1. A History of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
from a
Progressive Zionist Perspective
By Rabbi Maurice Harris

2. The Guiding Values of
Progressive Zionism
 National liberation of the Jewish people / self-determination
 Freedom from anti-Semitism / existential security for Jews
 Manifesting the best of Jewish values, beliefs, and culture as a
nation – what Rabbi Kaplan called “ethical nationhood”
 Justice / Tzedek
 Peace / Shalom
 Democracy
 Human rights
 Respect for the equality of all the religions and peoples of the
Middle East
 Balancing Jewish rights with the rights of the Palestinians & other
non-Jewish stakeholders (Druze, Bedouin, Baha’i, Christians,
Samaritans, etc.)

3. The Guiding Values of
Progressive Zionism
 Hillel’s ethic:

4. The Guiding Values of
Progressive Zionism
 Opposed to Cosmic War ideologies
 Jihadism
 Religious Messianic Zionism
 Christian Zionism
(see Reza Aslan’s How to Win a Cosmic War)

5. Sub-topics: Your Interests
1. The Occupation and its impacts
2. Anti-Semitism in the Arab world, Anti-Arab/Islamic bigotry
in Jewish & Christian worlds, & the dangers of Cosmic War
3. The Shoah and its impacts
4. Denial of the Other’s basic identity or claim by both sides
5. Propaganda from both sides, & recognizing it
6. Understanding Israeli feelings of vulnerability and risk
7. Understanding Palestinian feelings of vulnerability and risk
8. The “One-state-solution” – Right Wing Jewish/Christian
version
9. The “One-state-solution” – Palestinian justice version

6. JEWISH BEGINNINGS IN THE
LAND

8. • 1200 years of Israelite / Jewish
civilization
• Birthplace of the Hebrew Bible and
much of the Christian scriptures
• Birthplace of rabbinic Judaism and of
Christianity
• A civilization of reference for Islam
• Strategic hinge: meeting place of 3
continents
• Israelite independence always
precarious

9. Bunting Map – 1581, Magdeburg Jerusalem is the center

10. THE ROMAN EXILE & THE
RELATIONSHIP OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE TO THE
LAND DURING EXILE

13. ARAB AND ISLAMIC HISTORY
IN THE LAND

14. Islamic empire 750 CE

15. CHRISTIAN AND WESTERN
HISTORY IN THE LAND

16. First Crusade

17. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT &
THE RUN-UP TO THE BIRTH
OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL

18. Some Context
 Pogroms
 Blood Libels
 Dhimmi status for Jews in Muslim lands
 Dreyfus Affair
 New Racial Anti-Semitism
 Enlightenment ideals: democracy, self-
determination, nationalism
 Disregard for desires of Arabs living in
Ottoman controlled Palestine

19. THE BRITISH MANDATE
PERIOD – A JEWISH VIEW

20. The Balfour Declaration
"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 facilitate
the achievement of this object, it
being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may
prejudice the civil and religious
rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine, or the
rights and political status enjoyed
by Jews in any other country.“
- 1917

21. San Remo & the League of
Nations’ Awarding to Great
Britain of a Mandate for Palestine
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have agreed, for the purpose of giving effect
to the provisions of Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, to entrust
to a Mandatory selected by the said Powers the administration of the territory of
Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries
as may be fixed by them; and
Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should
be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November
2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said
Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for
the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done
which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in
any other country; and . . . (continued)

22. Whereas recognition has
thereby been given to the
historical connexion of the
Jewish people with
Palestine and to the
grounds for reconstituting
their national home in that
country;

23. British backtracking…
Jewish immigration restricted
During W.W. II
1939 White Paper

24. Illegal Immigration
(aliyah bet)

25. THE BRITISH MANDATE
PERIOD – AN ARAB VIEW

26. European Broken Promises
Stirrings of Arab Nationalism and
Desire for Independence

27. Colonialism w/o consulting
the native peoples

28. Perception of Zionists as
Aiming to Dispossess
“We must expropriate gently the
private property [and] spirit the
penniless population across the
border.”
-Theodore Herzl’s diary, 1895
“The Arabs will have to go.”
-Ben Gurion in letter to his son,
1937

29. Popular Arab protest of
British immigration policy re
Jews & British agreement to
a Jewish homeland

30. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
– AN ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE

