Tag: "History"

Interview With My Father: Part One

A number of years ago, my father was interviewed for the Jewish Migrant Oral History Project. Thankfully, I have a copy of the interview, and I will be publishing excerpts from it in his memory. Interviewer: John can we begin the interview by you telling us your full name and where and when you were [...]

Palestinian Arab heroine Dalal Mughrabi

Firas Press is reporting that part of Israel’s deal with Hezbollah will involve handing over the body of one of the most notorious female terrorists ever, Dalal Mughrabi. On March 11, 1978, Mughrabi led a band of eleven terrorists who took boats from Lebanon and landed north of Tel Aviv. Upon landing, they met an [...]

Today’s Must Read Article

The Wall Street Journal: 1948, Israel and the Palestinians: The True Story Excerpt: Far from being the hapless objects of a predatory Zionist assault, it was Palestinian Arab leaders who from the early 1920s onward, and very much against the wishes of their own constituents, launched a relentless campaign to obliterate the Jewish national revival. [...]

Psychological Egoism in the Arab/Israeli Conflict

(adapted from a post at Elder of Ziyon) A book was recently published that examined the 1936 Olympics. It includes a section on the debate within the United States as to whether to boycott the games because of German racism. While any objective observer would have clearly seen that Hitler had no interest in allowing [...]

November 9, 1947: “Arab Threats Are Empty”

As the UN partition of Palestine loomed, a team of American “experts” opined that there is no way that the combined Arab armies would attack the Jewish state. As printed in the November 9, 1947 Palestine Post: It is instructive to read this article now and see where these experts were wrong. Militarily, they were [...]