'Uncle'
- Turning
the West Bank into another "Bosnia" (Photo Album)
- The Farhud,
the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq, 1941
- A "Fatwa
" Issued by Haj Amin al-Husseini in Iraq, pro-Nazi coup May, 1941
- The Syrian-Iraqi
Baath party and its Nazi beginnings
- The Roots
of Muslim Rage: Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why
their
bitterness will not easily be mollified
- The
history of the PLO and the International Legitimization of
Terrorism
- History of
Fedayeen, PLO, Fatah, PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, etc Militant Palestinian
Groups
- Saddam
Hussein, nephew of Khayrallah Tulfah, of the 1941 Pro-Nazi coup in Iraq
- Hitler
and the Arabs, How could they have missed it?
- A technique
of propaganda called "Turnspeak"
- Arafat's
use of "Turnspeak" to say Israel causes terrorism
- Yasser
Arafat's Biography
- Yasser
Arafat worthy successor to Haj Muhammad Amin al Husseini
- Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004
- Islamic
Sermons on Temple Mount by the grandson of the Haj Amin al-Husseini,
2000
After World Trade
Center bombing,
Sept 11, 2001
Other Essays
Rabbi
Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and
Religious
History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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