31. Surrounded
by enemy
armies with
the ability to
retreat into
their home
countries to
refuel, rest,
rearm,
replenish.

32. Jews expelled in conquered
areas, in a few cases massacred
Gush Etzion Massacre – May 13, 1948
(image is actually a burial of IDF troops
who had been part of a convoy to G.E.)
Jews expelled from Old City Jerusalem
Synagogues Destroyed

34. 1949 Armistice
Lines

35. THE NAKBA –
A PALESTINIAN PERSPECTIVE

37. Lydda
Massive forced march
Many deaths on the road

38. Deir Yassin & Al Dawayima
Massacres carried out
by Jewish forces.
Rumors spread and
Ignited further
Palestinian exodus.

39. From a pro-Palestinian web site:
The massacre in Deir Yassin was part of
an official Zionist strategy to frighten
Palestinians out of their land and into
neighboring countries. Yosef Weitz,
member of the Jewish Agency’s Transfer
Committee declared that “between
ourselves it must be clear that there is no
room for both people together in this
country… we shall not achieve our goal
with the Arabs in this small country. The
only solution is a Palestine without the
Arabs and there is no other way than to
transfer Arabs from here to the neighboring
countries, to transfer all of them, not one
village not one tribe should be left”.

40. So What’s the Truth about
1948?

41. Standard pro-Palestinian
Take (Pappe, Said & others)
 Deliberate and massive ethnic cleansing by Israel (Plan
Dalet)
 Western colonial powers never consulted the actual
inhabitants of Palestine and didn’t respect their clear
wishes re Jewish immigration & creation of Jewish state.
 Zionist militias used terrorism often and did some
shocking and shameful things to civilians.
 UN law conditions Israel’s existence on the pre-existing
Arab residents’ rights not being violated, including their
absolute right of return.
 Israel – morally and legally illegitimate

42. Standard pro-Palestinian
take
 Israel was born in “Original Sin.” This sin is so great that
justice demands transformation of Israel into a secular,
binational state, combined with full right of return for all
Palestinian refugees. Loss of Jewish collective
sovereignty as a result is a reasonable outcome and not
the problem of Palestinian Arabs who did not perpetrate
the Holocaust and should not have been forced to give
up their lands and homes to make room for a Jewish
state.
 The occupation of Palestinian territories that begin
following the 1967 war is a moral outrage of its own, but
it is not the primary problem. 1948 is the primary
problem.

43. Standard pro-Israel take
 International community had determined that Jews had a
legit claim and should have homeland in part of Palestine.
 Arabs rejected all reasonable international proposals for
partition & walked out on negotiations.
 In the aftermath of the Shoah, Jews were desperate and
had few viable good options other than Zionism.
 Flight of Arabs from Palestine wouldn’t have happened if
Arab countries hadn’t attacked new State of Israel.
 Few Arabs were literally expelled by force or with intent to
do ethnic cleansing.
 Just before the ‘48 war, some Arab leaders claimed they
were going to dispossess or exterminate the Jews, and
Jews had good reason to think they meant it.

44. Standard pro-Israel take
 Arabs were not the perpetrators of the Holocaust, but anti-
Semitic propaganda similar to the kind found in Nazi
Germany was popular in the Arab world, and key Arab
leaders formed alliances with the Nazi regime.
 Palestinian Arab militia groups used terrorism often and
did shocking and shameful things to civilians.
 Jews living in Arab lands were suffering inequality and
discrimination. Israel’s creation gave them a refuge and
their first experience of self-determination and
sovereignty. Anti-Jewish persecution following 1948 drove
most of these Jews out of their homes and lands, and to
some degree their refugee experience should ‘cancel out’
the moral claim of Palestinian refugees.

45. Morris, Avineri & Co.
 International community had determined that Jews had a
legit claim and should have homeland in part of Palestine.
 Arabs rejected all international proposals for partition &
walked out on negotiations.
 In parts of the territory during the war, the Israeli forces
did engage in deliberate and forcible ethnic cleansing.
 There wasn’t a coordinated master plan for the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine, but there was an atmosphere
supportive of such actions by regional army commanders.
Plan Dalet wasn’t an “ethnic-cleansing-of-Palestine” plan;
rather, it was a military plan for solidifying territorial gains
and defending against future invasion.

