2012-02-03
2012-01-19
Comments on Naomi Klein's 2009 visit to Palestinazi HQ
"... the trivialization of personal experience inherent both in mass culture-making and superficial political commitment..."
"...political posturing in both the mass media and among artistic elites ... [is] actually an avoidance of responsibility..."
2011-02-23
The Nation May 8, 1948: The British Record on Partition
http://emperor.vwh.net/history/br.htm
VIII. Arab Governments
behind Invasion of Palestine
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On February 16, in its first report on security to the Security Council, the Palestine Commission stated:
"(a) The security situation in Palestine continues to be aggravated not only in the areas of the proposed Jewish and Arab States, but also in the city of Jerusalem, even in the presence of British troops.
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"(c) Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the general Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein."
If the activity of the Arab League, comprising the states of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Transjordan, all members of the United Nations except Transjordan, were not sufficient evidence that the Arab states as such are in revolt against the November 29th decision of the General Assembly, British Intelligence reports offer proof of the support by Arab Governments of the armed invasion of Palestine by the so-called Arab Army of Liberation.
Shmuel Katz 1973: #Sinai #Gaza #Jordan #Golan
Between 1949, the year of the Armistice, and 1956, attacks from Sinai and the Gaza area, from across the Jordan and down the Golan Heights, became more frequent and more intense; they were directed mainly at civilians and civilian targets.In that seven-year period, the Arabs carried out 11,873 acts of sabotage and murder. Israel suffered 1,335 casualties; of these, over 1,000 were civilians.
Shmuel Katz, Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, p. 7