46. Morris, Avineri & Co.
 Arab forces engaged in ethnic cleansing in areas where
Jews lived in the Jerusalem area.
 Israel refused to re-admit Palestinian refugees following
the war. (Avineri: I received orders to shoot on sight Arab
civilians attempting to return to their homes in Israel.)
Israeli leaders were pleased with the drop in the Arab
population and had no intention of allowing the refugees
back, despite the argument that this may violate the UN’s
terms of Israel’s existence.
 Arab leaders were unwilling to consider a peace
agreement that would include recognizing Israel, with
refugees part of the negotiation.

47. Morris, Avineri & Co.
 Palestinian Arab militia groups used terrorism often and did shocking
and shameful things to civilians.
 Right-wing Zionist militias used terrorism often and did some
shocking and shameful things. Morris: there were more massacres &
expulsions committed by IDF than by Arabs.

48. The UN and Israel’s Legal
Legitimacy as a State

50. Progressive Zionist Takes
on 1948
The war can be described as “Arab-Jewish fighting
over the same piece of land and for demographic
superiority.” – Shlomo Ben Ami
The Jewish claim for self-determination and
sovereignty in some part of British Mandate Palestine
was and is legitimate, and as a matter of human
rights it should be given its due. The Palestinian Arab
claim to self-determination and sovereignty in
Palestine is also legitimate and should be given its
due. Compromise and partition, with honesty about
the past and mutually agreed upon compensation for
losses, all form parts of a just solution.
As Jews we can’t deny the wrongs committed by our
side. Admitting to those wrongs does not mean giving
up our homeland.

51. THE MIZRAHI JEWISH
REFUGEES

52. Case Study: The Farhud
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-1361

54. THE 6-DAY WAR AND ITS
IMPACTS

57. THE OCCUPATION

58. Checkpoints / roadblocks

59. Checkpoints / roadblocks

60. Home
demolitions

61. Settlements

62. Settlements

63. Unequal Use of Resources
•Israel‘s gov’t has
supplied 440,000
Israeli settlers and
Israel proper with 87
percent of the water
from the West
Bank’s eastern
aquifer, leaving 2.5
million Palestinians
to survive on the
remaining 13
percent.

64. Not discussed enough…
ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE ARAB
AND ISLAMIC WORLD

66. Case in point: Use of TV to
reinforce anti-Jewish stereotypes
Hamas
TV

67. Case in point: Use of TV to
reinforce anti-Jewish stereotypes
Egyptian
TV

68. ANTI-ARAB AND ANTI-MUSLIM
PREJUDICE IN THE JEWISH
AND CHRISTIAN WORLDS

69. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

70. Arab-hating web sites &
media
http://jtf.org/israel/israel.black.nazi.nelson.mandela.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bngtfUvN2s8
Note: radio caller at 2:20

71. A Lens for Viewing the Conflict:
THE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS
& COSMIC WAR

72. Abrahamic Religious
Messianism and the conflict
 Scripture is clear that
 When all of Eretz
one of the events
Yisrael is resettled by
God has planned is
its rightful Jewish
the return of the
owners, Hashem-
Jews to the Holy
willing, moshiach will
Land. These events
be sent.
will precede the
Second Coming of
 The blood of our martyrs will be Christ.
celebrated, and when the 12th Imam
reappears, Allah will set right all of
the injustices, beginning with
Palestine.

73. A Lens for Viewing the Conflict:
THE SHOAH AND ISRAELI
EXPERIENCE

74. Two iconic images
(credit to Rabbi Daniel Gordis)

75. The Mufti
Haj Amin
Al Husseini

77. Exterminationist rhetoric

78. Rubbing salt in Jewish
wounds
Using German hijackers - Entebbe
Murdering Jews in Germany

79. Holocaust denial
In his doctoral thesis and book, Abbas describes the
Nazi Holocaust as "the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six
million Jews were killed.”

80. The sealed room / gas
chamber connection

81. The sealed room / gas
chamber connection
Hamas & Hezbollah rocket fire
into Israeli civilian centers re-
stimulates Shoah-related
trauma for Israelis.

82. THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION:
“PALESTINIAN JUSTICE”
VERSION

85. THE ONE-STATE SOLUTION:
“RIGHT-WING
JEWISH/CHRISTIAN” VERSION

87. (Yes, but She’s
A Progressive
Zionist!)

88. Radical Messianic
Zionism
Until 1967 religious Zionists in Israel were marginalized both by the secular
majority, and by the more visibly religious groups that seemed to offer a more
authentic, uncompromising brand of religion. The Six-Day War of June 1967
resulted in the the capture of East Jerusalem and other territories of the Biblical
Land of Israel.
The long-range fate of these territories, and their Arab inhabitants, became a
major controversy of Israeli policy makers. From a purely secular perspective,
the choice was between the military security that was offered by the expanded
borders and the relative demographic stability that would be achieved by
excluding their large Arab population from the domain of a Jewish state.

89. A religious claim provided strong justification for those who wished
to hold on to the occupied territories: If the State of Israel was
viewed as the unfolding of a Messianic scenario, then the
miraculous victory of the Six-Day War was an essential stage in
that process. The territories belong to the Jewish people (i.e., the
State of Israel) by Divine decree and they may not be handed over
to foreign hands.
The issue of territories, viewed in an eschatological context, became
the defining feature for broad segments of religious Zionism in the
post-1967 era.
Under the spiritual leadership of Zvi Yehudah Kook, with its centre
in the yeshivah founded by the elder Kook, Jerusalem's "Merkaz
Harav," thousands of modern young religious Jews campaigned
actively against any territorial compromise, and established
numerous settlements throughout Judea and Samaria.

90. Many of these settlements, though originally founded illegally,
were subsequently granted official recognition by the Israeli
government, especially under right-wing regimes.
The most powerful political voice of the movement against
territorial compromise became "Gush Emunim" (the Bloc of the
Faithful).

91. Christian Zionism
Theology of Christian Zionism
The actual theology of Christian Zionism, also known as Biblical Zionism,
supports the right of the Jewish people to return to their homeland on
scriptural grounds. The biblical foundation for Christian Zionism is found in
God's Covenant with Abraham. It was in this covenant that God chose
Abraham to birth a nation through which He could redeem the world, and to
do this He bequeathed them a land on which to exist as this chosen nation.
Christian Zionism is confirmed throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. The major
and minor prophets consistently confirmed this national calling on Israel,
promised her future restoration to the land after a period of exile, and spoke
of her spiritual renewal and redemption bringing light to the world.

92. Christian Zionism differs with Replacement Theology which teaches
that the special relationship that Israel had with her God in terms of
her national destiny and her national homeland has been lost
because of her rejection of Jesus as Messiah, and therefore the
Church has become the new Israel. The Church has then inherited
all the blessings promised to Israel but the judgments and curses
still conveniently remain over the Jewish people.
Instead, Christian Zionism teaches from the scriptures that God's covenant with
Abraham is still valid today. There remains a national destiny over the Jewish
people and her national homeland is her everlasting possession in fulfillment of
God's plans and purposes for her. The New Testament scriptures not only affirm
the Abrahamic covenant, but they confirm the historical mission of Israel and
that Israel's gifts and calling are irrevocable.
Thus, Christian Zionism is not based on prophecy or end-time events. Most
Christian Zionists would agree, however, that Israel's reemergence on the
world's scene, in fulfillment of God's promises to her, indicate that other
biblically-predicted events will follow.
Rev. Malcolm Hedding
Vice-Chairman of the Board, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem

93. PROGRESSIVE ZIONISM: A
PROPOSAL TO END THE
CONFLICT AND PROVIDE
PARTIAL JUSTICE FOR ALL

94. THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION

95. The Geneva Initiative
 The Geneva Accord principles:
• End of conflict. End of all claims.
• Mutual recognition of Israeli and Palestinian right to two
separate states.
• A final, agreed upon border.
• A comprehensive solution to the refugee problem.

96. •Large settlement blocks and most of the settlers are
annexed to Israel, as part of a 1:1 land swap.
•Recognition of the Jewish neighborhoods in
Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and recognition of
the Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem as the
Palestinian capital.
•A demilitarized Palestinian state. Israeli army
presence in strategic locations in Palestine for initial
time period.
•A comprehensive and complete Palestinian
commitment to fighting terrorism and incitement.
•An international verification group to oversee
implementation.

97. http://www.geneva-accord.org/mainmenu/how-to-make-peace-in-two-m

98. FAQs on Geneva Initiative:
3)On the refugee issue, if large numbers of
Palestinian refugees indicate that they want to
choose Israel as the country they move to,
how will Israel be able to maintain its Jewish
demographic majority?
5) If this agreement were implemented, would
Palestinian refugees be able to take legal
action to make claims on property and
possessions lost in 1948-49?
7)What happens if militant groups or
extremists take over Palestine and use it as a
base for firing rockets or launching terrorist
attacks against Israelis?
9)Is the G.I. well-known among Israelis and
Palestinians, and how much support does it
have? Would other Arab countries sign peace
treaties with Israel if Israel and the P.A.
accepted this accord?

99. Former PM Ehud Olmert
"If the day comes when the two-state
solution collapses, and we face a
South African-style struggle for equal
voting rights (for the Palestinians in the
territories), then, as soon as that
happens, the State of Israel is
finished."
"Forty years after the Six Day War ended, we keep finding excuses not to
act. This isn't doing Israel any good. The international community is
starting to view Israel as a future binational state. We can prove that we
have been more creative than the other side through the years, and that
they have been more obstinate, but as usual, we will win the debate by
losing sight of what's really important.

100. "We can always find very good reasons for not doing
things now, and for why we would be better off
postponing everything to a later date," continued
Olmert. "We refuse to face reality. Time is not on
Israel's side, not because our cause isn't just, but
because time has its own repercussions.
"I admit - this hasn't always been my position. In the past I've said
- and I said it to (former Labor Prime Minister Ehud) Barak at the
time - that what he agreed to in Camp David (in 2000) was wrong.
"I used to believe that everything from the Jordan Riverbank to
the Mediterranean Sea was ours. After all, dig anywhere and
you'll find Jewish history. But eventually, after great internal
conflict, I've realized we have to share this land with the people
who dwell here - that is if we don't want to be a binational state,"
said Olmert.

101. Israel, Olmert noted, is the most powerful nation in the region.
"No other nation is as strong and no other nation in the Middle
East can rival us. The strategic threats we face have nothing to
do with where we draw our borders.”
"We can argue about every single detail, but when we finally
hash out an agreement we may find we no longer have the
international community's backing, or a partner for that matter.
We'll be left with nothing but the feeling that once again, as for
the past 40 years, we were right.
"I'm not kidding myself," he added. "I know the change I'm talking
about won't rid us of all the threats. We'll still be facing
Palestinian threats across the security fence, since they have no
real security establishment, but we can deal with all of that and
we would be better off dealing with it than cementing the notion
of a binational state in the international community's mind."

102. Israeli Military & Security
Experts Supporting P.Z.
• Maj Gen (Ret.) Avraham Adan| former Commander of the Armored
Corps
• Maj Gen (Ret.) Shlomo Gazit | former Head of Military Intelligence,
Chairman of the Jewish Agency and President of Ben Gurion University
• Maj Gen (Ret.) Amos Lapidot | former Commander of Israeli Air Force
• Brig Gen (Ret.) Menachem Aviram | former Commander of
Paratroopers Brigade and of the IDF Command and Staff College
• Avner Azulai | former senior Mosad official
• Brig Gen (Ret.) Asher Levy | Deputy Commander of the Southern Front
• Maj Gen (Ret) Zeev Livneh | established the Home Front Command
• Maj Gen (Ret.) Aviezer Yaari | former Commander of Military Colleges
• Brig Gen (Ret.) Giora Ram | former Deputy Commander of the Israeli
Air Force
• Maj Gen (Ret.) Dr. Elad Peled | former Commander of National Security
College and Director General of the Ministry of Education

103. “We, the citizens of Israel, call on the public to support
the recognition of a democratic Palestinian state as a
condition for ending the conflict, and reaching agreed
borders on the basis of the 1967 borders. Recognition
of such a Palestinian state is vital for Israel’s existence.
It is the only way to guarantee the resolution of the
conflict by negotiations, to prevent the
eruption of another round of massive
violence and end the risky isolation of
Israel in the world. The successful
implementation of the agreements
requires two leaderships, Israeli and
Palestinian, which recognize each
other, choose peace and are fully
committed to it. This is the only policy
that leaves Israel’s fate and security in
its own hands. Any other policy
contradicts the promise of Zionism and
the welfare of the Jewish people.”

104. The Question isn’t, “Do you
support Israel?”
The Question is: “What kind
of Israel do you support?
Which Israeli movements do
you support?”

105. Progressive Zionism is for Americans who
want to support and stand with:

107. Organizations that are PZ
oriented
• Shalom Achshav / Peace Now (and Americans for Peace Now)
• J Street
• Rabbis for Human Rights
• New Israel Fund
• B’Tselem
• Tikkun Magazine
• The Religious Action Committee of Reform Judaism

108. COMMON STRATEGIES OF
DISTORTION: DENIAL OF
IDENTITY

109. Anti-Palestinian version:
 “Palestinians
aren’t a real
people / nation.”
“Like a mantra, Arabs, the UN, its organs and now the International Court of
Justice have claimed repeatedly that the Palestinians are a native people – so
much so that almost everyone takes it for granted. The problem is that a
stateless Palestinian people is a fabrication. The word ‘Palestine’ is not even
Arabic.
In a report by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the
administration of Palestine and Trans-Jordan for the year 1938, the British
made it clear: Palestine is not a State but is the name of a geographical area.”
--
Eli Hertz, Myths and Facts, 2006

110. Anti-Zionist version:
 PLO Charter: Article
20: The Balfour Declaration,
the Mandate for Palestine,
and everything that has
been based upon them, are
deemed null and void.
Claims of historical or
religious ties of Jews with
Palestine are incompatible
with the facts of history and
the true conception of what 1998: Revision?
constitutes statehood.
Judaism, being a religion, is • Jews as invasive species in the land
not an independent • Jews as colonizing evil aliens (Avatar)
nationality. Nor do Jews • Jews as foreign infection in the land
constitute a single nation • Denial of existence of Ancient Israel
with an identity of its own;
they are citizens of the
states to which they belong.

113. COMMON STRATEGIES OF
DISTORTION: CHERRY
PICKING FACTS TO CREATE
PROPAGANDA

114. Propaganda with Maps

115. Propaganda with Maps

116. Propaganda litmus tests for
presentations on Israel/Palestine:
 Does it show real empathy for people on both sides? Does it
acknowledge the reasonable fears and concerns of both
peoples?
 Does it demonize one side with the goal of generating
feelings of disgust for the other side?
 If it is primarily sympathetic to one side, does it acknowledge
moral wrongdoing on both sides and express regret for
wrongs committed by the side that is being supported?
 Does it minimize the grievances of one side, or even deny
that these grievances are real?
• “There was no nakba – that’s just a ploy to delegitimize Israel”
• “You Jews always bring up the Mufti, like he had much influence at
all…”

117. COMMON STRATEGIES OF
DISTORTION: MINIMIZING THE
IMPORTANCE OF THE THINGS
EACH SIDE DOES THAT THE
OTHER SIDE FEARS

118. Understanding how Israelis feel:
VULNERABILITY AND RISK

119. In the shadow
of the rockets

121. Islamic Extremism & Threats
to World Jewry
http://www.thememriblog.org/antisemitism/blog_personal/en

122. Islamic Extremism & Threats
to World Jewry
January 12, 2012
Palestinian-Lebanese Historian:
The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion Are an Exact Reflection of
Judaism and the Zionist Idea
On December 27, 2011, the Palestinian-
Lebanese historian Bayan Nuwayhed
Al-Hout published an article in the
Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which dealt,
among other things, with The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion and their
connection to Judaism, the Zionist
movement and the state of Israel.

123. Book Review: Arabs and the Holocaust (Part 3)
By As'ad AbuKhalil - Fri, 2011-12-16 03:15- ANGRY
CORNER
Achcar should not have cited the writings of Bayan
Nuwayhed Al-Hout on any matter (p. 152) for she,
unfortunately, has approvingly cited the notorious
Protocols of the Elders of Zion (her father was a
major promoter of the Protocols) in her book: “Filastin:
Al-Qadiyyah.Ash- Sha`b. Al-Hadarah.” Achcar should
not have missed that.

124. Understanding how Palestinians feel:
VULNERABILITY AND RISK

125. Dispossession

126. Dispossession

127. Dispossession: East Jerusalem
 Two sets of laws re the right to build
on your own property or expand
property ownership
 Ambiguous citizenship status for
Palestinians
 The Sheikh Jarrah crisis & other
similar problems

128. Dispossession
The Security Barrier

130. Things that erode trust:
PUSHING THE OTHER SIDE’S
BUTTONS